Month: December 2019

8:00 PM ET The UFC’s late-replacement headliner in South Korea is now official. Frankie Edgar and Chan Sung Jung both made weight ahead of their UFC Busan main event Saturday. Edgar and Jung — best known as “The Korean Zombie” — each weighed 146 pounds, right at the featherweight limit. Edgar is a fill-in for
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7:37 PM ET Los Angeles Angels star Shohei Ohtani has completed his throwing program, the final step in his rehabilitation from Tommy John surgery, and was cleared to return to his native Japan, where he will rest and recover for his anticipated return to a two-way role in 2020. Ohtani spent the 2019 season as
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6:46 PM ET Top Rank, which already has a deep roster of junior lightweights, Wednesday announced that it has added another 130-pounder, unbeaten top prospect Abraham Nova, signing him to a multifight deal to co-promote him. Nova, who is also co-promoted by Murphys Boxing and 12 Rounds Promotion, will have his first fight of the
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7:15 PM ET Thunder players were among those evacuated from an Oklahoma City mall when an isolated shooting took place on Thursday. The players were attending a movie at the Penn Square Mall when a man was shot at the Foot Locker at the shopping complex. “Thunder security was made aware immediately. The team was
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6:16 PM ET After being cleared Tuesday by a Nevada State Court judge to fight Daniel Jacobs, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr. weighed in nearly 5 pounds over the super middleweight division limit of 168 pounds for the Friday night bout in Phoenix. The 12-round fight will go on at Talking Stick Resort Arena (DAZN, 9
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5:18 PM ET CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Quarterback Will Grier, who grew up sitting in the stands at Bank of America Stadium as a fan of the Carolina Panthers, on Sunday at Indianapolis has the pressure of making his first NFL start for his hometown team. The third-round pick out of West Virginia replaces Kyle Allen,
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5:55 PM ET JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Cornerback A.J. Bouye had one immediate thought when he walked into the Jacksonville Jaguars locker room on Thursday morning: Uh-oh. Bouye thought he was going to miss the start of the team meeting and his gut clenched for a second, only to realize he had plenty of time to
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