Month: November 2022

4:12 PM ET The WBA on Tuesday ordered what amounts to an undisputed title fight at junior lightweight between Hyun-Mi Choi and Alycia Baumgardner. The teams for Choi, the WBA champion, and Baumgardner, the mandatory challenger who has the WBO, IBF and WBC belts, have 30 days to negotiate and reach an agreement on the
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3:59 PM ET Charlotte has hired Michigan associate head coach Biff Poggi as its next football coach. Poggi was a longtime successful high school coach in Maryland with the Gilman School and St. Frances Academy before joining Jim Harbaugh’s staff at Michigan. He spent 19 seasons at Gilman School before taking over at St. Frances
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3:56 PM ET Associated Press CLEMSON, S.C. — Clemson will be without junior defensive back Malcolm Greene for the rest of the season due to a groin injury. Tigers coach Dabo Swinney said Tuesday Greene would need an operation and would not be available going forward. No. 9 Clemson (9-1, 7-0 Atlantic Coast Conference) closes
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2:57 PM ET Associated Press CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Ty Gibbs was promoted to NASCAR’s top series Tuesday in an expected announcement that was void of any celebration as Joe Gibbs Racing continues to mourn the loss of Ty Gibbs’ father. Coy Gibbs died in his sleep hours after his 20-year-old son won the Xfinity Series
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3:45 PM ET The Boston Bruins have retained former U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch to conduct an independent review of their player-vetting process after they signed prospect Mitchell Miller and then parted ways with him two days later amid intense backlash. The Bruins announced on Tuesday that Lynch, of the law firm of Paul, Weiss,
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11:55 AM ET Associated Press Senegal forward Sadio Mane will miss his team’s “first games” at the World Cup because of a leg injury, a Senegal football federation board member said Tuesday. Abdoulaye Sow said Senegal will have to cope without their best player for the start of the tournament and “not whine too much.”
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2:28 PM ET Iran‘s players are free to join in the protests sweeping their country over women’s rights while they are playing at the World Cup in Qatar but must do so within the rules of the tournament, national team coach Carlos Queiroz said on Tuesday. The rights activist HRANA news agency said 344 people
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12:50 PM ET DOHA, Qatar — Midfielder Kellyn Acosta said he and his United States teammates will need to get physical to stop his LAFC colleague Gareth Bale when they open their 2022 World Cup campaign against Wales next week. Acosta has been besieged with questions about Bale since the Welsh superstar’s dramatic header saved
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