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Oscar De La Hoya, a man who knows something about the dangers of a quicker man taking on a bigger one, says Amir Khan can beat his “golden boy” Saul Alvarez despite the significant size disparity.

A federal appeals court ruled against former NFL players seeking a better settlement against the league in the landmark concussion lawsuit.

Six U.S. senators call on NBA Commissioner Adam Silver to move the All-Star Game from Charlotte because of a law forbidding individuals from using the multiple-person bathrooms of the opposite sex at government facilities.

Detroit Pistons president and head coach Stan Van Gundy says the NBA should move next year’s All-Star Game from Charlotte because of a North Carolina law that prohibits people of the sex not corresponding to the designation on a multiperson public bathroom from using such a facility in a government building.

Heavyweight champion Tyson Fury throws down in his hometown for his first title defense this summer.

More than 35 years after saying no mas, Roberto Duran says uno mas.

The San Diego Padres broke a slump. Trevor Story continued a streak.

Toronto Blue Jays manager John Gibbons offers no apologies for his quip wondering if making his players wear “dresses” next would please everybody.

The Kansas City Royals trolled New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard by blasting the Guess Who’s “American Woman” during warmups. The long-haired righty got the last laugh.

Shhh! They’re listening. They’re watching, too. And they just might be reading this now. The social justice warriors, known as thought policemen 25 years ago and commissars 50 years before that, monitor everything. And then, through their moral superiority, they enlighten.

The tribe has spoken. So has its chief.

Adrien Broner knocked out Ashley Theophane and then called out his promoter Floyd Mayweather for an encore.

Adrien Broner fights, appropriately enough, tonight on April Fool’s Day. He turns himself in to Cincinnati police on Monday.

Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred weighed-in on the debate between traditionalists and the celebrationists. He thinks hot dogs go great with baseball.

The Philadelphia city council apologized to Jackie Robinson 69 years after the player who broke baseball’s color line endured vicious abuse in the city. Being dead for 43 years, five months, and a week, Robinson gave no indication whether he accepted the apology or not.

Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz officially headline the UFC’s annual summer blockbuster in a rematch at welterweight. Diaz submitted the fan and betting favorite at in round two of the UFC 196 main event.

Whoever said art imitates life never said it about Juwanna Mann.

Cincinnati police issued a warrant for the arrest of boxer Adrien Broner stemming from an alleged beating outside of a bowling alley in January.

The NFL now says a link exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy. The league’s most high-profile owner calls that “absurd.” He’s right.

If you support Donald Trump, promoter Bob Arum does not want you watching his April 9 pay-per view.

The most dangerous man in sports radio returned recently to the airwaves. The usual suspects promptly blew mental gaskets.

A bill to legalize professional mixed-martial arts (MMA) passed the New York assembly overwhelmingly on Tuesday, paving the way for the Empire State to become the fiftieth and final state to sanction cage fighting.

The NFL’s individualistic coach no longer stands alone.

The Tampa Bay Rays play the Cuban National Team on Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in an exhibition game in Latinoamericano Stadium in Havana. Maybe next year the Cuban government permits their baseball team to travel to Tropicana Field in St. Pete to even this up as a home-and-home series. It would save fuel costs for a return trip, after all, and Cuba, like its army of prostitutes, really, really needs the money.

Retired Chicago White Sox designated hitter Adam LaRoche broke his silence amid a media uproar on Friday over his decision to walk away from a $13 million contract because his employer sought to limit the time his son spent at his workplace.

Just because they play a kids’ game doesn’t make it right to treat professional baseball players like children. That’s the take of several Chicago Cubs on the new ordinance banning the use of tobacco products at baseball parks in the Windy City.

A representative from the NFL told a congressional committee on Monday that a link “certainly” exists between football and chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). Scores of medical journal articles insist that science attempting to establish such a link through a study, let alone proving one, remains a project for the future to embark upon.

Cordell Broadus, the nom de human of Snoop Dogg’s son, plans to return to the UCLA Bruins after quitting the football team before playing in a single game last fall.

Yale plays in its first NCAA tournament since 1962. But the basketball team does so without its team captain.

Four years to the day after saying goodbye to the Indianapolis Colts Peyton Manning bid an emotional farewell to the NFL.

Peyton Manning decided to end his football career this weekend. Only he didn’t.

Conor McGregor moves up two weight classes to fight Nate Diaz tonight at UFC 196.

Oscar De La Hoya said that the idea for the biggest boxing match of 2016 thus far came to him while watching a Republican presidential debate.

The one man who could have stopped Barack Obama’s ascent to Washington calls the president the worst one in history.

HBO released a statement on Wednesday belatedly condemning anti-gay comments from boxing cash cow Manny Pacquiao. But the pay-cable network refuses to dump Pacman as sneaker behemoth Nike did because of his unfavorable comparison of homosexuals to animals.

The New England Patriots extended quarterback Tom Brady’s contract through 2019.