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Marvelous Marvin Hagler stopped Thomas Hearns in a fight that lasted less than eight minutes yet was so epic that it still lives in boxing lore. Two years later he was so disgusted after losing a decision to Sugar Ray Leonard — stolen, he claimed, by the judges — that he never fought again.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Jaydon Mickens was arrested in Los Angeles last week on gun charges, according to reports.

A high school basketball announcer has been pulled from his job after calling players the n-word when some took a knee during the anthem.

The Trafalgar Group released a poll Friday morning showing Herschel Walker, the former NFL running back from Georgia, leading Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) by 2.2 percent in a potential bid for a Georgia Senate seat, which Warnock recently flipped in a hotly contested runoff.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has canceled its tournament semifinal game between No. 16 Virginia and Georgia Tech due to a positive COVID-19 test, quarantining and contact tracing within the Cavaliers program.

Tom Brady and the Buccaneers agreed on a contract extension that will keep the future Hall of Famer in Tampa through the 2022 season.

TOKYO (AP) — Japan will not take part in China’s offer — accepted by the International Olympic Committee — to provide vaccines for “participants” in the postponed Tokyo Games and next year’s Beijing Winter Games.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Duke arrived at the Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament hoping to make an unprecedented run to extend its long NCAA Tournament streak.

Certain makes of firearms are occasionally hard to find in 2021 but ammunition is absolutely scarce and, when found, it comes at a price exponentially higher than it was 12 months ago. For example, 9mm ammunition, one of the most

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A decades-old ban on yoga in Alabama public schools could be coming to an end.

The 2021 Players gets underway today at TPC Sawgrass in Ponta Vedra, FL and this marks the unofficial start of the 2021 golf season.  The 2021 golf season officially starts in 2020 but not many people pay attention to those tournaments and you shouldn’t either.

GENEVA (AP) — China strengthened its relationship with the International Olympic Committee on Thursday by offering to pay for vaccines for athletes as criticism of the 2022 Winter Games host country continues.

TAMPA, Fla. — A sports gambler faces up to five years in federal prison for threatening social media messages sent to players with the Tampa Bay Rays.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) signed a bill that restricts transgender athletes to only competing in sports of their birth gender.

The NBA announced on Thursday that Heat center Meyers Leonard has been suspended one week and fined $50k for saying an antisemitic slur during a Twitch live stream.

Nike CEO John Donahoe reportedly commented on former vice president Ann Hebert’s recent resignation in a meeting Monday with the company’s North America team.

The Texas Rangers are on track to become the first team in Major League Baseball or any major U.S.-based sports league to have a full-capacity crowd since the coronavirus pandemic started altering the sports landscape a year ago.

Former President Donald Trump wants college football and NFL legend Herschel Walker to run for U.S. Senate in Georgia.

The issue of transgender woman competing against biological females is being debated across the country and support for a ban is growing.

A father in the United Kingdom who allegedly made his daughter sign a life-long contract promising to never get fat is on trial for child cruelty and assault occasioning actual bodily harm. 

Soccer Journalist Carlos Orduz was crushed by a falling section of a TV set in shocking video that has gone viral this week.

After a year of enormous attendance declines and TV ratings drops, the NFL salary cap is set to take a historic hit of nearly $16 million.

Police have released bodycam footage from a February DUI arrest in which Johnny Damon says he’s being targeted for supporting Donald Trump. The footage, released by the Windermere Police Department in Florida, shows Damon and his wife in the moments

Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) called on Team USA to not participate in the upcoming 2022 Beijing Olympics, given China’s behavior on the international stage during an appearance on Newsmax TV’s “Spicer & Co.”

Cleveland Browns lineman Wyatt Teller is under fire for bagging a 10-foot alligator and posing with the creature on video.

The Miami Heat have decided to ban center Meyers Leonard indefinitely after reviewing a video in which he uttered an anti-Semitic slur.

Walt Disney CEO Bob Chapek claims the company is not left or right leaning, and that everyone agrees Disney has the power “to unite us all.” But Chapek’s claims come after two thirds of Americans say the multimedia company has taken political correctness too far.

Vanita Gupta, Biden’s nominee to be Associate Attorney General at the DOJ refused to say whether females should compete against males.

Arkansas joins some 20 states that are crafting laws designed to protect female athletes from competing against biological men.

Pro sports lost an incredible amount of money last year, with each league losing revenue in every area from fan support to sponsorship.

The Dallas Cowboys and Dak Prescott have finally agreed on the richest contract in club history, two years after negotiations first started with the star quarterback.

Warner Bros. will not include Pepé Le Pew in any of its future projects amid leftist claims that the popular Looney Toons character “normalized rape culture.”

South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, a Republican, will sign a bill keeping girls’ and women’s sports to biological females only.

The daughter of animator and Pepé Le Pew creator Chuck Jones says her father was a liberal, the ionic cartoon skunk’s purposes is purely comical, and he in no way promotes rape or male dominance over women and was never meant to do so.

The NBA All-Star game proved to have very little star power indeed, as the annual event hit all-time lows in ratings and viewership. 

CHICAGO (AP) — After a season of mostly empty ballparks in Chicago, the famed marquee at Wrigley Field said it all.