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Bob Arum explains his 'NoTrump' Manny Pacquiao-Tim Bradley undercard
It’s part of a boxing promotion and it grabs eyeballs, so you start with the idea that veteran boxing promoter Bob Arum’s "NoTrump" undercard for the April 9 Manny Pacquiao-Timothy Bradley fight in Las Vegas is a cute gimmick. Wrong, says Arum, a proud liberal who wants to use the stage of an HBO...
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Conor McGregor and Holly Holm headline the main events at UFC 196 in Las Vegas
Full and famous, Conor McGregor rubbed his belly and raised his arms to the delight of an estimated 9,000 fans at his weigh-in Friday. McGregor, the Ultimate Fighting Championship's 145-pound champion, agreed on short notice to fight replacement opponent Nate Diaz at the 170-pound welterweight...
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UFC 196 results: Diaz upsets McGregor; Tate takes title from Holm
One of the wildest nights in MMA history concluded Saturday night in Las Vegas with 5-1 underdog Nate Diaz submitting brash-talking Conor McGregor in the second round of a non-title welterweight fight. That came after Miesha Tate stopped women's bantamweight champion Holly Holm by submission in...
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Conor McGregor continues to move up in the UFC world
Conor McGregor leaned back and stretched out his legs, scrolling social media as his driver navigated an SUV through the streets from a UFC Gym in Torrance to McGregor's rented oceanfront home in Hermosa Beach. The charismatic Ultimate Fighting Championship featherweight champion had just left...
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Leo Santa Cruz retains WBA featherweight title with TKO of Kiko Martinez
Leo Santa Cruz had a simple plan to make his first World Boxing Assn. featherweight title defense successful. Throw punches. Lots of them. "I got carried away. I wanted to go toe to toe," Santa Cruz said Saturday night after his fifth-round technical knockout of Spain's Kiko Martinez at Honda Center....
College Basketball
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Resilient Texas A&M takes on Oklahoma in West Regional semifinal
NCAA West Regional, Game 1 WHO: No. 2 Oklahoma (27-7) vs. No. 3 Texas A&M (28-8) WHAT: NCAA West Regional semifinal game, Thursday, 4:30 p.m. WHERE: Honda Center, Anaheim. TV: TBS; Radio: 710. UPDATE: No tournament team has shown the resiliency and tenacity of Texas A&M, which staged a furious...
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Boys' basketball: The journey of former Loyola forward Brendan Boken leads to All-America team
Brendan Boken is going to be used as the example of how a high school basketball player's perseverance and correct choice of college can lead to success. Four years ago, the 6-foot-6 Boken was the sixth man on a very good Loyola High team that lost twice to eventual state champion Santa Ana Mater...
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London Perrantes is 'Cali cool' in steering the Virginia Cavaliers' offense
The football player had a good eye for basketball talent. That's how London Perrantes, from Encino Crespi High, became the point guard for one of college basketball's best teams — located 2,500 miles away at Virginia. The football player was Nico Grasu, who was the placekicker for Washington State...
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Q&A with UCLA Athletic Director Dan Guerrero: 'We're not all about a coaching carousel'
In Dan Guerrero's nearly 14 years as UCLA's athletic director, he has overseen 27 national championships, the renovation of Pauley Pavilion and the beginning of construction on new basketball and football facilities. He has also never experienced anything quite like the outrage recently directed...
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UCLA battles past South Florida to reach Sweet 16 for first time since 1999
It took 17 years, peppered with five sub-.500 seasons and two coaching changes, but the UCLA women's basketball team is back in the third round of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 1999.Playing their second home game in the Bridgeport Regional, the third-seeded Bruins survived a disastrous...
College Football
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As USC begins spring football practice, Max Browne says quarterback job is his to lose
There was something new about the USC football team's first spring practice on campus Tuesday, and it didn't have anything to do with the changes on the coaching staff. For the first time in three years, there is competition to become the starter at quarterback. Fourth-year junior Max Browne, Cody...
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Former NFL coach Lovie Smith is hired by Illinois
Former NFL coach Lovie Smith was hired as the Illinois football coach Monday, two days after the firing of Bill Cubit following a 5-7 season. The move came after Athletic Director Josh Whitman, in his first official day on the job, fired Cubit after a single season in Champaign. He turned to Smith,...
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All eyes on quarterback competition as USC opens spring football practice
The date has been circled on calendars for almost two years. On Sept. 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, USC will open the season against defending national champion Alabama. The Trojans best be prepared. Coming off yet another year of turmoil, USC will begin working toward the coming season...
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NCAA football proposal addresses targeting penalties
Replay officials are likely to have more power when it comes to calling targeting penalties in college football next season. The NCAA football rules committee proposed giving replay officials more authority to overturn incorrect targeting fouls and to call targeting penalties when they are missed...
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Football cited in nearly half of Ole Miss' alleged NCAA violations
Mississippi's football program was cited by the NCAA in nearly half of the 28 rules violations levied against the school in the Notice of Allegations the university recently received, said a person with knowledge of the investigation. The person said that 13 allegations involve the football program,...
Soccer
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Dan Kennedy returns to Galaxy training; Steven Gerrard listed as 'week to week'
Galaxy goalkeeper Dan Kennedy returned to training Tuesday for the first time since sustaining a partial groin tear in the team's March 6 season opener. But midfielder Steven Gerrard, who limped off the field three minutes into last Saturday's game with a calf strain, did not work out. Coach Bruce...
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Omar Gonzalez and Gyasi Zardes reunite on the U.S. national soccer team
Former Galaxy defender Omar Gonzalez was among 26 players called up to the U.S. national soccer team Sunday, ahead of two World Cup qualifiers with Guatemala. The team, which will gather for training in Miami, plays Friday in Guatemala City (7 p.m. PT beINSport, NBC Universo) and March 29 in Columbus,...
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Injuries don't stop Galaxy from beating Earthquakes
Bruce Arena guessed it would take about two months to figure out what kind of team he had with his rebuilt Galaxy squad. Three weeks into that timetable, he’s still a long way from an answer. But he learned at least one thing Saturday in a 3-1 win over the San Jose Earthquakes: This team is resilient....
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Galaxy's Daniel Steres has seen MLS highs and lows
Daniel Steres' Major League Soccer career consists of two games, yet the defender has already experienced a range of emotions some veterans have never encountered. In his debut with the Galaxy two weeks ago, he scored the team's first goal of the season, sparking a 4-1 victory over D.C United....
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The next two weeks will be big for the U.S. and Juergen Klinsmann
The next 10 days will be some of the most important in Juergen Klinsmann's dual tenure as coach of the men's national team and technical director for U.S. Soccer. Sunday morning he'll reveal his roster for home and away World Cup qualifiers with Guatemala on Friday and March 29. On Saturday Andi...
Golf
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Jason Day goes wire-to-wire to win Arnold Palmer Invitational
Jason Day shook the hand of The King on Sunday behind the 18th green at Bay Hill Club and Lodge.Day earned the right by gaining upper hand on the man who ruled Arnold Palmer's tournament like no other.Day went wire to wire-to-win the Arnold Palmer Invitational, accomplishing a feat that eluded...
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Jason Day keeps his two-shot lead during wet third round at Arnold Palmer Invitational
Jason Day survived bursts of rain and a few bogeys for a two-under-par 70 to keep his two-shot lead Saturday in the Arnold Palmer Invitational. The starting times were moved forward to avoid a forecast of thunderstorms in the afternoon. Players still had to cope with occasionally heavy rain, though...
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Pac-12 herd is thinned in a hurry as five of its seven teams lose in first round of NCAA tournament
Say this for the Pac-12 Conference, things can't get much worse from here on in the NCAA tournament. The Pac-12 was all proud of its quality depth this season, and then a record seven of its teams were selected for the tournament, tied for most of any conference. If that caused pause in areas east,...
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Jason Day is in top form in building a two-shot lead at midpoint of Arnold Palmer Invitational
Zach Johnson always will have the Presidents Cup. He knows he'd better enjoy it. Johnson's singles-match win last fall might have been the last time the two-time major winner enjoys the upper hand on Arnold Palmer Invitational leader Jason Day. The past two days at Bay Hill Club and Lodge, Day...
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Jason Day (66) takes lead at Arnold Palmer Invitational
Jason Day called Tiger Woods earlier this month looking for answers. During Thursday's opening round of the Arnold Palmer Invitational, Day found some on a course where Woods won a tournament-record eight times. Day even ended his day with a clutch putt on the par-four 18th hole at Bay Hill Club...
Tennis
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Indian Wells tennis tournament CEO resigns after saying women are lucky to 'ride on the coattails of the men'
Raymond Moore, the tournament director and chief executive officer of the BNP Paribas Open tennis tournament, has stepped down from those positions in the aftermath of his controversial comments about female players. The move was announced late Monday night in a three-paragraph statement from the...
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Serena Williams and others decry Indian Wells Tennis Garden CEO's offensive remarks
According to Raymond Moore, chief executive of Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Victoria Azarenka and Serena Williams should have taken a position other than at the baseline in the women's final of the BNP Paribas Open. They were classier than he was and refuted his foolishly worded comments, Azarenka...
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Novak Djokovic dominates Milos Raonic in BNP Paribas final
Novak Djokovic arrived at the BNP Paribas Open a day and a half later than he had planned and in a state of exhaustion, the result of a busy schedule that included playing for Serbia in the Davis Cup, and his concern about an eye injury that forced him to retire from a tournament in Dubai last...
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Rafael Nadal gets close, but he can't beat Novak Djokovic
For a few brief, shining moments Saturday, it was like old times for Rafael Nadal. Wearing his familiar headband and grunting loudly enough to be heard throughout Stadium 1 at Indian Wells Tennis Garden, Nadal earned a set point in the 10th game of his BNP Paribas open semifinal match against Novak...
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Serena Williams hopes for a positive outcome for final at Indian Wells
The details are a blur, but the nasty atmosphere that surrounded her 2001 final against Kim Clijsters at Indian Wells is burned into Serena Williams' memory. Public sentiment had turned against her and her sister, Venus, after Venus withdrew from their semifinal match because of an injury amid...