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In the biggest fight of his young and recently injury-riddled career, Vergil Ortiz Jr. had the answer to just about every question that could’ve been asked of him. Despite absorbing a pair of flash knockdowns before rallying in the championship rounds, Ortiz (22-0, 21 KOs) narrowly edged a determined Serhii Bohachuk (24-2, 23 KOs) to […]

Major League Baseball is joining forces with the motorsports world. Next season the Cincinnati Reds and Atlanta Braves will play a game at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, one of NASCAR’s most iconic venues, dubbed as the MLB Speedway Classic ’25. The league announced the plans on Friday, setting the date for Saturday, Aug. 2, […]

Getty Images It didn’t take long for Sergei Spivac to get revenge on Marcin Tybura. Spivac tied their series one apiece, submitting Tybura less than two minutes into their UFC Fight Night headliner on Saturday. Tybura vs. Spivac weren’t thinking about the rematch before they were offered the fight. Spivac made the most of the […]

Week 1 of the preseason is underway! For the first time since Week 18 of last year, every team in the NFL is slated to kick off over the course of the weekend and continue laying the foundation for the 2024 regular season. While these games are merely exhibitions, there are still substantial takeaways that […]

Getty Images Several of Team USA’s games on the path to its fifth consecutive gold medal in men’s basketball were defined by who didn’t play. Controversy surrounded Steve Kerr’s decision to bench Jayson Tatum in both games against Serbia and Joel Embiid against South Sudan. Derrick White was held out of the gold medal game […]

The U.S. women’s national team were as good as gold on Saturday, clinching the top honor at the women’s Olympic soccer tournament with a 1-0 win over Brazil. New coach Emma Hayes managed to lead her team to glory 12 years after the nation last won it back in London in 2012. It was not […]

Getty Images We are less than a week out from the opening day of the new season in La Liga and Real Madrid are the team to beat more than ever before after the acquisition of Kylian Mbappe. Barcelona are competing as best they can with the signing of Dani Olmo from RB Leipzig but […]

The Dodgers and the Pirates will continue their weekend series at 9 p.m. ET with a game that features a juicy subplot: the second career meeting between Los Angeles’ superstar DH Shohei Ohtani and Pittsburgh’s rookie ace Paul Skenes — two of the most compelling athletes in the world, no matter the sport of the […]

Getty Images Very few players know the honor of dunking on LeBron James. While the exact number is probably unknowable, Jake Fischer wrote for Bleacher Report in 2020 that only nine players had done so. James is one of the greatest athletes in the history of basketball, and his basketball IQ means he’s almost always […]

Serghei Spivac will seek revenge on Saturday against fellow ranked heavyweight contender Marcin Tybura in the main event of UFC Fight Night. Their five-round battle is set to anchor the main UFC fight card starting at 7 p.m. ET from the Apex facility in Las Vegas. The No. 9-ranked Spivac lost a decision to the […]