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After all the talk between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, it’s time for the two to meet in the ring. The interest for the fight between the two participates is expected to set record numbers on pay-per-view. What else is at stake in this fight? Mayweather promised it will be the last fight of his career but can McGregor play the spoiler on Floyd’s final appearance in the ring? If you ask McG...

The hype and trash talk between boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and mixed martial arts champ Conor McGregor is about to come to and end and now it’s time to put up or...well it’s time to rumble. And it’s also time to start making plans for where to see the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight in Long Beach, the South Bay and nearby areas for those who want to see it with other fight fans. Here’s a verified li...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 21-27 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: BOXING: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. vs. CONOR McGREGOR Details/TV: At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saturday, 6 p.m., pay-per-view (suggested price: $99.95) It’s the latest piece of non-circumstantial evidence that sports has eclipsed sanity, with or without a special pair of $100 glasses to watch it sear our retinas. All the time, space, ink, verbiage, video, expectations and deviations dedicated to this Battlestar Galactica presentation can’t possibly match what the crash-and-bu outcome will surely be, according to the expe...

LAS VEGAS — Top Rank Inc. has long been one of the top promotional companies in boxing, but Floyd Mayweather Jr. wanted to march to the beat of his own drummer, so he left the industry giant in 2006. He has since become a master at self-marketing. At the end of 2016, Forbes listed his net worth at $...

LAS VEGAS >> It was 108 degrees outside the Mayweather Boxing Club at 1:30 p.m. Thursday. A handful of fans stood outside, hopeful of getting a look at Floyd Mayweather Jr., even though he wasn’t scheduled to arrive until 3 p.m. Reporters and photographers stood in line, waiting to get in as t...

LONG BEACH >> With wind conditions that consistently shifted during the six-day Zhik 29er Class World Championships, consistency was the key to victory. After three days of qualifying, the 129 teams were broken into three series — gold, silver and bronze. On Saturday, the best navigators of th...

By The Associated Press Jimmy Walker endured rain delays of nearly five hours and shot a 5-under 65 on Friday to build a two-shot lead at the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio. Walker finally saw some good results in a year marked by coping with Lyme disease and bouts of fatigue. The timing co...

LOS ANGELES >> Some 300 reporters and photographers stood in the credential line at Staples Center before Tuesday’s first stop of the Floyd Mayweather Jr.-Conor McGregor media tour. Another 200 were tued down for credentials, an event spokesman said. “I’ve never been a part of anything like ...

Floyd Mayweather’s boxing match against Conor McGregor will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship game of his Big3 basketball league. The final game of the 3-on-3 season of former NBA players will now be held at the MGM Gra...

LAS VEGAS >> The IRS says boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. still owes $22.2 million in taxes from 2015, the year he eaed his biggest payday with a blockbuster fight against May Pacquiao. A notice of a federal tax lien filed against the undefeated fighter nicknamed “Money” shows the balance as un...

The most anticipated fight of the year will be embarking on a world publicity tour, with the first stop here in Los Angeles. Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor kick off a four-city inteational press tour begiing Tuesday at Staples Center. ...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wiers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals and wasn’t on the podium Sunday. Nonetheless, he received a gold, along with finals swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian. It was Phelps’ 19th gold medal and 23rd altogether, but Ervin’s story is as extraordinary. This spring, Ervin answered questions from Southe Califoia News Group columnist Tom Hoffarth about his...