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The two welterweight boxers squared off during a long-anticipated bout in Las Vegas Saturday night.
Floyd Mayweather Jr., left, trades blows with Manny Pacquiao Saturday in Las Vegas.
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The fight began with what the New York Times referred to as a "feel-out" with "no significant punches landed." The fight picked up in the fourth and fifth rounds, according to the Times.
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John Urschel’s NFL career gives him a larger platform to explore his other passion: math.
The 23-year-old guard for the Baltimore Ravens has a masters in mathematics from Penn State, which he earned while keeping a 4.0 average.
During last night's first round of the 2015 Draft, Urschel took over General Electric's twitter account to livetweet advanced calculations about players' speed, agility, and strength.
The formula Urschel used is complex to those of us not versed in advanced mathematics, but the impact is simple: Titans wide receiver Hakeem Nicks has a job catching passes that would cause most of us to duck and hide.
Baton Rouge police have asked to question former LSU offensive lineman La’El Collins regarding his ex-girlfriend’s death. Police, though, have reportedly said he is not currently a suspect.
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Collins was contacted by the Baton Rouge police on Tuesday after his ex-girlfriend Brittney Mills was killed on Friday.
Mills was pregnant at the time of her death, but the child she was carrying survived. Police told NFL.com reporters that they are trying to determine the child's paternity.
Pointing out that they don't believe Collins had been in contact with Mills since September 2014, police said he is not currently a suspect in the homicide.
Collins has flown back to Louisiana from Chicago, where the NFL Draft takes place this weekend, to arrange a meeting with investigators.
Projected as a first-round draft pick, NFL teams have reportedly started to shy away from Collins in the wake of his association with Mills' death. Glazer reports teams want a "full police report clearing him before they are willing to draft him."
As a result, Collins' agent wants the NFL to allow him to back out of the 2015 draft, but Sports Illustrated reporter Andrew Brandt says getting league approval for that decision would be an "uphill battle."
The Supplemental Draft is intended to allow underclassmen who did not enter the main draft but who cannot continue their college career to enter the league. Collins does not fit that criteria, but it is clear his agent sees requesting the switch as a better solution than entering his currently "undraftable" client into Thursday night's mix.
The first round of the draft begins Thursday at 8 p.m. ET.
This story is developing and will be updated.
The first ever Major League Baseball game without fans, turned Camden Yards into a surreal deserted landscape.
BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 29: The Baltimore Orioles play the Chicago White Sox at an empty Oriole Park at Camden Yards on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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BALTIMORE — On the street side of the towering iron fence, maybe a hundred yards from the Orioles' bullpen inside the gates, stood Orioles fan Les Bowman with his younger brother.
It was about two hours before the start of the game and Bowman had no chance of getting inside Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday afternoon. That was no problem for Bowman, who drove nearly three hours from the coast of Virginia that morning to help with the clean-up effort in parts of Baltimore that sorely needed it.
This was a different sort of gameday, unprecedented in American professional sports history, and Bowman just wanted to witness as much of it as possible. And from this spot outside of the stadium, Bowman and others had as unobstructed a view into the stadium as possible from the surrounding streets.
"The way I see it," Bowman said, "I have the best seat in the house."
It was from there where Bowman and a few dozen fans ultimately watched the game, the first in Major League Baseball history without people in the stands [official paid attendance: zero]. They got to root, at times surprisingly loudly, for the home team in an 8-2 victory over the Chicago White Sox.
"This was our message to let people know that we support our city," said Brandon Coles, a 29-year-old resident of nearby Elkridge, Maryland. "We're ready to start putting the city back on its feet."
Commissioner Rob Manfred said the decision to play the game in an empty stadium was in the "best interests of fan safety and the deployment of city resources" following riots connected to the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who suffered a major spinal cord injury while in Baltimore police custody. It was a sign of the depth of the turmoil that gripped the city over the past few days managed to puncture the relatively sanitized bubble of professional sports.
Looming over the decision to play in an empty Camden Yards were the events of Saturday, when thousands of fans were temporarily forced to remain inside the stadium following protests that turned destructive just outside. Games on Monday and Tuesday were canceled and a scheduled weekend series against the Tampa Bay Rays was subsequently moved to Florida.
BALTIMORE, MD - APRIL 29: Manager Buck Showalter of the Baltimore Orioles does an interview after defeating the Chicago White Sox at an empty Oriole Park at Camden Yards on April 29, 2015 in Baltimore, Maryland.
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"It's not going to be anywhere near the typical sales day for a game," said Craig Ziegenhein, manager of the popular Pickles Pub across the street from the stadium."I just want it to go back to normal. I want baseball back in Baltimore."
So Wednesday's game went off as promised, with only players, team and stadium staff, and members of the media allowed inside the gates of the stadium.
The streets and lots surrounding the stadium were a mostly deserted landscape, with none of the vendors, festivities, and fans that have come to typify game days since the Orioles started winning regularly again a couple years ago.
There was nowhere to get a hot dog or buy an Orioles T-shirt or to listen to jaunty ballpark tunes, even on a picturesque spring day in Baltimore that featured sunny skies and 70-degree temperatures.
"It's a beautiful day for a ballgame," said Linda Butler, who came with her husband John to redeem their tickets before rushing home to watch on TV. "Can you imagine how much the city has lost by not having these games? This has been a terrible impact to the city."
A couple hours later, inside those iron gates, the Orioles raced to an early lead in their victory over the White Sox. Baltimore scored six first-inning runs, which definitely would have been something to cheer about had fans been inside the park.
It was a surreal scene, a sea of empty forest-green seats against the backdrop of Camden Yards.
The Orioles chose a taped version of the national anthem rather than bringing in a singer. On-field chatter between the players was audible throughout the stadium. The thwack of the bat hitting the ball, and the ball hitting a glove, could be heard around the park. After the game, Orioles manager Buck Showalter said he could hear the bullpen phone — which is on the other side of the field — ringing from the dugout.
Every now and again, that hearty group of Orioles fans beyond the left-center field fence could be heard chanting, "Let's Go O's! Let's Go O's!"
The singer and NFL player showed up to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner together after denying their relationship for weeks.
Which we ALL KNOW is a tell-tale sign of a celebrity couple dating.
Look at those moves!
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Jon Jones allegedly collided with a car, injuring its pregnant driver, and then fled on foot.
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Witness accounts said that Jones first exited his car and ran toward a nearby hill. He then returned to his car, grabbed a wad of cash and stuffed it down his pants before running back into the hills, the police report said.
The police found paperwork with Jones' name and MMA affiliation on it when they searched his abandoned car and made several failed attempts to reach him by phone immediately following the collision.
Jones turned himself into Albuquerque police the next day, according to NBC.
UFC announced that it has suspended Jon Jones indefinitely and stripped him of the light heavyweight title as a result of violations of the organization's Athlete Code of Conduct Policy. Jones was recently arrested in Albuquerque, N.M. on a felony charge of leaving the scene of an accident involving personal injury. As a result of the charge and other violations of the Athlete Code of Conduct Policy, the organization believes it is best to allow Jones time to focus on his pending legal matters.
UFC feels strongly that its athletes must uphold certain standards both in and out of the Octagon. While there is disappointment in the recent charges, the organization remains supportive of Jones as he works through the legal process.
