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The UFC women’s bantamweight division boasts its fourth champion in less than a year.

Daniel Cormier defeated a living legend, Jose Aldo recaptured his mojo, and Cain Velasquez dazzled with a dizzying kick at UFC 200. And this all happened before Brock Lesnar’s triumphant return and Amanda Nunes’ picture-perfect performance in the featured bouts.

A dominant Brock Lesnar returned to the cage rejuvenated to claim a decisive victory over Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in Las Vegas.

Two larger-than-life characters seek to carry UFC 200 past all previous cage-fighting pay-per views tonight in Las Vegas.

Daniel Cormier lost one living-legend opponent but gained another in the process.

Eddie Alvarez upset Rafael Dos Anjos for the UFC lightweight title on Thursday night in Las Vegas.

Jon Jones held a press conference until he didn’t to address a potential doping violation that knocked him off the UFC 200 card.

You can disregard posted speed limits and deliberately make contact with other motorists but whatever you do just don’t call NASCAR officials “muppets.”

Vaunted free agent Kevin Durant announced on Monday his decision to join the Golden State Warriors. The signing gives the team coming off the best regular season in NBA history the league’s top free agent (at least of the ones actually looking for a new team) and provides $54 million in salary over two years to a player who signed a sneaker deal with Nike in 2014 that could hit $300 million in value over the life of the contract.

Ball collector Zack Hample collected some virtual flying objects thrown his way on social media after compiling numerous souvenirs at Sunday night’s MLB game at Fort Bragg reserved for military personnel and their family members.

Five animal rights activists stormed the field at Dodger Stadium in the top of the ninth on Sunday to protest Dodger Dogs. A greater number, 41,831, did not.

The National Basketball Association has gone international. It happened years ago. But the tuned out tuning-in to Thursday night’s first round of the NBA Draft witnessed a shocker, an überraschen even.

ESPN just announced its decision to give this year’s Arthur Ashe Courage Award to Zaevion Dobson. This is another way of saying that ESPN honors a hero instead of itself in issuing the award this year.

I heard on Thursday about a race in my community. By 7 a.m. Sunday, I took off from city hall with hundreds of faster, better-prepared runners. Sadly, I didn’t win.

Stephen Curry won consecutive MVP awards the last two seasons. LeBron James last night reasserted his claim on the title of best basketball player on planet earth.

“You just witnessed one of the greatest games in NBA history,” Adam Silver announced minutes before awarding LeBron James the Finals MVP award. “The curse is over. The 53-year drought has come to an end.”

Buy low, sell high. That time-tested business wisdom guides the sale of the Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Whether through a multiculturalist impulse to deem all cultures, including baseball ones, equal, a cynical gambit to generate clicks and comments, or just a zeal to recognize the amazing totality of Ichiro’s career, many sports writers portray the Miami Marlin outfielder as surpassing Rose. But people more fanatical about the game—fans—disagree. Just 20,037 of them showed up in San Diego for the supposedly historic event.

ESPN told its hosts not to wade into political controversies. Then host Jemele Hill lectured America on lecturing Muslims on anti-gay bigotry in the wake of the mass-shooting by an ISIS supporter at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

At the Copa America soccer tournament, signs read “Trump I brought my birth certificate just in case. #F—Trump” and—pardon my Spanish—“Chingue a su madre #Trump.”

Rabbi Michael Lerner turned a mourning service for Muhammad Ali into a pep rally for left-wing causes on Friday in Louisville.

Beneath American and Olympic flags, mourners said goodbye to Muhammad Ali at a Louisville, Kentucky, arena on Friday afternoon.

On the day that the ring buried the Greatest, the rink lost “Mr. Hockey.”

The International Tennis Federation (ITF) meted out two-year suspension to Maria Sharapova for testing positive for a performance-enhancing drug.

The UFC reversed itself on a ban on Ariel Helwani reporting at its event.

Street-fighting legend Kimbo Slice died of a heart attack Monday night in South Florida.

Fighting back tears on Monday, MMA journalist Ariel Helwani recounted the UFC de-credentialing and ejecting him from UFC 199 for beating the promotion to the punch on several fight announcements.

Brock Lesnar announced his dance partner for his UFC 200 comeback. The former UFC heavyweight champion named as his opponent another supersized fighter needing to cut weight to make the 265-pound limit.

McKayla Maroney gave the world a “not impressed” facial expression. Gabby Douglas follows up with a “not impressed” statement.

Like Caesar, Brock Lesnar came, he saw, he conquered. Like Caesar, a stabbing pain in his midsection ended his rule.

Ted Williams lost five seasons to World War II and the Korean War. We look at the 521 home runs and .344 lifetime batting average and think: what might have been? Muhammad Ali lost more than three years in his prime to the Vietnam War, and some also ask: what might have been?

Muhammed Ali overcame 8-1 odds to defeat Sonny Liston in 1964. But the long-suffering boxer couldn’t overcome the odds stacked against him in a Phoenix hospital room last month.

A federal judge ruled that the U.S. national women’s soccer team possesses no right to strike under the collective-bargaining agreement its players affirmed.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said his league may pull next year’s All-Star Game from Charlotte if North Carolina doesn’t change its bathroom law. He refrained from saying whether the league intends on giving back the arena North Carolina taxpayers built for the Charlotte Bobcats.

The International Boxing Association voted on Wednesday to allow professionals to compete at the Olympics.