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While the status of the event on the Network remains unknown, the opponent for Lesnar has been announced as WWE US champion Alberto Del Rio. The match is for the US title, and if Lesnar wins, this would be the first time ever that Brock would be in possession of any title other than the main WWE titles. While Lesnar is a 3-time WWE champion during his first stint with the WWE, he has held the WWE World Heavyweight title since his comeback in 2012....

China’s Australian Open finalist Li Na said Thursday she is confident she can use her hard-won experience to hold off the emerging generation of players as she chases more Grand Slam glory. The former French Open champion came up short against world number one Victoria Azarenka in the final of the year’s first major in Melbourne in January but predicts another two years at the top of the women’s game....

Victor Hedman scored the only goal in shootout Friday night to lift Tampa Bay past New York 1-0 after both goaltenders put on a spectacular display in regulation and overtime. Hedman beat Thomas Greiss on the first attempt for the league-best Lightning. The Islanders had a power play at 3:23 of overtime when Tampa Bay’s Nikita Kucherov was called for cross-checking but couldn’t convert. Greiss and Tampa Bay’s Andrei Vasilevskiy put on a save-for-save clinic before the shootout....

Leonard was traded to the Toronto Raptors in mid-July, having reportedly asked to leave San Antonio after seven years that included an NBA championship in 2014. The 27-year-old initially kept quiet following the move, but he has broken his silence and submitted a letter to the San Antonio Express-News to show his gratitude to the Spurs. “I have been going back and forth the last few weeks trying to figure out the right things to say,” Leonard wrote....

Fournette likes the idea of the 2015 NFL MVP being brought in to compete with expected starter Gardner Minshew. IYER: Browns should be trying to trade Beckham Newton, a three-time Pro Bowler, was released by the Carolina Panthers last month after spending his entire nine-year career with the franchise. He has battled significant shoulder and foot injuries over the past three seasons. “I feel like, you know, Cam went to the Super Bowl, he’s a great guy....

MORE: Collaborative process for SEC | Kickoff Weekend game times announced The LSU coach is following through on his hint last week that new coach Willie Fritz’s Green Wave coaches wouldn’t be invited to LSU’s camps if Tulane partnered with an out-of-state school on other camps. Tulane planned camps in Louisiana with LSU’s SEC rival Texas A&M. That, Miles told reporters Tuesday (via coachingsearch.com), is an indication that Tulane doesn’t want to partner with the Tigers....

FIFA 17 announces ratings upgrades The winger broke the deadlock 23 minutes into Leverkusen’s clash at Augsburg on Friday night to write his name in the history books as Germany’s top division reached the milestone. Kai Havertz’s low cross from the right created the opportunity and Bellarabi swept home with a first-time finish inside the penalty area. Wenger: There will be no retirement The landmark goal was Bellarabi’s first of the Bundesliga season despite the German having netted 25 over the course of the last two campaigns in all competitions....

In the grand scheme of things, those 72 points will do absolutely nothing for Ball’s draft stock. MORE: Every team’s most painful NBA Draft regret Despite LaVar making it his personal mission to guide all of his sons to their own personal Lakers jerseys, LiAngelo is not the same caliber of prospect as Lonzo or LaMelo. There is zero chance an NBA team would use a precious first- or second-round pick on LiAngelo....

It was there one freezing cold Friday night in late November 2012 that Mitchell Cole died, a stone’s throw from his mother’s flat where he grew up and where that evening his son and pregnant wife first received the news that he’d collapsed on the pitch. Mitchell’s family always had in the back of their minds that one day a call may come; that their son, husband, father, and brother would go down and not get up again....

They probably didn’t write that seventies superhit about the earlier days of the San Diego Super Chargers. But girl, man, woman and boy, does that ever apply now. The 2016 Chargers are 1-1 and doing their best to shake a 4-12 season, something they had most recently experienced an unlucky 13 years ago. Monday’s Bolts bulletin revealed that versatile receiving back Danny Woodhead will be out for the season with the knee injury he suffered in Sunday’s Week 2 38-14 rout of Jacksonville....

Hedman scored at 3:25 of the extra period and the Lightning extended their franchise-record stretch with a 4-3 victory over the New York Rangers on Wednesday night. Tyler Johnson, J.T. Miller and Dan Girardi also scored for Tampa Bay, which has an NHL-leading 102 points. Nikita Kucherov added three assists to give him a league-leading 74. Andrei Vasilevskiy had 33 saves. Kucherov sent a drop-back pass to Hedman, who skated toward the net and wristed a shot for his eighth of the season....

Stats show only Ronaldo compares to Ibrahimovic With 146 players incoming and another 151 leaving, the English top flight saw the largest number of transfers across Europe’s big five divisions throughout the transfer period, according to FIFA’s Transfer Matching System report, with its Spanish counterpart coming second after 127 players were imported and 65 left. However, signings such as Julian Draxler for Paris Saint-Germain from Wolfsburg, Memphis Depay to Lyon via Manchester United, and Dimitri Payet’s return to Marseille have seen the French league emerge as the continent’s biggest spenders, even though only 77 players came in....

Among Us has garnered so much popularity that even many mainstream celebrity figures have taken interest in the game and even entered into the Among Us community in some way. Recently, American musician Lil Nas X streamed Among Us with some massive Twitch streamers like Valkyrae, Pokimane, Ludwig, and many more. RELATED: Among Us is Coming to Xbox Game Pass The sheer breadth of Among Us’ popularity over the course of 2020 is quite staggering....

The Raptors, sitting second in the NBA’s Eastern Conference with a 26-11 record, went down 116-87 to the Magic (15-19) despite leading by four at the end of the first quarter. The Magic outscored the Raptors by 33 points across the next two quarters, and VanVleet provided an honest assessment after the game. “We want to give them credit, they played a great game, I don’t want to disrespect them in any way but in the most part from our end it felt like most of that stuff we could do better,” he said....

The Bills running back isn’t expected to face discipline by the NFL for violating the league’s personal conduct policy for his alleged role in a February nightclub fight in Philadelphia, though the league’s investigation remains ongoing, NFL.com reported Monday. MORE: Worst crimes connected to athletes | NFL players arrested last season Last Monday, McCoy dodged charges for allegedly punching and attacking two off-duty police officers with three other men after the Philadelphia district attorney’s office cited “insufficient evidence....

For those who have not witnessed Pittsburgh’s nightly ritual, here’s an example. The Pirates dance in the dugout before each game, and Friday night’s battle against the Brewers was no different. MORE: Greatest Pirates ever | Every MLB franchise’s worst team of the last 30 years This has been going on all season. Typically, Andrew McCutchen and Josh Harrison lead the way. Harrison went full limbo prior to a game against the Marlins in late August....

It is the beginning of an anonymous saying that speaks to quietly conducting one’s business without the unnecessary verbal nonsense. Essentially, let success be your ‘noise’ is the underlying meaning. We are approaching the halfway point of the calendar year and for some individuals, like sports and entertainment attorney Darren Heitner, that ‘noise’ has already been consistent throughout 2014. Heitner’s sports law book, How to Play the Game — What Every Sports Attorney Needs to Know, was published by the American Bar Association in late February....

With all the pizzazz of a life-insurance info-mercial host on cable TV, Clinton touts his “comprehensive plan” for economic revival, national health insurance and tax reform. But Clinton fuzzes over the fact that he really has no “plan” for health care other than to convene experts to think about it. The best touch: asking viewers to ,‘visit your local library" to see a copy. Clinton’s handlers don’t think many people will actually go; they hope voters will want a candidate serious enough to have a plan worth putting in the library....