Dealing with defeat isn’t something Canelo Alvarez has had to do since 2013, when he was a 23-year-old upstart. That is, until he lost to Dmitry Bivol this year.
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Sam Gordon was born and raised in Minneapolis and is back for his second stint with the Review-Journal. He’s covered the NFL, NBA, the Big Ten, the Mountain West and prep sports for various publications during his professional tenure. Gordon, a University of Minnesota graduate, is a basketball junkie who coached high school basketball for three seasons.
The Aces won the first two games of the WNBA Finals because they defended with effort and urgency. They lost the third one Thursday because they elected not to do either.
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin will meet for Alvarez’s undisputed super middleweight championship Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, the third time they have fought.
Welterweight boxing champions Errol Spence Jr. and Terence Crawford have agreed in principle to unify their titles and fight for the undisputed 147-pound championship.
That Gennady “GGG” Golovkin is a +350 underdog to Canelo Alvarez in their super middleweight fight seems disrespectful, even if he is past his prime at age 40.
Kelsey Plum eradicated any memory of an atrocious Game 1 outing by scoring 20 on 7-of-13 shooting to go with seven assists in 35 minutes.
Canelo Alvarez and Gennady Golovkin arrived Tuesday in Las Vegas for their third fight Saturday after two of the most memorable title bouts in middleweight history.
Derek Carr’s performance Sunday during a 24-19 loss to the rival Chargers certainly wasn’t satisfactory, but it isn’t worth the panic that it seems to have created.
Turns out the Aces aren’t just an offensive juggernaut. They can win rock fights, too, defeating the Connecticut Sun in a defensive struggle in Game 1 of the WNBA Finals.
Becky Hammon played 16 seasons in the WNBA but never won a championship. She’s back in the finals now as coach of the Aces, who will play the Connecticut Sun.
In his second head-coaching stint, Josh McDaniels has emphasized collaboration and communication as he seeks to lead what could be a special season.
Never before in WNBA playoff history had a lead changed hands three times within the final three seconds of regulation.
The Rebels senior kicker and former walk-on Daniel Gutierrez is rewriting the school record books and redrawing what it means to be a scholarship athlete.
Aces forward A’ja Wilson played one of the best games of her career, finishing with 33 points, 13 rebounds and three blocks in a Game 2 victory over the Seattle Storm.
In a WNBA playoff game matching two former MVPs, the Aces’ A’ja Wilson scored just eight points and took only 10 shots, and was outplayed by the Seattle Storm’s Breanna Stewart.