Boxing
Mayweather announces follow up to Pacquiao fight
LAS VEGAS – Floyd Mayweather Jr. will return to the ring for the first time since boxing’s richest fight ever, facing Andre Berto on Sept. 12 in Las Vegas.
The bout will be televised on pay-per-view by Showtime.
Mayweather, who made more than $200 million for his fight May 2 against Manny Pacquiao, doesn’t figure to make nearly as much against Berto. It will be the last in a six-fight deal Mayweather has with Showtime, after which he has said he will retire.
Mayweather has won all 48 of his fights and will be a lopsided favorite against Berto (30-3), who was once touted as a rising star in boxing but has lost three of his last six bouts.
College Football
Program will help family travel to playoff games
IRVING, Texas – The College Football Playoff expanded its program to help pay travel expenses for parents and guardians of players to also include the national semifinal games.
For the first national championship game in the new playoff last January, CPF distributed $500,000 – up to $2,500 for each player from Ohio State and Oregon – to assist families with travel, food and hotel costs associated with attending the game in North Texas.
The organization said Tuesday that the expense-reimbursement program will extend to teams in the semifinals.
MLB
Tigers fire their highly successful general manager
DETROIT – Dave Dombrowski is out as president and general manager of the Detroit Tigers and been replaced by Al Avila.
The move was announced Tuesday by the Tigers, who are 51-54 and 11½ games out of first place in the AL Central.
Dombrowski joined the Tigers as team president in 2002. He replaced Randy Smith as general manager after the team lost the first six games of the season.
He presided over Detroit’s AL-record 119 losses in 2003. But he built a roster that reached the postseason five times, losing the World Series in 2006 and 2012.
Swimming
Aussies dominate podium at world swimming Tuesday
KAZAN, Russia – Australia dominated the 100-meter backstroke events at the world swimming championships Tuesday, winning the men’s title and going 1-2 in the women’s final.
Two more world records fell on the third night of swimming at Kazan Arena, where a cool breeze swept through the soccer stadium.
Mitchell Larkin won the men’s 100 back in 52.40 seconds.
Emily Seebohm led a 1-2 finish for the Aussies in the women’s final, with all eight swimmers going under 1 minute. She won in 58.26 to earn her first individual gold at worlds, having finished second to American Missy Franklin in two years ago in Barcelona.
Track and Field
Coe: Track and field faces ‘declaration of war’
LONDON – Sebastian Coe told The Associated Press that the latest doping allegations leveled against track and field are “a declaration of war.”
Coe, a vice president of the International Association of Athletics Federations, vigorously defended the IAAF’s drug-testing system and said it is time to “come out fighting” to protect the reputation of the sport.
In an exclusive interview with the AP, Coe said he takes “grave exception” to the reports by German and British media outlets alleging the IAAF had failed to act on suspicious blood tests involving hundreds of athletes over a 10-year period.
He says “this is a seminal moment” and “we cannot be portrayed as a sport that is in any way dragging our heels.”
Associated Press
