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Oleksandr Usyk’s team requested the Middle East Professional Boxing Commission at Friday’s rules meeting to mandate that Tyson Fury trim his burly beard ahead of Saturday’s unified heavyweight championship rematch, sources told ESPN.

President Joe Biden is abandoning his efforts to provide some protections for transgender athletes as part of an administration-wide plan to jettison pending regulations to prevent President-elect Donald Trump from retooling them to achieve his own aims.

Lindsey Vonn finished 14th position in a super-G on Saturday to mark her return to World Cup skiing at age 40.

The New York Yankees traded catcher Jose Trevino to the Cincinnati Reds for right-hander Fernando Cruz and catcher Alex Jackson,

Notre Dame kicked off the 12-team playoff era with its first playoff win, a 27-17 victory over Indiana on Friday night.

The first-round College Football Playoff matchup is pitting friends, family and congregation members against each other.

A provision that would have given D.C. control of more than 170 acres at the site that still houses RFK Stadium was excluded from a spending bill that passed in Congress on Friday, a blow to the Commanders’ hopes of returning to the area.

Bayern Munich coach Vincent Kompany and RB Leipzig counterpart Marco Rose struggled to discuss Bayern’s 5-1 Bundesliga victory on Friday after two people were killed when a car drove into crowds at a Christmas market in Magdeburg.

The Dodgers, Mets and Yankees were the highest penalized among the record nine teams to be over the MLB’s luxury tax threshold for 2024.

Tiger Woods and 15-year-old son Charlie will again compete in the PNC Championship, where they will tee off Saturday alongside Justin Leonard and son Luke.