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WASHINGTON (AP) -- By the time Justin Gaethje pummeled his bloodied foe to a pulp and celebrated a championship win with a backflip off the top of the wire-mesh cage, then shook hands with President Donald Trump -- and even fist-bumped Melania -- this much about his company's future was clear to the ultimate boss of UFC.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump emerged from the Oval Office first, then fighters from around the globe followed straight into the fight cage, in part for the president's 80th birthday celebration and to bring a sport long on the fringe of mainstream acceptance into a main event spot on the White House South Lawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump emerged from the Oval Office first, then fighters from around the globe followed straight into the fight cage, in part for the president's 80th birthday celebration and to bring a sport long on the fringe of mainstream acceptance into a main event spot on the White House South Lawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump turned 80 on Sunday and was set to celebrate with one of the more surreal spectacles both in sports and even in the nation's capital: cage fighting on the White House lawn.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Donald Trump walked out to the strains of Kid Rock's "American Bad Ass" and a roaring standing ovation just before he took a familiar cageside seat at a 2024 UFC event at Madison Square Garden. Long a fan of cage fighting before he entered the political arena, Trump has rooted on the bloodthirsty bouts and congratulated winners...
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro declined to get into specifics on the potential for the state to provide funding for any new sports arenas -- a possibility that looms with the Eagles' lease set to expire in 2032 -- and said there were conversations about bringing NASCAR to Philadelphia as he championed the state's full sports...
LONG POND, Pa. (AP) -- Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro reaffirmed the state would provide no funding for any new sports arenas -- a possibility that looms with the Eagles' lease set to expire in 2032 -- and said there were conversations about bringing NASCAR to Philadelphia as he championed the state's full sports slate next year during an appearance Sunday...
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Kayla Harrison had just added UFC gold to her championship fight collection -- and hugged it out with President Donald Trump -- and still clutched the title belt when she bumped into Merab Dvalishvili backstage.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Merab Dvalishvili retained his 135-pound championship when he tapped out Sean O'Malley in the third round in the main event of UFC 316 on Saturday night at the Prudential Center.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at the Prudential Center on Saturday night, putting his public feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk on hold to instead watch the fierce battles inside the cage.
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- President Donald Trump walked out to a thunderous standing ovation just ahead of the start of the UFC pay-per-view card at the Prudential Center on Saturday night, putting his public feud with tech billionaire Elon Musk on hold to instead watch the fierce battles inside the cage.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla (AP) -- Cease production of the penny, let collector's gobble up what's left of the 1 cent coin, and there will still be one eternally glued to Dale Earnhardt's old Chevrolet, the luckiest piece of loose change in NASCAR history.
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla (AP) -- Bubba Wallace said he "couldn't care less" if Donald Trump attends the Daytona 500 on Sunday, nearly five years after the president accused the NASCAR Cup Series' only Black full-time driver of perpetrating " a hoax " when a crew member found a noose in the team garage stall.
NEW YORK (AP) -- Jon Jones sent Stipe Miocic into retirement with a stunning back kick to the ribs and used a series of blows to the head in the third round to retain the UFC heavyweight championship in front of President-elect Donald Trump in the main event of UFC 309 at Madison Square Garden on Saturday night.