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Brandon McNulty of the United States won the UCI world road race championship in Montreal on September 27, finishing 13 seconds ahead of the field over a 273.4-kilometer course.
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Demi Vollering, 29, won the women's road race world championship in Montreal on Saturday, September 26, defeating Kasia Niewiadoma in a dramatic sprint finish with less than 200 meters remaining.
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The PGA Tour announced a restructured membership model separating 114 Championship Series players from a Challenger Series, with eligibility determined by performance across 2026 and 2027.
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World Athletics has awarded the 2029 World Athletics Championships to Nairobi, making it the first African city to host the global track and field event.
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The PGA Tour has established Championship Series and Challenger Series eligibility rules for 2028, creating a career earnings exemption for top earners but blocking any pathway for LIV returnees currently banned from competition.
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UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall announced on September 14 that he vacated the title due to a reinjured right eye sustained during training.
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Europe defeated the United States 15-13 at the 2026 Solheim Cup in Den Bosch, Netherlands, on Sunday, September 13, with Lottie Woad securing the decisive point in singles.
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Ryan Garcia retained his WBC welterweight title by stopping Conor Benn at 1 minute 25 seconds of the second round at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on September 12, 2026.
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Jai Opetaia defended his Ring Magazine and Zuffa Boxing cruiserweight titles Saturday night by stopping Noel Mikaelian in the ninth round.
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LIV Golf filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Tuesday in New Jersey after the Saudi PIF ended funding, with a restructuring support agreement from BC Partners Credit.
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Cricket Australia approved privatization of the Big Bash League, moving forward with a sales process for the Melbourne Renegades with a target date of the 2027-28 season for new ownership.
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England captain Joe Root endorsed Kevin Pietersen's appointment as specialist mentor to the white-ball squad on September 8, calling him 'always brilliant' for his willingness to mentor players.
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Katie Taylor defeated Flora Pili on points at Croke Park in Dublin on September 5, 2026, retiring as an undisputed light-welterweight champion with a 26-1 professional record.
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India's Smriti Mandhana scored 124 runs against Hong Kong Women at the Women's T20 Asia Cup, surpassing Mithali Raj's 10,868 to become cricket's all-time leading women's run-scorer across all formats.
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TMRW Sports' women's TGL has secured a multiyear media rights deal with ESPN/ABC and ION to broadcast 15 match days beginning November 8, 2026.
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The PGA Tour is revamping its fan code of conduct and deploying new security measures for the 2027 season in response to player concerns about sports betting-influenced fan behavior.
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Scottie Scheffler won the 2026 Tour Championship at East Lake with a 16-under score, breaking Tiger Woods' all-time PGA Tour career earnings record at $130.39 million and capturing his second FedEx Cup title.
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Hrgovic, an Olympic bronze medallist, knocked out the heavily favored 21-year-old Itauma in the ninth round at London's O2 Arena after trailing on all eight rounds on the judges' cards, capturing the vacant IBF heavyweight crown in a stunning late-round collapse.
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Race leader Tadej Pogacar crashed with 33 kilometers remaining on stage eight of the Vuelta a Espana on Saturday and was forced to abandon the race.
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Masai Russell of the United States clocked 12.09 seconds in the women's 100m hurdles, and Alison Dos Santos of Brazil ran 45.80 seconds in the 400m hurdles, each breaking the world record in their discipline at the Diamond League meet in Zurich on August 27, 2026.
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The PGA Tour will replace the 22-year East Lake run of the Tour Championship with a two-week, World Cup-style group stage and sudden-death match play format beginning in 2028.
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Pace bowler Brydon Carse was filmed in handcuffs outside a bar in Derby on August 23, 2026, and has been removed from England's squad for the second Test against Pakistan.
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Miyu Yamashita shot a 23-under 257 over 72 holes to win the CPKC Women's Open by nine shots, tying the LPGA Tour scoring record.
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The third stage of the Vuelta a Espana was called off on Monday due to severe hailstorms in the French Pyrenees with 15km remaining.
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Lando Norris won the Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort by executing a two-stop pit strategy that built a tire offset to pass Mercedes' Kimi Antonelli, who led after Max Verstappen's first-lap red-flag crash.
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Australia defeated Bangladesh by an innings and 51 runs at Mackay, with Mitchell Starc taking 10 wickets in the match.
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LIV Golf canceled its Michigan finale and cut prize money at the Indianapolis season-closer this week, reducing total payouts by $30 million.
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Scottie Scheffler closed with a 4-under 66 to win the FedEx St. Jude Championship by eight shots, his largest margin at TPC Southwind in the tournament's 68-year history.
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NSN's development squad withdrew from the Volta a Portugal on Saturday, one day after 19-year-old Welsh time-trial specialist Finlay Tarling died in a Friday incident involving a car that entered the race course.
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Islam Makhachev makes his first welterweight title defense against Ian Machado Garry in Philadelphia on Saturday, August 16.
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Prichard Colon, a Puerto Rican welterweight who suffered a traumatic brain injury during a 2015 fight against Terrel Williams, died Thursday at age 33.
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Turki Alalshikh, a Saudi Arabia government official and boxing promoter, withdrew his proposed takeover of Championship club Derby County on Monday despite having already received clearance from both the English Football League and the Independent Football Regulator.
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Aaron McKenna won the IBF world middleweight title with a unanimous decision over previously unbeaten Etinosa Oliha at Dublin's 3Arena on August 9, extending his professional record to 21-0.
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The UFC officially announced Joshua Van vs. Alexandre Pantoja for the flyweight title on September 19 at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles.
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Tour de France Femmes officials implemented equipment checks to prevent riders from using bra padding and other items as aerodynamic fairings, which can provide up to one second per kilometre advantage.
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Joseph Parker, a 34-year-old former WBO heavyweight champion, had his provisional suspension lifted after testing positive for cocaine, according to BBC Sport.
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Marlen Reusser of Switzerland, the world time trial champion, won stage four of the 2026 Tour de France Femmes with a 21-kilometer individual time trial from Gevrey-Chambertin to Dijon, finishing in 27 minutes, 30 seconds.
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Bodugum Akhilesh Reddy, 26-year-old United States cricket international, has been banned from all forms of cricket for eight years after the ICC Anti-Corruption Tribunal found him guilty of match-fixing during the Abu Dhabi T10 League in 2025.
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Shiho Kuwaki won the 2026 Women's Open at Royal Lytham & St Annes, finishing at five under par and defeating Esther Henseleit in a playoff.
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Rose Davies became the first woman ever to win both the 5000m and 10,000m at the same Commonwealth Games, winning the 5000m on Friday at Glasgow 2026 in 14 minutes 44.53 seconds.
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Stephen Fleming, former New Zealand captain and Chennai Super Kings head coach, is the ECB's preferred candidate to replace Brendon McCullum as England's Test head coach, according to ESPN reporting.
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Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions and the Professional Fighters League announced Thursday that they are merging, with the PFL shifting under the MVP umbrella to form a single combat sports company.
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West Indies won the first Test against Pakistan by 90 runs, with fast bowler Jayden Seales taking 5 wickets for 20 runs in Pakistan's second innings.
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The PGA Tour confirmed the Travelers Championship and a Sompo-sponsored event as the first two tournaments in its new Championship Series launching in 2028.
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Errol Spence Jr., a future Hall of Famer and former unified welterweight champion, lost his comeback fight to Tim Tszyu by unanimous decision in a 12-round middleweight bout in Sydney.
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Eddie Hearn confirms the Tyson Fury-Anthony Joshua heavyweight bout, signed three months ago, carries a legally binding UK-venue requirement.
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Tadej Pogacar moved to the brink of a record-equaling fifth Tour de France title after Saturday's 20th stage, holding a 6.5-minute lead over Belgian Remco Evenepoel heading into Sunday's final ceremonial stage in Paris.
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The Tour de France's final stage on Sunday was shortened from 82.5 miles to 55 miles, with organizers redirecting police and security resources to wildfire response efforts in southwestern France.
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Gabriel Langton, 18, fell off the high bar during England's men's team gymnastics final at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, landing on his head and neck.
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Tadej Pogacar launched a solo attack from 12 kilometers out on stage 19 of the 2026 Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez, catching and passing Richard Carapaz and Lenny Martinez in the final 1.5 kilometers to win the stage.
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Michael Kim shot a 12-under 59 on Friday at the 3M Open in Blaine, Minnesota, becoming only the 15th golfer in PGA Tour history to break 60.
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Tyson Fury defeated Mariusz Wach by seventh-round stoppage in Pattaya, Thailand on Friday. Wach's corner pulled him from the bout after round seven.
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Daphne Schrager, a Paris 2024 silver medallist in Paralympic cycling, has received a two-year ban following a positive test for the banned substance Ligandrol.
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Former IBF cruiserweight champion Jai Opetaia filed suit in Nevada federal court on July 14, claiming the sanctioning body stripped him of his title in retaliation for signing with Zuffa Boxing.
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Britain's Denzel Bentley was elevated to full WBO middleweight champion after Kazakhstan boxer Janibek Alimkhanuly relinquished the title, according to BBC Sport.
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New Zealander Ryan Fox won the 2026 Open Championship at Royal Birkdale, his first major title, sealed with a birdie on the final hole, according to BBC Sport.