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Fabio Maldonado valiantly accepted a heavyweight fight with Stipe Miocic to help save the main event at “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil 3,” but he wasn’t able to last longer than 35 seconds with his larger opponent. A big right hand for Miocic led to the quick finish in the headlining bout of Saturday’s event, which took place at Sao Paulo’s …

The Washington D.C. metropolitan area has reclaimed the top spot in an annual ranking of health and community fitness, bumping Minneapolis-St. Paul, last year’s three-peat winner, to second place. Portland, Denver and San Francisco round out the Top 5 on the 2014 American Fitness Index report, released today.

Police say three people were killed and six injured at a road rally in Edinburgh, Scotland, after two cars collided with spectators in separate accidents. Organizers said the Jim Clark Rally in the Scottish Borders was canceled, and that they were cooperating with the police investigation to determine the cause of the crashes.

Retired Chinese basketball great Yao Ming has set his sights on acquiring the Los Angeles Clippers, one of the top teams in the National Basketball Association or NBA.

Golfer Rory McIlroy confirms it’s officially over between him and Danish tennis player Caroline Wozniacki, just days after sending out wedding invitations to their guests.

On Wednesday, the Super Bowl-champion Seattle Seahawks visited the White House, where they were honored by President Barack Obama after their 43-8 victory over the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII on Feb. 2.

On Monday the NBA officially charged Donald Sterling with damaging the league and its teams with his racist comments, and set up a hearing on June 3 where the other owners could vote to terminate his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Honolulu police arrested professional surfer Jill Anjuli Hansen, 30, Wednesday night after she allegedly drove a car into an elderly woman in Waikiki, Hawaii News Now wrote. Hansen was charged with attempted murder and is being held on $1 million bail.

The scene unfolded when Blue Jays outfielder Kevin Pillar fouled a pitch to third base coach Luis Rivera during the fourth inning. Rivera then flipped it to the boy. Without missing a beat, he turned and gave the girl sitting behind him a ball he was holding in his right hand. He never took the foul ball out of his …

Current AFC Defensive Player of the Year and former Alabama A&M Bulldog Robert Mathis has been suspended the first four games of the 2014 season for violating the league’s policy on performance enhancing substances.

Meghan Umphres Leatherman was still pumping weights as part of her gruelling fitness regime – that also combines gymnastics and cardio – when she was close to giving birth and already 1cm dilated. The 33-year-old from Arizona, USA, was even lifting weights on the day she went into labour, having already broken records in the final days of her pregnancy.