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LIV Golf secures TV, streaming deal with the CW network​


LIV Golf has reached a multiyear U.S. broadcast television and streaming agreement with the CW network to air its live tournaments, tour officials announced Thursday. According to the news release, the CW network will boutroadcast each of LIV Golf's 14 global events this coming season over the air and on the CW app. "This is a momentous day for LIV Golf as this partnership is about more than just media rights," LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman said in a statement. "The CW will provide accessibility for our fans and maximum exposure for our athletes and partners as their reach includes more than 120 million households across the United States. We're very proud to note how consequential it is that a league that has only existed for one year has secured a full broadcast deal in its debut full league season."

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Liam Smith drubs rival Chris Eubank Jr. in 4th-round stoppage​


Liam Smith settled his differences with Chris Eubank Jr. in emphatic fashion, stopping his English middleweight rival in four rounds on Saturday. Smith floored Eubank twice, shattering his hopes of facing 40-year-old veteran Gennadiy Golovkin, the WBA and IBF world champion. Eubank went into the fight as ESPN's No. 5-ranked middleweight, but this crushing loss casts doubt on whether he can win a world title like his father, Chris, a champion at middleweight and super middleweight in the 1990s.

Smith (33-3-1, 20 KOs), 34, from Liverpool, has had a roller-coaster career. He made two defenses as WBO welterweight champion in 2015-16 and also suffered a knockout loss to Canelo Alvarez in 2016. After his win over Eubank, he can look forward to another elite-level fight.

Eubank (33-3, 23 KOs), 33, from Brighton, who had four-weight world champion Roy Jones Jr. in his corner as trainer, had not fought for nearly a year after his fight against Conor Benn was cancelled due to his opponent testing positive for a banned substance at late notice last year. But despite the ring layoff, Eubank still went into this encounter as a big betting favorite.

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Artur Beterbiev stops Anthony Yarde for 19th straight knockout​


Artur Beterbiev maintained his 100% knockout record as a professional by stopping Anthony Yarde in eight thrilling rounds to defend his three world light heavyweight titles Saturday. Few things in sport are certainties, but Beterbiev has delivered a KO performance in each of his 19 professional fights over a decade now. Beterbiev (19-0, 19 KOs), who is based in Montreal but originally from Chechnya, Russia, registered a seventh world title defense in a brutal fight that he finished in style two minutes and one second into the eighth round.

Yarde (23-3, 22 KOs) was stopped for the second time in his career by a big-hitting Russian. Yarde was well into the fight, but Beterbiev showed the quality of his finishing in the eighth round when he landed a straight right hand that sent Yarde spinning, before another cuffing right deposited him onto the canvas.

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OU, Texas to join SEC in '25 as exit talks stall, sources say​


The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning. After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join the SEC in 2025. Sources said the parties couldn't come to terms amid a complex negotiation involving two schools, two networks (ESPN and Fox) and the Big 12. Sources said the sides couldn't agree on how to create equitable value for what Fox would lose in 2024 -- the equivalent of seven football games featuring Oklahoma and Texas that command premium advertising. Instead, Oklahoma and Texas are slated to play out the final seasons of their contracts with the Big 12.

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LIV Golf League lawyers say 2022 revenue was 'virtually zero'​


As the LIV Golf League prepares to start its second season in Mexico later this month, the circuit being financed by Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund is generating virtually no revenue, according to federal court documents. The LIV Golf League's attorneys made that admission in a motion filed with the U.S. District Court for Northern California on Monday. LIV Golf asked U.S. District Court Judge Beth Labson Freeman to deny the PGA Tour's motion for leave to add the Public Investment Fund and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as plaintiffs in the tour's countersuit against LIV Golf, in which it alleges LIV Golf interfered with its contract with players.

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OU, Texas to join SEC in '25 as exit talks stall, sources say​


The negotiations for Oklahoma and Texas to leave the Big 12 a year early and join the SEC in 2024 have stalled and a deal is not expected to come to fruition, sources told ESPN on Friday morning. After weeks of negotiations, Texas and Oklahoma are still slated to join the SEC in 2025. Sources said the parties couldn't come to terms amid a complex negotiation involving two schools, two networks (ESPN and Fox) and the Big 12. Sources said the sides couldn't agree on how to create equitable value for what Fox would lose in 2024 -- the equivalent of seven football games featuring Oklahoma and Texas that command premium advertising. Instead, Oklahoma and Texas are slated to play out the final seasons of their contracts with the Big 12.

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Oklahoma, Texas agree to exit Big 12 Conference after 2023-24 season
On July 1, the Big 12 will officially add BYU, Central Florida, Cincinnati and Houston to the conference, and it will compete as a 14-team league for the upcoming season.

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Oklahoma and Texas have agreed in principle to pay the Big 12 conference a total of $100 million to join the SEC in 2024, a year earlier than they had originally intended,
 
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