Top Rank Chair Bob Arum said that boxer Manny Pacquiao "plans to come out of a brief sabbatical to fight again on either Oct. 29 or Nov. 5 in the main event of an HBO PPV card in Las Vegas" (ESPN.com, 7/12).
The 49ers have "taken over management of the Foster Farms Bowl" from the S.F. Bowl Game Association. The team also "signed a four-year deal with Fox Sports to televise the game at Levi’s Stadium" (S.F. CHRONICLE, 7/13).
Olympic wrestler Adeline Gray has signed with Stanton & Co., a women-focused athlete representation shop. Gray is a three-time world champion in the 75kg weight class and favored to medal in Rio. She was previously represented by Nick Garone at X-cel Worldwide (Ben Fischer, Staff Writer).
A crowd of 10,125 – the largest in NASL Carolina RailHawks history – attended the team's 2-2 draw against EPL club West Ham United last night in a friendly at WakeMed Soccer Park (Raleigh NEWS & OBSERVER, 7/13).
FAU will "host a warm-up soccer match between the Argentina and Colombia national teams" on July 21 in the run-up to the Rio Games (PALM BEACH POST, 7/13).
Tickets sales for the Int'l Champions Cup game between Real Madrid and Paris-St. Germain at Ohio Stadium are "approaching 70,000," and promoters "plan to bring other big games" to Ohio State's campus (COLUMBUS DISPATCH, 7/13).
