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Santa Anita celebrates its traditional Boxing Day season opener with six graded stakes races, three of them Grade I, while Fair Grounds adds the Gun Runner Stakes for 2-year-olds to its Louisiana Derby progression....Read More

The NHL might be on pause, but several other sports leagues remain in action over the Christmas weekend. Dozens of NBA, soccer, college basketball and NFL games and college football bowls air Friday through Sunday....Read More

Two NFL teams took major hits to their respective offenses Thursday when Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook and New Orleans Saints quarterbacks Taysom Hill and Trevor Siemian landed on the reserve/COVID-19 list....Read More

The Kia Tigers signed All-Star outfielder Na Sung-bum to a record-tying free agent contract Thursday, making a huge splash in a bid to return to South Korean baseball relevance....Read More

Mark Andrews, Rob Gronkowski and Dallas Goedert lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s Top 20 fantasy football tight end rankings for Week 16....Read More

Robbie Roper, a star high school quarterback from Roswell, Ga., died Wednesday from complications after shoulder surgery, his family announced on Twitter. He was 18....Read More

Matthew Stafford and Dak Prescott lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s Top 20 fantasy football quarterback rankings for Week 16....Read More

Jonathan Taylor, Austin Ekeler and David Montgomery lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s Top 30 fantasy football running back rankings for Week 16....Read More

Cooper Kupp, Davante Adams and Ja’Marr Chase lead UPI senior sports writer Alex Butler’s Top 50 fantasy football wide receivers for Week 16....Read More

The NHL and its players’ union reached an agreement Tuesday to not participate in the men’s hockey tournament at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing because of growing COVID-19 concerns....Read More