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Daniel Cormier believes not having to cut weight will serve him well when he returns to the octagon to meet heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic in July's UFC 226 pay-per-view headliner. The light heavyweight champion also told the AP's Dan Gelston on the "AP Sports Weekly" podcast that he wouldn't mind holding both the light heavyweight and heavyweight titles at the same time. Continue to Article

April 18, 2018 9:41:am EST

Say this for Francisco Lindor: He clearly has a flair for the dramatic. Playing as a big leaguer in his native Puerto Rico for the first time, Lindor connected on a two-run home run to open the scoring and help spark the Cleveland Indians to a 6-1 win over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night. "I love the Cleveland Indians fans. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 11:51:pm EST

On Tuesday, the Minnesota Twins and Cleveland Indians took the field at San Juan’s Hiram Bithorn Stadium for the first of two regular season games to be played in Puerto Rico this week. It’s the first regular-season MLB series to be played in Puerto Rico in eight years and a nod to the island’s love for baseball, contribution to MLB and its continued recovery effort from last year’s devastating Hurricane Maria that still sees the island in need of assistance. Baseball Almanac lists 30 Puerto Rican-born players who played in MLB in 2017. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 9:37:pm EST

Cleveland Indians star Francisco Lindor hit a home run off Jake Odorizzi in the top of the fifth inning of Tuesday night's game against the Minnesota Twins at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lindor was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico and moved to Florida when he was 12 years old. The Indians selected him in the first round of the 2011 MLB draft. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 9:14:pm EST

A top Cleveland Indians prospect is suing a company he claims gave him $360,000 in exchange for a 10 percent stake in his future earnings that could amount to millions of dollars. Catcher Francisco Mejia claims in a federal lawsuit filed in February that the agreement is unfair and unenforceable, and that he didn't understand the extent to which he was mortgaging his future when he signed the contracts to get the money. Mejia, who is from the Dominican Republic and has the equivalent of a ninth-grade education, claims in the suit filed on his behalf that Big League Advance Fund issued three separate "loans" to him in 2016 "under unconscionable terms and conditions and through unconscionable means," once when his mother was sick and the family needed money for medical treatment. Continue to Article

April 17, 2018 5:43:pm EST