San Francisco Chronicle

Bengals cut ex-Raiders safety

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The Bengals released former Raiders safety Taylor Mays, who played for Cincinnati from 2011-2014. He spent last season in Oakland and re-signed with the Bengals in the offseason. Mays started five games for the Raiders. He has no career intercepti­ons and one sack.

Baltimore standouts Terrell Suggs (Achilles tendon), Steve Smith (Achilles tendon) and Elvis Dumervil (foot surgery) are among six Ravens who will start training camp on the physically unable to perform list.

Chicago Bears offensive lineman Nate Chandler retired at age 27. Chandler appeared in 37 games with 19 starts for Carolina from 2012 to 2014. He sat out last season because of a right knee injury and joined the Bears in June.

Boxing: American fighter Terence Crawford (21-0) kept himself in contention for a Nov. 5 bout with Manny Pacquiao, scoring a unanimous 12-round decision over Ukraine’s Viktor Postol (28-1) in Las Vegas to win the WBC and WBO super lightweigh­t belts.

On the undercard, Mexico’s Oscar Valdez (20-0) won the WBO featherwei­ght title with a second-round knockout of Argentina’s Matias Adrian Rueda (26-1) in a scheduled 12-round bout.

NHL: The Arizona Coyotes signed Luke Schenn to a two-year, $2.5 million contract. The 26-year-old defenseman had four goals and 12 assists in 72 games with the Philadelph­ia Flyers and Los Angeles Kings last season.

Soccer: Sunderland says it has hired former Manchester United coach David Moyes as manager, a day after Sam Allardyce left the English Premier League club to take charge of England’s national team.

In MLS, Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes scored in the opening 11 minutes as the visiting Los Angeles Galaxy beat Portland 2-1 to snap the Timbers’ nine-game undefeated streak.

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