Ward fight is set for Oakland

Light heavyweight to face Brand on Aug. 6 in Oracle Arena

Oakland boxer Andre Ward will return home for his next fight.

According to ESPN’s Dan Rafael, an agreement has been reached for a 12round light heavyweight bout between Ward (29-0, 15 knockouts) and Alexander Brand (25-1, 19 KO) on Aug. 6 at Oracle Arena. The fight, expected to be finalized this week, will be televised on HBO.

San Jose Sharks

The NHL’s best road team during the 2015-16 regular season will be tested with plenty of games away from SAP Center for the first six weeks of the 2016-17 season. The NHL’s 2016-17 regular-season schedule has the Western Conference champion Sharks playing 12 of their first 18 games on the road..

Earthquakes

The San Jose Earthquakes announced a multi-year deal for veteran winger Shea Salinas, San Jose’s first draft pick for the 2008 expansion team. The Quakes did not provide terms of the contract extension per their policy

Diving

Stanford’s Kassidy Cook took the lead in the semifinals of the 3-meter springboard competition at the U.S. Olympic diving trials in Indianapolis. Cook leads 2012 Olympic silver medalist Abby Johnston by 34.30 points heading into the final round of five dives Sunday.

Ariel Rittenhouse of Santa Cruz missed advancing to the semifinals by one place, finishing 19th out of 27 competitors in preliminaries. Stanford’s Theodore Miclau is eighth and San Jose’s Collin Pollard is 13th after the semifinals in the men’s 10-meter platform competition. The finals are scheduled for Sunday.

Lacrosse

Stanford law school student Brian Karalunas was recently named to the Major League Lacrosse All-Star game, to be played July 9. Karalunas is a midfielder with the MLL Ohio Machine. It is his fifth All-Star appearance. .

San Jose Giants

The Giants’ C.J. Hinojosa doubled and drove in two runs and Chris Shaw doubled and drove in one but the California League All-Stars fell to the Carolina League All-Stars 6-4 in Lake Elsinore. The Giants’ Rodolfo Martinez worked a scoreless inning of relief and struck out two, and Reyes Moronta allowed two earned runs in his one-inning stint.

Staff writers Elliott Almond and Curtis Pashelka contributed to this report.