The Riverside Press-Enterprise
Canelo, Golovkin set for third fight
Canelo Álvarez and Gennady Golovkin will complete their memorable fight trilogy Sept. 17 after a four-year break, promoters Matchroom Boxing announced. Álvarez already said he intended to take the fight while speaking at his invitational golf tournament in Naucalpan, Mexico, on Monday.
Stricker tests positive for coronavirus
Former Ryder Cup captain Steve Stricker has pulled out of the Senior PGA Championship after testing positive for the coronavirus. Stricker revealed his positive test on Twitter, saying he was “super bummed” and that it was “just a small setback.”
Stricker was out of competition for six months because of a virus that he says doctors never fully identified. He became ill last fall, about a month after leading the Americans to a record blowout (19-9) over Europe at Whistling Straits in his native Wisconsin.
He was hospitalized and lost some 25 pounds. Stricker has said he wonders if the illness was a reaction to the COVID-19 vaccine because he has regular health checks and annual blood work.
He was coming off a victory in the first of five majors on the PGA Tour
U.S. in quarterfinals of world championships
The United States secured a quarterfinal spot at the ice hockey world championship on the last day of group play. It only gets harder from here.
The U.S. knew it would qualify before stepping onto the ice against Norway, thanks to Sweden’s 1-0 win over Latvia earlier in the day. With the pressure off, the U.S. beat the Norwegians 4-2, with two assists from Alex Galchenyuk, to get back into the groove after its loss to the Czech Republic the day before.
That sets up a tricky quarterfinal against inform Switzerland, which beat Germany 4-3 in a shootout to qualify with seven wins from seven games.
Canada eased to a 7-1 win over France as Pierreluc Dubois had two goals and an assist and Drake Batherson recorded four assists. Canada will take on Sweden in the quarterfinals, three months after they met at the same stage of the Olympic tournament, with Sweden winning that game 2-0.
Two goals in the first period set host nation Finland on course to beat the Czech Republic 3-0 as Jussi Olkinuora made 24 saves for the shutout. Finland goes on to play Slovakia in the quarterfinals in a repeat of their Olympic semifinal game in February, while the Czech Republic takes on Germany.
A day after a shocking win over Canada, Denmark missed out on the quarterfinals with a 7-1 loss to Slovakia as the 18-yearold Olympic tournament MVP Juraj Slafkovsky had a goal and an assist for Slovakia to move to a teamleading nine points. Slovakia and Denmark finished group play level on points but Slovakia goes through on a better head-to-head record.
Stanford, Oregon play for women’s golf title
Brooke Seay two-putted for birdie on the 18th hole to beat Kaleigh Telfer and Stanford rallied from an early hole to beat Auburn 3-2 and earn a spot in the NCAA championship match in Scottsdale, Ariz., against Oregon.
The Ducks beat Texas A&M 4-1 to earn their first trip to the championship match, creating an allpac-12 final that guarantees the conference’s record 200th women’s NCAA title across all sports.
• Louisville has added Milt Wagner as its men’s basketball director of player development and alumni relations, reuniting the Cardinals scoring great with former teammate and first-year head coach Kenny Payne.
Wagner, whose 1,834 career points rank sixth alltime in program history, was a starter on on Louisville’s 1986 NCAA championship squad while Payne was a freshman. He helped the Cardinals reach three Final Fours from 198186 and his No. 20 jersey hangs in the rafters of the team’s KFC Yum! Center arena.
Wagner is also the grandfather of DJ Wagner, a combo guard from Camden, N.J., who has long been ranked as the No. 1 overall prospect in the 2023 class and is now at the center of a major recruiting battle between Kentucky and Louisville.
BITS & PIECES Hirt wins 16th stage of Giro d’italia
Czech cyclist Jan Hirt won the tough 16th stage of the Giro d’italia for his first grand tour victory and Richard Carapaz kept the pink jersey as the race headed into a final week in the high mountains.
Hirt clutched his head almost in disbelief before raising his hands into the air as he crossed the line at the end of the 202-kilometer (126-mile) route from Salo to Aprica, which included one of the sport’s toughest climbs up the Mortirolo.
• The search continued for a woman suspected in the fatal shooting of professional cyclist Anna Moriah Wilson at an Austin, Texas home. Wilson, 25, was found dead May 11, and Austin police issued a murder warrant for Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, last week.
Wilson, a competitive gravel and mountain bike racer and Vermont native, had been in Austin for a cycling event. According to an affidavit, Wilson had previously dated Armstrong’s boyfriend, cyclist Colin Strickland, who has cooperated with investigators and is not a suspect.