UFC, Julio Cesar Chavez Jr, Floyd Mayweather, Jr, Chris Paul & Lane Kiffin News: 9/21, Vol. 233, 3rd Edition

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Floyd has to cough up $114,000
to Manny Paquioa

For your Quick News & Notes, Frank Mir is out of a November 3 Strikeforce bout against Daniel Cormier due to undisclosed injury, former middleweight titlist Julio Cesar Chavez Jr., who lost a lopsided decision to lineal champion Sergio Martinez despite a dramatic 12th-round comeback on Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, has tested positive for marijuana during his post-fight urine test, and it’s his second positive test in the state of the Nevada, a federal judge has ordered boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr. to pay about $114,000 for avoiding questioning from rival fighter Manny Pacquiao's lawyers in a defamation case, Randall Bailey's welterweight title defense against former junior welterweight titleholder Devon Alexander was rescheduled Wednesday for October 20 at the new Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., Golden Boy Promotions announced, middleweight champion Sergio Martinez will undergo right knee surgery next week after suffering a minor tear during his unanimous decision victory against titleholder Julio Cesar Chavez, Jr. last Saturday night at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas,  seven-time Grand Slam tournament winner Venus Williams will represent the United States in the Hopman Cup mixed-teams tournament later this year for the first time in her career, Fred Couples, a former Masters champion and one of the most popular figures in the game, was elected into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Wednesday, after Greg Norman made his ridiculous comments that Tiger Woods is intimidated by Rory McIlroy, Tiger responded by saying “No one is the size of (linebacker) Ray Lewis who is going to hit me coming over the middle, so this is a different kind of sport. We go out there and play our own game and see where it falls at the end of the day.”

Connecticut and Michigan State will meet in the first regular-season major college basketball game, called the Armed Forces Classic, in Europe on November 9 at Ramstein Air Base in Germany, Northeastern athletic director Peter Roby has been added to the NCAA's Division I men's basketball selection committee, filling a spot vacated when former Delaware AD Bernard Muir left for Stanford, North Carolina basketball coach Roy Williams remained at UNC Hospitals on Wednesday evening following a 3½-hour operation to have a tumor removed from his right kidney, ABC will interview the young man known as Victim One, whose 2009 allegations of sexual abuse led to the Penn State scandal and the criminal conviction of former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, Penn State is developing a process for settling civil lawsuits filed against the university by people who claim they were sexually abused by former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky, TCU junior running back Waymon James will miss the rest of the season due to a knee injury, the NHL has canceled all preseason games through Sept. 30, the league announced Wednesday, the NHL is making cuts across the board for all of its employees as a direct result of the lockout that began last weekend and the pay cut is 20%, Los Angeles Clippers point guard Chris Paul, who is featured on the cover of October's GQ, told the magazine he actually preferred being traded to the Clippers rather than the Los Angeles Lakers last year and stated "They had the better pieces, and winning with the Clippers would be legendary”, Major League Baseball appears unlikely to interfere if Melky Cabrera wins the NL batting title while serving his 50-game suspension for a positive drug test, Cincinnati Reds manager Dusty Baker was diagnosed with an irregular heartbeat on Wednesday night and was expected to stay overnight in a Chicago hospital, and finally, USC coach Lane Kiffin abruptly ended his post-practice news conference on Wednesday after he was asked about a player participating in practice who previously had been injured and simply said I gotta go, tisk, tisk…huh?!

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