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The NHL on Thursday announced the Capitals captain will visit Beijing the week of August 4th as part of the league’s continued outreach in the country. Ovechkin will serve as an international ambassador on behalf of the NHL, with his visit scheduled to include a media tour, business development meetings and youth hockey clinics. “We are very excited that Alex Ovechkin will be joining us in China this summer,” NHL executive vice president of media and international strategy David Proper said in a statement....

Evgeny Kuznetsov scored a power-play goal with 57 seconds left, and Washington shook off the absence of its finest player to end a seven-game losing streak with a 4-3 victory over the Calgary Flames on Friday night. Ovechkin, who leads the NHL with 37 goals, received a one-game suspension from the league for skipping the All-Star Game. He had played in 214 consecutive games, a streak that began in October 2016....

The Islanders will try to advance to the second round of the postseason for the first time since the 1992-93 season. MORE: Capitals favored in Game 7 | Preview: Wild vs. Blackhawks | Ducks vs. Flames To avoid elimination, the Capitals must overcome past postseason disappointments and a poor Game 7 history at home. They are 3-9 overall and 2-7 at home in Game 7 appearances, going just 1-4 at home since 2008....

Just days after announcing his next fight, Jose Uzcategui’s team is looking for a new foe for the end of September. Uzcategui (27-2, 23 KOs) was slated to face unheralded Argentinian fighter Ezequiel Maderna in a 10-round non-title bout to headline the ESPN+ card taking place Sept. 28 at Oracle Arena in Oakland, Calif. Top Rank matchmaker Brad Goodman confirmed Maderna is out because of visa problems and the quest for a new opponent is ongoing....

MORE: Bucs sabotage Freeman | Horrible 2009 QB draft class | Schiano says he didn’t leak drug info ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported Freeman's release Thursday afternoon, saying that the Bucs "tried to trade him but couldn't.'' However, less than two hours before that, Erik Burkhardt, Freeman's agent, tweeted that the Sports Illustrated report the night before, of the Bucs fining the quarterback in the last month for "conduct detrimental to the team," was another case of the team breaching the confidentiality of his records....

Josh Hart is working very hard to change that, retroactively. Even in an NBA Draft as vacant as the last, in which multiple teams essentially opted out by choosing international players who might never enter the league, his status as a first-rounder was dubious enough that returning to Villanova to play his senior season seemed the logical approach. It is working as well as it can. Hart has been the best player in college basketball for the first two months of this invigorating season....

Hawley introduced an amendment to President Joe Biden’s economic relief package that would bar schools from federal coronavirus relief funds if teachers and students aren’t meeting in person. “In spite of overwhelming evidence that schools can reopen safely, partisan advocates are using children’s education as a cudgel to push their radical agendas,” Hawley said in a statement. He cited a recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that found little evidence of COVID-19 transmission in schools....

Taylor joined Bernard Hopkins, Jermain Taylor, Terence Crawford and Oleksandr Usyk as the only fighters to hold all four world titles in a weight class at the same time. It wasn’t simply that he pulled off the feat by upending the previously unbeaten Ramirez; it was how he went about his business. UNDISPUTED VS. UNIFIED: Explaining the different types of champions For the first five rounds, Ramirez appeared to have found the winning formula for handing Taylor his first defeat....

Jones, a devout Christian who served with the U.S. Army for three years, quickly earned himself the nickname “Jesus” in Ukraine—based on his bearded- and long-haired appearance. Comrades have been so inspired by the Tennessean that they have taken to wearing patches of Jones on their uniforms. “We started calling him tactical Jesus. Just because I mean, dude, he was handy,” TJ, a friend and fellow American volunteer who spent five months with Jones fighting to defend Ukraine, told Newsweek in a phone interview from Kharkiv....

Mission accomplished. Taking his talents to the legendary Madison Square Garden for the first time, Canelo (51-1-2, 35 KOs) dropped Rocky Fielding (27-2, 15 KOs) four times en route to a third-round TKO to become the WBA (Regular) super middleweight champion in front of a sold-out crowd of 20,112. MORE: Join DAZN and watch archived Canelo fights The bout with Fielding served as the first fight of Canelo’s historic five-year, $365 million deal with sports streaming service DAZN....

Mexican superstar Alvarez has not fought since he became a four-weight world champion last November, stopping Sergey Kovalev in Round 11 of their WBO light-heavyweight title clash. Since then he has split from Golden Boy Promotions and proposed fights have not come to fruition, including a clash with Billy Joe Saunders that had looked set to happen in September. There had been reports he planned a return against IBF super-middleweight champion Caleb Plant, but it will be fellow 30-year-old Smith (27-0) who opposes Alvarez (53-1-2) for the WBA super-middleweight belt....

The face of boxing will move up from middleweight to face WBO light heavyweight champion Sergey Kovalev at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Nov. 2, live on DAZN. If he’s victorious, Alvarez will become a four-division world champion. The 29-year-old Canelo (52-1-2, 35 KOs) is coming off an impressive unanimous decision over Daniel Jacobs in May to claim the IBF middleweight title, but he was stripped of the belt after failing to reach a purse bid with mandatory challenger Sergiy Derevyanchenko....

Archaeological finds made on the outskirts of Canterbury, in Kent on England’s shoreline along the English Channel, confirm the presence of people in southern Britain between 560,000 and 620,000 years ago, making it one of the earliest known Paleolithic sites in northern Europe. The breakthrough, involving controlled digs and radiometric dating, comes a century after stone tool artifacts were first uncovered at the site. The research, led by Cambridge University archaeologists, confirms that Homo heidelbergensis, an ancestor of Neanderthals, occupied southern Britain in the period when it was still attached to Europe....

Capcom’s program for its online event set for September 15 revealed five games the developer plans to bring to Tokyo Games Show 2022. Street Fighter 6 was confirmed to be receiving a new trailer during the event, showcasing characters coming to the game, alongside a look at the game’s World Tour and Battle Hub modes. Exoprimal will also be making an appearance during Capcom’s show with an update on “characters, Exosuits, dinosaurs, and more....

Over the years, Capcom has produced plenty of classic fighting games aside from the widely recognized Street Fighter and Marvel vs. Capcom franchises. Capcom’s gothic horror series Darkstalkers was a cult classic when it hit arcades and home consoles in the late 1990s, and the lesser-known Red Earth was a popular title following its 1996 release. Now, with one of Capcom’s most storied franchises reaching a major anniversary this year, Capcom has kicked off the celebrations with a collection of not only Street Fighter but a whole slew of fighting games, including some seeing a Western release for the first time....

Sometimes, less isn’t more. At least that seems to be the philosophy that Capcom is subscribing to these days. The 3rd-party giant will reportedly be releasing their titles on an accelerated timeline - doubling the amount of Capcom games each year. As it currently stands, Capcom releases an average of two big name titles per year. You know, games that have words like “Street” and “Devil” and “Resident” in the title....

The 14-year veteran extended his point streak to a career-high 14 games in the Washington Capitals’ 4-3 shootout win over the Buffalo Sabres on Saturday night. Ovechkin scored during a 4-on-4 when he unleashed a slap shot past Sabres goalie Carter Hutton’s glove to tie the game 3-3 in the second period. The goal was Ovechkin’s seventh in a three-game span after he scored hat tricks in the Capitals’ last two games....

Washington was tied with the Red Wings 3-3 Friday night in Detroit at the end of regulation. Early in the overtime period, Ovechkin drew a tripping penalty to force a power play. Then just 1:56 into the extra period, it was Ovechkin who caught a pass from Nicklas Backstrom and fired into the net to score the goal and give the Capitals the 4-3 road win. MORE: NHL milestones within reach during the 2017-18 season...

That time came Monday night for the Capitals. After Tom Wilson scored an empty-netter to seal his team’s 6-3 win over the just-eliminated Rangers (thanks to the Bruins’ 3-0 win over the Devils), the Capitals social team posted a graphic that seemed to praise the forward in a now-deleted tweet: MORE: Capitals’ Tom Wilson punches Pavel Buchnevich in head, slams Artemi Panarin to ice Sure, Wilson notched his 13th goal of the season, with the bottom section paying homage to the Bruins’ David Pastrnak tweet right before bubble hockey last summer, which read: “In my opinion, Tom Wilson is the best goal scorer in the league....

But not everybody applauds Carter. The most stinging criticism has come from the neoconservatives who are President Bush’s biggest backers as he prepares for war with Iraq. They wonder why five guys in Norway get to play God and decide who’s a peacemaker. They think the Bushes, father and son, are more deserving because of their willingness to confront evil through the barrel of a gun rather than talk it to death the way Carter does....