“I think that Crawford has the ability to outbox Canelo. You have to look at Caenlo’s older. Crawford has the ability but he’s small and Crawford can look bigger in the weigh-ins and all that stuff but it’s always a difference, when you get in a fight with somebody you can tell. Same thing with Jermell.

During the Mets' 7-3 win on Sunday against the Seattle Mariners during the Little League Classic in Williamsport, Álvarez suffered an apparent thumb injury when he slid headfirst into second base, legging out a hustle double during the bottom of the seventh inning.

Diego Simeone admitted Atlético Madrid were "hurt" by a 2-1 defeat at Espanyol in their opening LaLiga game of the season, after the team failed to capitalize on Julián Álvarez's sensational first-half free kick.

Turkish giants Fenerbahce have entered talks with West Ham United over the possible signing of midfielder Edson Alvarez, according to journalist Fabrizio Romano.Manager Jose Mourinho wants his team

Luis Walter Alvarez’s career was marked by two explosions. The first was one the physicist enabled: a plutonium bomb, whose design he oversaw, destroyed the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945. The second was one he theorised: the terrestrial impact 65m years ago of an asteroid sufficiently powerful to drive the dinosaurs to extinction.

New York Mets catcher Francisco Alvarez needs an MRI on his right thumb after he jammed his hand on a head-first slide into second base Sunday night.

Matt Kawahara of the Houston Chronicle reports that Alvarez will begin a minor-league rehab assignment on Tuesday with Double-A Corpus Christi. He’ll serve as a designated hitter in his first rehab game back, and the club plans to have him down for “a few games” before he can be activated off the injured list.