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    • Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, punches Alan Picasso of Mexico during...
      Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, punches Alan Picasso of Mexico during a boxing match for the unified WBC IBF WBO WBA super bantamweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
    • Japan’s Naoya Inoue celebrates after beating Alan Picasso of Mexico...
      Japan’s Naoya Inoue celebrates after beating Alan Picasso of Mexico during a boxing match for the unified WBC IBF WBO WBA super bantamweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
    • Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, fights Alan Picasso of Mexico during...
      Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, fights Alan Picasso of Mexico during a boxing match for the unified WBC IBF WBO WBA super bantamweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
    • Japan’s Junto Nakatani, right, fights Sebastian Hernandez Reyes of Mexico...
      Japan’s Junto Nakatani, right, fights Sebastian Hernandez Reyes of Mexico during a super-bantamweight bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
    • Japan’s Junto Nakatani celebrates after beating Sebastian Hernandez Reyes of...
      Japan’s Junto Nakatani celebrates after beating Sebastian Hernandez Reyes of Mexico during a super-bantamweight bout in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
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    Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, punches Alan Picasso of Mexico during a boxing match for the unified WBC IBF WBO WBA super bantamweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)
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    Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani both win to set up potential Japanese super fight

    Undisputed super bantamweight champion Inoue and three-weight world champion Nakatani on collision course for huge bout in 2026.
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    Patricio Guerrero, CEO of Swellcycle, holds an Artboard which is a custom designed board that can have a picture or brand printed on, at Swellcycle headquarters in Santa Cruz, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025. (Shae Hammond/Bay Area News Group)

    The ‘surfer’s paradox’ is that their boards can harm the oceans they cherish. A new process is helping to change that.

    Santa Cruz company Swellcycle is making 3D-printed surfboards from recyclable material.

    Surfing

    Caution tape closes off part of Lover's Point in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025, after Erica Fox, 55, the co-founder of the Kelp Krawlers, an open water swim group, went missing on Sunday. Fox went missing around the time a shark sighting was reported, authorities said. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)

    Suspected shark attack at Lovers Point occurred in time and place where large sharks come to feed

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    Soccer

    Heather Gilchrist celebrates Florida State's victory over Stanford in the NCAA college soccer tournament final Monday, Dec. 8, 2025, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

    Bay FC adds former Florida State star to help bolster defensive line

    Heather Gilchrist signs with Bay FC weeks after helping the Seminoles defeat Stanford in the NCAA Women's College Cup final for the second time in three years.
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    Boxing

    Japan’s Naoya Inoue, left, punches Alan Picasso of Mexico during a boxing match for the unified WBC IBF WBO WBA super bantamweight world title in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Saturday, Dec. 27, 2025. (AP Photo)

    Naoya Inoue and Junto Nakatani both win to set up potential Japanese super fight

    Undisputed super bantamweight champion Inoue and three-weight world champion Nakatani on collision course for huge bout in 2026.
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