s as he easily outboxed Hovhannisyan, 34, an Armenia native fighting out of Glendale, California, who suffered a cut over his left eye in the fifth round.Friday at Tampa, FloridaOrlan

BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah -- Blinding white salt stretches across the earth to distant purple mountain ranges, an otherworldly landscape famous for providing a natural track for racers seeking breakneck speeds but fragile enough that rain can easily break it down. Ducks Jerseys China.Thousands of adrenaline junkies have descended this week on Utahs Bonneville Salt Flats, coming from as far away as New Zealand, Japan and Russia. In this stark place about 100 miles west of Salt Lake City, they have set up a caravan of campers, tents and trailers as they spend a week trying to beat the clock -- some topping speeds of 400 mph.They haul modified motorcycles, vintage hot rods and roadsters, and custom vehicles that look like rockets or spaceships, with names such as Disturbing Da Peace or Loosenuts Special. Theyll wait for hours in line under the brutal sun just to get a chance to zoom across the flats, hoping to see if their latest modifications help them beat their previous records or go fast enough to earn a spot in the 200 mph Club.While the racers are glad to be back at Speed Week, which runs through Friday, its a bittersweet return after a two-year hiatus marked by disappointments and accusations that federal land managers have failed to protect the unique area.U.S. officials partly blame heavy rains and say theyre trying to preserve the salt by requiring a nearby mining company to pump brine onto the flats each year.Wet weather and rough salt scuttled the major races in 2014 and 2015, and organizers say they no longer find enough smooth salt to set up raceways of 10 miles or more to give many vehicles enough room to hit top speeds and safely slow down.This year, organizers with the Southern California Timing Association found enough dry, relatively smooth salt to eke out three racetracks for Speed Week, the largest of several annual races at the flats.Racers say that while theyre grateful weather has been favorable and theyre whipping across the salt again, they pointed out the less-than-pristine conditions.It looks thinner to me, said Ben York, a driver from Roseville, California, who has been coming to the flats since 2009. His team was trying to break a 334 mph record with their vehicle the Adrenaline Rush, an elongated racecar style known as a Lakester.York said that when the salt is flat, its very good, but this year it feels bumpy and coarse.Compared to past years, its spotty at best, said Dallas Volk of Bountiful, Utah, whose family has been racing at Bonneville for nearly six decades.Volk, 49, who first came to the races as a toddler, was selling T-shirts and other gear out of a trailer to support the Save the Salt organization, one of several racing groups calling for federal land managers to keep the salt from depleting and lobbying members of Congress to step in.You can definitely tell its not the same salt it was five or six years ago, Volk said.His father, Larry Volk, pulled out a pickax and struck it into the salt, revealing a layer of mud about an inch below, creating a speedway thats less hard and fast than it used to be. He said that when he started racing in 1958, they could find 14 miles of speedway where the salt top was 7 or 8 inches thick.Thats what wed like to see it get back to, he said.Monsoon storms are partly to blame for the cancellations, but its unclear exactly why there appears to be a smaller, thinner expanse of smooth salt.The racing community says nearby potash mining is draining a salty aquifer that helps replenish the flats each year.The U.S. Bureau of Land Management, which oversees the flats, said it requires the mining company to pump several hundred thousand tons of brine onto the flats every winter so that when the area begins to bake under the summer sun, the water evaporates and the salt crust thickens.Racers want to see much more brine pumped on the flats every year and are working with Republican U.S. Rep. Chris Stewart on legislation to restore the area. His office said its still drafting the legislation and would not offer details.Larry Volk said congressional action is a last-ditch effort to try to preserve the area for decades of future racing.Though conditions are poor this year, Volk said the speed demons are still glad to be back.Were racers, OK? he said. Give us anything and well try to race on it. Hampus Lindholm Jersey.4 million title. Ryan Riess emerged with the title after a session in which he started behind, but used expert skill to gather the chips to his side amid the unpredictability of no-limit Texas Hold em. Riess put his final opponent Jay Farber all-in with an Ace-King. Carter Rowney Jersey. The injury bothered Bledsoe in the Suns victory over the Clippers on Monday and he sat out the teams home loss to Memphis on Thursday night. https://www.cheapducks.com/1007c-josh-ma...rsey-ducks.html. Perhaps Carroll was so prepared for a break because he believes there is very little the Seattle Seahawks need heading into the off-season. "I dont see anything that we need to add. We just have to get better," Carroll said. A roundup of the past weeks notable boxing results from around the world:Saturday at Puerto Penasco, MexicoJuan Francisco Estrada W10 Raymond Tabugon Junior bantamweight Scores: 100-90 (three times) Records: Estrada (34-2, 24 KOs); Tabugon (18-6-1, 8 KOs)Rafaels remarks: For a guy who had not boxed in a year and was coming off a serious right-hand injury, former unified flyweight world titleholder Estrada, 26, of Mexico, looked sharp from about the third round on in a shutout decision against Tabugon, a 25-year-old journeyman from the Philippines. Although the talent gulf between the two was enormous, this was a reasonable fight for Estrada to take coming off the layoff and moving up to a new weight class. Estrada had held a pair of flyweight titles for 3? years and made five defenses before deciding to vacate the belts and move up to throw his name into the talent-rich junior bantamweight division, where he hopes to face top names such as titleholders Naoya Inoue, Luis Nica Concepcion and former titleholder Carlos Cuadras. But the big fight for him, which could happen next year, is a rematch with titleholder Roman Chocolatito Gonzalez, who outpointed him in an outstanding 2012 junior flyweight world title fight before he moved up to win a flyweight title and then a junior bantamweight title from Cuadras last month.Against Tabugon, Estrada seemed to have no problems with his right hand, which he landed often. Estrada took a few rounds to find his groove and dominated as he pressured Tabugon. Estrada took his foot off the gas a little in the second half of the fight but kept up a steady pace and boxed nicely from the outside en route to the victory.Also on the card, junior featherweight Emanuel Navarrete (16-1, 13 KOs), 21, of Mexico, cruised to a one-sided decision against countryman Martin Casillas (15-9-1, 9 KOs), 28. Navarrete won by scores of 100-90, 100-90 and 99-91 as Casillas dropped to 0-5-1 in his last six fights.Saturday at Harrow, EnglandLiam Walsh W12 Andrey Klimov Junior lightweight - Title eliminator Scores: 120-107 (twice), 119-108 Records: Walsh (21-0, 14 KOs); Klimov (19-3, 9 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Walsh, a 30-year-old southpaw from England, scored the biggest win of his career in a one-sided decision against Klimov, 34, of Russia, to earn a mandatory world title shot. He is now the mandatory challenger for 130-pound world titleholder Jose Pedraza (22-0, 12 KOs), of Puerto Rico, although Pedraza is considering a move up to the lightweight division, which would leave Walsh to fight for a vacant belt.Regardless of who Walsh fights for the belt, the former Commonwealth champion looked good in the fight to earn the shot. He took control against Klimov, who was fighting for the first time in 16 months, early on and used a good jab and his better speed to befuddle him. A right hand from Walsh produced a knockdown at the end of the fifth round. Walsh said after the fight he was ready to face Pedraza, be it in Puerto Rico, the United States or England. He said he would go anywhere in the world for the opportunity.Klimovs two previous defeats came the two times he stepped up in competition, a very poor performance in a shutout decision to Terence Crawford in 2013 and a near-shutout decision to Pedraza challenging him for a vacant world title in his previous fight, which was in June 2015.Friday at Glasgow, ScotlandRicky Burns W12 Kiryl Relikh Retains a junior welterweight title Scores: 118-110, 116-112 (twice) Records: Burns (41-5-1, 14 KOs); Relikh (21-1, 19 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Three-division world titleholder Burns, 33, thrilled the hometown fans with another win in the first defense of the vacant 140-pound belt he won in May, a month after Adrien Broner was stripped for failing to make weigght. Adam Oates Jersey. He squared off with the 26-year-old Relikh, of Belarus, who is trained by British legend Ricky Hatton but fighting a top opponent for the first time.Relikh, who had won 12 fights in a row (all by knockout) coming into the bout (and needed three attempts to make weight), gave a great effort and applied a ton of pressure, especially in the first three rounds and final three rounds. But Burns was the quicker, more skilled boxer and survived a few rough moments to win the well-deserved decision, although the 118-110 scorecard appeared a bit generous. The win is expected to set up a fight with four-division titleholder Broner (32-2, 24 KOs) in his first bout since being stripped of the belt Burns now holds.Dillian Whyte TKO10 Ian Lewison Wins vacant British heavyweight title Records: Whyte (19-1, 15 KOs); Lewison (12-3-1, 8 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Whyte, 28, of England, made his name last December when he went seven hard rounds with Anthony Joshua in a much-hyped fight. Although Whyte got knocked out and took heavy punishment, he also badly hurt Joshua and nearly stopped him in a tremendous fight. He has now won three fights in a row since and aims eventually for a rematch with Joshua, who went on to claim a world title in his next bout. Whyte continued to make the case that he deserves one as he beat up the game Lewison throughout the one-sided fight. By the end of the 10th round, Lewison, dealing with a nose injury, had taken a lot of punishment and his corner stopped the fight as he returned to the stool after the round. Lewison, 35, of England, saw a five-fight winning streak come to an end.Friday at Los AngelesDiego Magdaleno W10 Art Hovhannisyan Junior welterweight Scores: 99-91 (three times) Records: Magdaleno (29-2, 12 KOs); Hovhannisyan (17-3-3, 9 KOs)Rafaels remarks: Twice Magdaleno, a 29-year-old southpaw from Las Vegas, has fought for a world title and twice he has lost. He gave a good account of himself in a questionable split decision loss to Roman Rocky Martinez for a junior lightweight belt in 2013 in Macau, China. But in his last fight, a year ago, Magdaleno got blown out in a second-round knockout loss to lightweight titleholder Terry Flanagan in England. In his first fight since that bad loss, and his first since being released by promoter Top Rank, Magdaleno looked sharp in a one-sided decision against Hovhannisyan in the main event of Golden Boys LA Fight Club series. Magdaleno suffered a cut over his right eye in the fourth round but otherwise had few issues as he easily outboxed Hovhannisyan, 34, an Armenia native fighting out of Glendale, California, who suffered a cut over his left eye in the fifth round.Friday at Tampa, FloridaOrlando Cruz TKO7 Gabino Cota Junior lightweight Records: Cruz (25-4-1, 13 KOs); Cota (19-7-1, 17 KOs)Rafaels remarks: In the main event of promoter Tutico Zabalas Boxeo Telemundo card, Cruz, a 35-year-old southpaw from Puerto Rico, took apart late substitute opponent Cota, 23, of Mexico. The fight was a rematch of Cruzs more competitive 10-round decision victory last October. In the rematch, Cruz dropped Cota twice, in the second round with a left hand to the head and in the seventh round with another left hand, as he dominated the fight. After the seventh-round knockdown, Cota beat the count but he was in rough shape, which caused referee Andrew Glenn waved off the fight at 2 minutes, 38 seconds. Cruz won his fourth bout in a row since suffering back-to-back losses, including a seventh-round knockout to Orlando Salido in a vacant featherweight world title bout in 2013. Cota fell to 2-6 in his last eight fights. ' ' '