The world will have to wait on the Pacquiao/Mayweather superfight… again…

Former welterweight titlist Antonio Margarito was licensed to box by Texas regulators on Thursday, paving the way for him to meet Manny Pacquiao for a vacant junior middleweight belt.

Margarito’s application for a license in Texas was approved despite California denying him a license on a 5-1 vote earlier this month. Margarito’s license was revoked in the wake of his January 2009 knockout loss to Shane Mosley in which Margarito’s hand wraps were found to be illegal before the fight.

Margarito and Pacquiao will meet Nov. 13 on HBO PPV at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington. It will be Pacquiao’s second consecutive fight at Jerry Jones’ $1.2 billion home of the Dallas Cowboys, but against a far more controversial opponent than Joshua Clottey, whom Pacquiao easily outpointed there on March 13 in defense of his welterweight belt on the arena’s first boxing card. (continue reading…)

All signs continue to point toward the eventual divorce between Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets.

League sources say it is now a matter of when, not if, Anthony and the Nuggets will go their separate ways.

Anthony is weighing whether to sign a three-year, $65 million extension offered by the Nuggets. His dilemma, league sources say, is what affords him the best chance of continuing his career elsewhere. Anthony could sign with Denver and convince the team to then trade him. His other option would be to not sign the extension, thereby forcing the team to move him rather than risk losing him next summer as a free agent.

During his annual basketball camp in Colorado on Saturday, Anthony said he had no timetable on when he’ll decide whether to sign the extension. (continue reading…)

A male fan wearing a LeBron James Miami Heat jersey was ejected from a Cleveland Indians baseball game last night at Jacobs Field.

A reader to sportsbybrooks.com was at the game and sent in this account of what happened:

A guy walked into the bleacher seats wearing a LeBron James Miami Heat Jersey. He was booed violently, and by the fifth Inning, people were throwing peanuts and beer cups at him.

That’s when police escorted him out of the section. While walking down the stairs, a guy knocked the beer cup out of his hand, and started swearing at him. By the end of the row, a fat guy in a green shirt (who was previously flicking him off), got up in his face. The police had to restrain him from attacking the Yankees & Indians fans who were booing him. (continue reading…)

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Relatives and friends of Lorenzen Wright gathered Wednesday and grieved for the former NBA player who has been missing for 10 days.

Wright’s uncle, Curtis Wright, told The Associated Press that police called the player’s father, Herb Wright, on Wednesday afternoon with the news he had died.

Sgt. Alyssa Macon-Moore of the Memphis Police Department wrote in an e-mail to the AP that police were investigating the death of an unidentified man beside a wooded area about 15 miles south of downtown Memphis.

Asked if the man was Wright, she wrote they could not confirm the victim’s identity Wednesday night. But Thursday, the Commercial Appeal of Memphis cited law enforcement sources confirming the man was Wright. (continue reading…)

DENVER — Six people from Oakland have been indicted in Colorado on charges they used fake credit cards to get cash and merchandise in seven states, prosecutors said Monday.

A Colorado grand jury indicted the six, accusing them of tricking bank and store employees into bypassing the authentication process for the fake credit cards and approving cash advances and purchases.

Prosecutors said the cards were used in Colorado, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Utah and Wisconsin. The indictment includes charges involving only Colorado banks and businesses.

The six people indicted are rapper Stacy “Dame Fame” Damon Harris, Tangelar “Tangie” Annette Houston, Dumarco “Deco” Marty, Salina Patrice Lactaoen, Darnell Plazmerell Meals and Tenisha Nicole Kuykendall. (continue reading…)