Five fighters from American Top Team-Beaumont will travel to Humble on Friday to compete in Cage Combat 9 Mixed Martial Arts at the Humble Civic Center. The first of 14 amateur fights are scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. Just a few tickets remain, and they can be purchased online at garciapromotions.com. For those who cannot make the trip, the fights will be streamed live online, and free of charge, on the Facebook page of The Cagesiders.
Three quarter horse stakes races totaling more than $200,000 in purse money will be contested this Saturday, May 19, at Delta Downs with a first post time of 6:45 p.m.
Bellator Fighting Championships returns to the Event Center at L’Auberge du Lac in Lake Charles this Friday for Bellator 69 with an early first fight time of 6 p.m. Four fights will be shown live on MTV2 beginning at 7 p.m.
Chuck Langston is right where he’s supposed to be.
Sporting a black nylon T-shirt, a clean pair of neatly pressed Nike khaki cargo shorts, light grey Under Armour shoes and a white Lamar football cap on his head, Langston doesn’t look any different than the rest of the coaches on the re-tooled Lamar football coaching staff.
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