The USS Midway will host the 21st annual \u201cBattle of the Badges\u201d on Saturday, with proceeds benefiting the Community Youth Athletic Center in National City.<\/p>\n
The eight-bout card will feature boxers who are San Diego-area police officers, corrections officers, firefighters and military members. There will also be two fights featuring amateurs who train out of the CYAC.<\/p>\n
The main event will be a rematch of last year\u2019s bout between Krystle Jordan of the San Diego Police Department and Christina Soto of the National City Police Department. Soto won the last time they met.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis event and our terrific sponsors help us with our mission of giving kids in our area a safe place to train, do homework and just hang out in a positive environment,\u201d said CYAC executive director Clemente Casillas. \u201cIt\u2019s not just about boxing. It\u2019s about using the sport as a way to produce productive individuals who go on to do good things in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ticket information can be found at cyacteam.org and eventbrite.com.<\/p>\n
Legion playing for Major League Rugby title<\/p>\n
The California Legion (formerly the San Diego Legion) will play the Chicago Hounds for the Major League Rugby championship Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at Seatgeek Stadium in Chicago.<\/p>\n
The match will air live on ESPN2.<\/p>\n
The Hounds defeated the Legion 36-26 in week eight.<\/p>\n
After eight seasons playing in San Diego, the Legion played a rotating regular-season schedule this year, with one match in San Diego and others in Moraga, Sacramento and Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Rebellion in title game<\/p>\n
The San Diego Rebellion will face the Texas Elite Spartans for the Women\u2019s National Football IX Cup championship Sunday afternoon in Frisco, Texas.<\/p>\n
The game will air live at 3 p.m. on ESPN2. Championship weekend will highlight the growth of women\u2019s football with a flag football tournament featuring many of the nation\u2019s top high school teams, a FanFest, an adult national flag football championship and WNFC All-Pro Game.<\/p>\n
Strike Force host Vegas<\/p>\n
With a spot in the Indoor Football League playoffs already locked up with six games remaining in the regular season, the San Diego Strike Force (8-2) host the first-place Vegas Knight Hawks (9-2) at 7 p.m. Friday in Oceanside\u2019s Frontwave Arena.<\/p>\n
The Strike Force are coming off a 52-37 road victory over the NAZ Wranglers last week. San Diego visits Vegas on July 12 in a game that could determine first place in the IFL standings and the top seed in the Western Conference playoffs.<\/p>\n
Gulls lose goalie<\/p>\n
Goalie Calle Clang has signed a two-year contract with Rogle BK of the Swedish professional league, ending his time with the San Diego Gulls.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old Swede was San Diego\u2019s best goalie during the 2025-26 season, making the AHL All-Star game while going 9-6 with a 2.80 goals-against average and a 0.897 save percentage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USS Midway will host the 21st annual \u201cBattle of the Badges\u201d on Saturday, with proceeds benefiting the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[181,74,32859,76,75,127],"class_list":["post-366611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-latest-headlines","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-gulls","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}