Former heavyweight champion James “Buster” Douglas and former New England Patriot Rob Ninkovich will be special guests at the Portland Boxing Club’s All-Star Boxing event at the Portland Expo on Saturday, Nov. 12.

The card will feature Maine professional boxers Jason Quirk, who faces Anthony Hines for the ABF/USA Middleweight Championship, and Jorge Abiague, who faces Eder Clervoix for the vacant Northeastern Super Bantamweight Championship.

Pro welterweight Brandon Berry of Maine is also on the card. The show will open with three amateur bouts featuring super heavyweight Zordan Holman, middleweight Wade Faria and lightweight Ilyas Bashir.

Tickets start at $25. They can be purchased at the door or in advance at Bruno’s Restaurant in Portland and online at portlandboxingclub.org. Douglas and Ninkovich will sign autographs and take photos with fans from 6 to 8 p.m. Bouts start at 7:30 p.m.

HOCKEY

ECHL: The Maine Mariners gave up four goals in the first period and lost 5-2 to the Newfoundland Growlers in an ECHL game at Cross Insurance Arena.

Maine got goals from Connor Doherty in the first period and Tim Doherty in the second.

NHL: Commissioner Gary Bettman said Saturday that Mitchell Miller is not eligible to play in the league, one day after the defenseman signed an entry-level contract with the Boston Bruins.

The 20-year-old Miller was selected by Arizona in the fourth round of the 2020 draft, but the Coyotes relinquished his draft rights for bullying a Black classmate with developmental disabilities in middle school.

The Bruins signed Miller after spending several weeks during an evaluation period with the player. Miller said he would continue to participate in community programs to educate himself and share his mistakes with others.

“He’s not coming into the NHL, he’s not eligible at this point to come into the NHL,” Bettman said in Tampere, Finland, ahead of the second regular-season game between the Colorado Avalanche and the Columbus Blue Jackets.

• Ville Husso made 26 saves, and the Detroit Red Wings snapped the New York Islanders’ five-game win streak with a 3-0 victory in Detroit.

• Artturi Lehkonen scored in his home country, and the Colorado Avalanche beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 5-1 for a sweep of the NHL’s two-game series in Finland.

FOOTBAL

NFL: The Atlanta Falcons bolstered their backfield for Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Chargers by activating running back Cordarrelle Patterson from injured reserve.

Saturday’s move restores Patterson to the active roster. Patterson missed four games following knee surgery and still ranks as the leading rusher in Atlanta’s balanced attack with 340 yards in four games.

• Donald Parham was placed on injured reserve by the Los Angeles Chargers after he reinjured his hamstring during practice earlier in the week.

It is the same hamstring that Parham injured during training camp and caused him to miss the first four games of the season. He has played in two games and has three receptions for 53 yards.

HORSE RACING

BREEDERS’ CUP CLASSIC: Unbeaten Flightline posted another dominating run, overtaking Life Is Good entering the top of the stretch and pulling away to an 8¼ -length victory in the $6 million Breeders’ Cup Classic at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky, and all but locking up honors as Horse of the Year.

The 4-year-old bay colt entered the Grade 1 race 5-0 lifetime with an average victory margin of nearly 13 lengths, making him the overwhelming 3-5 favorite over the eight-horse field that included Kentucky Derby winner Rich Strike and 5-1 second choice Epicenter. Flightline went off at 2-5 from the No. 4 post and soon established himself as among the pacesetters, running within reach of Todd Pletcher-trained Life Is Good through the far turn but moving up.

TENNIS

ALCARAZ OUT: Top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz will miss the rest of the season after sustaining an abdominal muscle tear while playing at the Paris Masters after the Spanish teenager pulled out during a second-set tiebreaker against fellow 19-year-old Holger Rune in their quarterfinal on Friday.

• Danish teenager Holger Rune beat eighth-seeded Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 6-2 in the Paris Masters semifinals on Saturday to stay on course for his first title at this level.

The 19-year-old Rune will play his first Masters final against Novak Djokovic, who beat Stefanos Tsitsipas for the eighth straight time, 6-2, 3-6, 7-6 (4), to stay on track for a record-extending seventh Paris Masters title .

GOLF

PGA TOUR: Russell Henley rolled in a 25-foot birdie putt on his first hole and never really let up until he had a 6-under 65 and doubled the size of his lead to six shots in the World Wide Technology at Mayakoba.

This is the sixth time Henley has had at least a share of the 54-hole lead on the PGA Tour, and while he has converted only one of them into a victory — his rookie start in 2013 in Hawaii — he has never had a lead like this.

Will Gordon bogeyed the 18th hole for a 68 to fall even farther back, tied with Patton Kizzire, who had a 67.

CHAMPIONS: The ageless Bernhard Langer beat his age by two shots with a 9-under 63, giving him a one-shot lead over Paul Goydos in the TimberTech Championship and a chance to move closer to the PGA Tour Champions record for career wins.

LPGA: Momoko Ueda of Japan shot a 4-under 68 on Saturday to take a one-stoke lead after three rounds of the Toto Classic in Shiga, Japan.

Ueda, who had a three-round total of 14-under 202, is one shot ahead of Gemma Dryburgh, who shot a 65 for the best round of the day.

SOCCER

MLS CUP: Gareth Bale tied the score 3-3 on a dramatic header in the eighth minute of extra-time stoppage time, backup goalkeeper John McCarthy stopped two Philadelphia shots in the shootout, and Los Angeles FC beat the Union 3-0 on penalty kicks to claim its first MLS Cup championship in Los Angeles.

After Bale came on as a substitute in extra time and scored the tying goal for 10-man LAFC, Denis Bouanga, Ryan Hollingshead and Ilie Sanchez scored in the 3-0 shootout, capping the most dramatic of MLS’s 27 title games.

U.S MEN: American left back Sam Vines injured a leg and needed surgery, eliminating him from consideration for the U.S. World Cup roster.

Forward Josh Sargent and defender Cameron Carter-Vickers returned to their club starting lineups on Saturday, the last weekend of matches before U.S. Coach Gregg Berhalter announces his roster.

AUTO RACING

NASCAR XFINITY: Ty Gibbs took the lead with 21 laps left and held off rival Noah Gragson for his first NASCAR Xfinity Series championship at Phoenix Raceway.

The only non-JR Motorsports driver in the winner-take-all finale, Gibbs started on the pole at the 1-mile oval and stayed near the front in changing conditions all evening.