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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Target will leave IndyCar at the end of this season after 27 years with Chip Ganassi Racing that included 11 championships and four Indianapolis 500 victories.The exit comes as Target is examining all of its marketing platforms under new chairman Brian Cornell. Target is also the primary sponsor of Kyle Larson in NASCARs top Sprint Cup Series and will return to his car in 2017.Targets relationship with Ganassi is one of the longest in any racing series, and the retail giant was a key player in helping Ganassi build his organization. Target not only sponsored Ganassis first car as a team owner, it eventually became a partner as the Ganassi team grew to one of the top two players in open wheel racing.In discussing the decision to leave IndyCar, senior vice president Scott Nygaard rattled off a list of highlights from Targets run: Jimmy Vasser winning Ganassis first championship, Alex Zanardi adding another two, Juan Pablo Montoya winning Ganassis first Indianapolis 500 and domination over the last decade by Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon.It was a really difficult decision that we made -- weve been with Chip Ganassi Racing for 27 years and we are ridiculously proud of the success, Nygaard said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. But the Target brand is about being fresh and new, so we felt like this was the time to make the difficult decision and expand our sports marketing platform.About the NASCAR sponsorship, Nygaard said only that Target is excited for the 2017 season with Larson. Targets contract with Ganassi runs through next year.Chip Ganassi raved about his partnership with Target while noting he understood the company made a business decision after nearly three full decades together in IndyCar.Its the greatest sponsor in racing, ever, Ganassi said. Theyve been nothing but good to me. They developed me personally and professionally. Ive developed lifelong friends and relationships. I understand things change and people have different marketing efforts, and the way they want to stamp their name on things.But its one of the longest running sponsors in racing and they delivered for me and the team, and the team delivered for them.Target walks away from an enormous investment it made in IndyCar and aligning itself with Ganassi drivers as its brand ambassadors. That includes Dixon, who has been sponsored by Target for 15 years and is one of the greatest open wheel drivers in history. Ganassi said Dixon is not a tough sell at all to sponsors, and he expected to announce a replacement on the Target car within the next two months.Dixon is a four-time IndyCar champion and his 39 career victories include the 2008 Indianapolis 500.I cant thank Target enough for their partnership on and off the track over the years, Dixon said. They have been with the IndyCar team for an amazing 27 years, which is unheard of in professional sports, and on the car Ive driven for the past 15 seasons. I have nothing but great memories and much thanks for Target being great partners for so long.Nygaard praised Dixon as a longtime Target ambassador.He is a true class act, a gentleman on and off the track, Nygaard said of the New Zealand driver. Hes always stood tall for the values of Target and the Target brand. 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DeShawn Williams Jersey Store .C. -- Kemba Walker and the Charlotte Bobcats got off to a fast start, and the Sacramento Kings were never quite able to catch up. Middleweight titlist Daniel Jacobs and Sergio Mora will meet again.Jacobs will defend his secondary 160-pound title against former junior middleweight titleholder Mora on Sept. 9 at the Santander Center in Reading, Pennsylvania, in the main event of a Premier Boxing Champions card on Spike (9 p.m. ET), PBC announced on Thursday, making the long-rumored fight official.Jacobs and Mora first met last August at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, in an unexpectedly wild fight. Both men got knocked down in the first round before the fight came to an abrupt conclusion in the second round. That is when Jacobs dropped Mora again and he broke his ankle going down and was unable to continue.Mora called for a rematch when he was healthy. Jacobs has repeatedly said he was not very interested in a second fight, but they will nonetheless do it again.This is business for me, but it is also more personal than any fight I have ever had, Jacobs said. Sergio has been using these antics online to get this rematch and he has gotten under my skin. There has been a lot of back-and-forth as far as peoples opinions as to who would have won the fight had he not gotten hurt. I am looking at this as an opportunity to clarify that I am the real champion. I want to shut his trap in prime time.While Jacobs (31-1, 28 KOs), 29, of Brooklyn, went on to defend his belt by knocking out neighborhood rival Peter Quillin in 75 seconds in December, The Latin Snake Mora (28-4-2, 9 KOs), 35, of East Los Angeles, has not fought since he broke his ankle against JJacobs.dddddddddddd.I dont think Jacobs wanted this rematch, but it was destined to happen and now he has to deal with it, Mora said. I thought the first fight was going my way. I knocked him down in the first round and was out-boxing him in the second round. He knows that I have enough power to hurt him. He has more to worry about going into this fight than in the first fight. Look at my resume, I have fought solid opposition. Jacobs doesnt have that type of resume.In the co-feature, Ghanas Richard Commey (24-0, 22 KOs), 29, and Robert Easter (17-0, 14 KOs), 25, of Toledo, Ohio, will meet for a vacant lightweight world title. Commey and Easter, who have both knocked out their last five opponents, will be meeting for the 135-pound belt recently vacated by Rances Barthelemy, who elected to move up in weight.Commey was in the mandatory position to fight Barthelemy for the title before he left the weight class. Easter was next in line thanks to his explosive performance on April 1, when he stole the show with a huge one-punch fifth-round knockout of former junior lightweight titlist Argenis Mendez on the undercard of pal Adrien Broners knockout of Ashley Theophane.Also on the Sept. 9 card, heavyweight Travis Kauffman (30-1, 22 KOs), 30, of Reading, will fight an opponent to be determined in a 10-round bout. He is the son of promoter Marshall Kauffman, whose Kings Promotions is putting on the card. ' ' '