Month: March 2020

2:00 PM ET LAS VEGAS — Yoel Romero raised his right hand and slapped his chest repeatedly. “How many years?!” Romero screamed. “How many years?!” The UFC middleweight star made Friday morning weight at 185 pounds even for his UFC 248 title challenge against champion Israel Adesanya on Saturday night at T-Mobile Arena. Romero, who
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1:29 PM ET Top Rank has finalized the undercard for popular Irish featherweight Michael Conlan’s annual St. Patrick’s Day bout on March 17 at the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Before Conlan takes on Belmar Preciado and junior lightweight Mikaela Mayer fights Melissa Hernandez on the main card of the Top
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1:13 PM GMT Scotland head coach Gregor Townsend has made three changes ahead of his side’s Six Nations clash against France at Murrayfield on Sunday. All three alterations came in the forward line with hooker Fraser Brown replacing Stuart McInally to make his 50th international cap, while Grant Gilchrist and Nick Haining have been selected
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4:10 PM GMT South Africa’s ODI tour of India for three ODIs will go ahead after the organisation completed a risk assessment regarding the spread of COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) across the world. While South Africa reported its first confirmed case of the virus on Thursday, India’s health ministry has estimated infections are affecting around 30
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9:00 AM ET The past two years have seen a topsy-turvy existence in college football’s MAC West. Only one team enjoyed a winning record in conference play in both 2018 and 2019 (Western Michigan, which didn’t win the division either year), while a Central Michigan team that went 0-8 in 2018 won the West 12
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11:02 AM ET England’s Andy Sullivan and Spain’s Jorge Campillo both carded a second-round 66 to share the lead at the Qatar Masters in Doha on Friday. Sullivan got off to a flying start with birdies at the opening two holes. The 32-year-old made just a single bogey on the 15th hole as he moved
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10:05 AM ET When the Minnesota Wild fired coach Bruce Boudreau and traded Jason Zucker shortly thereafter, some surmised that this was more of a rebuilding season for the club than a contending one. But a 3-2 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Thursday night gave the Wild seven wins in their last nine
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7:57 AM ET Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano, two of the pound-for-pound best in women’s boxing, have been on a collision course for the past few years. Now their long-awaited bout, perhaps the most significant that could be made on the women’s side of the sport, is finally on. Taylor, the undisputed lightweight world champion,
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8:08 AM GMT Zimbabwe won the toss and opted to bowl v Bangladesh Zimbabwe won the toss and decided to put Bangladesh in to bat in the third and final one-day international in Sylhet. Zimbabwe are unchanged, but with injury and illness Chamu Chibhabha and Craig Ervine once again sit out, while Bangladesh – who
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