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5:08 PM ET Representatives for unified heavyweight world titlist Anthony Joshua and mandatory challenger Kubrat Pulev are close enough to making a deal that on Monday they asked the IBF for a second extension of their deadline. “(We are) making great progress and closing in on a deal,” Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn told ESPN
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4:11 PM ET Mechelle VoepelespnW.com Close Mechelle Voepel covers the WNBA, women’s college basketball, and other college sports for espnW. Voepel began covering women’s basketball in 1984, and has been with ESPN since 1996. HARTFORD, Conn. — Chicago Sky guard Katie Lou Samuelson couldn’t hold back her emotions Monday. Growing up in Huntington Beach, California,
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5:29 PM ET Seldom-used forward Travis Boyd, in the lineup because Capitals captain Alex Ovechkin had to serve a one-game suspension, scored his third goal of the season as Washington outlasted the Canadiens 4-2 on Monday in Montreal. The win was Washington’s fourth in a row, and it padded the Capitals’ lead atop the NHL
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4:01 PM ET Daniel Cormier said Monday if he doesn’t get his trilogy bout with heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic by the summer, he would consider retiring. “You can’t wait forever,” Cormier said on Ariel Helwani’s MMA Show. “Every day that passes does not benefit me. I’m a realist, I understand that. Either we’re going to
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2:51 PM ET LSU has hired Youngstown State coach Bo Pelini as defensive coordinator, the school announced Monday. “We are privileged to have one of the top defensive coordinators in all of football in Bo Pelini join our staff,” Tigers coach Ed Orgeron said in a statement. “Bo has had some of the best defenses
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3:01 PM ET Grand Valley State University has suspended offensive coordinator Morris Berger as the school investigates comments Berger made to a student newspaper regarding Adolf Hitler. Berger was interviewed in the Grand Valley Lanthorn paper and was asked which three historical figures Berger would have dinner with. Berger responded by saying one of his
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3:49 PM ET Oklahoma legend DeMarco Murray is going back to school. The Sooners’ leader in all-purpose yards and career touchdowns has been hired as the team’s running backs coach, head coach Lincoln Riley announced Monday. Murray starred at Oklahoma from 2007 to ’10 before beginning a seven-year NFL career with the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia
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2:24 PM GMT James Harrington As in most sports, risk-reward is a very real thing in rugby. Teddy Thomas, for example, was selected for France’s Six Nations squad for his abilities as a try-scorer. Whether he makes the matchday side will depend on whether Fabien Galthie believes that talent is enough to offset his sieve-like
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2:12 PM GMT James Harrington Maverick: Noun. An unorthodox or independent-minded person. In Fantasy Rugby, such a quality is potential gold dust. It should not be confused — as it often is — with mercurial, an adjective to describe someone who is subject to sudden or unpredictable changes of mood or mind. And Freddie Michalak.
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