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Louis Lynagh hopes to add to his 27 Quins tries before he joins Benetton ahead of the 2024-25 season.Harlequins wing Louis Lynagh will leave the club at the end of the season to join Italian club Benetton.The 23-year-old son of former Australia captain Michael Lynagh was born in Italy, where his father also played for the Treviso-based club.Although Eddie Jones named him in an England training squad in 2021, Lynagh is now hoping to earn an Italy call-up.He said: “It’s been a difficult decision to leave my boyhood club, but the time is right for a new challenge.”Lynagh joined Quins…

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After a winter that lasted what felt like an eternity, the Champions League resumes this week with the beginning of the knockout stages.The remaining 16 teams will be boosted by the fact some of Europe’s best sides, such as Premier League leaders Liverpool and Bundesliga favourites Bayer Leverkusen, are actually stuck in this year’s Europa League.But as you’re quickly going to discover, that’s not so much of an advantage for these sides, with the race to the bottom perhaps a little more interesting than that to the top.Which side will go all the way and become kings of Europe? Who…

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EPL

Arsenal have sent scouts to watch Nico Williams as they step up their interest in the Athletic Bilbao attacker but Chelsea are also tracking the winger, according to Fabrizio Romano on CaughtOffside. The Italian journalist has revealed that Arsenal have sent their reps to watch the 21-year-old La Liga attacker in action multiple times as Mikel Arteta looks to bring in another wide player in the summer. However, the Gunners will face competition from Premier League rivals Chelsea as the Blues are also showing a keen interest in Williams as well. And Romano believes he’d be ‘great’ in the Premier…

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MMA

UFC 300 is expected to deliver a loaded lineup for the promotion’s historic April event. Following one of the most chaotic years in recent memory, the UFC will bring UFC 300 to its home base of Las Vegas on April 13. UFC CEO Dana White has promised one of the most stacked, and perhaps, unpredictable lineups in company history. With four title fights already on the books for the first quarter of the year, including Sean Strickland vs. Dricus Du Plessis for the middleweight title, and Mayra Bueno Silva vs. Raquel Pennington for the vacant women’s bantamweight title at UFC…

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A crisp, glorious NCAA Tournament bracket will be in your hands five weeks from today. That also means we are five weeks away from the college basketball transfer portal opening. There were 1,834 transfers in the 2023 cycle, per Verbal Commits. What does the 2024 transfer portal cycle have in store? Buckle up.Monday, March 18 will kick off a 45-day window for players to enter the transfer portal. This will be the last cycle impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. That one extra year of eligibility for any player who was on a college roster during the 2020-21 campaign changed the…

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NBA

NBA: Sacramento Kings at Oklahoma City ThunderOklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) smiles as he receives an award for being a…Oklahoma City Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander (2) smiles as he receives an award for being a NBA All Star Western Conference Starter before a game against the Sacramento Kings at Paycom Center.more © Alonzo Adams | 2024-02-11 NBA: Sacramento Kings at Oklahoma City ThunderOklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5) warms up before the start of a game against…Oklahoma City Thunder guard Luguentz Dort (5) warms up before the start of a game against the Sacramento Kings at Paycom…

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NFL

Tory Barron, ESPN EditorFeb 11, 2024, 08:17 PM ETCloseTory Barron is a Bristol-based writer and editor for ESPN.com. After retiring from playing lacrosse at UConn, the DC native decided to try her hand at writing about people playing sports.All’s well that ends well for Taylor Swift to end up at Super Bowl LVIII.After much speculation over whether Swift could make it to Las Vegas on Sunday — following the singer-songwriter’s Eras Tour concert stop in Tokyo on Saturday — she arrived at Allegiant Stadium in time to support her boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce.It’s amazing what a…

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Scotland: (13) 16Try: White Con: Russell Pens: Russell 3France: (10) 20Tries: Fickou, Bielle-Biarrey Cons: Ramos 2 Pens: Ramos 2Scotland were denied by an inconclusive last-gasp try review as France held on to win a tense Six Nations encounter at Murrayfield.Replays suggested the ball was grounded in a huge heap of bodies, but referee Nic Berry had called no-try and the TV pictures could not conclusively prove otherwise.Louis Bielle-Biarrey produced the decisive score in a cagey second half after Ben White and Gael Fickou traded tries in a first half the hosts had much the better of.Scotland may feel they were…

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India have been dealt a blow in the lead-up to the Rajkot Test against England, with KL Rahul ruled out of contention due to a sore knee. Devdutt Padikkal, Rahul’s Karnataka team-mate, has been called in as a replacement.Rahul had earlier missed the second Test in Visakhapatnam due to a quadricep injury, and was included in the squad for the last thee Tests only subject to a fitness clearance.Already light on batting experience with Virat Kohli missing due to personal reasons, Rahul’s absence further complicates matters for India, who also didn’t pick Shreyas Iyer for the remaining three Tests.That aside,…

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