It’s time for one of the middleweight-iest cards in UFC history. Get pumped! Four — count ‘em, four — middleweight fights are scheduled for Saturday’s UFC Vegas 86 card, including a headliner between longtime contender Jack Hermansson and the headline-grabbing Joe Pyfer. This is a classic litmus test fight. Is Hermansson too big a step up for Pyfer right now, or is Pyfer about to score a finish that will set the tone for his 2024 campaign? In the co-main event, featherweight veterans Dan Ige and Andre Fili square off with Ige looking to hold on to his spot in…
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Bill O’Brien is nearing an official deal to become the Boston College football team’s next head coach and complete yet another flip-flop in his career. The latest news on the 54-year-old not only represents a switch from his reported hire as Ohio State’s next offensive coordinator in January but once again sees him going from the NFL back to the college game.Multiple reports earlier this week indicated that a connection between the Eagles and O’Brien was coming. The lead gig on the Chestnut Hill campus opened up in late January when former Boston College head coach Jeff Hafley was hired…
Jovan Buha @jovanbuha New episode of Hoops Tonight breaking down the Lakers’ trade deadline w/ @_JasonLT for @TheVolumeSports: — Why the Lakers didn’t make a move — How that sits with LeBron — Spencer Dinwiddie and Kyle Lowry — Pursuing Trae Young, Kyrie Irving and Donovan Mitchell this summer pic.twitter.com/1jfeKvCpZt – 5:20 PM
Elizabeth Merrill, ESPN Senior WriterFeb 9, 2024, 10:00 AM ETCloseElizabeth Merrill is a senior writer for ESPN.com and ESPN The Magazine. She previously wrote for The Kansas City Star and The Omaha World-Herald.MARCELLUS SCANTLING HAD just finished a cigar and was about to turn in when the phone rang. It was almost midnight on a late-autumn Monday in west Florida, and the Scantlings had been up watching the Kansas City Chiefs lose to the Philadelphia Eagles on “Monday Night Football.” Marcellus texted their son, Chiefs receiver Marquez Valdes-Scantling, to console him. But then Tahisia Scantling’s phone started to buzz.She’s a…
Watch as England and Wales Under-20s Six Nations captains Finn Carnduff and Harri Ackerman are reprimanded by referee Aimee Barrett-Theron.
Joseph made his West Indies debut in the drawn series against Australia, dismissing Steven Smith with his first ball in Test cricket, in a game West Indies lost in Adelaide, before becoming a worldwide phenomenon when he took a seven-wicket haul in the final innings despite an injured foot to give West Indies a dramatic eight-run win at the Gabba in the second Test.
By Moritz Baer @MoritzBaer_UK Winless since early December, Hoffenheim are in poor form. Köln have only lost once under Timo Schultz and hope for their first set of back-to-back wins this season. Florian Kainz.Photo: Marco Verch, CC BY-SA 2.0 Hoffenheim Pellegrino Matarazzo’s Hoffenheim side have tailed off this season since their impressive start to the campaign in which they won six of their first nine games. Unable to win in their last six games, Hoffenheim have been in freefall down the Bundesliga table and are now five points off sixth place (their position following their last Bundesliga win against Bochum). Despite…
Mauricio Pochettino says Chelsea summer signing Romeo Lavia remains far away from a return to first-team action due to injury.Belgium international Lavia impressed in his debut Premier League season with Southampton last year and ended up spurning transfer interest from Liverpool to move to Stamford Bridge.However, persistent fitness issues have limited the 20-year-old defensive midfielder to just one league appearance so far in 2023/24, that coming in a 2-1 home win over Crystal Palace in late December. Lavia picked up an injury in the game and hasn’t been seen since.Lavia has struggled for fitness at Chelsea / Visionhaus/GettyImagesAsked if Lavia…
Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur are reportedly interested in signing Bournemouth’s want-away star Lloyd Kelly, as per Football Insider. Spurs have strengthened their backline by purchasing Radu Dragusin from Genoa in the recently concluded winter window. But, it seems Ange Postecoglou wants to sign a new defender in the upcoming window and signing a left-footed one is seemingly on his agenda as the Lilywhites have been linked with numerous names in recent weeks. On the other hand, Liverpool are reportedly looking to sign a new centre-back as a potential long-term successor to Virgil van Dijk – who is set to turn…
Alexander Volkanovski doesn’t have gray hairs. They’re just wisdom highlights. On Saturday, February 17 the reigning featherweight world champion will return to the Octagon determined to defend his title for the sixth time against undefeated standout Ilia Topuria. Leading up to their highly anticipated clash inside the Honda Center at UFC 298, ‘The Great’ has been inundated with comments from fight fans suggesting that the 35-year-old’s best days are behind him. Instead of biting back at his skeptics, Volkanovski decided to lean into the narrative that he’s “too old” to fight via a hilarious promo in partnership with Sportsbet. In…