Month: December 2018

7:05 AM ET Carl Frampton has not had an alcoholic drink for nearly a year and he believes it will help him win a world title again when he fights Josh Warrington at the Manchester Arena on Saturday. The former world featherweight and super-bantamweight champion made a New Year’s resolution to stay teetotal and insists
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3:47 AM ET SAN ANTONIO — Both coaches tossed about the T-word for different reasons Saturday after the Chicago Bulls crushed a 21-point deficit to top the San Antonio Spurs 98-93 — souring a flawless 4-0 start to San Antonio’s six-game homestand. Bulls coach Jim Boylen called starting point guard Ryan Arcidiacono “a tough nut,”
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1:50 AM ET Bellator MMA became the first major MMA promotion to visit the state of Hawaii since 2008 this week, and it did so behind Hawaiian flyweight champion Ilima-Lei Macfarlane. She did not let the promotion down. Macfarlane (9-0) defended her 125-pound title for the second time on Saturday with a third-round submission against
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11:05 PM ET What a year it has been for UFC lightweight Al Iaquinta. The Long Island native picked up a huge victory against Kevin Lee on Saturday, defeating the former title challenger in a five-round unanimous decision. The 155-pound contest headlined UFC Fight Night in Milwaukee, in the final event of the UFC’s expiring
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12:52 AM ET NEW YORK — Saturday night was about more than what happened in the ring for Canelo Alvarez. Sure, if Rocky Fielding had pulled a Rocky Babloa and scored one of the biggest upsets in boxing history by defeating Alvarez it would have changed everything but that was never close to becoming a
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12:30 AM ET NEW YORK — Canelo Alvarez kicked off the richest athlete contract in sports by doing just what was expected on Saturday night at Madison Square Garden. Heavy favorite Alvarez, the unified middleweight world champion and boxing’s biggest star, moved up one weight class and destroyed the game Rocky Fielding with a heavy
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