Month: April 2023

6:37 PM ET Nick Parkinson Close •Reports on boxing for ESPN.co.uk, as well as several national newspapers•Has been reporting on British boxing for over 15 years•Appears on BoxNation’s Boxing Matters show Zhilei Zhang, who turns 40 next month, is closing in on a shot at Oleksandr Usyk’s WBO world heavyweight titles, after pulling off an
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Apr 15, 2023 ATHENS, Ga. — The University of Georgia introduced Boom, its new 10-month-old English bulldog, as Uga XI during a pregame ceremony at Sanford Stadium prior to the Bulldogs’ spring game Saturday afternoon. The “transfer of power,” as it was described in the stadium, was completed as Uga X’s collar was taken off
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4:45 PM ET Associated Press MONACO — Fifth-seeded Andrey Rublev reached the Monte Carlo Masters final for the second time after rallying to beat eighth-seeded American Taylor Fritz 5-7, 6-1, 6-3 in a rain-interrupted contest on Saturday. The Russian player, who lost in the final two years ago, goes for his 13th career title and
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Nottinghamshire 256 and 187 for 6 (Mullaney 29*, Hutton 20*, Siddle 2-26)) lead Somerset 173 (Davey 60, Hutton 6-45) by 270 runs There is a marvellous Finnish word, ‘kalsarikännit’, which literally means the sort of morbid stay-at-home feeling when you just want to get drunk in your underwear. They may look askance at the suggestion,
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9:14 AM ET Associated Press Brad Larsen has been fired as coach of the Columbus Blue Jackets after two seasons without a playoff appearance, a move general manager Jarmo Kekalainen called “absolutely a necessary change that we needed to make.” Kekalainen did not elaborate on why he thought Larsen wasn’t the right person to lead
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