Not literally, of course, but Kentucky forward Alex Poythress will now have to refer to him as King Ali. MORE: 2015 NCAA cheerleaders | What we learned from the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Why? Just look at what Ali did to Poythress on Thursday night. Goodness gracious.
Football fans and observers have often questioned the integrity of tournament draws where balls bearing teams’ names are picked out of a compartment to form groups and knockout stage ties. This season’s Champions League winners Real Madrid, and 2014 World Cup finalists Argentina are two notable teams that have been perceived to have benefited from fortunate draws pitting them against uncomplicated opposition. Unsurprisingly, Blatter absolved himself of all blame by clarifying that any temperature-signaled draw-rigging only occurred in UEFA tournaments, rather than in any of the FIFA competitions overseen by the Swiss national in his 18-year tenure at the helm of world football’s governing body....
Not only would history be made, but a very competitive championship fight would have ensued — one which fans would be talking about for years to come if Holloway and Edgar lived up to their reputations. The dream matchup came to a screaching halt when last month Edgar pulled out of the fight due to a facial injury. The UFC would ultimately go with former featherweight champion Jose Aldo on Saturday from the Little Caesars Arena in Detroit....
Jones showed that it doesn’t matter how you start, it’s how you finish as he took down Gustafsson to the mat and ended up finishing him with a series of ground and punches to win by knockout at 2:22 of the third round to reclaim the light heavyweight title. It wasn’t nearly as competitive as their first meeting five years ago, that Jones narrowly escaped with a decision victory. The second time around it was all about Jones neutralizing Gustafsson’s strengths and turned it into a kickboxing match early on by using short elbows and kicks to keep the Swedish fighter away....
The main event will feature a rematch, as featherweight champion Max Holloway moves up in weight to fight Dustin Poirier for the interim lightweight crown. In the co-main event, Israel Adesanya battles Kelvin Gastelum for the interim middleweight title. Join DAZN and watch more than 100 fight nights a year The reason these fights are happening is because lightweight titleholder Khabib Nurmagomedov is currently serving a nine-month suspension that ends in July for his role in the UFC 229 melee after submitting Conor McGregor in the fourth round....
Axios reporter Stephen Totilo recently spoke to Guillemot in Paris. Their conversation covered various topics, including the potential rising price of Ubisoft games. The publisher’s co-founder explained that while not every new release will cost $70, that will be the standard for Ubisoft’s AAA releases. “Some of the games will come at the same price as the competition,” said Guillemot. “The big AAA games will come at $70.” RELATED: Ubisoft Employee Claims Developers Have Left Company Because of Assassin’s Creed Red Director...
Group C has been dubbed the `Group of Death’ by fans and experts across the globe, with PSG, Liverpool, Napoli and Red Star Belgrade all looking to secure entry into the knock-out stages and avoid dropping into the second-tier Europa League or out of European football altogether. This fixture between the Ligue 1 champions and last season’s UCL runners-up could dictate who progresses to the next stage and their round-of-sixteen opponents....
Kinsley Washington hit a tiebreaking single in the bottom of the seventh inning Tuesday to give the Bruins a 5-4 Game 2 victory over Oklahoma, a sweep of the best-of-three championship series and the program’s first title since 2010. Washington, the daughter of former UCLA football and NFL player James Washington, brought home pinch runner Jacqui Prober with the winning run. She finished the series 6 for 8 with two RBIs and three runs scored....
The NCAA announced on Sept. 16 the approved date for the start of regular-season competition, as well as the limit of 27 games, and still few conferences have announced their schedules and almost no teams have finalized non-league play. This is understandable because of unprecedented challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, including the need for some athletic departments still to be rearranging football games because of positive tests and the necessity to delay establishing that firm start date....
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Despite suffering a 3-1 first leg loss to Porto, Bayern kept their nerves by crushing Porto 6-1 on home soil. The German giants sealed the deal with five first-half goals to flabbergast the visitors from Portugal, who were only able to score their consolation in the closing period, Xinhua reported. The hosts caught a fairy tale start into the game as Robert Lewandowski rattled the right post with just ten minutes into the game before Juan Bernat crossed into the box to Thiago Alcantara, who headed home at the near post, breaking the deadlock just four minutes later....
As UEFA standings consider head-to-head record and away goals scored as the tie-breakers if teams finish on equal points and total goal difference, it opens up a lot of possibilities for the groups where the top 2 teams have not been decided yet. Group B Tottenham’s 1-0 Victory over Inter at Wembley has set up an exciting final matchday where Spurs and Inter’s results will determine who will go through to the Champions League knockouts, and who will be relegated to the Europa League....
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain – making his first international appearance since June 2017 – opened the scoring after just 11 minutes, and by the time the whistle blew for half-time, the Three Lions were 5-0 up, with captain Harry Kane helping himself to a hat-trick in just under 20 minutes. The action slowed down somewhat in the second half, but England were still able to add another two goals – the first a bizarre own goal, and the second from Chelsea’s in-form striker Tammy Abraham – his first at senior international level....
GK- Emiliano Martinez- 6.5 Martinez was barely troubled in goal and dealt with any sort of threat with assurance. The Argentine is far more dominant in the air than Bernd Leno and ironically has more clean sheets this season than his German counterpart who is also the number one goalkeeper for the Gunners. RB- Hector Bellerin- 7.5 Bellerin captained the side for the first time as the Spaniard continues his recovery from injury....
That was the full-time score in Chelsea’s league opener, 4-0, as Manchester United took advantage of a sloppy defence to race into a flawless start to the season. Frank Lampard has a significant task in steadying the Chelsea ship, at a time when it is possibly at it’s rockiest for decades. Jürgen Klopp’s side seems pretty complete and ready to challenge for the Premier League title, after coming so close last season....
The Premier League side revealed last week that chairman Bruce Buck and their club secretary had spoken to UEFA’s match delegate regarding an accusation of racist abuse of a Chelsea player in the closing stages of their 5-0 victory in Ukraine. In their statement, Chelsea said they expected the governing body to “conduct a fulsome investigation” into the matter and UEFA has now confirmed an inspector will determine whether there is enough evidence to charge Kiev....
In the co-feature, Mauricio “Shogun” Rua and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira will battle in light heavyweight action. Rua and Nogueira battled in 2005 under the PRIDE banner with the former UFC light heavyweight champion winning the classic bout via unanimous decision. MORE: Rousey’s career-defining-moments | Classic Ronda Rousey photos | UFC 190 keys to victory Here’s everything you need to know about UFC 190. What time is UFC 190: Rousey vs....
What we saw was perhaps the best fight of 2015 and one for the ages. Cormier won by split decision (47-48, 49-46, 48-47) to retain the light heavyweight title in Saturday’s main event in Houston. MORE: 37 astonishing UFC photos “Thank you Alex, " Cormier told Joe Rogan in the post-fight interview. “You made me a better man tonight.” Both fighters came out exchanging kicks. Not content of being on his feet, Cormier slammed Gustafsson to the mat....
That may sound like a strange statement given that the Manchester man claimed the belt in his first championship fight, but that bout was 10 years and 25 fights in the making and everything fans and critics had seen from Bisping during his previous decade competing in the UFC had already established who he was as a competitor. First impressions aren’t everything in mixed martial arts. Years of watching prospects stumble and future legends falter as they work their way up the competitive ladder have conditioned observers to give athletes time....
