Special to Yahoo Sports If you’ve made the playoffs in your fantasy league, congratulations! The hard part now begins, and that’s bringing home the championship. The end of the season can be a tough time to figure out. After the Rangers acquired Patrick Kane, the assumption was that they would transform into a bona fide … Read more
Japan’s Naoya Inoue will fight for two world titles in his super-bantamweight debut when he takes on American Stephen Fulton in Yokohama in May, the boxer nicknamed “Monster” said Monday. The unbeaten Inoue became the first undisputed world bantamweight champion in half a century when he beat England’s Paul Butler in December to add the … Read more
From left: Sonny Kabatay, Marcellus Francis, Dante Basque and Jacob Denny are the top four scorers in the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League. (Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League – image credit) A Cape Breton team is celebrating a historic year for its players. The Eskasoni Eagles ended the regular season of the Nova Scotia Junior … Read more
Cyril Gane described Saturday’s UFC heavyweight title fight against Jon ‘Bones’ Jones in Las Vegas as “the biggest fight” of his career and insisted he would “give a good fight” against arguably the biggest name in the MMA world. The fight for the vacant heavyweight title brings together two men from very different sides of … Read more
Gervonta Davis was adamant that he was going to fight Ryan Garcia next, despite others pushing him in a different direction. (Frank Franklin II/The Associated Press) Perhaps it’s just human nature, or maybe it’s how boxing fans have been conditioned to act, but on a day when Showtime announced a fascinating schedule for the next … Read more
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United managers past and present will meet in the fifth round of the FA Cup on Wednesday. With a first trophy secured after winning the League Cup, Erik ten Haag has already surpassed David Moyes, who succeeded United great Alex Ferguson in 2013. Moyes, who lasted only eight months in … Read more
SEATTLE (AP) — Auston Matthews had two goals and Mark Giordano scored in his first game back in Seattle since being traded to Toronto last season as the Maple Leafs beat the Kraken 5-1 Sunday. Timothy Liljegren had a goal and an assist for Toronto, and John Tavares also scored. Mitchell Marner had three assists; … Read more
Tommy Fury (right) handed Jake Paul the first loss of his career on Sunday night in Saudi Arabia. (Francois Nell/Getty Images) Jake Paul’s first fight against a real boxer didn’t go as planned. Tommy Fury handed the YouTuber-turned-boxer the first loss of his career on Sunday night at Diriyah Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Fury … Read more
Jake Paul jaws at Tommy Fury following their weigh-in Saturday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Paul came in at 183.6 pounds and Fury, the half-brother of lineal heavyweight champion Tyson Fury, was 184.5. (Photo courtesy Skills Challenge) For much of his fledgling boxing career, social media content creator turned boxer Jake Paul has been criticized for … Read more
Conor Benn has been cleared of a doping offense after the World Boxing Council ruled that a “highly-elevated consumption of eggs” constituted a “reasonable explanation” for his positive finding. A scheduled catchweight “grudge” bout against British rival Chris Eubank Jr scheduled for October last year was canceled after trace amounts of a fertility drug, clomiphene … Read more