LAS Vegas, Nevada, May 7, 2022 – With all the music, lights, and fireworks Matchroom Boxing could muster, Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of San Diego and Mexico enjoyed a ring entry worth of a champion. After a full-throated introduction from ring announcer David Diamante, it was hard to remember Alvarez was the challenger in this contest ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 16, 2022 – WBA World Welterweight champion Yordenis Ugas of Santiago de Cuba via Miami (27-4, 12 KOs) discovered the difference in skill level between WBC and IBF champion Erroll Spence Jr. (28-0, 22 KOs) and the rest of the welterweight division including former eight-division world champion Manny Pacquiao Saturday in ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 20, 2022 –At the end of 12 hard rounds last August, eight-division champion Manny Pacquiao accepted the defeat dealt to him by late replacement Yordenis Ugas of Santiago de Cuba via Miami (27-4, 12 KOs). The surprising victory earned Ugas an even greater opportunity Saturday in Dallas against WBC and IBF ...
Grambling State University announced they hired Chelsey Lucas as head coach of their women’s volleyball team, the Lady Tigers. Grambling State is a historically black university 65 miles east of Shreveport, Louisiana. At the beginning of April, the new coach made some drastic and controversial changes to the program’s lineup. Several players were cut from ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., April 8, 2022 – Boxing fans know the fight schedule the first few months of the year dances around other sporting events like the Super Bowl and March Madness. Come April, boxing season begins. Call it April’s Blows and May’s Shows. It kicks off this Saturday with multiple major events around the ...
DELRAY BEACH, Florida, March 13, 2022 — Even being married to a supermodel is boring when a guy has nothing to do. Gisele Bündchen’s husband Tom Brady binged watched enough television. He tried to mow his lawn but found out his wife had already hired someone to do that for him. Only 40 days after ...
SAN DIEGO, Calif., March 6. 2022 – One day, Julio Cesar Martinez will tell his grandchildren he shared a boxing ring once in San Diego with the greatest small division fighter of the modern era, Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez. Fans who were there will also tell their grandchildren about it. Super flyweight Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez of ...
BREAKING NEWS: Julio Cesar Martinez successfully made the weight rehydration limit on Saturday morning in San Diego, and the main event will proceed as planned. SAN DIEGO, Calif. March 5, 2022 – When the March 5 trilogy bout between super flyweights Roman “Chocolatito” Gonzalez and Juan Francisco “El Gallo” Estrada fell victim to COVID-19, boxing ...
LOS ANGELES, February 14, 2022 — For those who celebrate love, February 14 matters. For those who love football, it was the 13th this year. A thrilling NFL postseason ended with a fantastic Super Bowl LVI (56) that went down to the wire. The Los Angeles Rams gutted a 23-20 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. ...
LOS ANGELES — For the 56th time, America is getting ready for Super Bowl Sunday. In the days leading up to the game, the entire history of every season in the Super Bowl era deserves attention. The National Football League began playing in the 1920s. In 1960, an upstart league known as the American Football League ...
LOS ANGELES, February 10, 2022 — On Sunday, Super Bowl LVI (56) in Los Angeles will conclude by crowning the champion of the 2021 National Football League season. The winning team has bragging rights to having the best football players on the field this season. On the Thursday before the game, several retired NFL players ...
Super Bowl LVI will conclude one of the best professional football seasons ever as the Cincinnati Bengals take on the Los Angeles Rams.
SAN DIEGO, Calif. February 4, 2022 – The super flyweight division promises to deliver the best fight of a busy boxing weekend, and it only got made five days ago between Carlos Cuadras and Jesse ‘Bam’ Rodriguez. Boxing cards quickly filled up the schedule for Saturday, February 5. It’s the Pro-Bowl Game break before the ...
LOS ANGELES, February 2, 2022 — The National Football League should be riding sky high right now. The Divisional Playoff round and the Conference Title Games combined to deliver six of the best playoff games in NFL history. The Los Angeles Rams and Cincinnati Bengals won playoff games in epic fashion to reach Super Bowl ...
LOS ANGELES, February 1, 2022 — Quarterback Tom Brady, who lost three Super Bowls, has quit football. He left the game less than two weeks after a miserable loss at home to the Los Angeles Rams. Brady was awful in front of his fans at the Big Sombrero in Tampa, Florida. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers ...
LOS ANGELES, January 27, 2022 — The NFC Title Game Trophy is named after Papa Bear George Halas. Halas was the founder, owner and coach of the Chicago Bears, originally named the Decatur Staleys. The team has stayed in the family. Halas’s 98-year-old daughter Virginia Halas McCaskey has owned the team since her father’s death ...
Today's column looks back on AFC history to discover (or re-discover) the Top 10 Greatest AFC Title Games in NFL History.
LOS ANGELES, January 25, 2021 — The triumphant hoisting of the Lombardi Trophy after the Super Bowl will have to wait. First comes the Conference Championship Games. The AFC Title Game is for the Lamar Hunt Trophy. Hunt was the Founder of the American Football League (AFL) and owner of the Kansas City Chiefs. He ...
A phenomenal NFL weekend was capped by an epic game for the ages between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs. The lead changed three times in the final two minutes. Josh Allen gave the Bills the lead with 13 seconds left in regulation. Patrick Mahomes delivered a miracle, tying the game and winning in ...
LOS ANGELES, January 24, 2022 — All four Divisional playoff games came down to the final play. Three underdog road teams won and the fourth nearly did as home field advantage evaporated last weekend. The Conference Title Games are set. Both games will be played on Sunday, January 30, 2022. AFC Title Game: Cincinnati Bengals ...