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By Global MMA News/Reuters
Unbeaten ONE Championship Welterweight World Champion Ben Askren returns to action in April against Nikolay Aleksakhin in the main event of ONE: GLOBAL RIVALS.
The event takes place on April 15 at the Mall of Asia Arena in Manila, Philippines, and while seeing the former Olympic wrestler compete is reason enough to tune in, ONE officials have put together quite the card to complement the headlining bout.
Here are four reasons to watch:
Posted on April 6, 2016
By Larry Fine/Reuters
Kris Jenkins buried a buzzer-beating three-pointer to lift Villanova to a thrilling 77-74 upset victory over North Carolina in the U.S. college basketball championship game in Houston on Monday.
It was a fitting end to a springtime single-elimination competition known affectionately as ‘March Madness’ for its regular upsets and last-second victories.
Posted on April 5, 2016
By Jim Coffman
Everyone picking the locals to go to the World Series, you guys are aware that the Mets’ pitching remains the same? And that means it isn’t just a little better than the Cubs’? But don’t feel bad, North Side Baseball Club. The Mets’ pitching is way better than anyone’s.
The Cubs have a better lineup but if New York’s unbelievably young crew of power arms pitches like it did down the stretch into the postseason last year, having a superior lineup will matter about as much as it did for the Cubs in the playoffs last year.
Posted on April 4, 2016
By Roger Wallenstein
It’s not really the gooey descriptions like “the verdant expanse” or “emerald jewel,” the “lush outfield” or the “symmetry of the diamond.”
No, it’s more like Williams, Mantle, Berra, Aaron, Feller, Ford, Pierce and Miñoso, the men who left indelible impressions on the boy.
It’s the mustard smell, the iron pipes with layers of yellow paint surrounding the box seats, the non-descript scoreboards listing the results of the other seven games. It’s not rap, but the organ belching “Roll Out the Barrel,” and Whitey the Field Announcer telling us to “Get your pencils and scorecards ready.”
It’s the vendor hawking “Hey, Lemonade,” and the men in the left field stands stacking an ever-expanding snake of empty beer cups, a live monument representing their prodigious thirsts when no one focused on their ability to drive home.
What’s noteworthy is that the games, moments, personalities and milestones of 50 to 60 years ago provide more clarity to someone my age than those of the ’80s and ’90s when work, family, health and stability interfered with the attention one could pay to the sport. Even now White Sox pinch hitter deluxe Smoky Burgess (1964-67) occupies a clearer presence in my long-term memory than the team’s DH in 2005 – it was Carl Everett – when they somehow won the whole shebang.
Posted on April 4, 2016
By Jim Coffman and Steve Rhodes
MAKE. FANBOY. CUBS. MEDIA. STOP. Plus: Our World Series Predictions, In Which Neither Of Us Pick The Cubs; As The Blackhawks Suddenly Turn; The Magnetic Derrick Rose; Bears Sign More No-Name Linemen; Media Mistakes Activity For Genius; Let She Who Generates More Revenue Earn More Money; Cheaters Prosper!; and The Everton Minute.
Posted on April 1, 2016
By The World Surf League
Two years after injuring herself at the break, the Californian surfed her way to a redemptive win.
Posted on April 1, 2016
