Former world super-bantamweight champion, who is making noises at featherweight, is leaving Joe Gallagher’s care to base himself at the Wild Card gym in Los AngelesScott Quigg has split with Joe Gallagher after six years to join Freddie Roach in the US. It is a gamble that could launch him into a rematch with Carl Frampton or put him into the mix at featherweight, a division that is brimming with possibilities.The 28-year-old former world super-bantamweight champion, now making noises at 9st, insisted on Monday the parting was amicable, although only those close to the camp saw it coming. Related: Carl Frampton beats Scott Quigg to unify world super-bantamweight titles Continue reading...
The winners of the NBA are far easier to predict than the MLB champions. Do we need to find a way of sustaining interest through the regular season?The biggest story in the NBA last season, of course, was the Cleveland Cavaliers’ spectacular upset win for the championship. Very nearly as big a story was that the Golden State Warriors didn’t win.Golden State went into the playoffs with the highest regular season won-lost percentage (73-9, .890) in NBA history. At this All-Star break, the Warriors again lead the NBA in W-L (47-9, .839); they easily have the best record, a whopping 71 points ahead of the No2 San Antonio Spurs (43-13, .768). Related: Adam Silver says Kyrie Irving's flat-Earth theory is...
The potential meeting of the seasoned boxer and the mixed martial arts star under Queensberry Rules is likely to be an embarrassingly one-sided contestFor all the talk that has built up around the putative showdown between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor being about the best pound‑for‑pound boxer of the past quarter of a century taking on the brightest star in the history of mixed martial arts, it is not. It has all the hallmarks of a mismatch. This one, like nearly all the others, is about the money.Unless there is an accident or a miracle, Mayweather will bamboozle the Irish cage fighter to the point of embarrassment with skills that carried him unbeaten through 49 professional boxing matches and garnered...
Greg Abbott must think he can win a public-relations war with the NFL over the state’s proposed ‘bathroom bill’. He would be mistakenBy taking on the NFL, Texas governor Greg Abbott is entering into a battle he cannot win. The world’s biggest sports league has threatened to withhold signature events if Abbott and the state’s Republicans push forward with a bathroom bill targeted at transgender people. Foolishly, he has chosen to challenge them. Related: Taking a hit: are US athletes' rights being eroded? Continue reading...
OKC may lag behind Golden State since Kevin Durant’s defection – but Saturday’s bad-tempered clash showed there’s plenty of needle between the two teamsDo Steven Adams and Russell Westbrook haunt the Warriors’ dreams? If you watched Saturday’s game, the first between the two teams since Kevin Durant defected to the Warriors, without paying attention to the score, the question would seem absurd. Related: James Dolan's feud with Charles Oakley: what was the Knicks owner thinking? Continue reading...