We get a rare Sunday night of championship boxing to close out a big weekend for the lightweight division. Gervonta “Tank” Davis puts his WBA (regular) title on the line against Isaac Cruz at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The full card will air starting at 8 p.m. ET as part of a Showtime PPV. […]
December 5, 2021
The lightweight division wraps up two weeks of excitement Sunday evening when Gervonta Davis puts his WBA “regular” title on the line against Isaac Cruz. The fight takes place at STAPLES Center in LA and tops a Showtime PPV card that gets underway at 8 p.m. ET. The lightweight division is in flux with a […]
December 5, 2021
The 2021 college football regular season is all but a wrap, with only the Army-Navy game left before bowl season gets underway. On Sunday, December 5, the College Football Playoff Selection Committee will announce the four teams that will play in the CFP semifinals on December 31. The winners of those two games will then […]
December 5, 2021
UPDATE: We’ll be posting full results HERE. We get a rare bit of Sunday boxing this weekend as Gervonta Davis and Isaac Cruz battle for one of the WBA’s lightweight titles at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles. The main card is scheduled to get started Sunday evening at 8 p.m. ET with Davis and Cruz […]
December 5, 2021
Boxing fans will get a big slate of action Saturday night, as Terence Crawford puts his WBO welterweight title on the line against Shawn Porter. This is both fighters’ biggest bout to date and could theoretically set up a unification bout with either Yordenis Ugas or Errol Spence, Jr. The rest of the card after […]
November 20, 2021
Boxing purses can be a tough nut to crack. Sometimes the athletic commission releases information and other times second- and third-tier websites are left speculating and claiming various sources are providing the details. And then sometimes, ESPN is able to offer something up. Welterweights Terence Crawford and Shawn Porter are meeting Saturday night to battle […]
November 20, 2021
The payments in the world of professional boxing can be a bit difficult to decipher. There is a lot of speculation and then after the fight we don’t always get a full accounting of payments. Friday night, Demetrius Andrade and Jason Quigley square off in New Hampshire to fight for Andrade’s middleweight title. Andrade is […]
November 19, 2021
Another week, another round of miserable straight-up picks. This has been a wild five or six weeks of NFL football that has left me at or below .500 more weeks than I’d like to count. Last week, I went 6-7-1 on straight up picks. I’m using confidence levels for my straight up picks with four […]
November 18, 2021
Canelo Álvarez and Caleb Plant face off on Saturday to become the undisputed champion of the super middleweight division. Any Canelo fight is high profile, but this one is especially so as he looks to finish off cleaning out the division. This is a big money for fight both boxers. Canelo is due to earn […]
November 6, 2021
Saturday evening brings arguably the biggest fight of the year when Canelo Álvarez faces Caleb Plant to crown an undisputed super middleweight champ. Álvarez is putting his WBC, WBO, and WBA titles on the line while Plant is putting his IBF title up for grabs. Barring a draw, the winner will be the first undisputed […]
November 6, 2021
November 2 update: Now that the NFL trade deadline has passed, any player released must go through waivers. Prior to the trade deadline, if a vested veteran — a player with at least four years of accrued service time — was cut, they immediately became a free agent. Now through the Super Bowl, they must […]
November 5, 2021