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NFL sources weigh in: Does Sam Darnold still have a future with the Jets?

Sam Darnold begins the most important six-game stretch of his career on Sunday, now that his injured shoulder has healed enough for him to play. It’s either a six-game sprint for him to save his career as the Jets’ franchise quarterback, or a six-game showcase to prove his worth to somebody else.

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Mike Tyson vs. Roy Jones Jr.: What you need to know to watch exhibition fight

Former heavyweight world champion Mike Tyson, 54, takes on fellow ex-heavyweight champ Roy Jones Jr., 51, in an eight-round exhibition match Saturday.

      

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DFS Value Finder: Week 12

Kyle Dvorchak applies the Rotoworld staff ranks to find potential DFS value plays. (Brian Fluharty-USA TODAY Sports)

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Chiefs make a pair of roster moves on Saturday

A safety leaves the Kansas City Chiefs’ 53-man roster, while a receiver joins it.

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Toronto’s Terence Davis reportedly will have contract option picked up despite domestic assault case

The case is still working its way through the court system.

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Browns work out former Akron EDGE Jamal Davis

Davis has bounced around several NFL teams since 2019

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Meet Lauren Price, the champion kickboxer turned Wales footballer set to become Olympic boxer

Lauren Price has proven an extraordinary talent at most sports and the gain for British boxing has been enormous over the past four years, as she has become a formidable world amateur champion and Commonwealth Games gold medallist. But the 26-year-old from Wales is not just an amateur boxer. She is a former world champion kickboxer and senior footballer for Wales, with more than 50 caps between 2012 and 2014, the year she gave up playing football to focus on her boxing career. Some journey. Prior to that, at the age of 13, Price competed against opponents twice her age, the youngest ever competitor in the British Championships. She was formidable, too, claiming four world championships in kickboxing. Six years after falling in love with boxing, the women’s middleweight heads out of the cancelled Olympic qualifying tournaments of 2020 and into the light of the new year intent on stamping her authority on the division at the Tokyo Olympic Games. Lockdown for Price was rough. “It was pretty tough at times. After the London qualifying tournament [cancelled after four days in March] I had two weeks at home, and I was going insane really. I didn’t know what to do. I used to train three times a day. “At the time there was the question about whether there was going to be an Olympics this year. No one knew, it was all up in the air. So for me, I was crying in March. I’d just come back to Wales off the back of becoming world champion, and I was training for the qualifiers. I was probably in the best shape of my whole career. For it to be called off was devastating.” But Price is a survivor, a fighter. “As time moved on and moved forward, I thought I had to try and turn this negative into a positive. I moved myself back up to Sheffield to the GB set up with one of the girls. We were training twice a day, doing Zoom sessions. “We were just trying to push ourselves along. Using wheelie bins as squat racks. It was hard not knowing any dates or training camps. “For us in this game we need a date to motivate us, having a tournament to drive us. It gives you that motivation. But obviously no one had any answers. By the end of June, beginning of July we moved back into the gym. That was good to get back in the gym and that sporting environment. Training three times a day, it won’t take long to get our sparring back in, get our timing and distance. It was good to be back. “We went out to Turkey for a training camp. Now I’m off to San Diego for a two-week training camp over there. So things are back up and running. I’ve got that fighting spirit back knowing the qualifiers are on next year and the Olympics will definitely be on.”

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F1 Bahrain GP: Hamilton beats Bottas, Verstappen to pole

Lewis Hamilton claimed pole position for Formula 1’s 2020 Bahrain Grand Prix, with Valtteri Bottas beating Max Verstappen to second place on the final run in Q3

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Dubois vs Joyce ring walk time: When will heavyweight fight start and how can I watch it?

The rivals meet on Saturday night looking to take a big step towards a world title shot

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Alex Thomson out of Vendee Globe after damage to boat

Thomson was bidding to become the first non-French winner of the around-the-world event.

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