When MVP told me that Han and Holm were going to rematch in Stephanie's hometown of El Paso, I said I want to get on the card to support these two queens. Women's boxing is growing on a global level, and fights like this ... are proof of how far we've come.
Three of the goals - from Evelyn Shores, Ary Borges and Maiara Niehues - came from players who weren't on the roster at the start of last season. Borges also picked up her first Angel City assist. The performance was the most dominant in club history and the margin of victory matched Angel City's largest ever.
Gold medal Olympian Alysa Liu delivered on her promise to skate to PinkPantheress and Zara Larsson, and we are thankful she did. Wearing a sparkly navy dress, she translated the joy of her free skate into the song "Stateside," then danced and blew kisses to the camera. Thankfully, Liu didn't make the last-minute change to Minnie Mouse's "Furry Valentine" song - the one that really sounds like a Pantheress track - maybe that can go in another exhibition.
Yes, if your main intersection with pro wrestling was the late-'90s boom on U.S. cable TV, then you definitely saw a product rife with misogyny and homophobia. But it's a much more inclusive hobby than it used to be, and I tell people who I want to convince to go to an independent show with me that they should expect something like a comic-con atmosphere, not a frat house.
Reigns survived Gunther and the rest of the field in the men's Royal Rumble to win the battle royal for the second time in his career. Reigns can now choose between two champions to challenge for a belt at WrestleMania 42, Undisputed WWE champion Drew McIntyre or world heavyweight champion CM Punk. Punk and Reigns were involved in last year's WrestleMania 41 Night 1 main event, though both lost to Seth Rollins. They also worked together despite animosity at Survivor Series: War Games.
Angela Dugalic scored 22 points, Kiki Rice had 17 and Lauren Betts added 16 as the UCLA women's basketball team recorded its eighth win against a ranked opponent with a dominant 88-65 victory over No. 8 Iowa on Sunday afternoon at Pauley Pavilion. The No. 2-ranked Bruins (21-1 overall, 11-0 Big Ten) won their 15th straight game and improved to 10-0 at home.
"It's pretty much my only rule - I've only done it once outside of knocking somebody out," Gaethje told Mark McClune. "If I knock somebody out, then the rush of emotions is too much, where I have to flip off something. But if you don't get that knockout, there really isn't a spike of emotion. So I sure hope to knock [Topuria] out, and I sure hope to do a backflip on the White House lawn. That would be absolutely spectacular."
