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Anthony Joshua tops Jermaine Franklin by unanimous decision
Joshua (25-3, 22 KOs) had suffered defeats to Oleksandr Usyk in his two previous fights and had not won since he knocked out Kubrat Pulev in December 2020. The judges scored the bout 118-111, 117-111 and 117-111.
WBC orders Franchon Crews-Dezurn vs. Shadasia Green fight
The WBC has ordered a fight between undisputed super middleweight champion Franchon Crews-Dezurn and mandatory challenger Shadasia Green. The two sides have until April 28 to come to an agreement or the fight will be placed in a purse bid. Crews-Dezurn (8-1, 2 KO) became the undisputed super middleweight champion last April when she beat Elin Cederroos by unanimous decision at Madison Square Garden on the undercard of the Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano fight.
Women's college basketball way-too-early Top 25 for 2023-24
Two No. 1 seeds were bounced from the 2023 women's NCAA tournament before the Sweet 16. No top seeds reached the title game. The 2022-23 season was a wild ride, but don't take off the seat belt just yet. There's no time like the present to take an early look at next season.
Men's college basketball way-too-early top 25 for 2023-24
After one of the wildest NCAA tournaments in recent history -- a tournament that included a 16-over-1 upset, zero top-three seeds in the Final Four, a buzzer-beater in one national semifinal and a 5-seed vs. a 4-seed in the title game -- what does the 2023-24 men's college basketball season have in store for us?
Zhilei Zhang gets upset win over Joe Joyce with TKO in 6th round
Zhilei Zhang, who turns 40 next month, is closing in on a shot at Oleksandr Usyk's WBO world heavyweight titles, after pulling off an upset sixth-round technical knockout win over Joe Joyce on Saturday. After this win, Zhang is in line for a shot at one of Usyk's three world title belts but will have to be patient. Joyce's fellow Londoner Daniel Dubois -- if he recovers from a serious knee injury -- is first in line as the WBA mandatory challenger, and then there is Croatia's IBF leading challenger Filip Hrgovic.
Joyce (15-1, 14 KOs), 37, from Putney in southwest London, never recovered after his right eye began to swell and close by the end of the first round from Zhang's accurate left-hand punches at the Copper Box Arena, in east London.
Zhang, (25-1-1, 20 KOs), 39, who is based in New Jersey but from China, has put his career back on an upward trajectory after he lost a competitive points decision to Hrgovic in his previous outing last August.
Hellen Obiri wins Boston Marathon women's race
Hellen Obiri, a two-time Olympic silver medalist in the 5,000 meters, won the women's Boston Marathon in a sprint down Boylston Street to finish
in 238. Running her second marathon, Obiri hung in with a tightly packed lead group for the entire race before breaking away with a mile to go and won to roars of approval from the fans.
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Ethiopian Amane Beriso, a favorite after producing the all-time third-fastest marathon in Valencia late last year, was unable to find her kick and could only watch helplessly as Obiri zoomed past. She finished 12 seconds behind.
Evans Chebet wins 2nd straight Boston Marathon men's title
Chebet won the world's oldest and most prestigious marathon on Monday for the second year in a row, leaving Kipchoge behind at Heartbreak Hill to spoil the two-time Olympic gold medalist's much-anticipated debut and win in 2 hours, 5 minutes, 54 seconds.
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It was the third straight Kenyan sweep. Obiri is the 15th Kenyan runner to win the distaff division since 1966. Chebet is the 25th Kenyan men's champion and fourth in a row; he is the first man to defend his Boston title since Robert Kipkoech Cheruiyot won three in a row from 2006 to '08.