The Strikeforce Heavyweight Tournament has been narrowed down to two fighters as former UFC Heavyweight champion Josh Barnett takes on former Olympic wrestler Daniel Cormier. The main card will also feature Strikeforce Lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez defending his title against long-time rival Josh Thomson.
Also on the card, former Strikeforce Light Heavyweight champion Rafael Cavalcante takes on Mike Kyle. The main card opens with Nah-Shon Burrell squaring off with Chris Spang in a welterweight battle of prospects.
The event will take place at the HP Pavilion in San Jose with the main card airing live on Showtime beginning at 10:00 PM ET.
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Owned by J. Paul Reddam, I’ll Have Another is the only horse in a position to
become the first Triple Crown champion since Affirmed in 1978. The final race
in the series is the 1 1/2 mile Belmont Stakes on June 9.
I’ll Have Another, trained by Doug O’Neill, will again be ridden by Mario
Gutierrez in Saturday’s race. The pair will start from post nine as compared
to the 19 hole two weeks ago. In spite of his winning the Run for the Roses
the colt
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And the more you stumble across Klitschko-baiting phrases like “Chicken Kiev”
and over-the-top hyperbole like “bone-chilling knockout,” “path of
destruction” and “comatose heavyweight scene,” the more you wonder if this
Ontario-based Jason Abelson character might have come to the media relations
game after a failed stint writing infomercial scripts.
Then you actually speak to Donovan Ruddock.
And you quickly realize, if anything, that his chatter in the press release
was conservative by comparison.
“I’m a machine,” the Jamaican-born Canadian says, with a precise blend of
confidence, bravado and Caribbean-lilted menace. “I’m a 2012 killing machine.”
But lest you assume
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Azarenka, who was last week’s Madrid runner-up to Serena, blew past Israeli
Shahar Peer 6-1, 6-2 in a brisk 55-minute nightcap on the red clay at Foro
Italico. Peer failed to enjoy even one break-point chance in the predictable
setback.
Up next for Azarenka will be diminutive Slovak Dominika Cibulkova.
The ninth-seeded former No. 1 Serena had to come from behind to best former
top-10 Russian Nadia Petrova 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 in 2 hours, 9 minutes.
The 2002 Rome champion Serena, now 15-0 on clay
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Perhaps the most ironic element when looking at the way Joe Paterno lost his job as Penn State’s football coach after 46 seasons is that as a young man, he had his eyes set on law school.
The fallout in 2011 from the child sex-abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, who was an assistant on Paterno’s Penn State staff until 1999, prompted the university’s Board of Trustees to fire Paterno, then 84, with three games left in the regular season.
Paterno, who died Sunday at 85, was criticized for not going to law enforcement in 2002 once he was told by then-graduate assistant
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