The tradition of throwing winning coxes in the River Thames could be revived this year – PA/Joe Giddens
The Boat Race tradition of throwing winning coxes into the Thames will not be blocked by organisers on Sunday after encouraging late water tests.
Dry weather in recent weeks and a new “super sewer” have improved readings from last year, when event officials explicitly advised rowers against diving into the river.
This time, Oxford and Cambridge crews are being privately encouraged to make up their own minds as an inevitable row brews around sickness risks.
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The UFC is back in South Florida for UFC 314, its fourth pay-per-view of the calendar year, and the popular “Embedded” fight week video series is here to document what’s happening behind the scenes.
UFC 314 (pay-per-view, ESPN, ESPN+) takes place Saturday at Kaseya Center in Miami.
In the headliner, former featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski (26-5 MMA, 13-4 UFC) takes on Diego Lopes (27-6 MMA, 6-1 UFC) for the belt vacated when Ilia Topuria moved up to lightweight.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — When it comes to the Michigan football offensive line, the Wolverines appear to have a pretty solid group that could be the starting five, but the coaches are still tweaking, looking for the best five. Sometimes, that means moving players around.
Our mid-spring prediction is that, from left to right, it would go Evan Link, Giovanni El-Hadi, Greg Crippen, Nathan Efobi, and Andrew Sprague.
Justin Fields signed a two-year contract with the Jets as a free agent last month and he’s guaranteed $30 million under the terms of that deal, but Fields’s history as a starter with the Bears and Steelers hasn’t been successful enough for many to be sold that he’s the long-term solution at the position.
That uncertainty is why there’s still been plenty of speculation about the Jets taking a quarterback at some point in the draft later this month and that prospect came up during Fields’s press conference at the Jets’ facility on Wednesday.
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Daniel Jacobsen started a stir in the last month of the season with hopeful fans before game.
The 7-4 true freshman’s season was cut as short as he is tall. Just a minute into his second game, he collided with a Northern Kentucky player and a couple days later a lower leg injury diagnosis would have him ruled out for the rest of the season.
That didn’t stop people from watching Jacbosen towards the end of the season when he was cleared for basketball activities and back in the lay up lineup and thinking ‘what if?’.
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A week into FIFA’s “Ticket Packs” promotion and already some feel the deal isn’t as sweet as presented.
Earlier this month, FIFA unveiled a ticket promotion which looks on the level — until you read the fine print.
Dubbed “ticket packs,” FIFA’s latest offer gives purchasers of tickets to this year’s Club World Cup early access to a presale for tickets to next summer’s FIFA World Cup. There are two options to choose from in a straightforward standard ticket pack and the “super” pack.
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Walker is one of the best players in the NFL Draft, bar none. But where exactly do you play him?
If there’s any player in the 2025 NFL Draft consensus big board that I absolutely love, it’s Georgia’s Jalon Walker. An EDGE/LB hybrid, Walker turned his one year starting at Georgia into a season worthy of the Butkus award, notching 6.5 sacks and being the fulcrum of a Georgia defense that could stem fronts and change the picture a lot. Now, Walker enters the NFL as one of the most coveted prospects in the class.
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