Author: Michael

Move over, A.J. Brown and Aaron Rodgers. George Pickens has just joined you atop the NFL’s pile of unfinished offseason business.
With the rest of the league readying to shore up remaining roster holes following last week’s draft, Pickens news barged into the cycle on Monday — thanks to multiple reports that he has not signed his franchise tag. This despite multiple prior reports heading into the first day of the draft, which indicated that the Dallas Cowboys wideout intended to sign.

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LAS VEGAS – Cody Durden remembers living in a Christmas-less trailer park, which is one reason Saturday’s UFC Fight Night 274 win hit differently.
“Big underdog,” Durden told MMA Junkie and other reporters after the victory. “Nobody believed in me. Eight-to-one underdog, I came out here, got the call on Monday afternoon. The only person that believed in me was me, and that’s the only person that had to believe in me. I got in there and got it done.”
Durden, 35, entered the fight on a four-fight losing skid.

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Ronnie O’Sullivan led 8-3 and 9-4 but lost 13-12 in an epic last-16 tie against John Higgins [PA Media]
Former world champion Neil Robertson has called for a controversial chalk used by Ronnie O’Sullivan to be banned, saying most other players “hate it” and that it “makes an absolute mess of the table”.
O’Sullivan, 50, is one of only a handful of players on the World Snooker Tour (WST) to still use the traditional Triangle Chalk.

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Four-time winner John Higgins produced a sensational recovery from 8-3 and 9-4 down to defeat Ronnie O’Sullivan 13-12, but world number one Judd Trump was eliminated on a thrilling day at the World Championship.
Trump lost 13-12 to Iranian qualifier Hossein Vafaei in their last-16 tie at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield on Monday evening.
Seven-time champion O’Sullivan was seeking an eighth title to set a new outright record in the modern era, and twice held five-frame leads in Sunday’s second session.

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