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After nearly four years since his last fight, the lightweight is ready to erase the taste of defeat and reestablish himself among the division’s top title contenders.

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Sage Northcutt last fought in May 2019. Amid much excitement, riding a three-fight UFC win streak, that is when Northcutt made his debut for ONE Championship—and was promptly knocked out in 29 seconds by Cosmo Alexandre.
“That didn’t go the way I wanted,” says Northcutt. “Losing has definitely given me some extra drive.

Novak Djokovic’s dad, Srdjan, has responded to a video showing him posing with tennis fans holding a Russian flag at the Australian Open shortly after his son’s win over Russian Andrey Rublev. In his response, Srdjan explains that he will not be attending his son’s semi-final match against Tommy Paul on Friday night.
A group of fans held up Russian flags, which are banned at the tournament, outside of the arena following Djokovic’s win over Rublev. Video shows Srdjan posing with a man holding a Russian flag with Vladimir Putin’s face plastered on the front of it.

The assistant coach spent one year with the Hurricanes.
The University of Miami has fired offensive coordinator Josh Gattis following his first season with the team, the program announced Friday.
Gattis was a fast riser in the coaching industry, starting with a season as Alabama’s co-offensive coordinator in 2018, helping the Crimson Tide to a national championship game appearance. He left Alabama for Michigan the following year and spent three seasons in Ann Arbor, which included winning the Broyles Award for top assistant in 2021.

College basketball is loaded with talented big men across the country, but who is the best of the best? Andy Katz separates the top bigs into tiers.

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Plus: The Clippers are rolling. It’s about time.
First came the announcement of the 2023 NBA All-Star starters. In the East, we have Kyrie Irving, Donovan Mitchell, Jayson Tatum, Kevin Durant, and Giannis Antetokounmpo; in the West, it’s Stephen Curry, Luka Doncic, Zion Williamson, LeBron James, and Nikola Jokic. Shaq is very upset that there is no longer a spot specifically dedicated to a center. Personally, I think they got these starters right for once, even if there are hairs to split over Joel Embiid’s absence. Oh, well.

A Bengals-Eagles Super Bowl matchup is the betting favorite at SI Sportsbook, while three Super Bowl outcomes are tied for the best odds.
It’s time to start placing your Super Bowl LVII bets, and if you’re already picking a winner in the championship round why not pick two?
This weekend, a new AFC and NFC champion will punch their tickets to the big game and SI Sportsbook has odds for the big game’s exact matchup and outcome.
There are only four teams left—Chiefs, Bengals, Eagles, 49ers—meaning there are four possible Super Bowl LVII matchups with eight possible outcomes.

Josh Gattis’ time with the Miami Hurricanes didn’t last long.
The Hurricanes announced Friday morning that Gattis has been shown the exit after a terrible 5-7 season.
Gattis won the Broyles Award in 2021 for the top assistant coach in college football when he was with the Michigan Wolverines. Now, after a single season with the Hurricanes, he’s gone.

Miami announces that OC Josh Gattis has been fired. He won the Broyles Award in 2021 for his work at Michigan. Miami’s offense never got in synch in 2022.

For Steve Kerr and the 2022 NBA champions, their recent trip to D.C. doubled as a policy summit—and marked an evolutionary shift.
Steve Kerr awoke last May 24 with the typical worries of an NBA coach in the midst of the playoffs.
His Warriors held a three-games-to-nothing lead over the Mavericks in the Western Conference finals. A trip back to the Finals was in sight. But Stephen Curry had been pressed into heavy minutes to get there. They’d just lost a key defender to injury. And the Mavericks, powered by the precocious Luka Dončić, were young, feisty and relentless.

The Blues are approaching the transfer market like no team has before, but will the club’s limitless spending pay off in the long run?
Todd Boehly is a man with a lot of ideas and, since he fronted the Clearlake takeover of Chelsea last year, he has rarely been shy in expressing them. Very few of those ideas so far have demonstrated much understanding of football, its culture or how it is played, but just because a lot of what he has said has been naive or clumsy does not mean that all his ideas are necessarily bad. Which brings us to Chelsea’s transfer policy.

The Ohio State Buckeyes are sleeping on stacks of cash after the past fiscal year.
During the fiscal year 2022, which runs from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022, the Buckeyes generated $251.6 million of athletic revenue, according to The Columbus Dispatch. The number marks a record for the athletic program down in Columbus.
Ohio State made a record amount of revenue during fiscal year 2022. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images)
In the history of OSU athletics, the Buckeyes had generated at least $200 million of revenue just three times.