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“This is becoming one of the biggest fights that can happen in boxing,” Bivol’s promoter says.

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Ten rounds while wondering while this weekend takes us one step closer to Katie Taylor-Amanda Serrano II …
10. How important is the undisputed title to Artur Beterbiev and Dmitry Bivol? That’s likely what will determine if that fight will happen in 2023—or ever. In the aftermath of his knockout win over Anthony Yarde last weekend, Beterbiev called for a showdown with Bivol.
“I want Bivol,” Beterbiev said.

The point guard is in his fourth season with the team.
Nets point guard Kyrie Irving has requested a trade and would like to be moved by the trade deadline on February 9th, The Athletic’s Shams Charania reports. If Irving isn’t traded, Charania reports he will not re-sign with the team in when he enters free agency this offseason.
In his fourth year with the team, Irving has played in 40 games for Brooklyn this year, averaging 27.1 points, 5.3 assists and 5.1 rebounds per game. The Nets currently have a 31-20 record, good enough for fourth place in the Eastern Conference and just 5.

Check out sports’ hottest seats, including the NFL Pro Bowl and NHL All-Star game.
All eyes may be on next week’s Super Bowl, but that doesn’t mean the rest of the sports world has gone quiet. College basketball is heating up, with a series of top-ranked matchups slated for the weekend, while the NHL holds its All-Star game and the NFL puts on the Pro Bowl. With so many exciting events on the schedule, there are plenty of opportunities to catch sports must-see contests in person.

Russell Wilson is nothing if not awkward, and we have to file this latest tweet under the ‘extremely awkward’ category, even for Mr. Unlimited.
Wilson took to Twitter on Friday to congratulate Geno Smith – the QB who replaced him, and excelled, in Seattle this season – for being voted the NFL’s Comeback Player of the Year by NFL on FOX fans.
Congrats, 7!

Congrats 7! https://t.co/xt9RgY4yDL
— Russell Wilson (@DangeRussWilson) February 3, 2023

Russell Wilson reaches out to Geno Smith for no reason at all
Wooooooooof.

According to data released by the NFL, there were 149 concussions during the 2022 regular season — an increase of 18% from the 2021 season.

After weeks of negotiations failed to find an agreement on an early move, Texas and Oklahoma are slated to join the SEC in 2025, sources told ESPN.

Three former U.S. snowboarders have sued their former coach, Peter Foley, the national federation, its former CEO and the USOPC for sex trafficking, harassment, and enabling and covering up repeated acts of sexual assault and misconduct.

Both the Longhorns and Sooners have made it clear they want to leave for the SEC a year early, but a lot of other moving parts make the situation messy.
On July 21, 2021, news broke that Texas and Oklahoma were planning to leave the Big 12 and join the SEC starting in ’25.
After the college football universe overcame the shock and awe of the news, it collectively cast doubt on the timing of the move: No way they’ll stay in the Big 12 for four more years, right?
A year and a half later, that question remains unanswered.

ESPN has spent the better part of 24 hours dragging poor Dan Orlovsky through the mud over his pretty awful list of top-5 NFL QBs of all time.
Seriously, Dan’s been trampled on by just about everyone, from Keyshawn Johnson to Stephen A. Smith.
And here he was thinking that running out of the back of the end zone was going to be the worst moment of his career.
Nope. It was, until Orlovsky put together this lightning rod of a list! Behold:

.@danorlovsky7‘s top five QBs of all time pic.twitter.com/wa5mwwTJMI
— First Take (@FirstTake) February 2, 2023

Oh dear god.

Dillon Brooks’s flagrant foul on Donovan Mitchell was another step in the wrong direction for Memphis.
It brings me truly no pleasure to say the Grizzlies are teetering on the edge between lovable challenger and incredibly annoying. And they are increasingly tipping toward the wrong direction.
I’ve had an appreciation for the Grizz going back to the Grit and Grind days of Mike Conley, Marc Gasol, Zach Randolph and Tony Allen. The current group has been a worthy successor to those franchise legends.