Author: Tim Runn

By Dan Ambrose: Keith ‘One Time’ Thurman says fans shouldn’t mind paying $74.75 to see him face Mario Barrios in his comeback on FOX Sports pay-per-view on February 5th because they’ll be seeing a “stacked card” from top to bottom. The event organizers could be asking for trouble in charging $74.75 for Thurman’s comeback. If One Time were fighting someone like Errol Spence Jr, Terence Crawford, or Gervonta Davis, it wouldn’t be a big deal to ask that much, but he’s facing former paper champion in Barrios, who is coming off a KO loss to Tank. (Photo credit: Ryan Hafey/Premier…

LUBBOCK, Texas — The Texas Tech Men’s Tennis team will travel to College Station this weekend for the ITA Kickoff, hosted by Texas A&M. The Red Raiders will open the weekend with No. 12 Arizona Wildcats on Saturday at 2 p.m. from the Mitchell Tennis Center.    If victorious, the Red Raiders will advance to the Round of 32 against the winner of No. 19 Texas A&M and No. 23 UCLA on Sunday.   INSIDE THE MATCHUPMATCHUP: Texas Tech (3-0) vs. Arizona (2-1) DATE: January 29LOCATION: College Station, Texas (Mitchell Tennis Complex) TIME: 2 p.m.INSIDE THE MATCHUPMATCHUP: Texas Tech (3-0) vs. No. 19 Texas…

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Raise your hand if you had Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers and Dak Prescott all on the couch for the NFC Championship Game. At the end of the regular season, it would’ve been the longest of longshots that the NFC West would hog both sidelines of the conference title game with the Los Angeles Rams and San Francisco 49ers. But here we are, with the NFC’s No. 4 and No. 6 seeds meeting at SoFi Stadium having pulled off three postseason upsets between them. The 49ers, especially, are the Cinderella at this weekend’s NFL ball. The only wild-card team still standing,…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Memphis Grizzlies star guard Ja Morant is officially an All-Star.In his third year in the NBA, Morant will make his first NBA All-Star appearance, and he will make it as a starter for the Western Conference.Memphis has not boasted an All-Star Starter since Marc Gasol in the 2016-17 season.Morant, 22, has been on a tear this season, averaging 25.8 points per game during the first 37 games of the season, two years after winning Rookie of the Year honors.Memphis’ biggest star will share the court with Western Conference starting teammates Steph Curry, LeBron James, Andrew Wiggins, and…

Getty Images As the last racetrack remaining from NASCAR’s original schedule in 1949, Martinsville Speedway is steeped in tradition in ways that very few other racetracks can claim to be. But as it continues to consider and adapt to the demands of modern racing, Martinsville Speedway is making a notable change to one of its two NASCAR Cup Series races.On Thursday, Martinsville Speedway announced that its spring race, set for April 9, has been shortened to 400 laps. The speedway in small-town Virginia attributed changing the race’s length to accommodating a 7:30 p.m. ET start time. The length of the…

Getty Images Major League Baseball issued a memo to teams on Thursday indicating that minor-league players will not be required to receive the COVID-19 vaccination ahead of the 2022 season, according to ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Other on-field personnel, including managers and coaches, will need to be “up to date” with their vaccinations in order to have direct contact with said players, however.In a follow-up tweet, Passan provided a statement from a league official noting that “reasonable accommodations” for exemptions could and would be made on an individual basis, based on state law. Those exemption requests may entail “bona fide” religious…

SMITHFIELD TOWNSHIP, MONROE COUNTY (WBRE/WYOU) — Snowshoeing is an outdoor sport that allows you to easily walk through snow and hike all kinds of trails. Wilkes-Barre’s 42nd annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade date announced Shawnee Inn and Golf Resort is working with snowshoeing business, Naturfi, so the inn’s guests or anyone in the area can book a hiking excursion on the resort’s grounds. This was the first full week the inn is doing it and they will offer snowshoeing on Thursdays and Saturdays. All trails are for beginners and anyone as young as four years old can try it out.…

Story Links INDIANAPOLIS – Dimitrios Karousos of the University of Indianapolis men’s soccer team and Dana Youssef of the UIndy women’s soccer team have each been selected as the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in their respective sport. This marks back-to-back seasons Karousos and Youssef have earned this prestigious honor.The league selects one student-athlete in each Conference sport to be designated the GLVC Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The award is based upon athletic accomplishments, both team and individual, and academic performance in the season upon which the award is based. Each GLVC member has the opportunity to nominate one…

Eoin Morgan to miss final two T20I clashes with West Indies after sitting out Wednesday night’s meeting, during which Moeen Ali took over the captaincy. Last Updated: 27/01/22 5:55pm Eoin Morgan in action against the West Indies (Photo by Gareth Copley/Getty Images) England captain Eoin Morgan has been ruled out for the final two matches of the Twenty20 series against the West Indies due to a “low-grade quadriceps injury”, the England and Wales Cricket Board has confirmed.  Morgan missed the third T20I meeting in Barbados on Wednesday night after feeling “pain in his right quad during the warm-up”, with Moeen Ali…