General Sports 8-Hour Briefing
×MMA & Boxing
Francis Ngannou will return to action on May 16 as part of Jake Paul's Most Valuable Promotions' inaugural MMA fight card headlined by Ronda Rousey vs. Gina Carano. Jai Opetaia could be stripped of his IBF cruiserweight belt after defeating Brandon Glanton to win the inaugural Zuffa World cruiserweight title.
College Basketball
Notre Dame should be encouraged while Tennessee needs to worry heading into Selection Sunday. Power conferences continue dominating March as NIL money appears to have killed the upset, with Cinderella stories vanishing from the tournament landscape.
Golf
We rank the top 25 players in the 123-man field for the PGA Tour's flagship event at TPC Sawgrass. Jeremy Scott believes Golden Ace can successfully defend her Champion Hurdle title at the Cheltenham Festival.
Combat Sports
The BMF title headliner between Charles Oliveira and Max Holloway earned the lowest grade at UFC. James 'Jazza' Dickens faces Anthony Cacace in Saturday's WBA super-featherweight title fight in Dublin.
International Soccer
England will travel to Dublin to face Ireland in the opening match of the 2027 Six Nations. Ireland head coach Andy Farrell says his side will benefit from the pressure of needing a win against Scotland to secure the Triple Crown. Wales hope Tottenham defender Ashley Phillips could boost their World Cup qualifying hopes if they can persuade the 20-year-old to switch allegiance from England.
Rugby
Scotland will be without first-choice second-row pair Gregor Brown and Scott Cummings, winger Duhan van der Merwe and three others in Dublin. England head coach Steve Borthwick may make major changes for the trip to France after three straight defeats. Britain's Sky Brown becomes a skateboarding world champion for the second time after winning gold in a rain-disrupted park event in Brazil.
Winter Sports
Britain's Neil Simpson says "a couple of mistakes" cost him as he finishes fourth, one second outside of the medal places in Cortina. Para-alpine skier Varvara Voronchikhina wins the first Paralympic gold medal for Russia since 2014 with victory in the standing super G.
Motorsports
After a wild Australian Grand Prix weekend, speculation mounts about whether Max Verstappen could quit F1 as McLaren faces pressure. Sky Brown becomes a skateboarding world champion for the second time after winning gold in a rain-disrupted park event in Brazil.
College Football
Tampering, 201 and 301: What is considered OK, and what crosses the line in college football? As Scotland's players stood with hands on heads after what appeared to be a ruinous opening Six Nations defeat by Italy in Rome, a Wooden Spoon appeared a distinct possibility. A title challenge? No chance. But how did they go from brink of disaster to edge of glory?