A major title match for AEW Revolution has been confirmed after the results of Grand Slam Australia. Fans now know about Maxwell Jacob Friedman’s (MJF) next title defense.
Several top stars of the Jacksonville-based promotion were down under for Grand Slam 2026. The show featured several big-money title matches and some hard-hitting encounters. Major stars such as Friedman, Hangman Page, Jon Moxley, Toni Storm, Konosuke Takeshita, Kyle Fletcher, Andrade, and many more were in action during the event.
In the main event of the show, Max defended the AEW World Championship against Brody King. Despite King’s physical dominance, The Salt of the Earth managed to walk out with the win, continuing his title reign. Earlier in the night Hangman Page faced off against Andrade in a high-stakes one-on-one matchup. The winner of the match would go on to challenge the AEW Champion at Revolution. Page won the match with a brutal Buckshot Lariat and ended Andrade’s undefeated streak in AEW. With this win, Page is set to reignite his rivalry with MJF for the AEW title. The two men will face off in a high-profile championship match at Revolution 2026.
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MJF was confident of his chances at AEW Grand Slam Australia
The AEW World Champion was confident of beating Brody King ahead of their match. Despite a loss to the challenger on Dynamite in less than two minutes, MJF was sure of a win in Sydney.
During an interview, the star stated that he allowed himself to be distracted by Hangman Page during the match on Dynamite. However, the champ promised to be super focused during rematch, and claimed that Brody was not on his level.
Friedman held on to the AEW title for a record 406 days during his last title reign. It will be interesting to see how his current reign pans out in the coming months.
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During the World Cup warm-up between the France national football team and Colombia, Kylian Mbappé came on late and requested for the captain’s armband to be taken from N’Golo Kanté and given to him.
A post shared online described how it happened:
“Kylian Mbappé asked Rayan Cherki to take the France captain’s armband from N’Golo Kante while he was coming on against Colombia.
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Kante handed it over to Cherki to be given to Kylian.”
Kanté passed the armband on without any issue, with Rayan Cherki involved in the exchange.
The moment led to mixed reactions.
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Some fans criticised Mbappé, especially as Kanté was marking his 35th birthday, while others pointed out that it is standard for the team’s official captain to take the armband once he comes onto the pitch.
France went on to win the game 3-1, with goals from Désiré Doué and Marcus Thuram.
Do you think what he did was wrong? Should he have just left the armband with Kanté?
INDIANAPOLIS — Solo Ball isn’t just a good shooter. He’s a great one. A net-shredder in the flesh. His 99 3-pointers last year — the fourth-most in a single season at UConn — prove that loud and clear. But with a Final Four clash with No. 3 seed Illinois looming in less than 48 hours, Ball admitted that he’s compromised right now due to the lingering impact of a painful wrist injury suffered in mid-December. Ball harkens back to a 15-day stretch in December where he landed awkwardly on his wrist against Butler, sat out against DePaul and re-aggravated the injury against Xavier.
UConn won all three games, but it came at a cost, and that debt is still being paid three full months later.
Ball saunters into UConn’s jam-packed locker room at Lucas Oil Stadiun on Thursday with a grin, but his heavily-taped wrist is impossible to ignore.
Even knowing the cost, Ball chose to manage the pain and deal with the mental anguish of losing a bit of control over a once-pure jumper.
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Ball is shooting just 29% from 3-point range this season. That’s far below his 41% threshold a season ago. He’s still somehow splashed 71 triples, which ranked fifth in the Big East, but the inconsistencies on a game-by-game basis — depending on how the wrist feels — can be equally maddening and illuminating as he navigates playing a hard game without his go-to weapon.
Ball bounces up and down
UConn’s Solo Ball shooting has dropped since a wrist injury on Dec. 15 vs. Butler. Since then Ball’s scoring average has dropped 3.7 points and he’s shooing 7.1 percentage points.
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“I just want to stay on the court,” Ball said. “I’ve had to learn how to move on and try to affect the game in other ways. I’ll do whatever it takes to win.”
Ball went 0-for-5 from downtown, but Dan Hurley doesn’t believe UConn pulls off the epic come-from-behind, Elite Eight win over Duke without Ball’s steal and old-fashioned 3-point play with 3:42 to trim Duke’s advantage to just 67-65. Oh, and he chipped in with a huge offensive rebound with 91 ticks left that earned a trip to the charity stripe to put even more game pressure on the Blue Devils.
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Demary got the deflection, Alex Karaban made the extra pass and Braylon Mullins brought the rain for the game-winner, but those two winning plays in the clutch from Ball gave UConn major life, and he didn’t need to make a single jumper to do it.
“He’s such a threat, and he’s so capable,” Hurley said. “He played so great against Illinois and at MSG (Madison Square Garden, he made some shots, and that’s always good for a player going in versus an opponent because that matters to a player’s psyche. But he’s really guarded well for us in the Sweet 16 and in the Elite Eight, and when he’s not making shots, he creates so much spacing for the others. As long as he guards and rebounds and makes efforts and plays as hard as he can, he’s still like a 30-minute-a-game, incredibly valuable player for us.”
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Ball’s home zip code is usually out floating around the 3-point stripe, but he’s tried to crash the offensive glass with more fervor this year. After shooting just 48% on layups a year ago, Ball is up to 58% at the tin in 2025-26. Playing off two feet has helped Ball draw even more fouls. He’s already shot 27 more free throws than a year ago.
Ball don’t lie
Solo Ball’s wrist injury has impacted the types of 3-pointers he is trying this season vs. last.
Solo Ball’s shooting, explained
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Unguarded catch-and-shoot 3-pointers
50%
36%
Guarded catch-and-shoot 3-poiters
33%
22%
Pull-up 3-pointers
43%
29%
Slowly but surely, Ball has tried to become more of a complete player, even if the 3-point decline gets the noise.
“How many hustle plays can I make just trying to do that? It’s just something I got to do more going into these next two games,” Ball says.
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UConn guard Solo Ball had to sit out after injuring his wrist vs. Butler in December.
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That grittiness from Ball has permeated throughout UConn’s locker room. Point guard Silas Demary Jr. is dealing with a nasty sprained ankle, but he’s on the floor. Forward Jaylin Stewart has dealt with a right knee injury, but he’s back on the floor at the most critical juncture of the season.
“It just speaks to our coach and our culture,” Stewart told CBS Sports. “None of us wants to let the guys down. And Solo been that way his whole life. Never wants to let his teammates down. He always wants to be out there fighting with us. He’s a tough guy. Nobody’s 100% this time of the year, so if you if you can get out there, you got to.”
Everyone has bumps and bruises as the 39th game of the season nears, but UConn is unquestionably the most beat-up team in the Final Four, with two linchpins like Ball and Demary operating below the peak of their powers.
“Winning means a lot to us, and just to have our best guys playing through injuries, knowing that no matter what we want to be on the floor and make those plays, I think it’s a testament to this program,” Demary told CBS Sports. “If we win it all, we’ll be remembered as guys that gutted it out and were able to play through injury no matter what.”
CommBank Stadium will play host to Monday’s
Round 5 NRL game between Parramatta Eels and
Wests Tigers. The game kicks off at 4:05 pm with Parramatta Eels heading into the game as favourites with the bookmakers. Continue reading for our in-depth preview of the Parramatta Eels vs.
Wests Tigers
game and give you our free tips and bets.
Wests enter as underdogs but bring a level of unpredictability that could challenge their opponents. Their attacking approach has shown promise, while defensive consistency remains a focus. Their opposition will look to assert control early and limit opportunities. Expect a competitive contest, with intensity high across the middle. For Wests, this presents a chance to challenge expectations and deliver a strong performance.
Parramatta Eels vs Wests Tigers Teams
Eels team: 1. Joash Papali’i 2. Bailey Simonsson 3. Brian Kelly 4. Sean Russell 5. Josh Addo-Carr 6. Jonah Pezet 7. Mitchell Moses 8. Jack Williams 9. Ryley Smith 10. Junior Paulo 11. Kelma Tuilagi 12. Kitione Kautoga 13. Dylan Walker 14. Tallyn Da Silva 15. Sam Tuivaiti 16. Charlie Guymer 17. Luca Moretti 18. Jack de Belin 19. Apa Twidle 20. Ronald Volkman 21. Teancum Brown 22. Araz Nanva
Tigers team: 1. Jahream Bula 2. Faaletino Tavana 3. Sunia Turuva 4. Heamasi Makasini 5. Luke Laulilii 6. Jock Madden 7. Adam Doueihi 8. Terrell May 9. Apisai Koroisau 10. Fonua Pole 11. Samuela Fainu 12. Kai Pearce-Paul 13. Alex Twal 14. Latu Fainu 15. Sione Fainu 16. Royce Hunt 17. Alex Seyfarth 18. Bunty Afoa 19. Jeral Skelton 20. Tristan Hope 21. Tony Sukkar 22. Patrick Herbert
Tiger Woods reportedly called Donald Trump shortly before the legendary golfer was arrested for DUI.
Woods was involved in a car accident in Jupiter, Fla. on Friday. In footage shared earlier this week, Woods told officers that he was briefly distracted by his phone before he clipped the trailer of a vehicle in front of him. Several pills were discovered in his pocket. Woods was arrested and charged with misdemeanor DUI and refusal to submit to a lawful test. He pleaded not guilty to the charges on Tuesday.
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TMZ shared police bodycam footage from the scene on Thursday that showed Woods talking into his cell phone away from officers. “Thank you so much. All right. You got it. Bye,” Woods said into his phone as an officer approached.
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Walking back toward the crash with an officer, Woods said he was “just talking to the president.” Trump commented on the crash shortly after it happened, speaking to reporters outside of Air Force One. The president called Woods “a very close friend of mine.”
“I feel so bad. He’s got some difficulty — there was an accident, and that’s all I know,” Trump said. “He’s an amazing person, an amazing man. But some difficulty. I don’t want to talk about it.”
Woods is dating Trump’s former daughter-in-law, Vanessa Trump. Vanessa Trump has five children with Donald Trump, Jr., to whom she was married from 2005 to 2018.
Shakur Stevenson has soared up the pound-for-pound rankings in recent months, but despite his usual confidence, the Newark southpaw has admitted that he is not the best fighter on the planet at present.
Throughout last year, the debate for the best active boxer raged on and was left undecided, with fans unsure which of Terence Crawford, Oleksandr Usyk or Naoya Inoue deserved to be recognised as the pound-for-pound king.
However, with Crawford now retired, Usyk being 39-years-old and Inoue taking on his toughest test yet, there may soon be a time where a new contender can break through that threshold and be considered for top spot.
Now, Stevenson is seeking further success, expected to reign in the super-lightweight scene for years to come and hoping to become the undisputed champion of the division.
Yet, despite his recent plaudits, Stevenson recognises that he is not yet worthy of being named as the best boxer on the globe. Instead, on X, he stated that Usyk deserves the number one position in the pound-for-pound ratings.
“You’re one of my fav fighters in the sport right now champ the number 1 spot belongs to you @usykaa. My time is coming.”
Stevenson has also been linked to a move up to the welterweight scene and a possible clash with Ryan Garcia, where he could become the second-youngest quintuple champion in boxing history after Oscar De La Hoya.
Yuvraj Singh shone bright in the Indian cricket team at a time when the side had several giants. From Sachin Tendulkar to Virender Sehwag, MS Dhoni to Zaheer Khan, the first decade-and-a-half of this millennium saw some of the biggest names in Indian cricket play together. In the midst of this, Yuvraj Singh was one of the chief architects of India’s two biggest triumphs – the 2007 T20 World Cup and the 2011 ODI World Cup.
It was also a period when MS Dhoni led the side with great alacrity. This meant that Yuvraj Singh never got the chance to lead the team on a long-term basis.
After Yuvraj’s playing career ended, his father, Yograj Singh, was quite vocal about MS Dhoni’s role in Yuvraj not getting the captaincy.
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In a Sports Tak podcast, whose teaser was released on Thursday, Yuvraj Singh said: “I would like to apologise to Kapil Dev and MS Dhoni.”
He was also asked: “Do you feel bad when you listen to the interviews?” Yograj Singh’s photo appears when the query is made. Possibly responding to that question, Yuvraj says: “I told dad, it’s not OK.” Yuvraj’s ‘apology’, thus, may be in this regard.
Yograj Singh, a renowned cricket coach in Punjab, is known for making controversial statements about former players. In 2025, he said he wanted to kill Kapil Dev for the then captain dropping him from the team during the 1980s.
“When Kapil Dev became captain of India, North Zone, and Haryana, he dropped me for no reason,” Yograj said on the YouTube channel ‘Unfiltered by Samdish’.
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“My wife (Yuvi’s mother) wanted me to ask Kapil questions. I told her that I would teach this bloody man a lesson. I took my pistol out and went to Kapil’s house in Sector 9. He came out with his mother. I abused him a dozen times. I told him, because of you I have lost a friend, and for what you have done, you will pay for it.
“I told him, ‘I want to put a bullet through your head, but I am not doing it because you have a very pious mother who is standing here.’ I told Shabnam, ‘Let’s go.’
“That was the moment I decided I would not play cricket – Yuvi will play.”
On MS Dhoni and other former players, Yograj had once said: “I talk about Bishan Singh Bedi, Kapil Dev, MS Dhoni. I can talk about people whom I have been with. They have treated people like shit. Jo galat hai woh galat hai. Two wrongs cannot make one right. I say this openly – our cricketers and the team were destroyed by our captain.
Canada won its seventh game in a row at the men’s world curling championship and stayed in the hunt for a direct berth in the semifinals with a 9-2 win over Germany in Thursday’s afternoon draw.
Matt Dunstone’s Winnipeg-based team improved to 9-2, tied for second with Scotland with one draw left.
The top two teams after Thursday’s final draw earn semifinal spots, while the next four must play in a qualification round.
Sweden, which is idle in the final draw, leads at 10-2. The Swedes closed their preliminary round with an 11-2 rout of Czechia in the afternoon draw.
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Canada plays Norway in the final draw, while Scotland faces Czechia.
In other afternoon draw results, playoff-bound Italy beat winless Norway 7-4 and Japan defeated South Korea 9-3.
Real Madrid are planning to sign a new midfielder in the summer, as they get set to finally replace Toni Kroos/Luka Modric. The likes of Rodri Hernandez, Vitinha and Kees Smit have been linked with moves to the Bernabeu, but in recent weeks, one name in particular has started to gain a lot of prominence in this regard: Enzo Fernandez.
Fernandez is increasingly keen to leave Chelsea this summer, and if he does push to do so, Real Madrid are expected to rekindle the interest they showed after his fine performances at the 2022 World Cup. The 25-year-old would be open to joining Los Blancos, and he’s not the only one that wants to see him in white for the start of next season.
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Franco Mastantuono is teammates with Fernandez in the Argentine national team, and as per comments to DSports (via ED), he would certainly welcome his compatriot with opens arms if he ends up at Real Madrid this summer.
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“Of course I would like him to come (to Real Madrid).”
Mastantuono could be on his way out of Real Madrid
But even if Fernandez does join Real Madrid in the summer, there is no guarantee that he would be teammates with fellow River Plate alumni Mastantuono. Bernabeu officials are considering letting the teenage forward leave on loan for the 2026-27 season, as they want him to gain prominence elsewhere before returning to the club in a better place – as has, and will, be the case with Endrick Felipe.
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Whether that happens or not remains to be seen, and this is also the case for Fernandez’s possible move to Real Madrid. Chelsea’s delicate financial situation, which saw them record the biggest one-season loss in the Premier League history earlier this week, could mean they look to sell on the Argentine midfielder when the summer transfer window opens at the start of July.
The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has appointed Akeem Ishola Busari as the new head coach of Nigeria’s U-17 girls’ team, the Flamingos.
Busari’s appointment was confirmed on April 2, 2026, marking a new beginning for one of Africa’s most successful youth teams. He replaces Bankole Olowookere, who guided the team to a bronze medal at the FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup in 2022.
The new coach now faces the task of building on that success while introducing fresh ideas to the team.
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Nigeria is preparing for the qualifiers for the 2026 FIFA U-17 Women’s World Cup, which will be hosted in Morocco. After receiving a bye in the first round, the Flamingos will play either Niger Republic or Guinea in May in a two-legged tie.
The schedule is tight, leaving little room for mistakes. If the team qualifies, they will face stronger opponents in July. Busari will also need to build a new squad, as players at this level often move on quickly.
Another key task for the coach is to restore confidence in the team. The Flamingos were knocked out in the round of 16 at the last World Cup after a heavy defeat to Italy, a result that still affects the team.
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Busari brings a wealth of experience to the role. He is a CAF A-licensed coach and has worked in both men’s and women’s football in Nigeria and abroad.
Before his appointment, he was Technical Adviser at Pacesetter Queens in Ibadan. He has also coached clubs such as Shooting Stars, Crown FC, Gateway United, and Bayelsa Queens. At Shooting Stars, he helped the club gain promotion to the top flight during the 2008/2009 season.
He has also won several State FA Cup titles with Gateway United and Shooting Stars. At Bayelsa Queens, he served as Technical Director, gaining valuable experience in both coaching and administration.
Outside Nigeria, Busari has coached clubs in the Benin Republic, including Espoir FC and JSP Benin.
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He is known for an attacking style of play, with his teams pressing high and moving the ball quickly. This style could suit the Flamingos, who are known for their speed and energy.
Off the pitch, Busari has also contributed to coaching development. A graduate of Lead City University, he has worked with the Lagos State Coaches Association, helping to train young coaches.
His new role with the Flamingos will focus on developing young players, maintaining Nigeria’s strong record in youth football, and preparing players for the senior national team.
The Tigers earned a crucial 3-0 win over Stockton Town in their bid to avoid relegation from the Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division.
Jonathan Reynolds MP hailed the power of community when he visited Hyde United for Non-League Day.
The government Chief Whip met the club’s volunteers, and even had a go at helping out himself, as the Tigers earned a crucial 3-0 win over Stockton Town in their bid to avoid relegation from the Pitching In Northern Premier League Premier Division.
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Almost 600 were in attendance at the Project Solar Stadium on a day that put the lower levels of the pyramid in the spotlight, and Reynolds was full of praise for those who keep the club running.
“It’s a wonderful way to recognise the volunteers and what they do for a club like this,” he said.
“We are so blessed in this area. I represent three different non-League clubs and what they have all got in common, as well as a bit of rivalry, is that they are run by volunteers and community power.
“It is not just about sport, it is about local identity, local community. Maybe sometimes people take for granted the depth of the English football pyramid.
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“In a place like this we do recognise and value what these clubs bring and the contribution these people make.”
The Tigers have battled against the drop all season but are in with a chance of survival heading into the final month.
Victory over play-off chasing Stockton was a huge boost to their chances but commentator Ian Burke believes the club is about far more than just the 90 minutes every Saturday.
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Non-League clubs like Hyde are fuelled by volunteers, with league sponsors Pitching In providing fans an easy way to find opportunities to help out at their nearest club through its Volunteer Hub.
And Burke hopes Non-League Day may have encouraged a few more fans to discover the lower leagues and maybe even volunteer themselves.
“Non-League Day is important. It exposes people who aren’t used to the non-League game to it,” he added.
“It is almost like the biggest minority sport in the country. People know it’s there, but it is totally different from what you see in the Premier League.
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“Non-League football runs on volunteers. There’s people who grumble constantly who work on the gates or around the ground. Everyone who works here does it for the love of it.”
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