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The main event of Saturday’s pay-per-view should not only give Usman and Masvidal nice payouts, but also set up the winner for another major bout in the near future. UFC president Dana White has indicated that, if Usman wins, a highly anticipated rematch with Colby Covington would be next on the schedule. “[Usman is] at a point in his career now where he’s looking at, ‘Who’s next again?’ He’s coming back and gonna be facing guys that he’s already beat,” White said (via MMA Junkie)....

After anti-doping authorities confirmed that the 15-year-old had failed a drug test before the Winter Olympics, the Kremlin issued a statement on Friday morning. “We are convinced that this is some kind of misunderstanding,” said spokesman Dmitry Peskov. According to the news agency Tass, he also told reporters: “Our sports officials have certain questions about the timing of testing Valieva’s samples.” Outside Russia, the case is raising different questions: over allowing a Russian team to compete at the Games despite the country’s ban for state-sponsored doping....

Kane, 24, broke the record for most Premier League goals in a calendar year with his hat-trick in Spurs’ 5-2 win over Southampton on Boxing Day taking his tally to 39. The England international scored 56 goals for Tottenham and England in 2017, two more than Messi. But Kane, previously labelled a one-season wonder, said he needed to continue producing for campaigns to come to reach the incredible levels set by Barcelona star Messi and Madrid forward Ronaldo....

Premier League Team of the Week Mauricio Pochettino’s men are just four points adrift of the Premier League leaders with four games to play this season. A win at London Stadium would cut that deficit to one, with Chelsea not in action until Monday – when they host Middlesbrough. Kane said playing before their title rivals was an advantage, and he hopes Spurs can capitalise. “We just have to try to finish strong,” he said....

The Tottenham Hotspur striker scored all his side’s goals in their victory in Cyprus, netting with each foot and a header. Tottenham to win & Kane to score first 3/1 The 24-year-old has now achieved the same feat as compatriots Andrew Cole, Michael Owen, Wayne Rooney, Alan Shearer, Danny Welbeck and Mike Newell. It is his sixth hat-trick in 2017, taking his tally for the calendar year up to 34 from 30 games for Spurs....

The university firmly “rejects the assertion” of Adidas and Adidas employees participating in a pay-for-play scheme with the university and expressed their full support for Bill Self, who has a head coach responsibility charge in the allegations. Self, who has spent 16 seasons at the helm of Kansas released a statement following the notice. In total, Kansas was charged with five Level 1 violations, including a lack of institutional control....

Perry Ellis, Kansas, sophomore power forward
2013-14 scoring average: 16.8
2011-12 scoring average: 5.8
Best performance: 24 points, 9 rebounds in 94-83 win over Duke
The most common refrain around the KU campus this summer, more common even than “Blurred Lines,” was this: “I wouldn’t be surprised if Perry Ellis leads the Jayhawks in scoring.” Well, guess what? He’s getting a basket a game more than preseason All-American Andrew Wiggins....

Around 15 people are reported to have been hurt when a suspect started firing at a line of people waiting to get into the 9ine Ultra Lounge near Highway 40 and South Noland Road around 11:30 p.m. on Sunday, January 19. As reported by KSHB, the club was hosting a sold-out celebration event on the night in question after the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC Championship earlier that day....

In a tweet sent Thursday, Kansas State student Jaden McNeil mocked George Floyd, who died May 25 after a now-former Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck for more than eight minutes. MORE: LeBron James says NFL owes Colin Kaepernick an apology Wildcats defensive back Tee Denson condemned McNeil’s post, saying he would “refuse to play for a program that tolerates ignorance.” Fellow Kansas State players Joshua Youngblood, Malik Knowles and Walter Neil Jr....

The game is at the United Center in Chicago. Tip off is scheduled for 2:20 p.m. ET, and the game will be televised on CBS. Kansas (31-6) is the lone No. 1 seed left in the 2022 NCAA tournament, and the Jayhawks advanced to the Elite Eight after a 66-61 victory against No. 4 Providence. Bill Self, who has led the Jayhawks to three Final Four appearances, has this team under control....

So it was for the Miami Hurricanes, who took a 35-29 lead into the half against No. 1 Kansas. They had things under control, with Kameron McGusty having a big game and Kansas frequently looking lost offensively. Then, the second half started. MORE: Watch NCAA Tournament games live on fuboTV (free trial) Kansas rallied back to outscore Miami 47-15 in the second half en route to a 76-50 win, with the Hurricanes living in foul trouble....

On Thursday, West posted a video on Twitter of himself in a one-sided interview detailing his conversation with the former president. West said he visited Mar-a-Lago to ask Trump to be his 2024 presidential running mate. According to West, the two shared an array of conversation topics, varying widely, from West claiming far-right conservative Nick Fuentes was a “loyalist” to Trump’s pardoning of former federal prisoner Alice Johnson. The video is one of three cryptic messages West posted Thanksgiving night to his newly reinstated Twitter account....

Headliners of the Awaken event include Cindy Jacobs, who asked her followers to rise up against the Equality Act (designed to protect people against discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity), and Guillermo Maldonado, who wrote in his book Spiritual Deliverance that homosexuality could be “a generational curse, or even a demonic attack while in the womb.” Lou Engle, who has voiced support for Ugandan lawmaker’s attempts to introduce anti-homosexuality laws which would include the death penalty, was also due to headline, but according to AZ Central, Engle has been removed from the list of speakers....

The Nigerian civil war of 1966 finds Kapuscinski “driving along a road where they say no white man can come back alive. I was driving to see if a white man could, because I had to experience everything for myself.” Frenzied rebels have set up roadblocks of burning logs; they beat and rob Kapuscinski and douse his Peugeot with gasoline, shouting “Burn the car!” He escapes, but at the next roadblock the rebels douse Kapuscinski with benzene....

Andre Gray’s powerful effort with 10 minutes left on the clock was fumbled in by Valdes and Burnley leapfrogged Middlesbrough in the table as a result of their sixth home win of the season. But despite Valdes’ mistake ensuring Middlesbrough’s wait for an away Premier League victory extends to eight matches, Karanka felt it was unfair to criticise the former Barcelona star. “We win as a team and lose as a team,” Karanka told reporters....

According to a witness, the shooting broke out during a karaoke night event at the Sandbar Sports Grill in Cutler Bay, Florida. Zachary Ramos told WPLG-TV that two men got into an argument over whose turn it was to sing on stage next. The argument turned into a brawl that spilled into the parking lot outside the bar, Ramos said. Then both of the men pulled out guns and started firing....

In a Tuesday appearance on Newsmax, McDaniel said the disappointing midterms was the result of Republican-on-Republican attacks. “Republicans are cannibalizing each other,” McDaniel said. “The vitriol and the hate within our party when we are factionalizing…Republicans are saying I don’t like this Republican so much that I’d rather let the Democrat win, and that is a losing recipe.” She then used Arizona as an example, suggesting that Kari Lake, the state’s former Republican gubernatorial candidate, discouraged and alienated some Republicans from voting with her rhetoric....

Kate, now the Princess of Wales, has adapted and modified her style over the past decade, lengthening skirts, embracing vintage silhouettes and, most recently, turning her attention to bold monochromatic looks with strong comparisons to another fashion minded royal—the late Queen Elizabeth II. Throughout her historic seven-decade reign, the queen transformed from a young woman to striking modern matriarch, never ahead of fashion but never behind it either. Though well known for different fashion moments throughout her reign, perhaps Queen Elizabeth’s most potent style legacy is her rainbow wardrobe which was adopted over the last decades of her life....

One notable occasion where she has made a habit of doing this is at the annual Easter service held at St George’s Chapel, Windsor. Each year, prior to the pandemic, the movements of Queen Elizabeth II were very strict. For Christmas she would move her royal operations to Sandringham, in Norfolk in eastern England. For summer she would be based at Buckingham Palace, and at Easter the monarch and her staff would move to Windsor castle, west of London, for what was known as the “Easter Court”....