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Tom Aspinall: UFC champion signs with Eddie Hearn’s Matchroom agency

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🚀 Discover this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: UFC heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall has signed a contract with boxing promoter Eddie Hearn's new talent agency.The 32-year-old Englishman has been the standout performer in the UFC's heavyweight division in recent years, with seven of his eight wins ending in the first round.The move comes two weeks after boxer Conor Penn left Hearn's Matchroom promotion to join Dana White's Zuffa Boxing.Hearn has now launched the 'Matchroom Talent Agency' which will 'nurture the careers of athletes by managing their brand and building their reputation'.However, Aspinall's deal…

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Wafcon 2026 was postponed just 12 days before its start in Morocco

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💥 Explore this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ahead of the CAF announcement, the BBC spoke to former Super Falcons captain Desire Oparanuzi, who expressed her deep disappointment at the repeated setbacks for women's football on the continent.“I'm very concerned and I would say I'm disappointed that this keeps happening in women's football,” she told BBC Sport Africa. “During Covid, Wafcon was postponed [but] The men went on to play the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations in Cameroon.“I think it's because it's women's football, people don't really give it much importance,” she said.…

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Kelly Hodgkinson leads Great Britain’s gold medal hopes at the IAAF World Indoor Championships

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✨ Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Jeremiah Azzo will look to retain his title in the men's 60m, while 200m silver medalist Amy Hunt joins British record holder Dina Asher-Smith - competing at the World Indoor Championships for the first time since 2016 - in the women's 60m.Josh Kerr, the 2023 world champion and 2024 Olympic silver medalist in the 1,500 metres, will try to reclaim the 3,000 meters title he won in Glasgow two years ago. World Indoor 800m silver medalist Georgia Hunter-Bell, whose bronze in the 1500m at last…

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Six Nations 2026: Wales’ Botham receives a baton from Sir Ian after an unfortunate incident

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💥 Check out this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Botham will play his 20th international match on Friday in his international career, which has witnessed a lot of activity.He made his debut against Georgia in the 2020 Autumn Internationals, but came out cold from the summer of 2021 for the 2024 Six Nations.A knee injury denied Botham the chance to make a first-team run under Steve Tandy in November and he feared the worst when his phone rang in January despite strong form for Cardiff.“When we get the call, we sometimes say we're…

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Championship: Managers react to Premier League extending Championship qualifiers

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💥 Check out this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: ✅ **What You’ll Learn**: Neil Warnock is the most successful manager in the playoffs since they were first introduced in 1987, winning four promotions and believes it will encourage more teams who may have previously thought their season was over.He told BBC Sport: "I thought it was a bad thing when it first came about but it's turned into a good thing - certainly for me anyway. I've finished every position and gotten a promotion so I don't think it matters."“For the middle teams in the table after…

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Ireland v Wales: Caelan Dorris insists hosts are ‘nowhere near’ full potential despite England’s record win

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🔥 Read this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: Ireland captain Cailan Doris says his side are “nowhere close” to reaching their full potential as they prepare to face Wales after a record win away to England. Andy Farrell's side will hope to beat Wales in Dublin on Friday (20:10 GMT) and set up a Six Nations Triple Crown decider at home to Scotland on March 14. But Doris insists Ireland still have plenty of work to do despite scoring a record 42 points away to England two weeks ago in an impressive performance.…

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Kim Helberg: A former teacher who has a Premier League goal with Middlesbrough

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💥 Explore this must-read post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: Hellberg's opportunity came at a club called Kemstad in the seventh tier of Swedish football.He jokes that he was the 12th pick and was put in charge of a team that included some of his best friends.But proving himself is something Helberg later did consistently during his 15 years in the dugout.He worked his way up the ranks, dispelled myths about his lack of a successful playing career, and won promotions in the divisions before landing a job in the Swedish top flight, in 2021,…

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Championship qualifiers: English Premier League clubs vote in favor of holding a six-team playoff

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💥 Read this insightful post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: English Football League clubs have voted to expand the Championship qualifiers from four to six teams.The new system is similar to the format used in the National League and will be introduced for the 2026-2027 season.This means that teams ranked third to eighth will compete for promotion to the Premier League.The clubs finishing third and fourth will qualify directly to the semi-finals, while the quarter-finals will be played as a one-match match with fifth place at home versus eighth and sixth places hosting seventh.The semi-finals…

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Australian Grand Prix: Norris, Russell, Verstappen, Hamilton – and will it be good? Main storylines for Formula 1 of 2026

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🔥 Read this trending post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 📌 **What You’ll Learn**: The new rules come with a significant degree of risk even if they actually succeed in achieving their primary goal.When Formula 1 was designing the new engines, the idea was to attract more car manufacturers to the sport, especially the Volkswagen Group.So the engines were simplified in their structure, and the electrical part of the engine became more important.As a result, Audi entered the sport, acquiring the Sauber team. Its official debut this season marks the first time the VW Group has entered Formula 1.…

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Rahul Dravid and Ravichandran Ashwin set to take on the Scottish franchise in the European T20 Super League

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🔥 Check out this awesome post from BBC Sport 📖 📂 **Category**: 💡 **What You’ll Learn**: The ETPL is run in collaboration with the cricket boards of Ireland, Scotland and the Netherlands.Bollywood actor and film producer Abhishek Bachchan is a part owner of the league in association with Rules Sport Tech, a private Indian company.As BBC Sport reported earlier this year, the franchises were sold for £11.1 million ($15 million) over 10 years.Teams will have a total salary budget of £1.1 million ($1.5 million) per season, with the inaugural tournament taking place from August 26 to September 20.The ETPL is…

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