Latest - The All Blacks star loose forward Ardie Savea says he wants to play rugby league and a switch to the NRL was on the cards as early as next year.
Ardie Savea in action for the All Blacks. Photo: PhotoSportNZ
Speaking on The Ice Project podcast, hosted by former Warriors halfback Isaac John, Savea, said wants to play league in the future and has been inspired by the likes of code hopper Sonny Bill Williams.
Savea said he was ontemplating a switch to the 13-man code in 2021 but those plans were curtailed by the knee injury he suffered in the All Blacks' World Cup semi final loss to England.
Savea is contracted to New Zealand rugby until the end of the 2021 season.
Wilder will fight Fury again
Deontay Wilder will exercise his rematch clause in a bid to regain his WBC heavyweight belt from Tyson Fury after the Briton beat the American on Saturday, he has told The Athletic.
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Wilder and Fury fought to a split-decision draw in their first meeting in December 2018 but their rematch was a one-sided affair as the 'Gypsy King' took control early and never let up en route to a seventh-round stoppage.
The loss was the first for Wilder (42-1-1) while lineal heavyweight champion Fury improved to 30-0-1.
Wilder also told The Athletic his legs were weakened by the 45-pound costume of full dark armor and helmet that he wore to the ring to honor Black History Month.
Sports Illustrated, citing a source familiar with the contract, said the fight would take place by the end of July.
Earlier, WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn told Sky Sports an all-English fight between Joshua and Fury "will happen."
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Liverpool equal Man City record
Runaway English Premier League footbhall leaders Liverpool had to come from behind to beat lowly West Ham United 3-2 in a thrilling game and maintain their unbeaten home record.
Trailing 2-1 late in the second half, West Ham keeper Lukasz Fabianski was twice at fault as Liverpool equalled the record of 18 consecutive top-flight wins set by Manchester City in 2017.
Juergen Klopp's side now need 12 points from 11 games to make sure of their first league title in 30 years.
Defeat leaves the Hammers on 24 points from 27 games, a point behind Aston Villa in the safety zone.
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Australia back from the brink
Defending champions Australia returned from the brink of elimination to pip Sri Lanka but India underlined their title credentials with their second successive victory in the Women's Twenty20 World Cup in Perth.
Australia were stunned by India in Friday's tournament opener and the hosts looked patchy again as they edged out Sri Lanka by five wickets to keep alive their hopes of a fifth title.
Later at the same WACA Ground, India were much more clinical in their 18-run victory against Bangladesh.
The White Ferns second game is against India on Thursday.
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Basketball fans to gather to remember Kobe Bryant
Thousands of Kobe Bryant fans will gather in Los Angeles today to remember the late NBA basketball star and his daughter Gianna, nearly a month after their deaths in a helicopter crash sent shockwaves through the world of sports and beyond.
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Billed as a "Celebration of Life," the memorial at the Staples Center, Bryant's home arena during most of his storied 20-season career with the Los Angeles Lakers, follows a series of remembrances, including a private family funeral earlier this month.
Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter were among nine people killed in the accident while en route to a youth basketball tournament at which Kobe was planning to coach his daughter and her teammates.
Olympic flame ceremony to go ahead
Greek organisers of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic flame lighting ceremony in ancient Olympia next month say they will take extra measures to avoid the coronavirus' spread during the torch's months-long relay.
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The Olympic torch, a symbol of global peace and sportsmanship, will be lit at the site of the ancient Greek Games on March 12 before a seven-day relay in Greece then a handover ceremony in Athens to Japan on March 19.
It will then go on a relay around Japan ending with the Games' opening ceremony in Tokyo on July 24.
Hellenic Olympic Committee President Spyros Capralos said organisers had met with a health risk management company to be ready "in case anything happens".
The torch relay involves hundreds of torchbearers in Greece and around 10,000 in Japan. But as the torch is not handed between runners, but rather the flame of one lights the next, there is limited human contact.
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