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Taking over T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada once again, the UFC put on UFC 296 with its latest pay-per-view event in Las Vegas. In the main event, Leon Edwards successfully put together his second UFC Welterweight Championship defense against Colby Covington.Building off of a heated prefight news conference earlier this week, Edwards met Covington in the Octagon and dominated for a technical victory. Shutting down Covington, Edwards controlled the fight even handling the fight on the ground. The result was a Unanimous Decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-46) for champion Leon Edwards (22-3, 1 NC), leaving Covington (17-4) with three losses in his last five fights.In the co-main event, Alexandre Pantoja successfully defended his UFC Flyweight Championship in a Unanimous Decision over Brandon Royva...

According to ESPN, the Los Angeles Dodgers landed the monumental $700 million USD 10-year signing of Shohei Ohtani with assistance from the late Kobe Bryant. The report shares that during a three-hour meeting between Ohtani and his team with the team's upper management at Dodger Stadium on December 1, a video package with a message from the Los Angeles basketball icon was shown."Now, more than three years after his death in a helicopter crash, Bryant's reputation as the ultimate competitor spans all sports, and his message to Ohtani registered the same posthumously in 2023 as it would have then: There's no better place in the world to win than Los Angeles, and there's no better team in baseball to win with than the Dodgers," ESPN's Alden Gonzalez and Jeff Passan wrote. "This was their best...