Ireland to make Eden Park return for All Blacks Test
Ireland will return to Eden Park to face New Zealand as part of next year's inaugural Nations Championship.
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How to watch Jimmy V Classic: Florida-UConn leads men’s side, Iowa-Iowa State in women’s
Madison Square Garden gets another college basketball test when Florida, UConn, BYU and Clemson drop in for the Jimmy V Classic. On Tuesday, Dec. 9, the men’s doubleheader headlines ESPN’s V Week for Cancer Research, the annual partnership with the V Foundation that turns game broadcasts into a rolling fundraiser for cancer research in honor of former NC State coach Jim Valvano. The women’s leg of the annual showcase tips off the following night in Ames, Iowa, for a high-profile showdown between
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‘Close to a disaster’: Olympic hockey rink construction saga is history repeating itself
The late scramble to get the hockey venues ready for the Milan Cortina Olympics may have the NHL concerned and the hockey world talking, but it doesn’t come as a surprise to those who were on the ground the last time NHL players traveled to Italy for the Winter Games. Twenty years ago in Turin, construction delays went right down to the wire and left no time to stage a proper test event. In fact, organizers even found themselves crudely reconfiguring a section of the lower bowl at Palasport Olim
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