2011 May at BetLM

New Champion Hopkins Isn’t Done Yet

MONTREAL — Decades ago, a poor Bernard Hop­kins ran through the streets of his home­town in North Philadel­phia to evade the police, or some­one who was try­ing to catch him for some­thing he had just done. A cou­ple decades later, Hop­kins ran those same streets again as a multi-millionaire boxer intent upon mak­ing history. He did just that on Sat­ur­day when he pounded out a unan­i­mous deci­sion over Jean Pas­cal before 17,560 fans at the Bell Cen­tre to become, at 46 years, four months and six days, the old­est man to ever win a world box­ing cham­pi­onship. With the... 

Team Lesnar Blog: Chris Cope on “the Ultimate Fighter 13,” Episode No. 8

As episode No. 8 opens, I end up walk­ing up on my quar­ter­fi­nal oppo­nent, Shamar Bai­ley, dis­cussing his back injury. I hon­estly didn’t hear any of that. I just assumed he was fine after his opening-round win. Shamar actu­ally had a lit­tle cut over his eye from that fight that I never knew any­thing about. The back thing, I never knew any­thing about. I will say this, usu­ally when you have a really bad back injury, you’re not even walk­ing that well after a fight. Maybe he was hurt­ing, but he called me out. He specif­i­cally wanted to fight me, and he made it very... 

Fernandes Thrilled with Step Forward

Fer­nan­des ‘thrilled’ with step forward Tony Fer­nan­des is singing the praises of all at his Team Lotus after Heikki Kovalainen qual­i­fied P15 for Sunday’s Span­ish GP. Team Lotus arrived at the Cir­cuit de Catalunya with an upgraded pack­age for their T128, which Kovalainen put to good use on Saturday. The Finn posted a 1:25.874 to book his place in Q2 for the first time where he bet­ter his time by four-tenths to qual­ify in 15th place, ahead of both Force Indias. “I am so thrilled. It is almost unbe­liev­able but this is a great day for Team Lotus and just reward... 

Escovedo Travels Hard Road to UFC Debut

For most of his life, Cole Escovedo has been a get-things-done type of per­son. He’s the first to admit that not all of the things he has got­ten done in his life have been good, but he’s clearly a doer. When his cat was stuck in the branches near the top of a 40-foot pine tree, Escovedo kicked off his shoes, shim­mied to the top, popped the cat into his shirt and made his way safely back to the ground. But as 2007 dawned, Escovedo’s life spi­raled out of con­trol. A one-time World Extreme Cage­fight­ing feath­er­weight cham­pion, fight­ing seemed out of the ques­tion. Walk­ing... 

Roy Jones Looks to Salvage Glory Against Lebedev

MOSCOW —Look­ing to stop his stel­lar career from fiz­zling out, Roy Jones Jr. takes on Denis Lebe­dev in Moscow on Saturday. Jones is chal­leng­ing Russia’s top cruis­er­weight to prove his worth: “If you can whoop me, whoop me.” The 42-year-old Jones has been in decline since his mid-30s, prompt­ing a return to cruis­er­weight, per­haps as part of a hope­ful quest to add the only title to elude him between mid­dleweight and heavyweight. But the American’s poor form in los­ing his last two fights to Danny Green and Bernard Hop­kins, and the jar­ring power of his more... 

Hamilton Challenges Red Bull Pace

By Andrew Ben­sonBBC Sport at the Cir­cuit de Catalunya High­lights — Span­ish GP sec­ond practice McLaren’s Lewis Hamil­ton sprung a sur­prise by run­ning Red Bull close for the fastest time in prac­tice for the Span­ish Grand Prix. Hamil­ton split the Red Bulls, with Mark Web­ber set­ting the pace just 0.039 sec­onds faster than the McLaren. It was an encour­ag­ing sign for McLaren, who have brought a num­ber of new parts to Barcelona to improve performance. Hamilton’s team-mate Jen­son But­ton was fourth, ahead of the Fer­rari of Fer­nando Alonso. All the teams... 

MMA Fighters React to Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage’s Death

Pro wrestling leg­end Randy Poffo, aka Randy “Macho Man” Sav­age died Fri­day morn­ing in Florida after report­edly suf­fer­ing a heart attack while dri­ving. He was 58. Imme­di­ately after TMZ broke the news Fri­day after­noon, #rip­ma­choman became a trend­ing topic on Twit­ter, and many MMA fight­ers used the social media tool to express their feel­ings on the pass­ing of one of pro wrestling’s best. A col­lec­tion of their tweets can be found below. Rest in Peace to Macho Man Randy Sav­age. One of my biggest inspi­ra­tions. God BlessYou will be missed very much…... 

Vitali Klitschko to Fight Tomasz Adamek in Poland

FRANKFURT, Ger­many —Vitali Klitschko’s man­age­ment says the WBC heavy­weight champion’s title defense against Tomasz Adamek of Poland will take place at the foot­ball sta­dium in the Pol­ish city of Wroclaw. The Sept. 10 fight has been set for months but the venue had not been decided. The Pol­ish chal­lenger is 44–1, while Klitschko takes a 42–2 record into the bout. Klitschko’s younger brother Wladimir takes on Britain’s David Haye in Ham­burg on July 2.  

The Preakness 2011

Whether you race by horse or car, shoot hoops or pucks, this week­end is a sports lover’s dream! Lines­Maker has the best odds avail­able for all the excit­ing events tak­ing place in the next few days. A Week­end to Remember Not only are we going to see the NHL and NBA Con­fer­ence Finals, but it’s also time for the sec­ond jewel of the Triple Crown to be placed — The Preak­ness Stakes are here! Check out our horse sec­tion for odds on this and other major horse races. If you’ve got the Need for Speed, then you gotta know that Sat­ur­day the NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race... 

Change of Opponents? I’m Ready

It’s never easy switch­ing from one oppo­nent to another, but you work it out. I was sup­posed to be fight­ing another fighter next Sat­ur­day at UFC 130, but now I’m fight­ing Matt Hamill at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas and am ready to go to war. Thi­ago Silva was my orig­i­nal oppo­nent, but he was later pulled from the fight and then replaced by Hamill. So, basi­cally, I went from focus­ing on an aggres­sive Muay Thai striker to a strong wrestler. Maybe that is big dif­fer­ence in style to a lot of peo­ple, but I’ve been used to this kind of thing through­out my career...