THE GAA begins in earnest this weekend with the start of the National Football Leagues with everyone seemingly playing catch-up to the all- conquering Dubs. The reigning All-Ireland and National League champions are 5/4 to retain their Division One title and it will take something special to deny Jim Gavin’s men this season. Yet, the […]
Get on Tyrone at 4/1 to top Division One
Adams: ‘Antrim must improve for trip to Tipp’
ANTRIM manager Gearoid Adams insists his side cannot dwell on their disappointing Dr McKenna Cup campaign ahead of Sunday’s National League opener away to Tipperary (Thurles, 2pm). The Saffrons suffered three successive defeats to St Mary’s, Monaghan and Fermanagh in the pre-season competition with 14-point defeat to the Ernemen last month particularly damming as Antrim […]
Frampton shows his class after Las Vegas defeat
IT was not to be for Carl Frampton at the MGM Grand Garden Arena on Saturday night as ‘The Jackal’ was narrowly edged out by Leo Santa Cruz in their WBA featherweight rematch, writes David Mohan in Las Vegas. The scores read 115-113 on two of the cards with the third judge scoring it a […]
Frampton and Santa Cruz ready for battle as fans raise the roof at the MGM
THE MGM Grand Garden Arena will feel like a little corner of Belfast tonight when Carl Frampton defends his WBA featherweight title against Leo Santa Cruz. You could have been forgiven for thinking you were in the Odyssey Arena at yesterday’s weigh-in with the thousands of travelling Frampton fans creating a racket and the atmosphere […]
Frampton’s humble approach has helped him win over the public says Barry
BARRY McGuigan pulls out his phone and shows a picture of him and Carl Frampton. The pair have been snapped together a million and one times, but this is no ordinary photo. It’s from the night at the National Stadium back in 2007 when he first spotted Frampton boxing at the EU Championships and identified […]
McGuigan predicts Santa Cruz will try to make a fast start
SHANE McGuigan predicts Leo Santa Cruz will try and make a fast start when the Mexican attempts to reclaim the WBA featherweight title from Carl Frampton at the MGM Grand tomorrow night. In their first meeting in Brooklyn back in July last year, it was Frampton who made the much better start, staggering ‘El Terremoto’ […]