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It represented the completion of a remarkable rise to fame for McGregor who only debuted in the UFC two years ago – Aldo, meanwhile, had been the champion for six years and hadn’t lost in a decade.

And Sturridge certainly has an appropriate role model in the shape of Dubliner McGregor, hailing the newly-crowned UFC Featherweight champion as a “genius”.

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I’m fresh. “When I go up for that lightweight belt, I will still be a featherweight champion also”.

“I feel for Jose”, McGregor added.

The melding of Google Street View and Star Wars was created by a fan of the movie, Popular Science reports. A lot of people were pretty excited about it, but unfortunately when Disney bought Star Wars, the developer LucasArts was shut down and the game was cancelled.

Both champion Jose Aldo and interim champion Conor McGregor hit the featherweight limit of 145 on the nose Friday, paving the way for their title fight at the MGM Grand Garden Saturday in the main event of UFC 194.

The comments from Richard Olson, newly appointed USA special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, follow an audio message from the Taliban rebutting widespread reports that Mansour had been seriously wounded in a shootout.

“I wasn’t lying when I said I had a hell of a lot of adversity to overcome [last time]”, said McGregor, for whom this is likely to be his last fight at featherweight before a planned move up to the lightweight division. This fight has been brewing for over a...

“That came later for other reasons”, O’Brien joked. I think a lot hinges on how soon they get Justin Houston back, but Eric Berry, coming back from beating cancer (!), is playing out of his friggin’ mind right now, so I’m not really sure anybody...

And in a bit of a fun twist, one of McCaffrey’s backfield mates is Sanders’ son, Barry Sanders Jr. The third is a do-it-all quarterback for the top-ranked, and only undefeated team, in the country.

Billed as “America’s Game”, Navy (9-2) has defeated Army (2-9) a series-best 13 straight times and 15 of the last 16 games. If you know anyone in the armed service, you know there’s more than a fair share of good-natured ribbing between the branches,...

“The Force Awakens”, the first “Star Wars” film in 10 years, also stars the saga’s old hands Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher and Mark Hamill as well as newcomers John Boyega and Oscar victor Lupita Nyong’o. “And then there’s just a...

If you haven’t heard, the seventh in the movie’s series is coming out this week.

“I have a lot of hope, and trepidation”, said Jeff LaGreca, who co-organized the for Wednesday. And indeed, the embargo specifically requests that critics refrain from detailing spoilers or plot details in their reviews and coverage.