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Don’t get too excited, Conor. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File) As the drumbeat for a Floyd Mayweather-Conor McGregor fight grew progressively louder over the past two years - culminating in Wednesday’s announcement that the boxing match between the pugilist and the mixed martial artist would take place Aug. 26 in Las Vegas - one constant remained: The bout would be interesting in theory but a bloodbath on paper, with Mayweather wiping the floor with McGregor. And indeed, the early odds reflect that. (For the gambling uninitiated, -700 means one would have to wager $700 to win $100 on a Mayweather victory. It implies that the boxing champion has nearly a 90 percent chance of winning.) But why? McGregor is seen as one of UFC’s best punchers. Shouldn’t that translate from the octagon into the boxing ring? Here’s why it might not. He’s never seriously trained as a boxer before this year. There really isn’t much more to say about this. Boxing has been Mayweather’s occupation fo...

Cristiano Ronaldo accused of four accounts of tax fraud (googllies) Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of defrauding Spain's tax office of 14.7 million euro (£12.9 million) in unpaid taxes. Madrid's regional state prosecutor accused Ronaldo of four accounts of tax fraud from 2011-14. It said the Real Madrid forward "took advantage of a business structure created in 2010 to hide from fiscal authorities income generated in Spain from image rights". A statement from the prosecutor said Ronaldo used what it deems a shell company in the Virgin Islands to "create a screen in order to hide his total income from Spain's Tax Office". The prosecutor also said that Ronaldo "intentionally" did not declare income of 28.4 million euro (£25 million) made from the cession of image rights from 2015-20 to another company located in Spain. Cristiano Ronaldo opens the scoring at The Champions League final 2017   (Photo: ROWAN ...

Antoine Griezmann has signed a new contract with Atletico Madrid (Adam Davy/EMPICS) Antoine Griezmann apologised for any misunderstanding his comments about his future may have caused in recent months after extending his Atletico Madrid contract until 2022. Griezmann signed a one-year contract extension with Atletico on Tuesday to bring a definitive end to one of the year’s longest-running transfer sagas. The France international had looked on course to join Manchester United for a fee reportedly in the region of 100 million euros (£87million) - the release clause in his Atletico contract – with Griezmann at one point saying there was a “six out of 10” chance of him moving to Old Trafford this summer. Twitter However, in what appeared to be a series of mixed messages from Griezmann while transfer speculation rumbled on, the former Real Sociedad forward also seemed to suggest he saw his future at Atletico as well. In the end, the likelihood of any summer move to Unite...