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HAPPY WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH!

****CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 SUPER BOWL LIX NFL CHAMPIONS, THE PHILADELPHIA EAGLES! THE EAGLES DOG-WALKED THE KANSAS CITY CHIEFS, 40 – 22, ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2025, WINNING THEIR SECOND SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONSHIP IN FRANCHISE HISTORY.

 

***** LET’S GO E - A - G - L - E - S!!!!!!!!!!!

 

****CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2025 GIRLS AND BOYS PUBLIC LEAGUE BASKETBALL CHAMPIONS, AUDENREID GIRLS AND IMHOTEP BOYS BASKETBALL TEAM!

 

*** CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CATHOLIC LEAGUE BOYS AND GIRLS CHAMPIONS, FATHER JUDGE AND NEUMANN GORETTI!

 

***THANK YOU, AND BEST WISHES IN YOUR RETIREMENT TO WNBA’S DIANA TAURASI AFTER 20 SEASONS, SPENDING HER ENTIRE CAREER IN PHOENIX!

 

NBA

 

THE PHILADELPHIA 76’ERS ARE TRULY STRUGGLING, WITH A RECORD OF 20 WINS AND 38 LOSSES. THE TEAM IS IN ELEVENTH PLACE IN THE EASTERN CONFERENCE. UNLESS THE TEAM CAN MAKE A RABBIT JUMP OUT OF A HAT, I THINK IT IS TIME TO START PLANNING FOR THE 2025 - 2026 SEASON. STARTING WITH LETTING JOEL EMBIID BE GREAT SOMEWHERE ELSE.  ON FEBRUARY 28, 2025, THEY FINALLY DECIDE THAT EMBIID WILL BE OUT FOR THE REST OF THE SEASON!  GREAT, NO MORE DISTRACTIONS, LETS GET BACK TO BASKETBALL.

 

76’ERS MARCH SCHEDULE:

 

3/1 WARRIORS @ 8:30 PM

3/3 PORTLAND @ 7:00 PM

3/4 MINNESOTA @ 8:00 PM

3/6 BOSTON @ 7:30 PM

3/9 UTAH @ 7:30 PM

3/10 ATLANTA @ 7:30 PM

3/12 TORONTO @ 7:30 PM

3/14 INDIANA @ 7:00 PM

3/16 DALLAS @ 1:00 PM

3/17 HOUSTON @ 8:00 PM

3/19 OKLAHOMA @ 8:00 PM

3/21 SAN ANTONIO @ 8:00 PM

3/23 ATLANTA @ 8:00 PM

3/24 NEW ORLEANS @ 8:00 PM

3/26 WASHINGTON @ 6:00 PM

3/29 MIAMI @ 7:30 PM

3/30 TORONTO @ 7:30 PM

 

MEN’S NCAA: 2025 MARCH MADNESS

 

SELECTION SUNDAY, MARCH 16TH AT 6PM.

FIRST FOUR: MARCH 18 - 19

FIRST ROUND MARCH 20 - 21

SECOND ROUND MARCH 22 - 23

SWEET 16 MARCH 27 - 28

ELITE EIGHT MARCH 29 - 30

 

WOMEN’S NCAA: 2025 MARCH MADNESS

 

SELECTION SUNDAY, MARCH 16TH

FIRST FOUR MARCH 19 - 20

FIRST ROUND MARCH 21 - 22

SECOND ROUND MARCH 23 - 24

BIRMINGHAM REGIONAL MARCH 28 31

SPOKANE REGIONAL MARCH 28 - 31

 

PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES:

 

SPRING IS NEAR AND BASEBALL SEASON IS FAST APPROACHING.  THE PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES WILL HOLD THEIR SEASON OPENER ON MARCH 31ST AGAINST THE COLORADO ROCKIES.

 

PHILLIES MARCH SCHEDULE:

 

3/1 TIGERS @ 1:05 PM

3/2 ORIOLES @ 1:05 PM

3/4 YANKEES @ 1:05 PM

3/5 TIGERS @ 1:05 PM

3/6 RAYS @ 1:05 PM

3/7 PIRATES @ 1:05 PM

3/8 BLUE JAYS @ 1:05 PM

3/9 ORIOLES @ 1:05 PM

3/10 TWINS @ 1:05PM

3/11 RED SOX @ 1:05 PM

3/13 BRAVES @ 1:05 PM

3/14 YANKEES @ 6:35 PM

3/15 TIGERS @ 1:05 PM

3/16 ORIOLES @ 1;05 PM

3/17 BLUE JAYS @ 1:05 PM

3/18 PIRATES @ 1:05 PM

3/19 YANKEES @ 1:05 PM

3/20 BRAVES @ 1:05 PM

3/21 TWINS @ 1:05 PM

3/22 YANKEES @ 1:05 PM

3/23 TIGERS @ 12:05 PM

3/24 RAYS @ 12: 05 PM

3/27 NATIONALS @ 4:05 PM

3/29 NATIONALS 4:05 PM

3/30 NATIONALS 1:35 PM

3/31 ROCKIES @ 3:05 PM

 

BOXING IN MARCH

March 1: Brooklyn, New York (PBC PPV on Prime Video)

Title fight: Gervonta Davis vs. Lamont Roach Jr., 12 rounds, for Davis' WBA lightweight title


Title fight: Jose Valenzuela vs. Gary Antuanne Russell, 12 rounds, junior welterweights, for Valenzuela's WBA junior welterweight title

Title fight: Alberto Puello vs. Sandor Martin, 12 rounds, for Puello's WBC junior welterweight title

Yoenis Tellez vs. Julian Williams, 12 rounds, junior middleweights


Jarrett Hurd vs. Johan Gonzalez, 10 rounds, middleweights


Jonathan Lopez vs. Alex Dilmaghani, 10 rounds, junior lightweights


March 1: Fajardo, Puerto Rico (DAZN)

Subriel Matias vs. Gabriel Valenzuela, 12 rounds, junior welterweights

 

Alfredo Santiago vs. Javier Fortuna, 10 rounds, junior welterweights

Nestor Bravo vs. Xolisani Ndongeni, 10 rounds, junior welterweights

 

Pryce Taylor vs. Trevor Kotara, 6 rounds, heavyweights

March 7: London (Peacock)

Title fight: Natasha Jonas vs. Lauren Price, 10 rounds, for Jonas' WBC and IBF women's welterweight titles and Price's WBA welterweight women's title

Title fight: Caroline Dubois vs. Bo Mi Re Shin, 10 rounds, for Dubois WBC women's lightweight title

Karriss Artingstall vs. Raven Chapman, 10 rounds, women's featherweights

 

Chloe Watson vs. Jasmina Zapotoczna, 10 rounds, women's flyweights

 

Cindy Ngamba vs. Kirstie Bavington, 4 rounds, middleweights

 

Francesca Hennessy vs. Carla Camila Campos Gonzales, 8 rounds, women's junior featherweights

 

March 12: Sidney, Australia

Keith Thurman vs. Brock Jarvis, 10 rounds, junior middleweights

 

Michael Zerafa vs. Besir Ay, 10 rounds, middleweights

 

Cesar Mateo Tapia vs. Sergei Vorobev, 10 rounds, middleweights

 

Linn Sandstrom vs. Yoselin Fernandez, 10 rounds, women's junior bantamweights

 

Tonga Tongotongo vs. Ralph Etienne, 6 rounds, light heavyweights

 

Jason Fawcett vs. Kohei Hatanaka, 6 rounds, welterweights

 

Sonny Knight vs. Alessandro Grippa, 5 rounds, junior middleweights

 

Charlie Kazzi vs. Nort Beauchamp, 5 rounds, lightweights

March 13: Tokyo

Title fight: Kenshiro Teraji vs. Seigo Yuri Akui, 12 rounds, for Teraji's WBC flyweight title and Akui's WBA flyweight title

Title fight: Anthony Olascuaga vs. Hiroto Kyoguchi, 12 rounds, for Olascuaga's WBO flyweight title

Title fight: Shokichi Iwata vs. Rene Santiago, 12 rounds, for Iwata's WBO junior flyweight title

Tomoya Tsuboi vs. Boonrueang Phayom, 8 rounds, bantamweights

 

March 14: Montreal (ESPN+)

Erik Bazinyan vs. Steven Butler, 10 rounds, super middleweights

Title fight: Mary Spencer vs. Ogleidis Suarez, 10 rounds, for Spencer's WBA women's junior middleweight title

Jhon Orobio vs. Sebastian Ezequiel Aguirre, 8 rounds, junior welterweights

 

Luis Santana vs. Jonathan de Pina, 8 rounds, lightweights

 

Leila Beaudoin vs. TBA , 10 rounds, women's junior lightweights

 

Wilkens Mathieu vs. TBA, 8 rounds, super middleweights

 

Alexandre Gaumont vs. TBA, 8 rounds, middleweights

 

March 15: Liverpool, England

Title fight: Nick Ball vs. TJ Doheny, 12 rounds, for Ball's WBA featherweight title

Andrew Cain vs. Charlie Edwards, 12 rounds, for the vacant British bantamweight title

 

Brad Strand vs. Ionut Baluta, 10 rounds, junior featherweights

 

Jadier Herrera vs. Jose Macias Enriquez, 10 rounds, lightweights

 

Jack Turner vs. Ryan Farrag, 10 rounds, junior bantamweights

 

Boma Brown vs. TBA, 6 rounds, heavyweights

 

Jack Power vs. Jose Aguirre, 6 rounds, middleweights

 

Stephen Clarke vs. Dmitri Protkunas, 6 rounds, middleweights

 

William Birchall vs. TBA, 4 rounds, featherweights

 

Lucas Biswana vs. TBA, 4 rounds, welterweights

 

Lewis Lawton vs. Artjom Spatar, 4 rounds, junior middleweights

 

Leighton Birchall vs. Laszlo Bernath, 4 rounds, junior featherweights

 

March 22: Las Vegas (Amazon Prime Video)

Title fight: Sebastian Fundora vs. Chordale Booker, 12 rounds, for Fundora's WBC and WBO junior lightweight titles

Elijah Garcia vs. Terrell Gausha, 10 rounds, middleweights

Jesus Alejandro Ramos Jr. vs. Kevin Salgado, 10 rounds, junior middleweights

March 22: Sidney (DAZN)

George Kambosos Jr. vs. Daud Yordan, 12 rounds, junior welterweights

Title fight: Skye Nicolson vs. Tiara Brown, 10 rounds, for Nicolson's WBC women's featherweight title

Title fight: Cherneka Johnson vs. Nina Hughes, 10 rounds, for Johnson's WBA women's bantamweight title

Imam Khataev vs. TBA, 10 rounds, light heavyweights

 

Jayden Buan vs. Fidelis Laia, 4 rounds, junior welterweights

 

March 29: Las Vegas (ESPN/ESPN+)

Title fight: Mikaela Mayer vs. Sandy Ryan, 10 rounds, for Mayer's WBO welterweight title

Title fight: Brian Norman Jr. vs. Derrieck Cuevas, 12 rounds, for Norman's WBO welterweight title

Bruce Carrington vs. Enrique Vivas, 10 rounds, featherweights

 

March 29: Cancun, Mexico (DAZN)

William Zepeda vs. Tevin Farmer, 12 rounds, for Zepeda's (WBC) interim lightweight title.​

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By Danette Clement

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