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Get live fight-by-fight results from UFC 138: Leben vs. Munoz. Always thinking of the future, Jason (Shotgun) Young owned his house when he was 21. Now the English featherweight is building the foundation for his UFC career. That means hard work and sacrifice. Young lost his UFC debut to rising star Dustin (The Diamond) Poirier at UFC 131 in Vancouver in June. But the former plasterer acquitted himself well in the loss and was rewarded with a fight Saturday against Japanese veteran Michihiro Omigawa at UFC 138 in Birmingham, England. Veteran Chris (The Crippler) Leben faces Mark (The Filipino Wrecking Machine) Munoz in the main event at the LG Arena. To get ready for Omigawa, Young (8-4) left his girlfriend and newborn to train in North America. The 25-year-old was away for six weeks, hitting the road just six weeks after baby Zayne came along. "It was really hard to leave him and go away and train — because Ive only known my son probably half of his life now," Young said. "It was really hard, but Im doing everything for him." Just making it to the UFC has been a dream for Young, who got into MMA at 17 for fitness and lifestyle reasons rather than thoughts of stardom. "I needed to sort myself out ... I was smoking and just getting into trouble all the time," he said. "I needed something to take up my time. I got into this and found a passion. This is what I love. "Every day I get up and think Im going to the gym now. I want to go the gym now. I want to train. If I have two days off and thats just after a fight, I feel like Im missing out on something. I dont know, its just built in me now and I dont want to get cut (by the UFC) or anything because I didnt try hard enough." So in search of a challenging camp for Omigawa, he saved his money and then crossed the Atlantic. Prior to this year, Young had never been to Canada. But that quickly changed. Invited to fight on the first officially sanctioned card in Ontario in April, he scored an entertaining win over Jorge Britto. The UFC took notice and signed him to a contract. They did him no favours, matching him with Poirier first time out. Despite the loss, Young took plenty of positives away from Vancouver. "Just to see where I stand and just to know I can hang with some of the best in the world has done my confidence a world of good." To prepare for Omigawa, he spent time at the Adrenaline Training Center in London, Ont., home to Sam Stout, Mark Hominick and Chris Horodecki. He asked to train with the Canadian fighters because he thought their aggressive styles were so similar to his. "It was good training. I was getting beaten up every day there," he said enthusiastically. "It wasnt easy. We went quite hard." But the unexpected death of Canadian coach Shawn Tompkins cast a pall over the camp. Young was also feeling a bit homesick. And looking for a familiar face, he went down to American Top Team in Florida, where friend and fellow British fighter Brad (One Punch) Pickett was training. Pickett meets Brazilian Renan Barao in Saturdays co-main event. "Everyones a black belt in jiu-jitsu," Young said of American Top team. "Standup, theyve got really good strikers. Wrestling, theyve got national champions ... Youre just getting beaten up every day. It doesnt matter who you turn to in there. And loads of guys my weight." Its the first time Young — who sports a tattoo of a guardian angel on his back — has trained away from home and he says it had made for the best fight preparation hes ever had. He will need it against the 35-year-old Omigawa, a crafty judo black belt who is far more dangerous than his 12-10-1 record suggests. Omigawa is 0-4 in two different stints in the UFC but many thought he should have got the decision over Darren Elkins last time out at UFC 131. "Omigawa is a very good opponent," Pickett said. On the other side, Pickett believes Young — while raw — has real striking skills. The fight may turn on Omigawas strategy. "Hes sometimes not the cleverest fighter," said Pickett. "If he keeps the fight on the feet, Jason will take him apart. "If Omigawa fights a bit clever, its going to be a tough fight." Young grew up in Lewisham in southeast London — "not the greatest part," he explains. After high school, his grades werent good enough to go to college so he focused on paying the bills as a plasterer. "I didnt do too bad. At 21 years old I was buying my own house. I had a car. Im the type of person, if I want something, Ill get it." He was still plastering after the Poirier fight, saving money to finance his training. "Hopefully if I win this fight, I dont have to go back to work. It would be nice to have it my full occupation so I can just concentrate on my fighting and my game." His wish list includes returning to North American to train — with his family in tow this time. "A lot of people think because youre in the UFC, youre really rich. Its far from that. Youve got to get some wins under your belt and thats what Im looking to do." Young and the family still live in the house he bought at 21. And hes still planning ahead. "Its a one-bedroom house. Ive got to do a loft conversion for my little boy now. Because its too expensive to move." Arizona Diamondbacks Jerseys . The Trail Blazers lead the first-round series 3-2 entering Game 6 on Friday in Portland. A basket by Damian Lillard got the Trail Blazers within two points before James Harden stepped back and swished a 3-pointer to make it 103-98 with about three minutes left. J.J. Putz Jersey . Kitna told The Dallas Morning News (http://dallasne.ws/1aaJ38v ) of his plans Wednesday. 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Duncan, from London, Ont., won the small final and is clinging to a tight lead in the standings as he aims to become the first Canadian to win a mens skicross Crystal Globe.CHICAGO -- The NCAA agreed on Tuesday to help athletes with head injuries in a proposed settlement of a class-action lawsuit that college sports governing body touted as a major step forward but that critics say doesnt go nearly far enough. The deal, filed in U.S. District Court in Chicago, calls for the NCAA to toughen return-to-play rules for players who receive head blows and create a $70 million fund to pay for thousands of current and former athletes to undergo testing to determine whether they suffered brain trauma while playing football and other contact sports. A lead attorney for the plaintiffs who spearheaded nearly a year of talks culminating in the agreement said the provisions would ultimately improve players safety and leave open the possibility of damage payments later. "I wouldnt say these changes solve the safety problems, but they do reduce the risks," Chicago attorney Joseph Siprut said. "Its changed college sports forever." Others strongly disagreed. Unlike a proposed settlement in a similar lawsuit against the NFL, this deal does not set aside any money to pay players who suffered brain trauma. Instead, athletes can sue individually for damages; the NCAA-funded tests that would gauge the extent of neurological injuries could establish grounds for doing just that. One plaintiffs attorney not involved in the negotiations called it a "terrible deal" that lets the NCAA off the hook far too easily. Jay Edelson called the agreement "window dressing," saying the NCAA will be able to settle one-off suits for several thousand each. He estimated that single, class-action damages settlement could have been worth $2 billion to players. "Instead," he said, "its worthless." The settlement is primarily directed at men and women who participated in basketball, football, ice hockey, soccer, wrestling, field hockey and lacrosse. There is no cutoff date for when athletes must have played a designated sport at one of the more than 1,000 NCAA member schools to qualify for the medical exams. That means all athletes currently playing and those who participated decades ago could undergo the tests and potentially follow up with damage claims. Tuesdays filing serves as notice to the judge overseeing the case that the parties struck a deal. At a status hearing later in the day, U.S. District Judge John Lee said he wanted more time to consider whether to give the deal preliminary approval. If he does, affected athletes will have a chance to weigh in before Lee decides about granting a final OK. The NCAA, which admits no wrongdoing in the settlement and has denied understating the dangers of concussions, hailed the deal. "This agreements proactive measures will ensure student-athletes have access to high quality medical care by physicians with experience in the diagnosis, treatment and management of concussions," NCAAs chief medical officer Brian Haiinline said.dddddddddddd Siprut added that stricter rules and oversight should help ensure the viability of football by allaying fears of parents now inclined to not let their kids play. "Absent these kinds of changes, the sport will die," he said. To keep the NCAA from having to hold unwieldy talks with multiple plaintiffs, 10 lawsuits filed nationwide were consolidated into the one case in Chicago, where the first lawsuit was filed in 2011. The lead plaintiff is Adrian Arrington, a former safety at Eastern Illinois. He said he endured five concussions while playing, some so severe he has said he couldnt recognize his parents afterward. Another named plaintiff is former Central Arkansas wide receiver Derek K. Owens. His symptoms became so severe he dropped out of school in 2011, telling his mother: "I feel like a 22-year-old with Alzheimers." Among other settlement terms, all athletes will take baseline neurological tests to start each year to help doctors determine the severity of any concussion during the season; concussion education will be mandated for coaches and athletes; and a new, independent Medical Science Committee will oversee the medical testing. Robert Cantu, a Boston-based clinical professor of neurosurgery and a longtime critic of the NCAA, said the deal is a huge shift by the organization. "Itll make collision sports much safer," said Cantu, who was one of the plaintiffs experts. But former UCLA linebacker Ramogi Huma said its all for show. "It takes some of the things many of us have been advocating for and pretends to address it," Huma, president of the College Athletes Players Association, said. Plaintiffs filings say the number of athletes who may require testing to learn if they suffered long-term damage runs into the tens of thousands. They cite NCAA figures that from 2004 to 2009 alone, 29,225 athletes suffered concussions. Internal emails unsealed in the lawsuit illustrate how pressure mounted on the NCAA over the issue. In a Feb. 23, 2010, email, the NCAAs director of government relations, Abe Frank, wondered whether debates about new safeguards for young children playing contact sports would crank up the pressure on the NCAA to do more. David Klossner, NCAAs then-director of health and safety, responded bluntly a few hours later: "Well since we dont currently require anything all steps are higher than ours." Later that year, the NCAA established a head-injury policy that states that athletes should be kept from play for at least a day after a concussion. It also requires each school to have a concussion management plan on hand. But plaintiffs blamed a tendency of some teams to hurry concussed players back into games, in part, on the NCAAs lax enforcement of the policy. In a 2012 deposition, asked if any schools had been disciplined for having subpar concussion plans, Klossner said, "Not to my knowledge." cheap jerseys Cheap NFL Jerseys ' ' '
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