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Next year’s Challenge Cup final will be held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium rather than Wembley Stadium.

The 2022 rugby league Challenge Cup final will be held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium instead of Wembley Stadium on May 28, according to the RFL.
“The RFL is happy to welcome a two-year extension to Betfred’s association with the Men’s, Women’s, and Wheelchair Challenge Cups – which will include an historic Final at the great Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in May 2022, before a return to Wembley Stadium in 2023,” according to a statement from the RFL.
“The 2022 Betfred Challenge Cup Final will be held at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Saturday, May 28. It will be the 121st Challenge Cup Final, and the first to be held in May since St Helens defeated Wigan in Cardiff in 2004.
“It will be the first Rugby League match in the state-of-the-art, 62,850-capacity stadium – England’s third largest football stadium, which opened in April 2019 – following the cancellation of a Test match scheduled for the 2020 Ashes Series between England and Australia due to the Covid-19 outbreak.”
“In 2023, the Betfred Challenge Cup Final will be held at Wembley Stadium.”
Since the daring decision to bring the game’s greatest occasion to the city for the first time in 1929, that will be the 80th Challenge Cup Final at Wembley.”
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After 7 years at ESPN, Maria Taylor makes her NBC Sports debut.

Maria Taylor, a broadcast host who formerly worked for ESPN for seven years, made her NBC Sports debut on Friday night during the Tokyo Olympics primetime show.
Taylor will not only host the Olympics, but she will also be a host and contributor for Football Night in America and Super Bowl coverage.
In a statement, NBC Sports chairman Pete Bevacqua stated, “Maria has thrived in a wide range of capacities at big events, and will be a great addition to our team.”
“We’re always looking for ways to improve, and Maria is going to help us do that.” She finished presenting the NBA Finals on Tuesday, the day her contract with ESPN apparently terminated, before joining NBC.
Taylor’s future at ESPN has recently made headlines after The New York Times published comments made by colleague broadcaster Rachel Nichols regarding her in July 2020.
After Taylor, who is Black, was assigned hosting duties for “NBA Countdown” during the NBA Finals, Nichols made the statements while apparently unaware that a camera was recording.
Taylor and her colleagues received a public apology from Nichols, and ESPN removed her from sideline coverage for the finals.
Taylor became a host and reporter for ESPN in 2014, covering college football, women’s basketball, and the NBA.
She was unable to negotiate an agreement with the network, according to a joint statement released by the two parties on Wednesday.
“Words are inadequate to describe my unbounded gratitude,” Taylor said in a statement at the time. “I aim to make them proud.”