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Carl Frampton hijacked the grand plans of the brilliant Leo Santa Cruz on Saturday night with a stunning win in New York. http:///...oes-beige-white.html .Frampton of Northern Ireland was the underdog, the challenger, moving up in weight and away from home, but he fought with incredible intelligence to take Santa Cruzs WBA featherweight title.Santa Cruz was unbeaten in 33 fights. The Frampton fight was his 12th in four years for a world title and he had a long list of future opponents. Santa Cruz was destined for, and had been selected for, dominance and continued lucrative TV fights; nobody told Frampton before the first bell.Ringside at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, the champions and potential future challengers watched the brilliant Frampton use his brain to take rounds and then take the belt. Santa Cruz talked about a rematch, possibly in Los Angeles, and that could happen. However, he looked broken by the loss and will need to answer a few harsh questions about his lack of tactics.Lee Selby, the IBF featherweight champion from Barry Island in Wales, was an excited ringside guest. It was a great performance and I would love a fight with Carl, he said. That fight is certainly feasible, as the pair shares the same adviser in Al Haymon.Every single world featherweight champion, the leading contenders and all of the best super bantamweights will now want a fight with Frampton. Both Frampton and Santa Cruz are refugees from the super bantamweight division, men who simply needed the extra 4 pounds in weight to allow them to continue fighting.On Saturday night Frampton, 29, took a huge step toward stardom, and the look on the faces of those in the Santa Cruz business was priceless. Frampton is now an attraction in America, but he has a lot of lucrative options in Britain and Ireland.A partial unification with Selby would do stunning business outdoors in Belfast, as would a rematch with the British Scott Quigg, another ringside spectator to the Frampton show. In February at a sold-out venue in Manchester, and in a big pay-per-view fight on Sky, Frampton broke Quiggs jaw and took his unbeaten record as well as his WBA super bantamweight title.Frampton also trousered ￡1.5 million, phenomenal money for small men in any country and at any time. A rematch in Belfast would work -- Quigg wants it and it proves that British world champions are not dependent on the American market.The new WBO champion at featherweight, Oscar Valdez, who is unbeaten in 20 fights with 18 knockouts, would pose a fight that could top any bill in Las Vegas. A fight with the technically gifted WBC incumbent Gary Russell Jr. is another realistic option.We will look at all the champions, the leading contenders and other fighters -- Carl is suddenly very popular, insisted Barry McGuigan, who is Framptons promoter and mentor. McGuigan won the same WBA featherweight belt 30 years and 13 champions ago. He was in tears at the end.There is another option -- one that is admittedly very unlikely but is possibly going to keep on surfacing -- and that is the brilliant Cuban Guillermo Rigondeaux. Frampton was ordered to defend his super bantamweight titles against Rigondeaux but took the sensible option: vacating, gaining weight and beating Santa Cruz, who was as daunting a task as Rigondeaux. The Cuban congratulated Frampton and promised to keep chasing him. He is a true warrior and I know he will fight me, Rigondeaux said.Right now Frampton needs to let his face stop aching, rest his sore hands and enjoy a Belfast homecoming that perhaps no other active boxer, certainly none of Britains other 13 world champions, could dream of experiencing. Santa Cruz, meanwhile, will return to California to try and make sense of what happened. At the same time the fight fixers will go to work in their parlours and try and get their boxers a piece of the Frampton action.http:///...hite-370837-008.html . Thats not a comment on the suspension that banished the Portland Winterhawks general manager and coach from his Western Hockey League teams bench for most of the 2012-13 season.http:///...lack-jade-green.html . MLS Commissioner Don Garber and Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez also will attend the session, which was announced Monday. The league has discussed placing its next two expansion teams in Miami and Atlanta.http:///...oes-black-white.html . With the short-handed Warriors needing help from someone -- anyone -- to stop a three-game skid, ONeal returned from right knee and groin injuries that had sidelined him for four games and put up season highs with 18 points and eight rebounds. It was just enough to help lift Golden State to a 102-101 victory over the New Orleans Pelicans on Tuesday night. PHILADELPHIA -- Jakub Voracek and the Philadelphia Flyers rallied for a lead and piled on from there.Voracek scored twice, Matt Read got his team-leading fifth goal and the Flyers pulled away from the road-weary Carolina Hurricanes for a 6-3 victory on Saturday night.Wayne Simmonds and Shayne Gostisbehere each had a goal and an assist, and the Flyers won for the first time at home this season and snapped a three-game winless streak.Read trails only Chicagos Richard Panik (six goals) for the NHL lead and is on pace to easily surpass his total of 11 from last season.Its made hockey a little bit more fun, the 30-year-old Read said, adding, The last couple of years have been frustrating. You are battling as much as you can out there to try and get better. Scoring a couple of goals here early get the confidence high. I enjoy going on the ice every shift and giving it your all and trying to make this team better every shift.Brandon Manning also scored for the Flyers. Steve Mason made 27 saves for his first win of the season.Justin Faulk, Jordan Staal and Lee Stempniak scored for the Hurricanes, who fell to 1-2-2 on the fifth stop of their season-opening six-game road trip. Eddie Lack made 21 saves.They found a way to get in behind us and get some goals, Staal said. It wasnt like they completely outplayed us, but they found a way to get the puck in.I think you have to keep your cool and look forward to the next shift, and obviously try to play the best you can. The best way is to start playing in their end, and we didnt find a way to do that.The teams combined for seven goals in the second period. Following Simmonds holding penalty, Faulk scored 50 seconds into the period through a screen set byy Staal, then Staal scored off a feed from Joakim Nordstrom 3:07 in for a two-goal lead. http:///...undy-684593-015.html. The Flyers rallied with four straight goals. Manning got the Flyers on the board 4:50 in by skating in from the point and faking out Lack before poking the puck in, and Voracek redirected Ivan Provorovs point shot for his first at 7:19 to tie itRead made it 3-2 with 4:09 left by also getting his stick on a shot by Provorov, and then Gostisbehere made it a two-goal lead with 2:43 left.Read had a career-high 24 goals as a rookie in 2011-12 but has just 19 in his last two seasons combined.I am going pretty strong with my feet out there, Read said. I am in really good shape and you just have to keep putting your foot on the gas pedal. As long as we are winning games thats all that matters right now.Stempniak finished the scoring in the second with 1:06 remaining.In the third, Simmonds scored on the power play with 8:10 left in the third to make it 5-3, and then Voracek got his second with 2:27 left.Game notes Flyers F Roman Lyubimov played his second game of the season in place of F Dale Weise, who sat out the first game of a three-game suspension. ... The Flyers were also without Fs Michael Raffl (upper body) and Scott Laughton (lower body) and D Michael Del Zotto (left knee, injured reserve). ... The Hurricanes were without D Ryan Murphy (lower body). D Jakub Nakladal and Fs Andrej Nestrasil and Martin Frk were healthy scratches for the Hurricanes.UP NEXTFlyers: Visit the Canadiens on Monday night.Hurricanes: Close out their road trip at Detroit on Tuesday night. 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