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Brazil will be the setting for UFC 237, as they take their show to Jeunesse Arena in Rio do Janeiro. Naturally, the main event bouts will feature prominent Brazilian fighters, including the legendary Anderson Silva, who holds the record for the longest reign as world champ in a UFC weight class. Jessica Andrade will challenge for the women's world strawweight belt and three-time UFC featherweight champion Jose Aldo is also on the card.

March has its madness and April is all about the dawning of the baseball season, but May is reserved for the Run for the Roses, the Kentucky Derby. Contested on the first Saturday in May, the one and a quarter mile race at Churchill Downs has been held every year since 1875 and is the first leg of thoroughbred horse racing's Triple Crown. A record 170,513 attended the Derby in 2015.

The Columbus Blue Jackets have never won a Stanley Cup series in franchise history. The New York Islanders have one playoff series win since 1993. Yet both of these teams are on the brink of advancing to the second round of the 2019 Stanley Cup playoffs. The Blue Jackets lead the Presidents' Trophy-winning Tampa Bay Lightning 3-0, and the Isles are up 3-0 on the Pittsburgh Penguins.

If there's one thing we're learned about UFC over the years is that things can change in an instant. It can be a brutal and sometimes babaric sport and staying on top is as big a challenge as getting there. Two interim world titles are up for grabs at UFC 236 - one because of an ailment to middleweight champ Robert Whittaker and the other thanks to the suspension of lightweight champ Khabib Nurmagomedov.

The Masters is unique among golf's four majors in that it is the only one held at the same course every year, Georgia's famous Augusta National layout. Another unique trait to the Masters is that the champion is awarded a green jacket and must return the jacket at the end of their year's reign as champion. Even if they go on to be multiple winners of the tournament, they get the same jacket.

It's been said that there is no tougher trophy to win in professional sports than the Stanley Cup. Each spring, 16 of the NHL's 31 teams are left standing and set off in pursuit of the coveted Lord Stanley's mug. In 1893, Lord Stanley of Preston, then Governor-General of Canada, donated a cup to be presented to the champions of hockey. It's been the sole property of the NHL since 1926.

The late spring is usually the time of year that network television series go into rerun season, and when you think about it, the NBA Finals aren't all that different. The past four league championship series have pitted the Western Conference reprsentatives the Golden State Warriors against the Eastern Conference champion Cleveland Cavaliers. Golden State has won three of the four meetings, Cleveland's only victory coming in the 2016 Finals.