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[EX Q]: Volkan Oezdemir  had a quick rise up the ranks of the UFC light heavyweight division. Originally signed as a late injury replacement for the injured Jan Blachowicz   Oezdemir  earned a split decision win over Ovince Saint Preux in February.  Oezdemir  followed that victory with first-round knockouts of Misha Cirkunov and Jimi Manuwa.  He  disposed of those fighters in a combined 70 seconds.
On January 20   Oezdemir  will face UFC light heavyweight champion Daniel Cormier in the co-main event of UFC 220.
âI once said that if Iâm hanging around and fighting guys like  Volkan Oezdemir  Iâve done something terribly wrong with my money and my time. â Cormier said at the recent UFC 220 press conference. âI just never expected him to do what he did so fast. Heâs put himself in this position because heâs been impressive.â
âI wanted to fight for the belt as fast as I can because I know Iâm capable of anything â said  Oezdemir . âIâm there to win. In the UFC I wanted to fight the top (fighters) right away. Itâs the place for the top guys in the world. I fought my first fight against the No. 6 in the world on two weeksâ notice and I just kept on going. I fought two months later and six weeks after that I was fighting for the third time. Always against a ranked opponent and Iâm ready for the champion now.â
While  Oezdemir  is confident he can pull off the upset victory over Cormier  the champion had some words of warning for his younger opponent.
âThey turn over  they present their neck  and they tap out. Thatâs about to happen to  Volkan Oezdemir .â
 Oezdemir  doesnât think  he  will become the seventh submission win on Cormierâs record.
âI got a heart  man. Itâs not going to be that easy â  Oezdemir  said. âYou saw my fight  you saw everything I did. I donât think youâve seen everything Iâm capable of. All fights were so fast and youâre not gonna be different.â
[EX A]: Volkan Oezdemir

[EX Q]: Here is your lifeline  Washington Nationals. We have gone from theory to reality in 24 hours.  Joe Girardi  no longer manages the New York Yankees. There is one potential managerial candidate who represents an obvious upgrade from Dusty Baker  both in the near term and long range.  He  is  Joseph Elliott Girardi .
Go get  him .
If the Nationals â and by âthe Nationalsâ here  we are speaking of the Lerner family  which owns the team â even are going to consider  Girardi   they have to go in with two things wide open: their eyes and their wallet.
Baker  whom they didnât invite back  felt  he  was woefully underpaid at $2 million annually  and the main reason  he  is no longer here anymore is because  his  contract was only for two years. Those two years expired  the Lerners had no further financial commitment  there was some ham-handedness in both public relations and game management in the division series against the Cubs  and so  he âs gone.
[ Girardi  made sense for the Nats even before the Yankees let  him  go]
 Girardi  isnât coming here for any two years and $4 million.  His  last contract with the Yankees  the one that expired following this year  was for twice that â four years and $16 million. Thereâs your starting point. If you want  him   Mr. Lerner  be prepared to value the position of manager more than you have at any point in the past. Take a number youâre comfortable with â and triple it.
Joe Maddon hadnât won a World Series when he agreed to a five-year deal worth a reported $25 million. Could  Girardi  ask for such a sum? Sure.
We donât yet know that  Girardi  will require that or that the Nationals will even inquire about  Girardi âs needs. But logic tells you General Manager Mike Rizzo  who did not return a message Thursday  has to reach out. Follow that logic further  and Rizzo has the toughest sell job of  his  career to  his  own bosses.
If Rizzo calls Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman and gets a favorable report on  Girardi  â and given their long run together  why wouldnât  he ? â and the rest of Rizzoâs reporting reveals no red flags  then  he  must present a case to ownership that what they have before them is an opportunity. Forget the money it will cost. Consider it found money.
 Girardi âs side is important in this  too. On Thursday  in the hours after the Yankees announced they would not bring  him  back  a person close to the (now former) manager said the situation was too âfresh â and we couldnât yet analyze whether  Girardi  would want to move on to the Nationals â or anywhere else â immediately.
But we do know a bit more about  Girardi âs state of mind than we did at the end of the American League Championship Series  when  he  said  he  would have to consult with  his  family â  his  wife and three children live in South Florida â before deciding whether  he  could be all-in as a manager again.
On Thursday   Girardi  issued a statement that thanked just about everybody in the Yankee organization. But it opened with this: âWith a heavy heart  I come to you because the Yankees have decided not to bring me back.â
Sounds like someone who was ready to reload for another run.  He  just needed to be asked.
One reasonable question  Girardi  would have â and one that  once a manager is in place  could hang over the entire 2018 season â is: Who would I be working for? Not next year but down the line. Rizzoâs contract runs only through 2018. He and his front office built the team that won four division titles in six years and is poised to contend again. If he convinces  Girardi  to come here and convinces the Lerners to pay for him  wouldnât another extension be in line for the general manager?
A final piece: At 53   Girardi  is too young to really be into evaluating  his  âlegacy.â But here is a list of managers who have won World Series titles with two franchises: Sparky Anderson  who did it in Cincinnati and Detroit  and Tony La Russa  who did it in Oakland and St. Louis. Short list. Everyone on it is in the Hall of Fame.
If  Girardi  wins another World Series   he  joins that group. Could  he  do it in Washington? The Nationals have stated thatâs the only goal that matters. A manager who has done it is now available.
[EX A]: Joe Girardi

[EX Q]: A day after one of Iraq's leading politicians declared on television that power sharing was dead  the nation's fractious parties met Saturday in a tranquil session of parliament  where they approved an outline for forming a partnership government. The session proceeded even though the politician  Ayad Allawi  had announced that his bloc would not participate in the government.
 Allawi  a former prime minister whose bloc won the most seats in Iraq's elections in March  did not attend the session or make any public remarks. Members of his bloc said he was in London.
 Leaders from all parties  including Allawi's bloc  Iraqiya  met behind closed doors during the session. Meanwhile  inside parliament's grand hall  which two days earlier had been the scene of a turbulent walkout by Allawi's bloc  lawmakers reaffirmed their commitment to a strained agreement that would return Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to office for a second term.
 For eight months  Allawi said he would not participate in any government led by al-Maliki  before finally agreeing to a pact to form an inclusive government. In Thursday's session  he led a walkout when other parties voted against addressing Iraqiya's demands for power sharing  which include a newly created position for Allawi and an agreement to allow the return of three Iraqiya members who had been banned from parliament because of their previous association with Saddam Hussein's Baath Party.
 The walkout and Allawi's remarks on CNN threatened to scuttle a pact that had taken months to forge  with pressure from high-level U.S. officials  including President Barack Obama.
 But while Allawi stayed away  members of his bloc took part in Saturday's session and declared that the agreement was still in place.
 If Allawi follows through on his vow not to participate in the government  Iraqiya will be under extreme pressure not to join him in his boycott. Members of the bloc would not say whether they would follow him.
[EX A]:
Ayad Allawi