UFL will hold Friday games

ARLINGTON, Texas — Fox Sports will carry a package of Friday night United Football League games when the spring league kicks off its second season in March.

Fox will have a Friday night game during each of the 10 weeks of the regular season.

The league’s opening game will be on Friday, March 28, on Fox when the Houston Roughnecks host the St. Louis Battlehawks. The defending champion Birmingham Stallions begin their season at the D.C. Defenders on March 30.

Fox and ABC will carry 32 of the league’s 43 games. ABC, which has 12 games, will carry the UFL Championship Game on Saturday, June 14.

The other games will air on ESPN, ESPN2 or FS1.

The UFL is a merged spring league that has four teams apiece from the USFL and XFL.

Teenager back in darts final

LONDON — Teenage star Luke Littler has reached the final at the world darts championship — again.

Still just 17, Littler routed Stephen Bunting 6-1 on Thursday to give himself another shot at the title, one year after his unlikely run brought waves of new fans to the sport.

Littler lost the title match a year ago — in his first appearance — as fans tuned in to watch the carefree youngster eliminate opponents more that twice his age.

Littler will face three-time champion Michael van Gerwen in today’s final at London’s Alexandra Palace. The Dutchman advanced by defeating Chris Dobey 6-1.

Since losing 7-4 to in last year’s final, Littler has won 10 tournaments around the world including in Bahrain and Amsterdam.

The Associated Press