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There will be no Andy Murray, who retired from the sport after his Olympic men’s doubles quarter-final defeat in August.British number two Cameron Norrie is also missing with a forearm injury.Jack Draper, the British number one, will be seeded for the US Open, with Dan Evans also in the main draw.Katie Boulter is the top-ranked Briton in the women’s draw, with Emma Raducanu and Harriet Dart also making the cut.In the men’s doubles, Joe Salisbury and American partner Rajeev Ram are the three-time defending champions.Eight other Britons are attempting to reach the main draw through qualifying, as mentioned above.
TWO of the biggest British fights of the 1990s are to be the subject of a new documentary on Amazon Prime. ‘Four Kings’ will air on Friday, September 27 and looks at Lennox Lewis vs. Frank Bruno and the Chris Eubank-Nigel Benn rematch. In an eight-day period between October 1, 1993 and October 9, 1993 Britain was the centre of the boxing world with Cardiff Arms Park in Wales and Old Trafford in Manchester playing host to the events which featured four different personalities. The two-minute trailer for the four-part documentary was published online yesterday and begins with Eubank, Lewis,…
Aug 20, 2024, 10:23 PM ETInternational team captain Mike Weir named Japan’s Shigeki Maruyama as his fifth and final assistant for this year’s Presidents Cup showdown against the United States in Montreal.The 2024 edition of the biennial competition, which pits a 12-man U.S. team against a lineup of international players from outside Europe, will be played Sept. 26-29 at The Royal Montreal Golf Club.”His record in this event speaks for itself,” Canada’s Weir, the 2003 Masters champion, said on Wednesday.”More importantly, he adds a trusted voice in our team room and is someone who will inspire these 12 players through…
Sunday’s WNBA matchup between the Seattle Storm and Indiana Fever averaged 2.23 million viewers on ABC. The number represents the fifth largest audience for a WNBA game since 2001. It was also the 19th game this season that averaged over a million viewers, with the Fever playing in 17 of those games.
Dana White claims that the reason Francis Ngannou and Jon Jones never fought was Ngannou. On Tuesday, Jones teased retirement after he defends his UFC heavyweight title against Stipe Miocic later this year, repeatedly dismissing interim champion Tom Aspinall. This has become a common refrain for Jones, who appears dead set on the Miocic fight despite some public backlash and on Tuesday evening, following the latest episode of Contender Series, White jumped in to defend Jones. “I have zero animosity towards Francis,” White said. “Francis was out of my world a long time ago. [Sean Shelby] and Mick [Maynard] are…
Norwegian swimmer Henrik Christiansen came into his 3rd Olympic Games looking for memories in the pool but left with much, much more. After going viral during the Games on TikTok for a video featuring one of the Village’s chocolate muffins, Christiansen ran with it and soon became known as the Olympic Muffin Man. Listen to what inspires Christiansen both in and out of the pool (aside from muffins) and how he’s feeling after the whirlwind experience of his 3rd Olympics. In the SwimSwam Podcast dive deeper into the sport you love with insider conversations about swimming. Hosted by Coleman Hodges and Gold Medal Mel Stewart,…
When I first saw the 2024 Vuelta a España route, it was apparent that this was going to be a race of two distinct parts. The first nine days of searing dry heat in the south of the country and the second part an equally uncomfortable but humid affair that winds its way eastwards from Galicia after the first rest day. It shouldn’t be as hot, but the northern regions are greener for a reason and can be much more unpredictable when it comes to the weather. The road surfaces aren’t always great either, but that’s still to come and…
Tennessee/Hyannis utility player Dalton Bargo (Photo courtesy of Hyannis Harbor Hawks) Summer Baseball Joe Healy – August 20, 2024 Hyannis had a very strong regular season under first-year head coach Mitch Karraker, going 24-14-2 to win the West Division and leading the league in run differential at plus-66. The Harbor Hawks were eliminated by Bourne in the one-game sample that is the first round of the CCBL postseason, however, bringing an abrupt end to what was otherwise a special campaign. The Hawks didn’t have as much brand-name star power among position players as other Cape teams on paper, but it…
Barcelona decided to let Ilkay Gundogan go after just one season primarily for financial reasons, according to transfer news expert Fabrizio Romano as he reports on the player’s potential return to Manchester City.Speaking exclusively to CaughtOffside for the latest edition of his Daily Briefing column, Romano explained that Barca informed Gundogan of their decision as it could be important for them to get the former Germany international’s salary off their wage bill for financial reasons.Gundogan was a star player for Man City for many years before moving on at the end of his contract last summer, joining Barcelona on a…
Tua began his career with Northlands in the New Zealand Championship before the Auckland Blues offered him a first taste of top-flight rugby in 2018.He moved to the Canberra-based Brumbies in 2023 and played 31 games, scoring five tries.“People will be aware that centre is a position that we’ve had great strength in over a number of years,” director of rugby Rob Baxter told the club website., external “Through age and players moving on, that’s slowly changed in terms of experience. So it’s an area we’ve been wanting to strengthen.” Baxter added: “Unfortunately, he’s arrived with a neck issue which…