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A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size It’s been well over half-a-century since a Wallabies coach handed out as many caps in a calendar year as Joe Schmidt has done in 2024, but the New Zealander isn’t sweating like he might once have.On Sunday morning (2:10am AEDT), Waratahs playmaker Tane Edmed is poised to become the 19th Wallabies debutant in five months should he come off the bench against Ireland at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.It’s the most debutants in a single year since Eddie Jones handed 14 players their first…
After the finest season of his career, Jannik Sinner has surged to an almost divine status enjoyed by only a handful of transcendent Italian sporting champions: Skier Alberto Tomba, motorcyclist Valentino Rossi and footballer Roberto Baggio.Sinner is aged just 23. But as the only player from the nation to ever be ranked as the world’s best tennis player, he has already joined the pantheon.The frenzied focus on the boy from San Candido as he arrived at the ATP Finals in Turin – camera-flashing photographers and screaming autograph-hunters being kept at arm’s length by burly security men – demonstrated he is…
By: Sean Crose It’s official. WBA lightweight champion Gervonta Davis will defend his crown this March 1st in Brooklyn against Lamont Roach. The scheduled 12 rounder, which will go down at Barclay’s Center in Brooklyn, will highlight a PBC pay per view event. It will be Davis’s first fight since he knocked out Frank Martin back in June. As for Roach, the 25-1-1 fighter was last seen stopping Feargal McCrory earlier that same month. A Davis-Roach fight was supposed to have occurred in Texas this month, but ended up being pushed back to late winter. The promotion will officially kick…
Europe’s Ryder Cup players have revealed how becoming “vulnerable” with each other during a “fireside chat” helped spark their triumph in Rome. Captain Luke Donald took his entire side to Marco Simone Golf Club for a practice session in September 2023, a day before all 12 players travelled to Wentworth ahead of competing in the BMW PGA Championship. The move paid off handsomely with Europe regaining the Ryder Cup in emphatic fashion and a behind-the-scenes story of that triumph is set to be revealed in a new documentary being launched on December 3. FIRESIDE CHAT “We had a great fireside…
The Chicago Bulls never made a contract extension offer to Josh Giddey during the extension window, sources tell Jake Fischer of The Stein Line. The Bulls figured to highly value Giddy considering they acquired him from the Oklahoma City Thunder for Alex Caruso, who likely could have fetched multiple first round picks. The Bulls’ ownership reportedly wanted to observe and assess Giddey with the Bulls before committing long-term money to him. Giddey will be a restricted free agent next offseason. Giddey, who is represented by Daniel Moldovan, is averaging 12.1 points, 5.9 rebounds and 6.5 assists in 27.0 minutes with…
A heavyweight showdown between Vadim Nemkov and Ante Delija will serve as the co-main event of the inaugural card of PFL’s Champions Series Dubai show on Jan. 25 in the United Arab Emirates, the company announced Friday. The lineup will be topped by a previously announced Bellator lightweight title fight between champion Usman Nurmagomedov and rising challenger Paul Hughes. Nemkov (18-2, 1 no contest) is a former Bellator light heavyweight king who now competes in the heaviest of the divisions. In his debut fight at heavyweight for PFL, Nemkov tapped out Bruno Cappelozza in the second round. Unbeaten since 2016…
Former U.S. National Team member Emily Brunemann Klueh is battling cancer. According to a GoFundMe post, Brunemann Klueh, 38, noticed a change in her body, saw her doctor immediately and received several tests that eventually showed eight masses in her chest and at least three lymph nodes that looked suspicious of cancer. After biopsies of the masses, one of the lymph nodes was positive for invasive ductal carcinoma and metastatic breast cancer. She is scheduled to have another biopsy on Dec. 6 to see if the cancer has spread to the lining of her lungs. “With this…
It’s probably safe to say that Continental’s GP5000 S TR is the gold standard for road bike tyres. Its superb ride quality, grippy compounds and decent durability during testing elevated it to the top spot of our best road bike tyre guide. The real-world riding experience was backed up by our own in-house lab testing, where we put 24 tyres to the test to see which road bike tyres are the fastest. We decided to use the Continental GP5000 S TR as the benchmark, it might not have been the fastest but its performance meant we were confident in labelling it…
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A total of 390 players are suing rugby’s governing bodies