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Katie Boulter cruises past Germany’s Laura Siegemund with a straight-sets win to put Great Britain into the Billie Jean King Cup quarter-finals in Malaga.
HAVING plotted her downfall on two occasions Jamie Moore knows how good and how tough Katie Taylor is. Moore trained Chantelle Cameron, 20-1 (8 KOs), to victory against Taylor, 24-1 (6 KOs), in Dublin in May 2023 before the Irishwoman reversed the result six months later in the Irish capital. Next year, Taylor will celebrate her 39th birthday, but on November 15, she showed she still had enough to beat Amanda Serrano for a second time. Having put on another gutsy display, this time in front of a huge worldwide audience on Netflix and an announced crowd of 72,300 at…
Nov 27, 2024, 08:39 PM ETThe PGA Tour-LIV Golf made-for-TV matchup on Dec. 17 featuring four of the sport’s biggest names will have a purse worth a minimum of $10 million in cryptocurrency, Front Office Sports reported on Wednesday.The newly named Crypto.com Showdown will see Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy of the PGA Tour compete against Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau of LIV in an 18-hole event at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe purse will be paid in CRO cryptocurrency, the sponsor said. It’s unclear how much the winning and losing teams will receive.The prize money…
Donte DiVincenzo has had the privilege to conquer two NBA championships with two different franchises during his relatively young basketball career, as he has been led by incredible players to the top. The first was in Milwaukee back in 2021, and only a year later he reached the same heights in Golden State. According to the Wolves guard, who was traded out from New York during the summer, his career saw an incredible shift in mentality when he first landed in California and witnessed his first training sessions with the Warriors. He mostly credits this experience to Stephen Curry and…
Despite mounting criticizm following his UFC 309 loss, Michael Chandler has denied claims he hit Charles Oliveira with numerous illegal rabbit punches during a fifth round scamble in their co-headliner at Madison Square Garden. Chandler, who retains the number seven rank at the lightweight limit, co-headlined UFC 309 earlier this month in New York, taking on former undisputed champion and two-time foe, Oliveira over the course of five rounds in a high-stakes title eliminator rematch. And dropping an eventual unanimous decision (49-46, 49-46, 49-45) loss to the Sao Paulo veteran, Chandler drew criticizm from pundits and fans alike — after…
SwimSwam’s daily swimming workout series is a collection of workouts written by coaches from a variety of backgrounds. All daily swimming workouts have been written using Commit Swimming. The workouts themselves are not indicative of SwimSwam’s or Commit’s views on training. They strictly reflect the opinions of the author swim coach. Workout Context Purpose: Capacity (Base) Building Target age group: 15-18 years old Target level: Senior Age Group/ High School State Level, Age Group (Intermediate) Weeks until target meet: 10 weeks Team Location: United States Course: 25 Yards Shared workout link: Click here to view this workout on commitswimming.com The…
The Danish Cycling Union has announced that it will not take any junior or under-23 riders to the 2025 UCI Road World Championships in Rwanda.In a statement released on Tuesday, the federation cited “financial considerations” and “the special preparations required” to compete at high altitude in Kigali.The next Worlds, running from September 21-28, will be the first held in Africa and at an altitude between 1,500 and 1,700 metres above sea level. The cost and resources necessary to compete with a full team at the event would not be possible, the federation stated.”The Danish Cycling Union has made the difficult…
Fall Report Joe Healy – November 27, 2024 GREENSBORO, N.C. — Typically when a head coach leaves a job at an unconventional time, it leaves the program scrambling, and that often ends up being expressed in a disappointing regular season. When Billy Godwin left his post as the head coach at UNC Greensboro on December 31, 2023 to return to a job with the Yankees, however, the Spartans didn’t really miss a beat. Assistant coach Cody Ellis took over as the interim head coach, the rest of the staff stayed together and a talented UNCG team lived up to expectations by going…
A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size How does Joe Schmidt’s current squad compare to the last time the Wallabies faced Ireland?It’s been two years since Australia ran out at Lansdowne Road to play Ireland. Both squads have seen their fair share of turnover in that time, which is to be expected with the peak of a World Cup taking place in that period. France 2023, remember it? I think Wallabies fans have found a kindred spirit in the Irish, another team who’d rather forget the pain.But both teams aren’t running…
Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid failed to retain their Wheelchair Masters doubles title with a straight-set defeat by Martin de la Puente and Joachim Gerard in the Netherlands.The British duo, who won the title for a third time together in 2023, lost 6-4 6-2 to the Spanish-Belgian pair.Reid and Hewett, who clinched the Paralympic doubles title in Paris this summer, had previously won the season-ending tournament in 2017 and 2021.Reid has a second shot at silverware in Arnhem, however, after sealing his place in the singles final earlier on Saturday.He defeated De la Puente 6-2 6-1 in his semi-final, but…