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UFC interim heavyweight champion Tom Aspinall is getting ready to fight Jon Jones in a unification bout, although he doesn’t quite know when that will happen. Aspinall is hopeful he’ll get the chance to face the current heavyweight champ and one of the all-time greats. After a great holiday season with his family, Aspinall said on his YouTube channel that he’s back to business. “Got to get back to reality now and get back training for the biggest fight in MMA at the moment,” Aspinall said. Jones recently stopped Stipe Miocic in the main event of UFC 309 in November,…

College Swimming Women’s Top Times: Who Has Surprised This Season? College swimming has just over a month to go until the beginning of conference championship meets, which can produce sensational efforts from all corners of the country. One month after that will be the NCAA Championships, with both the women’s and men’s meets scheduled to take place in Federal Way, Wash. With these significant meets quickly approaching, here is the current status quo in women’s college swimming, the swimmers with the No. 1 spots in each individual event right now. 50 Freestyle: Gretchen Walsh, Virginia — 20.54 100 Freestyle: Gretchen…

Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP) scored his first victory since returning from his doping suspension at Cyclocross Otegem on Monday. The 32-year-old beat out Crelan-Corendon duo Laurens Sweeck and Joran Wyseure in the closing sprint.The trio were part of a select group which did battle to the end of the race, with Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Cibel Clementines) also in the mix before fading in the final sprint to finish fourth.Iserbyt had been among the first men to go on the attack during the race, once on his own, and then again shortly afterwards after Sweeck and Wyseure attempted to head off alone…

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Steve Borthwick will name an initial 36-man Six Nations squad on Tuesday and the England head coach finds himself spinning a lot of plates in terms of his selection planning, due to various disruptive factors.As ever, there have been complications and setbacks. The national team will be without at least three men who would have been likely members of the starting XV; George Furbank, Immanuel Feyi-Waboso and Sam Underhill. While Furbank, the country’s pre-eminent full-back for much of the last year, is likely to be available again during the championship after recovering from a broken arm, the other two absentees…

Americans Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula dedicated their Australian Open first-round wins to Los Angeles and the firefighters who have been tackling the devastating wildfires.Third seed Gauff, one of the favourites for the title in Melbourne, beat compatriot and 2020 champion Sofia Kenin 6-3 6-3.Gauff wrote “stay strong LA, thank you firefighters” on the camera lens after her victory.She and Taylor Fritz have previously donated to a charity effort to help those affected.Seventh seed Pegula wrote “LA” and drew a love heart on the lens after her dominant 6-3 6-0 victory over Australian wildcard Maya Joint.Poland’s world number two Iga…

TaylorMade Golf have announced the launch of Qi35, Qi35 LS, Qi35 Max and Qi35 Max Lite drivers – a collaboration of distance and forgiveness. Traditionally, driver construction is a choice between high moment of inertia (MOI) and a low centre of gravity (CG), but with Qi35 drivers, golfers can unlock another level and choose both. Qi35 drivers are available for pre-order starting Jan. 7 and available for purchase at worldwide retail locations Jan. 30. To unlock another level of performance, the Qi35 driver combines lowered CG projection with maximum MOI resulting in more distance from more of the face#. CG…

The Milwaukee Bucks lost 140-106 to the New York Knicks at Madison Square Garden on Sunday. The Bucks are now 0-8 against the top three teams in the East. “We’ve gotta get our stuff together. It’s as simple as that. We did not beat Boston. We did not beat the Cavs. We didn’t beat the Knicks. Those are the top three teams, and we’ve played horribly against them,” said Giannis Antetokounmpo after the game.  Antetokounmpo finished with 24 points and 13 rebounds in the loss. Damian Lillard said that the results against the top three could turn come playoff time.…

Audio has surfaced following Viktoriia Dudakova’s knockout loss at UFC Vegas 101 over the course of the weekend, after the Russian native slapped her coach in the face off the back of her stoppage defeat to Fatima Kline at the Apex facility. Dudakova, who made her sophomore Octagon start over the course of the weekend, took on Brazilian prospect, Kline on the preliminary card of UFC Vegas 101, suffering a second round ground elbows TKO loss in the process. The loss saw Dudakova’s record slip to 8-2, following a UFC debut defeat to Sam Hughes over the course of three…

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:  Speed and Power Target age group:  15-18 years old, 19-22 years old Target level:  Senior Age Group/ High School State Level, National/ Collegiate Level Weeks until target meet:  8 weeks Team Location:  United States Course:  25 Yards Shared workout link:  Click here to view this workout…