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by Jack Tien-Dana The Pistons are an ontological chicken-or-the-egg thought experiment into whether the player makes the team or the team makes the player. With Cade Cunningham in tow, Detroit has their most exciting young player in a generation, even if he’s not the one-man cure-all that they hoped for. by Jack Tien-Dana Eventually, there’s hope that Ball can become some sort of evolutionary Steve Nash, an all-world bandleader who can coax melody from a roaring wall of sound, but Charlotte has currently boxed him in as a soloist. by Jack Tien-Dana To be at his best, Trae Young doesn’t…
UFC 309 goes down Saturday night with a heavyweight championship showdown atop the bill, and before the fights get underway, Farah Hannoun will host a live-streamed preview show right here, which kicks off at 5 p.m. ET. In the headliner, heavyweight champion Jon Jones (27-1 MMA, 21-1 UFC) puts his title on the line for the first time when he takes on former champ Stipe Miocic (20-4 MMA, 14-4 UFC) in a fight delayed by a year. In the co-feature, former lightweight champ Charles Oliveira (34-10 MMA, 22-10 UFC) takes on Michael Chandler (23-8 MMA, 2-3 UFC) after he was left at the altar by Conor McGregor. UFC…
Noè Ponti Talks Military Service, World Records & Taking A Break From The 200 Fly Noè Ponti is on a train returning home from his first week of military service after a whirlwind few weeks in which he twice lowered the 50 fly short-course world record before reporting for duty. Military service is mandatory for men in Switzerland with Ponti based in Macolin in the canton of Bern from Sunday to Friday. There he shares a room with a fellow swimmer, doing “basic military stuff” while training once a day in a 25m pool on the base as well as…
If you don’t know by now that Tadej Pogačar is the third male rider to do the Triple Crown of cycling by winning the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and World Road Race in the same year, then where have you been? Pogačar has emulated the achievements of Eddy Merckx in 1974 and Stephen Roche in 1987.By also adding two Monuments, Liege-Bastogne-Liege and the Tour of Lombardy, Pogačar has staked a reasonable claim for having just completed the greatest road racing season of all time. Every time he swung his leg over his bike he seemed to break several more…
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Ireland head coach Andy Farrell said his side held their nerve and “just about got there” after they came through a chaotic Autumn Nations Series match against Argentina with a nail-biting 22-19 win. Clearly driven after their 19-game home unbeaten run was ended by New Zealand, Ireland raced into a 12-0 lead and held a 13-point advantage at half-time. But Ireland struggled against a resurgent Argentina in the second half and were held scoreless, with the Pumas falling just short of a historic first win on Irish soil. “It was three or four games in one, wasn’t it?” said Farrell.…
Emma Raducanu made a winning return from injury before Katie Boulter followed with another victory to secure Great Britain’s place in the Billie Jean King Cup quarter-finals.In the opening match of Britain’s first-round tie against Germany, Raducanu secured a 6-4 6-4 victory – on her sixth match point after an edgy finish – over Jule Niemeier in Malaga.The 22-year-old was playing her first match in almost two months because of a foot injury, but produced an encouraging display in the 12-nation women’s team event on her latest comeback. “I feel pretty good physically. Emotionally I felt pretty calm out there.…
By James Hicken OVER the last few years, Jai Opetaia has proven himself to be one of the best fighters in the world and the de facto king of the cruiserweight division. Since the departure of Oleksandr Usyk, there has been a scramble for the scattered world titles he left behind. Although Opetaia has only been able to claim the IBF title twice in that time, defeating another of the best cruiserweights of the time, Mairis Briedis, his devasting power and precise skills have placed him at the top of his division. After successfully defending his IBF title against Jack…
Antoine Rozner posted a second round 65 to move into the lead at the DP World Tour Championship at Jumeirah Golf Estates. The Frenchman, who has a good record in Dubai having won the 2020 Golf in Dubai Championship, leads by one on nine under par with a stacked leaderboard in pursuit, including nearest challengers Tyrrell Hatton and Race to Dubai leader Rory McIlroy one shot back. Three-time DP World Tour winner Rozner was one under through his first eight holes, before catching fire from the ninth where he reeled off a trio of birdies, before adding another three in…
In 13 games this season, the Orlando Magic are 7-6. After their fifth game of the season, PF Paolo Banchero tore his right oblique. The all-star was injured at the beginning of November and will be reevaluated in four-to-six weeks. While Banchero is out, the Magic have turned to SF Franz Wagner to be their best offensive player. To begin the 2024-25 season, Banchero was averaging (29.0) points per game for the Magic. With the big man out, Franz Wagner has taken on the duties of being the #1 scoring option. After a five-game skid for Orlando, they’ve won their…