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Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/lists/mma-junkies-2024-awards-roundup-dakota-ditcheva-ilia-topuria-carlos-prates-and-more January 4, 2025 9:15 pm ET The MMA Junkie 2024 Awards season is in the books. Now, for the first time, you can see all of our staff members’ honors from the past year in one spot, from our top fighters of the year to the biggest stunners and more. We’ve compiled all our awards coverage and best-ofs into one spot. Take a look back at our best of the best from 2024 below. Most used referees in 2024, overall…
Distance Freestyler Burak Iloglu Sends 2026 Verbal To Yale NEW COMMIT: Mountainside, New Jersey native and Junior National qualifier Burak Iloglu has pledged his verbal commitment* to Yale University starting in Fall 2026. He told Swimming World: “I am excited to announce my verbal commitment to the admissions process at Yale. Yale is the perfect place for me to get a world-class education and represent Türkiye in swimming moving forward. I would like to thank Mom, Dad, Ali, Anneanne, and the rest of my family and friends for making this dream come true. I would also like to thank Coach Tom…
The UCI’s flagship cyclocross series, the UCI World Cup, continues into 2025 with another round, this time coming in Dendermonde on Sunday, January 5.The event is the eighth round of the 2024-25 World Cup and takes place in the Belgian town of Dendermonde, which saw Pim Ronhaar and Ceylin Del Carmen Alvarado triumph last season.This season, all the UCI World Cup action will be streamed for free live on the UCI YouTube page, so read on for information on how to watch the races.Mathieu van der Poel’s first World Cup battle of the season against his long-time rival Wout van…
Fall Report Kendall Rogers – January 4, 2025 Houston hopes to change its fortunes entering the 2025 campaign. The Cougars experienced a fruitful final season in the American Athletic Conference two seasons ago, going 36-23 overall with a 17-6 league record. However, their first season in the Big 12 Conference didn’t go as planned, as they finished with 26 wins and just a 7-21 league record.Some of last year’s lack of success can be attributed to a simple lack of execution, while injuries also took their toll — particularly on the mound.The Coogs will have a much different look in many…
Saracens: Daly; Segun, Lozowski, Tompkins, Cinti; Burke, Van Zyl; Carre, George, Riccioni; Itoje (c), Wilson, Gonzalez, Earl, Willis.Replacements: Pifeleti, Brantingham, Clarey, Sodeke, Michelow, Simpson, Hartley, Hall.Sin bin: Maro Itoje (25 mins)Bristol: Lane; Bates, Janse van Rensburg, Williams, Heward; Worsley, Randall; Genge, Oghre, Kloska; Dun, Hodgson, Luatua, Harding (c), Mata.Replacements: Thacker, Y Thomas, Halliwell, Barker, Heenan, Marmion, Byrne, Ravouvou.Referee: Matthew Carley
World number six Elena Rybakina says her former coach Stefano Vukov “never mistreated me” after he was provisionally suspended by the WTA while an investigation into his behaviour towards the player continues.Earlier this week, the 25-year-old 2022 Wimbledon champion from Kazakhstan said Vukov, who was part of her team when she won the title, was re-joining her team.But the WTA has told BBC Sport the 37-year-old Croat is currently banned after allegedly breaching the WTA’s Code of Conduct.Vukov, who began coaching Rybakina when she was a teenager, denies any wrongdoing.”I can only say, and I said it already before, that…
Houston Rockets forward Jabari Smith Jr. is set to miss four to eight weeks after fracturing his left hand during shootaround Friday, according to coach Ime Udoka. Houston Rockets coach Ime Udoka said Amen Thompson will take over for Jabari Smith Jr. in the starting lineup Udoka said Smith got hit on the hand during practice and the team later found out it was broken. The surgery date is to-be-determined until Houston confirms the injury’s severity following a second opinion. In the meantime, Amen Thompson will take Smith’s spot in the starting lineup, per Udoka. The 21-year-old Smith is in…
Themba Gorimbo did not get support from a slew of family members after his four-fight win streak came to an end in devastating fashion at UFC 310. Gorimbo took a massive leap in competition to face perennial welterweight contender Vicente Luque in December as a replacement fighter. Luque showed the vast difference in experience levels as he put Gorimbo to sleep in less than a minute with a vicious anaconda choke. Speaking on The Pivot, Gorimbo revealed that he was sent videos of family members actually enjoying the aftermath of the loss. “Some of my cousins were celebrating my loss,”…
After winning 100m breaststroke gold at the 2016 and 2020 Olympic Games, 30-year-old Adam Peaty of Great Britain settled for silver last summer in Paris. Peaty came down with COVID-19 during the swimming competition but persevered and came just .02 short of gold, hitting a 59.05 to tie for silver while Italy’s Nicolo Martinenghi won gold in a 59.03. In the months following the Games, Peaty has taken time away from the sport, saying he was unsure what future plans would hold for the man who owns the 14th fastest performances ever produced in his signature event. With the dawn of…
While Laurence Pithie was undoubtedly a breakthrough star at the Classics last season, he knows that just a matter of kilometres and small mistakes prevented him from reaching the podium of several top one-day races. In 2025, after joining Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe, he insisted he’ll be “back with a vengeance”.At Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne, it was 70km from the line where he dropped from the Wout van Aert-led quartet that eventually fought out the win. Gent-Wevelgem saw him get closer, with just one repetition of the Kemmelberg and 34km remaining when Mads Pedersen and Mathieu van der Poel left him behind. On the cusp of,…