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The Brooklyn Nets and Tosan Evbuomwan have agreed to a Two-Way deal. Evbuomwan appeared in 17 games last season with the Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies.
If the UFC returns to Japan, Sean O’Malley wants in. The former UFC bantamweight champion was a guest fighter at the New Year’s Eve show RIZIN 49, which took place at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. The UFC hasn’t held an event in Japan since UFC Fight Night 117 in September 2017, but O’Malley (18-2 MMA, 10-2 UFC) is interested in competing there if they ever return. “Right now, obviously, I’m with the UFC,” O’Malley said during a RIZIN media scrum (h/t MMA Fighting). “I plan to be with the UFC forever. So, if the UFC comes here someday,…
Six Predictions for 2025: Leon Marchand Will Add to World-Record Total In one of the greatest individual performances in swimming history, Leon Marchand won four individual gold medals at the Paris Olympics, becoming only the third man to do so in one Games after Mark Spitz and Michael Phelps (twice). In each of his events, Marchand recorded the second-fastest time in history on the way to gold, including in his back-to-back wins over the defending Olympic champions in the 200 butterfly and 200 breaststroke. In his final individual race, Marchand nearly broke the world record in the 200 IM, falling just six hundredths short…
Eli Iserbyt (Pauwels Sauzen-Bingoal) claimed his first victory since last November, recovering from a slow start to gain the lead in the closing laps and ride away from his rivals in the GP Sven Nys. With the win, Iserbyt extended his lead in the X2O Trophy.Pim Ronhaar (Baloise Glowi) was second and Emiel Verstrynge (Crelan-Corendon) third.In the absence of world champion Mathieu van der Poel, the field was wide open for a new name atop the podium in Baal.After a fast start, European champion Thibau Nys struggled with his pedal and lost ground while Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP) got the hole…
Image credit: © David Reginek-Imagn Images This article was originally published on December 13, 2024. In modern baseball, few measurements are more watched than a ball’s velocity off the bat. In and of itself, higher velocity does not guarantee a successful outcome. But it certainly makes a successful outcome more probable, and it is hard to repeat success without it. Unfortunately, effectively summarizing a player’s seasonal exit velocity is tricky. Unlike many other measurements in life (and baseball), exit velocity does not follow the traditional “bell curve.” Instead, last season’s major-league exit velocity distribution looks like this, with a definite…
Bristol Bears have signed Ireland fly-half Harry Byrne on loan from Leinster. Byrne has penned a three-month deal at the Premiership side and the Bears say he will act as cover for AJ MacGinty who is set to miss the next four months with a knee injury.The 25-year-old has made 75 appearances for Leinster and played four times for his country.”It was important for us to bring in some additional cover at fly-half,” Bristol director of rugby Pat Lam said.”Harry is a quality international player who is very experienced at domestic and European level, representing one of the top clubs…
Katie Boulter beat Australia’s Olivia Gadecki in straight sets to ensure Great Britain reached the United Cup quarter-finals in Sydney.Boulter knew a straight-set victory from any of the three rubbers against the hosts would take GB through as Group F winners.In the first match of the tie, Boulter won 6-2 6-1 inside 70 minutes to put GB 1-0 up and secure qualification. Britain had beaten Argentina 2-1 in their opening tie at the event on Tuesday.”I’ve been trying to avoid all the stats on all this but we were at dinner with [former British number one] Laura Robson last night,…
In the Denver Nuggets recent victory over the Utah Jazz, Russell Westbrook, and Nikola Jokic both made history. Both players came away with a triple-double while Jokic reached 15,000 career points. For Westbrook, not only was it his 201st career triple-double, but he also achieved it without missing a shot from the field. As a result, he joins Jokic as the only players in NBA history to record a triple-double with no misses and no turnovers. He also joined Domantas Sabonis as the only players in NBA history to record a triple-double while shooting 100 percent from the floor and…
Relive the magic of 2024’s MMA Fighting UFC Watch Parties with our countdown of the top-10 best reactions of the year — which includes two of the eye-opening knockouts from UFC 300.
Former Arizona State swimmer Grant House, the main plaintiff (alongside TCU women’s basketball player Sedona Prince) in the House v. NCAA class action lawsuit set to drastically change the landscape of collegiate athletes, spoke to Yahoo Sports about his thoughts on the case — his first long-form interview since the lawsuit was settled in May 2024. House said that he’s received messages and calls from people who threatened to kill him. Some of the messages he got wrote: You are the worst human ever. You are ruining lives. You are an egotist. You deserve the worst punishment in life. I…