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The off-season is over and the 2025 campaign is upon us. Who will punch above their weight? Who will struggle for results? And who will even be in the WorldTour in 2026?Indeed, relegation is one of the themes of the season, as we enter the final phase of the three-year rolling ranking that will decide the attribution of men’s WorldTour licences from 2026-2028.Elsewhere, we have the battle for superiority at the very top of the UCI World Ranking, with Visma-Lease a Bike out for revenge after UAE Team Emirates’ – and in particular Tadej Pogačar’s – incredible 2024 season. We have…
Image credit: © Thomas Shea-Imagn Images This article was originally published on October 3, 2024. Baseball is always unpredictable, and never more so than in the postseason. That’s been a favorite saw of baseball lovers for decades, and even as the increasingly close, scientific observers of the sport have built ways to better understand and project it, they’ve also ratcheted up the rhetoric on that point. Arguably, the most important contributions of the analytical movement to our grasp of baseball is the transparency and bluntness the drivers of the movement have offered about the limits of their power. We have…
A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Sydney Roosters star Dominic Young has clarified his position on a code switch to rugby union.The English winger was reported to be considering a switch to union to represent his home nation – and follow ex-teammates Joseph-Aukuso Suaalii and Joey Manu from the Roosters to rugby union.In an interview with News Corp, Young said: “There were a few rumours lately, but I haven’t really had any talks or anything like that.“I have considered it in the past, and have had some talks with a…
Backed again by an exuberant and partisan home crowd, Kyrgios showed plenty of the talent which enabled him to reach the Wimbledon final in 2022.The former world number 13, who won in the doubles alongside one-time nemesis Djokovic on Monday, showed the injury problems have not weakened his serve – which has always been one of his biggest assets.Kyrgios did not drop a service game against the 31st-ranked Mpetshi Perricard, saving the two break points which he faced.But his problem was Mpetshi Perricard – a 6ft 8in serving machine who had a startling climb from outside the top 200 in…
By: Sean Crose While it’s often good advice not to follow the crowd, sometimes the crowd is on to something. That’s certainly the case this year, as heavyweight kingpin Oleksandr Usyk is almost universally being trumpeted as the premier professional boxer of 2024. There used to be a saying in Hollywood that script readers primarily look for reasons to reject a screenplay rather than to pass it along to higher ups. The same could frankly be said of boxing fans and journalists, many if not most of whom see the figurative glass as being half empty by default. Usyk, however,…
Dec 31, 2024, 09:22 PM ETKAPALUA, Hawaii — Americans are getting paid to play in the Ryder Cup for the first time, and Xander Schauffele said Tuesday the plan is for them not to get a dime.”I just see it as a whole lot of money going to charity and we’re going to take a lot of crap,” Schauffele said.The PGA of America voted last month to give the 12 players and captain Keegan Bradley $300,000 to donate to a charity of their choice and a $200,000 stipend. Bradley immediately said he would donate all of his to charity.Editor’s Picks1…
Amen Thompson has received a two-game suspension from the NBA for his role in an on-court altercation at the end of the Houston Rockets’ recent loss to the Miami Heat. Terry Rosier has received a one-game suspension. Jalen Green, Tyler Herro and Ime Udoka received fines. Thompson threw Herro to the ground while defending an in-bounds play.
Dana White’s Contender Series product, Joe Pyfer is set to make his return to action at a slated UFC Fight Night Mexico City event on March 29. — booking a middleweight pairing against former interim title chaser, Kelvin Gastelum. Pyfer, who returned to winning-ways following his first headlining clash under the banner of the promotion, most recently landed a first round knockout win over Canadian contender, Marc-Andre Barriault at UFC 303 back in June during International Fight Week. Mandatory Credit: Zuffa LLC Joe Pyfer lands UFC Mexico City return against Kelvin Gastelum And as for Gastelum, the former interim middleweight…
Duncan Scott Awarded OBE In New Year’s Honours List Duncan Scott has been awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours List following a year in which he became Scotland’s most-decorated Olympic athlete. The University of Stirling swimmer, who was awarded an MBE in 2021, won two medals in Paris bringing his Olympic medal tally to eight from three consecutive Games at Rio 2016, Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 comprising two golds and six silvers. Having won gold in Tokyo in the 4x200m freestyle, Scott – along with James Guy, Tom Dean and Matt Richards made history in Paris, as…
Title: New Black Cyclones – Racism, Representation and Revolutions of Power in CyclingAuthor: Marlon Lee MoncrieffePublisher: BloomsburyYear: 2024Pages: 212Order: BloomsburyWhat it is: Marlon Moncrieffe’s follow-up to Desire Discrimination Determination in which he again addresses the issue of racism in cycling and raises some challenging questions about the ways in which we might rid cycling of its colour barStrengths: Moncrieffe acknowledges that none of the solutions available to us are simpleWeaknesses: If all you think is needed to solve cycling’s racism problem is assimilating some Black riders into the sport, you probably won’t like some of the issues raised here by…