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Now that the dust has settled, Damon Jackson has made the decision not to retire from MMA. Jackson (23-8-1 MMA, 6-6-1 UFC) took his gloves off and left them in the middle of the octagon following his first-round submission loss to Jim Miller at UFC 309 in November. All signs point to him walking away from the sport, but upon further reflection, Jackson decided this is not the time. “It was a very emotional night,” Jackson told MMA Junkie Radio. “I’ve had a lot going on this past two or three years that I haven’t really shared with anyone. I…
Top Performances of 2024: Pan Zhanle, Bobby Finke Top List With Gold-Medal, World-Record Swims The year concluded with one of the fastest editions of the Short Course World Championships ever, with 30 world records set over six days of competition. However, only one swim from Budapest cracks this year’s list of top-10 performances because of the astounding efforts posted at this year’s Paris Olympics and in the months leading up to the Games. Moreover, each swimmer is only eligible to appear on this list once, and three of the swimmers who set multiple world records at Short Course Worlds are…
Laurens Sweeck (Crelan-Corendon) prevailed in a fantastic last-lap battle to claim the victory in the Superprestige in Diegem.Niels Vandeputte extended his lead in the series with second place while European champion Thibau Nys (Baloise Trek) couldn’t clip in after the run-up just before the sprint and faded to third.”Every win is important,” Sweeck said. “Yesterday in Besançon I had a really bad day – today it’s a big difference and I’m really happy to take the victory.”Nys and Sweeck traded blows in the fiercely contested final lap, each rider making multiple passes to try to hold the lead, but Sweeck…
Image credit: Photo by roya ann miller on Unsplash The question “does baseball need to be saved” is very much a loaded one—it insinuates that baseball even ought to be saved, that the sport is a net good in our world at all. There are plenty of people who would point to the subsidization of major-league ballparks, taking away investment in education, transportation, and social programs, as a pretty obvious answer that it isn’t. But that requires another distinction, between the capitalized Baseball that makes up the final third of MLB and the lowercase baseball that comprises the vast majority…
Sam Parry pulled out of Wales’ summer squad after feeling disrespected
Their relationship thawed when Kyrgios offered support to Djokovic over a court decision to deport him from Australia in 2022, and has continued to warm ever since.But, before the match, Kyrgios had little idea how things would pan out.The 2022 Wimbledon runner-up was back on a competitive court for the first time in 18 months following a wrist ligament injury which he feared would end his career.How the 29-year-old’s body would react was the first unknown. How a new partnership between “two different personalities” would gel was the second.”We might get absolutely snipped,” said Kyrgios, who lost to Djokovic in…
Mark Schlabach, ESPN Senior WriterDec 30, 2024, 08:36 AM ETCloseSenior college football writer Author of seven books on college football Graduate of the University of GeorgiaAnother year in professional golf has come and gone without the PGA Tour and LIV Golf finding common ground to bring the sport’s stars together more often than just the four major championships.World No. 1 golfer Scottie Scheffler kept winning and winning on the PGA Tour, Jon Rahm recovered from a slow start to win a title in his first season in LIV Golf, and Xander Schauffele finally broke through in the majors.Nelly Korda was…
Tyler Herro was ejected from Miami’s win over the Rockets on Sunday after getting in a fight with Amen Thompson and the guard didn’t hold his tongue postgame. Herro & Thompson Ejected For Fight Although he was ejected from Sunday’s game, Tyler Herro played an important role in Miami’s win over the Rockets in Houston. The guard scored 27 points, 9 assists and 6 rebounds in what would have been a faultless night if he didn’t get into a heated argument towards the end of the game. All night Herro proved to be too much to handle for Amen Thompson,…
MMA fans certainly are different than most sports fans, which is something former UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley understands now more than ever. The star 135-pound competitor is currently in Japan for Tuesday’s RIZIN: Decade event, and took part in a fan meet-and-great days before the annual event. “Sugar” was asked by a fan to kick him in the posterior during the session, and O’Malley delivered a thudding kick that sent the man dropping to the floor. Check out the video below. O’Malley ended 2024 with a 1-1 record, which included losing the bantamweight championship to Merab Dvalishvili in the…
2024 U.S. Open Championships Olympian Rhyan White swam at the US Open in Greensboro earlier this month, where she won the 100 fly and 200 back. After missing the Olympic team this past summer, White admits that it’s been hard to motivate herself to train but that has been made easier by the wave of new talent at her training base of NC State. The ‘Bama alumnus says she would love to make one more international team for Team USA.