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A rare Michael Jordan rookie card, complete with a Chicago Bulls team set, will hit the auction block at Heritage Auctions on Friday, January 24, the multi-national auction house informed TMZ Sports on Saturday. Bidding begins Friday, January 3. The 1984 Star Co. Michael Jordan rookie card is in “near mint condition” with an 8.5 PSA grade For the best part, Jordan’s rookie card is expected to sell for nearly half a million dollars. A spokesperson for Heritage Auctions said bidding could reach $400,000 for the 12-card lot. “The 1984 Star Co. Michael Jordan card #101 is the G.O.A.T. NBA…

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Jamahal Hill is eager to earn another crack at Alex Pereira. Hill (12-2 MMA, 6-2 UFC) will get his opportunity to shine in the first pay-per-view event of the year when he takes on fellow former titleholder Jiri Prochazka at UFC 311. “We’ve been on a collision course for some time now, and now it’s our time to meet and see who takes that next step forward,” Hill told WOOD TV8. That next step is likely a shot at the UFC title. In the latest USA TODAY Sports/MMA Junkie light heavyweight rankings, Hill holds the…

World Championship bronze medalist and four-time World Junior Champion Ksawery Masiuk will defer his enrollment at the University of Texas until the fall of 2025. That pushes back the original commitment plan that was for him to arrive mid-season in the next few weeks. Masiuk cited “formalities” as the reason for the delay. This is a significant blow to Texas’ hopes of rising all the way to the NCAA title in the first year under new Director of Swimming Bob Bowman, who last year led Arizona State to the crown. While the Longhorns are still in the hunt thanks to other transfers…

Image 1 of 3Mathieu Van Der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) wins Besançon World CupToon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP) was second(Image credit: Getty Images)Joran Wyseure (Crelan-Corendon) finished fifth(Image credit: Getty Images)Mathieu van der Poel (Alpecin-Deceuninck) did it again, taking another solo victory at the UCI Cyclocross World Cup in Besançon on Sunday on a brutally cold day. The world champion powered away on the second lap of the slippery and heavy course to claim his third World Cup victory of this cyclocross season.Toon Aerts (Deschacht-Hens-FSP), who got off to a fast start and stayed with Van der Poel during the first lap, held off the chasing…

Fall Report Walter Villa – December 29, 2024 It was like getting punched in the gut.Twelve times.Immediately following the 2024 season, the Jacksonville Dolphins lost 12 players in 14 days to the transfer portal.“This summer was about survival,” Dolphins coach Chris Hayes said. “But once we got through the shock, we found the guys who wanted to be in our program.”Among the players who transferred out was first baseman/second baseman Justin Nadeau, who hit .395 with a 1.003 OPS in 30 games last season, including 29 starts. He is now with the Florida Gators.Jacksonville also lost a lot of pitchers…

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size Two-time NRL premiership winner Joey Manu has scored a try but was denied a winning start to his career in Japan Rugby League One after an injury-time dropped goal by ex-Wallabies No.10 Bernard Foley secured Spears Funabashi Tokyo-Bay a dramatic 30-27 win over Verblitz in Tokyo.Earlier on Sunday, Foley had been unable to buy a goal, missing four consecutive conversions as Brave Blossoms five-eighth Rikiya Matsuda – who replaced Beauden Barrett at Verblitz – converted all three of his side’s tries, and added two…

The Los Angeles Lakers have acquired Dorian Finney-Smith and Shake Milton from the Brooklyn Nets for D’Angelo Russell, Maxwell Lewis and three second round picks. The Lakers are sending their second rounders in 2027, 2030 and 2031. Finney-Smith has been on the trade block for several weeks as the Nets rebuild. Finney-Smith can become a free agent this offseason as he is in Year 3 of his four-year, $55.5 million extension signed with the Dallas Mavericks in 2022. The Lakers move $3.5 million below the second apron and project to have more than $11 million in luxury tax savings. The…

Kyoji Horiguchi is open to the possibility of returning to the UFC in the future. The Japanese fighter went 7-1 under the UFC banner between 2013 and 2016 and became simultaneous bantamweight champion in RIZIN and Bellator at one point of his post-UFC career. He’s scheduled to defend his 125-pound belt versus Nkazimulo Zulu at RIZIN DECADE in Saitama, Japan, on Dec. 31. Horiguchi’s sole UFC loss was to then reigning champion Demetrious Johnson and said he would consider re-entering the octagon one day if the deal is right. The 34-year-old left the promotion on a three-fight winning streak over…

How They Train: The Work of Y Nationals Champ Billie Sherratt After years as a mainstay among seniors at Fanwood-Scotch Plains YMCA, 5-7 Billie Rose Sherratt has taken her considerable free, fly and IM talents to the University of Kentucky. As a team leader, she has helped FSPY to four top-10 combined finishes at the last four short course and long course YMCA Nationals: • 2023 SCY (April): Women 4th, Men 6th, Combined 4th • 2023 LC (July): Women 4th, Men 13th, Combined 6th • 2024 SCY (April): Women 5th, Men 26th, Combined 10th • 2024 LC (July/Aug.): Women 5th,…

After a nearly two-year absence from cyclocross, Marianne Vos made her return at the UCI World Cup in Besançon on Sunday, where she finished in fifth place on the difficult icy course with a mediocre starting position.The eight-time world champion’s last cyclocross race was at the Benidorm World Cup in January 2023 before her recovery from iliac artery surgery in August, forced her to miss the following ‘cross season. Before the start in France, the Visma-Lease A Bike rider admitted that she had some apprehension about her first race back.“Well, exciting and some nerves as well of course, always the first…