Author: admin
Thomas Heilman is Latest Rising American Star to Pursue Olympic Success Before arriving at his first U.S. Olympic Trials, Thomas Heilman was already the owner of 20 national age group records, the most impressive of which were set last summer when he made the leap from Junior Pan Pacific Championships medalist to World Championships team member. On the first day of the 2023 U.S. nationals, Heilman finished second in the 200 butterfly in 1:54.54, clipping 4-hundredths off an age-group mark set by Michael Phelps in 2001—at the time, a world record. Two days later, Heilman smashed the mark in the…
With the 2024 Tour de France now finished, the final count for the amount of prize money won by each of the 22 teams is in, with Tadej Pogačar’s UAE Team Emirates of course on top again after dominating the three-week race.Race winner Pogačar and his UAE support squad raked in a stunning €806,810, almost a third of the €2,282,200 total, through their dominance, with the Slovenian’s overall yellow jersey victory netting €500,000 itself and his six stage wins amassing €66,000. Pogačar’s teammates and key climbing domestiques João Almeida and Adam Yates managed fourth and sixth overall behind their leader, adding…
LSU blue-chip recruit Boston Bateman (Eric Sorenson) Recruiting Shooter Hunt – July 12, 2024 While the arrival of every summer brings with it monumental risks for college’s best prep recruiting classes, this year’s angst among college coaches might be driven most by the vast uncertainty surrounding the 2024 MLB Draft. This is one of the more unsettled drafts in recent memory, and that uncertainty is most prevalent in regards to this group of high school seniors. November’s Signing Day Primer provided a sneak peek at some of the (potentially) impactful recruiting classes from across the country, and much of the…
Transfer news expert Fabrizio Romano has congratulated Manchester United on what he felt was a “really surprising” move to sign Leny Yoro from Lille this summer.The talented young Frenchman shone in Ligue 1 to establish himself as one of the top young players in Europe, attracting strong interest from Real Madrid and also coming to pretty much a full agreement with the Spanish giants, according to Romano as he spoke exclusively to CaughtOffside for the latest episode of The Debrief Podcast.Romano praised Man Utd and congratulated them for this surprise deal, as he admits he fully expected Yoro to end…
The Wallabies backed it up. That’s not something that you hear all that often as a rugby union supporter nowadays in Australia, but as a loyal Wallabies fan and devotee of rugby, it is something that I’m sure many others in Australia could certainly get used to. Having now won two successive matches against the Welsh, and held off Georgia, there is no doubt that Australian rugby fans around the world have had a spring in their step in July and who can blame us? Australia had not won two games on the trot since October of 2021, and Joe…
As Barbora Krejcikova stood with the Venus Rosewater Dish in her hands, there was one thing she could not stop saying.”I don’t have any words right now, it’s just unbelievable,” the Czech said, to cheers from the crowd.Asked what it means to the Czech Republic to have another Wimbledon champion, she said: “Well, I think nobody believes it that I got to the final and nobody believes that I won Wimbledon.”I still can’t believe it.”Krejcikova arrived at SW19 having won just three matches in five months, the result of a season plagued by injury and illness.She leaves it as the…
By Steve Bunce IF the last moments of Deontay Wilder’s career took place in the Riyadh ring when he stumbled, turned and was hit flush by Zhilei Zhang, he would be in great company. His last act in a boxing ring was to try and convince the referee, Kieran McCann, that he was fine; a second later he fell into McCann’s arms and at 1:51 of the fifth round it was the end for Wilder. He made a fortune in his career as the heavyweight champion of the world, he was in the neon glare at the end and not…
Jul 21, 2024, 09:36 PM ETTRUCKEE, Calif. — Nick Dunlap became the first player in PGA Tour history to win as an amateur and a professional in the same year, rallying Sunday for a two-point victory in the Barracuda Championship.In January at The American Express in La Quinta, the 20-year-old Dunlap — then a sophomore at the University of Alabama — became the eighth amateur to win a tour event and the first in 33 years. He turned professional days later.”I never thought that I would have my name next to that, but it’s definitely an honor,” Dunlap said about…
A lot has been said since the U.S. men’s national team decided to replace Kawhi Leonard with Derrick White, after they assessed that the Clippers star was still suffering from the knee injury that kept him out of his club’s final games from this past season. However, some believe that there was another Celtics player who deserved the call. Boston conquered the NBA title with Jaylen Brown as their Finals MVP, and many consider him a better asset for Team USA’s gold-medal aspirations than White. Either way, JB didn’t want any trouble, so he revealed that he called his teammate…
Conor McGregor appears ready to make his comeback. Following an eventful week where he hosted a BKFC press conference, launched a new record label, blasted Jake Paul after his boxing match and apparently fired Mike Perry from his job with the bare-knuckle promotion, the Irish superstar took to Twitter to inform his next opponent that he’s healthy and ready to fight. The comment came after McGregor posted a video showing him hitting a punching machine with no gloves on and that led to Michael Chandler replying “but show us the bare foot knuckles.” McGregor broke his pinky toe in the…