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Canada’s Resilient Regan Rathwell Earns ‘Magical’ Olympic Chance There’s no easy way around it, so you might as well just ask it. Regan Rathwell has spent the last five minutes presenting an atlas to her various injuries over a hellish last two years, and the question is begging its way out. The broken foot that she swam through at Canadian Swimming Trials in 2022. The shoulder reconstruction that October, after the briefest introduction to collegiate swimming at the University of Tennessee. Surgery to shore up the other shoulder in 2023 that made it 13 months between competitions. The hospitalization for…
Title: Tour de Vers – Poems for the Tour de FranceAuthors: Ruth Aylett, Linda Cracknell, Jonathan Davidson, Steve Dearden, Morgan Downie, Kitty Fitzgerald, Harry Giles, Adam Horowitz, Kirsten Irving, Andy Jackson, Jonny Lovett, Harry Man, Nalini Paul, Jon Plunkett, Chris Powici, Janet Smith, Sheila Templeton, Sheila Wakefield, and Richard WattPublisher: Red Squirrel PressYear: 2014Pages: 42Order: Red SquirrelWhat it is: Nineteen poems inspired by the Tour de FranceStrengths: We need more cycling poetryWeaknesses: The variety of voices and views on offer makes for a somewhat scrappy tour of the Tour’s delights Cycling poetry has made fewer appearances on the Café Bookshelf…
Transfers D1Baseball Staff – July 17, 2024 Have a transfer/destination we don’t know about? Email me: kendall@d1baseball.comThe D1Baseball Transfer Tracker will be the place to be in the coming months. You can track all transfers and all destinations here at D1Baseball. It’s your one-stop shop! Players have until Tuesday, July 2, to enter the portal. In addition to tracking players transferring from Division I institution to another D1 institution, please email us if you have information on Non-D1 players transferring to Division I schools, as we will also add those players to the tracker. Check out the tracker: Want[…]
Juventus are ready to accept a £21m offer from Leicester City for talented winger Matias Soule and the Serie A giants plan to use that money to sign Man United’s Jadon Sancho. The Foxes have submitted a £21m proposal for the Argentine winger and sources have told CaughtOffside that Juventus are ready to accept that offer and allow Soule to move to the Premier League.Personal terms have already been agreed between Leicester and the player with the 21-year-old set to receive a contract at the King Power Stadium until 2028/29.The winger is believed to fancy a move to the 2016 Premier…
Rugby union is getting smashed in junior participation by the NRL and AFL, so the battling footy code has recruited a rugby league superstar to turn the tables. According to recent Federal Government data, 173,000 kids aged 0-8 are playing Aussie Rules while 108,000 kids aged 9-14 are playing rugby league. A further 125,000 teens aged 15-17 are playing Aussie Rules and 84,000 are involved in rugby league. Rugby union fails to crack the top 10 in any of the junior demographics with recent Australian Sports Commission data showing just 95,000 kids are playing the code across all junior brackets.The woes at…
Rafael Nadal booked his place in the Swedish Open final by beating Duje Ajdukovic over three sets in Bastad.It will be the first final Nadal has competed in since the 2022 French Open, after overcoming unseeded Croatian Ajdukovic 3-6 6-4 6-4 in two hours and 12 minutes.The 38-year-old Spaniard will face either unseeded Thiago Agustin Tirante or seventh seed Nuno Borges, who play the other semi-final later on Saturday.”It was a very tough match – my opponent has one of the best backhands I have played against,” said Nadal.”He came here with a lot of confidence. I was trying to…
Junto Nakatani continues to plead his case as a pound-for-pound talent. The latest display offered by the three-division titlist was a statement-making first-round knockout of the Philippines’ Vincent Astrolabio. A straight left hand to the body put Astrolabio down to end the fight at 2:37 of the first round Saturday at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo. With the win, Nakatani (28-0, 21 knockouts) lodged the first defense of his WBC bantamweight title. “I thought this was going to be a long fight,” Nakatani admitted through translator Mizuka Koike. “Luckily I landed that punch early to end the fight.”It was a fair…
Jul 20, 2024, 07:57 AM ETTROON, Scotland — Rory McIlroy had plenty of time to accept that a 10th straight year would pass without him winning a major. He now has to wait 265 days for the next one, when he hears the starter at Augusta National say, “Fore, please. Rory McIlroy driving.”The realization came on the fourth hole of the second round. He needed a good start to make the cut, maybe get back into the Open Championship. What he got was a triple bogey.”Twenty-two holes into the event and I’m thinking about where I’m going to go on…
The scenario in which teams negotiate around the NBA has changed a lot since last year, especially after the latest collective bargaining agreement was approved. For example, soon after the Clippers lost All-Star Paul George to the 76ers in free agency, the franchise cited it was due to “the constraints of the new CBA.” This agreement reached back in 2023 hoped to build restrictions for teams that spent too much budget into their luxury tax, which blew past what is referred to as the “second apron.” Same thing happened not too long ago with the Nuggets losing Kentavious Caldwell-Pope, and…
MMA Fighting has UFC Vegas 94 results for the Lemos vs. Jandiroba fight card and more from the UFC APEX in Las Vegas on Saturday night. In the main event, Amanda Lemos and Virna Jandiroba clash in a key strawweight contest. Lemos has won three of her past four fights and currently holds the No. 16 spot in MMA Fighting’s Pound-for-Pound rankings. On the other side, Jandiroba has won three straight and looks to secure a title shot with another victory. A middleweight contest between Brad Tavares and Jun Yong Park that was to serve as the evening’s co-main event…