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Melbourne-based cycling apparel brand Maap has today announced a multi-year sponsorship deal of Australian WorldTour teams Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco, as well as the women’s Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental team. Visually the new team kit, common across both men’s and women’s teams save for sponsor logos, is a departure from the norm for the WorldTour. But rather than the purple and deep blue jerseys, it is likely the light grey of the shorts here that will turn heads initially. Outside of the world champion and national champions’ occasional use of white shorts, black is very much the standard option in the pro peloton. AG2R La…
Fall Report Mike Rooney – December 17, 2024 In this era of conference transitions and realignment, changing leagues with a young team often goes poorly. That was exactly the case for the Cougs in 2004. BYU’s 7-23 Big 12 record reflected the rigors of this very strong baseball conference.There is good news, however. And I would say significantly so. For starters, the BYU athletic department is swimming in proof of concept as it relates to the Big 12. In just two years in the league, their women’s teams have quickly displayed their excellence. The football program made a lot of…
A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size David Kirk, New Zealand’s winning captain from the first-ever World Cup, has been confirmed as the new NZR chairman, after a vote that saw one of the nine recommended nominees rejected.Kirk, a former NZ players association chief, lifted the World Cup in 1987 as All Blacks halfback. He retired from the sport shortly after, aged 26, and launched a successful business career.Eight of the nine people put forward by the NZR Appointments and Remuneration Panel were confirmed, with former Otago chair and current board…
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By: Sean Crose “I’ve not spoke to Paris in three months,” former heavyweight titlist Tyson Fury recently told TNT Sports in an interview. “Not a word.” Paris, for those who don’t know, is Fury’s wife, as well as the mother of his children. “I don’t miss ’em,”Fury said of his family, claiming that – although he loves his family – he’s made himself able to separate the boxing life from family life. And, with his rematch with titlist Oleksandr Usyk going down this Saturday, the focus has to be on the sweet science. Of course, Fury has said surprising things…
Catriona Matthew OBE, who led Great Britain and Ireland to a memorable Curtis Cup victory earlier this year, will continue as Captain for the match against the United States of America at Bel-Air Country Club in 2026. Matthew masterminded a first win in eight years for GB&I with a thrilling 10½-9½ triumph at Sunningdale in September – a success featured in a new R&A documentary, Rising: Inside the Curtis Cup, to be aired this week. The two-time Solheim Cup-winning Captain will aim to lead a fourth team triumph when the 44th Curtis Cup takes place at Bel-Air in Los Angeles,…
Joel Embiid will be reevaluated in one week with his right sinus fracture. Embiid suffered the injury in the Philadelphia 76ers’ loss last Friday to the Indiana Pacers. Embiid has played in just six games this season, averaging 20.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists in 29.3 minutes.
Former undisputed welterweight champion, Kamaru Usman has claimed he is open to a host of fights when he is healthy enough to compete again — including against Joaquin Buckley, after the he received a call out from the surging contender after his UFC Fight Night Tampa main event win. Usman, who has been sidelined since October of last year, made an impromptu middleweight move, forcing the unbeaten, Khamzat Chimaev the distance in a controversial majority decision loss at UFC 294. The defeat came as Auchi native, Usman’s third consecutively, following prior back-to-back title fight losses to Leon Edwards at the…
Breaking Through Plateaus: Keep the Faith – Your Day Will Come One stroke, two strokes—kick, pull, breathe. My heart pounded as I swam for the wall. I knew that this was the swim that would be different, this is the swim where my hard work would finally pay off. I touched the wall, and slowly looked up at the scoreboard as I took my goggles off. I could not believe my eyes. My breath caught—not from exhaustion, but from another disappointment. The time on the board didn’t match the countless hours of hard work I had put in throughout the…
Image 1 of 24Steve Buttleman, the official bugler of Churchill Downs, played the National Anthem and the Call to Post to kickoff the elite level races.(Image credit: SnowyMountain Photography)Start of the women’s race, Katie Clouse takes the hole shot.(Image credit: SnowyMountain Photography)Lopez de San Roman and Clouse took turns at the front after shedding all other riders.(Image credit: SnowyMountain Photography)Vida Lopez de San Roman jumped straight from the Junior women 17-18 into the Women’s Elite race and made the lead group early in the first lap.(Image credit: SnowyMountain Photography)Lizzy Gunsalus fell off the lead group early, and spent much of…