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Stories Kendall Rogers – August 27, 2024 There’s no doubt that last year’s NCAA Transfer Portal had more ‘high-profile’ players enter, but there’s also no doubt this year’s portal was heavier in numbers. Overall, 2,845 players entered the NCAA Division I Transfer Portal for baseball. Ranking the best transfers out of that group is a difficult and tedious process, but we separated hitters and pitchers for this exercise. We begin our countdown of the nation’s Top 85 pitching transfers with an in-depth look at arms in the 76-85 range — headlined by TCU addition and righthanded pitcher Trey Newmann. Let’s…
There are just three days left of the summer transfer window, and Liverpool are still the only club not to make a significant addition to their ranks.Though a deal for Giorgi Mamardashvili has been agreed, he will remain at Valencia until the 2025/26 season, meaning that the squad that Arne Slot has ostensibly remains the same as the one he inherited, a departure or two notwithstanding.With supporters of every club appearing to demand that signings are made in each and every window, the lack of investment from FSG would seem to be a worry for the Anfield faithful.Liverpool might not…
Former rugby union star Louis Rees-Zammit has not been selected in the Kansas City Chiefs’ 53-man squad for the 2024 season.The former Wales winger, who quit rugby in January to pursue a career in the NFL, has been training with the Chiefs throughout the offseason.The 23-year-old played in all three of their pre-season games, but missed out on the NFL’s ‘cutdown day’.Teams have an offseason training squad of 90 players and must select 53 for the start of the season, for which the deadline was Tuesday. Rees-Zammit’s hopes of playing during the regular season are not over, though.He will now…
Having opted to skip this summer’s Olympic Games in Paris, Raducanu also missed WTA 1,000 events in Toronto and Cincinnati in the lead-up to the US OpenRaducanu admitted afterwards that she lacked some match sharpness against Kenin.”I got off to a bit of a slow start, but did really well to fight back in sets two and three and there wasn’t much in it,” Raducanu said.”I think I worked my way into the match pretty well, but at this level you can’t really afford to have a slow start of the set and start from a set down.”I know when…
By: Sean Crose There’s absolutely zero doubt that IBF welterweight champion Jaron “Boots” Ennis is the single most highly regarding fighter in his division at the moment. With Errol Spence still out of the picture and Terence Crawford moving up to junior middleweight the welterweight division is a weight realm looking for a king. And, without doubt, Ennis is first among equals at welterweight. Still, Mario Barrios, Brian Norman Jr, and Eimantas Stanionis also hold titles at welterweight, which means Ennis isn’t the only divisional champion. He has three peers who are also titlists…and who also no doubt would like…
Stacy Lewis has named her three captain’s picks to round out her 12-strong team to face Europe in next month’s Solheim Cup matches. Lexi Thompson says being picked as one of three wildcards for the United States Solheim Cup team to face Europe next month “means the world” to her. The 29-year-old is retiring from playing full time at the end of the year so will be making her seventh and final appearance in the biennial competition. US captain Stacy Lewis said the decision to pick Thompson “was probably the easiest to make of these three”. “She’s somebody who is…
The City of Philadelphia has released four separate impact studies from CSL that analyze the proposed Philadelphia 76ers arena in Center City. The four reports include: a community impact assessment; an economic impact analysis; a design consulting; and a traffic, transportation, and parking analysis. Philadelphia City Council’s community impact report focuses on two areas: Market East and Chinatown Regarding community impact, the report focused on two areas: Market East and Chinatown. According to the study, the impact on Market East is “inconclusive” and with or without the arena, the area will still face challenges in terms of development. However, the…
Jon Jones is the No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter in the world and you’re not going to convince Dana White otherwise. After another successful episode of Dana White’s Contender Series that saw one of the best fights in DWCS history, the UFC CEO sat down to address members of the media. While the questions started simple enough, much of them surrounding the evening’s action, things quickly took a turn as soon as someone in the room dropped Jon Jones’ name. “He’s the No. 1 best pound-for-pound fighter in the world and the GOAT, and you all know this,” White said. “Numbers…
Paralympic Games: Australia’s World Beating Imer Tim Hodge Aiming To Make A Golden Splash in Paris. Australia’s world beating IM star Tim Hodge will begin his jam-packed 2024 Paralympic Games program in Paris on Friday – aiming to add the one thing that has eluded the 23-year-old Sydneysider – Paralympic gold. Hodge, competing in his third Games after making his debut in Rio in 2016, followed by Tokyo 2020 where he claimed his first medals – silver in the S9 category 200m individual medley and 100m backstroke. CHASING PARALYMPIC GOLD: Tim Hodge off to a flyer at…
Meanwhile, back in the low countries we got some action going on. Second up Tuesday we got the Muur Class Geraardsbergen with a startlist with just two WT teams but a tasty little course Fun fun fun. What’s that? Who’s gonna win? Well, Jens would point to Giuanluca Brambila. Me, I’ll point at Milan Menten because Milans have been doing quite well lately. But this race is running up against the Eneco Tour, er BinkBank Tour, um, the… Renewi Tour! Five stages, the second being a TT, the third and fourth, like that TT being flat flat flat, and the…