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Share this article 645 shares share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/lists/ufc-news-dana-white-contender-series-season-8-roster-fight-card August 9, 2024 10:50 pm ET Dana White’s Contender Series, Season 8 kicks off in less than three months.In recent weeks, the UFC matchmakers have been gearing up for a summer DWCS return, expected to launch Aug. 13. Athletes and matchups have slowly, but surely, been booked.DWCS debuted in 2017 with an eight-episode inaugural season. Season 2 was held in 2018 with eight episodes, followed by a three-episode DWCS: Brasil. In 2019, DWCS was extended to 10 episodes,…
2024 PARIS SUMMER OLYMPIC GAMES In an action-packed day, Serbia and Croatia cemented their places in the men’s gold medal match in Paris, giving both teams the potential to make history in the coming days. Serbia def. USA, 10-6 The defending Olympic champions Serbia will have the chance to defend their title with a win over the United States, moving the Serbian team on to the gold medal match. Through the first quarter of the game, the United States held on to the explosive Serbian offense. The US actually struck first in the match, pulling out to a 1-0 lead…
Image 1 of 10Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini of Italy ride to gold medal in women’s Madison at Paris Olympic Games(Image credit: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)Chiara Consonni and Vittoria Guazzini of Italy(Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)Maike van der Duin and Lisa van Belle (Netherlands) performing a handsling(Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)Women’s Madison Final – Amalie Dideriksen and Julie Norman Leth of Denmark) (Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)Elinor Barker and Neah Evans of Great Britain ride to silver(Image credit: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)Team Belgium riders Katrijn De Clercq and Helene Hesters(Image credit: Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)Maho Kakita and Tsuyaka Uchino of Team Japan(Image credit: Jared C Tilton/Getty Images)Marion Borras and…
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For years now West Ham United have been the Premier League’s proverbial sleeping giant, but technical director, Tim Steidten, is waking the East Londoners up in a big way.A battle of wills that developed between the German and David Moyes last season was only going to see one winner and, for once, the Hammers made the right decision.For all of Moyes’ success at the London Stadium – lest we forget he brought the club its first major trophy in over four decades – his was a style of play that had begun to look stale and moribund in today’s game.Tim…
The Penarthian could be making his first impression this weekend.
It was a record-breaking semi-final Wimbledon will not forget.Two hours and 51 minutes of brilliant sporting drama as Italian seventh seed Jasmine Paolini defeated unseeded Donna Vekic 2-6 6-4 7-6 (10-8) in the longest women’s semi-final in the tournament’s history.Paolini had never won a match here before July. She has now won six in a row, but none more nerve-wracking than this.After losing a bruising opening set, Paolini was in trouble. At 4-3 and a break down in the final set, Vekic was two games from glory, despite being hampered by an injury to her right arm.Paolini fought back and…
By Elliot Foster Lucas Biswana has been rewarded with a lucrative promotional deal after winning an ABA title. The Liverpool fighter struck gold in this year’s senior elite tournament in the unpaid code and will now be given the chance to showcase his talents on the biggest of stages. Biswana, who was a national amateur champion with Gemini ABC in his home city before joining the Everton Red Triangle gym, will be trained and managed by the club’s head coach Paul Stevenson. And he is set to be thrust into the spotlight early on in his paid career after signing…
American Peter Uihlein shot one of the rounds of his life today, a course record 10-under-par 61, to surge into the lead at the halfway stage of International Series England – being played at Foxhills Club & Resort, in Surrey. His round, made up of an eagle, nine birdies and one bogey, was remarkably 10 shots better than his first round and saw him move to 10-under for the US$2million event. The LIV Golf star leads by one from Belgium’s Thomas Pieters – his RangeGoats GC team-mate on the LIV Golf League and joint-first round leader – and surprise-package Robert…
The Denver Nuggets received a disabled player exception worth $1.53 million on Thursday for rookie DaRon Holmes, who suffered a torn Achilles during the fourth quarter of his first NBA Summer League game against the Los Angeles Clippers on July 12. Holmes, who turns 22 on Aug. 15, is expected to miss the entire 2024-25 NBA season. Per Spotrac, the exception is worth precisely $1,532,820, half of the rookie’s $3,065,640 salary for the 2024-25 campaign. The Denver Nuggets have received a disabled player exception for 1.53 million, league sources tell The Athletic. This is in the wake of losing rookie…