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The Utah Jazz listened to trade offers on Lauri Markkanen over the past few months, but were never presented an offer that led them to seriously consider actually moving forward with a deal. The Golden State Warriors, Sacramento Kings, San Antonio Spurs and Oklahoma City Thunder were among the teams to engage the Jazz on Markkanen. The Warriors were reportedly the most seriously engaged team on Markkanen, but Brandin Podziemski was a sticking point in talks. The Jazz signed Markkanen to a renegotiate and extend deal on Wednesday that will make him ineligible to be traded for the duration of…
Set to make his return to the ring next month in a super middleweight title fight against the unbeaten, Edgar Berlanga, defending champion, Canelo Alvarez is unlikely to set the world alight with pay-per-view numbers – according to UFC star, Conor McGregor. Set to make his return to action next month in Las Vegas, Alvarez puts his undisputed WBA, WBC, and WBO super middleweight titles on the line against the unbeaten New York challenger, Berlanga in the pair’s heated grudge match. Last featuring in April, Guadalajara native, Alvarez turned in a unanimous decision win over compatriot, Jaime Munguia over the…
A famous swimmer asked us on Wednesday for an analysis of ‘Olympic swimming medalists who aren’t Americans, but trained in America.’ We can do that! There were 219 actual medals (not medals table medals) given out for pool swimming at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to 125 athletes. First Data Point: 69 of those medals (32%) were awarded to 34 American athletes (25%). Second Data Point: 14 of those medals (6%) were awarded to 6 international athletes who train in America (5%). Third Data Point: None of those were relay medals, as far as we can tell. This was the one that I…
There were ‘I’m not crying, you’re crying’ tears of joy and relief across the Australian track cycling team at the Paris Olympics as the men’s team pursuit squad defeated Great Britain to claim their first Olympic gold medal in the event in 20 years, winning in the Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines velodrome on Wednesday.Australia’s last gold medal in the Olympic Games came in 2004, and since then, they’ve finished fourth in Beijing, second twice behind Great Britain in London and Rio, then third after a huge crash in qualifying in Tokyo.Sam Welsford and Kelland O’Brien were both part of the team in Tokyo.…
Stories Kendall Rogers – August 7, 2024 In today’s college athletics climate, it’s important to always have your head on a swivel. You never know what might change daily. College baseball, and college athletics in general, received some promising news a few weeks ago when the NCAA announced that ‘up to’ 34 full scholarships would be permissible in college baseball beginning with the 2025-26 academic year to go with a 34-man roster. In other words, very soon – so soon that we’ve already seen a plethora of high school commitments post that they were ‘parting ways’ with their college programs.…
Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton are all interested in signing Tottenham midfielder Oliver Skipp according to reports.Spurs are looking to sell a number of players this summer and they are reportedly prepared to let Skipp go as he searches for more regular first team football.Ange Postecoglou’s side have already signed midfielders Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall which means Skipp has fallen further down the pecking order.Leicester, Ipswich and Southampton interested in SkippThe 23-year-old has been at the club since the age of eight and made 24 appearances for Spurs last season, but The Telegraph have reported the north London club are prepared…
A search operation is currently in progress after the player was taken by a wave while swimming near the Cape of Good Hope
Watch the winning moment as Andy Murray and Dan Evans reach the men’s doubles quarter-finals with a thrilling 11-9 match tie-break win against Belgium’s Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen on day four of the Paris 2024 Olympics.Follow the Olympics on BBC Sport. Available to UK users only.
Juan Hernandez Sierra (right) poses alongside long-time rival Oleg Saitov – Photo courtesy of Geraldo Saldivar Cuban legend Juan Hernández Sierra was one of the premier welterweights on the amateur circuit throughout the 1990s. During that stretch he won two Olympic silver medals and four World Championship gold medals. Hernández, who was one of three brothers, was born in the town of Guane, Pinar del Río in the very west of Cuba, on March 16, 1969. “I had a very simple life in my childhood but a happy one,” Hernández told The Ring through Gerardo Saldivar. “Both my parents were hard…
Captain Luke Donald will again choose six wild cards for Europe’s Ryder Cup team, with the six qualifiers for next year’s trophy defence taken from just one ranking list. Qualifying points will be earned using a new tournament banding structure weighted towards performances in the majors and biggest PGA Tour and DP World Tour events, but LIV Golf tournaments remain unable to award points. The new points list replaces the World Points List and European Points List which were based on world ranking points and Race to Dubai points respectively. Players must remain members of the DP World Tour to be eligible…