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MMA Fighting has PFL Battle of the Giants results for the Ngannou vs. Ferreira fight card, live blogs of the top three fights, and more from The Mayadeen in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Saturday afternoon. In the main event, former UFC champion Francis Ngannou and Renan Ferreira square off for the PFL Superfight heavyweight championship. Ngannou makes his PFL debut at the event after suffering two losses in a row in boxing. Larissa Pacheco and Cris Cyborg compete for the PFL Superfight featherweight championship in the co-main event. Also on the main card, Bellator middleweight champion Johnny Eblen defends his…

2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup -Shanghai Australian swimmer Isaac Cooper broke the Swimming World Cup Record in the 50 meter backstroke on Saturday morning in Shanghai, swimming 22.58 in the heats of the event. The old record of 22.61 was set by American Peter Marshall in Singapore during the 2009 series almost 15 years ago as part of the record-bonanza that was the 2009 supersuited World Cup Series. At the time, that swim was the World Record as well: the third time Marshall broke that record in five weeks. His World Record stood until 2014 when France’s Florent Manaudou swam…

Image 1 of 1Harrie Lavreysen wins career 15th world title on the track in men’s 1km time trial(Image credit: Getty Images)Friday features five elite world titles on the line at the 2024 UCI Track World Championships at Ballerup Super Arena outside Copenhagen, Denmark. This third day of the championships, running from October 16 to 20, will award titles in the women’s Omnium, women’s Sprint, men’s Individual Pursuit, men’s Points Race and men’s 1km Time Trial.Milan sets world record to win men’s individual pursuitItaly’s Jonathan Milan competes during the men’s individual pursuit qualifying race of the UCI Track Cycling World Championships Jonathan Milan (Italy)…

Fall Report Patrick Ebert – October 18, 2024 Although Creighton did not make a postseason appearance a year ago, the Bluejays went 35-17 overall and had the 67th-best RPI at season’s end. They also did not lose one single midweek game and accumulated three wins against their in-state rivals, Nebraska, and two against a visiting Coastal Carolina squad. They accumulated series wins against Portland and at Stanford and went 2-1 at the Battle of the Ballpark in Sugar Land, Texas, with wins against Air Force and Army.Their downfall was a confounding performance in conference play, going 7-13 against their Big…

Northampton: Furbank (capt); Hendy, Freeman, Hutchinson, Sleightholme; F Smith, T James; Iyogun, R Smith, Davison, Thornbury, Munga, Scott-Young, Pearson, Pollock. Replacements: C Langdon, Haffar, Millar Mills, Hunter-Hill, Kemeny, McParland, Litchfield, Ramm.Sale: Carpenter; Roebuck, Nayacalevu, Bedlow, Wills; R du Preez, Warr; McIntyre, Cowan-Dickie, Opoku-Fordjour, Van Rhyn, Andrews, T Curry, B Curry (capt), D du Preez.Replacements: Caine, Onasanya, Harper, Bamber, Dugdale, Thomas, Curtis, L James. Sin-bin: Wills (19).Referee: Christophe Ridley

It didn’t take long for Viana to be back in football, this time as an international relations director after being appointed by Sporting, based like Belenenses in Lisbon, in 2018.A few months later he was named sporting director and, despite requiring a bit of time to adjust, with four different coaches and failed signings like Yannick Bolasie and Jesse Rodriguez, he eventually found his feet.”He has grown significantly because he found the right context to do that as a professional and simultaneously help improve the structure,” Leonel Pontes, who worked as Sporting coach in 2019 and is now a technical…

It had been a difficult week for Sam Gilley. He lost his grandmother on Monday and had a change of opponent on Wednesday. Gilley didn’t let any of that affect him in the ring against Jack McGann. The returning junior middleweight scored a comprehensive fourth-round stoppage to retain his Commonwealth title on Friday at the famed York Hall, Bethnal Green, London. The 30-year-old hadn’t fought in a year since he beat Louis Greene (UD 12) and had been expecting to face him in a rematch with the vacant British title on the line. However, when Greene pulled out in stepped…

Oct 18, 2024, 02:54 PM ETJoel Dahmen withdrew before the start of the second round at the Shriners Children’s Open on Friday, one day after absorbing a four-stroke penalty for carrying an extra club.Dahmen, 36, was sitting in 131st place out of 132 players at 5-over-par entering the wind-delayed second round at TPC Summerlin in Las Vegas.The situation could impact Dahmen’s playing status for next year. He is currently No. 124 in the FedEx Cup Fall standings, and the top 125 players at the end of the fall circuit will retain full status on tour for 2025.He self-reported having 15…

New York Knicks guard Cameron Payne identified himself as “Terry Johnson” in a police body cam video when arrested after the police were called to address a disturbance involving his girlfriend on June 14 in Scottsdale, Arizona. Payne, 30, also gave his date of birth as Jan. 1, 1998, when it was Aug. 8, 1994. The 10-year NBA veteran told officers the correct state, as Payne was born in Memphis, Tennessee. However, Payne was still arrested on suspicion of giving a false police report. Officer Kurt Farner was the arresting officer, according to the Scottsdale police records office. Cameron Payne…

Interim heavyweight champion, Tom Aspinall has confirmed he will serve as the backup fighter to next month’s UFC 309 heavyweight title fight between rival, Jon Jones and the returning, Stipe Miocic, however, the former has teased a “big” return to action in the mean time. Aspinall, an interim heavyweight champion under the banner of the promotion, most recently co-headlined UFC 304 at the end of July in his native Manchester, successfully avenging his sole promotional loss in a blistering first round knockout win over perennial contender, Curtis Blaydes in their interim title rematch. And earlier this week, the Atherton native…