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Former Wallabies captain Rocky Elsom has broken his silence after being sentenced to five years jail in France with an international arrest warrant issued for him last weekend. Elsom, who played 65 matches for the NSW Waratahs and earned 75 caps for the Wallabies, was sentenced in absentia to five years in prison for misuse of corporate assets during his tenure as president of French rugby club Narbonne.Elsom was found guilty of forgery and ordered to repay €705,000 ($1.1million) from his time at the club between 2015-16. He was accused of paying €79,000 ($128,000) to a former coach without justification and hiring…
Britain’s Jacob Fearnley extended his winning streak to 13 matches as he beat Corentin Moutet at the Stockholm Open.The Scot was unranked just over a year ago but has risen inside the top 100 on the back of winning four Challenger titles in a row.The 23-year-old, having taken a few weeks off, won two qualifying matches to reach the main draw of the ATP 250 event in Sweden.He beat France’s Moutet 6-2 7-6 (7-5) to set up a second-round meeting with Dutch seventh seed Tallon Griekspoor.It is Fearnley’s second ATP Tour-level victory, having won in the Wimbledon first round in…
Artur Beterbiev v Dmitry Bivol hear the scorecards of their Ring championship bout – Photo by Leigh Dawney/Queensberry Promotions Sometimes a fight divides public opinion, and there have been many over the years. Historically, the middleweight showdown between Marvin Hagler-Sugar Ray Leonard was the most hotly debated result in recent memory, and still is even today. More recently, the Ring lightweight championship fight between Vasiliy Lomachenko-Devin Haney polarized opinions, and on Saturday Artur Beterbiev-Dmitry Bivol joined the list. While Leonard and Haney boxed on the back foot and got the decision, Bivol wasn’t able to do so and lost as…
Oct 13, 2024, 01:13 PM ETSAINT-QUENTIN-EN-YVELINES, France — English golfer Dan Bradbury carded a 5-under 66 in the final round to win the Open de France by one stroke on Sunday.The 25-year-old Bradbury stepped it up with four birdies on the back nine to finish at 16 under overall for his second European tour career win. He held off Denmark’s Jeff Winther after he shot up the leaderboard with seven birdies in his faultless round of 64.With the win, Bradbury earned spots at the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship and the World Tour Championship in Dubai.”It hasn’t sunk in at all.…
Paul George will undergo further imaging on his hyperextended left knee, but the early prognosis from the Philadelphia 76ers is encouraging. “Everything checks out okay,” said Nick Nurse. George’s injury occurred during the second quarter of Monday’s preseason game at the Atlanta Hawks. George will not play in Wednesday’s preseason game.
Donald Cerrone says he’s returning to the octagon to get to 50 fights under the UFC promotional umbrella. “Cowboy” said in an Instagram post that he wants two more UFC fights to hit that nice round number after retiring following his sixth straight loss at UFC 276. In the bout, Cerrone was submitted by Jim Miller on the July 2022 International Fight Week card. Cerrone is winless in the octagon since a May 2019 win over Al Iaquinta in the main event of UFC on ESPN+ 9, which at the time, extended a winning streak to three fights. Since then,…
Bella Scopel Tramontana from the Sandpipers of Nevada has announced her verbal commitment to Arizona State University. Tramontana will join the Sun Devils in the fall of 2025 as part of the class of 2029. I am beyond excited to announce my verbal commitment to continue my academic and athletic career at Arizona State University. I’d like to thank my friends, teammates, and family for the endless support they’ve given me throughout this journey. A special thanks to Coach Michael and Coach Ron for always believing in me. I also want to thank Coach Logan, Coach Herbie, and all the…
The results that Tadej Pogačar accomplished in 2024, with victories in the Giro d’Italia, Tour de France and World Championships, were so far and above all others in the pro peloton that the Slovenian earned almost twice the number of UCI points as his nearest rival, Remco Evenepoel (Soudal-Quickstep), the October 14 rankings showed.The UCI World Rankings for individuals are calculated on a rolling 12-month window. As the season draws to a close this week, Pogačar ends his 160th week as the world’s number 1 rider, racking up 11,655 points compared to Evenepoel’s 6,073 points.Pogačar scored 1,300 for his Tour…
Analysis D1Baseball Staff – October 15, 2024 In the fall of 2015, we presented our inaugural Top 100 Programs rankings, which we described as an attempt to assess the overall health of each program in the current era. A lot can change quickly in college baseball, so we decided to make this a biennial exercise. We updated the Top 100 in 2017 and again in 2019. But after the pandemic wiped out the 2020 season, we decided to push the 2021 update back a year to 2022.For the purpose of this exercise, we don’t care what happened in the 1970s or…
Bristol Bears winger Gabriel Ibitoye said he has had no contact from England head coach Steve Borthwick ahead of November’s autumn internationals. Ibitoye scored a show-stopping hat-trick in just nine minutes during Bristol’s comeback win against Exeter on Saturday to completely turn the game at Sandy Park around.Borthwick names his 36-player squad for the four upcoming Autumn matches on Wednesday.”No chat, hopefully one day soon,” Ibitoye told the Rugby Union Weekly podcast, regarding any conversations with Borthwick. The 26-year-old topped many of the Premiership’s individual statistics last season, including most metres made, most offloads and most defenders beaten, by some…