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2021 Olympic gold medallist Richard Carapaz has been forced to withdraw from the Road World Championships due to a family emergency and has instead returned home to South America.Considered an outside favourite for the road race next Sunday, Carapaz explained in a message on his personal website that he has had to pull out because his daughter had to have an emergency operation. The operation was successful but as the 2021 Olympic road champion said, “she still needs care and due to this family emergency, I have not been able to train for several days and my form is not at…
Interactive Mike Rooney – September 22, 2024 Welcome back to Sunday Night Conversations with D1Baseball’s Mike Rooney! On this episode, Roons is joined by former Oregon State head coach Pat Casey to discuss how he built the Beavers into one of college baseball’s top programs. They also break down how Oregon State can stay relevant as an independent.Sunday Night Conversations is presented by Netting Professionals (https://www.nettingpros.com). Netting Professionals helps programs of all sizes improve one facility at a time! D1Baseball is the #1 source for college baseball. Subscribe to our show to get the best college baseball podcast straight to…
Liverpool are reportedly one of the clubs showing an interest in the potential transfer of Sporting Lisbon striker Viktor Gyokeres at the moment, amid some doubts over Darwin Nunez’s long-term career at Anfield.Gyokeres has been in superb form at the start of this season, following on from an impressive debut campaign at Sporting as well, and it seems inevitable that he’s going to earn himself a big move before too long.As CaughtOffside recently reported, Chelsea are one of Gyokeres’ admirers, though they still have other names like Victor Osimhen on their list of targets as well, so the Sweden international…
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Fred Garvin’s favorite division continues to deliver in 2024. The Ring has learned that Pedro Taduran is set to make the first defense of his second IBF strawweight title reign. Taduran will defend versus China’s DianXing Zhu on Nov. 23 in Jeju Island, South Korea. The fight will represent a mandatory title defense, as Zhu is the highest rated IBF contender. Taduran (17-4-1, 13 knockouts) regained the title in a ninth-round knockout of unbeaten Ginjiro Shigeoka (11-1, 9 KOs). Their July 28 bout in Otsu, Japan came at a time when Shigeoka was The Ring’s No. 1-rated strawweight in the…
American Billy Horschel spoiled home fans’ hopes for a Rory McIlroy-inspired party after beating the four-time major champion at the second hole of a play-off at the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. The 37-year-old Floridian, who nearly holed out his third shot at the last in regulation play, ended with a birdie-birdie finish to climb alongside South Africa’s Thriston Lawrence and McIlroy at 20 under before the trio returned to the 18th tee for the play-off. Lawrence blinked first after a wayward tee-shot and then found the fairway bunker and water to be the first eliminated as McIlroy and Horschel…
One of the most important basketball reporters of our time has finally decided to call it quits, as Adrian Wojnarowski announces this week that he will leave ESPN to join the St. Bonaventure University men’s basketball team as general manager. Quite a turn of events for the iconic writer, who left an unerasable mark on everyone around the NBA. Not only did the league’s communication department left his a tribute on social media, which ended with a sentimental “Sources close to the situation say that his future is bright,” but also many franchise executives have delivered words of gratitude for…
Colby Covington’s last submission win in the UFC came with a rear-naked choke against Jonathan Meunier back in 2016 but he dusted off that move for a new video he made with rapper Lil Pump. For some reason, a great number of athletes and influencers who are not trained mixed martial artists love to feel what it’s like to get choked out by a professional fighter. So Covington obviously granted Lil Pump’s wish when he applied a submission to put the 24-year-old rapper to sleep. In the video, the three-time UFC title challenger applies the choke and initially uses a…
Kentucky Splashes Into 2026 Recruiting With Verbal From Karrington Hansen NEW COMMIT: The University of Kentucky has received its first verbal commitment for the Class of 2026 from U.S. Open qualifier Karrington Hansen of Saint Petersburg, Florida. Hansen will arrive in Lexington as a member of the Wildcats’ Class of 2030. Regarding her commitment, she said: “I’m thrilled and honored to announce my verbal commitment to continue as a student-athlete at the University of Kentucky! I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to my family, friends, and everyone who has helped me get to this point by providing…
Grace Brown has firmly laid to rest her own questions about just how far she could go in the sport this year, hitting pinnacles of cycling repeatedly by claiming a Monument victory at Liège-Bastogne-Liège, Olympic Games gold in the time trial and now she has also become the first Australian to win the women’s elite world title in the race against the clock. “Mentally I know that this is my last season and maybe it’s given me the mental energy to go all-in and focus 100 percent,” said the FDJ-Suez rider after claiming the women’s elite time trial at the UCI…