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Arsenal have begun their 2024/25 Premier League campaign as expected, and though they trail Manchester City by two points after four games, at this early stage that won’t be anything to worry about for Mikel Arteta.He’ll know that at some point in the season Pep Guardiola’s side will have a wobble, and the only thing that’s likely to be on his mind is that his team are well placed to take advantage of any slip-ups.To that end, the next league match – when City host the Gunners – is clearly vital for Arteta and his squad.Arsenal at risk of losing…

As Geoff Parling moved to allay fears next year’s British and Irish Lions series will be a whitewash, the former England international turned Wallabies assistant admits his coaching group is still finding out what makes Taniela Tupou tick.In many ways, Tupou’s struggles are synonymous with where Australian rugby currently sits.The 27-year-old has long promised to be one of the most damaging tight-head props in the world, but his brief cameos match the ‘40-minute Wallabies’ the national side has become.Tupou put his hand up after 35 minutes in Santa Fe and called to be replaced. His early departure raised eyebrows, particularly…

Draper reflected on his performances at Flushing Meadows with a deep sense of pride and vowed to use the experience to continue improving.”I think I just need to keep on learning, keep growing, keep having situations like today and how am I going to do it different next time,” Draper said.”I think it is, honestly, just a matter of time. “It’s experiences, doing all the right things, training consistently, and over time you progress and you get stronger and better.”Reigning Australian Open champion Sinner, who will play Taylor Fritz in Sunday’s final, backed his good friend to challenge for the…

Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Oleksander Usyk during their fighter workout ahead of this weekends fight In Jeddah. 16 August 2022 Picture By Mark Robinson Matchroom Boxing Not even the sport’s heavyweight king is safe from the long arm of the law. Thankfully, Oleksandr Usyk is free and clear after he was briefly detained by customs police at Kraków John Paul II International Airport in Krakow, Poland. A specific reason was never offered for the incident, but his entire team confirmed it was a mix-up. “[Thank] God it’s all fine,” Yekaterina Usyk, Oleksandr’s wife, informed her social media followers. “No one was arrested.…

Sep 17, 2024, 01:50 PM ETJordan Spieth said he is progressing well following wrist surgery and expects to be ready for the start of the 2025 PGA Tour season.”I think that by 2025, by Jan. 1, it’s my goal to be tournament-ready,” Spieth told Golfweek in a Q&A published Monday. “And for me, that would be not just going out and seeing how it feels, you know, but expecting to play at my ceiling.”Sporting a cast on his left wrist in his first public appearance since his surgery, Spieth appeared at a fundraiser at Brookhaven Country Club just outside Dallas.Spieth,…

Tom Thibodeau is considering playing Julius Randle more minutes at center this season as the New York Knicks deal with the loss of Isaiah Hartenstein to the Oklahoma City Thunder. “We’ll probably have to do it by committee,” said Thiobdeau of replacing Hartenstein’s minutes. “We’ll look at some different things, because we have versatility — we could see Julius more at the 5. I don’t want to do that for long stretches, it would take its toll, but to have him do it for 10 or 15 minutes, I think he can do it well. He also would create a…

LAS VEGAS – The UFC 309 main event backup fighter doesn’t come as a surprise. Interim champion Tom Aspinall will be the first phone call made should the heavyweight title fight between champion Jon Jones or challenger Stipe Miocic need a replacement, UFC CEO Dana White confirmed Tuesday. “Yes, Tom Aspinall is next in line for anything that happens after this fight,” White said after Dana White’s Contender Series 72 at the UFC Apex. UFC 309 takes place Nov. 16 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Should everything go according to plan and Aspinall not be need, the main…

Russian media recently caught up with Andrey Shishin, the coach of 4x Olympic medalist Evgeny Rylov, and world record holder Evgenia Chupikova. Shishin wasn’t impressed with the men’s backstroke results from the 2024 Paris Olympics.  MatchTV, a Russian sports channel, reported this quote from Shishin (translated from Russian): “It’s quite sad that both results in backstroke swimming were slower than at the last Olympics. Without our guys, the backstroke looked quite modest.” Rylov won both backstroke events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, and fellow Russian Kliment Kolesnikov finished second behind Rylov in the 100 backstroke. World Aquatics banned Russian swimmers…

First of all there’s not much competition. There’s only four stage races on the calendar now that the Vuelta is done. In ascending order, I rank ‘em like so: 4. Tour de Kyushu. Three stages, October 12-14. This is just the second year for this race and the first year on our FSA-DS calendar as they have two WT teams, EF, and Astana. Let’s give them a nice round of applause and hope that the plucky new race has a great future. 3. Gree-Tour of Guangxi. Yes this is a WT race on October 15-20. Yes there are 14 WT…