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By: Sean Crose He’s certainly not lacking in confidence, and perhaps he shouldn’t be. Edgar Berlanga is undefeated, after all, having stopped seventeen of his twenty-two opponents within the distance. No matter that five of his last six victories have come courtesy the judge’s scorecards, the twenty-seven year old feels he absolutely has what it takes to best the one and only Canelo Alvarez when the two men meet for super middleweight title dominance next Saturday night in Las Vegas. Most would disagree with the fighter known as “The Chosen One,” but Berlanga doesn’t seem to much care what others…
The players competing in this year’s Presidents Cup, which is taking place at Royal Montreal Golf Club in Canada from September 27-29, have been announced. Both teams comprise six automatic qualifiers and six captain’s picks. Team USA is being captained by Jim Furyk, while the International team, which comprises all nations outside of Europe, is being led by Canadian Mike Weir. Team USA six automatic qualifiers from the points list were Scottie Scheffler, Xander Schauffele, Collin Morikawa, Wyndham Clark, Patrick Cantlay and Sahith Theegala. And Furyk made things easy for himself by picking the next six highest points scorers to…
The Memphis Grizzlies have signed forward/center Armando Bacot, guard Yuki Kawamura, guard Miye Oni and forward Maozinha Pereira. Bacot (6-11, 240) appeared in 169 games (168 starts) over his five-year collegiate career (2019-24) at North Carolina and averaged 13.9 points, 10.1 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 1.3 blocks in 28.2 minutes before going unselected in the 2024 NBA Draft. Kawamura (5-8, 159) has competed the past five seasons (2019-24) in the Japanese B.League, where he was named the 2022-23 Most Valuable Player as a member of the Yokohama B-Corsairs. Oni (6-5, 206) has appeared in 80 regular season games (one start)…
Whilst UFC color-commentator as well as the majority of fans and pundits are drooling at the prospect of a title unification fight between Jon Jones and Tom Aspinall — the veteran caller has claimed the Atherton native should be aware he is angling for a meeting with the “boogeyman. Jones, a current heavyweight champion akin to current interim gold holder, Aspinall, is lined up for his return to action for the first time in over a year later this annum — in the form of a UFC 309 headliner against former two-time heavyweight titleholder, Stipe Miocic. As for Aspinall, the…
2024 SUMMER PARALYMPIC GAMES Men’s 400 Freestyle S6 World Record: 4:47.75 — Anders Olsson, Sweden (2009) Paralympic Record: 4:48.31 — Anders Olsson, Sweden (2008) Medallists: GOLD: Talisson Glock, Brazil — 4:49.55 AM SILVER: Antonio Fantin, Italy — 4:49.99 BRONZE: Jesus Alberto Gutierrez Bermudez, Mexico — 5:07.00 Talisson Glock defended his Paralympic crown with a new Americas record of 4:49.55. Glock built up a commanding lead through the first 300 meters of the race. Then, three-time world champion Antonio Fantin began to inch closer over the final 100 meters. Fantin almost caught Glock but ran out of runway, earning the silver medal in 4:49.99, .45…
Primož Roglič hasn’t often dealt knockout blows like the one he delivered on the Alto de Moncalvillo on stage 19 of the Vuelta a España. For most of his remarkable stage racing career, the Slovenian has tended to amass his winning margins in steady increments, delivering the same combination time and again to collect handfuls of seconds and time bonuses on mountaintops.The strategy hasn’t worked every time – Roglič was famously caught with a late haymaker by Tadej Pogačar on the 2020 Tour de France after missing earlier opportunities to end the contest – but it has carried him to…
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Gabriel Agbonlahor has called upon Cristiano Ronaldo to step aside for Portugal and says the forward ‘cost’ his nation at Euro 2024. Ronaldo reached another incredible milestone on Wednesday as he scored the winner in Portugal’s 2-1 win over Croatia in their UEFA Nations League A opener.The former Manchester United, Real Madrid and Juventus forward has now scored 900 goals for club and country.131 of those goals have come for his national team, with Ronaldo sitting 84 clear of Portugal’s next-highest scorer Pauleta, who netted 47 times in 88 caps between 1997 and 2006.Despite this latest achievement, there are many calling…
Ospreys paid tribute to Booth, stating: “Coming in at arguably one of the Ospreys’ lowest points, he has transformed the Ospreys not just on the field but off it too.”Booth is a former London Irish director of rugby who was assistant coach at Harlequins before arriving in west Wales. He was also Bath’s first-team coach for seven years.“I came here four years ago with a very definite project, and I’m leaving because it’s the right time and there’s a natural succession in place,” said Booth.”Sometimes it’s about timing, and I think the time is right for the group. I also…
This victory was possibly as much about relief as joy for Hewett and Reid, given what had gone before.They went in as the clear favourites and have won 21 Grand Slam titles together in doubles, including all three played this year. On each occasion they defeated Oda and Miki in straight sets in the final. They had also won the past five French Opens on the clay of Roland Garros.However, the Paralympic title had previously proved elusive, with the pair losing to France’s France’s Stephane Houdet and Nicolas Peifer in the finals of both Rio and Tokyo in 2021.The defeat…