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Presenting live sport requires unflappable professionalism, a sporting anorak’s encyclopaedic knowledge and the management skills of a circus ringleader. As it can get fairly chaotic at times.Take Premier Sports’ coverage of the United Rugby Championship, for example. They are thorough in their coverage but there is also an added element of entertainment central to how they go about their business, most notably since Ryan Wilson was added to their roster of pundits. The former Scotland forward brings an extra level of mayhem to the proceedings as he tackles colleagues to the ground on air, rides a penny farthing (below) or pretends…
The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight-o-clock” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant fights you need to see in this week-at-a-glance, one-stop enhanced fight schedule. A quick checklist for the cognoscenti, a useful nuts-and-bolts guide for the boxing neophyte is what we’re aiming at. Here are this week’s most relevant fights: Friday, September 27 – Madison Square Garden Theater, New York Sandy Ryan vs. Mikaela Mayer – welterweight – 10 roundsThere’s no love lost between these two. They already set things…
Sep 26, 2024, 06:45 PM ETMONTREAL — The Presidents Cup matches were close. The score after the opening session was not.The Americans clung to a 1-up lead in all five matches Thursday when they delivered shot after shot, putt after putt, until this already lopsided series took a familiar turn.United States 5, International 0.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe Americans swept the first day of fourballs matches at Royal Montreal behind a feisty Scottie Scheffler, late heroics from Xander Schauffele and plenty of help from the putting-challenged International team.It was the third time they shut out the Internationals on the first day, and…
The Miami Heat have signed guard Caleb Daniels. Daniels spent last season with the Heat’s G League affiliate, the Sioux Falls Skyforce, appearing in 31 regular season games (22 starts). He averaged 12.9 points, 5.3 rebounds, 2.1 assists and 31.5 minutes while shooting 43.4 percent from the field, 34.5 percent from three-point range and 85 percent from the foul line.
Thursday morning, Kevin Lee sat in an airport with a plastic cup of Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee, awaiting his flight to Detroit. It was an unfamiliar process, considering how familiar the destination was. Saturday, Lee (19-8) returns to MMA competition for a homecoming fight in Wayne, Mich., at Lights Out Championship 17 on Spectation Sports. It’ll be his first fight near his home city since November 2013. “It’s only fitting that it ends up back home, back where it all started,” Lee told MMA Junkie on Thursday. “I feel like I’m almost restarting my career.” In a lot of ways,…
2024 SOUTH AFRICAN SC CHAMPIONSHIPS 32-year-old Chad Le Clos was in the water on day one of the 2024 South African Short Course Championships, achieving his goal of qualifying for this year’s Short Course World Championships. Veteran Le Clos opened his campaign with a victory in the men’s 100m freestyle, registering a time of 46.91, about a second outside his lifetime best of 45.78 from 2017. Le Clos scored the sole sub-47 second outing of the field, although Ruard van Renen was right behind in 47.02. Both men dipped under the threshold needed to stake their claim on the event for…
For all this season failed to deliver in the competition and excitement categories, it will nonethess go down in the history books for all of the major milestones that were achieved along the way. Mathieu van der Poel started it off with a Classics. campaign that matched Fabian Cancellara’s magic 2010 season, sweeping E3, Flanders and Roubaix, and just missing the Boonenesque historic quad with 2nd at Gent-Wevelgem. His third career Flanders win tied him for the record, with six of the greatest Classics champions of all time. Photo by Alex Broadway/Getty Images But that was a mere amuse bouche…
Analysis D1Baseball Staff – September 26, 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…
Martin Odegaard of Arsenal applauds the fans following the team’s victory during the Premier League match between Arsenal FC and Wolverhampton Wanderers FC at Emirates Stadium on August 17, 2024 in London, England. (Photo by Eddie Keogh/Getty Images) Gary Neville has named two players above Martin Odegaard in terms of their importance to Arsenal. Odegaard has been a vital asset to Mikel Arteta since joining from Real Madrid in January 2021, initially on loan.The Norway international has registered 35 goals and 25 assists in 156 appearances across all competitions since then, while he now wears the captain’s armband.Unfortunately for Arsenal, Odegaard…
The WRU agrees 37 new full-time contracts for Wales players that it says makes them “one of the best paid international women’s teams in the world”.