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Following a team camp in Almeria, Spain this month, Human Powered Health Cycling revealed a new look for their fourth season in the Women’s WorldTour and confirmed 16 of 17 riders for the 2025 roster.Ruth Edwards returns as the team leader, last taking two podiums on stages at the Giro d’Italia Women and winning the GC at Thüringen Ladies Tour. Daria Pikulik, returning for a third season, will counter with newly-added Maggie Coles-Lyster, both standouts from the track and adding strength in one-day races. The team will lean on the Polish rider again this season, as Pikulik was one of the…

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National League 1 clubs have united to join mounting calls for an overhaul of the way rugby union is run in England amid the ongoing crisis over record financial losses and executive bonuses.In an open letter, the twelve clubs criticise “major failures in governance and leadership” and a “lack of accountability” before an emergency meeting of the Rugby Football Union (RFU) Council on Wednesday.Championship and grassroots clubs have already called for a debate leading to a vote of no confidence in the leadership of the game’s governing body.Last month the RFU announced a record operating loss of nearly £40m, but…

Dec 17, 2024, 10:36 PM ETFour of golf’s biggest names faced off in The Showdown at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas on Tuesday.Editor’s Picks1 RelatedThe PGA’s Rory McIlroy and Scottie Scheffler came out on top against LIV Golf’s Bryson DeChambeau and Brooks Koepka in a made-for-TV event over 18 holes. There had been nine previous iterations of these exhibitions, the first of which came in 2018 when Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson competed against each other.Scheffler entered Tuesday after arguably his best year as a professional — he won at the Masters, Paris Olympics and FedEx Cup. Overall,…

He may have already missed 18 of Philadelphia’s first 24 games but the Sixers are optimistic Joel Embiid won’t be out much longer. Speaking with the media, Sixers head coach Nick Nurse got the impression this facial fracture isn’t as bad as the other two fractures Embiid has endured in the past. “The only thing that I can compare it to, but I wasn’t here, but he certainly had those other ones that were a lot worse,” Nurse said. “It’s not nearly as severe as those two from what they tell me. So I guess that’s good because those were…

The Oleksandr Usyk vs. Tyson Fury 2 fight card features nine fights for Saturday’s event from Freedom Arena in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In the main event, Oleksandr Usyk (22-0) aims to defend his WBA, WBC and WBO heavyweight titles against Tyson Fury (34-1-1). Fury suffered his first career loss in their first fight when Usyk defeated Fury via split decision on May 18, 2024. The Usyk vs. Fury 2 fight card airs on DAZN for $39.99, and the Usyk vs. Fury 2 start time is 10:30 a.m. ET. Check out the Usyk vs. Fury 2 fight card below: Fight card…

2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Kate Douglass was one of three American women who earned 7 medals in Budapest last week, amassing 5 individual medals and breaking 4 world records. Douglass emphasized that because the United States largely trains and competes in yards, the world doesn’t often get to see just how good Americans can be in short course. So when USA does compete in short course meters… this happens.

Melbourne-based cycling apparel brand Maap has today announced a multi-year sponsorship deal of Australian WorldTour teams Jayco-AlUla and Liv-AlUla-Jayco, as well as the women’s Liv-AlUla-Jayco Continental team. Visually the new team kit, common across both men’s and women’s teams save for sponsor logos, is a departure from the norm for the WorldTour. But rather than the purple and deep blue jerseys, it is likely the light grey of the shorts here that will turn heads initially. Outside of the world champion and national champions’ occasional use of white shorts, black is very much the standard option in the pro peloton. AG2R La…

Fall Report Mike Rooney – December 17, 2024 In this era of conference transitions and realignment, changing leagues with a young team often goes poorly. That was exactly the case for the Cougs in 2004. BYU’s 7-23 Big 12 record reflected the rigors of this very strong baseball conference.There is good news, however. And I would say significantly so. For starters, the BYU athletic department is swimming in proof of concept as it relates to the Big 12. In just two years in the league, their women’s teams have quickly displayed their excellence. The football program made a lot of…

A Set small text size A Set the default text size A Set large text size David Kirk, New Zealand’s winning captain from the first-ever World Cup, has been confirmed as the new NZR chairman, after a vote that saw one of the nine recommended nominees rejected.Kirk, a former NZ players association chief, lifted the World Cup in 1987 as All Blacks halfback. He retired from the sport shortly after, aged 26, and launched a successful business career.Eight of the nine people put forward by the NZR Appointments and Remuneration Panel were confirmed, with former Otago chair and current board…