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These are the rugby stories making headlines on Sunday, December 15.
By: Sean Crose Jaime Munguia returned to the ring in his native Mexico Saturday night, as he faced the widely unknown Bruno Surace in an ESPN main event. The 10 round super middleweight affair against the 25-0-2 Surace was seen as a something of a stay busy fight for the popular 44-1 Munguia. Marseille’s Surace, however, clearly had plans of upsetting the figurative apple cart. The first round appeared to be a somewhat slow affair until Munguia seemed to almost hurt his man before the bell. A thunderous Munguia left put Surace down in the second. Surace beat the count,…
Dec 14, 2024, 10:03 AM ETMALELANE, South Africa — Marcus Kinhult will take a two-shot lead into the final round of the Alfred Dunhill Championship as the Swedish golfer bids to win his first title on the European tour in 5½ years.Kinhult got up and down for birdie from a greenside bunker at the par-5 No. 18 to shoot 3-under 69 in the third round Saturday. He was 14 under for the tournament.Kinhult’s second-round lead was trimmed by one stroke at Leopard Creek Country Club, with Ryan van Velzen moving into second place after a bogey-free 65 that included an…
Norman Powell is one of the biggest reasons the L.A. Clippers have remained relevant in the West playoff picture this season. When Paul George departed in free agency and Kawhi Leonard was ruled out for the start of the 2024-25 season with no clear timetable to return, things looked bleak for the Clippers. In a mighty Western conference, it was even reasonable to think the Clippers would be resigned to being near the bottom of the conference, a potential disaster situation as this year’s first round pick is owed to the Oklahoma City Thunder. A quarter of the season in,…
TAMPA, Fla. – UFC CEO Dana White is not one to make guarantees when it comes to unconfirmed matchmaking, but Jon Jones vs. Tom Aspinall is an exception. The much-desired heavyweight title unification bout between champ Jones (28-1 MMA, 22-1 UFC) and interim titleholder Aspinall (15-3 MMA, 8-1 UFC) has been in limbo as “Bones” teases retirement and dismissed a matchup with the Brit. White expressed confidence that the fight would happen following Jones’ title defense against Stipe Miocic in November, and when asked at Saturday’s UFC on ESPN 63 post-fight news conference if he can be certain it would…
2024 SC WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS During the 3rd heat of the 200 free women at the World Championships in Budapest, 17-year-old Claire Weinstein broke Bella Sims’ World Junior record with a 1:52.51. Sims’ record was set during the 2022 World Cup in Indianapolis. This time is nearly two seconds off her best time of 1:54.31 from the World Cup this year. Claire will swim in lane 4 tonight looking for her first individual medal in Budapest after the gold in the 800 free relay where she clocked the WR with her teammates in an outstanding anchor leg of 1:50.31. Claire splits…
Vida Lopez de San Roman (Bear CX) rode away former two-time U23 champion Katie Clouse (Steve Tilford Foundation Racing) on the final lap and won her first elite women’s title at USA Cycling Cyclocross Nationals on Saturday afternoon.For most of the six-lap race, Clouse and Lopez de San Roman dictated the pace. Clouse, who was second in the elite race last year, suffered cramping in her hand on the last half lap. She could not match an acceleration by the 18-year-old Lopez de San Roman, who opted to jump into the elite contest rather than defend her women’s junior 17-18…
Fall Report Mike Rooney – December 14, 2024 PHOENIX — Grand Canyon will play its final season in the Western Athletic Conference in 2025. With a move to the Mountain West looming on the horizon, now is probably the perfect time to reflect on GCU’s dominant baseball run in the WAC. With Andy Stankiewicz at the helm, the Lopes won their first WAC regular season title in 2015. To say this program was just getting started would be the understatement of the century. Titles in 2017, 2018, 2021, and 2022 soon followed.Gregg Wallis took over for Stankiewicz and it has…
Last weekend, along with my Toulon team-mates, I spent 32 hours on flights just to get to South Africa for our first game of this season’s Champions Cup.It was a savage journey to Port Elizabeth and although we won our match with the Stormers, I think it’s important I speak personally about the experience because for me, it raises a number of significant points about how Europe’s premier competition is run.Last weekend with Toulon, we travelled there on the Monday for a match on the Saturday. It went like this (deep breath): bus from Toulon to Marseille, flight from Marseille…