Author: admin

The Sacramento Kings have rallied in the last week to bring their record to 13-13 on the season. However, a .500 record isn’t where Sacramento saw themselves. That has the Kings looking for upgrades to the roster. To find those upgrades, Sacramento has made Kevin Huerter and Trey Lyles available in trade talks. Huerter has two years left on his contract. The veteran wing is at $16.8 million for this season and $17.9 million next season. Lyles is on an expiring $8 million contract. The Kings also have two tradeable future first-round picks that they can offer up in trades…

Read More

Manel Kape and Brandon Royval are set for a scrap on March 1 to determine flyweight champion Alexandre Pantoja’s next challenger. Kape scored an impressive third-round knockout against Bruno Silva at the promotion’s final event of 2024. Having won five of his last six, ‘Starboy’ is on the cusp of his first shot at UFC gold. To get there, he’ll have to go through Royval per a report from AG Fight. According to the report, Kape and Royval will square off on March 1 when the UFC heads back to The APEX in Las Vegas, Nevada. After seeing his four-fight…

Read More

Swimmers live and die by the clock—whether it’s hitting their splits or making intervals. With the holidays speeding closer, time to dive in and find last minute gifts! Here are trending gift ideas to delight swimmers, coaches, and parents alike. The clock’s ticking, so let’s get started! This slideshow requires JavaScript. Stocking Stuffers Perfect small gifts that swimmers and coaches will love: Macro Bars & Skratch Gels – Nutritious and quick snacks for pre- or post-practice energy Corkcicle & Cirkul Bottles – Stylish hydration solutions for long pool sessionsInfinit Protein Packets & LEAN1 Protein – Convenient, high-quality recovery options Malibu…

Read More

This week US Congressman Joe Neguse, who represents Colorado, introduced the Magnus White Cyclist Safety Act of 2024 (H.R. 10347), legislation designed to protect vulnerable road users, including bicyclists, pedestrians, motorcyclists, road workers in construction zones and many others. The bill calls for the integration of advanced automatic emergency braking (AEB) technology in new vehicles for enhanced safety.The federal bill was named in honor of 17-year-old Magnus White, a US 17-18 men’s junior cyclocross national champion and rising star in mountain biking who was killed in July 2023 when a driver of a car struck him from behind while the…

Read More

Dec 20, 2024, 05:45 PM ETORLANDO, Fla. — Tiger Woods turns 49 at the end of the month, and he has one pressing goal that relates to his golf. He wants to prolong the inevitable day when his son beats him over 18 holes.They will be playing with — not against — each other this week for the fifth straight year at the PNC Championship, a 36-hole tournament so meaningful to them and everyone else in the field that Woods was determined to play for the first time since a sixth back surgery in September.Word got out, however, that 15-year-old…

Read More

Norman Powell has been one of the top surprises early in the 2024-25 NBA season.  The 10-year veteran and 31-year-old shooting guard has long been known as a solid role player and more recently, one of the top sixth men in the league.  After winning a championship with the Toronto Raptors in 2019 as a key role player, Powell has since emerged as a scorer averaging nearly 20 points per game, finishing fourth in Sixth Man of the Year voting in each of the past couple of years. However, this season has been different — he’s emerged as the Clippers’…

Read More

Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/lists/submission-of-the-month-december-2024-alexandre-pantoja-kai-asakura-ufc-310 December 20, 2024 10:00 pm ET With another action-packed month of MMA in the books, MMA Junkie looks at the best submissions from December 2024: Here are the five nominees, listed in chronological order, and winner of MMA Junkie’s Submission of the Month award for December.At the bottom of the post, let us know if we got it right by voting for your choice.* * * *Nominees Nominee: Chase Hooper def. Clay Guida at UFC 310 Chase Hooper (15-3-1 MMA,…

Read More

A flurry of new names were added to the U.S. Center for SafeSport sanctions database in the last quarter of the year from the sport of swimming, with most facing temporary restrictions. John Smith from Westbrook, Maine was added on December 19th with temporary restrictions that include no contact directives, coaching/training restrictions, and no unsupervised coaching/training. SwimSwam is working to confirm the exact identity of John Smith and his connection to swimming, because it is such a common name, and will update with more details when we are able to do so. Ryan Carroll from Yuma, Arizona was added to…

Read More