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Wales women will play two Tests against their Australian counterparts during next year’s British and Irish Lions men’s tour.The Wallaroos will host Wales on Friday, 26 July in Brisbane. A week later, on the eve of the second Wallabies v Lions Test in Sydney, the women’s teams will face each other again in the same city.Wales are currently ranked 10th in the world, five places below Australia and will use the tour as part of their 2025 England World Cup build-up. Venues and times for the tour games are scheduled to be confirmed early next year.Wales captain Hannah Jones said:…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Chile’s Joaquín Niemann won his first Saudi International title in sunny conditions at the Riyadh Golf Club on Saturday, beating Australian Cameron Smith and American Caleb Surratt in a three-way playoff.The trio was locked at 21-under par after the final round, but Smith and Surratt were unable to match overnight leader Niemann in the playoff as the Chilean wrapped up the win with a superb birdie on the second playoff hole.Having finished one stroke ahead of Americans Peter Uihlein and Surratt after the third round, the 26-year-old Niemann mixed two bogeys with six birdies for a…

Spurs came out on top against the Pelicans on Sunday afternoon, but they lost two starters to injury including star player Victor Wembanyama.  Spurs Riddled With Injuries Although the Spurs were able to secure an important win against the Pelicans to take the team to .500 for the season, it came at a cost, as San Antonio lost some key players during the game Victor Wembanyama had previously missed two consecutive games for San Antonio with back soreness and again his back troubled him on Sunday, as the Frenchman fell awkwardly in the first quarter. Wembanyama is currently -200 to…

Alexandre Pantoja had little to gain and a lot to lose at UFC 310, but he made the most of a tricky situation and turned in another sterling performance. The reigning flyweight champion notched the third straight defense of his flyweight title, taking the best shots that octagon newcomer Kai Asakura had to offer before putting him to sleep with a rear-naked choke submission in the second round. Asakura was already an out-of-left field challenger, so what’s next for Pantoja, who has beaten many of his rivals, some of them twice over? On an all-new edition of On To the…

Irvine to Serve as Host for 2026 Pan Pacific Championships USA Swimming, the National Governing Body for the sport of swimming in  the United States, today announced that the world-renowned William Woollett Junior Aquatics Center  in Irvine, California, will host the 2026 Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. The 2026 edition of the  meet will include the 10K Open Water Championships and will mark the first time since 2018 that the  United States has hosted the competition. The pool competition is set for August 12-15, while the Open  Water competition date will be announced later.   The Pan Pacific Championships, held every four…

Junior track and road standout Joelle Messemer of Germany and three returning riders bring the 2025 Canyon-SRAM zondacrypto Generation roster to eight, with the final addition, the winner of the 2024 Zwift Academy, to be confirmed early next year.The Continental team welcomes back three-time Rwandan road champion Diane Ingabire, Ugandan time trial champion Florence Nakagwa, and British climbing talent Awen Roberts with contract extensions through the end of next season. The four riders named on Monday join a quartet of riders who have already renewed contracts for 2025 – Selam Amha Gerefiel (Ethiopia), Maddie Le Roux (South Africa), Jule Märkl (Germany…

Fall Report Walter Villa – December 9, 2024 MIAMI — When Brylan West graduated from Tampa’s Freedom High in 2020, he had no scholarship offers.Not from the NCAA.Not from the NAIA.Not even from a junior college.West, a corner infielder, could always hit. The problem was that he was grossly overweight at 298 pounds.But when COVID came around that spring, West didn’t have access to as much food as usual, and he started to lose weight. He lost 20 pounds … then 40 … 50 … and, finally, 70 pounds.While that weight loss was happening, West went to a prep school…

When next you go to the pub to win the trivia competition, remember New Zealand’s fullback phenom Will Jordan has been selected for every World Rugby Dream Team. This year he was joined by fellow All Blacks tight-head Tyrel Lomax and fly-half Damian McKenzie; all three perhaps surprising decisions (hooker Codie Taylor was unlucky to be slighted in favour of a below normal but still very good Malcolm Marx).Rather than cherry pick apart the Dream Team like a TMO forensically disallowing tries which would have been best of the years prior to the 1990s, we should probably look at the…

Jake Paul and his brother Logan are going to be the next big names in boxing. Now I know that the first line of this blog is going to irritate, maybe even outrage so many people and so will this video below where I tell you why. Jake Paul, the YouTube star has just boxed his second pro fight against Nate Jones who is a former 10 year NBA veteran. In a horrendous mismatch (Boxing News questions how Jones was licensed here) Jake knocked him out in the second round. After the fight he called out Conor McGregor. This is just…