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Summer rugby, please. A move to abandon the mid-winter slog should be high on the agenda and it shouldn’t need Darragh or any other storm to justify the idea.Following a wet, wild weekend, it is high time to consider aligning the hemispheres, for the greater good of the game. Doing so would create a more user-friendly playing and viewing experience.There has always been a school of thought that rugby must somehow revel in having to overcome appalling conditions. Why? It makes no sense. When the talk turns to how a ball is like a ‘bar of soap’, it is no…
KALLE SAUERLAND is calling on the fans to guide him when it comes to the third season of the World Boxing Super Series. The promoter is hoping the new season, with “between one and three” weight divisions, will begin in the first half of 2021. Sauerland, who is at the early planning stages, told Boxing News that five potential tournaments are currently in play: heavyweight; light-heavyweight; middleweight; fly/super-flyweight; and women’s super-featherweight. The next stage of development is about gauging exactly what the fans want. When he has that information he will formulate his proposal and take it to the WBSS…
Four-time Major winner and former World No.1 Ernie Els is partnering with owners Arrow Global to bring the first Els Club to Europe and the first private members golf club to the Algarve. The Big Easy’s eponymous club brand has become synonymous with excellence with its blue and gold hallmark acting as a stamp of assurance for golfers around the world to expect world class amenities and service. OPENING DATE The Els Club Vilamoura will have the additional distinction of becoming The Algarve’s first private members’ golf club offering a new standard of exceptional and privileged access when it opens…
LeBron James will sit his first game of the year against the Portland Trail Blazers on Sunday due to left foot soreness. The 39-year-old began experiencing soreness on Wednesday against the Heat. “We’re going to have to play in transition. And I think overall for our team, just getting back to really emphasize trying to get a paint touch on every possession. We were doing that earlier in the year and have gotten away from that and need to get back to that,” said JJ Redick on the team’s game plan without James. Austin Reaves will also miss his fifth…
Merab Dvalishvili doesn’t believe his altercation with a fan at UFC 310 was an accident. On Saturday night, the UFC bantamweight champion ended up in an incident as he was walking backstage after cornering friend and teammate Aljamain Sterling in his fight against Movsar Evloev. Footage captured by nearby fans saw Dvalishvili being restrained by security with fellow teammate and UFC fighter Dennis Buzukja actually throwing punches with the person. The fan was apparently escorted out of the arena with UFC CEO Dana White later calling Dvalishvili his “mini-[Sean] Strickland” due to numerous incidents happening outside the cage, which included…
2024 SHORT COURSE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS While every event at this edition of the World Aquatics Swimming Championships (25m) has some gaps in talent, the women’s backstrokes, some of the deeper events in the world, seem to make out reasonably well. While the absence of Kaylee McKeown is obviously felt, the depth of this discipline makes the women’s backstroke must-see events. While it is highly likely that the same name will appear atop each of our predictions (seeing as I am the one writing this, I can say that the same name will appear first) don’t let that fool you into…
Cyclocross stars who elected for team training camps instead of this weekend’s World Cup have been given a huge boost to their series aspirations.Women’s world cyclocross champion Fem Van Empel was one of the riders who decided against the trip to Cabras, instead joining her Visma-Lease a Bike training camp.Just 31 women and an equal amount of elite men, were due to be on the start-line in Sardinia as team training camps played a part for those multi-discipline riders.Lucinda Brand (Baloise Trek Lions) had the chance to make a big impact in the women’s series in Sardinia, with Annemarie Worst…
Look at you, sitting there as though baseball is gone. Baseball never leaves! It just sort of hovers there by the exit after claiming it was going to leave, moving with purposeful slowness toward the door and turning to say “What was that?” upon the utterance of anything approaching its name. “We didn’t say anything,” you reply. “Ah,” baseball says, then fingers the blinds a bit and mumbles about how dark it’s getting. Then it just hangs around for a while, all winter. It lives in the Arizona Fall League and the Dominican Winter League and the Premier12 tournament. It…
Bristol: Lane; Bates, Van Rensburg, Ravouvou, Ibitoye; MacGinty, Randall; Genge, Thacker, Lahiff, Dun, Owen, Grondona, Harding (capt), Mata.Replacements: Oghre, Woolmore, Chawatama, Luatua, Grondona, Marmion, Jenkins, Elizalde.Leinster: Frawley; Larmour, Ringrose, Henshaw, O’Brien; Prendergast, Gibson-Park; Boyle, Kelleher, Slimani, J McCarthy, Ryan, Deegan, Van der Flier, Conan (capt).Replacements: G McCarthy, Porter, Clarkson, Snyman, Doris, McGrath, R Byrne, Barrett.Referee: Craig Evans (Wal)
By: Sean Crose WBO featherweight titlist Rafael Espinoza battled former foil Robeisy Ramirez Saturday night in Phoenix. The scheduled 12 rounder was a rematch of their 2023 battle. Espinoza won that match, as well as Ramirez’ title – but Ramirez had been more than game – and was now more than eager to get his second crack at Espinoza on Saturday. Although far shorter than his lanky opponent Ramirez looked to have gotten the better of things in the opening round. Being sure to keep away from the long arms of Espinoza, Ramirez was able to get inside with his…