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New Aston Villa signing Samuel Iling-Junior is reportedly set to depart the Premier League club immediately and join Serie A side Bologna.After an incredible campaign last season which saw them qualify for the Champions League for the first time since the 1980’s, Aston Villa must now brace themselves to cope with the congested fixture list that accompanies top-level European football.Unai Emery made some efforts in the summer transfer window to bring in players to help bolster his squad with the likes of Andre Onana joining from Everton.But the Spanish manager also lost arguably his best player in Douglas Luiz who…
Nucifora will be a key player in appointing his own successor when the time comes.He is known for his capacity to “get stuff done”, although he would use another word in place of stuff. He compromises on nothing. When he first took over in Dublin he said it was a matter of “looking at what’s under the bonnet.” He fought many battles, some with the provinces as he engineered the movement of players around the country, while serving as the final decision-maker on signings from overseas. Nothing substantial happened without Nucifora’s approval.He is focused, driven, confrontational. He is in charge…
The world number 25, who faces China’s Zhang Zhizhen in the first round in New York, said criticism from other players was harder to deal with.”It’s freedom of speech at the end of the day, people can have their opinion and can say what they feel and think,” he said.”Do I necessarily agree with what they’re saying? No, because I was in the situation and I know my truth and that’s that I didn’t know.”But obviously you have to respect that – it’s all part of being a great player, people are going to question you and I don’t blame…
Eduardo “Sugar” Nunez will bide his time as he awaits his first title shot. The red-hot junior lightweight knockout artist is a late addition to the already announced Aug. 31 DAZN show. Mexico’s Nunez will face Colombia’s Miguel Marriaga in the chief support to the Diego Pacheco-Maciej Sulecki super middleweight bout. Both bouts will air live from Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson, California. Nunez (27-1, 27 knockouts), No. 10 at 130 by The Ring, is the current IBF mandatory challenger. Reigning titlist Anthony Cacace (22-1, 8 KOs), No. 5 at 130, was ordered to face Nunez. No deal was…
New Zealand’s Lydia Ko fired a final round of 69 to win the Women’s Open by two shots after a wet and windy week at the Old Course at St Andrews. It is a third major championship for Ko, who won the 2015 Evian Championship and 2016 Chevron Championship, and the first time a New Zealander has ever won the Women’s Open. The 27-year-old rounds off an excellent month at St Andrews having already won the gold medal at the Paris Olympic Games which saw her earn enough points to be inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame. “It’s been…
NBA fans are already posting their reactions to social media regarding San Antonio Spurs forward/center Victor Wembanyama’s NBA 2K25 rating. On Friday, NBA 2K revealed that Wembanyama will be rated as 91 overall in the new game. He is ranked as the 18th-best player overall. The NBA2K account on X has periodically announced the ratings of the top 100 players in the game. However, the top 10 has yet to be unveiled. NBA 2K25 is set to launch globally on Sept. 6, but early access starts on Sept. 4 for all editions. It will be available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation…
Diego Lopes expects Brian Ortega to make it to the octagon with no hiccups on Sept. 14 at UFC 306 despite all the drama that unfolded hours prior to their scheduled June bout. Lopes and Ortega agreed to face each other in a featherweight showdown on short notice at UFC 303 after the card suffered major hits, most notably the cancellation of Conor McGregor vs. Michael Chandler, but the bout was then moved to 155 pounds hours before official weigh-ins after Ortega had issues cutting weight. In an unprecedented move, Dan Ige ultimately replaced Ortega just hours before the fight,…
Sun Yang Returns to Racing at Chinese Summer Championships One of the most controversial swimmers of the 21st century swam his first official race in more than four years Sunday in Hefei, China, as Sun Yang made his return to competition following a four-year suspension. Sun Yang competed in the 400 freestyle against domestic competition, albeit with swimmers who competed at the Paris Olympics missing, and he emerged victorious with a time of 3:49.58. Sun had previously been banished from the sport after failing to cooperate with anti-doping testers who visited his home in 2018. In that incident, a member of Sun’s…
On the high-speed, final descent of stage 9 of the Vuelta a España, Enric Mas (Movistar) came within a whisker of a major crash as the headwind caught his bike and the Spanish GC contender all but skidded off-course.In a heart-stopping moment for TV viewers, cameras showed how Mas wobbled spectacularly to his right and looked like he would fall.But luckily, the sudden distancing of the continuous crash barriers running parallel alongside the road running down the side of the mountain meant the Movistar racer had the space necessary to regain control of his bike. Fifty metres before or after that…
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