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Letsile Tebogo Makes History Winning Botswana’s First Olympic Gold Medal
On the 8th of August, Letsile Tebogo made history when he secured a first place victory in the 2024 Paris Olympic Games 200-metre sprint. Not only was his win a massive personal achievement, but he also broke national and continental records, including bringing home...
Top Features that Influenced the Rise of Online Sport Betting
Alt: Online Sports Betting For many years online sports betting was put on ice but brought a spark to the online gambling industry since its inclusion in the global market. Recently, betting on sporting events has been a trend amongst punters across the globe. In this...
Restoring Celtic Pride
Ime Udoka still has to pinch himself. Taking his first NBA coaching job with the Boston Celtics wasn't an easy situation by any means. Udoka had pressure to win as the Celtics had been knocking on the door of a championship for the past 10 years. With Boston advancing...
The First of Many Conference Finals MVPs: Jayson Tatum and Stephen Curry
After decades of NBA playoffs, for the first time, the Magic Johnson Western Conference Finals MVP award and the Larry Bird Eastern Conference Finals MVP award were presented. After the 75th-anniversary season of the NBA, the NBA revealed a new “lineup of reimagined...
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Japan’s Kokomo Murase wins gold in women’s big air
LIVIGNO, Italy -- Japanese snowboarder Kokomo Murase won Olympic gold in women’s big air on Monday, two days after her teammates swept the top two medals in the men’s event.Murase had already locked up at least a bronze medal at the Milan Cortina Games when she went...
Backed by NFL and Olympics, flag football gains momentum in NCAA emerging sports program
Thousands gathered in San Francisco in the days leading up to the most anticipated game on the NFL calendar. But before the Seahawks and Patriots took center stage in Super Bowl LX, it was the contactless version of the game that repeatedly found itself in the...
Dutch speedskater Jutta Leerdam wins women’s 1,000m with fiancé Jake Paul in stands
MILAN -- There is little question that Jutta Leerdam and her fiancé, YouTuber-turned-boxer Jake Paul, have brought new eyeballs to speedskating with all of their millions of followers on social media. Now all of those people who have been introduced to her sport saw...
Serena Williams eligible to return to tennis later this month
Serena Williams passed another stage on the path to a possible comeback to professional tennis, being listed Monday by the sport's drug-testing organization as eligible to return to competition on Feb. 22.That is six months after the 23-time Grand Slam singles...
Arizona holds No. 1 spot for 9th week in AP Top 25; Houston rises to No. 3, Kentucky returns at 25th
Arizona remained firmly atop The Associated Press Top 25 men's college basketball poll for a ninth consecutive week Monday, while Houston jumped back into the top 5 and Kentucky returned to the rankings for the first time since December.Tommy Lloyd's Wildcats (23-0)...
Kylian Mbappé’s scoring streak for Madrid has some wondering if he’ll overtake Cristiano Ronaldo
MADRID -- Kylian Mbappé's latest impressive scoring run with Real Madrid has brought up comparisons to Cristiano Ronaldo.After Mbappé scored his 23rd goal in 22 Spanish league games in Madrid's 2-0 win at Valencia on Sunday, coach Álvaro Arbeloa said the France...
Red Sox acquire Caleb Durbin in trade with Brewers to address third base
MILWAUKEE -- Third baseman Caleb Durbin was traded to the Boston Red Sox in a six-player deal with the Milwaukee Brewers on Monday after finishing third in the NL Rookie of the Year balloting last year.Milwaukee acquired left-handers Kyle Harrison and Shane Drohan and...
NASCAR emerges from federal antitrust lawsuit bruised but ready for its 78th season
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- In the days following the 2004 Hendrick Motorsports flight that killed all 12 people aboard, Bill France Jr. and Mike Helton showed up at Rick Hendrick’s front door in Charlotte, North Carolina.France, terminally ill at the time, was the...
Gremaud again denies Gu an Olympic gold medal in freeski slopestyle
LIVIGNO, Italy -- Mathilde Gremaud successfully defended her Olympic freeski slopestyle title and denied Eileen Gu a gold medal for a second straight Winter Games.Gremaud won Monday’s final with a score of 86.96 from the best of her three jumps, while Gu again took...
Italy beats Japan to reach Olympic women’s hockey quarterfinals for first time
MILAN -- Host nation Italy secured a place in the quarterfinals of the Olympic women's hockey tournament for the first time by beating Japan 3-2 on Monday.Italy improved to 2-1, with one game left against Germany, and is guaranteed one of the three quarterfinal spots...
Lindsey Vonn’s choice to race Olympic downhill on injured knee questioned after crash
CORTINA D'AMPEZZO, Italy -- The fallout from Lindsey Vonn's devastating crash in the Olympic downhill on a severely injured knee included a key question: Should she have even been allowed on a course that is dangerous even to perfectly healthy skiers?The resounding...
US figure skater Amber Glenn faces backlash over politics and copyright issues
MILAN -- On the same day Amber Glenn won Olympic gold as part of the team event, and stepped away from social media due to backlash over her comments on politics and the LGBTQ+ community, the American figure skater ended up with another headache.Canadian artist Seb...