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With less than a week to go until the 2024 Olympics kicks off, the fully recyclable cardboard beds that athletes will sleep on have been unveiled. The video shows that the mattress has three different modules that allow athletes to choose their preferred firmness and stretch to suit their height. These are the same type of beds that will be used at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics. The beds have come under criticism from some athletes, with US track and field star Paul Chelimo claiming they were “aimed at preventing intimacy between athletes” during the Olympics. Chelimo's theory was proven wrong…
With NBA offseason activity coming to a complete halt, the Paris Olympics just around the corner, and teams only just getting their first look at their rookies at the Las Vegas Summer League, it feels like a second wave of trades could happen soon before training camps officially open across the league, but for now, the league's running season is on pause. Cap space across the league is nearly depleted. At this point, the remaining free agents are likely looking at veteran minimum contracts, and that's where the value lies for teams. A year ago, the Dallas Mavericks didn't sign…
Dating back to the original Buffalo Bisons hockey franchises, hockey has had a rich tradition in Buffalo, New York. When the Buffalo Sabres were born in town in 1970, the growth of hockey in Western New York exploded. Since then, Buffalo has produced generations of hockey talent, from sons of former Sabres to homegrown heroes. Buffalo boasts perhaps the greatest American hockey player of all time, Patrick Kane. The longtime Chicago Blackhawks forward has 1284 career points in 1230 career games. His three Stanley Cups brought back to Buffalo are the most of any player from the area. He’s now…
Holiday Reading 2023: Best Books About Boxing By Thomas Hauser Each year during the holiday season, I publish a list of what I consider to be the best books about boxing. That list, updated to accommodate recently published titles, follows. Taken together, the books offer a compelling look at the sweet science from bare-knuckle days to the present. Some of these books are now out of print. But with the proliferation of online services like Abebooks.com and Amazon.com, all of them can be found. I’ve listed the US publisher for each book, but many of them have been published in…
Story Link WILLIAMSBURG, Virginia —College of William and Mary Women's Soccer Head Coach Julie Shackford We have announced the addition of new graduates. Zoe Doughtynotified the Indians' coaching staff on Friday. Doughty will join the staff as an assistant coach, primarily focusing on coaching W&M's goalkeepers. “We are excited to have Zoe join our staff,” Shackford said. “As an all-conference student-athlete, Zoe has contributed greatly to the growth of our team and program over the past four-plus years. As a member of tradition and an alumna, she knows what it takes to be successful at our level,…
LAS VEGAS – The official weigh-ins for UFC on ESPN 60 will take place on Friday morning, and MMA Junkie will have a live stream of the event and official results starting at noon ET. In the main event, Virna Jandiroba (20-3 MMA, 6-3 UFC) will move one step closer to claiming UFC gold when she takes on former women’s strawweight title challenger Amanda Lemos (14-3-1 MMA, 8-3 UFC). The middleweight co-main event will see Park Jun Young (17-6 MMA, 7-3 UFC) take on Brad Tavares (20-9 MMA, 15-9 UFC). The weigh-ins will take place at the UFC Apex, which…
Mateusz Slodkowski/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images In this photo illustration, the Crowdstrike logo is displayed on a smartphone. CNN — A global computer outage that affected airports, banks and other businesses on Friday appears to be at least partly caused by a software update issued by CrowdStrike, a major US cybersecurity firm, experts told CNN. CrowdStrike told customers early Friday that the outage was caused by “a flaw found in a single content update for software on Microsoft Windows operating systems,” CEO George Kurtz said in a post on X. Kurtz later posted on X that the company apologized to customers on…
Chen Pei-Pei, the Chinese-born martial arts film actor who starred in Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has died at the age of 78, his family announced Friday.Chen, who had been diagnosed with a rare condition with symptoms similar to Parkinson's disease, died Wednesday at home surrounded by his loved ones, his family wrote on Facebook. The disease, called neurodegenerative atypical Parkinsonism, cannot be slowed by current treatments, and Chen had donated his brain for medical research, his family said.”Our mother wanted to be remembered as a legendary martial arts queen and a versatile, award-winning actress who worked in film…
Brian Palladino The Lynbrook Roller Hockey League is a youth roller hockey organization founded in 1998 by current Lynbrook Village Mayor Alan Beach. At the time, Beach was a young father who wanted to coach his two sons and their friends in the sport he loved. The league is based at the Hockey Rink Complex in the southwest corner of Grace Park. The Lynbrook Roller Hockey Complex includes a rink, scoreboard, fan viewing area, hockey shed and adjacent parking. The facility was built after Beach and other hockey-minded parents won a bond from the village in the late 1990s, and…
Beach volleyball will be featured at the 2024 Olympics, which will run from Friday, July 26 to Sunday, August 11. The U.S. team will be represented by two teams of four men and four women. The women's pairings will be Taryn Cross and Kristen Nass, and Kelly Chen and Sarah Hughes, while the men's pairings will be Andy Benesh and Miles Partin, and Chase Budinger and Miles Evans. Let's take a look back at the collegiate history of the U.S. beach volleyball team. woman Taryn Cross | LSU Taryn Cross played two years of beach volleyball at Louisiana State University…