Author: Nifemi Filani

[ad_1] Beneil Dariush is the 2024 Forrest Griffin Community Award winner. Given out annually as part of the International Fight Week honors, the Forrest Griffin Community Award is personally selected by UFC CEO Dana White and recognizes fighters for their charitable efforts. On Saturday, UFC announced Dariush as the 2024 recipient for his work with the Shlama Foundation and Promise Child Ministries. “Beneil does an incredible job giving back to his community,” White said in a press release. “Beneil sets a perfect example of how athletes should use their platforms to raise awareness for the charitable causes they care about…

[ad_1] Special Olympics Great Britain athlete Lloyd Martin at the finish line of the TCS London Marathon. Photo credit: TCS London Marathon Photo by Thomas Lovelock for London Marathon Nineteen-year-old Lloyd, who has Down syndrome, ran the TCS London Marathon in six hours, 46 minutes and 10 second, setting a new Guinness World Records title for the youngest known person with Down syndrome to complete a marathonLloyd, from Camberley in Surrey, set his new World Record with the support of his Mum Ceri, who has run six marathons previously, including setting a Welsh national record in the 2021 London Marathon…

[ad_1] Super middleweight contender Erik Bazinyan had been due to face Shakeel Phinn on April 11 but the show was postponed for three-weeks when Bazinyan became sick. Now, fully healthy, Bazinyan is ready to get back to business in the crowded division at the Montreal Casino, Montreal, on Thursday. “I was very ready, 100 percent, it’s OK, it happened, now I had three more weeks and I will be more ready and he’s going to have a harder time,” Bazinyan (32-0, 23 knockouts) told The Ring. “I was sick, I had sinusitis, my nose was blocked, my ear, one week…

[ad_1] In October, the brothers, who are among seven Ingebrigtsen children, wrote that they still felt discomfort and fear about Gjert and had to tell their story publicly because of intense media coverage in Norway about their split with him.”We have grown up with a father who has been very aggressive and controlling and who has used physical violence and threats as part of his upbringing,” they said.”We still feel discomfort and fear which has been in us since childhood.”Two years ago, the same aggression and physical punishment struck again. It was the drop that made the cup run over.”On…

[ad_1] Right before the Suns were swept out of the playoff’s first round by the Timberwolves this Sunday, first-year coach Frank Vogel told the press he was “very” confident that he still had the job in Phoenix for next season. According to the tactician, he has a great relationship and understanding with the team’s owner.  “I’ve got full support of [Suns owner Mat] Ishbia,” Vogel shared before losing in Game 4, as the media was all over him asking if he thought his job was in danger. Now that the team is out of the picture, we can say for…

[ad_1] Man City star Kalvin Phillips is believed to be desperate to re-sign for Leeds United this summer as the midfielder is expected to leave the Premier League champions. The England ace made the move to the Etihad Stadium from the Yorkshire club during the summer of 2022, joining the Manchester outfit as part of a £45m deal.The 28-year-old would have envisaged being a key part of Pep Guardiola’s side over the course of the six-year contract he signed but the opposite happened as Phillips’ time at City has been a disaster.The former Leeds star has barely played and was sent…

[ad_1] Darren Till is tired of hearing Mike Perry run his mouth. On Saturday night (April 27), ‘Platinum’ earned his fifth-straight victory under the BKFC banner, scoring a smashing 60-second TKO over former UFC standout Thiago Alves in the KnuckleMania IV main event. Immediately following the bout, Perry delivered a fiery post-fight promo targeting longtime rival Darren Till. “Darren Till you fat f*cking b*tch, get your ass over here,” Perry said immediately following his latest win. Perry’s comments extended into the post-fight press conference, telling Till that he needs to stop chasing gold in MMA and come get a piece…

[ad_1] The following is an excerpt from Inside the Games’ article on Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023’s sustainability project:To develop a way forward, we need a sense of where we are. That’s why, following the project kick-off meeting in November 2023, the project teams in Belgium and Italy—led by the SO Europe Foundation—embarked on a period of intensive research. A key aspect of this was to analyse the sustainability challenges and achievements of the Special Olympics World Games Berlin 2023.These Games, which pursued an ambitious and award-winning green agenda, provided the project team with important lessons that have informed…

[ad_1] In July 2018 Rocky Fielding earned the biggest win of his career by beating Tyron Zeuge in Germany. The fifth round TKO earned the Liverpudlian the WBA “Regular” Super-Middleweight title. Two months later in a hugely anticipated rematch in Las Vegas Canelo Alvarez defeated rival Gennadiy Golovkin to retain his two middleweight world titles. However, the Mexican fancied a brief dip into super-middleweight territory before returning to 160lbs. The man selected to be his opponent was Fielding. “Rocky from Stocky” was about to receive the opportunity of a lifetime and be well paid for what looked like an impossible…

[ad_1] Oxford is the place to be next Monday when the 70th anniversary of Roger Bannister’s iconic 3:59.4 is celebrated Monday May 6 marks one of the most important anniversaries in the sport. It will be 70 years since Roger Bannister became the first man to break the four-minute barrier for the mile. Keen to mark the occasion, Oxford University is staging a day-long celebration with a community mile in the centre of the city and track races at the same Iffley Road venue where Bannister created history in 1954. I hear the organisers are pulling out all the stops…