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[ad_1] Former UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez has a trial date as he faces a handful of charges, including attempted murder. The trial is scheduled to begin Sept. 9 in Santa Clara County (Calif.) court, Judge Elizabeth C. Petersen ruled during a trial setting Wednesday. Velasquez was present at the hearing and was represented by attorney Renee Hessling. Hessling asked for the trial setting to be rescheduled on the basis her recently acquired subpoena evidence was incomplete. District attorney representative Aaron French pushed back, pointing to the several trial-setting continuances over the past year and the alleged victim’s eagerness to…

[ad_1] Chinada’s report stated the swimmers who tested positive, six months ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Games in 2021, were staying at the same hotel and that traces of TMZ were found in the kitchen, the extraction unit, above the hall and drainage units.Wada said it concluded it did not need to appeal against Chinada’s decision not to ban the athletes after consulting with scientific experts. The global anti-doping body’s director of Intelligence and Investigations, Gunter Younger, said it “followed all due process and diligently investigated every lead and line of enquiry in this matter”.Peaty told the BBC that in…

[ad_1] Posted on 04/20/2024By: Sean Crose Super flyweights David Jimenez and John Ramirez battled for the WBA’s interim divisional title Saturday night at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. The 13-0 Ramirez opened up by falling to the mat before the 15-1 Jimenez just after the opening bell. Both men then fought to control the range as well as the tempo in the first. The second was a fairly high octane affair, with the fighters engaging on the inside. Things remained close in the third, though Jimenez may well have been the more active of the two. The fighters went back to grinding…

[ad_1] Watch as Kenyan Olympic champion Peres Jepchirchir, wins the London Marathon in a new women’s-only world record time – the fastest time in a race without male pace makers. [ad_2]

[ad_1] When crunch time arrives in the Playoffs and your team’s coach needs to make adjustments to seal the win in a big game, there are few things more valuable than experience to call upon. In most cases fans would think of experienced players, and whilst in the north-east Seriös Group Newcastle Eagles Head Coach Marc Steutel has that in the form of a star-studded roster, he also has one of the most experienced coaches in the game to rely on in the form of Gary Stronach. Born and raised a Geordie, Stronach’s career started with Sunderland in the 1980s…

[ad_1] Two teenage footballers were arrested in a police raid outside a Premier League stadium late at night on Monday. Both footballers are aged 19 and were arrested on suspicion of rape and assault. According to sources, one footballer was let go after a brief questioning while the other spent a night in the cell. The other footballers were then arrested the following day. While the first footballer was arrested on suspicion of rape, the other was arrested on suspicion of assault. Police sources said that the alleged incident took place on Friday night. Currently, both the players are out…

[ad_1] Israel Adesanya and Alex Pereira had a fiery feud in the ring and in the cage, but outside it’s all love. After two kickboxing matches and one UFC title fight, Adesanya finally defeated Pereira at UFC 287 in April 2023 to regain the middleweight championship and earn his first win in their four-fight series. Since then, Adesanya dropped the title to Sean Strickland and went on a self-imposed hiatus, while Pereira has moved up a division and become light heavyweight champion. Adesanya and Pereira have had plenty of fun at each other’s expense through the course of their feud,…

[ad_1] Nikoleta (right) and her students show their support for Special Olympics As an educator and trainer, Nikoleta is dedicated to serving youth in her hometown of Patras, Greece. During the day, Nikoleta is a physical education teacher at Primary School 24, and after school, she’s a swim coach for Special Olympics Hellas.Until recently, Nikoleta’s two roles as a teacher and Special Olympics coach were separated from each other. Like many countries around the world, most students with intellectual disabilities (ID) in Greece are enrolled in different schools than those without ID. As someone who works with young people both…

[ad_1] By Elliot Worsell MY long-held fear of ever becoming Editor of Boxing News had nothing to do with seeing Matt Christie on the phone with irate promoters berating him for allowing one of his writers to call their show a two-star show when it was “clearly a f**king three-star show”. It had nothing to do with me seeing Matt Christie, on a Tuesday afternoon, learn that the fight he had assigned to that week’s cover had just been cancelled due to one of the two boxers getting injured. It wasn’t even anything to do with seeing Matt Christie get…

[ad_1] Exciting athlete goes third all-time as an under-17 while Laura Muir runs 5km PB and there are UK titles won on the hills by Scout Atkin, Joe Steward and Kris Jones in latest round-up BMC REGIONAL RACES, Gillingham, April 21 Shaikira King broke the UK age-15 800m record with a sensational 2:02.60 which went third all-time among UK under-17s after Phoebe Gill (2:01.50) and Jo White (2:02.0) who were both aged 16 when they set their times. However, King achieved this performance in a mixed race so it won’t count as a qualifying time for the World Under-20 Championships…