Midway through his event at the National Para Athletics Championships in Chennai recently, Navdeep Singh — India’s gold medallist in the javelin throw (T41 class for athletes with short stature) at the Paris Paralympics — was fairly relaxed. Seated in the company of the chief coach of the Indian national team Satyanarayana and Nishad Kumar, … Read more
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —Thursday’s qualifying races created a buzz in the NASCAR Cup garage by what one organization did to shave time on pit road, which could impact Sunday’s Daytona 500. The Joe Gibbs Racing pit crews of Denny Hamlin and Ty Gibbs debuted a unique way to alert their drivers when to leave on … Read more
With Indiana coach Mike Woodson set to resign following the 2024-25 season, IU athletic director Scott Dolson is charged with making a critical hire for the future of a proud program. Indiana hasn’t been beyond the Sweet 16 since 2002 and hasn’t even gone that far since 2016. For a program with five national titles, … Read more
Everything that happens in sports has additional context when viewed from a sports betting perspective. From season-changing injuries to record-setting moments and so much more, the sports news cycle will constantly and significantly affect the sports betting industry. Our Super Bowl betting buzz file, with contributions from David Purdum, Doug Greenberg and others, aims to … Read more
As someone who is no stranger to comm dropouts on a planetary scale, Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin has teamed up with Verizon to help promote the company’s satellite-based solution to cell service “dead zones.” The now 95-year-old astronaut, who in 1969 became one of the first humans to step foot on the lunar surface, … Read more
Dec 29, 2024, 12:00 PM ET Everything that happens in sports has additional context when viewed from a sports betting perspective. From season-changing injuries to record-setting moments and so much more, the sports news cycle will constantly and significantly affect the sports betting industry. Our betting buzz file, with contributions from David Purdum, Doug Greenberg … Read more
Adam Hollioake chuckles from the ice bath at his home on the Gold Coast. ‘I do it every morning,’ he says. ‘And I f***ing hate it. ‘When I say I hate it, it’s the anxiety of getting in, and then the five minutes that I’m in it. I’m just bad with cold.’ Why then does … Read more