Author: Tim Runn

Barry Hall is bristling at being likened to a stepping stone for Sonny Bill Williams’ boxing career, vowing to take matters out of the judges hands and knock out the dual code star in Sydney on March 23.Williams, who has been training with heavyweight world champion Tyson Fury and Kiwi guns Joseph Parker and David Nyika in the United Kingdom, described Hall as “nowhere near my class level” and stated “I will take this win and move onto bigger fights over the next 24-36 months.”Hall, the retired AFL great and former junior boxing champ, claimed Williams’ hubris would come back…

Story Links Box Score (PDF) Photo Gallery Next Match: vs. #24 Florida State 2/5/2022 | 5 P.M. Feb. 05 (Sat) / 5 P.M. vs. #24 Florida State GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Earning their second ranked victory in a row, the No. 13 Florida Gators women’s tennis team won their match against the No. 17 Old Dominion Monarchs in a tough battle, 4-2, at the Alfred A. Ring Tennis Complex on Thursday evening.   Taking on a red-hot ODU team who just defeated No. 12 Georgia Tech and SEC-foe Ole…

The Buffalo Sabres have assigned goaltender Michael Houser to the Rochester Americans, the team announced Thursday.Houser, who began the season on an AHL contract, signed a one-year deal with the Sabres on Jan. 12 with fellow goaltenders Craig Anderson, Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen, Malcom Subban, and Dustin Tokarski sidelined due to injuries or illness. Houser started two games for the Sabres before entering COVID-19 protocol last Friday. Anderson and Tokarski have since returned for Buffalo. Rochester hosts Charlotte on Friday and plays at Toronto on Saturday. Houser is 5-4-0 with a .900 save percentage in 11 games with the Amerks this season.  This news…

At a House Oversight Committee roundtable, former cheerleader and Marketing and Events Coordinator Tiffani Johnston accused Snyder of putting his hand on her thigh during a dinner and later aggressively pushing her toward his limousine with his hand on her lower back as she fended off advances, a new allegation.A former video production manager alleges that he was asked to produce a lewd video featuring nude outtake clips of cheerleaders from a photoshoot without their knowledge at the request of Snyder.Several female former employees allege that for years, Snyder created a toxic environment of abuse and sexual harassment, where female…

Minnesota finds itself in a tough situation with the trade deadline just a week away. The Athletic’s Jon Krawczynski has been covering the Wolves for 17 years and feels it’d be hard to identify a group that gets along better than this current unit.They genuinely root for each other, and that enthusiasm is born out in the way they share the ball and the all-out hustle on defense. They are bringing out the best in each other. D’Angelo Russell is having the best season of his career, Anthony Edwards is blossoming into a star, Karl-Anthony Towns is playing better sustained…

NASCAR is hitting Los Angeles a week ahead of the Super Bowl, grabbing the spotlight with its wildest idea yet: The Clash, the unofficial season-opening, stock-car version of the Pro Bowl, will run at the iconic Coliseum in a made-for-Fox Sports spectacular. Yes, that’s correct. A temporary track has been built inside the Coliseum, where race cars will rattle around a quarter mile of asphalt carefully laid over the grass field that has hosted two summer Olympics, the USC Trojans and the hometown Rams for four seasons until their new stadium opened in 2020. The first Super Bowl in 1967…

Major League Baseball and the Players Association (MLBPA) have held multiple meetings recently to negotiate a new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), however, time is running out to get a deal done before Spring Training is scheduled to begin. After the lockout began in December, the two sides went more than 40 days before holding a meeting to discuss core economics and prior to that, only a small group had gathered during the middle of December to review other issues. Last month, the union presented a counteroffer while the league countered their proposal the next day but the idea progress had…

Story Links SEA ISLAND, Ga. – Ole Miss men’s golf senior Jackson Suber is set to take part in the 2022 Jones Cup Invitational at Ocean Forest Golf Club in Sea Island, Georgia beginning Friday.The annual 54-hole tournament, which is set to run Feb. 4-6 featuring 84 of the top amateur golfers in the world, is classified as a category A tournament in the World Amatuer Golf Ranking, making it one of the top 30 amateur tournaments in the world.Suber is coming off of a red-hot fall season for the Rebels, where he won his third career individual tournament…

The EFL says it disagrees with Derby’s belief that legal claims from Middlesbrough and Wycombe should not be treated as football-related debt.Both clubs are seeking compensation relating to Derby’s breaching of financial rules, but the Rams believe that the governing body should not force them to defend the claims in order to keep its EFL membership. But the EFL has rejected that stance, insisting that Boro and Wycombe are creditors and should be paid.It said in a statement: “Derby County is seeking to use insolvency legislation to avoid having to defend the claims of Middlesbrough FC (which commenced initially in…

Oman Cricket, in a landmark deal, has joined hands with Mazoon Diary S.A.O.C as their Grassroot and Nourishment partner on Thursday (February 3). The association aims to unearth local talents and give them a platform where they get the right exposure for international cricket. Oman, who impressed one and all in the recently concluded ICC T20 World Cup, is keen to build a bench strength of local players, who will serve the country at the international level in the future. An elated Chairman of Oman Cricket, Pankaj Khimji stated that both associations share the same vision and it is a…