Author: Mikesportz
Tennessee sealed its first national championship in baseball on Monday night in Omaha with a thrilling 6-5 win against Texas A&M in the winner-take-all third game of the College World Series finals, and Tony Vitello is set to take home a six-figure bonus for guiding the Vols to the pinnacle. The seventh-year head coach was crowd surfing in the stands at Charles Schwab Field Omaha minutes after Aaron Combs sealed the title with a strikeout, his legendary status among Tennessee fans even further secured by delivering the University’s first national title in 15 years. Though he’ll care more about the…
The Los Angeles Lakers are just one of three NBA teams that have yet to add a free agent this summer. The inactivity from general manager Rob Pelinka and Co. is astounding given their first-round exit in the 2024 NBA Playoffs. Even with LeBron James returning, this is not a championship-caliber roster. That was proven over and over again during the 2023-24 season. Most figured that Los Angeles would go big-game hunting on the trade block. It was linked to Dejounte Murray before he was sent from the Atlanta Hawks to the New Orleans Pelicans. The Lakers were also in…
One of their coaches, Bryan Simmons, said the players had fun and learned new skills, and also got to meet some of the other flag-football players in the state. “It’s been a long but fun day,” Simmons said from Lake Forest on Tuesday afternoon. The inaugural Danville High team also got to watch a Bears practice and meet head coach Matt Eberflus, whom they thanked for helping them by providing training equipment and uniforms, including home and away jerseys. The Danville players got to take pictures with and get autographs from the Bears players hosting the flag-football clinic, including running…
Greg Rutherford is a throwback to a bygone era of Britishness, pre-Brexit and Prime Minister Borisand Braverman, a world of gold postboxes and Olly Murs. And at 37, with three kids, a whippet puppy called Clunkers and a Momfluencer wife with 126,000 Instagram followers, he’s now living the archetypal Team GB gold medallist’s retirement. Rutherford’s role in London 2012’s Super Saturday, winning the long jump while Dame Jessica Ennis-Hill and Sir Mo Farah also took gold across 46 miraculous minutes, made him a national icon. He remains Britain’s greatest long jumper, but that accolade has not delivered lifelong riches. “There’s…
The Vols downed SEC rival Texas A&M 6-5 in the College World Series decider on Monday night in Omaha, and after arriving back on campus on Tuesday afternoon, Tony Vitello and his team headed to Gay Street for a parade followed by a celebration program in Market Square. Vitello, the beloved seventh-year head coach, joined the Voice of Tennessee Baseball John Wilkerson for a question-and-answer session as the players on the stage and fans in the crowd basked in the glory of the Vols winning a title in a major sport for the first time since Pat Summitt’s eighth women’s…
Donald Trump’s campaign on Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission against the vice-president Kamala Harris, accusing her 2024 campaign of violating federal campaign finance laws by replacing Joe Biden’s name with her own to take control of his campaign funds. The complaint, filed by the Trump campaign’s general counsel, David Warrington, argued that the Biden campaign could not rename its committee from “Biden for President” to “Harris for President” once Biden dropped out of the race on Sunday, and roll over $91m. “This is little more than a thinly veiled $91.5m excessive contribution from one presidential candidate…
In her first year of coaching D1 women’s basketball, she led Marshall to become regular season and conference champions. Author: WBIR Sports Published: 1:57 PM EDT April 7, 2024 Updated: 9:27 AM EDT April 9, 2024 KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee hired Marshall’s Kim Caldwell as the Lady Vol’s new women’s basketball head coach. This is the first time UT has gone outside Lady Vol connections since Pat Summitt. On Sunday afternoon, Athletic Director Danny White said, “from the beginning, our goal has been to find a dynamic head coach who can restore our women’s basketball program to national prominence. Kim…
Trevor Foley produced the best performance of his career to date on Sunday in Upstate New York, as the former Florida Gator took the tape at IRONMAN Lake Placid. Breaking the course record with a phenomenal 7:55:23 clocking, Foley ran away from Lionel Sanders at the start of the run before reeling in fellow American Matthew Marquardt in the closing kilometres. After the race, Foley credited his team around him and gave a special mention to Sanders, who he has spent a considerable amount of time training alongside over the last 18 months since embarking on his pro career.
Rafael Nadal managed to surge past Leo Borg 6-3, 6-4 on Tuesday afternoon to make a successful return to the ATP Tour at the Nordea Open in Sweden. Nadal played doubles with Casper Ruud as the starter and the main course was a clash against Borg and hew as pleased with how he performed in the aftermath.
The selection panel has given a candid explanation of why Daniel Simiu was left out of the men’s 10,000m team at the Paris 2024 Olympics. The selection panel, led by Athletics Kenya Nairobi Chair Barnaba Korir has explained why world 10,000m silver medallist Daniel Simiu was snubbed from the men’s 10,000m team to the Paris 2024 Olympics. As per the International Olympic Committee, the first two athletes to cross the finish line automatically qualify for the event with the third athlete being chosen by a panel of selectors. Daniel Mateiko and Nicholas Kimeli finished first and second respectively with Bernard…