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Kenneth Rooks pulled off one of the most athletic feats of the year Saturday and did so in remarkable fashion. The 23-year-old collegiate runner, in a race against professionals, came back from dead last after a nasty spill and earned himself a spot on the United States Track and Field‘s World Outdoor Championships team.
Not only did he earn a qualifying spot, he won the national title outright!
Kenneth Rooks breaks the tape to win the Men’s 3000m Steeplechase Final during the 2023 USATF Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field on July 08, 2023 in Eugene, Oregon.
“The 25-game suspension was left somewhat ambiguous because I wanted to work it out with him,” Silver said.
The ghost of Draymond Green followed Jordan Poole to Washington after getting traded from the Warriors to the Wizards.
The former Golden State Warriors guard is still answering questions about his relationship with Draymond, which never recovered since Green decked Poole in the face during a scuffle at practice.
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Jordan Poole Not Over Infamous Punch
Reporters caught up with Poole this week, and one person asked if Draymond has reached out since getting traded.
General manager Joe Cronin said Monday that the Trail Blazers are in no hurry to trade Damian Lillard, telling reporters: “If it takes months, it takes months.
Steph Curry is considered one of the best ball-handlers in the NBA, but Scoot Henderson hung right with him during a recent workout. The No. 3 pick in 2023, who is almost half of the age of the No. 7 pick from 2009, can really dribble!
Henderson, a five-star recruit in the Class of 2021, chose to forgo a college career and spent the last two years playing for the NBA G League Ignite. Now, at 19 years old, he will be the newest member of the Portland Trail Blazers.
Although Henderson is young, he is learning from an all-time great— Curry.
Northwestern has fired football coach Pat Fitzgerald, sources told ESPN’s Pete Thamel on Monday.
Northwestern and head football coach Pat Fitzgerald reportedly parted ways on Monday amid the ongoing hazing allegations surrounding the program.
The university initially handed Fitzgerald a two-week unpaid suspension after a university-commissioned investigation into the allegations made against the football program. One day after the suspension was announced, Northwestern president Michael Schill admitted he “may have erred in weighing the appropriate sanction” for the university’s head football coach.
July will be the most significant month for the pound-for-pound rankings we have seen in years. Maybe ever.
On July 25, Stephen Fulton, the unified 122-pound champion, will travel to Japan to take on Naoya Inoue, the former undisputed 118-pound kingpin. It’s a dare-to-be-great moment for both: Fulton, the undefeated boxer-puncher who had one foot out of the super bantamweight division, will travel to foreign territory to defend his titles. Inoue, one of boxing’s hardest hitters, will jump up in weight to face the best fighter in the division.
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Fitzgerald went 110-101 as coach of the Wildcats, but went 4-20 in the last two seasons
Northwestern has fired head football coach Pat Fitzgerald amid allegations of hazing, sexual harassment and assault, as well as racism in the Northwestern football program.
Fitzgerald was initially suspended for two weeks after an investigation led by an external law firm concluded that he didn’t know about the hazing allegations, but didn’t do enough to try and stop them.