WORCESTER - The U.S. Tennis Association announced yesterday that single-day tickets will be available for this weekend's 2012 Fed Cup at the DCU Center.
Kellen Russell is a national champion. But more than that, the redshirt senior wrestler is a teammate and a son. As Russell sat in the Bahna Wrestling Center on Wednesday after practice, he reminisced about his journey since the time he first took the mat. When Russell was 6 years old, he joined a peewee league. He hoped to follow in the footsteps of his father, Ed Russell. read more
CHAPEL HILL -- On a February afternoon two years ago, Adam Boone was just one of nearly 250 former North Carolina basketball players crowding the Smith Center court.
CHICAGO - Rashad Evans will indeed face Jon Jones, but he'll enter the matchup on a somewhat lackluster win. To be fair, the former champ shut out a previously undefeated contender in Phil Davis, but the bout lacked the sizzle one might have hoped for in a network-television headliner. Evans earned all five rounds of the UFC on FOX 2 main event, which took place at Chicago's United Center and ...
LONDON (AP) — The pay isn't great, the job is temporary and you could be a target for terrorists. But when Mabel Cross heard that she might be able to work at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she rushed to get to a London recruitment center early.
WORCESTER - The former and maybe future queen of her sport is about to play the newest world No. 1 in a high-stakes match that could determine the future of U.S. women's team tennis. And it's no big deal. Serena Williams rolled into town today in advance of this weekend's Fed Cup tie against Belarus and world champ Victoria Azarenka.
Final, Team Chara 12, Team Alfredsson 21: An impressive showing from Team Alfredsson in the Elimination Shootout pushes the hometown favorites to a victory that will end up looking a little more lopsided than it actually was. The high point for the Bruins will obviously be Zdeno Chara defending his Hardest Shot title for the fifth straight year and once again setting a new record at 108.8 mph ...
Registration for the Oneonta Youth Soccer Association's spring recreational soccer program is open. Forms, which are available at Sport Tech, will be distributed at Oneonta's elementary schools.
UFC welterweight champ Georges St-Pierre admits UFC 143 is going to be weird. After all, he'll be rooting for enemy Nick Diaz. "I want this fight with Diaz so badly - as badly as I wanted the title shot when I got down on my knees," St-Pierre today told the UFC. That was seven years ago at UFC 56, when his career looked a whole lot different than it does today. Of all the punches he's slipped on ...
Almost as soon as it seemed a reality, a rematch between Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit is not happening. When contacted today by MMAjunkie.com, Diaz manager Cesar Gracie said "no" when asked if a rematch recently announced is a reality. He declined further comment. UFC president Dana White issued a tweet late Tuesday that said Condit had accepted a rematch with Diaz and was headed to Las Vegas on ...
EXETER - Steve Mytych gathered his wrestlers in the center of the Wyoming Area practice mat to give instructions before breaking off and practicing the techniques with his athletes.But just one peep from his cellphone and Mytych was ready to leave pract
On Saturday night, live from the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, elite welterweights Nick Diaz and Carlos Condit will collide for the interim UFC 170lbs championship.
East Fairmont crowded two individual wrestling champions and took third as a team at the annual Williamstown Bob Zide Rumble Saturday. The Bees, ranked eighth in Class AAA in the latest wvmat.com poll, finished with 144.5 team points. The total was behind team champ Independence (185) and runner-up Wirt County (183)
LAS VEGAS -- Nick Diaz is brilliant at playing mind games with his opponents, but it didn't work on any level tonight. Carlos Condit never took the bait before or during the fight, stuck to the gameplan and outsmarted Diaz to get himself a share of the UFC welterweight title. Condit moved beautifully all night and landed 60-plus kicks. He never stood in front of Diaz for more than a few seconds ...
Ultimate Fighting Championship, meet the real world.
Let this serve as an official “welcome back” from purgatory for the Santa Monica Stakes, nee Handicap, to be run Saturday at a warm and festive Santa Anita Park.
With yet another time that a possible Manny Pacquiao- Floyd Mayweather fight has come and gone, the hope of most boxing fans for the mega-fight to take place is very low at the moment. Don't fear, boxing fans, as the latest round of back-and-forth between the two fighters gives us more hope the fight will indeed eventually take place. Here are the top five reasons that the Pacquiao-Mayweather ...
Bowling created a moment in time that Beth Moyer will never forget.It was the 2010 District Three championships at ABC North Lanes in Harrisburg.Moyer, then an Elizabethtown High School junior, found herself in third place after the preliminary round, but had to face the 2009 district champ i...
by Geoffrey Ciani (Exclusive Interview by Jenna J & Geoffrey Ciani) - This week’s 157th edition of On the Ropes Boxing Radio featured an exclusive interview with the 28 year old undefeated up-and-coming prospect Joe “The Future” Hanks (18-0, 12 KOs) who is scheduled to face Rafael Pedro (21-9-1, 15 KOs) this Saturday, February 4 at the Times Union Center in Albany, New York. Hanks spoke about ...
Professional wrestling has sometimes been likened to a dance. It’s an art form, albeit a physically challenging one, in which stories can be told in an athletic and entertaining fashion. It can be a choreographed ballet that combines style and grace with power and strength. In extreme cases, though, it can prove deadly.
