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Basketball’s biggest stars are heading to Las Vegas this weekend — and not for the NBA Summer League. We are talking about WNBA All-Star Weekend, which culminates Saturday with the All-Star Game.Team A’ja Wilson, which features four of the Las Vegas Aces’ starters, will face Team Breanna Stewart for the second straight year at Michelob ULTRA Arena. All eyes will be on captains Wilson and Stewart, but the competition is full of X-factors and stars who rightly deserve your attention.Here are five players to watch during the WNBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas:COMPLETE LISTS: A’ja Wilson recruits Aces teammates Aliyah…
FAIRFIELD — Frank Darby had just started feeding baby bottles into a local grocery store’s recycling machine when a heart attack struck him. Luckily for him, there were observant and responsive store employees on duty that day, otherwise he might not have survived, he said.“I put four or five bottles in, and then I woke up in the intensive care unit of the emergency room at St. Vincent Hospital,” he said. Darby, a longtime college golf coach and current radio show host on SiriusXM’s PGA Tour channel, had stopped at the bottle return machines at the ShopRite in Fairfield before…
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The Chicago Sky may have lost a Wade after Head coach James Wade resigned mid-season to accept an NBA assistant job, but the WNBA franchise gained another Wade in the form of a three-time NBA champion Dwyane Wade.The Chicago native announced Friday that he was joining the Sky ownership group.“It’s an incredible feeling to be on this side of history,” said Dwyane Wade, a 2023 Basketball Hall of Fame Inductee, said in an Instagram post. “Seeing growth, on the business side, for something I’ve been passionate about my whole life is an incredible feeling. Amazing things are happening in the…
Outgoing Carolinas GCSA President Chuck Connolly (left) poses for a photo with his successor, Pete Gerdon, the association’s 50th president. (Photo: Courtesy of GCSA of the Carolinas) The directory Caroline’s GCSA Conference and Trade Show capped what association president Chuck Connolly called a banner year for golf in the region. “We have the largest membership we’ve ever had, with over 1,800 members,” he says. “It’s been a banner year and I think that reflects what golf is today. We are starting to see more participation and more job opportunities. The event raised more than $830,000, an increase of more than…
There’s a new queen of the WNBA 3-point contest.Sabrina Ionescu of the New York Liberty won the title Friday at All-Star Weekend 2023 in Las Vegas after putting on “the greatest performance we’ve ever seen in this contest,” exclaimed ESPN play-by-play announcer Ryan Ruocco. Ionescu was nearly perfect in her final drive, hitting 25 of 27 three-pointers. This is an absolute record for the NBA or WNBA.”I was just focused on making one at a time. I didn’t know how many I missed, but I knew it wasn’t a lot,” said Ionescu, who won the WNBA All- Star Skills Challenge…
As the PGA Show (January 23-26) approaches, major brands are gearing up to show the industry what they’re made of. And for everyone who works in the off-course sector (which is growing rapidly and now accounts for the highest percentage of all players in the game, according to the NGF), it will be a great spectacle. One of the revolutionary brands in this space – Inrange® Golf – will be on the ground showcasing its “business-optimized” software and dividing its visitor experience into 3 distinct segments. Practical. Entertainment. And Multi-Bay (a world first and the only system in the world…
Trials to stop players surrounding referees during heated moments could get the green light at a meeting of football’s governing body in London on Tuesday. Tackling participant bad behavior is a top priority for the International Football Association Board (IFAB) and it will be the dominant topic at the organisation’s annual business meeting at a Heathrow hotel. Players surrounding referees and assistants after controversial incidents have become commonplace in modern football, but the IFAB is determined to limit contact in such situations to respectful dialogue between the referee and team captain . It remains to be seen how this will…
The 9th KSRM Golf Tournament was held in colorful arrangements at Bhatiari Golf and Country Club on Friday. On the occasion of the tournament, the Golf Club was decorated spectacularly and full of greenery. A total of 196 golfers participated in this tournament including women and the senior category, we read in a press release. The chief guests at the ceremony on Friday morning were Chairman Bhatiari Golf and Country Club and Commanding Officer (GOC) 24th Infantry Division Major General ShahenulHaque who inaugurated the tournament while KSRM Director ( Sales & Marketing) Md Jasim Uddin, Director (Business) ShamsulHaque, CEO Mehrul…