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      Louis Rees-Zammit’s rugby-to-NFL dream edges closer but huge obstacles remain

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 16:04

    New rules around kickoffs are a boost to a player who may sign for the Super Bowl champions. But a practice squad remains his likely destination

    If ever there was time, if ever there was a place, for Louis Rees-Zammit to chase his NFL dream, this is it. The former Welsh rugby union star is reportedly nearing a deal to join the Kansas City Chiefs, the back-to-back Super Bowl champions.

    Rees-Zammit is likely to join the team for their annual training camp, a kind of extended trial as he learns the rigors of the NFL. He will join a 90-man training camp roster that will eventually be whittled down to 53, with 16 further places up for grabs on the practice squad, an effective reserve team. This season also marks the first time that teams will have an extra spot available on the practice squad carved out for players who have come through the league’s International Player Pathway program. Since the IPP was introduced, 37 international players have signed with teams and 18 remain on rosters.

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      Reforming the draft to The Larry David Rule: NFL changes we’d like to see

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · Yesterday - 08:00

    The league is transforming kickoffs. But there are other tweaks to football that could improve the sport for players and fans

    The NFL will look radically different next season. The league’s owners voted on Tuesday to approve a new kickoff rule originally adopted in the XFL.

    It is one of the most groundbreaking changes in league history. After slowly legislating the kickoff out of the sport, the league is embracing a new ‘hybrid’ approach that turns the kickoff into something approaching a traditional football play. No longer will kickoffs be passing moments, a chance for broadcasters to cram in a couple of commercial breaks.

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      Ohtani representatives refuse to give evidence they reported alleged theft

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 2 days ago - 12:15

    • Interpreter accused of stealing millions from MLB star
    • Player’s camp have not provided evidence of criminal report

    Unanswered questions remain over allegations Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter stole millions from the baseball star after his representatives declined to give further details to ESPN .

    Ippei Mizuhara is accused of wiring huge sums from Ohtani’s accounts to cover his debts with an illegal California bookmaker, a claim the player repeated in a press conference on Monday. Ohtani’s representatives said last week that “we are turning the matter over to the authorities”.

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      Utah forced to move hotels at NCAA Tournament after ‘racial hate crimes’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 12:09


    • N-word said to have been directed at team on street
    • Deputy athletics director left ‘numb’ by incidents

    Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of “racial hate crimes” and were forced to change hotels due to safety concerns during the NCAA Tournament.

    Utah played their games in Spokane, but were staying about 30 miles away in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho due to a lack of hotel space in the host city.

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      Kelly Slater set to call time on surfing career and retire ‘pretty soon’

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 3 days ago - 03:42

    • Fifty-two-year-old is at Bells Beach potentially for last time
    • American wins his opening heat at WSL event in Australia

    Surfing great Kelly Slater has confirmed he is on the verge of retiring from competition, saying he will end his peerless career “pretty soon”.

    The 11-time world champion, 52, told the Guardian last year he would call time on his career after the 2024 Olympics, if he qualified to represent the USA in Tahiti.

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      Should Xabi Alonso pick Liverpool, Bayern or Barcelona?

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 4 days ago - 14:24 · 1 minute

    Jonathan Wilson answers your questions on Xabi Alonso, Gareth Southgate and whether penalties are the right way to decide knockout games

    If you were Xabi Alonso, would you pick Bayern Münich , Liverpool or Barcelona – or wait for the Real Madrid job to come open? Natalie

    Reports in Germany at the end of last week suggested that Munich is now Alonso’s preferred destination , which feels a little disappointing. He’s almost certainly going to lift the Bundesliga with Bayer Leverkusen this season and I’m not entirely clear why, having won the league on hard mode, he would now try to do it again on an easier setting. Yes, the way the Uefa coefficient works means that there’s likely to be a relatively straightforward passage into the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and experience in that competition is the one thing still missing from his CV, but it still seems an unambitious step. Leaving Leverkusen makes sense given his stock cannot really climb any higher there and repeating this season’s feat is so unlikely, especially with players probably going to be sold this summer. Barcelona seems an improbable destination given his Madrid connections and his assumed desire at some point to become Madrid manager. While there’s probably a little trepidation at being Jürgen Klopp’s successor. Liverpool looks ideal – and, unlike Bayern or even Madrid, it’s not necessarily a job that’s going to be available every couple of seasons.

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      Four killed at Hungarian rally after race car crashes into spectators

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 16:56


    • Car appeared to lost traction before sliding off road
    • Two people, including a child, sustain serious injuries

    A rally car veered off the road and crashed into a group of spectators in Hungary on Sunday, killing four and injuring several others, police said.

    The accident occurred during a race between the towns of Labatlan and Bajot near the Danube River in northwest Hungary, the Komárom-Esztergom County police said in a statement.

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      Igor Severino cut from UFC for biting opponent in debut fight

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 5 days ago - 11:46

    • Flyweight disqualified from Las Vegas bout with Andre Lima
    • Dana White promises Lima $50,000 bonus in wake of incident

    Flyweight Igor Severino was disqualified on his Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) debut on Saturday after biting opponent Andre Lima during their Fight Night bout in Las Vegas, Nevada.

    In the second round of the fight between the two Brazilians, Lima yelled and signalled for the referee to stop the bout. The 25-year-old held up his left arm to show the bite mark and officials reviewed the footage before making the decision to disqualify Severino.

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      British ultrarunner Jasmin Paris is first woman to finish Barkley Marathons

      news.movim.eu / TheGuardian · 7 days ago - 23:52

    • Paris finishes 100-mile ultramarathon with 99 seconds to spare
    • Tennessee event is considered one of the world’s toughest races

    The British ultrarunner Jasmin Paris has become the first woman to ever finish the notorious Barkley Marathons race in Tennessee.

    The forty-year-old was one of only five runners to complete this year’s event, which is made up of five punishing 20-mile loops around the Frozen Head State Park. Paris’s finishing time was 59 hours, 58 minutes and 21 seconds – 99 seconds inside the 60-hour cut-off.

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