INJURY UPDATE: All Blacks and Blues lock Sam Darry has been ruled out for the entire Super Rugby season according to a report by the New Zealand Herald. Darry injured his shoulder during pre-season training that will require surgery and an extended stint on the sidelines. The defending champions have the experience of fellow All
SPOTLIGHT: All Black superstar Beauden Barrett has given Australia’s bolstered Super Rugby Pacific sides the nod of approval, even claiming New Zealand’s decades-long domination of the competition could be under threat. Not since the Waratahs’ famous final triumph over the mighty Crusaders in 2014 has an Australian team hoisted the trophy. The Queensland Reds in
NEWS: Blues and All Black prop Karl Tu’inukuafe has announced his retirement from rugby following an inspirational rise to the highest level. Tu’inukuafe was a part-time bouncer who made the Chiefs Super Rugby training squad in 2018 as injury cover for Aidan Ross and Atu Moli spending a season with the Waikatop based outfit before
The 2009 Brawn GP car from Jenson Button’s personal collection is to be sold at auction over the Miami Grand Prix weekend. The car, chassis 001/01, will headline the event on May 3. It was gifted to the British driver after he won the F1 drivers’ title that season, with Brawn clinching the constructors’ crown
SPOTLIGHT: France’s hopes of a rare away win over England on Saturday in the Six Nations will hinge on the impact of scrumhalf Antoine Dupont. However, without the unglamorous work from the likes of prop Jean-Baptiste Gros, Sevens Olympic gold medallist Dupont will find it hard to shine at Twickenham, where France have tasted victory
Former F1 team and sponsorship manager and now F1 journalist Peter Windsor has advised Max Verstappen to not join Aston Martin for the money, as that could “end in tears,” after the rumours that the Dutchman had been offered a mammoth £1 billion contract by the British team to prise him away from Red Bull
Christian Horner feels there is a striking similarity in the driving styles of Max Verstappen and Liam Lawson that will prove vital to the team’s quest to recapture its F1 constructors’ title this year. Lawson makes the surprising step up to Red Bull this season even though he has only competed in 11 grands prix
SPOTLIGHT: Rugby365 shines a light on reigning champions Shimlas, the long Western Cape trophy drought, and Tuks’ return to the big time ahead of the 2025 Varsity Cup tournament. Varsity rugby returns this month, with Varsity College tackling the Madibaz in the opening game of the Shield tournament on Valentine’s Day, and the UCT Ikeys
Martin Brundle believes Lewis Hamilton’s ‘probationary’ period at Ferrari will last just three races before pressure increases. Hamilton is currently undergoing private Testing of Previous Cars (TPC) running with his new Ferrari team ahead of pre-season testing in Bahrain between February 26-28. Part of his orientation at the Scuderia is to get adjusted to Ferrari’s
Mick Schumacher will be joined by Frederic Makowiecki and Jules Gounon in Alpine’s World Endurance Championship line-up for 2025. It means the ex-Formula 1 racer will have two new full-season team-mates in the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh for his second year of sportscar racing. In 2024 he was joined by Nicolas Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere, who
Share this article share tweet text email link on Facebook on Twitter via text message on LinkedIn via email https://mmajunkie.usatoday.com/lists/ufc-news-fighting-families-ufc-fighters-brothers-sisters-family February 5, 2025 12:45 am ET (Editor’s note: This list originally published Aug. 4, 2022.) For some, fighting is the family business. We’ve seen siblings break into the UFC together or years apart, and there’s
Reigning MotoGP champion Jorge Martín suffered a horror crash just two hours into the the Sepang MotoGP test on Wednesday, forcing medical services to take him to a nearby hospital. At around ten minutes to twelve in Malaysia, the Spaniard was approaching the entrance to Sepang’s second corner, a tight left-hand turn, when his Aprilia
