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A big title match is now set for WWE Night of Champions after Ricky Saints picked up a huge win on the June 19 episode of SmackDown. By defeating Carmelo Hayes, Saints earned a shot at Trick Williams and the United States Championship next week. Last week, WWE announced that the winner of Ricky Saints vs. Carmelo Hayes would get a US Title match against Trick Williams at Night of Champions. Meanwhile, Trick Williams has continued his impressive run on SmackDown. Since winning the United States Championship at WrestleMania 42, he has established himself as the fan favorite. Because of…

Olympic 800m champion Keely Hodgkinson continued to work on her first-lap speed by competing in the 400m.Charlotte Henrich won her heat in a personal best of 51.20 seconds but Hodgkinson’s time of 51.62 was enough for her to also qualify for Sunday’s final (16:06 BST).Matthew Hudson-Smith, the 2024 Olympic 400m silver medallist, won his heat in 45.24 to become the fastest qualifier for the men’s final (15:48 BST).One of the stands has been named after the US-based Wolverhampton native for the national and European Championships.”I love being here,” he said. “I put the bat signal out yesterday, ‘I’m back in…

WWE Before his pairing with Paul Heyman on “WWE SmackDown” during the mid-2000s, Jon Heidenreich was almost a cautionary tale. That’s because he was actually let go from WWE in the early 2000s while being under a WWE developmental deal in Ohio Valley Wrestling. Appearing on “Insight with Chris Van Vliet,” Heidenreich explained why he feels he was let go at the time. “I hurt my shoulder…I separated my shoulder, and it took awhile to heal,” Heidenreich said. “I got surgery, then I got released, and I went to Japan.”…

As Northampton skipper Furbank lifted the trophy on his final appearance before joining Harlequins, he leaves a Saints side who have become the team to beat in recent years.Just three league defeats this season saw Saints top the table as they reached their third final in as many seasons, having won the Prem two years ago and made last season’s Champions Cup final.While Furbank may be departing, Saints fans will hope that with stars such as Smith, man-of-the-match Pollock and Freeman forming the backbone of their side they will be coming back to Twickenham in the not too distant future.For…

Ryback is calling out the LAPD after a family dog named Jameson was shot and killed during what should have been a celebration. The former WWE star took to Instagram after watching bodycam footage from the Canoga Park incident. He said his heart goes out to the family and made it clear this one hit hard. Ryback did not say all police officers are bad, but he said this situation shows why better training is needed when cops deal with family pets. “My heart goes out to the family of Jameson, the dog shot by the LAPD. After watching the…

Rothesay County Championship, Division Two, Banks Homes Riverside (day two)Northamptonshire 450: Vasconcelos 187; Raine 3-63Durham 183-3: Stokes 95 (118), Rhodes 58*; Conway 2-23, Sanderson 2-64Match scorecardBen Stokes made 95 for Durham against Northamptonshire as England slipped towards defeat by New Zealand at The Oval.The England captain, absent from the second Test having been made unavailable pending an investigation into an incident in a London nightclub, was bowled five runs short of a century by seamer Harry Conway just after tea at Chester-le-Street.It would have been Stokes’ first century in first-class cricket since hitting 141 against India in the fourth Test…

It took Harry Kane four games and 269 minutes to even manage a shot on target at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.He looked tired early in that tournament and I felt he needed a rest after England’s first two matches.Things could not be more different this time – he will be on top of the world after scoring twice in the 4-2 win against Croatia.As a striker, the one thing you desperately want to do at any major tournament is get off to a good start.I was lucky enough to do that myself for England when we beat Tunisia…

Friday Night SmackDown aired this week from inside the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City, Missouri, eight days away from Night of Champions. Cathy Kelley interviewed Jade Cargill, B-Fab, and Michin. Wondering where The Storm’s focus lies next, Cargill said that the three of them do what they want and that they run the women’s division, so best believe that they’re going to make a pit stop at Tiffany Stratton since she doesn’t know how to mind grown folk’s business. B-Fab adds that Stratton wasn’t even in the Queen of the Ring tournament, but decided to go out there and screw…

As the clock ticked towards the final quarter hour of Switzerland’s match against Bosnia and Herzegovina, the two teams were locked in a stalemate.Then everything changed. Substitute Johan Manzambi came off the bench and needed only three minutes to score. By the final whistle he had two goals, Switzerland had scored four times after the 70th minute, and Bosnia became only the third team in World Cup history to concede four or more goals from the 70th minute onwards.It was an extreme example of a trend that has emerged across World Cup 2026.Of the tournament’s 96 goals so far, 28…

In the end, it was try-scoring highs that convinced Grace to keep going.”It’s a bit of an addiction because the feeling of playing and scoring is something that you want to keep experiencing again and again,” said the wing.”One day I will be too old to even think about doing it again, so that’s why I am giving it everything to come back.”I am confident I will get back to my best. I have rehabbed with some of the best in the world and know what I need to do and where I need to get myself.”Grace is a realist.…