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ProRodeo Hall of Fame announces 2023 inductees

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Steer wrestler Luke Branquinho, a five-time PRCA World Champion, heads up a star-studded 2023 induction class for the ProRodeo Hall of Fame. Branquinho is joined by two-time PRCA World Champion Saddle Bronc rider Cody Wright (2008 and 2010), World Champion Team Roper Doyle Gellerman (1981), pickup man Kenny Clabaugh, rodeo notables Butch Knowles and Tom Feller and standout bareback horse Night Jacket, rodeo committees from the St. Paul (Ore.) Rodeo and Cowtown Rodeo in Pilesgrove, N.J., and barrel racer Sherry (Combs) Johnson, the 1962 WPRA World Champion and WPRA notable Fay Ann Horton Leach.

High school football coach reinstated after winning $1.7 million settlement

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Joseph Kennedy was terminated from his high school football coaching position after he continued to conduct post-game prayers with students. Kennedy is now set to receive $1.7 million after the Bremerton School Board in Washington state accepted a settlement. He will also get his job back starting this upcoming season. The school board's decision follows the Supreme Court’s ruling in June that Kennedy’s prayer groups were protected by the First Amendment.

Gervonta Davis and That Elusive Star Quality

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Whether or not Davis ever crashes the mainstream, the fact remains that he has nearly all of the characteristics necessary for popular sports recognition. Davis has a compelling backstory, a promotional relationship with Floyd Mayweather Jr. (somewhat stormy, although kayfabe can never be ruled out), a boorish social media presence, and, above all, he answers the bell for every fight determined to bring the pain. There is also a certain cartoon villainy to Davis that promises future negative appeal. He entered the ring against Santa Cruz wearing a sombrero and a color-coordinated outfit based on the Mexican national flag, all to mock the partisan crowd in Texas. (A few years ago, the novelist Lionel Shriver caused a ruckus by donning a sombrero during a lecture and thereby raising the risible specter of cultural appropriation

wilder Is Next!

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This is boxing, so it's not signed, sealed, or delivered, and I need 50 words. But Lee said Fury was thinking about retirement. Now the quote from Lee is actually, "He likes the Dillian Whyte fight. He is enthused by that, that’s what he is talking about to me so I can see that being the next one."

2022 How To Settle For A Replacement Fighter

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would u have called a very interesting little dust-up planned between Light-Heavyweight titlist Joe Smith, Jr. and veteran Callum Johnson, scheduled for ESPN this coming Saturday. So interesting, in fact, that I was legitimately considering predicting the 3-1 underdog Johnson could pull off the year's first

A long time Ago When We Were Young

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I once interviewed Ron Harper but I lost the audio file and never wound up publishing anything about him. Ron Harper is approximately eleven feet tall and his hands are as long as my forearms. He has a stutter and this imperfection made me like him instantly.

New AI punch stats shows promise.

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As linked on Reddit someone has been working on another compubox but with machine learning or ai. Some YouTube videos also... https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZ_XaxvYZdkSi05ivLwB96g Interesting stuff and looks relatively accurate at first look..

BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBofC bans Ghanian Boxers

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Surprised this hasn't made the front page yet; anyway, the BBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBBofC has banned all Ghanian boxers from participating in sanctioned events because of "the actions of a top Ghana boxing official. According to these sources, this official took a Ghana boxer to the UK using the name of another Ghanaian boxer."

Vitali Klitschko: ‘We are encircled [in Kyiv]’ but full of fight

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"Right now, the most important question is to defend our country," he added. Responding to a question about the city’s capacity to replenish dwindling stocks of food and medicine, Klitscho’s view darkened, however. "We are at the border of a humanitarian catastrophe," he said. "Right now, we have electricity, right now we have water and heating in our houses. But the infrastructure is destroyed to deliver the food and medication."