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It’s excellent action at Sha Tin on Saturday with Hong Kong International Races featuring a whole host of British and Irish contenders, live on Sky Sports Racing. 6:10 Sha TIn – Warm Heart takes on home rivalsWarm Heart is the big hope for Aidan O’Brien in the Longines Hong Kong Vase (6:10) who will bid to round off an excellent three-year-old campaign. She landed the Yorkshire Oaks and Prix Vermeille before a break and returned to run in the Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf, finishing an excellent neck second behind Inspiral. Image: Warm Heart (right) holds off Free Wind…

On Saturday at Noon local time, the first-ever World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise $5,300 Main Event kicked off. Executive Director Ty Stewart was flanked by a half dozen former Main Event champions – Daniel Weinman, Espen Jorstad, Koray Aldemir, Jamie Gold, Damian Salas, and Ryan Riess – to officially get things underway in the flagship tournament. The first starting flight included bracelet winners Jessica Teusl, Daniel Smiljkovic, Mark Ioli, Ami Barer, Alexandros Kolonias, Christian Roberts, and Alexandre Vuilleumier; as well as GGPoker Twitch Squad member Patrick Tardif, philanthropist Scott Wellenbach, and Phil Nagy. What’s more, 17-time bracelet winner Phil…

LSU quarterback Jayden Daniels is a Heisman winner.The senior quarterback won the award over Oregon QB Bo Nix, Washington QB Michael Penix Jr. and Ohio State wide receiver Marvin Harrison Jr. after a phenomenal dual-threat season. Daniels was one of the nation’s leading passers in nearly all the major metrics and also one of only two quarterbacks to rush for over 1,000 yards during 2023.Daniels finished with 503 first-place votes while Penix finished with 292 first-place votes. The total margin between the two quarterbacks, 2,029 points to 1,701 points, was the closest Heisman voting has finished since 2018.After beginning his…

The second and final day of Event #6: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed has come to an end at World Series of Poker Paradise and Boris Kolev has defeated Daniel Neilson in heads-up play for $424,500 and the WSOP gold bracelet. The tournament drew 755 players for a prize pool of $2,265,000. The top two were followed by Fabian Bernhauser in third and Mark Burford in fourth, while Cristian Nagaki and Jeremy Izquierdo rounded out the final table. This was the second gold bracelet for Kolev, who won the $5,000 8-Handed tournament at the 2021 WSOP. Kolev entered heads-up play behind…

Photo: Getty ImagesJimmy Garoppolo, Aidan O’Connell, and Brian HoyerThe Raiders brought Jimmy G in to replace longtime starter Derek Carr, and reunite Garoppolo with his former Patriots coach Josh McDaniels. How has that worked out? McDaniels was fired and that same day, Garoppolo was benched. Hoyer is never going to wow anyone, and Las Vegas is getting a look at O’Connell to see if he is part of its future plans at QB. Source link

On the third and final day of play, Austria’s Samuel Mullur won his first bracelet and $2,726,300 by conquering Event #3: $25,000 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise. Mullur defeated American actor Frank Brannan in heads-up play following a three-hour battle at Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas. The high roller tournament drew a whopping 533 entries from two live starting flights and an online flight to create a prize pool of $13,325,000. 80 players advanced to the live felt on the second day in the money, and only eight returned to Day 3…

Pep Guardiola thinks his side are the victims of their own success and says he accepts that some will view Manchester City not winning the Premier League this season as a failure.Last season’s treble winners have gone four games without a Premier League win for the first time since 2017 after successive draws against Chelsea, Liverpool and Tottenham were followed by defeat at Aston Villa on Wednesday. They can cut the gap on league leaders Liverpool to four points with victory away at Luton, live on Sky Sports, but City’s poor recent run means retaining their Premier League title now…

Seven years on from winning the €100,000 Super High Roller in Monte Carlo, Ole Schemion has finally ended his wait for another EPT title. The 31-year-old, who now has over $19.5 million in live tournament earnings, topped the 27-entry field in the second €25,000 NL Hold’em tournament of the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague for €246,370. He defeated Diego Zeiter in heads-up play to end his EPT trophy drought. Despite being the runner-up, Zeiter secured his best-ever payout in live poker and banked €158,800 for his efforts. Teun Mulder narrowly missed out on back-to-back €25K victories after he…

Five-star Florida State commit Armondo Blount is still being heavily pursued by Miami, the program that previously held his commitment. … Rivals250 Florida commit Amaris Williams is being pursued by Ohio State, Auburn, Georgia and Tennessee, with the Tigers and Bulldogs appearing to have some momentum. … Ernest Willor, the highest-ranked uncommitted defensive line prospect, enjoyed his official visit to Wisconsin this past weekend and has trips to Ohio State and Maryland coming up over the next two weekends. … Ole Miss and Auburn are going after Arkansas commit Charleston Collins. … Jericho Johnson remains uncommitted but is expected to…

It’s a special day in The Bahamas as Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel won his tenth bracelet by taking down Event #7: $50,000 Super High Roller at 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise for $1,704,400, the biggest WSOP score of his illustrious career. Seidel, whose first bracelet dates back more than three decades from a victory in Event #4: $2,500 Limit Hold’em in 1992 when the World Series was held at Binion’s Horseshoe, joins an elite club of players with ten bracelets that includes Phil Ivey, Johnny Chan and the late Doyle Brunson. The only player with more…