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Irish Examiner
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- Irish Examiner
Ireland aiming to escape middleground in search for promotion
Relegation. Promotion. These are words typically used in athletics just once every two years, but that time has come around again. This weekend, an Irish team of 43 athletes will contest the second division of the European Athletics Team Championships in Maribor, Slovenia. They face 15 other mid-tier European nations like Belgium and Turkey, Denmark and Norway. The top three nations will earn promotion to division one, while the bottom three will be relegated. Ireland will likely finish somewhere in the middle. For a long time, this event has been a biennial reminder of just how big an imbalance exists in Irish athletics between track and field, the runners typically powering them towards promotion, the field eventers taking them towards relegation. The reasons for that are varied, from lower participation numbers to poor facilities to dire investment in coaching but either way, Ireland is just not strong enough across the board to earn a place in division one. At least not yet. The imbalance is starting to even out, though, and the likes of Nicola Tuthill in the hammer and Eric Favors in the shot put are both Olympians who should make decent points contributions in their respective events. But on the track, even without several star names, is where the Irish will make the greater impact. Olympians Sophie Becker and Cillín Greene are late withdrawals, but other high-profile athletes have made the trip such as Sarah Lavin, who will race the 100m hurdles and 4x100m relay, and Sharlene Mawdsley, who'll race the 400m and mixed 4x400m. Sophie O'Sullivan will race the 800m, having recently won the 1500m title at the NCAA Championships, and it will be intriguing to see how she fares stepping back down to the distance at which she won a European U-18 medal in 2018. Others returning from the NCAA include Elizabeth Ndudi, the reigning European U-20 long jump champion who dealt with her share of injuries over the past year, and Ava O'Connor, who last month won a Division 2 NCAA title in the 3000m steeplechase. Cork sprinter Lucy-May Sleeman, a student at Florida State University, will race the 100m and 4x100m. Ciara Neville will make a welcome return to international duty in the 4x100m over four years on from a severe hamstring injury that cost her a spot at the Tokyo Olympics. She recently clocked a promising 100m season's best of 11.53 in Geneva. The in-form Bori Akinola will don the green vest in the men's 100m and 4x100m, the UCD sprinter last weekend clocking a wind-assisted time of 10.10 (2.9m/s) in London, the fastest all-conditions time ever by an Irishman. Israel Olatunde, the Irish record holder who clocked a season's best of 10.23 in Geneva last weekend, will race the 4x100m. Paris Olympian Brian Fay will contest the 5000m for Ireland, while Cian McPhillips will be in action over 800m. Jack Raftery has been given the nod for the men's 400m after a hugely impressive PB of 45.75 in UCD last week. European Athletics Team Championships: Live, 1:25pm (Irish time),
Edmonton Journal
an hour ago
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- Edmonton Journal
Flames draft high-scoring centre Cole Reschny
Article content He found another gear in the playoffs, with nine tallies and 16 assists in 11 spring showdowns. 'Good western boy,' beamed Flames general manager Craig Conroy on the broadcast. 'We're looking for centres, so we were hoping he was going to be there and, sure enough, we got a break.' Reschny, who was part of Canada's golden group at the World Under-18s, has committed to the NCAA's North Dakota Fighting Hawks. He is listed at 5-foot-11 and 183 pounds and has a lefty curve on his stick. Scouts have praised Reschny's playmaking skills, his hockey sense and his tenacity. He won 56.4 percent of his faceoffs this winter. The Flames are slated to select again at No. 32 overall.
USA Today
2 hours ago
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- USA Today
Former Clemson pitcher Chayce Kieck announces transfer to a Big Ten school
Former Clemson pitcher Chayce Kieck is heading north for the next step in his college baseball career. The right-hander announced Friday that he'll continue his playing days at Northwestern after entering the NCAA transfer portal earlier this month. Kieck spent just one season with the Tigers, where he saw limited action out of the bullpen. As a freshman in 2025, Kieck appeared in nine games and recorded a 2-0 mark but struggled with command and consistency, finishing with a 9.75 ERA over 12 innings. He allowed 19 hits, 13 runs, and five home runs, while striking out 11 and issuing five walks. Coming out of The Bolles School in Jacksonville, Florida, Kieck was highly regarded as a prep standout. Perfect Game ranked him among the top 500 players nationally and the No. 14 right-handed pitcher in Florida for his class. He was a four-time letterman, earned first-team all-state honors, and was named Northeast Florida Player of the Year as a junior. Baseball runs in his family, too — his father, Greg, played at Johns Hopkins from 1996 to 2000. Now at Northwestern, Kieck will look to tap into his potential and build on his freshman experience as he joins the Wildcats in the Big Ten. Contact us @Clemson_Wire on X, and like our page on Facebook for ongoing coverage of Clemson Tigers news and notes, plus opinions.
Associated Press
4 hours ago
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- Associated Press
NFL coach Jim Harbaugh added to lawsuit about hacking allegations against former assistant
DETROIT (AP) — NFL coach Jim Harbaugh was added Friday to a lawsuit against the University of Michigan and a former assistant football coach who is accused of hacking into the computer accounts of college athletes across the U.S. to look for intimate photos. Attorneys claim Harbaugh, who was Michigan's coach, and others knew that Matt Weiss was seen viewing private information on a computer in December 2022 but still allowed him to continue working as co-offensive coordinator in a national playoff game roughly a week later. Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel and other officials were also added to the lawsuit in federal court in Detroit. 'The university's delay in taking meaningful protective action until after a high-stakes game sends a clear message: Student welfare was secondary,' said Parker Stinar, who is the lead lawyer in a class-action lawsuit arising from a criminal investigation of Weiss. Messages seeking comment from Manuel and Harbaugh, who is currently the head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers, were not immediately returned Friday. Separately, Weiss has been charged with identity theft and unauthorized computer access from 2015 to 2023. The indictment says he got access to the social media, email and cloud storage accounts of more than 2,000 college athletes, as well as more than 1,300 students or alumni from schools across the U.S., to find private images, primarily of women. He has pleaded not guilty. 'Had Harbaugh implemented basic oversight of his staff, plaintiffs and the class would have been protected against predators such as Weiss,' the updated lawsuit states. 'Instead, Weiss was a highly compensated asset that was promoted by and within the football program, from which position he was able to, and did, target female student athletes.' The lawsuit says a staff member saw Weiss viewing private information at Schembechler Hall, headquarters for the football team, around Dec. 21, 2022, and reported it before Michigan played Texas Christian University in a playoff game days later on Dec. 31. Weiss was fired a few weeks later in January 2023 during an investigation of his computer use. Earlier this year, after charges were filed, Harbaugh told reporters that he didn't know anything about Weiss' troubles until after the playoff game. He said the allegations were 'shocking.' Weiss worked for Harbaugh's brother, John, on the coaching staff of the NFL's Baltimore Ravens before joining the Michigan team in 2021. The lawsuit says Weiss' university computer had encryption software that had to be disabled by an external vendor as part of the investigation. Authorities disclosed in April that thousands of intimate photos and videos were found on his electronic devices and cloud storage accounts.
Yahoo
4 hours ago
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- Yahoo
Justin Larose Commits To Michigan
Brian Bradshaw Sevald-Imagn Images Former Drummondville Voltigeurs forward Justin Larose has committed to Michigan, it was announced on Thursday. A native of Saint-Lazare, Que., Larose appeared in 63 regular season games between the Voltigeurs and the Victoriaville Tigres this past season, tallying 26 goals and 35 assists. Advertisement Larose played in 257 regular season QMJHL games during his junior career, where he recorded 81 goals and 99 assists. A 2005-born skater, Larose will now make the jump to the NCAA and join the Wolverines for the 2025-26 season. Make sure you bookmark The Hockey News' NCAA Page for the latest news, exclusive interviews, breakdowns and so much more.
