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What sports equipment to buy or rent during a sporty holiday

What sports equipment to buy or rent during a sporty holiday

Basic equipment: Backpack, hiking shoes, hiking poles, map and GPS, safety devices, first aid kit, multi-purpose tool and tent What’s worth buying: Everything if you intend to hike regularly What’s better renting: Hiking poles and tent if you’re still figuring out whether hiking is for you The American Hiking Society recommends 10 essentials, which if you omit clothes, water, food and sun protection, includes hiking boots, map and GPS, safety devices such as a whistle and fire-starting kit, first aid kit, multi-purpose tool and tent. According to Cynthia Lau, Decathlon’s commercial leader, specialised gear such as hiking poles and tent are more likely to become closet clutter due to unfamiliarity or eventual lack of interest, especially when hiking “can only be engaged in specific locations or certain times of the year”. But “if you are planning to hike often and at high intensities, purchasing your own equipment may be more economical in the long run,” she said. Source link

How to Watch Phillies vs. Braves Game 1 Online: Start Time, TV Channel, MLB Opening Day Livestream

How to Watch Phillies vs. Braves Game 1 Online: Start Time, TV Channel, MLB Opening Day Livestream

MLB Opening Day is finally here. All 30 teams are on the schedule today, including an almost exact rematch of last year’s NLDS between the Philadelphia Phillies and Atlanta Braves. Phillies’ Zack Wheeler will deliver first pitch to reigning NL MVP Ronald Acuña Jr. at Citizens Bank Park. Watch Phillies vs. Braves on Fubo Both the Braves and Phillies are two of the top ranked teams in all of baseball. It is only fitting that the Phillies open the 2024 season hosting the team they’ve knocked out of the playoffs two years running. Get ready for an action-packed day of baseball. Here’s everything you need to know about how to watch the Phillies vs. Braves game on MLB Opening Day 2024 with or without cable. What time is the Phillies vs. Braves game on MLB Opening Day? First pitch for Phillies vs. Braves Game 1 is scheduled for 3:05 p.m. ET (12:05 p.m. PT) on Thursday, March 28. How to watch the Phillies vs. Braves game without cable Fans in Philadelphia can watch the Phillies’ 2024 season …

How Israel’s war on Gaza has changed Ramadan football | Israel War on Gaza News

How Israel’s war on Gaza has changed Ramadan football | Israel War on Gaza News

Deir el-Balah, Gaza – For over six years, Moath Raja Allah was known as one of the top players in Gaza’s Ramadan football tournaments. The 19-year-old from Nuseirat collected 12 trophies and countless accolades for his skills. This year, Raja Allah is spending Ramadan at a makeshift refugee camp at Al-Salah Football Club in Deir el-Balah, located in the central Gaza Strip, after his family was displaced during Israel’s war on Gaza. His only wish is to be able to buy a chicken for his family for iftar and break his fast on the rubble of his home, which was destroyed by Israeli bombardment that also left a shrapnel wound on his head. “Ramadan tournaments are not the same anymore,” Raja Allah tells Al Jazeera. “They lack the rivalries, the passion and the celebratory atmosphere of the past years. “What’s more, we have now been reduced to playing for a pack of food aid package instead of a trophy.” More than 1,000 people displaced by the war have taken refuge at Al-Salah Football Club, where …

Fans are flocking to bars that show only women’s sports on their TVs

Fans are flocking to bars that show only women’s sports on their TVs

MINNEAPOLIS — Long lines are expected this week outside A Bar of Their Own, where the 12 televisions will be screening March Madness. Only women’s March Madness. And when the NCAA women’s basketball tournament isn’t monopolizing the airwaves, the bar’s TVs will blast women’s NCAA softball, women’s professional hockey and women’s Olympic qualifiers, among many other sports. Capturing a boom in women’s sports exemplified by the University of Iowa’s Caitlin Clark, bars showcasing only women’s sports are having a marquee moment, one that’s building into a trend. “I just knew that, like me, there were lots of women’s sports fans in Minneapolis and in the surrounding area that have tried for years to find women’s sports on TV and not get them,” said Jillian Hiscock, who this month opened A Bar of Their Own, a riff on the title of the 1992 movie “A League of Their Own,” about the first female professional baseball league. Jillian Hiscock opened A Bar of Their Own this month in Minneapolis.NBC News Hiscock, a former college student recruiter, said …

Shohei Ohtani and the Future of Sports Gambling

Shohei Ohtani and the Future of Sports Gambling

This week, the pro baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani addressed the media for the first time since his name surfaced in an investigation of an alleged illegal gambling ring. He told reporters that the $4.5 million in wire transfers from his account had been sent without his knowledge by his friend and interpreter, and that he had “never bet on baseball or any other sports.” Opening Day is this week, and Major League Baseball can’t be happy about this cloud over its biggest star. But with gambling so deeply embedded in mainstream sports culture, and most sports leagues now in partnership with gambling operations, these kinds of scandals have become far more common. The same day as Ohtani’s press conference, news broke that the NBA was investigating a player for possible betting irregularities. Up until this point, the most controversial thing Ohtani had done was make a surprise announcement on Instagram that he had gotten married, which happened a few months after he signed a whopping $700 million contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Now his …

Djokovic and Ivanisevic split after winning 12 Grand Slam titles together | Tennis News

Djokovic and Ivanisevic split after winning 12 Grand Slam titles together | Tennis News

The world number one ends a hugely successful, seven-year partnership with coach Goran Ivanisevic. World number one Novak Djokovic has ended his highly successful partnership with Croatian coach Goran Ivanisevic shortly before the clay season gets into full swing. Ivanisevic, who claimed the singles title at Wimbledon in 2001 after finishing runner-up in 1992, 1994 and 1998, joined Djokovic’s team in 2018 and helped the 36-year-old win 12 Grand Slam titles. “Goran and I decided to stop working together a few days ago,” 24-time major champion Djokovic said on Wednesday in an Instagram post with a picture of himself and Ivanisevic playing a board game. “Our on-court chemistry had its ups and downs, but our friendship was always rock solid. In fact, I’m proud to say (not sure he is) that apart from winning tournaments together we also had a side battle in Parchisi going on … for many years. “And that tournament never stops for us. Sefinjo, thanks for everything my friend. Love you.” Djokovic failed in his bid to win a record 25th …

Ukraine Raises Country’s Spirits with Euro 2024 Qualification

Ukraine Raises Country’s Spirits with Euro 2024 Qualification

WROCLAW, Poland —  Ukraine’s qualification for the Euro 2024 soccer finals has cheered a country suffering hardship in its conflict with Russia and for a few weeks in June and July the tournament will provide a welcome distraction from the harsh reality of war. The team came from behind to defeat Iceland 2-1 in their playoff final in neutral Poland Tuesday and book a fourth successive appearance in the continental finals. They will be in Group E with Belgium, Slovakia and Romania, who they face in their opening game in Munich on June 17. Russia’s war with Ukraine has now entered a third year and, despite heavy casualties on both sides, it shows no sign of coming to an end following Russia’s invasion of February 2022. “I am very proud to be a Ukrainian, to be of the same blood as those who are now giving their lives for our freedom,” team captain Oleksandr Zinchenko said after Tuesday’s victory. “We need to talk about it, shout about it every day. This is the only way …

BCCI says IPL to conclude on May 26, a week before ICC T20 World Cup 2024 | Cricket News

BCCI says IPL to conclude on May 26, a week before ICC T20 World Cup 2024 | Cricket News

Chennai will host the IPL final and second qualifier while the first qualifier and eliminator will be played in Ahmedabad. The Indian Premier League 2024 will conclude on May 26, a week before the ICC Twenty20 World Cup in North America, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) says. The 10-week tournament is scheduled to end at Chennai’s MA Chidambaram Stadium, home of reigning champions Chennai Super Kings, the BCCI said on Monday in a statement announcing the tournament’s full schedule. The lucrative franchise league attracts some of the world’s leading cricketers who have signed multimillion-dollar contracts with its 10 teams, but they will now face the prospect of heading into the T20 World Cup with only a weeklong break in-between. The 20-team showpiece event in the United States and the Caribbean will run June 2-29. Players from nine of those 20 nations are part of IPL franchise teams. Ahmedabad’s Narendra Modi Stadium, the world’s biggest cricket stadium, will host the Qualifier 1 & Eliminator. The Qualifier 2 and the Grand Final will …

Biden trolls Trump golf championship boast

Biden trolls Trump golf championship boast

Retired professional golfer Jack Nicklaus presents Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump with the 2024 Trump International Golf Club Most Improved Player award on March 24, 2024, in West Palm Beach, Florida.  Joe Raedle | Getty Images President Joe Biden trolled Donald Trump late Sunday after his Republican challenger bragged about winning not one but two “club championship” trophies at his own Florida golf club. “Congratulations, Donald. Quite the accomplishment,” Biden tweeted. The sharp jab at the golf-obsessed former president quickly went viral after it was posted on Biden’s personal X account. By Monday morning, it had garnered more than 13 million views and counting. The Democrat’s social media team has been quick this election cycle to zing Trump as they prepare for a rematch of the 2020 election. Other social media users already roasted Trump for his boast on Truth Social, which said, “It is my great honor to be at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach tonight, AWARDS NIGHT, to receive THE CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP TROPHY & THE SENIOR CLUB CHAMPIONSHIP …

Pakistan cricketer Amir named among T20 probables after retirement U-turn | Cricket News

Pakistan cricketer Amir named among T20 probables after retirement U-turn | Cricket News

Fast bowler Mohammad Amir has been included in Pakistan’s group of 29 cricketers who will undergo training at the country’s military base ahead of the 2024 ICC Twenty20 World Cup in June. Amir’s inclusion comes a day after he came out of retirement and after the country’s cricket board announced changes to its selection process which made him feel “needed”. The left-arm bowler announced his international retirement at the age of 28 in December 2020, saying he could no longer play under the then-management and that he was being “tortured mentally”. “I still dream to play for Pakistan! Life brings us to the points where at times we have to reconsider our decisions,” he wrote on Sunday on social media platform X. After “positive” talks with Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) officials, he said the PCB made him feel “that I was needed and can still play for Pakistan”. “I declare I am available to be considered for upcoming T20WC,” the 31-year-old added. Amir’s precocious, stop-start career was halted in 2010 after he, along with then-Pakistan Test …