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Professional freerunner Jason Paul uses his impressive parkour skills to make his connection at Munich airport.
Conor McGregor has this morning obtained a licence to box in the state of California.
The move follows an exceptional amount of trash-talk in boxing magnate Floyd Mayweather’s direction, with rumours swirling around a match between the two, should contracts and circumstances ever allow.
The once-retentive UFC has loosened up its policies on co-promotion as of late, working with wrestling promotion WWE on crossover talent appearances, which sets a precedent for an event such as McGregor is pitching for.
California State Athletic Commission exec Andy Foster sez:
“I’d love to see him fight in California. It just needs to be the right opponent. Certainly a high-level opponent. We’re happy to license him. We’re happy he’s a California fighter.”
Mayweather’s management remains schtum on any potential superfight. Says Mayweather Promotions boss Leonard Ellerbe:
“It’s all a game, all a calculated effort to gain more fans. Conor McGregor can say anything he wants to, but he has a boss and his name is [UFC president] Dana White.”
H/T MMAFighting
Members of the New York production of Stomp percussion theatre join the Harlem Globetrotters on a Greenwich Village court for a celebration of the 90th anniversary of the legendary exhibition basketball team.
According to Stomp London, the video took seven attempts to get right.
For the weekend that’s in it.
November 17, 2001.
The era of the baggy jersey was drawing to a close and Irish voters kicked the Nice Treaty into touch.
Gerry Thornely wrote:
A hard one to swallow for this Irish team to have given themselves and a throbbing Lansdowne Road a real sight of a famous victory.
The men in black foraged in twos or even clusters, and usually offloaded even before going to ground. You have to wonder if Irish fatigue was a factor in just not getting support ruckers to the breakdown. But Gatland like the players was not having any of it. “I don’t want to repeat myself here, but that’s again down to the intensity they play at week, week out.”
A helluva game, it really was.
Final Score: Ireland 29 New Zealand 40
Previously: On The Blindside, This Could Be Drama
For the weekend that’s in it.
January 20th, 1973.
Snatching a draw from jaws of yet another defeat to the all-conquering All Blacks.
When some of the goys played twice a week such was the demands of the amateur game at the time.
Paul MacWeeney reported:
The All Blacks can kick themselves all the way back to New Zealand for allowing Ireland to snatch a draw, with two penalty goals and a try to a goal and a try, six minutes from the end at Lansdowne Road on Saturday.
Completley inflexable thinking cost Kirkpatrick and his team the glittering prize of becoming the first from their country to beat all four HOME countries on a single tour, and assuming that the captain is the final arbiter of policy once play has started,
Kirkpatrick, one of the greatest forwards of history, must shoulder much of the blame for not ending with a margain of at least 10 points.
Harsh.
Meanwhile..
Earlier that week,
The “good leg“.
An impressively stabilised GoPro helmetcam video from the noggin of mountain biker Steve Storey featuring a super smooth descent he’s perfected over two years.
Full screen and mind your elbows.
He’s big, he’s bad, he’s from Belfast, and the video above is decidedly NSFW.
Damian Mackle, a.k.a. Big Damo, is the latest Irish professional wrestler to sign with American sports-entertainment troupe WWE.
He joins Bray man Fergal Devitt (Finn Balor) and Dubs Stephen Farrelly (Sheamus) & Rebecca Quin (Becky Lynch) on the roster of the former WWF, the world’s largest touring wrestling show, which continues to rake in hundreds of millions of viewers worldwide.
He’s just reported to their Performance Centre in Florida to train ahead of his US debut.
Seems like a nice guy, in fairness.
An especially challenging downhill MTB course designed by professional racing cyclist Dan Atherton and showcased – in all its bone-jolting, sphincter-tightening glory – by way of Atherton’s helmetcam.
Lance Armstrong argues chats to Off The Ball’s anchorman Ger Gilroy, on Denis FM Newstalk tonight from 7pm.
Fight!
Listen here.
Meanwhile..
@PaulKimmage this morning possibly?? @offtheball pic.twitter.com/MSadomA6De
— Gordon D’Arcy (@Gordonwdarcy) October 7, 2016
Retired rugby legend and career-long Brian O’Driscoll wingman Gordon Darcy, throwing some shade Paul Kimmage’s way in light of Dan Carter’s supposed sanctioned steroid use at Racing Metro.
Ruck!