The Men's Softball World Cup begins tomorrow in New Zealand, with the home team seeking to win back a trophy they have lifted at five of the last eight editions of the tournament.

scheduled for December 4.The Black Sox are in Group A along with defending champions Argentina, the United

States, Cuba, the Philippines and the Czech Republic.Group B contains Japan - runners-up in 2019 - Canada

The Turin 2025 International University Sports Federation Winter World University Games was promoted during the staging of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Finals in the Italian city.

singles and men's doubles players.Serbia’s Novak Djokovic won the singles title, while Rajeev Ram of the United

States and Joe Salisbury of Britain were crowned doubles champions.The promotion of Turin 2025 came

Britain enjoyed a great start to the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation (IBSF) World Cup season as Marcus Wyatt and Matt Weston won gold and bronze respectively in the men's skeleton event at the Whistler Sliding Centre in Canada, before Olympic champion Hannah Neise won the women's race.

World Cup victory.The Olympic champion was second at the halfway stage, behind Hallie Clarke of the United

States who made an impressive debut.Neise overturned the deficit to claim the gold medal, while 18-year-old

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remarkable winning streak in the men's PTS4 class dating back to September 2019 ©World TriathlonThe United

States' Grace Norman produced a superb performance to go one better than her women's PTS5 silver last

Less than a week into the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar, and the chances of Doha winning its bid to host the 2036 Olympic and Paralympic Games has already receded.

 They know the next men's World Cup in 2026 is due to take place in the United States, along with

picked on at school for having freckles displayed a level of verbal insensitivity that only former United

States President Donald Trump could rival on the world stage.It deepened suspicions that football’s

It was a good day for the favourites at the World Triathlon Championships Finals here, with Susana Rodriguez, Dave Ellis and Lauren Parker's successful Para triathlon title defences proving a sign of things to come.

Triathlon Para Championships were held as a standalone event in Abu Dhabi last year, and returned to the United

Championships in 1:08:43 despite technical issues with her bike.Paralympic champion Kendall Gretsch of the United

States had to settle for second in 1:09:08, while Brazil's Jessica Ferreira was more than two minutes

Three-time world champion Ádám Blázsovics has been eliminated in the semi-finals in the men's singles at the Teqball World Championships today, ending his hopes of a third world title in a row.

Championships in singles competition, ensuring he made the final with a 12-5, 12-4 win over Luka Pilic of the United

Hungarians Zsanett Janicsek and Lea Vasas in the semi-finals 12-8, 12-9.Greco and Maggie Osmundson from the United

States defeated Dako and Barabasi 12-11, 12-10 to make the final too.

The field for next year's World Lacrosse Men's Championship is set after Uganda won the final spot.

Lacrosse Men's Championship in Israel.The top 10 finishers who were full World Lacrosse members - the United

States, Canada, Haudenosaunee, Australia, England, Japan, Israel, Germany, Scotland and Ireland - all

Australia and England are set to begin the match which will decide the Croquet World Cup in Cairnlea, Melbourne.

counterpart Edmund Fordyce with the very last shot of the day to win 11-10.England had previously beaten the United

States 16-5 in their first contest of the competition.Both sides have two test wins after the Australians

also defeated the United States 14-7 in their second series of the competition.They had previously beaten

The World Triathlon Championship Finals is set to get underway here in Abu Dhabi tomorrow, with the event branded as the "crown jewel" of the season.

Hanquinquant of France has won every men's PTS4 race he has competed in since September 2019, and the United

States' Kelly Elmlinger is the favourite to defend her women's title in the same classification.Both

Games.Both have won three races apiece so far this season.If Duffy is able to leapfrog Taylor-Brown in the United

Tickets have gone on open sale for the 2023 International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) World Championship, which will be co-hosted by Tampere in Finland and the Latvian capital Riga.

tickets are on sale at €200 (£173/$206).Finland begin the defence of their world title against the United

States on an opening day double-header which also features Sweden against Germany.The top price to see

USA Team Handball (USATH) has secured a long-term partnership with Joymo, which is becoming the governing body's official broadcast partner, as the governing body looks to grow the sport before the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Games.

Joymo is set to build a dedicated streaming service that will broadcast the United States' handball team

This partnership is a major milestone that will be fundamental to the future of handball in the United

States," said USATH chief executive Ryan Johnson."

Hill Carrow, leader of North Carolina's unsuccessful bid for the International University Sport Federation (FISU) 2027 World University Games, has set his sights on the state's potential of hosting major events in the future.

cities and counties.North Carolina was also a candidate for the 1993 edition but lost out to fellow United

States' location Buffalo.FISU President Eric Saintrond hopes that North Carolina will be able to hold

United States' men's and women's curling teams are eyeing the podium on home ice at the Lake Placid 2023

The United States is set to host the Winter World University Games in Lake Placid ©Getty ImagesO'Hara's

Republic complete the line-up.Lake Placid is set to be the first FISU World University Games in the United

States since Buffalo held the Summer edition in 1993.It also hosted the 1972 FISU Winter Universiade

rainbow bucket hats, worn in solidarity with the LGBTQ+ community, prior to the country's match with the United

States.