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Mike Tyson’s boxing return has ended with his seventh defeat as Youtube-turned-boxing sensation Jake Paul comfortably claims victory by unanimous decision.

Paul looked to be the stronger fighter throughout the bout with the judges scores going in his favour, 80-72, 79-73 and 79-73.

The 27-year-old landed 78 of his 278 punches, while Tyson made contact with his hits just 18 of 97 times.

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Broc Feeney did everything he needed to with victory at the VAILO Adelaide 500, but crucial overtakes in the final stint have helped Will Brown clinch the 2024 Repco Supercars Championship.

Feeney recorded a runaway sixth win of the season and first since Darwin in June, but an 18th podium in 23 starts for Brown ensured the title was too far out of reach for Saturday’s winner.

Will Brown finished a distant second with Cam Waters third in race 1 this afternoon.

UPDATE 17/11:

Will Brown crowned his Supercars Championship win by collecting the chequered flag in race two this afternoon. Chaz Mostert finished second and Thomas Randle came third.

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Formula 1 has formally announced that from 2026 the Canadian Grand Prix will move to earlier in the calendar to “rationalise” the schedule with an expected link with Miami.

In a statement issued on Monday, F1 said that the Montreal race is “planned to be scheduled on the third or fourth weekend of May each year”, rather than mid-June as it has typically been held in recent seasons.

The move follows last week’s news that the Monaco GP is also shifting from what had become its traditional slot at the end of May to the first weekend of June from 2026 onwards, as part of its contract extension to 2031.

F1’s statement said this move (of Canadian GP) is part of its “efforts to rationalise the race calendar and make it more sustainable by hosting the event earlier than has been the practice in recent years”.

In 2025, the season will start with an Oceania-Asia leg from Australia to Japan via China, before heading to Bahrain and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.

The last two races have typically opened the season in recent years but they have moved to later in 2025 due to the timing of Ramadan.

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Probably now means a lot of those looking to run that as their only marathon won’t get to do so unless they get lucky in a ballot. Priority for next year was given to finishers in the last 3 years (finishers being the key word, if I finished in 2022 I would have had a decision to make but the legs didn’t play ball). Indeed a few who just completed their 6 star medal (for those who’ve completed the existing majors, New York, Boston, Chicago, London, Berlin and Tokyo) weren’t as happy with this announcement, and will be even more aghast as Cape Town is one step closer to becoming major number 8.

Melbourne and Gold Coast entries open in the next couple of weeks as well, probably will end up selling out ridiculously quickly. Gold Coast have moved their 5km event to the Saturday to be run after the 10km, which is now starting well after the Half Marathon, meaning some crazy loony will end up entering all 4 races (since the half got moved to Saturday in 2022 about 200 have set out to do both the Half and Full on back to back days, trust me it gets a little tricky about 30km into Sunday).

As for me it’s Singapore on the agenda in 10 days time, partially an unfinished business tour having not finished in 2019, partially a run to attempt to qualify for Comrades in South Africa (about 6500 entries left at last glance, with 90 Aussies entered), partially a run to get an Age Group world ranking as certain events offer this (in Australia these races are Canberra, Hobart, Brisbane, Rottnest Island, Cairns, Townsville, Sunshine Coast, Sydney and Perth) although getting a time fast enough to make the Age Group World Titles in New York next year is probably out of range.

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Max Verstappen claimed his fourth consecutive F1 title, after finishing fifth in the Las Vegas Grand Prix, won by George Russell. Lewis Hamilton, Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc finished second, 3rd and 4th respectively. Oscar Piastri finished seventh in the race after copping a five-second penalty for a false start.

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Taiwan beats Japan in the Premier12 baseball tournament.

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UPDATE 26/11: the NBL has banned the spectators involved in the melee. A spectator has received a lifetime ban from all NBL matches at all venues.

https://nbl.com.au/news/spectators-receive-bans

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Report: AEW Grand Slam Australia likely moving to new venue - F4W/WON

Our Dave Meltzer addressed ticket sales to Grand Slam Australia on the September 26 edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, saying they were “not good.”

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Pro wrestling 2024: AEW moves location of Grand Slam Australia from Suncorp Stadium to Brisbane Entertainment Centre

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Aussie Elvis Smylie, son of former 80s doubles tennis champ and commentator Liz, is playing at Kingston Heath for the Australian Open golf, coming off the back of his PGA victory.

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Paul Vautin was one of six inductees into Hall of Fame, including Mark Knowles (hockey) and Lions premiership player Shaun Hart (AFL). Pat Rafter was elevated to Legend status.

Paris Olympics and Paralympics gold medallists Kaylee McKeown, Arisa Trew and Alexa Leary were recognised with athlete of the year awards.

The Queensland Sport Awards were held in Brisbane on November 21.

https://www.qsport.org.au/news/community-legendscelebrated-queensland-sport-awards

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2024 ASPAs award winners:

  • Emerging Athlete of the Year: Arisa Trew, Skate Australia
  • Community Engagement Award: Serena Bonnell, Bowls Australia
  • High Performance Program of the Year: Paddle Australia
  • Sport Volunteer of the Year: Julie Keillor, Shepparton Canoe Club/Paddle Australia
  • Male Able-Athlete of the Year: Matt Wearn, Australian Sailing
  • Male Para-Athlete of the Year: James Turner OAM, Athletics Australia
  • Female Para-Athlete of the Year: Lauren Parker, AusCycling & AusTriathlon
  • Female Able-Athlete of the Year: Kaylee McKeown, Swimming Australia
  • Win Well Award: Bowls Australia
  • Coach of the Year: Dean Boxall, Swimming Australia
  • Team of the Year: Men’s Team Pursuit, AusCycling
  • Performance of the Year: Lauren Parker, AusCycling & AusTriathlon
  • Service to Sport Award: Phil Jones, Paddle Australia
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Gout, … rocketed to the line in just 10.04s to comfortably win his heat and beat the Australian under-18 record of 10.27s held by Sebastian Sultana. An illegal tailwind of 3.4 m/sec on Friday means the previous record still stands, but Gout’s spectacular time also smashed his personal best of 10.29s and is the fourth-fastest in all conditions by an Australian of any age.

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