Tanya Okafor

Maui’s Cash Berzolla turns heads with powerful wing foiling style

Berzolla’s edge is surf-first: a compact stance, quiet wing handling, and cleaner lines that make wing foiling look like surfing.

Competitions

World’s Toughest Mile may return as 2026 CrossFit Games test

A free World’s Toughest Mile heat is set for July 25 outside SAP Center, and its burpee-lunge-crawl-run format looks built to expose who can keep moving under fatigue.

Asia Pickleball Games sets standard for continental championship in Taichung

Taichung turned a tennis center into Asia’s pickleball blueprint, and APG now sets the regional standard for courts, rankings and prize money.

Tracks & Venues

MultiGP reveals 2026 Global Qualifier track finalists ahead of season launch

Cerberus, Dragon, Griffin, Kraken, Minotaur and Phoenix are the six layouts pilots will study before MultiGP’s Global Qualifier season starts March 27.

Jul 15, 2026·1 min read

APD shows HEMA has become a serious academic field

APD gave HEMA a peer-reviewed home, turning manuals, practice, and census data into a shared evidence base for the sport.

Jul 15, 2026·4 min read

Bloodlines & Breeding

Tom McCrocklin tops Fasig-Tipton July Sale with $450,000 Girvin filly

Tom McCrocklin spent $1.46 million on eight yearlings, led by a $450,000 Girvin filly that topped the sale's filly market.

Bloodlines & Breeding

Equinox sparks record JRHA opening day with $2.59 million topper

Equinox’s first yearlings headlined JRHA opening day, led by a ¥420 million colt to Masahiro Noda’s Danox Co Ltd. and ¥1.984 billion in total sales.

Blue Jackets prospects gain playoff education with Cleveland Monsters

Four Blue Jackets prospects spent Cleveland’s playoff run learning the pace, pressure and habits that separate an AHL stop from NHL readiness.

Jul 15, 2026·4 min read

Trades

Coachella Valley signs veteran Mitchell Stephens to two-year deal

Coachella Valley kept a veteran spine in place, signing Mitchell Stephens through 2027-28 after he posted 27 points and a Game 1 overtime winner last spring.

Trades

Blue Jackets sign Sergei Ivanov to future goaltending deal

Columbus locked up Sergei Ivanov through 2027-28, but the 22-year-old goalie is headed back to the KHL first as the Blue Jackets build deeper into the future.

FCS quarterback projections spotlight 2026 starters and playoff implications

A full-map quarterback projection shows which FCS contenders have stability, which are guessing, and how the 24-team playoff race could shift.

Sidney's Tawawa Park opens new 20-hole disc golf course

Tawawa Park’s new 20-hole layout opened with a ribbon cut, a free pro clinic and 92 UDisc reviews already pegging it as a hilly 3.9-mile test.

Jul 15, 2026·3 min read

Vancouver club maps armwrestling path from Japan to New Delhi worlds

Vancouver's armwrestling calendar runs from Tsuchiura to New Delhi to Langford, showing a BC club plotting real routes to world titles and local staying power.

Jul 15, 2026·4 min read

Why Triple-A stats need context across the International League and PCL

Triple-A stat lines can fool you: the PCL and International League play in different run environments, from Colorado Springs' altitude to Durham's deep left-field wall.

ITTF updates World Para rankings, week 28 shapes Pattaya 2026 race

Week 28 rankings landed July 8 and now feed Pattaya 2026’s race to qualification, with the cutoff set for July 29 and 330 athletes headed to Thailand.

Jul 15, 2026·1 min read

Taylor County Fair opens with cornhole tournament and free barbecue

Taylor County Fair opened its added no-admission kickoff day with a free barbecue from 5 to 8 p.m. and a cornhole tournament at the Bedford fairgrounds.

Jul 14, 2026·2 min read

Low water levels push Toccoa nonprofit to cornhole tournament

Low water levels forced Self-Discovery 24 to swap tubing for cornhole, keeping its July 18 recovery event alive in downtown Toccoa.

Jul 14, 2026·2 min read

Games

Asia qualifier in Japan spotlights tightening pickleball pipeline ahead of World Cup

Mauro Garcia and Bobbi Oshiro left Utsunomiya with gold, but the bigger story was Asia’s qualifier circuit showing how much closer local players are getting to the touring elite.

Jul 14, 2026·5 min read