Ankush Panghal wins boxing gold for India at Asian Games 2026; First since Amit Panghal

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No Ronaldo, no problem? Portugal take ‘step forward’ with Denmark rout

Vitinha feels Portugal took a "step forward" in their attacking play in the 4-2 rout of Denmark, despite Cristiano Ronaldo's absence. Ronaldo left Portugal's squad earlier this week, reportedly due to a disagreement with new coach Jorge Jesus over a lack of game time. But in the absence of international football's record goalscorer, Portugal cruised to an emphatic victory in Copenhagen, Joao Cancelo's opener was cancelled out by Mikkel Damsgaard, but Goncalo Ramos swiftly reestablished Portugal's lead. Rasmus Hojlund equalised for Denmark early in the second half, mimicking Ronaldo's iconic celebration to boot, but goals from Vitinha and substitute Joao Felix eased Portugal to victory. And Vitinha paid credit to Jesus' tactics, while also suggesting Portugal were perhaps more free-flowing without Ronaldo at the tip of their attack. "It's all thanks to the manager's work," Vitinha told TVI Noticias. "The truth is, we played an excellent game, and there's no hiding that. "Winning here is extremely important, in a very difficult place to play, and two years ago, when we lost here, we learned that lesson. Don't be fooled by the result, because it was a very difficult game. "Furthermore, it was the best performance we've had so far. We are growing, and the truth is, the more we work with the manager, the more we assimilate his ideas. "We took a step forward in attack." Sempre connosco. Obrigado, Portugueses. ‍ pic.twitter.com/qruLL2zbZ4 — Portugal (@selecaoportugal) October 1, 2026 Vitinha explained the squad did their best to shut out the noise surrounding Ronaldo's shock departure. "We tried to focus on the game and I think that's what we did," Vitinha said. "We responded incredibly. Congratulations to the whole group." Portugal won the expected goals battle with ease, cre

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Clay Travis: inside the Maga permadad’s world of sports betting, trans panic and more sports betting

The rightwing media mogul has lost ground to fellow sports bros like Pat McAfee and Joe Rogan. He’s hoping his new venture can recapture some groundWhen Maga media blowhard Clay Travis offered $2m to Colin Kaepernick last week to appear on the daily talkshow he hosts with former CIA analyst Buck Sexton, it represented the culmination of a years-long obsession on the right with the onetime NFL star. In Travis’s telling of history, Kaepernick taking a knee during the 2016 NFL season was the event that catalyzed professional sports into the era of “woke” excess from which, he claims, it has been struggling to recover ever since.But more than simply confirming the right’s longstanding villainization of Kaepernick, Travis’s offer was also a smarmy bid for publicity for his new media venture, Sport & State. Sport & State, which launched in August, is Travis’s bid to get back to his roots as a media mogul who sold the wildly popular Outkick to Fox Sports for a rumored $100m, and reclaim some of the cultural territory lost to fellow sports bros and Magagitators like Pat McAfee, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro. But if there’s one thing Sport & State won’t be doing, it’s engaging with anyone beyond the Magaverse. There has been no response from Kaepernick since Travis made his “offer” of $2m to charity in exchange for an interview, which suggests he understands that it was extended more in a spirit of trolling buffoonery than sincerity. No one associated with the left or progressive politics ever appears on Travis’s shows, for the simple reason that they are designed purely for the right to talk to itself. (Some would say the same could be said of the left, although the disregard for dissenting perspectives in the Magasphere seems way more extreme.) More than it heralds

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Parveen Hooda’s road to Asian Games gold: 22-month ban, cancer battle at home