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In pictures: Frasers Group unveils Sports Direct flagship in Liverpool – Retail Gazette
Frasers Group has opened a new store in Liverpool, bringing together Sports Direct and Everlast Gyms+ under one roof.
The store, which is located on 35 Church Street, Liverpool, spans 90,000 sq ft across three floors.
It brings together sportswear and contemporary brands such as Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, Hugo and Levi’s, with each floor zoned by sport and training type.
The store’s in-build Everlast Gym+ which occupies the full third floor, features the UK’s first Hyrox performance centre.
The gym features a reformer Pilates studio and a dedicated recovery zone.
Other key features of the flagship include running concept, outdoor concept, women’s training concept, an Under Armour agility test, an Adidas football skill zone, Game products and an express version of an Evans Cycles store. 
Over 50% of the retailer’s stores have been “elevated” as part of its strategy so far.
Frasers Group CEO Michael Murray said: “Liverpool is a case study of how our elevation strategy is winning.
“It’s where ambition meets execution: a destination that showcases our strategy’s momentum. 
He added: “This Sports Direct and Everlast Gyms+ opening captures everything our strategy stands for; confidence, innovation, and belief in the future of physical retail. 
“We’re building momentum across the UK and beyond, and Liverpool is the latest example of that success.”
Sports Direct opened its new Westfield Stratford store in May, spanning 20,000 sq ft across two storeys.
In March, it also expanded its footprint in Manchester with the opening of a new 30,000 sq ft store at Trafford Palazzo.
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Frasers Group has opened a new store in Liverpool, bringing together Sports Direct and Everlast Gyms+ under one roof.
The store, which is located on 35 Church Street, Liverpool, spans 90,000 sq ft across three floors.
It brings together sportswear and contemporary brands such as Nike, Adidas, Under Armour, Hugo and Levi’s, with each floor zoned by sport and training type.The store’s in-build Everlast Gym+ which occupies the full third floor, features the UK’s first Hyrox performance centre.
The gym features a reformer Pilates studio and a dedicated recovery zone.
Other key features of the flagship include running concept, outdoor concept, women’s training concept, an Under Armour agility test, an Adidas football skill zone, Game products and an express version of an Evans Cycles store.
Over 50% of the retailer’s stores have been “elevated” as part of its strategy so far.
Frasers Group CEO Michael Murray said: “Liverpool is a case study of how our elevation strategy is winning.
“It’s where ambition meets execution: a destination that showcases our strategy’s momentum.
He added: “This Sports Direct and Everlast Gyms+ opening captures everything our strategy stands for; confidence, innovation, and belief in the future of physical retail. “We’re building momentum across the UK and beyond, and Liverpool is the latest example of that success.”
Sports Direct opened its new Westfield Stratford store in May, spanning 20,000 sq ft across two storeys.
In March, it also expanded its footprint in Manchester with the opening of a new 30,000 sq ft store at Trafford Palazzo.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed a law legalizing sports betting. He now says he's opposed to it – KSL.com
Estimated read time: 7-8 minutes <br>COLUMBUS, Ohio — If Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine could turn back time, he would not have signed the law that legalized sports betting in his state.<br>With <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mlb-baseball-gambling-ortiz-clase-a6db1ff46523e2ffa16d84ca427cf7c1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">two Cleveland Guardians pitchers</a> and an Ohio-born <a href="https://apnews.com/article/miami-heat-terry-rozier-gambling-probe-de98ecb76bb8f13b85f4c5ac62f66221" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">guard for the Miami Heat</a> snared in separate betting-related criminal probes, the second-term Republican says he now "absolutely" regrets unleashing this unbridled new industry on Ohioans with his <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-business-lifestyle-ohio-sports-betting-c63f08570d720b5be1751dc16a785e43" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">2021 signature</a>.<br>"Look, we've always had gambling, we're always going to have gambling," DeWine told The Associated Press last week. "But just the power of these companies and the deep, deep, deep pockets they have to advertise and do everything they can to get someone to place that bet is really different once you have legalization of them."<br>His comments reflect a reckoning that's unfolding across sports and politics as sports betting becomes more ingrained across much of the U.S. The wave of legalization in recent years unleashed a massive industry centered around betting and, more recently, a wave of investigations and arrests tied to allegations of rigged games. It's a dynamic that DeWine says he doesn't think lawmakers fully anticipated.<br>"Ohio shouldn't have done it," he said.<br>DeWine recently emerged as a key player in the negotiations between Major League Baseball and its authorized gaming operators that resulted in the capping of <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-betting-scandals-explainer-clase-ortiz-rozier-a1c30a1908989d5fdc30425b887e0bd3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">prop bets</a> on individual pitches at $200 and excluding them from parlays. <a href="https://apnews.com/article/mlb-pitch-level-bets-clase-ortiz-5d98753c33acc78d3933d2450ee6bac8" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The deal</a> was announced earlier this month, a day after Guardians pitchers Luis Ortiz and Emmanuel Clase were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers. Both have pleaded not guilty.<br>"Gov. DeWine really did a huge service, I think — to us, certainly, I can't speak for any of the other sports — in terms of kind of bringing forward the need to do something in this area," MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told reporters last week.<br>And DeWine doesn't plan to stop there. Shortly after Ortiz and Clase were first <a href="https://apnews.com/article/guardians-ortiz-06134e96597c96df1e76c5a96141de53" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">placed on paid leave</a> this summer, he announced he'd be asking the commissioners and players' unions of all the major U.S. sports leagues to ban prop bets — sometimes called micro-betting — like those implicated in the Guardians scandal. While that goal has not yet been achieved — micro-betting is critical to the business strategy in an industry with over $11 billion in revenue in the U.S. this year — DeWine said limits put in place for baseball are a good first step.<br>"It needs to be holistic, it needs to be universal," he told the AP. "They're just playing with fire. I mean, they are just asking for more and more trouble, their failure to address this."<br>DeWine's recent sentiments mark a notable position shift after he pledged to — and then did — sign a legalization law that was sweeping in scope. <a href="https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/download?key=18254" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The legislation</a> allowed adults 21 and older to place sports bets online, at casinos, at racinos and at stand-alone betting kiosks in bars, restaurants and professional sports facilities. Wagering was permitted under the bill on professional sports teams, motor sports, Olympic events, golf, tennis and even <a href="https://apnews.com/article/college-football-sports-lifestyle-business-football-7c99dabaaea844e596f96985467f2c9a" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">major college sports</a>, including Ohio State football.<br>It was clear in the run-up to DeWine's re-election in 2022 that the gambling industry was intensely interested in what was transpiring in the state.<br>An <a href="https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-politics-sports-mike-dewine-ohio-5f78f7f82df36c70af6f8002dba563c7" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">AP investigation that year</a> found that casino operators, slot machine makers, gaming technology companies, sports interests or their lobbyists donated nearly $1 million in 2021 and 2022 to the nonprofit Republican Governors Association, which supported pro-DeWine committees through its campaign arm. Entities and individuals with ties to the industry also donated more than $22,000 directly to DeWine's campaign, according to campaign finance reports.<br>A review of more recent campaign filings finds that industry largesse has continued to flow to Ohio politicians with sway over gaming's future.<br>Lobbyists and a PAC with ties to Jack Casino, DraftKings, FanDuel, MGM, Gamewise, Hard Rock, Underdog, Rush Street or Caesars have donated about $130,000 to Ohio state legislators in the past three years, records show — about a third of that directed to top House and Senate leaders. Then-Republican Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, who was positioning as DeWine's likely gubernatorial successor, had received about $9,000 from industry-connected entities and individuals before being <a href="https://apnews.com/article/senate-ohio-governor-dewine-vance-5dc31a64a23a798dd7e6915783e7a395" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">appointed to the U.S. Senate</a>.<br>At least one powerful state lawmaker, Republican House Finance Chairman Brian Stewart, had vowed to introduce legislation protecting prop bets prior to professional baseball's crackdown.<br>"I think that prop bets are a significant part of sports betting in the state of Ohio," Stewart told cleveland.com in August. "It's something that clearly a lot of Ohioans have taken part in and enjoy, and I don't think there's something that we should eliminate entirely."<br>Amid such pushback, DeWine and others now view voluntary buy-in from leagues, players' unions and sportsbooks as a superior approach to pursuing gambling restrictions on a state-by-state basis, where the authority lies.<br>Matt Schuler, executive director of the Ohio Casino Control Commission, said the baseball deal DeWine helped broker has shown it can be done.<br>"He's using the bully pulpit and he's able to connect with the right people in that way," Schuler said of DeWine. "No one thought that everyone could get on the same page, but now they did because everyone realizes the risk. The bets are small, but the risk is big, and so, having observed gaming and regulated it for about 14 years, this is impressive."<br>DeWine said his concerns with sports gambling began almost as soon as <a href="https://apnews.com/article/sports-gambling-betting-college-ohio-50e42d4b41bfbce702f58c11d2624374" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ohio's law took effect</a> in 2023. Very quickly, his office began receiving reports that gamblers were threatening members of the University of Dayton basketball team.<br>So he contacted NCAA President Charlie Baker, whom he knew from Baker's time as governor of Massachusetts, and learned that he shared DeWine's concern. He got Baker to write a letter requesting the <a href="https://apnews.com/article/prop-bets-new-jersey-ban-f21d5e1496a0e5b83b38c9a7c14e881f" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">removal of collegiate prop bets</a> from the list of legal wagers that sportsbooks operating in Ohio could place, which allowed DeWine to usher the change through the casino commission.<br>After the Guardians case emerged this summer, DeWine approached Manfred with the same idea. They hadn't both been governors, but DeWine did have one cache going in: his family's long-time ownership of North Carolina's Asheville Tourists. DeWine said Manfred asked him to hold off on pushing unilateral action in Ohio, in hopes of getting the parties to agree to a new national rule.<br>"I would have preferred to have completely done away with the micro-prop bets, but this is the area that he was able to settle on with them, and I was pleased with that," DeWine said. "And so, I think that's progress."<br>DeWine, who faces term limits next year, said he would be happy to sign a repeal of Ohio's sports betting law at this point, but he's certain there's not enough support for that at the Ohio Statehouse.<br>"There's not the votes for that. I can count," he said. "I'm not always right, but I can pretty much guarantee you that they're not ready to do this."<br>Instead, he'll continue to make his case in other ways.<br>DeWine, an avid baseball fan, particularly of his hometown Cincinnati Reds, said he believes "these sports are playing with dynamite here and the integrity of the sports is at stake."<br>"So, you try to do what you can do, and you try and warn people, and try to take action like we did with collegiate, and you try take action like what we're doing with baseball," he said. "But we've got to keep pushing these other sports to do it, too."<br>___<br>AP Baseball Writer Ronald Blum contributed to this report.<br><br><a href="https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMixAFBVV95cUxPU3hmOEw0U1R5WURlNDRwWTJFWmV3aTUwVGVUbVB3UVZOQWs4MXFFekhDVk9mYlRZTGVRell2WnNOY3h1Y3ctN3UwQl9xcTNJVjFmZkcwbm5pSFNNeGw1ZUJLYlB5cUNTZy02YlVpcUpUQ0JLRjZnN1lVdUdORXg2NWw1R29yODh1R1pNMkFXcjRzd0pvZUJYaUpvVDJ6TndJRENLd3laX3p1c0ZOb1REeHVabWlSdVlTdnVHdmpBcWFkVk5M?oc=5">source</a>
JAKE'S TAKE: Time to tab Shelby as Titletown of Richland County? – Mansfield News Journal
SHELBY — The green corporation limit sign might need an upgrade.
As you enter Shelby, Ohio, the sign needs a small addition. Go ahead and put, “Titletown, Richland County” in big bold letters right under the word Shelby.
After Shelby’s Division IV Region 14 football championship on Nov. 21 with a 41-7 win over Galion, it marked the third straight year a Shelby High School athletic team has made a trip to the final four in their respective sports. The football Whippets followed in the footsteps of the 2024 volleyball team and the 2023-24 boys basketball team. It has been a special run in Shelby Whippets athletics over the last three seasons.
Liverpool ramp up talks for ELECTRIC winger – Yahoo Sports
Liverpool ramp up talks for ELECTRIC winger Yahoo Sports
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Johnson out, Kulusevski latest: Spurs injury, suspension – Sports Mole
Save £10 when you spend £50 or more at Sports Direct – Yahoo News UK
Heiden fuels Hawks past Hurricanes – Times Republican
Nov 24, 2025
AP PHOTO – Iowa forward Hannah Stuelke (45) looks to pass during a college basketball game against Miami on Saturday night in Kissimmee, Fla.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Ava Heiden scored 20 points on 9-of-11 shooting, Hannah Stuelke had 17 points and 12 rebounds, and No. 19 Iowa never trailed Saturday as the Hawkeyes beat Miami 64-61 at the WBCA Showcase.
Taylor McCabe hit three 3-pointers and finished with 11 points and eight rebounds for Iowa (5-0). Taylor Stremlow added eight rebounds, seven points, five assists and two steals.
Amarachi Kimpson scored a season-high 19 points for Miami (4-0). Ra Shaya Kyle added 17 points and eight rebounds.
Heiden and Stuelke made back-to-back layups that gave Iowa its biggest lead at 59-46. Miami’s 13-2 run trimmed the deficit to 61-59 with 2:24 remaining.
Neither team scored again until Kylie Feuerbach made two free throws with 11 seconds left — Iowa’s first points in more than seven minutes. Gal Raviv made a layup before Feuerbach split a pair of free throws, and Kimpson missed a potential tying 3-pointer from the logo as time expired.
Chazadi Wright did not play for the Hawkeyes. The guard known as “Chit-Chat” left Iowa’s 57-52 win over No. 7 Baylor on Thursday in the third quarter with what appeared to be a concussion after tripping and hitting her forehead on the floor.
Up next
Iowa: The Hawkeyes host Western Illinois on Wednesday.
Miami: The Hurricanes play George Washington at the Cayman Islands Classic on Friday.
No. 21 Iowa 64, Miami 61
MIAMI (4-1) — Kyle 7-12 3-5 17, Peterson 1-2 0-0 2, Adams 1-4 2-2 4, Kimpson 6-18 5-7 19, Raviv 3-10 0-0 7, Okolo 0-2 0-0 0, Wetzel 0-1 0-0 0, Kpetikou 0-0 0-0 0, Blasigh 4-7 2-2 11, Tippner 0-1 1-2 1, Totals 22-57 13-18 61.
IOWA (6-0) — Stuelke 8-15 1-1 17, Heiden 9-11 2-2 20, Feuerbach 0-4 3-4 3, McCabe 4-8 0-0 11, Stremlow 3-10 1-2 7, Hays 1-3 0-0 2, Deal 2-5 0-1 4, Houston 0-1 0-0 0, Mallegni 0-3 0-0 0, Rodriguez 0-2 0-0 0, Totals 27-62 7-10 64.
Miami 13 15 18 15 — 61
Iowa 14 22 19 9 — 64
3-Point Goals–Miami 4-19 (Adams 0-2, Kimpson 2-9, Raviv 1-3, Wetzel 0-1, Blasigh 1-4), Iowa 3-21 (Stuelke 0-1, Feuerbach 0-3, McCabe 3-7, Stremlow 0-4, Deal 0-2, Houston 0-1, Mallegni 0-2, Rodriguez 0-1). Assists–Miami 9 (Raviv 5), Iowa 15 (Feuerbach 5, Stremlow 5). Fouled Out–None. Rebounds–Miami 29 (Kyle 8), Iowa 43 (Stuelke 12). Total Fouls–Miami 15, Iowa 13. A–2,774.
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