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Otago Daily Times
2 days ago
- General
- Otago Daily Times
Big 3 hunting competition nets 1500kg of meat
If it was a feral pest, then it was fair game for the freezer during Te Anau's King's Birthday Weekend hunting competition. Freezers overflowed with 1500kg of meat from the annual Te Anau Helicopter Services Fiordland Big 3 hunting competition. Te Anau events organiser Melissa Fletcher said hunters had the choice to donate their venison to the Southland community via Deer to Care Southland, which would distribute the meat to multiple food banks and social services in the region. There were many benefits to removing feral pests from the environment, she said. "Pigs are quite pesky. They can rip up a paddock overnight so the farmers are quite happy with getting rid of them." The team named Outdoors with Tom pretty much cleaned up most of the major categories with a massive stag. "That's what happens when you've got one really good animal ... " But Team Outdoors With Tom did not win all the prizes — they missed out on The Best Hunting Story, which was won by team Predator Patrol. Ms Fletcher said the wee boy in Predator Patrol had been confused about the entry field — mixing best "Pest" with "Pet". "He was willing to give up his dog — the dog is still alive — but that's dedication." Hunting began last Thursday evening amid heavy rain and severe gale force wind warnings. Hunters had to shoot a deer, a pig and one other feral animal to qualify for the Big 3. Entry numbers were down on previous years, but organisers suspected the severe weather might have influenced the turnout. Altogether, 32 four-member adult teams, (including six women's teams), eight Mums and Kids, six youth teams and 29 children's teams rolled up to Sunday's weigh-in, vying for a prize. Fiordland Big 3 contest results Major prize (barrel drawn): Hard Rated Heaviest combined weight: Outdoors with Tom Heaviest pig: Outdoors with Tom Heaviest deer: Outdoors with Tom Highest Douglas score (stag): Outdoors with Tom Most outstanding animal: Outdoors with Tom Best youth team: Summit Seekers Best mums and kids team: Thwaites Crew Pilot's choice: Blackmount Boys Best pig tusks: Fang and Rack Best female team: Win or Lose, On the Booze Team closest to overall avg: Up Da Gully PIG CARRY Men: Cameron Jarvie, 35.01s Women: Charlotte Clarke, 49.80s Adult & child: Ollie and Jack Jones, 41.23s Kids: Ollie Jones, 35.01s POSSUM THROW Men: Taylor Malzard, 20.35m Women: Renee Graham, 11.80m 13-16 years: Archie Jones, 14.17m 7-12 years: Josh Porteous, 8.74m 6 & under: Maggie Russell, 3.72m PHOTO COMPETITION Bucken Beauties KIDS Heaviest hare/rabbit: The Three Pests (4.35kg) Heaviest possum: Two Little Rascals (4.55kg) Best kids team: Hey Presto's Best hunting story: Predator Patrol Average weight: G Best team name: Two Little Ferrals Jock Armitage Memorial Trophy — Encouragement award: Silverstream Shooters By Toni McDonald
Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
LeBron James Reportedly Used to Get Treatments While Clubbing
LeBron James Reportedly Used to Get Treatments While Clubbing originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Miami Heat acquired a 25-year-old LeBron James from the Cleveland Cavaliers by way of a league-shattering sign-and-trade in the summer of 2010. Advertisement After joining Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh to complete a legendary 'Big 3,' the trio came away with two NBA championship victories in 2012 and 2013. While the general skillset of the three superstar players led the franchise to the summit twice in four seasons, James' ability to stay on the court and remain in peak condition was an incredibly important reason for the team's success. During a recent appearance on the Nightcap Show hosted by NFL legends Shannon Sharpe and Chad 'Ochocinco' Johnson, former Heat guard Mario Chalmers shared a hilarious detail with regard to James' incredible commitment to his health. Miami Heat small forward LeBron James (6) and shooting guard Dwyane Wade (3).Steve Dykes-Imagn Images "I tell people this all the time, Bron would really get treatment if we was in the club," the 2-time NBA champion told Sharpe and Johnson. Advertisement "Like, he would literally have something on his knee or something on his back inside the club." "Once somebody is doing that, like that's real dedication to just be in the club with treatment, ice therapy or whatever." "He's always got something that's recovering, making his body recover." After the conclusion of his 22nd NBA campaign, James' condition continues to mystify the broader sports sphere. The 40-year-old received All-NBA Second Team recognition for his 2024-25 regular season effort, as he contributed 24.4 points, 7.8 rebounds and 8.2 assists while appearing in 70 contests for the Los Angeles Lakers. Advertisement With the Heat, James' amazing ability to stay healthy was baffling, even back then. The future first-ballot Hall of Fame inductee took part in 294 of a possible 328 regular season games spanning his four-year tenure with the Heat. Amazingly enough, the legendary forward led the Heat to four consecutive NBA Finals appearances in this time as well, part of his own individual streak of eight straight appearances on the game's biggest stage from 2011-2018. Related: Dwyane Wade Makes Unexpected Admission About Miami Heat's Big 3 Related: LeBron James Recalls Super Disrespectful Encounter From NBA Personnel This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jun 2, 2025, where it first appeared.
Miami Herald
23-05-2025
- Sport
- Miami Herald
Cote: Florida Panthers' joy ride continues in 5-0 road mastery, 2-0 East finals lead as Carolina reels
'The Happiest Team in America' continues to lift South Florida as it deep-freezes opponents in its path. The Florida Panthers are on the greatest stretch we have seen in Miami-area sports since the Heat's Big 3 era produced four straight NBA finals and two championships from 2010 to 2014. It will take 16 playoff victories for the Cats to win a second straight Stanley Cup, and they're 10 wins in now with Thursday night's 5-0 victory at Carolina in Game 2 of the NHL's Eastern Conference finals. Teams up 2-0 in hockey playoff history have won the series 86.1% of the time, and now the Panthers head home to the Sunrise barn for games Saturday and Monday. Florida swept Carolina in the 2023 East finals. Can they do it again? The Hurricanes on Thursday lost a 14th consecutive conference final game, so they made need a pick axe and a miner's helmet to dig deep enough to locate any confidence. Carolina looks overmatched — embarrassed — in this series, outscored 10-2 in the two games, as Florida continues not just winning, but having fun on the way. Florida is now on a 7-2 run on road playoff games, and by a 22-4 goals margin in the past seven. It was a couple weeks shy of 40 years ago when the late great Miami Hurricanes baseball coach Ron Fraser coined 'The Happiest Team in America' to describe his 1985 College World Series-winning group. For the first time since it's time to unearth the phrase for a South Florida team. Sports Business Journal on Wednesday named the reigning Cup-champion Panthers the national 'Sports Team of the Year' for March 2024 through February '25, an honor that encompasses accomplishment both on and off the playing field, in this case ice. And so much of that success, both ways, is the culture of camaraderie and an emphasis on fun amid the pressure — a we-are-family vibe instilled when general manager Bill Zito and coach Paul Maurice took over. The mood is light even when the task is heavy. 'Pressure is made up. It's a lot of noise, media attention,' Brad Marchand says. 'Pressure is something you can embrace or something you can be nervous about. This is why you work your whole life, to be in a position to have success. That excites you to wanna be a difference-maker, to want to be a hero. That's when the pressure just kind of slides off.' A late-season trade from Boston left Marchand trying to fit in with a team that once hated him. That team made it easy. 'I can't say enough about the organization or the group,' he said. 'Their culture is incredible.' This franchise treats its players right and the players respond. The roster is tailor-made with two kinds of fit the prerequisite. 'The thing our management group does the best is find guys who can fit in the room and fit our style of play,' Maurice said Wednesday, the order there intentional. Led by the example of captain Aleksander Barkov, there is no caste system evident, no star-system in attitude. Matthew Tkachuk and Marchand are equal teammates with the guys on the fourth line. 'That's all Barkov,' says Maurice. 'Tkachuk and Brad, too, they're just one of the guys in the room.' That's how Maurice explains Florida's 7-2 record on the road this postseason. 'You are at an emotional deficit [on the road],' he said. 'You get that emotion from the bench, from the guys supporting an encouraging each other. The players are running the bench.' Befitting that, the entire Panthers' depth chart is producing in these playoffs, the goals coming from all over the roster, all over the ice, as steady Sergei Bobrovsky protects the Cats' net in a masterful 'Playoff Bob' sequel. He has now allowed only six goals in the past six playoff games. The Panthers led 1-0 Thursday just 77 seconds into Game 2 in a start straight out of a nightmare for Canes coach Rod Brind'Amour as Gustav Forsling put in a snap shot that turned Raleigh quiet. The setup was from Tkachuk as Forsling became the 18th different Cat and eighth different defensemen to score a goal this postseason. 'The team that loses the first game will come out with the hardest push possible,' Maurice had said. Instead it was Florida's fast start that had Carolina on its skate-heels. Cats made it 2-0 mid-first on a Tkachuk tip-in from Carter Verhaeghe — Tkachuk ending a nine-game goal drought this postseason. Sam Bennett's tip-in made it 3-0 later in the first on a power play, with Verhaeghe also part of the assault on Carolina's blue half moon. The Panthers given a man advantage in this series is like Jeff Bezos getting a raise. The scoring sequence followed a lovely Bobrovsky save on a short-handed odd-man rush — the Cats firing on all cylinders. It took only five shots on goal for Florida to cash those three scores. Florida caught a break 51 seconds into the second period when an apparent goal by Sebastian Aho was negated by offside after a Panthers timeout and a smart coach's challenge by Maurice. I thought the overturn was justified but yet a close and perhaps debatable call. A bit of luck flew with Maurice's challenge. Bennett's second goal of the night and NHL-high ninth of the playoffs made it 4-0 in the final minute of the second period. Verhaeghe's big night continued with a wrap-around shot/pass that Bennett stuck in. Florida had a modest 15 shots on goal through two periods but Carolina had a meager seven. Frustrated Hurricanes fans were chanting, 'Shoot the puck!' The third period would bring no relief, or hope, to Carolina. The most notable shot was the one Marchand took to flatten Shayne Gostisbehere for the intentional puck he'd aimed at Marchand in Game 1. The other one was Barkov's redirect of an Aaron Ekblad shot that made the 5-0 final. 'We want to get greedy,' Panthers defenseman Seth Jones had said Thursday before the puck dropped. 'We want to come in here and not be just OK because we won the first one. We want to put their backs to the wall.' Consider it done. The Cats' joy ride chugs on, strengthening,
New York Times
09-04-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Dwight Howard, part of 2025 Hall of Fame basketball class, signs with Big3
Dwight Howard, an eight-time All-Star and three-time Defensive Player of the Year (2009-11), has signed to play for the Los Angeles Riot of the Big3, the three-on-three basketball league co-founded by Ice Cube. Howard has been named to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame's 2025 class, along with Carmelo Anthony, Sue Bird, Maya Moore and others. Howard, the first pick in the 2004 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic, also played for the Los Angeles Lakers, Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks, Washington Wizards, Charlotte Hornets and Philadelphia 76ers. Advertisement Howard won an NBA championship with the Lakers in 2020. He is the last player to be drafted first directly out of high school and also is a part of The Athletic's NBA 75. 'I'm excited to join Ice Cube and the Big3 — especially right after being inducted into the basketball Hall of Fame,' Howard said via statement provided by the league. 'Words can't describe how grateful I am for these opportunities. I can't wait to join the L.A. Riot and try to bring another championship to the city of L.A. But, the ultimate goal I have is to help the league go global.' Prime Dwight Howard was on another level 😳 — Full Court Prez (@fullcourtprez) April 15, 2020 Howard's Big3 team will be coached by former NBA player Nick Young. His teammates will include former NBA guard Jordan Crawford and former USC standout Elijah Stewart. 'He's a perfect fit for the league, not just because of his athleticism and size but also due to our shared desire to grow the game of basketball around the world,' said Ice Cube, who also is the league's CEO. 'We are honored that he has chosen to bring his game and star power to the Big3. I look forward to seeing him challenge our three-on-three stars this summer and see if he can win himself another championship.' The Big3 is adding former NBA players Montrezl Harrell and Wesley Johnson to the roster this season, which begins in June. Harrell was the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2020 with the LA Clippers, and he also played for Houston, the Lakers, Washington, Charlotte and Philadelphia. Johnson was drafted by the Minnesota Timberwolves as the fourth pick in the 2010 NBA Draft. He also played for the Phoenix Suns, Lakers, Clippers, Wizards and New Orleans Pelicans. The Big3 is starting its eighth season of summer basketball. The league is moving from a touring model with teams having no home base to a league with eight teams with home cities.
Yahoo
08-04-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Are the Boston Celtics on a collision course with the New York Knicks?
Are the Boston Celtics on a collision course with the New York Knicks? The Boston Celtics appear to be on a collision course with the New York Knicks. Tom Thibodeau's team strengthened its rotation during the summer, adding Mikal Bridges and Karl-Anthony Towns, while also re-signing OG Anunoby. Those additions have helped New York secure the third seed in the Eastern Conference. Still, it's worth noting, the Knicks haven't beaten a top-three team in the NBA all season. As things currently stand, the Celtics will face the Knicks in the second round of the Eastern Conference playoffs, assuming New York overcomes the Detroit Pistons and that Boston makes it out of the opening round, too. That matchup will dictate who makes it through to the conference finals and will likely be a cannon event in what could become a legitimate rivalry between the two teams in the coming years. Advertisement During a recent episode of the 'Big 3' podcast, hosts A. Sherrod Blakely and Gary Washburn discussed how the Celtics and Knicks will match up during the postseason. They also touched on potential matchups and how Jalen Brunson will be a significant factor in New York's chances of success. Boston will face the Knicks for the last time in the 2024-25 regular season on Tuesday, April 8. You can watch the full podcast episode by clicking on the embedded video above. Watch the "Celtics Chronicle" podcast on: YouTube: Substack: This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Are the Celtics on a collision course with the Knicks?
