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Axios
5 days ago
- Sport
- Axios
Dallas gets another professional soccer team
The Dallas-area sports scene is getting even bigger with another men's professional soccer team. Why it matters: Atlético Dallas will be part of the United Soccer League, which is adding a division to create a promotion and relegation structure, similar to ones common outside the U.S., like in England's Premier League. The Division One league launches in 2027-28 to rival Major League Soccer. Context: USL already has two divisions: USL Championship (second division) and USL League One (third Division). Dallas will play in the USL Championship division. The latest: The club unveiled their logo and team colors this month. The logo features a Mexican gray wolf and a rattlesnake. The team colors are Texas topaz, blackland crude, silver ore and white. Zoom in: FC Dallas, an MLS team, was founded in 1995 as the Dallas Burn. The launch came a year after the Cotton Bowl hosted six games for the 1994 World Cup. Dallas Trinity FC, a USL Super League women's team, is in their inaugural season at the Cotton Bowl.
New York Post
6 days ago
- New York Post
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott threatens death penalty for illegal migrant suspects in fatal jet ski hit-and-run of teen Air Force recruit
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has threatened the death penalty for two illegal immigrants suspected in the fatal jet ski hit-and-run of 18-year-old Air Force recruit, Ava Moore. 'Welcome to Texas. Here's your death penalty,' the Republican wrote in a post on X, with a news video about the deadly incident and the arrest of the suspects. Moore, who had only just joined the US Air Force, died after she was struck by a jet ski while kayaking on Grapevine Lake on Sunday evening. 3 Governor Abbott threatened the death penalty for the two illegal immigrants suspected in the death of Ava Moore. Sara Diggins/American-Statesman / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images 3 Daikerlyn Gonzalez and Maikel Coello were arrested in connection with Ava Moore's death. Texas Parks and Wildlife 3 Ava Moore was killed in a jet ski hit-and-run incident. GoFundMe Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez and an unnamed male suspect were both arrested on Tuesday after a standoff with police at their Dallas-area home, according to Fox 4. Gonzalez was on the jet ski with another woman when they allegedly crashed into Moore before she fled the scene with the other suspect in a car, hitting another vehicle as they bolted. The other woman on the jet ski remained behind and was interviewed by cops.
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
UFC fighters to be featured in Topps' Debut Patch program
Topps will expand its popular Rookie Patch Autograph program into its fourth league this weekend with the new UFC Debut Patch. The first patch in the program will be worn by Andreas Gustafsson for ESPN FN 189: Erin Blanchfield vs. Maycee Barber on Saturday. Gustafsson will face Trevin Giles in a Catch Weight fight. According to Fanatics, fighters will wear the debut patches on the right sleeve of their walkout jerseys before the fight. Patches will be removed after the fight and transported to Topps' Dallas-area facility where they will be placed into one-of-one trading cards. Each card will later be autographed by the fighter. Topps didn't immediately announce which product UFC debut patches will appear in. The addition of UFC is the latest expansion to the debut patch program, which first launched as part of 2023 Topps Chrome Update Baseball. The program was later added to MLS in 2024 and WWE earlier this year. Fanatics Collectibles and UFC agreed to a new exclusive deal for trading cards in early 2024. Topps previously made cards for the company from 2009 to 2020. Since its launch, the debut patch program has proven to be one of Topps' most successful innovations since being acquired by Fanatics in 2022. To date, eight Rookie Debut Patch Autographs have sold for $25,000 or more, according to public records logged by Card Ladder. The most expensive sale from the program came earlier this year when the Paul Skenes 1/1 sold for $1.11 million in Fanatics Collect's March Premier Auction. It was later announced the card was acquired by national retailer Dick's Sporting Goods, which placed the Skenes RDPA on display in a Pittsburgh-area store. Ben Burrows is a reporter and editor for cllct, the premier company for collectible culture. He was previously the Collectibles Editor at Sports Illustrated. You can follow him on X and Instagram @benmburrows.
New York Post
7 days ago
- New York Post
Illegal immigrants arrested in fatal jet ski hit-and-run of teenage Texas Air Force recruit
A pair of suspects wanted in the hit-and-run jet ski death of a teenage Air Force recruit on a Texas lake have been arrested — and both are believed to be illegal immigrants. Daikerlyn Alejandra Gonzalez Gonzalez and a man she allegedly fled from Grapevine Lake with were arrested Tuesday after a standoff with police at their Dallas-area home, according to Fox 4. 4 Gonzalez Gonzalez and a man she allegedly fled from Grapevine Lake with were arrested Tuesday. Grapevine Police Department Gonzalez is suspected of fatally striking 18-year-old Ava Moore with a jet ski as she kayaked on the lake Sunday evening, and then fleeing from the scene in the man's car as bystanders tried in vain to save the teen. Photos of Gonzalez at the scene were distributed by police, who located her and the other suspect, who was not identified by police, Tuesday morning. Officers from Dallas and Grapevine police were joined by agents from Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and used drones to peer into their hideouts' windows before the pair finally surrendered. 4 Moore had just enlisted in the Air Force and was weeks from starting basic training. GoFundMe Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said Gonzalez, a Venezuelan national, and the other suspect were in the US illegally — and that the death of Moore never should have happened. 'Ava Moore's senseless death was caused by an illegal alien who should have never been in our country in the first place,' Paxton said after the arrest. 4 Moore was transported to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in Grapevine, where she was pronounced dead, officials announced. WFAA 'My heart breaks for Ava's family and friends, and my prayers are with them as they face this tragedy,' he added. Moore — a basketball star who graduated from Fort Worth Timber Creek High School in 2024 — had just enlisted in the Air Force and was weeks from starting basic training before she was killed Sunday. 4 Ava Moore with her brother Rob at Ava's graduation from USAFA Prep. Courtesy Moore Family She had graduated from the US Air Force Academy Preparatory School a little over a week before, and was visiting her parents during the holiday weekend when she made her fateful trip to Grapevine Lake. She suffered severe head trauma after being struck by the jet ski and was pulled to shore, but later died at a nearby hospital. A second woman had been riding on the jet ski when it struck Moore, and she remained at the scene after the collision.
USA Today
22-05-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Scottie Scheffler explains his PGA Championship football spike: 'I didn't score much'
Scottie Scheffler explains his PGA Championship football spike: 'I didn't score much' FORT WORTH, Texas — Since he keeps most of his emotions under wraps, those few moments when Scottie Scheffler lets loose seem almost unsettling, as if there was something under the surface that the Texan has finally unleashed. But even though he slammed his hat to the turf after winning the PGA Championship at Quail Hollow, Scheffler insisted on Wednesday there was no dramatic backstory, and that it was simply a spur-of-the-moment decision, something that hit him when he realized he'd captured his third major title. In fact, during the lead-up to this week's Charles Schwab Challenge at Colonial Country Club, Scheffler let out a little laugh when asked about the gesture. "When I played football, I didn't score very many touchdowns, so I wasn't too experienced in that," he joked. "I don't really have much to say on that. I think I just kind of let my emotions out a little bit, and I guess that's where my brain decided it wanted to go at the time. I really have absolutely no explanation for it at all." For Scheffler, who joined elite company in Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods as the only players in the modern era to win 15 times — including three majors — all before the age of 29, life never seems to come to a screeching halt, but instead the Dallas-area native seems to simply hit a gear and stay in it. He's rarely too high and rarely too low, even after an injury threw a wrench in his early-season plans. But chatting with Scheffler days after winning the PGA Championship is similar to talking with him when he posted just a single top-5 showing in his first five tournaments. For the record, he's had four top-5 finishes since then. "Every tournament, I try to treat differently. Coming off a major win, obviously there's a lot of emotion and stuff that comes with winning that golf tournament, but at the end of the day I didn't just show up here to Fort Worth to just walk around and celebrate last week," he said. "I'm here for a reason, and that's not to just play a couple of ceremonious rounds and then ride off in the sunset. I'm here for a reason. That's to compete. My prep work for this tournament will obviously be a bit different than it normally is for an event. I didn't really do much yesterday or the day before. Yesterday I went to the gym and kind of got back doing that stuff a little bit, but this is my first time on the course. Today I'm just playing nine holes and getting out of here. I'm not doing my normal practice routine just because I need to focus more on rest than I do getting prepared for the course. Fortunately, this is a golf course that I've been around numerous times. Today I've got a good feel for the speed of the green, hit a couple of bunker shots, hit some chips out of the rough. Outside of that I need to give my brain and body a rest to prepare for another event." In the past, Scheffler has avoided playing the week before majors if possible, a trend that he continued this season, and he's been quick to play in both the Byron Nelson and Schwab events, since the two are within driving distance of his home. Since he won the CJ Cup at TPC Craig Ranch in nearby McKinney just three weeks ago, then took off the signature Truist Championship, he's working on victories in consecutive starts for the fourth time in his career. If he wins at Colonial, a place where he's finished in the top-3 in each of the past three seasons, it would make him the first Tour player to roll off three wins in as many starts since Dustin Johnson turned that trick in 2017 with wins at the Genesis, WGC-Mexico and WGC-Dell Technologies Match Play For now, Scheffler is just happy to be enjoying the comforts of home. And some longevity — Thursday's opening round will be his 500th on the PGA Tour. "I think any time I can sleep in my own bed and play a golf tournament, it's a nice thing," he said. "It's nice to be able to be here at home. We always get great support here in the Metroplex, and it's always fun coming back here to play Colonial. "I love the golf course here. I think it's a great test. That's also one of the big reasons I try to come to this event each year is just for the golf course. Overall, it's great to be back in the Metroplex. Like I said, we get great support. So it's a lot of fun to play in front of a home crowd."
