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It's Time To Start The "Rich Hill Is BACK" Countdown

Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill. With this in mind, we can again say one of the best-loved and certainly most frequently repeated sentences in contemporary baseball: Rich Hill is BACK! His generic name aside, Rich Hill has been eased […]

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It's Time To Start The "Rich Hill Is BACK" Countdown

Nobody takes a hint less well than Rich Hill, and conversely nobody proves prevailing wisdom wrong more often than Rich Hill. With this in mind, we can again say one of the best-loved and certainly most frequently repeated sentences in contemporary baseball: Rich Hill is BACK!

His generic name aside, Rich Hill has been eased out of more throwing-related major league jobs than anyone this side of Josh Johnson, though in fairness this is Hill’s 24th year in professional baseball, and he is 45 years old. But when he signed a minor league deal with the injury-ravaged Kansas City Royals, it just felt right. When he pitched his first game for the Royals’ Arizona Complex League team Tuesday against the Chicago Cubs’ representatives, it went swimmingly: four innings, 12 hitters, 12 outs, seven strikeouts. There is more work to be done, but go ahead and say it: Rich Hill is totally BACK!

And with the additional news that Kansas City starters Seth Lugo (middle finger) and Cole Ragans (groin) have gone on the injured list, it doesn’t take much imagination to see a near future in which Rich Hill is SO BACK!

When Hill is called up—and he will be because God Herself is clearly willing this—the Royals will become his 14th big-league team, to go along with 22 minor league teams with nicknames like Lugnuts, Diamond Jaxx, RailRiders, and Sea Dogs. When that day occurs, Hill will tie Johnson and Edwin Jackson (MLB) for the most big league employers, one ahead of Ish Smith (NBA) and two ahead of Mike Sillinger (NHL). And if the Royals find they cannot use him after Lugo and Ragans return, as they surely will, Hill will have to hope that the results he puts up will convince one of the teams he has not yet played for (Arizona, Atlanta, the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati, Colorado, Detroit, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee, Minnesota, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco, Texas, Toronto, and Washington) that they need to announce that Rich Hill is SO BACK AGAIN!

Indeed, Rich Hill should never not be BACK! Certainly not until the Rockies sign him and do not only a bobblehead of him in a Colorado uniform—he’ll just have to cope with that shame on his own—but a 15-headed bobblehead with all the caps of all the teams ever to give fans the chance to emit the battle cry that Rich Hill is BACK! Even among the most aggressively weirdo bobblehead collectors, that unholy totem would be worth the flight to Denver. Just get on the end of the line of 170,000 others willing to degrade themselves enough to buy a ticket and receive a 35-pound Cerberus-on-steroids bobblehead to watch the rest of the Rockies because they know that some things—which, again, in this case, is Rich Hill being BACK!—are more important than the home team winning.

The only thing Hill will not be able to do is catch the all-time leader in teams played for in a career. That record belongs to recently retired but still very active Uruguayan soccer player Sebastian Abreu, nicknamed El Loco (swear to god), who is only three years older than Hill but played for 32 separate teams in his 26-year career, including 12 loans and the Uruguayan national team. He has also managed seven others, including his current gig with Xolos of Tijuana in Liga MX. The whole resume is here and seems almost cartoonish; even the 33rd team, which we’ve elected not to count because it is the noxious Beitar Jerusalem, was eliminated from the list only because Abreu apparently didn’t get paid, and so never played. Abreu, again seriously, also hosted the Uruguayan version of Deal or No Deal because he needed something to fill his afternoons. It’s no shade on Hill to slot in just behind someone who ran out of teams to play for and subsequently pivoted to becoming his country’s version of Howie Mandel.

But Hill is doing what he can with the limited employers before him. Baseball would have to expand by four teams for him to catch Arias; he has a better chance of getting to hold a skinny mic on a crypto version of The $100,000 Pyramid reboot on Game Show Network. In fairness, though, you would be a fool to eliminate Hill from contention there. Once you have known the exhilaration of being BACK!, you want to feel it forever.

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Arizona volleyball gets 2 big commitments for 2027

Arizona head volleyball coach Rita Stubbs landed two big commitments on Friday afternoon. A big name from Wildcat history and size in the middle joined the class of 2027 with the announcements of Nylah Bibby and Londyn Pope. The 6-foot-2 Pope plays a premium position at middle blocker. Arizona tries to get one from the […]

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Arizona head volleyball coach Rita Stubbs landed two big commitments on Friday afternoon. A big name from Wildcat history and size in the middle joined the class of 2027 with the announcements of Nylah Bibby and Londyn Pope.

The 6-foot-2 Pope plays a premium position at middle blocker. Arizona tries to get one from the transfer portal almost every year. They have been successful roughly 50 percent of the time. They will go with three this season instead of the four that Stubbs would prefer.

Stubbs is addressing the future of the position through the high school pipeline. She got a late addition to the 2026 class in Marina Vosloo. Pope will follow Vosloo in 2027.

Pope plays prep volleyball for V.R. Eaton High School in Fort Worth, Tex. She played club for TAV 15 Black, but moved to Dallas Premier 16 Black this year.

Over her first two years of high school volleyball, Pope has played 158 sets with 1.3 kills per set. She has a career hitting percentage of .244.

Her offensive stats jumped considerably between her freshman and sophomore seasons, going from 0.7 k/s her rookie year to 1.6 k/s in her second year. After playing just 50 sets as a freshman, she was on the court for 108 in 2024-25. On the downside, Pope’s hitting percentage dropped from .280 to .238.

Pope has been fairly consistent with her blocking numbers. Despite a jump in the number of sets she played, she went from 0.6 blocks per set as a freshman to 0.7 b/s as a sophomore. She had 16 solo blocks out of her 75 total blocks during her second season. She also had 41 blocking errors in her 108 sets last season.

She has had some good showings in this year’s club tournaments. USA Volleyball named her to the all-tournament team for the 16 Freedom group at the 2025 Girls Junior National Championship last week. Her team came in ranked ninth, but she helped lead them to a second-place finish in 16 Freedom.

Pope’s highlights from her time with TAV can be found on her HUDL page. More recent personal highlights are on her Sports Recruits profile. Team highlights for Dallas Premier from recent tournaments can be found on the club’s Sports Recruits page.

Bibby’s name is known to every Wildcat fan. Her father Mike Bibby helped lead the men’s basketball team to its only national title in 1997.

The younger Bibby started her high school career at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale but transferred to Scottsdale’s Saguaro High before her sophomore year. She plays club volleyball for Arizona Storm Elite, which regulary produces some of the best volleyball players in Arizona. Bibby plays alongside some of the top players in the country on the Arizona Storm Elite 16 Thunder roster.

While Bibby is listed as an outside hitter and opposite on the Storm’s roster, she also lists herself as a libero/defensive specialist elsewhere. With a listed height of just 5-foot-9 or 5-foot-10, depending on the source, it’s open to debate whether she will be able to play at either pin at the Power 4 level. Her height would seem to make L/DS a more likely landing spot.

On the prep level, Bibby will be entering her second year at Saguaro but her third year of varsity volleyball. During her freshman season at Shadow Mountain, she played in 82 sets, averaging 2.8 kills per set on a .156 hitting percentage. She had 0.3 aces per set with 8.7 percent of her serves going for aces. She had a 90.1 serve percentage with 263 serve attempts.

On the defensive side of things, Bibby had 0.2 blocks per set and 2.5 digs per set as a freshman. On serve receive, she received serve 4.0 times per set with 0.3 reception errors per set.

Bibby did not play as many sets after transfering to Saguaro her sophomore year, but her stats improved. Her kills almost doubled to 5.0 per set. Just as important, she was more efficient with a .252 hitting percentage.

Her aces doubled to 0.6 per set and her ace rate shot up to 14.7 percent. The only negative movement came on her serve percentage, which dropped to 86.6 percent.

Bibby had 0.3 blocks per set in her second season, slightly better than her rookie year. Her digs were dramatically higher at 3.5 per set.

She received the ball more often as a sophomore with 5.4 receptions per set. Her reception errors also increased, going up to 0.4 per set.

Her father isn’t the only one in the family with college sports experience. Bibby’s older sister Janae Bibby played NCAA volleyball for one year at Division II Fresno Pacific in 2019.

Additional highlights can be found on Bibby’s HUDL profile.

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Lainey Brumfield hired as Southwest volleyball assistant coach

Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest volleyball assistant coach. She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s. Brumfield is no stranger to the sport, bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The goal of […]

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Former William Carey Volleyball player Lainey Brumfield has been hired as the Southwest volleyball assistant coach.

She will be working with head coach Chris Laird in the sport’s first season back on campus since the early 1970’s.

Brumfield is no stranger to the sport, bringing nearly a decade of experience to Summit. The goal of being a coach in the college ranks is one that she has had on her radar for multiple years.

“It’s a big change for my life,” she said. “I’ve been wanting to be a collegiate coach for years now.”

The volleyball journey started for Brumfield, a native of Foxworth and an alum of West Marion High School, when she began playing the sport in middle school.

“I’ve been playing for eight years now,” she said. “When I was a sophomore in high school I tried out for a club team in Hattiesburg. Eventually I moved on to play for Matrix down on the Coast. The club years were my sophomore, junior and senior years in high school.”

During that time, Brumfield not only worked on her game but also met someone who would play a big role in her career.

“I actually met the coach that influenced me the most, Kelly Pitre,” she said. “She was my biggest influence as a coach. Someone I looked up to and who I wanted to be as a coach. She also helped me get in contact with a few colleges. Moving into my senior year I got an offer from (William) Carey to go play. It felt like home for me. I ended up going there playing indoor and beach.”

The want to coach for Brumfield came during her senior year in high school and by the next year, she was coaching club ball, a job she held throughout the next two years before spending the 2024 season at Petal Middle School.

Brumfield feels like her age and being able to relate more with the girls on the team is a big advantage for her.

“I feel like am very mature for my age,” she said. “I feel like with that I won’t get into a friendship with the girls and I’ll keep it professional but also I’ll be able to relate their current life events that they are going through because college can be a big change.”

Being a former student athlete herself, she understands the importance of academics and will help implement it on the team.

“At the end of the day, you are a student athlete and the student has to come first before the athletics,” she said. “Volleyball will not last forever. You have to have your degree to go further into life and into your future job. My goal is to make these girls ready for their future job and life.”

Coach Laird said that he is very happy to bring Brumfield on board adding that with her experience, she can be a huge help in pushing the renewed program it in the right direction.

“It is great that there is someone who played on the collegiate level both indoor and outdoor,” he said. “The thing that I love about Lainey is that she is super organized and she will relate well with our players. She has already been in the club season and realizes the importance of reaching out to club coaches as well as high school coaches to improve our recruiting area.

He also says that she brings both lead-by-example and vocal leadership qualities.

“We will sit down and and discuss what the program will look like, where it needs to go and then after that, I expect her to be vocal on the coaching staff as well as being on the court to demo some stuff.”



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U.S. dunks Canada 18-9 in men’s water polo at World Aquatics Championships | National Sports

SINGAPORE – The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore. The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4. Canada is playing in a four-team pool comprised of Brazil, Singapore and the […]

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SINGAPORE – The Canadian men’s water polo team was dunked 18-9 by the United States in the opening game of preliminary round action on Saturday at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.

The Americans held quarter leads of 3-0, 7-2 and 12-4.

Canada is playing in a four-team pool comprised of Brazil, Singapore and the U.S.

Canada’s next game is Monday against Singapore, while the United States plays Brazil on Sunday.

This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 11, 2025.

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Katie Taylor edges Amanda Serrano again to retain undisputed title, sweep trilogy 3

It was another close fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano — and another Katie Taylor victory. The Irishwoman defeated Puerto Rico’s Serrano by majority decision to retain her undisputed super lightweight titles and go 3-0 in their historic trilogy on Friday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement […]

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Katie Taylor edges Amanda Serrano again to retain undisputed title, sweep trilogy 3

It was another close fight between Katie Taylor and Amanda Serrano — and another Katie Taylor victory.

The Irishwoman defeated Puerto Rico’s Serrano by majority decision to retain her undisputed super lightweight titles and go 3-0 in their historic trilogy on Friday night at a sold-out Madison Square Garden in New York.

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The opening two fights in the Taylor vs. Serrano series, first in 2022 and then again in 2024, were leading candidates for Fight of the Year. Fight fans expected the third to be every bit as good as their previous two epic thrillers, but they were left severely disappointed.

Taylor (25-1-0, 6 KOs) and Serrano (47-4-1, 31 KOs) combined to land 330 punches in their first fight, 541 in their rematch, but just 140 in their trilogy bout, per boxing stat-tracker CompuBox. To put it further into perspective, Serrano landed more punches in the 10th round of her rematch with Taylor than she did in the entirety of the third fight.

Serrano said in her post-fight interview that she chose to box Taylor at long range, rather than be the pressure fighter and do her best work on the inside, because the strategy had been unsuccessful in her first two fights against the two-division undisputed champion. Unfortunately for her, Taylor is a master at boxing on the outside and landing with crisp, accurate, eye-catching shots.

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It was a slow start between the future Hall of Famers in their third affair, with one good shot determining the winner of the early rounds. The first half of the fight was very close, with neither woman letting their hands go.

Things started to heat up in the sixth round as the pair began to exchange and punch in combinations. But that intensification was short-lived, with the action lulling again in the following rounds. Taylor had her strongest round of the fight in the 10th and final frame, consistently connecting with long right hands and left hooks on Serrano to cement her victory.

One judge couldn’t split the pair, scoring it 95-95, but that scorecard was overruled by the other two judges, who awarded Taylor seven rounds out of 10, leading to a duo of 97-93s.

“I want to thank Amanda Serrano. What an amazing fighter. We made history three times,” Taylor said after her win. “This was a historic fight, it was a privilege to share the ring with her. We’re history-makers forever, my name is embedded with Amanda’s forever, and I’m so happy about that.”

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Both fighters ruled out the possibility of a fourth fight.

Catch full Taylor vs. Serrano 3 results and highlights below, as well as Uncrowned’s play-by-play of the main card.

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Undisputed super lightweight championship: Katie Taylor def. Amanda Serrano via majority decision (95-95, 97-93, 97-94)

Undisputed super featherweight championship: Alycia Baumgardner def. Jennifer Miranda via unanimous decision (98-92, 98-92, 97-93)

IBF/WBO super middleweight championship: Shadasia Green def. Savannah Marshall via split decision (95-94 Green, 96-93 Marshall, 96-93 Green)

IBF/WBO/WBC super bantamweight championship: Ellie Scotney def. Yamileth Marcado via unanimous decision (100-90, 98-92, 98-92)

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Undisputed bantamweight championship: Cherneka Johnson def. Shurretta Metcalf via ninth-round TKO | Watch video

WBC interim super lightweight title: Chantelle Cameron def. Jessica Camara via unanimous decision (99-91, 98-92, 99-91)

Super bantamweight: Ramla Ali def. Lila Furtado via unanimous decision (77-75, 77-75, 78-74)

Middleweight: Tamm Thibeault def. Mary Casamassa via fifth-round TKO | Watch video

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USA Men Start World Championships In Singapore With 18-9 Win Over Canada

Story Links Singapore – July 12 – The USA Men’s National Team delivered a convincing effort to open play at the World Championships in Singapore, defeating Canada 18-9. Max Irving scored four goals and earned player of the game honors. Adrian Weinberg recorded 10 saves in net in more than three […]

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Singapore – July 12 – The USA Men’s National Team delivered a convincing effort to open play at the World Championships in Singapore, defeating Canada 18-9. Max Irving scored four goals and earned player of the game honors. Adrian Weinberg recorded 10 saves in net in more than three quarters of work before Bernardo Herzer came on to close things out, adding one save.  Team USA returns to action on Sunday at 9pm et/6pm pt against Brazil. Live streaming of all USA matches will be available on Peacock (login required).

Scoring – Stats

USA 18 (3, 4, 5, 6) M. Irving 4, H. Daube 3, N. Saveljic 3, R. Dodd 2, C. Dodd 1, J. Larsen 1, D. Woodhead 1, D. Brown 1, R. Ohl 1, B. Liechty 1

CAN 9 (0, 2, 2, 5) A. Oussadou 3, D. Lapins 2, R. D’Souza 2, A. Gardijan 2

Saves – USA – A. Weinberg 10, B. Herzer 1 – CAN – B. McKnight 4, M. Radenovic 2

6×5 – USA – 1/3 – CAN – 0/2

Penalties – USA – 3/3 – CAN – 3/3



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Karoline Montes Chavez To Play Soccer At Everett Community College

Recent Jackson Hole High School graduate Karoline Montes Chavez has signed to play soccer at the next level. She’ll be at Everett Community College in Washington. Montes Chavez was a three-year letter-winner. She started at center back for the Class 4A state champion Broncs during the 2025 season. She helped Jackson to a 17-3 overall […]

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Recent Jackson Hole High School graduate Karoline Montes Chavez has signed to play soccer at the next level. She’ll be at Everett Community College in Washington. Montes Chavez was a three-year letter-winner. She started at center back for the Class 4A state champion Broncs during the 2025 season. She helped Jackson to a 17-3 overall record and their first 4A girls’ soccer state title.

Montes Chavez was a two-time all-state and three-time all-conference selection at JHHS. In her senior season, she helped the Broncs record eight shutouts on defense. She scored three goals and added two assists. Her career-high was two goals in a 12-0 match victory over Star Valley on May 8, 2025. She added one goal and one assist in an 11-0 win over Evanston on May 3, 2025.

In her junior season of 2024, Jackson went 16-2-2 and finished as the 4A runner-up. Montes Chavez had one goal and one assist. She helped the Broncs to nine shutouts that year.

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Jackson won three regional soccer titles during Karoline’s prep career.

Everett Community College is in Everett, WA. The Trojans compete at the NJCAA level and are members of the Northwest Athletic Conference (NWAC).

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