Newly-crowned WBC welterweight champion Ryan Garcia has received plenty of praise following his victory over Mario Barrios on Saturday.

Garcia dominated the bout from start to finish, dropping Barrios in the opening round on his way to a unanimous decision victory, with the judges scoring the bout 120-107, 119-108 and 118-109 in his favour.

The win saw ‘King Ry’ become world champion for the first time as he claimed the WBC belt at 147lbs, with attention now potentially turning to a showdown against four-weight world champion Shakur Stevenson, who won the WBO super-lightweight title last month by defeating Teofimo Lopez.

One man who has backed Stevenson throughout his career is fellow boxing great Terence Crawford, who retired from the sport in December following his monumental victory over Canelo Alvarez.

While Crawford would undoubtedly back Stevenson in a possible clash against Garcia, ‘Bud’ gave credit where it was due to ‘King Ry’ for his win over Barrios, as he needed just one word to sum up the performance when asked by Clocked n Loaded.

“Amazing.”

Garcia proved he belongs at world level following the win over Barrios, having previously come up short in big fights against the likes of Gervonta Davis and Rolly Romero.

He did claim a win over Devin Haney in April 2024, only for the result to be overturned to a no contest after failing a drugs test. That resulted in a 12-month ban from the sport, something that Stevenson made reference to were he to agree to a clash against ‘King Ry.’

Anthony Kim’s journey through professional golf from early stardom to disappearing for 12 years to now becoming a winner again on LIV Golf is without doubt distinctive. And the way he built his new bag setup mirrors that uniqueness.

On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, co-host Johnny Wunder, who has become friends with Kim over the past year, details how Kim went about testing new equipment once he came back to a completely different world of professional golf.

When Kim, now 40, earned his first two PGA Tour titles in 2008, 16 years ago, the first adjustable loft driver had yet to hit the market. Launch monitors were on the PGA Tour, but they weren’t the fixture they are today.

Custom club fitting had been around for some time, but we were only beginning to push the boundaries of individual optimization that we can achieve now.

Kim, in some ways, is still rooted in those old-school ways.

Wunder met Kim last year and became friends with him after he walked a practice round with him at LIV Golf Virginia. That’s how Wunder started to understand how Kim thinks differently about gear.

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“It’s been interesting,” Wunder said. “You’re talking to a person, trying to help them and answer questions for them and they don’t know Trackman, they don’t know Foresight. They don’t even speak modern golf ball.”

Using his connections in the gear space, whenever Kim would ask him about a product like a wedge or a driver, Wunder would reach out and get one for him to test.

Then Kim would give his feedback to Wunder.

“He would get stuff and he would test it and he would say I like it because it does this. It was all very ball-related,” Wunder said. “It was, ‘I swing this way and the ball goes that way.’ There’s no numbers.”

Wunder said Kim has built his bag around feel and that’s a non-negotiable for him.

But yet, over the past month-plus as he earned back his spot on LIV Golf and his first worldwide victory since 2010, he’s made immense progress with his game.

For more from Wunder and co-host Jake Morrow, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped here, or watch it below.

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Heading into the 2026 NFL Draft, 200 players who attended high schools in Utah have played or are currently playing in the NFL. 

That number may increase this fall when recently drafted players play their first games as pros.

Utah ranks No. 35 in the nation among high schools that produce NFL players, and is the sixth best in the West.

A total of 62 schools have produced at least one player.

Utah’s Highland High School has produced 10 NFL players, while Logan, Bingham, and East high schools have produced nine players each.

Several players from the high schools listed here played college football at schools and conferences in the West, including the Pac-12, Mountain West, Big West, Big Sky, and schools now in the Big Ten, Big 12, and ACC.

Here is a list of the state’s top pro-producing high schools with their respective ranks, player counts, and cities.

In just three years’ span, Clinton McDonald has twice been crowned ‘King of the Kids’, with Streisand conquering Victoria’s flagship juvenile race at Caulfield.

Two years earlier, McDonald lifted the Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m) via the late Hayasugi, and Saturday saw filly Streisand repeat the feat.

Jamie Melham steered Hayasugi home, but Ben Melham, her partner, took the reins on Streisand, granting her a smooth journey.

Riding third three-wide beyond pacesetters Lady Moscato and Closer To Free, Melham sensed Streisand, in blinkers for the first go, was at ease a length off the pair.

Composing herself for the finale, she and Closer To Free isolated ahead, Streisand prevailing in the dying stages.

Priced at $11, Streisand forged a three-quarters-length success over $4.60 market leader Closer To Free, as Guest House ($4.80) nabbed third for Melham’s bookended result.

Streisand, a filly by Magnus out of Zoustar-sired Zouper Star, boasted superior exposure in the 16-runner affair, having started four times already by Saturday.

McDonald mirrored Hayasugi’s blueprint, leaving the Cranbourne handler astonished anew at his filly’s starting price.

“She’s very similar to Hayasugi, very understated,” McDonald said.

“Hayasugi won by a head in the Prelude and everyone wrote her off in the Diamond and she went around, I think, at $18, and it was the same with this filly.

“She ran second twice, beaten a short-half-head twice, ran fifth and was unlucky and won at her fourth start.

“I thought ‘have I got this wrong, I think she’s going alright this filly’, and I’ve said all along she’s had a solid preparation, a faultless preparation, and she’s tough,

“And that’s what you need to win these races.

“I just thought she was the most seasoned horse in the race. The way she walked around the mounting yard it was like she’s done it her whole life, and she raced that way.

“It’s just terrific, look out tonight.”

Melham revealed the Diamond win stemmed from extended plotting.

Prior to her spell, winless Streisand flashed elite ability around Christmas, blooming further upon resumption.

“That’s what you want to see from these two-year-olds,” Melham said.

“She’s a ready-made racehorse. Clinton and the team have done a great job.

“She’s a cranky little thing on the ground, but lovely to ride race day.

“Blinkers first time today, we always thought she’d improve with them on.

“She was a little bit sleepy going to the start, and I gave her a bit of a squeeze and then she picked up and I lit her up in the barriers a bit just to make sure she jumped because she went to sleep on me again.

“A lot of the speed didn’t jump, and we didn’t end up going that quick. I was just in a position where I could control the race and she did the rest.”

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