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Sjokkbeskjed: Reistad forlater Esbjerg neste sommer
Den norske håndballstjernen Henny Reistad (27) forlater det danske storlaget Esbjerg ved sesongslutt neste år.
Det bekrefter klubben på sitt nettsted fredag.
– Det første ordet jeg tenker på er takknemlighet på alles vegne over at vi har fått ha Henny i seks sesonger, sier trener Tomas Axner.
Han trekker frem Reistads personlighet og hennes profesjonalitet.
– Henny har særlig utviklet lederegenskapene sine. Hun ser andre og er opptatt av hvordan de har det; hun leter etter måter å hjelpe på – både på det personlige plan og rent håndballfaglig. Kort sagt er hun en god venn. Som trenerteam drar vi nytte av interessen og engasjementet hun viser for utviklingen vår som lag. Hun er en sterk drivkraft bak de høye standardene og treningsmentaliteten som preger hverdagen i Team Esbjerg, sier Axner.
Det er ikke kjent hva som er Reistads neste steg i karrieren.
Reistad var sentral da Norge tok VM-gull før jul i fjor, og hun bidro blant annet til at Esbjerg vant den danske ligaen sist sesong. Hun har i en årrekke vært blant verdens beste kvinnelige håndballspillere.
I september ble hun for fjerde år på rad med på årets lag i europeisk håndball. (NTB) slot-chickenroad.org
Clay Travis: inside the Maga permadad’s world of sports betting, trans panic and more sports betting
The rightwing media mogul has lost ground to fellow sports bros like Pat McAfee and Joe Rogan. He’s hoping his new venture can recapture some ground
When Maga media blowhard Clay Travis offered $2m to Colin Kaepernick last week to appear on the daily talkshow he hosts with former CIA analyst Buck Sexton, it represented the culmination of a years-long obsession on the right with the onetime NFL star. In Travis’s telling of history, Kaepernick taking a knee during the 2016 NFL season was the event that catalyzed professional sports into the era of “woke” excess from which, he claims, it has been struggling to recover ever since.
But more than simply confirming the right’s longstanding villainization of Kaepernick, Travis’s offer was also a smarmy bid for publicity for his new media venture, Sport & State. Sport & State, which launched in August, is Travis’s bid to get back to his roots as a media mogul who sold the wildly popular Outkick to Fox Sports for a rumored $100m, and reclaim some of the cultural territory lost to fellow sports bros and Magagitators like Pat McAfee, Joe Rogan, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro. But if there’s one thing Sport & State won’t be doing, it’s engaging with anyone beyond the Magaverse. There has been no response from Kaepernick since Travis made his “offer” of $2m to charity in exchange for an interview, which suggests he understands that it was extended more in a spirit of trolling buffoonery than sincerity. No one associated with the left or progressive politics ever appears on Travis’s shows, for the simple reason that they are designed purely for the right to talk to itself. (Some would say the same could be said of the left, although the disregard for dissenting perspectives in the Magasphere seems way more extreme.) More than it heralds a renewal of Travis’s career or an injection of fresh energy into the Trumpist mediasphere, Sport & State is a case study in the stagnation that has taken hold on the right as Donald Trump stares down the barrel of defeat in November’s midterm elections.
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