Scout’s Overview
📡 🚨 Weekly Sports Radar: Fierljeppen

Fierljeppen is a traditional Dutch sport where competitors sprint toward a long pole planted in a water canal, grab it, climb as high as possible while it tips forward, and then leap off to land on sand on the opposite bank.

The goal is to cover the greatest horizontal distance. It originated in the Netherlands, beginning as a practical way for farmers to cross waterways, then evolving into an official competitive event in the 20th Century.

🏋 Athlete of the week: Ejike Ugboaja

Ejike Ugboaja was the first player drafted to the NBA directly from Africa. Born in Nigeria, he was a draft pick for the Cleveland Cavaliers, and now he’s a sports philanthropist.

Since 2007, his Ejike Ugboaja Foundation has opened doors for hundreds of young Africans to earn scholarships and play basketball or football internationally, producing talents like NBA player Precious Achiuwa and NFL athletes Haggai Ndubuisi and Kenneth Odumegwu. This is what it’s all about.

🏟️ Venue of the week: The Athletics Exploratorium

The Athletics Exploratorium, located at the University of Southern Denmark, is unofficially dubbed the world’s most chaotic running track.

The track reimagines traditional athletics with spiral tracks, artificial hills, parkour elements, and outdoor strength areas, earning a gold medal for sports architecture in 2015.

🧤 Fit Check: Houston Havoc Light N-Knit

The Houston Havoc is a professional team that competes in the Ultimate Frisbee Association. This is the first time we are covering an ultimate frisbee kit, and we gotta be honest, this is a cleaaaaaan kit. It’s simple, yet the dollaro lime green colour adds a whole lot to it.

From the bench
🗞️ In case you were injured:

• Three Scottish brothers are rowing 9,000 miles across the Pacific to break a world record and raise £1m to fund clean water projects for 40,000 people in Madagascar.

• A NASCAR driver, Connor Zilisch, broke his collarbone while celebrating his 6th win of the season

🎯 In overtime:

• America’s Cup, the world’s oldest sailing competition, has announced that a 6th member of the crew will be added (for VIPs or celebrities).

• A cricket spectator in Australia took a one-handed catch while holding 2 cans in the other hand

📊 Analyst’s Corner:

• The NFL and ESPN struck a non-binding deal giving ESPN control of NFL Network and other media assets in exchange for a 10% NFL stake in Disney.

• Paramount, fresh off its merger with Skydance, secured U.S. rights to UFC for seven years starting in 2026 in a $7.7 billion deal, streaming all events on Paramount+ without pay-per-view fees.

🏆 Sports Calendar

Here’s a look at the ongoing and upcoming sports events this week: