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How this World Cup finally taught me to love soccer
I’m one of those rare Mexicans who never cared for soccer. My family is from the north-central Mexico state of Zacatecas, where baseball is king and even volleyball was more popular in the ranchos of my parents than futbol. The childhood sports idols for my generation of cousins were Dodgers pitcher Fernando Valenzuela and boxing…
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Trump golf pal’s meltdown delays tournament as he demands president be called over penalty
Bryson DeChambeau held up play at The Open Championship for nearly an hour while pushing to have President Donald Trump brought into a dispute over a two-stroke penalty. The dispute played out at Royal Birkdale during the 154th Open Championship on Friday. DeChambeau, a LIV Golf star, had finished his second round Friday evening at…
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Customer with concealed firearm confronts, kills man with knife inside BBQ restaurant
A man who ran through a restaurant with a knife in Cerritos was shot and killed Sunday afternoon by a customer carrying a concealed firearm, authorities said. The man entered Lucille’s Smokehouse Bar-B-Que restaurant armed with a knife around 2:12 p.m. in the 11300 block of South Street, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s…
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FIFA Eyes Up to $4 Billion for Next US World Cup Media Rights Deal
FIFA is preparing to seek as much as $4 billion for the U.S. media rights to the 2030 and 2034 FIFA World Cups, according to a Wall Street Journal report out Monday. This will set the stage for what could become one of the largest sports media rights auctions in history. According to the Journal,…
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Nicolai Amirzadeh built the operating system for the creator economy’s next chapter
Short-form videos have rewritten the rules for capturing an audience’s attention. Brands that once relied on traditional paid social media now compete for milliseconds of attention. Meanwhile, an economy has been growing in the background where creators clip and post content on TikTok, Instagram Reels, YouTube Shorts, and X for a fraction of the cost.…
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Dave Portnoy eviscerates ‘cringey’ Tom Brady’s ‘lame’ post-NFL career: ‘Downfall of an icon’
Dave Portnoy called out Tom Brady for being “cringey” and “lame” in a scathing “Wake Up Barstool” rant. The Barstool Sports creator told listeners on Monday that “what is happening with Tom Brady post-retirement is one of the great downfalls of an icon.” He specifically mentioned the ex-NFL player, 48, recently “chopping it up with…
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‘Civil war’ breaks out in ‘reddest of red states’ as MAGA coalition implodes: ex-insider
A former GOP operative warned on Monday that Republicans in red state Florida have a serious problem on their hands as November approaches. Rick Wilson, the co-founder of the anti-Trump group The Lincoln Project, spoke with veteran politics reporter Scott MacFarlane for a Substack live video about the growing divide among the GOP as midterms…
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Oscar Winner Mark Andrews Boards ‘John Carter of Mars’ Animated Series | Exclusive
Ready to go back to Barsoom? Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., representing the estate of the iconic author behind “Tarzan” among many others, has announced that Mark Andrews, the director of the Academy Award-winning Pixar animated film “Brave” and co-writer of the original live-action “John Carter” film (with Michael Chabon and Andrew Stanton) will be returning…
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Gen Z Appears to Be Reversing No-Drinking Trend, Now Lurching Toward Alcoholism
The world has been obsessed with what Gen Z is or isn’t doing. They’re not having sex, apparently. They don’t go out. And let’s not forget drinking: for the young twenty-somethings to forgo damaging their livers and brains by imbibing poison as prolifically as their predecessors clearly shows a lack of respect — and that…
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‘They will pay!’ Trump yells furious vow as Iran war takes ominous twist
President Donald Trump vowed vengeance Monday for the recent killings of three U.S. service members in the Middle East, pledging that any future American deaths would be answered “many times over.” “Every time Iran kills an American Soldier they will pay for that killing many times over!” Trump wrote on his social media platform Truth…