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Shameless Knicks rioter offers disgracefully entitled excuse for destroying NYC taxi
Saul Vargas, a 21-year-old Florida resident, was convicted of damaging a New York City taxi during riots following the Knicks’ championship victory in June. He appeared in Manhattan court and claimed he damaged the vehicle whilst celebrating his birthday, though he acknowledged this was not a valid excuse. The incident occurred as thousands of fans…
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Steve Ballmer Apologizes To Fans, Says He Has Paid $30M NBA Fine, Wants To “Put This Chapter Behind Us,” But Does Not Admit Guilt
Los Angeles Clippers owner Steve Ballmer has apologised to fans, staff and fellow NBA owners over a salary cap circumvention scandal involving star forward Kawhi Leonard, a marked softening of tone less than two weeks after he “vehemently” denied the findings of the league’s year-long investigation. He stopped short of admitting wrongdoing, maintaining there are…
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King and grammar schools headline UK news as tech row and Chicago exhibition dominate abroad
Charles meets AI bosses on safe development and new figures show grammar schools’ white British intake nearly halved in a decade, while a Michigan ex-police chief quits amid a pardon-bribe scandal, cars are exposed as data-harvesters, the US eye a 35th straight World Cup win, and Stephen King hails the new Carrie ad…
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Breanna Stewart’s double-double, Caitlin Clark’s emergence off bench help US to World Cup win over France
Team USA’s women’s basketball team beat France 97-79 to win the FIBA Women’s Basketball World Cup gold medal on Sunday, marking their fifth consecutive title in the competition and 12th overall. The win, achieved despite trailing early, underscored the United States’ continued dominance in international basketball, with veteran star Breanna Stewart leading the way alongside…
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America’s women’s basketball epic reaches its climax with national unity on the line in FIBA World Cup final
The United States women’s basketball team will contest the FIBA World Cup final against France in Berlin on Sunday, aiming to extend a 35-game World Cup winning streak. Head coach Kara Lawson has framed the occasion, which falls on the 25th anniversary weekend of the September 11 attacks, as an opportunity for the team to…
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Ukraine’s Koval joins new team after Russia controversy
Ukrainian basketball player Kate Koval has transferred to Baylor University after leaving Louisiana State University (LSU) in protest at the signing of a Russian player. The 20-year-old, whose father serves in the Ukrainian military, said the presence of a Russian teammate at LSU had become impossible to reconcile given the ongoing war and its personal…
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Disembodied fruit fly brain joins the crypto speculation swarm
A Coinbase software engineer named Alex Wormuth has built “Stonkfly”, a simulated fruit fly brain hooked up to $100 and told to trade bitcoin, with the insect’s neural activity determining buy and sell decisions. It follows a March project by researchers at Eon Systems, who connected a simulated fly brain to a virtual body in…
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Tartuffe (Remixed) review – Mark Rylance sinks his false teeth into Molière’s trickster comedy
Mark Rylance stars in Darren Raymond’s Tartuffe (Remixed), a modern update of Molière’s 1664 comedy about a religious fraudster who infiltrates a devout household, now transplanted to the eve of a Jamaican-Nigerian wedding at London’s Marylebone theatre. The production continues a trend of relocating the play’s central hypocrite figure to new cultural settings, following earlier…
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Sophie Cunningham launches new podcast after previous co-host shared opposing views on trans athletes
Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham has launched a new podcast, “No Hesitation”, co-hosted with basketball trainer Drew Hanlen, replacing her previous show “Show Me Something” following an apparent falling-out with former co-host West Wilson over transgender athletes in women’s sports. Cunningham has publicly argued that women’s sports should remain reserved for biological females, while Wilson…
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Clippers face federal criminal probe after NBA punishes team over Kawhi Leonard deals
Federal prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York have opened a criminal investigation into the Los Angeles Clippers over allegations that the team arranged secret sponsorship deals for star player Kawhi Leonard to get around the NBA’s salary cap. The probe, first reported by The New York Times, began…