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Who am I? Guess Premier League star No 13
BBC Sport has published its latest daily “Who am I?” football quiz, the 13th instalment in the series, challenging readers to identify a Premier League player from a set of progressively revealing clues. Participants score points based on how few clues they need before guessing correctly, with fewer guesses earning a higher score. The clues…
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‘Future of tour’ Eala beats Osaka to reach Washington final
Alexandra Eala beat four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka to reach the final of the Washington Open, continuing a breakthrough season that has taken her from outside the world’s top 50 to a career-high ranking. The 21-year-old Filipina will now face world number three Jessica Pegula for the title, having been described by her opponent…
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What happened to star signings your club never made?
BBC Sport looks back at high-profile transfer targets that clubs pursued but ultimately failed to sign, contrasting how those players’ careers unfolded afterwards. The piece opens with Tottenham’s failed 2023 move for Nigerian striker Gift Orban, illustrating how such near-misses can go on to have very different trajectories, some fading and others flourishing elsewhere. Orban,…
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Iran strikes paused as Trump gives diplomacy a brief window
Donald Trump ordered a suspension of planned US military strikes against Iran, giving diplomacy a brief window to produce a rapid settlement before any military action would resume. The move, announced on his social media platform, was coordinated with Israel and marked a shift away from imminent escalation towards negotiation, with the pause explicitly conditional…
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WWE SummerSlam: New Guard Emerges as Championship Storylines Reach Turning Point
WWE’s SummerSlam event at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis delivered a night of championship upsets and shifting storylines, widely read as a symbolic changing of the guard within the promotion. The headline shock saw rising star Oba Femi decisively defeat veteran Brock Lesnar in a punishing Hell in a Cell match, a result many observers…
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Oba Femi shows the future of WWE is here as he takes down Brock Lesnar in Hell in a Cell match at SummerSlam
Oba Femi defeated Brock Lesnar in a Hell in a Cell match at WWE’s SummerSlam event, held at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The result is being framed as a symbolic changing of the guard for WWE, with the young Femi overcoming one of the promotion’s most dominant veteran stars in a brutal, high-stakes stipulation…
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WNBA Coaches Stake Contrasting Positions on Transgender Athletes as Activism Intensifies
Two WNBA coaches publicly addressed the contentious issue of transgender participation in women’s sports ahead of a matchup between the Indiana Fever and Minnesota Lynx. Fever head coach Stephanie White demurred from tak
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People injured and ‘carried out on stretchers’ after ‘stampede’ at family-friendly London festival when ‘too many people’ turned up
Several people were injured, with some reportedly carried out on stretchers, after chaotic scenes broke out at a family-friendly festival in London when overcrowding led to what witnesses described as a “stampede”. The incident has raised concerns about crowd safety management at popular public events, particularly those marketed as suitable for families with young children.…
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Social media was not loving Caitlin Clark getting snubbed by TV network’s MVP graphic
An article on OutKick, Fox News’s sports opinion site, reports on a wave of social media backlash after Ion Sports, a WNBA broadcast partner, released a graphic ranking the league’s top five MVP candidates without including Caitlin Clark. The omission struck many fans and commentators as notable given Clark’s outsized profile and influence on the…
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Multiple people killed in shooting at Idaho In-N-Out restaurant, suspect dead
Multiple people were killed in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho, on Saturday, with police describing the scene as “very chaotic”. The suspected gunman also died during the incident, and the case matters as another instance of gun violence at a public venue, prompting a major multi-agency law enforcement response.…