When Lionel Messi and Inter Miami return to action this weekend for ‘Sunday Night Soccer” in Houston, a couple of opposing players will be living out their dreams on the same pitch. Houston Dynamo defender Franco Escobar and striker Ezequiel Ponce hail from Rosario, Argentina, like Messi. They started their journeys in soccer with hometown club, Newell’s Old Boys, like ...
Days before reporting to the Cleveland Browns training camp in Hiram, Ohio in 1964, John Wooten took a detour to Washington, D.C. for the sake of history. Wooten, then a veteran guard who blocked for Jim Brown, was at the White House on July 2 when President Lyndon Johnson signed the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964. No, Wooten wasn’t ...
President Donald Trump is set to sign an executive order that will make English the official language of the U.S., Fox News Digital confirmed Friday morning. Trump will sign the executive order later on Friday, which rescinds a mandate issued by former President Bill Clinton in 2000 that required federal agencies and recipients of federal funding to provide language assistance ...
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said next-generation AI will need 100 times more compute than older models as a result of new reasoning approaches that think “about how best to answer” questions step by step. “The amount of computation necessary to do that reasoning process is 100 times more than what we used to do,” Huang told CNBC’s Jon Fortt in an ...
As someone who grew up in New England during the Patriots’ dynasty, falling in love with football came naturally for Zach Smith. A relative bought him the “NFL Sunday Ticket” television package for his eighth birthday. That hooked him further. But the gift he cherished every year was the latest edition of the NFL’s record and fact book. Learning the ...
There’s a simple law of the universe that goes something like this: Where there’s a vacuum, there’s always backfill. So be careful what you wish for. Oklahoma and Nebraska, two historical blue blood programs of college sports, recently hired two former NFL executives as general managers of their football programs. Smart, forward thinking and proactive moves amid the fluid player ...
There’s more than just city bragging rights at stake when UCLA and Southern California meet again on Saturday. The No. 2 Bruins and No. 3 Trojans had an epic first clash on Feb. 13, with JuJu Watkins delivering a signature performance as USC beat its rival in front of its home fans. The second game will take place at UCLA. Just ...
It is our long-standing policy here at Starting Five headquarters that the word ‘penultimate’ must be used whenever possible. OK, actually we just made that rule up. But be that as it may, we now find ourselves heading into the penultimate weekend of the men’s college basketball regular season, with Selection Sunday now just just two weeks away. This weekend’s ...
The U.S. Embassy in Bangkok is warning Americans of potential ‘violent retaliatory attacks’ Friday after a group of 45 Uyghurs were deported by Thailand to China in a move Secretary of State Marco Rubio condemned in the ‘strongest possible terms.’ Thai police and security officials said China had given assurances that the men — who had been in custody for more than ...
As the regular season winds down in women’s basketball, conference bragging rights and potential No. 1 seeds are still to be settled before conference tournaments start next week. It remains to be seen if those teams can keep their seeding when the Women’s NCAA Tournament Selection Show airs March 16 (8 p.m. ET on ESPN). Here are this weekend’s top ...