The Tour de France ranks among the most popular sporting events in the world. It’s also one of the most grueling. Tour cyclists burn 3,000 to 4,000 calories per day, more than marathon runners, and the race lasts 21 days. You have to be a world-class athlete to win the Tour once. In 1908, a Frenchman named Lucien Petit-Breton became ...
AI-assisted summary 18-year-old Canadian tennis player Victoria Mboko won her first WTA title at the 2025 National Bank Open in Montreal. Mboko defeated four Grand Slam champions en route to the title, including Naomi Osaka in the final. Mboko, who started the 2025 season ranked No. 333, is ranked 24th after her victory. There’s a new Canadian tennis star who ...
NEW YORK — A top official at the Federal Reserve said Saturday that this month’s stunning, weaker-than-expected report on the U.S. job market is strengthening her belief that interest rates should be lower. Michelle Bowman was one of two Fed officials who voted a week and a half ago in favor of cutting interest rates. Such a move could help ...
Different fantasy managers have different definitions of what constitutes a sleeper. For the purposes of this article, a sleeper will be defined as a player who is being drafted later than they should be. Often, sleepers are younger players who are set to earn a higher volume of opportunities than they did the previous season. In other cases, they are ...
The Cleveland Browns quarterback competition is nearing its end. Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said as much on Monday, when he set a timeline to announce a starter. Prior to Browns practice, Stefanski said he wants to get through this week of joint practices and their Week 2 preseason matchup with the Philadelphia Eagles before making a decision on when ...
Shedeur Sanders has renewed relevance in the Cleveland Browns’ quarterback room. TreVeyon Henderson could have a big role in the New England Patriots’ offense in 2025. Anthony Richardson Sr. had a disappointing lapse in judgment that could be costly in his QB competition with Daniel Jones. Anyone hoping to have their appetite for football whetted by the first week of ...
A horse rider in the United Kingdom died last week after she fell off her horse during an event. According to a statement from British Eventing, England’s governing body for horse trials, 37-year-old Sarah Yorke died on Friday, Aug. 8, after falling off her horse while competing at the Aston-le-Walls Horse Trials in Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire is located some 70 miles ...
AI-assisted summary The top 30 in FedEx Cup points after the BMW Championship will advance. Justin Rose won the FedEx St. Jude Championship in a playoff against J.J. Spaun. Scottie Scheffler leads the FedEx Cup standings, followed by Rory McIlroy who skipped the St. Jude Championship. The first FedEx Cup playoff event of 2025 is in the books and Justin ...
AI-assisted summary Landon Dickerson was helped off the field and taken to the locker room on a cart. The severity of Dickerson’s injury is unknown at this time. Dickerson has been a key part of the Eagles’ offensive line success in recent years. Pro Bowl offensive guard Landon Dickerson of the Philadelphia Eagles had to be helped off the field ...
A funny thing happened to the Los Angeles Dodgers this weekend: They trotted out starting pitchers Clayton Kershaw, Blake Snell and Tyler Glasnow for a three-game series against the American League’s best team. The results looked a lot like what the Dodgers expected out of this 2025 season. Their vaunted rotation is almost entirely healthy – rookie Rōki Sasaki is ...