Lionel Messi has been mesmerizing. Kylian Mbappe has been, well, magnifique. Two of the biggest stars of the World Cup are setting records with history-making goals in a sizzling start that has even the most casual soccer fans in the U.S. taking notice. Messi has five goals in Argentina's first t...
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The newly expanded PWHL launches its fourth season with all 12 teams competing during the first weekend of December, and will include women’s hockey replacing the NHL on CBC’s iconic “Hockey Night in Canada” broadcast, the league announced on Monday. The season will begin with th...
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S paceX launched Starship Flight 14 from Boca Chica at 7:49 a.m. Monday for an attempt at its first orbital test flight, initially expected to last nearly 10 hours before a planned splashdown in the South Pacific far off the coast of Chile. It came close to not happening. Previou...
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The Dallas Cowboys made two wrong decisions in the final 10 seconds that cost them an opportunity to go to overtime against the Baltimore Ravens and led to a loss in regulation. First, a special teams blunder. Second, a defensive lapse. After Brandon Aubrey kicked a 23-yard field...
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HARLINGEN, Texas (ValleyCentral) — SpaceX officially launched its fourteenth flight test from Starbase on Monday morning. On Sept. 15, SpaceX announced the flight aimed to be the first to send Starship into orbit around Earth and deploy the Starlink VS 3 satellite into the conste...
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No private water plant T his is a response to the editorial, “ With proper precautions, private desalination plant could be a better option ” (Aug. 22). Supporters of the U.S. Desalination-IDE Technologies project insist privatization will “get government out of the way.” But tru...
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ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — Maya Weug seemed to be doing everything right. She was the first female member of Ferrari’s young driver program, a front-runner in Formula 1’s developmental series for women, F1 Academy, and a star of its spinoff Netflix docuseries. Now Weug has spe...
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One of the game's smallest markets was baseball's biggest winner during the regular season. For the second year in a row. The Milwaukee Brewers won their final five games this week to finish with a franchise-record 103 victories. That's after they set the previous team mark with ...
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A'ja Wilson and Breanna Stewart showed once again why they are arguably the best two players in the world, leading their teams to routs on the opening day of the WNBA playoffs. It's no major surprise since they have helped their respective teams win five of the past six WNBA cham...
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DENVER (AP) — Bo Nix's keeper from inches outside the goal line with 47 seconds left powered the Broncos past the Rams 30-26 on Sunday night, capping a wild final five minutes that included a 66-yard pick-6 by Denver and a quick touchdown response by Los Angeles. After Nix put th...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Houston’s Yordan Alvarez and Arizona’s Gabriel Moreno won their first batting titles Sunday, while Milwaukee ace Jacob Misiorowski became just the fourth pitcher since 1950 to lead the majors in ERA, strikeouts and opponents’ batting average. Alvarez's .316 averag...
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Harassed all day by Minnesota's menacing pass rush, Baker Mayfield fled the pocket again — this time scrambling and weaving more 20 yards backward before launching a desperation heave that was intercepted. Even worse for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the quarterbac...
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MEDINAH, Ill. (AP) — President Donald Trump returned to the Presidents Cup as honorary chairman for the second time, getting a loud cheer and keeping his remarks brief. “These people want to see golf,” he said Sunday. And just like his last visit to the Presidents Cup in 2017, he...
