Jonathan Kolb, general manager of the New York Liberty, has been awarded the 2023 WNBA Executive of the Year. Kolb just put together a superteam that is eight victories away from winning the first WNBA title in club history. The award was chosen by the 12 league executives; no one was permitted to vote for…
You can find plenty of explanations from Novak Djokovic’s rivals for why he is so successful, including why he will start his quest for a fifth consecutive and eighth overall Wimbledon title on Monday and why he will try to win an Open era-record 24th Grand Slam trophy over the next two weeks on the…
Barcelona have the lead against Catalan rivals Girona after a strange sequence of events. Lamine Yamal’s free-kick ended up in the back of the net by way of an enormous deflection. The Blaugrana had applied pressure throughout the first half, but without success, with Robert Lewandowski, Lamine Yamal and Fermin Lopez all trying their…
Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett mocked her state’s governor during a weekend appearance, referring to Greg Abbott — who uses a wheelchair — as “Gov. Hot Wheels” while speaking at a banquet in Los Angeles. “You all know we got Gov. Hot Wheels down there. Come on, now,” Crockett, a Dallas Democrat, said about Abbott, a…
The path taken by quarterback Stetson Bennett to the NFL has not been straightforward. He started off as a walk-on for Georgia before moving to junior college, returning to Georgia, and then helping the Bulldogs win back-to-back national titles in the College Football Playoff in the 2021 and 2022 seasons. Bennett, a contender for the…
the genetic engineering company working to bring back the woolly mammoth, has actually already brought back one of its extinct Ice Age cohabitants: the dire wolf. The Dallas, Texas-based biotech company revealed Monday the recent successful birth of three dire wolf puppies, a major step in proving the viability of Colossal’s “de-extinction technologies” and its potential…
Another season is in the books, and Bachelor Nation has received a seemingly happy ending. On Monday night’s “Bachelor” finale, Grant Ellis had his final dates with Litia Garr and Juliana Pasquarosa and introduced his family to the last two women standing on Season 29. After much speculation about whether a weary-looking Grant from the “Women Tell All” even ended up with anyone, the…
On Monday, a jury in Colorado rejected a woman’s claim that she was mad when she assaulted her stepson, finding her guilty of murder in the death of her 11-year-old stepson. Over three years after the prosecution said that Letecia Stauch stabbed Gannon Stauch 18 times before striking him in the head and then…
Inside the searing silence of the Duke locker room, the echo of a door slamming shut intermittently rippled through. Every time a player or staff member ducked into the adjacent coaches locker room, the bang of the door reverberated like a siren in a still night. There’s nothing to prepare a team for the emotional spiral that…
Catherine, Princess of Wales, honored Mother Nature to celebrate Mother’s Day in the United Kingdom this year. Sunday, March 30 marks Mother’s Day in the U.K. (Mother’s Day in the United States will be celebrated on Sunday, May 11). The former Kate Middleton penned a touching message for the holiday, which comes one year…