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Facebook Tweet Email Link Almost everything in the summer blockbuster “F1 the Movie” is fictional, but the protagonist’s spine-chilling origin story really happened exactly as depicted on screen. Brad Pitt’s character Sonny Hayes is haunted by a high-speed crash which initially cost him his Formula One dream, but for the man who survived that crash in real life, there would be no Hollywood ending. In 1990, Martin Donnelly was a promising British racing driver with the Lotus Formula One team, but a suspension failure in a practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix sent him hurtling into the Armco barrier…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Major League Soccer announced Friday that Inter Miami stars Lionel Messi and Jordi Alba will be suspended for the team’s next match against FC Cincinnati on Saturday. The suspension comes after Messi and Alba skipped the MLS All-Star Game without permission earlier this week in Austin, Texas. “Per league rules, any player who does not participate in the All-Star Game without prior approval from the league is ineligible to compete in their club’s next match,” MLS said in a statement. Neither of the two players have responded publicly to the suspensions but the ruling drew the…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The NFL is fining more than 100 players and approximately two dozen team employees for selling their Super Bowl LIX tickets above face value, the league confirmed on Friday. Chief NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy told CNN on Friday that the players would be fined one-and-a-half times the amount of the face value of the ticket they sold. The team employees will be fined double the amount of the ticket’s face value. The Associated Press was first to report on the fines. In a memo of sent to the league’s top team executives, presidents and lawyers, NFL…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Nick Kurtz made baseball history on Friday night, becoming the first MLB rookie ever to hit four home runs in a single game, during the Athletics’ 15-3 win over the Houston Astros. The 22-year-old’s performance – one of the greatest in MLB history by any player, rookie or otherwise – also saw him rack up 19 total bases, tying the major league record set by Shawn Green in 2002. “It still really hasn’t sat in that it’s actually just happened,” a near-speechless Kurtz told reporters afterward. “That I had a game like that. It’s stuff that…
Facebook Tweet Email Link England has been crowned champion of Europe for the second successive time after defeating Spain 3-1 on penalties in the Women’s Euro 2025 final. Just as she was when the Lionesses beat Germany to win this tournament in 2022, Chloe Kelly was the hero, scoring the decisive penalty after a 1-1 draw to avenge the memory of England’s defeat to Spain in the 2023 World Cup final. But, in truth, there were stories all throughout Sarina Wiegman’s team, one which has come to be defined by its resilience and strength of character. Alessia Russo, whose 57th-minute…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Tadej Pogačar underlined his status as one of cycling’s greats by winning his fourth Tour de France title on Sunday, leaving him just one shy of tying the overall record. Following a thrilling final stage of the three-week-long race, Pogačar safely rolled over the line on the Champs-Élysées in Paris to ensure that he would win the yellow jersey for the second consecutive year. He even tried to win the final stage and made it into the decisive move of the day but ultimately Belgium’s Wout van Aert proved too strong and rode away from him…
Facebook Tweet Email Link England has been crowned champion of Europe for the second successive time after defeating Spain 3-1 on penalties in the Women’s Euro 2025 final. Just as she was when the Lionesses beat Germany to win this tournament in 2022, Chloe Kelly was the hero, scoring the decisive penalty after a 1-1 draw to avenge the memory of England’s defeat to Spain in the 2023 World Cup final. But, in truth, there were stories all throughout Sarina Wiegman’s team, one which has come to be defined by its resilience and strength of character. Alessia Russo, whose 57th-minute…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Indianapolis AP — Bubba Wallace became the first Black driver to win a major race on Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s 2.5-mile oval, surviving a late rain delay, two overtimes, concerns over running out of fuel and a hard-charging Kyle Larson on Sunday in the Brickyard 400. The third NASCAR Cup victory of Wallace’s career was also his most significant — his first win at one of the series’ four crown jewel races. It snapped a 100-race winless streak that dated to 2022 at Kansas. He also won at Talladega in 2021, but this milestone victory also gave…
Facebook Tweet Email Link AP — A Venezuelan baseball team was denied visas into the United States and will miss this year’s Senior Baseball World Series, Little League International confirmed Friday. The Cacique Mara team, from Maracaibo, Venezuela, was scheduled to participate in the tournament after winning the Latin American championship in Mexico. “The Cacique Mara Little League team from Venezuela was unfortunately unable to obtain the appropriate visas to travel to the Senior League Baseball World Series,” Little League International said in a statement, adding that it is “extremely disappointing, especially to these young athletes.” The Venezuelan team traveled…
Facebook Tweet Email Link At just 12 years old, China’s Yu Zidi is already one of the fastest swimmers in the world. Her times are so quick in fact, that she’s already in contention to win medals at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore in the coming days. World Aquatics has a minimum age requirement of 14 for the world championships, but Yu’s times are so fast that she qualifies regardless. The youngster, not yet a teenager, will race in the 200m and 400m meter individual medleys, as well as the 200m butterfly. The precocious pre-teen may also be selected…