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Facebook Tweet Email Link A 10-year-old British girl has made chess history by becoming the youngest female player to ever beat a grandmaster. Bodhana Sivanandan, from northwest London, defeated 60-year-old grandmaster Pete Wells in the final round of the 2025 British Chess Championships in Liverpool on Sunday. At 10 years, five months and three days, Sivanandan broke the record set by American Carissa Yip, who was 10 years, 11 months and 20 days old when she defeated a grand master in 2019, according to the International Chess Federation (FIDE). Sivanandan has now earned woman international master status, one level below…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Polish president Karol Nawrocki has denounced a “scandalous” banner displayed by a group of Israeli soccer fans at a UEFA Conference League qualifying match on Thursday. Supporters of Israeli club Maccabi Haifa held a large banner reading “murderers since 1939” close to the front of the stands and across a row of seats during the match against Raków Częstochowa in Debrecen, Hungary – an apparent reference to the Holocaust and the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. On Friday, European soccer governing body UEFA announced that disciplinary proceedings have been instigated against Maccabi Haifa for “transmitting a…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The Michigan Wolverines football program has been handed a multimillion-dollar penalty and head coach Sherrone Moore has been given an additional suspension as part of a sign-sealing scandal involving former Michigan football staffer Connor Stalions, the NCAA said on Friday. The NCAA infractions panel opted not to impose a multi-year postseason ban as part of the punishment, citing it would “unfairly penalize student-athletes for the actions of coaches and staff who are no longer associated with the Michigan football program,” per a press release from the NCAA. The panel instead decided a financial penalty was more…
Facebook Tweet Email Link The highly anticipated new Premier League season kicked off at Anfield on Friday, with some supporters still wiping away tears from their eyes on a bright, sunny day. Those same supporters likely wiped very different tears away once the final whistle sounded following a six-goal affair that saw the home club walk away with a 4-2 victory. The emotions were on full display ahead of the opener between Liverpool and Bournemouth as fans paid tribute to late Reds star Diogo Jota, who tragically passed away along with his brother André Silva in a car crash earlier…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Reuters — China kicked off the three-day long World Humanoid Robot Games on Friday, looking to showcase its advances in artificial intelligence and robotics with 280 teams from 16 countries. Robots competed in sports such as track and field, and table tennis, as well as tackled robot-specific challenges from sorting medicines and handling materials to cleaning services. Teams came from countries including the United States, Germany and Brazil, with 192 representing universities and 88 from private enterprises such as China’s Unitree and Fourier Intelligence. Competing teams used robots from Chinese manufacturers such as Booster Robotics. “We…
Facebook Tweet Email Link A 47-year-old man has been arrested after the Premier League’s season opener on Friday was briefly halted due to alleged racist abuse, local police announced Saturday. “We have arrested a man following reports racist abuse was directed towards Bournemouth player Antoine Semenyo during his team’s Premier League fixture versus Liverpool at Anfield on Friday 15 August,” the Merseyside Police said in Saturday’s statement. “The suspect’s identity was confirmed and he was removed from the ground following the report.” In the 26th minute of the match, broadcast video showed a fan engaging with Semenyo while the forward…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Can one of your biggest sports rivals also be one of your biggest fans? If you ask World Transplant Games competitors Erik Van Rompaye of Belgium and Germany’s Elmar Sprink, the answer is yes. The two met in 2023 at the Games – an Olympic-style event designed to raise awareness about organ donation and encourage recipients to get fit – in Perth, Australia. Van Rompaye, 54, received a liver transplant in 2021. Sprink, 53, got a new heart in 2012. Both were already accomplished endurance athletes long before their surgeries. Ahead of the Games, Van Rompaye…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Khamzat Chimaev finally lived up to his early promise on Saturday night, utterly dominating Dricus du Plessis to claim the UFC middleweight championship at UFC 319. Chimaev won by unanimous decision having been in complete control throughout the contest, landing a UFC-record 529 strikes on his South African opponent. Du Plessis – who was making the third defense of his belt – had no answer to Chimaev’s grappling and found himself on the mat within the opening minute of the fight. He survived that time, but ended up being taken down again in each of the…
Facebook Tweet Email Link Among the usual top baseball teams this season, there is another, more unexpected name. The Milwaukee Brewers have some exciting young players but no real stars and their payroll is the tenth lowest of the 30 Major League Baseball teams, about one third of what the Los Angeles Dodgers pay. Yet they are the hottest team in MLB right now, frequently at the top of the power rankings and riding a franchise record streak of 14 consecutive wins, sealed by a 6-5 victory against the Cincinnati Reds in 11 innings on Saturday. Not since the Seattle…
Facebook Tweet Email Link San Francisco Giants center fielder Jung Hoo Lee made an unbelievable catch during Sunday’s win over the Tampa Bay Rays – with more than a little help from his calves and his knees. In the top of the fourth inning, Lee was running to his left towards a drive from Yandy Díaz when he slid and reached out his hand to make the catch. However, the ball popped out of his glove and rolled down his inner thigh and calf before Lee managed to grip it just below his knees. As he stood up, the 26-year-old…