Hints and tips:
...Hikaru Nakamura, the USA’s world No 3 and popular streamer, has joined the leaders with a late surge of two successive wins as the Candidates in Toronto reaches its final three rounds (of 14) this weekend...
...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...But that sort of funding won’t come cheap, and the club already has sizeable debts....
...European football bosses are bullish about the opportunity there — some even believe soccer could be bigger than baseball in a decade’s time. A smaller group of top clubs went east....
...“Female players cannot all go to play in a few clubs in Europe or the USA,” Infantino said....
...Drive into town and even the ritziest bars are a sea of black hats and cowboy boots worn with suits and evening dresses....
...So the time difference is just kind of tough. But I actually did watch the USA-Netherlands game. Michela Tindera I watched that too. Saffeya AhmedYeah. It was quite the nail biter....
...The USA’s Hans Niemann, 19, famously defeated Carlsen at the Sinquefield Cup in St Louis, sparking an ongoing saga of withdrawals, accusations and lawsuits that remain unresolved....
...Abdusattorov stoked up the tactical melee, and was rewarded with a fatal blunder of a knight. Puzzle 2481 Fabiano Caruana v Gukesh D, USA v India, Chennai 2022. Black to move and win....
...Once the private chapel of Dona Rosa, the lover of 18th-century king João V, Mesa de Frades is now one of Lisbon’s more bohemian fado clubs....
...In her quiet poems that probe the surface of family life, children are ubiquitous, both as character and metaphor (in one poem, sea waves thrash about “like insolent children”)....
...My stylist is Eva Guide at Amour Cheveux Club, in République....
...Served among the steakhouses of Borough Market, chef Sarah Wasserman’s “v’duja” croquettes and pibil tofu tortillas are unlikely favourites of an otherwise meaty crowd....
...Slinger is the brainchild of a Canadian tennis enthusiast and entrepreneur who saw a market niche for a machine that club players could both afford and hoist in and out of their cars....
...David Bell: It will stagnate, probably doing as badly as other advanced countries (USA excepted)....
...Slam Corp, the blank cheque company backed by retired baseball star Alex Rodriguez, pulled out of talks to merge with Panini, the Italian maker of sports cards and stickers....
...Only after the sun has set and the guests departed, leaving behind a sea of glass-strewn tables, does a shadowy figure in a baseball cap emerge, pull out a golf club and smash everything to pieces....
...We might take a break from underachieving Baltimore or Minnesota to acquaint the country with the Sea Dogs of Portland or Toledo’s Mud Hens....
...Many of those values have come from his parents. “Their reggae club barely broke even but they did it because they wanted to bring people together,” he says....
...He bought retired baseball player Mike Piazza’s house for $15mn. He was represented by the Jills Zeder Group. So was Piazza....
...An hour’s drive from the upmarket nightclubs and golf courses of Palm Springs, the Salton Sea offered a yacht club, motels, water-skiing, and — after the waters were stocked with shad, orangemouth corvina...
...Major League Baseball and all 30 of its clubs are suing their insurance providers after recording billions in losses due to its pandemic-shortened 2020 season, played without fans....
...They illustrate their argument by comparing the paths to success of the richest people in Mexico and the USA (p. 39)....
...Spotlight Aaron Li once saw more opportunity in India than in his crowded home market of China, describing it as a “blue sea” for ecommerce....
...The Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball elected in 2018 to phase out a racially insensitive depiction of a Native American on its uniforms and insignia....
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