Author: Emily Turner

You want superstar power in the World Series? You got it. A dynasty in the making, or a team yearning for its first title in 32 years? We’ll see one or the other.The Blue Jays and Dodgers are set for this year’s Fall Classic, with Game 1 on Friday in what will be a raucous Rogers Centre in Toronto. Let’s take a look at what to expect with our MLB reporters Rowan Kavner and Deesha Thosar:What are you most excited about with this matchup? Kavner: Kendrick vs. Drake. All right, really, it’s Shohei Ohtani and Vladimir Guerrero Jr. on baseball’s biggest…

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College football news is nonstop, and we’re breaking it all down week by week this season.Here’s the latest on what’s happening around college football entering Week 9:Clemson loses top receiverTigers wide receiver Bryant Wesco Jr. will miss the rest of the season due to a back injury, ESPN reported. He suffered the back injury on a punt return in Week 8. Wesco has totaled 31 receptions for 537 yards and an ACC-high six touchdowns this season, with all three totals leading the Tigers. Following a Week 9 bye, Clemson hosts Duke on Nov. 1. Clemson (3-4 overall, 2-3 in ACC…

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Six-time Super Bowl winning head coach Bill Belichick advanced to the final 12 coaches in running for the 2026 class for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.Belichick is in his first year of eligibility after rule changes put in place last year requiring coaches only to be out of the NFL for one full season before being considered for the Hall.Two-time Super Bowl champion coaches Tom Coughlin, Mike Shanahan and George Seifert also advanced, along with another Super Bowl winner in Mike Holmgren.The other coaches in the running are Bill Arnsparger, Alex Gibbs, Chuck Knox, Buddy Parker, Dan Reeves, Marty…

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Washington and Canberra have signed a brand new settlement to strengthen cooperation on uncommon earths and significant minerals, in a bid to cut back dependence on China’s provide chains. The deal, promising billions in potential funding, highlights efforts by each nations to safe important sources amid escalating commerce tensions with Beijing. Additionally on this version: Amazon Internet Companies skilled a significant outage on Monday, briefly disrupting web site visitors worldwide earlier than the difficulty was resolved.

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver again expressed confidence Tuesday that WNBA players and that league will strike a deal on a new collective bargaining agreement, with the current one set to expire on Oct. 31.And Silver made clear: WNBA players will be getting “big” raises.Speaking on NBC’s “Today” in advance of Tuesday night’s season-opening NBA doubleheader on that network, Silver responded to a question about whether WNBA players should get a larger share of that league’s revenues.”‘Share’ isn’t the right way to look at it because there’s so much more revenue in the NBA,” Silver said. “I think you should look…

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Among the 25 World Series champions since 2000, how did the 2018 Red Sox land at the top of the list?The 2018 Red Sox won 108 games, the most of any World Series-winner this century. The reason that the 115-loss Orioles tied for the fifth-most losses since 1901 was because of these Sox: Baltimore lost 16 of their 19 meetings with Boston, and were outscored by 61 runs in those contests, more than twice the rate against non-Red Sox opponents, where the Orioles were 44-99. Similarly, the Blue Jays were probably a mediocre club, but going 4-15 against the Sox led…

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Curses broken and dynasties secured. Legendary players and surprise teams.In the 21st century, we have seen 25 World Series-winning teams. So, we decided to rank them.We looked at the numbers and the stats. We debated the squads. We even asked some World Series winners (MLB FOX analysts Derek Jeter, David Ortiz, A.J. Pierzynski, Alex Rodriguez, and Dontrelle Willis) about some of the teams they witnessed and played for. A quarter-century of champions. A quarter-century of greatness. Let’s dive in.JUMP TO: 25-20 | 20-15 | 15-10 | 10-5 | 5-1 #25 — St. Louis Cardinals (2006)Regular Season: 83–78 (1st in NL Central)NLDS:…

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AI brokers – task-specific fashions designed to function autonomously or semi-autonomously given directions — are being extensively applied throughout enterprises (as much as 79% of all surveyed for a PwC report earlier this year). However they're additionally introducing new security risks. When an agentic AI safety breach occurs, firms could also be fast to fireplace workers and assign blame, however slower to establish and repair the systemic failures that enabled it.Forrester’s Predictions 2026: Cybersecurity and Risk predicts that the primary agentic AI breach will result in dismissals, including that geopolitical turmoil and the stress being placed on CISOs and CIOs…

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