C’est l’une des belles success story tricolores de la Silicon Valley. La Française Fidji Simo va quitter Facebook, où elle avait gravi tous les échelons et faisait partie de la garde rapprochée de Mark Zuckerberg, pour prendre la tête de la start-up Instacart. Un joli défi pour cette Sétoise de 35 ans, alors que le…
The Copa America third-place play-off is a repeat of the 2015 and 2016 finals, offering Lionel Messi’s side a semblance of revenge after those defeats Argentina and Chile meet in Sao Paulo for this year’s Copa America third-place play-off game, in a repeat of the finals from 2015 and 2016. Chile won both of those…
After former Vice President Joe Biden late last week falsely claimed that “there’s not a single solitary scientist that thinks” the kind of bold Green New Deal initiative put forth by his 2020 Democratic primary rival Sen. Bernie Sanders “can work,” more than four dozen U.S. climate scientists responded Tuesday to make clear that just…
Five Gopher alums challenged the nation’s best in both freestyle and Greco-Roman over the weekend in Iowa City at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials. While every one of these five won at least one of his matches over the weekend, headlined by Pat Smith’s run to the championship series in Greco at 66 kilograms, none…
Belgian brand Bioracer are new to these pages but are celebrated for their aero expertise in the world of cycling, having long scored success on the track and in the peloton. That cycling influence looms large over the Speedwear Concept tri-suit on test here and it feels like a hybrid between a time-trial and triathlon…
PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Straschnitzki hasn’t given up his dream of playing hockey. The 19-year-old Alberta teen, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team, has been put through his paces for the past few weeks doing physiotherapy at the Shriners Hospital in Philadelphia. Every drop…
Ballyea 4-18 Thurles Sarsfields 2-22 SEVEN DAYS ON from a first ever Clare hurling title, Ballyea are only 60 minutes away from a provincial crown after a truly inspirational fightback in Cusack Park this afternoon. Seven points in arrears nearing the final ten minutes, the hosts would somehow reel in the three-in-a-row Tipperary champions thanks to…
MLW issued the following: Grudge Match! Mance Warner battles Ricky Martinez this Thursday in NYCCan Promociones Dorado handle the summer of the Southern Psychopath? The empresaria has dispatched her personal hitman to take out Ol Mancer in a grudge match this Thursday in NYC! MLW today announced a Grudge Match: Mance Warner vs. Ricky Martinez (presented by Salina…
This week’s episode of WWE Monday Night Raw was watched by an average of 2.34 million viewers, up a little less than 3% from last week. The first hour of the show was actually down slightly with 2.48 million, compared to 2.51 million viewers last week, but Raw was able to better retain its audience…
How easy is it for anyone to become homeless? To be an intelligent, kind, articulate person and one day find yourself sleeping on the streets? Just ask Rachel, 37, who grew up in a middle class house in Melbourne’s north-eastern suburbs, and who now sleeps in parks at night. ‘‘I didn’t think that I would…