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LONDON (AP) — Players at the Women’s Rugby World Cup are more than happy to proudly call their teammates their sisters.Time together often rivals time with their actual families. Long before they lace up their boots and play, the players spent hours and hours together in the gym, in training, and in hotels and buses.But among the sisterhood there are some bonafide sisters sprinkled among the 16 teams in England, and here’s some of their stories:Alana and Chelsea Bremner, New ZealandThe Bremners grew up on a farm in a town of 200. They were unflashy, reliable, tough, and each other’s…
The trio of Sue Bird, Sylvia Fowles and Maya Moore will be the most dominant class of women’s basketball players to ever enter the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame when they are enshrined this weekend.Count them up: 11 Olympic gold medals and 10 WNBA championships.Add their record-setting milestones, and this group has no equal. “I think that would be fair to say that they would have the title of best class ever,” Minnesota coach Cheryl Reeve said. “They are each Hall of Famers and are terrific in their own right to the extent they impacted their sport.”Their 11 Olympic…
Long-suffering fans in cities like Buffalo,Detroit and Cincinnati hope this is the year when the NFL once again crowns a first-time Super Bowl champion.The league hasn’t had a team win its first Super Bowl since the 2017 season when Philadelphia beat New England to give the Eagles their first Lombardi Trophy.The seven straight seasons without a first-time champion is the second longest in NFL history, trailing only the 10 straight seasons between when the New York Giants won their first Super Bowl in the 1986 season and the Denver Broncos won their first in the 1997 season.It would be far…
The verdict on Google’s lengthy lawsuit is out, and analysts say the search giant left the room largely unscathed.Nearly five years after the Department of Justice filed an antitrust suit against Google, a district judge on Tuesday ruled that Google won’t have to divest its Chrome or YouTube businesses.Instead, District Judge Amit Mehta’s ruling said that Google will be barred from entering exclusive contracts with partners such as Apple to give its search engine priority, and it will be forced to share some data with rivals.Google’s stock jumped 6.7% after hours following the decision.In post-ruling reactions, analysts called the decision…
Google has been spared from the worst, and the business and tech community is weighing in.On Tuesday, Judge Amit P. Mehta ruled that Google will not be forced to divest from Chrome and its Android operating system, after Google was found in 2024 to have illegally maintained a monopoly.In the 230-page decision, Mehta said that Google won’t be allowed to have an exclusive contract regarding the distribution of its search engines and apps and that the company must share information such as user interaction data and search index with competitors.Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google parent Alphabet, argued earlier this year…
Google just dodged the breakup of some of its key businesses, and it has an unlikely competitor to thank: OpenAI.A federal judge ruled Tuesday that generative AI’s rise has made search more competitive, undermining the Justice Department’s case for carving up Google’s empire, which could have seen products like YouTube or Chrome become totally independent companies.In Judge Amit Mehta’s decision on Tuesday, the rise of generative AI brought about by OpenAI’s ChatGPT was repeatedly mentioned for making the search business more competitive than ever. That weakened the case for radically restructuring Google’s operations.Judge Mehta wrote that while generative AI hasn’t…
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Carlie was hoping to spend her senior year savoring her final moments on the palm tree-lined campus of the University of Central Florida. Instead, she sits at home alone, logging on to online courses, afraid to leave her apartment and run the risk of being detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A few months ago, Carlie was studying public relations in Orlando, envisioning one day working for nonprofits that help students like her. Thanks to in-state tuition and private scholarships, Carlie had been living a life she had only dreamed of in Haiti, a country…
NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic took a two-set lead against Taylor Fritz, an opponent he always beats, to close in on the semifinals, a round he often reaches at the U.S. Open, and marked the occasion by blowing kisses to those in Tuesday night’s crowd pulling for the last American man in the field.That was just a taste of the back-and-forth between Djokovic and some of the folks in the Arthur Ashe Stadium seats, and there was still work that remained, but he would finish off a 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 victory. Djokovic improved to 11-0 against 2024 runner-up…
Almost five years after the Department of Justice filed a suit against Google, accusing the search giant of monopoly behavior, the winners and losers of this case are finally clear.US District Judge Amit Mehta ruled Tuesday that Google will be barred from entering exclusive contracts with partners such as Apple to give its search engine pride of place. It will also be forced to share some search data with rivals.Google won’t be forced to spin off Chrome, a remedy that was previously on the table.The decision opens up a host of opportunities for Google’s AI rivals, from OpenAI and Perplexity…
DENVER (AP) — Rafael Devers’ 30th home run of the season was a weird one.Colorado pitcher Kyle Freeland, along with San Francisco third baseman Matt Chapman and shortstop Willy Adames, were ejected from Tuesday night’s game following a benches-clearing incident that started after Devers hit a two-run homer in the first inning.Devers hammered a sweeper over the right field wall and then Freeland took exception with Devers’ celebration, shouting at him as he neared first base. That caused several players to charge toward the infield, where Chapman appeared to make contact with Freeland. Adames also was in the middle of…