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World number nine Danielle Collins has postponed her plans to retire at the end of the 2024 season and will compete on the WTA Tour in 2025.Collins, 30, has been taking advice about her “personal fertility journey” since her last match, a loss to Australian qualifier Olivia Gadecki at the Guadalajara Open in Mexico. . The American, whose retirement plans include starting a family while managing endometriosis, which affects fertility, said in a statement posted on Instagram: “I have recently met with some experts , to better understand what my best path forward is.”Dealing with endometriosis and fertility is a…

NEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani perked up when he heard his name.”I told him,” Dodgers backup catcher Austin Barnes said after Ohtani’s three-run run scored in an 8-0 victory over the Mets in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series, “hit the ball over. fence.”Good advice,” Otani said.Barnes clapped his hands three times. “It’s like, ‘Today, man, get over the fence.'”Ohtani was all smiles as he left the field dressed up, two wins away from the World Series.”Very good coach,” Ohtani said.This game will not be easy for Ohtani. But sometimes he can make it look that way, as…

Driving in the Israeli-occupied West Bank is an incredibly different experience depending on who you are. Ben Hubbard, international correspondent for The New York Times, rode along on two bus trips, one for Israelis, the other for Palestinians, that tell a story of separate and unequal roadways.

As Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp disliked long meetings. Instead of sitting around pondering the latest big decision, he regularly has important conversations over lunch in the training ground cafeteria. Klopp was anything but formal, but Mike Gordon, president of Liverpool owner Fenway Sports Group, also acted with the casual confidence that internet entrepreneurs often possess, linking the German with business executives placed on the same level. According to Gordon, he was “the person you would choose to run your company,” as he told Raphael Honigstein in his book “Bringing the Noise.”Klopp, who will take on the role of Red Bull’s…

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Head coach Karen DeBoer said Alabama defensive back Malachi Moore will not be suspended for his late outburst against Vanderbilt. Game, he will start Saturday against South Carolina. Moore’s actions, which included throwing away his mouthpiece, appearing to refuse to be substituted in the final moments of the game and subsequently kicking the ball, resulted in an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty.Moore, a fifth-grader and team captain, issued a public apology on social media Monday morning: pic.twitter.com/szVMOk86Kb — Kinggchi👑 (@malachi_moore13) October 7, 2024Defensive coordinator Kane Womack’s view Monday was that the decision to try to replace Moore was to…

new video loaded: Why Israel’s Hostage Families Are Turning on Their GovernmenttranscriptBacktranscriptWhy Israel’s Hostage Families Are Turning on Their GovernmentFamily members of hostages held in Gaza are escalating their tactics to push for a cease-fire deal. They say the government is dragging out the war in Gaza for political reasons, and putting their family members’ lives at risk.These family members of hostages held in Gaza have stepped up their protests, like this one blocking a road in Tel Aviv. One year ago, much of Israel rallied behind them. Now, they have become polarizing figures. Einav Zangauker was a longtime supporter…

LANDOVER, Md. — It’s the first week of October, and the Browns’ season ends before the Guardians’ season.1-4, that’s it. It feels like it’s all over, long before the leaves turn green, before the bye week, before the pumpkins are carved, before the NBA season begins, before the Guardians’ baseball fate is sealed.Even by Brown’s standards, this was too early for an obituary.Yet here they rest, a bad team with a 34-13 record buried in a bad stadium 12 miles from the nation’s capital.go deeperJayden Daniels has big performance, Commanders beat Browns 34-13: HighlightsThere were fires everywhere but not enough…

LAS VEGAS — Becky Harmon has said all season long she’s been waiting for the game to come, and all of Las Vegas’ guards are giving it their all.In 2023, the three-headed monster of Chelsea Gray, Jackie Young, and Kelsey Plumb was an unstoppable combination most nights, culminating in the WNBA Finals series when the perimeter trio The group beat their New York Liberty opponents convincingly, even if Gray didn’t get the win in the final.Fast forward a season and Las Vegas has begun to mix and match. Although Tiffany Hayes joins an already talented back corps, the Aces are…

Of course this will happen. It’s just a miracle it didn’t happen sooner.College football is a sport that still has no clear guidelines governing the market, more than three years after players were finally allowed to monetize their names, images and likenesses.Without a truly powerful governing body to enforce the minor rules on both sides of the contract, if anyone tried, the offended party could hire a lawyer, go to court, and add a new chapter to the NCAA’s long history of failure. .Last week, UNLV starting quarterback Matthew Sluka posted that he planned to leave the program after “representations”…

Many of those killed in the strike had fled other parts of southern Lebanon over the past week, following Israeli evacuation orders, and sought refuge in relatives’ homes in Sidon, according to the relatives and their neighbors.Narmin Jradi, 20, who had been planning her wedding, was on the ground floor when she died. Majid and Malek Hannach, were rambunctious siblings, 12 and 13.Mohammad Hannach, 18, from Nabatieh, had been worried about whether the war would disrupt his plans to study engineering at a university next year.