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Four-time Formula One World Champion Max Verstappen is returning to his racing roots this September, as he attempts to chase down 100 drivers in a go-kart race at Silverstone in England. The Max vs 100 challenge is set to become the world’s biggest go-kart race and will be broadcast live on September 16 around the world on Disney+ and the ESPN App. What is Max vs 100? At one time or another, plenty of motorsport fans have probably asked themselves this question: could you beat a racing legend if the odds were stacked in your favour? That's what Max vs...

It seems that everyone has now seen pictures of a barren Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for USC’s home opener against the San Jose State Spartans on Saturday. In fact, the poor attendance for Lincoln Riley’s Trojan squad got so much attention that the university itself felt the need to issue a statement in response. In a statement to USA Today, USC reiterated the “high expectations” it has for its home crowds and reassured the public that LA Coliseum will have a better atmosphere throughout the rest of the season. “We understand the factors that impacted Saturday’s attendance,” the statement read....

Two regional airline jets were caught on camera nearly hitting the top of a South Africa stadium as as they participated in a dramatic — and near disastrous — pre-game flyover above a packed international rugby game. “It looks like the airplanes almost hit the top of Cape Town stadium,” one horrified social media user wrote, while another quipped. “That was a bit dicey if you ask me. Shoo-wee” In one video taken atop the stadium, the jets appear to come within just several feet from slamming into the roof of the sporting venue as fireworks go off — and...

Royce White brought his crusade to Indiana. The former NBA first-round pick wore a long blonde wig and sat courtside for the Fever’s 111-91 win over the Sun on Friday at Gainbridge Fieldhouse. On his Instagram, White wrote, “The Kweeeen has arrived! They better bow for a beautiful Black Trans Lesbian!” with a smirk on his face. White, who, along with Enes Kanter Freedom, has been trying to push the WNBA amid the ongoing debate surrounding transgender participation in women’s sports. His appearance comes not long after Kanter Freedom, the former NBA big man, was courtside during a Fever game...

A high school football game in McKeesport, Penn. was halted Friday night when a gunshot rang out just before 11 p.m., and a 17-year-old suspect was quickly apprehended. Liberty Borough police anticipate filing charges of receiving stolen property, possession of a firearm by a minor, possession of a weapon on school property, reckless endangerment and carrying a firearm without a license alleged to have fired, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. The gun was reported stolen. The game between South Allegheny and Elizabeth Forward high schools was late in the fourth quarter when the incident occurred. The unidentified suspect is...

Earlier this week, the WNBA, the women's professional basketball league, announced that two former NBA players were ineligible to play in the league. Former NBA stars Royce (Roysha) White and Enes Kanter Freedom had announced they were intending to play in the league next year after the WENBA brass refused to condemn biological men playing in the league against women. The league did not elaborate on the reasons for declaring the two men ineligible. Since this announcement, news has broken that the league previously allowed trans players to play. In fact, one of the trans players has been very vocal....

I didn't know this, but it turns out the WNBA has already allowed a man to play on one of its teams. At least by trans activists' definition. In fact, they did so for several seasons, and the WNBA celebrated the accomplishment and expressed great pride in having an out trans player on one of its teams. The @wnba has a major legal problem. They already allowed a player who identified as a man to play in the league for years. They celebrated it publicly. So how can they keep @EnesFreedom & @Highway_30 out now. Read & share this: https://t.co/snCpxHxhvp—...

What's the impact of an ad? It's a question making the rounds in many circles as backlash grows over a 15-second spot created by Frisco-based Good Good Golf to showcase a new co-branded driver from equipment maker Callaway. The ad begins with one of the founders of Good Good, Garrett Clark, shoulder-checking a female golfer, another Good Good staffer, Alexis Miestowski, a former Division I golfer, to the ground. "I felt nauseous," The Family Place CEO Tiffany Tate said. "That was my first gut-level reaction when I saw the ad." The ad concludes with the Good Good content creator standing...

Caitlin Clark made the WNBA rich, but its players seem determined to destroy the league by turning women’s basketball into a violent spectacle. A better name for the current Women’s National Basketball League (WNBA) might be Women’s Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), given the growing performance-art violence that is now endemic in the league. Prior to the 2024 arrival of then-22-year-old Iowa superstar Caitlin Clark, very few people watched the WNBA. Team franchises were worth less than $20 million. The league ran chronic deficits and was subsidized by the men’s professional basketball league, the National Basketball Association (NBA). An unspoken subtext of...

Tom Brady came home. California thanked him the only way it knows how. A little more than a week after the seven-time Super Bowl champion cut the ribbon at CardVault by Tom Brady in Palo Alto, somebody put a rock through the glass. Then they put a rock through the cases. Then they walked out with about 60 trading cards worth more than $12,000 and vanished into a state that has spent a decade teaching thieves they can vanish. Palo Alto police say the break-in hit the shop at Town & Country Village, 855 El Camino Real, around 12:30 a.m....

Time heals all wounds, according to the Australian breakdancer Raygun, even ones inflicted by strangers online when you suddenly find yourself the subject of global mockery. Two years after going viral for her captivatingly non-fluid breakdancing routine at the Paris Olympics, Rachael Gunn, aka Raygun, says she’s learned to make peace with the “surreal” experience she had at the Games — thanks, in part, to a lot of therapy. “Paris is now just a part of my story,” Gunn said in an interview. “For me, it’s more about radical acceptance of everything that’s happened and just one foot in front...

A Chinese humanoid robot set a new 100-meter sprint record of 8.86 seconds in Beijing on Tuesday (Aug 25), beating its robot competitors — and the fastest recorded human time. The race was part of China's World Humanoid Robot Games, an Olympic-style competition now in its second year in Beijing. The event is also a showcase for China's rapid advances in robotics amid an intensifying technology rivalry with the US The previous robot record of 9.39 seconds had been set just three days earlier, on Saturday. For comparison, the men's 100-meter world record is 9.58 seconds, set by Jamaican sprinter...

Two people were killed and nearly a dozen injured at a Mexican take on Spain’s famous running of the bulls festival — with terrifying footage capturing people getting tossed and gored by the rampaging animals. The people were run down Saturday on the streets of Huamantla, where 21 fighting bulls were released onto the streets amidst thrill-seekers trying their luck at dodging through the angry animals. Juan Manuel Filomeno Herrera, 29, was among the crowd, but was run down by a bull that fatally gored him through the chest and leg with its horns, according to the US Sun. Footage...

SAN DIEGO — NASCAR San Diego announced today that it is re-enlisting for another tour of duty in 2027. After a successful, sold-out debut in 2026, NASCAR San Diego Weekend presented by Anduril will return with the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR O’Reilly Auto Parts Series on July 30-Aug. 1 at Naval Base Coronado. NASCAR’s finest will once again answer the call of the 16-turn, 3.4-mile Qualcomm Circuit at Naval Air Station North Island. The street course, nestled inside the Birthplace of Naval Aviation, became one of the most challenging and picturesque in the history of motorsports, and in 2027,...

Enes Kanter sat with the fans on Sunday at a WNBA game and, as it turns out, that’s as close as either he or other WNBA hopeful Royce White is going to get. According to Front Office Sports’ Colin Salao, the WNBA has ruled both White and Kanter ineligible to play. “Enes Kanter Freedom and Royce White are not eligible to play in the WNBA, league sources tell Front Office Sports,” Salao reported. In addition, the league characterized Kanter’s antics as “publicity stunts”. It said that it is “not going to give oxygen to efforts designed to mock the league...

Kyle Kirkwood made history Sunday by winning the Freedom 250 Grand Prix of Washington, D.C., the first-ever motor race around the National Mall and the iconic monuments and buildings of the nation’s capital city. And after a disastrous day for NTT INDYCAR SERIES points leader Alex Palou, can Kirkwood make even more history by catching Palou in the final three races of the season for a championship? SEE: Race Results Florida native Kirkwood drove his No. 27 Sam’s Club Honda to a 3.0906-second victory over the No. 7 Arrow McLaren Chevrolet of Christian Lundgaard, leading three Andretti Global drivers in...

Chicago Sky guard Natasha Cloud fired off a pro-trans message on Sunday night following an altercation with Enes Kanter Freedom during the team’s loss to the Indiana Fever. In the third quarter, Cloud scored a bucket that led to the Fever calling a timeout. She directed her emotion toward Freedom, who was sitting near the basket at the Wintrust Arena. Freedom stood up and walked toward Cloud. Sky players and security had to get in between the two. It wasn’t immediately clear what Cloud and Freedom were yelling at each other about. Freedom was escorted out of the arena and...

Soccer fans booed the U.S. national anthem on the weekend as Canadians reacted to news that trade talks between the two countries had broken down again. The Canadian Press reported jeers echoing through Vancouver's B.C. Place ahead of a Major League Soccer game between the Whitecaps and FC Dallas on Saturday, following booing at Stade Saputo, where CF Montréal hosted the L.A. Galaxy earlier in the day. This came hours after Prime Minister Mark Carney suspended talks with the United States and recalled his negotiators, saying the U.S. made unreasonable demands at the last minute after previously agreeing to a...

Former NBA forward Enes Kanter, who has declared for the 2027 WNBA Draft, is in attendance at the Indiana Fever at Chicago Sky game on Sunday evening. The former NBA forward officially declared for the WNBA Draft earlier this month. “If simply declaring who you are is all that’s required, then I meet every single requirement necessary to compete in the WNBA. My team and I have carefully examined the WNBA’s eligibility criteria and governing framework surrounding self-identification and inclusion. Based on the current guidelines, I can and am officially declaring my eligibility for the upcoming WNBA draft in April...

Trumps Indy 250 a middle finger to the left lets go Racing Boys