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The 2025 NFL schedule will be unveiled on Wednesday in a prime-time spectacle, but we already know the opponents for all 32 teams. That means we can look at the season ahead and identify the biggest games and the high-interest storylines, basically everything except the “when” aspect of each showdown. The NFL scheduling model is designed to pit the league’s best teams against each other. Every defending division winner plays five of the other seven division winners every year, which sets up playoff previews and rematches and so on. So of last year’s 13 NFL playoff games, 10 of them will have…
An 11-foot alligator that tipped over a canoe and killed a woman in Central Florida on May 6 served as a reminder that, while alligator attacks on humans are “extremely rare,” as a state wildlife official said, they do happen, sometimes with fatal results.“This serves as a somber reminder of the powerful wildlife that share our natural spaces,” said Roger Young, the executive director of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.Florida had an average of eight unprovoked alligator bites a year over the 10-year period that ended in 2022, according to the commission. Many of them were serious enough…
Published Mon, May 12, 2025 · 09:45 PM[NEW YORK] Wall Street’s main indexes opened sharply higher on Monday (May 12) as the United States and China reached a deal to reduce tariffs, signalling a truce in a punishing trade war that had kept markets on edge for weeks.The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 649.7 points, or 1.57 per cent, at the open to 41,899.05. The S&P 500 rose 147.3 points, or 2.60 per cent, at the open to 5,807.2, while the Nasdaq Composite rose 745.6 points, or 4.16 per cent, to 18,674.555 at the opening bell. REUTERSShare with us your…
Just a heads up, if you buy something through our links, we may get a small share of the sale. It’s one of the ways we keep the lights on here. Click here for more. By 2027, Apple is planning a major lineup of futuristic products to mark the iPhone’s 20th anniversary, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. (Via: The Verge) One of the most exciting predictions is a new iPhone design that will be mostly made of glass with a curved shape and no visible screen cutouts, meaning no notch or hole for the camera. It would offer a seamless edge-to-edge…
The Teatro alla Scala in Milan, one of the world’s most revered opera houses, announced on Monday that its next music director would be the South Korean conductor Myung-whun Chung.Chung, 72, a veteran who has led renowned ensembles in Europe and Asia, will succeed the Italian maestro Riccardo Chailly, who started in 2015. Chung will be the first Asian — and one of the first conductors born outside Italy — to serve as music director in La Scala’s 247-year history. He will take the podium in late 2026 for an initial term of about three years.The selection of Chung is…
Patrick Everson FOX Sports Betting Analyst Thursday brought massive news of the elevation of an American cardinal to pope. White smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney to indicate that a new leader was chosen: Cardinal Robert Prevost became Pope Leo XIV.And the public sports betting masses apparently took it as a sign.”Sports fans are looking for anything — even divine intervention — to help their favorite teams win,” said Neil Walsh, sportsbook senior vice president for Hard Rock Bet.And so it was that, in the aftermath of Thursday’s vote, this Chicago-born and Villanova-educated Pope inspired a wave of wagers…
Indian software services exporter LTIMindtree bagged a $450 million multi-year deal, its largest ever, the company said on Monday.Its shares rose as much as 7.7 per cent. They were trading about 6 per cent higher before the news, tracking a broader IT sector rally on easing global recession worries.LTIMindtree said the customer was a global agribusiness company, without disclosing the name.The deal comes at a time when larger peers are struggling to secure mega deals as macroeconomic uncertainties and tariff risks weighed on India’s $283 billion IT sector.Large deals are key revenue drivers for IT services companies.Last month, the company…
US-Israeli hostage Edan Alexander, who has been held in Gaza since October 2023, will be freed within hours, President Donald Trump said Monday. “They’re going to be releasing Edan in about two hours from now or sometime today,” the US president told reporters at the White House.
On the evenings when my dairy-avoidant husband is out and my teenager and I are on our own for dinner, we go big on cheese. Whether it’s a Parmesan-proud Caesar salad, mozzarella-loaded garlic bread or some version of baked pasta, oozing with ricotta, we rejoice in the opportunity to trip the lactic fantastic.The latest entry in our cheesy repertoire is Nargisse Benkabbou’s crispy halloumi with tomatoes and white beans. It’s got everything we crave in a cheese-centric dinner — blistered cherry tomatoes, velvety white beans and melty, brown-speckled slabs of halloumi that stay a little chewy in the center, all…
The way fans watch their favorite sports just got easier. On Monday, Fox Corporation announced the upcoming arrival of FOX One, a new direct-to-consumer streaming platform that will make FOX’s complete library available to viewers.For sports fans specifically, that means both live and on-demand access to FOX Sports, FS1, FS2, BTN and FOX Deportes. That’s not all, though. FOX One will also feature content from brands including FOX News, FOX Business, FOX Weather, FOX Local Stations and the FOX network, with the option to add FOX Nation to a bundle package.Although there is not an official launch date, FOX One…