Bill Belichick is pushing back on some recent comments made by Robert Kraft. After the Patriots’ owner said that he took a “big risk” in hiring Belichick to be the team’s head coach in 2000, the six-time Super Bowl-winning head coach believes he also took a big risk in accepting an offer to become the team’s head coach. “As I told Robert multiple times through the years, I took a big risk by taking the New England Patriots head coaching job,” Belichick told ESPN. “I already had an opportunity to be the Head Coach of the New York Jets, but the…
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Key Takeaways Michael Mizrachi dominated the WSOP Main Event final table and holds a commanding chip lead. The field quickly shrank from nine to four players in just four hours of aggressive play. Mizrachi won two critical all-ins, including a key river ace against pocket kings, to seize control. Remaining players face tough ICM pressure with Mizrachi owning over 75% of all chips. Going into last night’s action, we were promised one of the most exciting final tables we’ve seen in a long time, and players certainly delivered. The 2025 WSOP Main Event final…
On Wednesday, Diageo announced that CEO and board director Debra Crew has stepped down from her position, effective immediately, after two years in the role. Diageo CFO Nik Jhangiani will act as interim CEO until a permanent replacement is found. Crew first joined Diageo — the world’s largest spirits maker and owner of brands like Johnnie Walker and Guinness — in 2019 as the president of Diageo North America, and was later promoted to group COO. She has led the company as CEO since June 2023, after longtime CEO Ivan Menezes passed away. Since stepping into the position, the company…
Jorge CastilloJul 16, 2025, 12:08 AM ETCloseESPN baseball reporter. Covered the Washington Wizards from 2014 to 2016 and the Washington Nationals from 2016 to 2018 for The Washington Post before covering the Los Angeles Dodgers and MLB for the Los Angeles Times from 2018 to 2024.ATLANTA — The 2025 MLB All-Star Game featured the two best pitchers in the world on the mound to start for their respective leagues and the two best position players in the opposing lineups. It included the first automatic ball-strike system challenges in All-Star Game history, a rousing six-run comeback, a memorable appearance for a…
The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw some huge fields this summer, but it is now almost time for a potentially record-breaking live event on British soil. Since its inception in 2011, Grosvenor’s Goliath has, with the exception of the COVID-19 pandemic, seen its attendance increase year on year, topping out at an incredible 11,749 in 2024. With online satellites running at Grosvenor Poker and PokerStars, live satellites at the Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry, and the Goliath’s buy-in remaining an affordable £200, the 2025 edition has every chance of continuing that trend and attracting more than 12,000 players…
The WSOP 2025 Main Event is down to its final nine, and this has been another historic year, not because it broke the all-time attendance record (this edition ranks as the third-largest Main Event in history), but because for the first time in 30 years, a female player has reached the final table. Leo Margets, a Spanish poker pro and Winamax Poker ambassador becomes only the second woman ever to make the WSOP Main Event final table. She is guaranteed to earn at least $1 million, making her the first female player in history to lock up a seven-figure payout…
The state of Oklahoma is still riding a wave of euphoria after the Oklahoma City Thunder captured the state’s first major professional sports championship. The NBA title sparked an unprecedented surge of pride and celebration, uniting fans from the panhandle to Green Country in a statewide moment of joy.But as the confetti settles, attention shifts to college football — where the state’s two flagship programs, Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, find themselves at a crossroads following historically poor 2024 seasons. It’s the first time both finished with losing records in the same season since 1998.The Bedlam rivalry may be dormant, but…
Phil Hellmuth and Nick Palma have both been issued warnings by the floor after an expletive-filled verbal exchange on the penultimate night of the 2025 World Series of Poker. The incident, which took place during the final hours of Day 1 of the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em event, would see both players warned by tournament staff about their behavior and threatened with one round penalties. As reported by PokerNews’ Adam Lamers, tensions flared after Palma won a key flip against Lewis Spencer to climb near the top of the chip counts, arguing with the seventeen-time bracelet winner about his conduct at…
When Sagamore Spirit established its distillery on Baltimore’s Patapsco River waterfront in 2017, Ryan Norwood — now Sagamore’s vice president of operations — knew the brand faced an uphill climb. Once an epicenter of American whiskey production, Baltimore’s distilling industry and the “Maryland style rye whiskey” that Sagamore aimed to resurrect had all but vanished in the decades following Prohibition. “When we first started the brand, we were beating the drum for ‘Maryland rye,’” Norwood says. “And at the time, anybody outside of the Mid-Atlantic was like: ‘What are you talking about?’” Eight years later, Maryland rye is firmly back…
Liverpool expected to rival Newcastle for Hugo Ekitike, Reds also interested in Ollie Watkins and Victor Osimhen, and Eintracht Frankfurt reject Magpies’ written offer for Ekitike. Liverpool are expected to rival Newcastle United for Eintracht Frankfurt’s French striker Hugo Ekitike, 23, after being told Sweden striker Alexander Isak, 25, is not for sale in this window. (Sky Sports) , externalThe Magpies feel the leaking of Liverpool’s £120m interest into the public domain is designed to unsettle Isak. (Telegraph – subscription required), externalAs well as Ekitike, Liverpool have also made enquiries about four other attackers in case they are unable to…