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The 2025 NFL season schedule is out.
Plan your weekends with every game, bye, and primetime showdown mapped out.
Full breakdown by team and week now live:
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Yamashita, Korda, Jeeno Thitikul, and a field of 144 players who all believe they can win on this layout.
$10 million. Royal Lytham. The final major. Who wins it?
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The AIG Women's Open starts tomorrow at Royal Lytham & St Annes.
The 50th staging of the championship. A record $10 million prize fund. The final women's major of 2026.
The science of who wins links golf, and why Royal Lytham specifically. is more interesting than any form guide.

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Defending champion Miyu Yamashita won at Royal Porthcawl last year with exactly that kind of performance, patient, precise, and emotionally consistent across 72 holes.

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The WNBA's growth isn't just luck. It's the compounding result of better pay, better broadcast deals, better competition, and a generation of athletes whose talent was always there — but whose platform is finally matching it.
30 years in. More: https://t.co/CVORblT0Tx

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The WNBA is in its 30th season.
League attendance up 48%. Merchandise sales up 600%. 46.9 million US fans tuned in last season — a 31% increase in two years.
Here's the science behind why women's basketball is experiencing this kind of growth. 🧵

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The NBA had Bird vs Magic. The WNBA now has Clark vs Bueckers.
Their rivalry has produced some of the most-watched regular season basketball — men's or women's — in years. And both players are still in their early 20s.

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When one athlete is so far beyond everyone else that the outcome is never in doubt, the audience loses something it needs.
But there may never be another athlete like this. And we're watching him in real time.
More here: https://t.co/MMUmimzZBE 🔗

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Tadej Pogačar is a five-time Tour de France champion.
27 years old. Youngest rider ever to win it five times. Joined Anquetil, Merckx, Hinault and Indurain as the only men to do it.
The science of what he just did across 21 stages and 3,197 kilometres. 🧵

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The French crowds booed him at the roadside. L'Équipe ran a feature asking whether he'd killed the Tour. Viewing figures in France dropped 20% since his dominance began.
The science of team sport says competition drives interest.