Netflix has big ambitions for live sport

The HOLIDAY season is a time for family, food—and, at least for some people, American football. As in previous years, teams in the National Football League (NFL) played on Christmas day, watched live by millions. Unusually, though, the broadcaster this year was Netflix, which live-streamed two games (and a musical interlude by Beyoncé). Source link

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Valkyries coach sounds off on Caitlin Clark’s worst game of season: ‘We know she doesn’t like physicality’

The external expectations for the Golden State Valkyries coming into the 2025 season were low since the expansion franchise didn’t boast many household names on their roster. However, through 12 games of the season, they’ve been extremely competitive and have a 6-6 record a quarter of the way into their inaugural season, thanks in large…

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Meet Silicon Valley’s shrewdest talent spotters

What do Sam Altman and David Sacks have in common? Certainly not politics. Mr Altman, co-founder of OpenAI, is part of the transition team of Daniel Lurie, the Democratic mayor-elect of San Francisco. David Sacks, an entrepreneur and polemical right-wing podcaster, will on January 20th become Donald Trump’s crypto and artificial-intelligence (AI) tsar. Yet both…

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Fever’s Sophie Cunningham pokes fun at ejection following late-game foul, skirmish with Sun’s Jacy Sheldon

The tensions that flared between the Indiana Fever and Connecticut Sun earlier in the week have subsided, but the jokes have kept coming. Fever guard Sophie Cunningham was a part a late-game skirmish after delivering a hard foul on Connecticut’s Jacy Sheldon with less than a minute to play. Sheldon immediately went after Cunningham, resulting…

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