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Betting scandals have been a concern for professional sports leagues for as long as they’ve existed, but a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in May 2018 has led to a wave of gambling incidents involving athletes and officials. The ruling struck down a federal law that barred sports betting in most states and opened the doors for online sportsbooks to take up a prominent space in the sports ecosystem.1. In 1920, a Chicago grand jury indicted eight members of the Chicago White Sox on charges of fixing the 1919 World Series, which became known as the “Black Sox Scandal.” White Sox…

Auli’i Cravalho is just 24, but she’s already a decade into her career, and she’s shifted in her profession many times over.Cravalho made her Hollywood debut voicing the titular “Moana,” released in 2016, and has since made her mark in other movies like 2024’s “Mean Girls,” in TV roles and on Broadway in the role of Sally Bowles in “Cabaret.”But she hasn’t always gotten the roles she’s wanted most.”The best way for me to get through that is one: time, and two: recognizing that the young woman who gets that role is just like me, very different from me, but…

NEW YORK (AP) — Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz have been indicted on charges they took bribes from sports bettors to throw certain types of pitches, including tossing balls instead of strikes to ensure successful bets.According to the indictment unsealed Sunday in federal court in Brooklyn, the highly paid hurlers took several thousand dollars in payoffs to help two unnamed gamblers from their native Dominican Republic win at least $460,000 on in-game prop bets on the speed and outcome of certain pitches.Clase, the Guardians’ former closer, and Ortiz, a starter, have been on non-disciplinary paid leave since…

Gareth Taylor’s team were twice inches away from doubling their lead before the interval.A Nagano blast from distance was tipped against the crossbar by Chiamaka Nnadozie, and Kerr was denied by the same piece of goalframe when she swirled in a great strike from similar range.Straight from the restart, Jenna Clark defended diligently to snuff out Camacho after she had been teed up in a shooting position by Seike’s diagonal.At the other end, meanwhile, Olsson sought a second of the afternoon having found a pocket of space to the right. Her attempt was deflected behind by Moeka Minami, however.Brighton’s pressure…

LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Extra security measures were in place hours before the Washington Commanders’ game against the Detroit Lions on Sunday, when President Donald Trump planned to become the first sitting president in nearly a half-century to attend a regular-season NFL contest.Officers in black uniforms identifying them as members of the U.S. Secret Service joined military, police and other guards inside and outside Northwest Stadium. There were more fences than usual blocking sidewalks and some pathways were restricted.Only two other times did a president go to an NFL game during the regular season while in office, according to the…

Texas returned to the top 10 of The Associated Press college football poll on Sunday, the Atlantic Coast Conference has five teams ranked for the first time this season and two Group of Five conferences are now represented in the Top 25 a month before the playoff bracekt is set. The top five was unchanged.The Longhorns, the preseason No. 1 team, are ranked No. 10 in advance of its visit to No. 5 Georgia this week. They had been in the top 10 for the first six polls before their loss at Florida knocked them out of the Top 25…

Castor containers for high-level radioactive waste.Ina Fassbender | Afp | Getty ImagesNuclear power is back, largely due to the skyrocketing demand for electricity, including big tech’s hundreds of artificial intelligence data centers across the country and the reshoring of manufacturing. But it returns with an old and still-unsolved problem: storing all of the radioactive waste created as a byproduct of nuclear power generation.In May, President Trump issued executive orders aimed at quadrupling the current nuclear output over the next 25 years by accelerating construction of both large conventional reactors and next-gen small modular reactors. Last week, the U.S. signed a…

Second-bottom Nottingham Forest claimed their first league win since the opening game of the season after second-half goals from Morgan Gibbs-White and Elliot Anderson gave them a crucial 3-1 home victory over fellow strugglers Leeds.The come-from-behind win is Sean Dyche’s first league victory in charge of Forest and ended the club’s nine-game winless Premier League run, which moves them a point from safety. Leeds’ third successive away defeat has pulled them into danger and they are now just a point above the drop zone. Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video player Morgan Gibbs-White heads in to put…

Aston Villa increased their goal tally for the season to 13 as they finally found their shooting boots to thrash Bournemouth 4-0 at Villa Park and leapfrog their visitors into seventh place in the Premier League.Bournemouth lost captain Adam Smith to a head injury in the opening minutes after an accidental collision with team-mate Tyler Adams and never found their rhythm following that early adjustment, with Villa turning their first-half dominance into a lead through Emi Buendia’s superb free-kick. Minutes before the break Amadou Onana opened his account for the season with a crisp strike to beat Djordje Petrovic.”We started…

Newcastle’s winless run away from home in the Premier League extended to 10 games as Brentford came from behind to secure a 3-1 victory at the Gtech.Harvey Barnes had given the hosts the lead just before the half-hour mark, but Kevin Schade’s header from a Michael Kayode throw-in and Igor Thiago’s double saw Keith Andrews’ side turn the game on its head. Dan Burn was also sent off for a second bookable offence to rub salt into the wounds for the Magpies, who have not won a league game away from St James’ Park since April.Heading into the contest, pressure…