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Jeff KassoufOct 16, 2025, 08:05 AM ETCloseJeff Kassouf covers women’s soccer for ESPN, focusing on the USWNT and NWSL. In 2009, he founded The Equalizer, a women’s soccer news outlet, and he previously won a Sports Emmy at NBC Sports and Olympics.The floodgates haven’t opened entirely to teenage signings in the NWSL, but they are no longer so rare that the mere age of a player turns heads.The NWSL still lacks a unified academy system, but with the college draft being abolished and combines — including a youth combine to scout talent as young as 13 — age is not…

Our football betting expert and top tipster Jones Knows provides his insight across the Premier League and sees value in backing Man Utd at Liverpool.Nottingham Forest vs Chelsea, Saturday 12.30pmAnge Postecoglou’s arrival at Nottingham Forest came with big promises of high tempo, pressing and attacking football but so far what we’ve seen is a defence creaking under the pressure of playing Postecoglou’s style. Forest are leaking goals at a rate of 2.1 per 90 minutes since the Aussie took charge. So my eyes are drawn to the anytime goalscorer market for Chelsea. Enter Alejandro Garnacho at 9/4 with Sky Bet.Chelsea…

“Sitting here now, going into October 2025, I think we can say he is the best midfielder in the league.” That was the verdict of Gary Neville when it comes to Moises Caicedo. For a player that cost Chelsea £115m, perhaps that is something that should be a given. But now feels like the first time since his move to Stamford Bridge that the Ecuadorian is truly receiving his flowers. It was clear that from the moment he broke into the first team at Brighton, there was something special about Caicedo. It didn’t take long before comparisons to N’Golo Kante…

U.S. Treasury yields fell Thursday, with the 10-year dropping below 4%, after initially moving lower in the wake of a weaker-than-expected survey of economic conditions in the Philadelphia region.The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury was down more than 7 basis points to 3.976%, while that of the 2-year Treasury note decreased by 8 basis points to 3.424%. The 30-year bond yield fell more than 5 basis points to 4.587%.The 10-year briefly hit 3.967%, its lowest level since April 7, while the 2-year touched 3.412%, its lowest level since Sept. 8, 2022. One basis point is equal to 0.01% and…

Oct 16, 2025, 07:33 AM ETThe 2020 documentary “All or Nothing: Tottenham Hotspur” provided a revealing glimpse into Harry Kane’s psyche. In a one-on-one chat with then-manager Jose Mourinho, Kane said: “When you’re at a club like Tottenham, we’ve done well and I’ve done well, but I want to be [Cristiano Ronaldo] or [Lionel Messi].”Some might have scoffed at the English striker’s ambition as shown on screen, but despite the constant change after Mauricio Pochettino’s departure as Spurs manager in 2019, Kane’s brilliant numbers never waned. His blistering start to the 2025-26 campaign with Bayern Munich (18 goals in 10…

Drazen_ | E+ | Getty ImagesA version of this article first appeared in CNBC’s Inside Wealth newsletter with Robert Frank, a weekly guide to the high-net-worth investor and consumer. Sign up to receive future editions, straight to your inbox.Over the next 25 years, more than $120 trillion in wealth will be passed down to inheritors, according to Cerulli Associates.Only 27% of these future beneficiaries — primarily widows and children — plan to keep their benefactor’s wealth advisor, per Cerulli’s survey of investors with at least $250,000 in financial assets. The share drops to 20% for those who have already inherited their riches,…

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has pledged to spend more than $50 billion on artificial intelligence over the next three years.CNBC | Evelyn ChengSHANGHAI — Chinese tech giant Alibaba is already recouping its investment on artificial intelligence in the company’s e-commerce business, vice president Kaifu Zhang told reporters on Thursday.The Chinese tech giant has bet big that AI will generate returns despite market concerns that companies are spending too much on the technology with little to show for it. Alibaba last month announced it will increase its spending on AI and cloud infrastructure, after pledging in February it would spend 380…

Upgrade CEO Renaud Laplanche speaks at a conference in Brooklyn, New York, in 2018.Alex Flynn | Bloomberg via Getty ImagesUpgrade, the online lender started by LendingClub founder Renaud Laplanche, has raised a new round of funding that values the startup at $7.3 billion.The company said in a press release on Thursday that it raised $165 million in a round led by Neuberger Berman, with participation from LuminArx Capital Management. Laplanche, who created Upgrade in 2016, said it’s the first time the company has raised money since 2021. “We’ve been cash flow positive over the past three years, so we didn’t…

The pair met at the AXA Training Centre, where Gayle watched the men’s team train and was greeted by captain Virgil van Dijk and head coach Arne Slot, as well as Alexander Isak, Joe Gomez, Alisson Becker and Jeremie Frimpong.Throughout the day, Howard opened up about how he suffered constant racism growing up in Liverpool and how he was determined to represent his community on the world stage.He said: “I was someone of strong character, I had a strong family and they made me realise what I was doing mattered, and how I was breaking down barriers for the next…

In the late 1980s, my father and his two brothers laid the foundation stone for our family home in Gaza’s northern al-Rimal neighbourhood.  By the mid-2000s, the house had 13 apartment units and six floors. The new generation of my brothers and cousins began to marry, and by 2015, I was the last to wed and move in; by then, the building housed 15 families. Within those walls, I was born and raised. All my memories – successes and failures, joys and sorrows – are rooted in this place, which also witnessed the unfolding of key moments in the Palestinian…