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Women’s sports, especially basketball, are experiencing a remarkable surge.—
Tiana Randall,
Forbes.com,
16 July 2025 -
Smith’s deal highlights how, in today’s unmistakably commercialized era of college sports, universities are explicitly prioritizing revenue over all other forms of verifiable success.—
Daniel Libit,
Sportico.com,
15 July 2025
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Other names appearing somewhere on tournament’s leaderboard include NFL players Travis and Jason Kelce, Sacramento Kings player Zach Lavine, and actors Miles Teller and Alfonso Ribeiro.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
14 July 2025
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Sinner seemed to mean it, and to live by it; he had nearly been knocked out of the tournament during the quarterfinals, when Grigor Dimitrov had taken the first two sets and had the match in control before blowing out a pectoral muscle.—
Louisa Thomas,
New Yorker,
14 July 2025
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Despite the efforts, LG is contending with intensifying competition in Korea’s AI race, which has yet to see a clear winner.—
Zinnia Lee,
Forbes.com,
15 July 2025
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While RuPaul holds the record, Klum is hot on her tail, as the Project Runway host returns to the fashion competition program on July 31 for the first time since 2017, as the show moves from Bravo to Freeform, Hulu, and Disney+.—
EW.com,
EW.com,
15 July 2025
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The first of its kind, this flagship concept aims to bring the brand back to its bodybuilding roots.—
Travis Webb,
Austin American Statesman,
11 July 2025
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From October 24th to 26th, bodybuilding buffs can join roughly 40,000 participants alongside more than 400 exhibitors, with product reveals, calisthenics competitions and plenty of bodybuilding demonstrations taking place all throughout the Dubai Muscle Show.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
11 July 2025
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Fans turned out Friday to see the Golden State Warriors star, who won the tourney that year but skipped it in 2024 to train for the Olympics, who seemed likely to contend again amid a powerful lineup of current athletes, sports legends and other celebrities and entertainers.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
12 July 2025
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In Allen’s junior year, the Northmen went 27-5 and advanced to the state tourney semifinals.—
Gary Bedore,
Kansas City Star,
9 June 2025
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Russia is already one of the world’s most heavily sanctioned countries – punishments for allegations of US election interference, as well as other malign activities from Crimea to Syria to Britain and beyond.—
Matthew Chance,
CNN Money,
15 July 2025
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The study ranked the 100 largest U.S. cities using 47 metrics pertaining to the quality and quantity of indoor and outdoor leisure activities found in each locale.—
Grace Tucker,
The Enquirer,
15 July 2025
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In 2016, the Divas branding was done away with and the accompanying championship was retired, replaced by a proper women’s title with a design on par with the men’s (there are now 10 women’s championships across WWE and its developmental brands).—
Scarlett Harris,
Time,
12 July 2025
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James is still more than capable of playing a huge role on a championship contender.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 July 2025
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Pulaski County's Andrew Dodson's head hit the turf during a spring scrimmage.—
Stephanie Kuzydym,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
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The programs have played in the Citrus Bowl and Music City Bowl in the last 10 years, but a spring scrimmage would probably feel bigger than those matchups.—
Marc Weiszer,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Athletics.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/athletics. Accessed 25 Jul. 2025.
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