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Springbok Rugby World Cup winning captain Siya Kolisi will work along Spain World Cup winner David Villa and WNBA star Skylar Diggins as part of Global Sports Group’s new Athlete Advisory Board.Getty ImagesPrivate Equity firm CVC’s sports investment platform, Global Sport Group (GSG), is known worldwide for its investments in premier sports leagues, including La Liga, World Tennis Association (WTA), the 6 Nations, Volleyball World, and the United Rugby Championship (URC). Now, GSG, in partnership with Roc Nation Sports International (RNSI), is giving a voice to athletes by establishing an Athlete Advisory Board (AAB).According to GSG, the advisory board “is…

“The best way to accelerate meaningful progress in AI is to bring people together in person,” Ryan Durkin, a vice president at Whoop who works on AI efforts, said in an email. “There’s a lot of great work already happening, and real enthusiasm for connecting the dots and scaling impact.”This year, the coalition will hold five types of in-person events: learning workshops led by people who have already produced AI apps; hands-on programming and hack day events; networking meetings for founders and other business people; product launch showcases; and community events with a focus on accessible and fun AI app…

Syracuse men’s basketball (12-5, 3-1 ACC) takes a three-game win streak on the road today at 2 p.m. for an ACC matchup against Boston College Eagles (7-10, 0-4 ACC) at Silvio O. Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.The Orange are coming off a 94-point outing in a home win over Florida State, their highest-scoring performance of the season. Syracuse has averaged 86.3 points during the current win streak, fueled by sophomore Donnie Freeman, who is averaging 23.0 points over his last four games and has topped 20 points in three straight. Freeman scored 25 points against Florida State, and Syracuse is 7-0…

Roundups: Boys’ basketball | Girls’ hockey | Girls’ basketball | Boys’ hockeyTop 20 rankings: Boys’ basketball | Girls’ hockey | Girls’ basketball | Boys’ hockeyGet Starting PointA guide through the most important stories of the morning, delivered Monday through Friday.League standings: Boys’ basketball | Girls’ hockey | Girls’ basketball | Boys’ hockey▪ With a 51-37 victory over Lynnfield, Pentucket girls’ basketball coach John McNamara secured his 400th career win. Over 20 seasons, McNamara has led the Panthers to a pair of state championships and numerous Cape Ann League titles. ▪ On Wednesday, in a 60-15 dual-meet win over Brockton that…

Boston Celtics Brown returned to Wheeler High School in Marietta, Georgia, for the ceremony on Friday. Jaylen Brown said he always dreamed of having his high school No. 0 retired. Jessica Rinaldi/Globe Staff By Kaley Brown January 17, 2026 | 7:13 AM 2 minutes to read While in Georgia for Saturday’s game against the Atlanta Hawks, Celtics star Jaylen Brown made a special visit to his nearby high school.Wheeler High School in Marietta held a ceremony to retire Brown’s high school basketball No. 0 while also speaking at the school’s Martin Luther King, Jr. assembly ahead of the holiday on…

Welcome to Snyder’s Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the grand scheme of things, and most will be somewhere in between. The good thing about this website is that it’s free, and you are allowed to click away. If you stay, you’ll get smarter, though. That’s a money-back guarantee. Let’s get to it.This is a baseball column and we’ll get to our favorite sport in a second, but first, the NFL provided me with some good material this…

Prices are reaching record levels across a group collectively worth $353 billion, but a familiar franchise lassos the top spot in the ranking once again, at $13 billion.Six years ago, the world’s most valuable sports team was worth $5 billion. Now, that figure wouldn’t even crack the top 50.The Dallas Cowboys remain No. 1—as they have every year since 2016—but these days, America’s Team is valued at a stratospheric $13 billion. And there is no shortage of data points to chart the spectacular growth in sports franchise valuations in recent years.Together, the 50 top teams are worth more than $353…

Global life sciences and healthcare company Labcorp is set to close a Massachusetts facility and lay off more than 90 employees as a result, according to state officials.Labcorp filed a public Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act Notification (WARN) this month, stating it would shutter its nonclinical facility in Bedford.The company will begin laying off workers at the lab this spring, executive Shawn Heidel wrote in a letter to the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development.Labcorp currently employs nearly 70,000 people, conducts research and testing at dozens of laboratories worldwide, and operates more than 2,200 patient service centers across the U.S.Here’s what…

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Welcome to another high school soccer season in which so many boys’ and girls’ players are coming and going that you’ll need to make a phone call or send a text to the head coach to confirm who’s playing or who’s off competing for a club team, a national team or working out with a pro team.It’s not chaos, just another sign of the many options elite players in Southern California have to consider, and playing high school soccer isn’t exactly the No. 1 in priority in the minds of USA Soccer, club teams, college programs and pro teams.The example…