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The United States hadn’t hoisted the Espirito Santo Trophy at the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship since 2018, and they had to rely on an odd tiebreaker to snap that streak on Saturday in Singapore. When the dust settled on Sunday at Tanah Merah Country Club, the United States, Spain and the Republic of Korea were all tied atop the leaderboard at 18 under. Despite the tie, there is no sudden-death playoff or special match-play tiebreaker. Instead, at the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships, it’s the thing that doesn’t normally count that proves to be the difference. When the 72-hole…

Data Skrive Star runner Cam Edwards and the UConn Huskies (3-2) face the Florida International Panthers (2-2) on Saturday at 3:30 p.m. ET at Pratt and Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field. The game between the Huskies and Panthers will be available on CBS Sports Network.Keep up with college football all season on FOX Sports. Learn more about the UConn Huskies and the Florida International Panthers.How to Watch UConn vs. Florida InternationalWhen: Saturday, October 4, 2025 at 3:30 p.m. ETLocation: Pratt and Whitney Stadium at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, ConnecticutTV Channel: CBS Sports NetworkLive Box Score: FOX SportsUConn vs. Florida…

Martina Nacach Cowan Ros After one-minute pitches by startups at the Brilliant Collisions tech showcase Tuesday in Cambridge, teams stood next to presentation slides to discuss projects with attendees. Thirteen artificial-intelligence-focused life science startups graduated Tuesday from a 12-week Cambridge program that gave them access to lab space, business training and tech support. These companies are part of the first cohort to go through the AI Bio Accelerator Program, part of the new AI BioHub, a space in Kendall Square dedicated to the integration of biotech and AI resources. This program started when the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative, the state’s economic…

Boston College Men’s and Women’s Swimming & Diving team scored a massive victory at home Saturday afternoon, defeating UMass 197-99 on the men’s side and 186-111 on the women’s side.   The Eagles combined for 24 race wins, sweeping 10 events across the event’s entirety.   The women’s 200 medley relay of Courtney Watts, Savannah Branon, Kaitlyn McMorrow, and Elizabeth Oliphant began the winning after recording a time of 1:44.85, followed by the men’s relay of Evan Tack, Darien Betances, Lucas Bailey, and Matt Lang, clocking a 1:30.83 to win the men’s 200 medley relay.   Other highlights from the…

Trey Beamer returned home to Martinsville on Friday to announce his plans to continue his basketball career at Boston College in the fall.

History The recent finds from this summer’s salvage season will be split between the salvage company, its subcontractors and the state of Florida. This photo provided by shipwreck salvage company 1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC shows Spanish coins the firm uncovered from a shipwreck off the Atlantic coast of Florida, 2025. (1715 Fleet – Queens Jewels, LLC via AP) AP By KATE PAYNE, Associated Press October 4, 2025 | 7:53 AM 3 minutes to read A team of excavators has uncovered a load of long-lost Spanish coins buried for centuries under the surf and sand along a stretch of Florida known…

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — The Brien Center has announced its “Rally for Recovery Pickleball Tournament,” a non-DUPR charity event hosted at Bousquet Sport.   The tournament supports the center’s mission of “Serving Hope” and raising funds for recovery services. All proceeds go toward the Patrick Miller Youth Substance Abuse Prevention Program.   The main events will feature a round-robin format, ensuring that every participating team receives multiple opportunities to play. Larger brackets may be separated into pools, with the highest-performing teams advancing to a playoff round where the overall champions will be crowned.   The…

The NFL’s investment in flag football could take the next step soon with the launch of professional leagues, commissioner Roger Goodell said this week.“We’re committed to creating women’s and men’s professional flag football leagues,” Goodell said at the Leaders in Sport conference in London. “We’ve had a great deal of interest in that, and I’m sure we’ll be able to launch that in the next couple of years.”Goodell said 20 million kids are playing flag football globally, “and that’s growing quickly.” He said women’s flag football is the most significant part of that growth trend.“We’re seeing colleges in the United…

In contrast, the men’s world record in the long jump has been broken only once since 1968 when Mike Powell leapt 8.95m (29ft 4in) at the 1991 World Championships, also held in Tokyo. Perhaps we have reached peak long jump – a situation in which further improvement is impossible and differences between an athlete’s performances come down to “luck”: the wind, how well they slept the night before, and so on.We refer to these sorts of situations as “stationary”, in the sense that the overall trend in average behaviour is unchanging. Given a stationary system, we can ask how often…

A Massachusetts woman wanted to leave the world laughing. Linda Murphy’s humorous and heartfelt obituary went viral after she died at 60 years old following a three-year battle with Bulbar ALS. “Well, if you are reading this obituary, it looks like I’m dead. WOW, it actually happened … I died of FOMO due to complications of Bulbar ALS,” Murphy wrote. “My name is Linda Brossi Murphy, and I was just 60 years old when I died … way too young! As the saying goes, I ‘died peacefully while surrounded by loved ones.’ I was loved, comforted, and hugged until my…