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Download and subscribe to the latest Sky Sports Golf podcast Last Updated: 20/03/23 10:18pm Sky Sports Golf podcast: What does distance-reducing golf ball mean for players? Is Jordan Spieth reaching 2015 levels? The rollback in golf ball distance, events at the Valspar Championship, the first Aramco Team event of 2023 and cheeseburger tattoos feature in the latest edition of the Sky Sports Golf podcast. Sophie Walker, Richard McEvoy and DP World Tour player Richard Mansell join regular host Josh Antmann to reflect on another busy week in the sport.Our guests give their thoughts on what the USGA and R&A’s distance-reducing ball proposal means for…

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The NFL is expected to finalize a multi-year extension for commissioner Roger Goodell at next week’s owners meetings in Phoenix, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports. The 64-year-old Goodell has been commissioner of the league since 2006 — second-longest among active commissioners of North America’s four largest men’s pro sports leagues behind the NHL’s Gary Bettman (1992). .acf-block-preview .instagram-twitter-container width: 340px; margin: 0 auto; Schefter reports the sides have discussed a three-year extension. He also writes it is expected to be the most lucrative deal for any commissioner in any sport. The native of Jamestown, N.Y. started in the NFL in 1982…

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Havana, Cuba – On June 9, Amelia Calzadilla, a 33-year-old mother of three, posted a video to Facebook. It was a spur-of-the-moment decision that would transform her into one of Cuba’s most prominent new dissidents. “I never had any interest in being famous, in being an influencer or a journalist. I’m interested in telling the truth,” she said. Now, Calzadilla is involved in a public battle with the Cuban government, which has been trying to censor her for months. She has become part of an emerging force in Cuba’s political resistance: mothers who are making their daily struggles known as…

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Russia’s Investigative Committee says the International Criminal Court has knowingly accused an innocent person of a crime, in another show of defiance against the court.Russia’s top investigative body has opened a criminal case against the International Criminal Court (ICC) prosecutor and judges who issued an arrest warrant for President Vladimir Putin on war crimes charges. The move was announced on Monday by the state Investigative Committee in another gesture of Russian defiance, three days after the ICC accused Putin and his children’s commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova of the war crime of deporting children from Ukraine to Russia. A day after being…

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Trump says he expects to be arrested in a case that involves allegations he paid hush money to a porn star.Former US President Donald Trump claims he will be arrested on Tuesday as part of investigations into a case that involves him allegedly paying hush money to adult film star Stormy Daniels before the 2016 US presidential election. Trump called on his supporters to protest ahead of any arrest attempts made. Here is a timeline of events in this case since the controversy began more than five years ago: 2018 January US media outlet Wall Street Journal publishes details of…

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Canada’s Kerri Einarson defeated Italy’s Stefania Constantini 7-2 in round-robin play at the world women’s curling championship in Sandviken, Sweden. Einarson, Val Sweeting, Shannon Birchard and Briane Harris improved to 3-1 after six draws of play at the Goransson Arena. Italy faced a triple-raise double-takeout to score in the ninth end but gave up a steal of two to end the game. Einarson and her Manitoba-based team will play Scotland’s Rebecca Morrison later Monday. The top six teams in the 13-team field will qualify for the playoff round. The final is scheduled for Sunday. Einarson won bronze at last year’s…

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The nationwide protests are against the rising cost of living in Kenya and the election victory of President William Ruto.The Kenyan police have used tear gas and arrested several senior opposition politicians as hundreds of people protested against President William Ruto, the high cost of living and claims of cheating in last year’s election. Veteran political figure Raila Odinga, who lost to Ruto in August’s poll, has urged nationwide protests as he attempts to harness dissatisfaction with the president. The discontented include some who voted for Ruto and feel he has not delivered on pledges to help the country’s forgotten…

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The statement follows police filing ‘terrorism’ and other charges against the ex-PM over weekend clashes in capital Islamabad.Islamabad, Pakistan – Pakistan’s former Prime Minister Imran Khan has condemned the police action against him and his supporters as a sign of “fascism” in the country. “Fascism at unprecedented levels with police in Islamabad raiding homes without warrants to abduct PTI workers. Where the worker is not present, children as young as 10 yrs are picked up,” Khan tweeted late on Sunday, demanding the immediate release of his party’s workers. The statement by the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party chief came shortly after…

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With the 20th anniversary of the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq upon us, the politics of memory are sure to resurface along familiar fault lines. Did the Bush administration do irreparable damage to American prestige by leading the country into another quagmire? Did the Obama administration withdraw too soon and allow al-Qaeda in Iraq to rebuild and morph into ISIL (ISIS)? Apart from a few notable exceptions, the collective memory of the Iraq conflict in the United States falls within the narrow parameters of these debates. The military campaign was largely framed in the news media by US military information operations to meet specific…

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Carlos Alcaraz has regained the world No 1 ranking after claiming the BNP Paribas Open title in Indian Wells without losing a set.The 19-year-old Spaniard ended Daniil Medvedev’s 19-match winning streak with a 6-3 6-2 victory to reclaim the top spot in the ATP rankings that he lost to Novak Djokovic in January. Medvedev – who has climbed one spot to No 5 – had won his three previous tournaments in Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai.He had also won the pair’s only previous meeting – at Wimbledon in 2021 – but the 27-year-old had no answer to his teenage opponent’s patient…

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