Chess’ governing body has decided to separate the Kings and Queens…
While they may appear next to each other on the board, they’re not going to be in the same tournament brackets.
According to The Washington Post, the International Chess Federation — or FIDE — has announced a ban on transgender players in women’s tournaments. While guidelines said biological men have “no right” to compete in women’s tournaments, it mentioned that there would be “further analysis on the matter. That “analysis” is expected to take two years.
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With the days of overseeing the killing terrorists behind them, George W. Bush and Condoleezza Rice have pivoted to a new job:
Trying to get the ACC to expand and add SMU and Stanford.
The ACC is currently undergoing the debate of figuring out whether or not the conference should expand. So far, efforts to add Cal and Stanford have failed, and it doesn’t seem likely SMU will be added either.
However, the big guns have now arrived to throw their weight around in the form of Rice and the former President of the United States.
Condoleezza Rice and George W.
After James Harden publicly called team executive Daryl Morey “a liar” earlier this week, 76ers star Joel Embiid changed up his profile on X (formerly known as Twitter), removing “Processing” from his bio and removing Philadelphia as his location.
Naturally, basketball fans went crazy on social media, trying to decipher whether Embiid was trolling the internet as he is well known for, or if he was seriously contemplating asking out of Philadelphia amid the drama within the organization.
ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne joined 97.
Being a hitter at the major league level is hard enough, thanks to so man pitchers throwing just ridiculously filthy stuff, but it’s even harder when umpires can’t do their jobs correctly and routinely put players in difficult situations with bad calls.
Nobody likely knows more about that than Detroit Tigers first baseman Spencer Torkelson, who has seen a large number of pitches outside the zone get called for strikes against him this season.
Matthew Stafford didn’t completely disagree with Maxx Crosby’s sack count, crediting the Raiders’ Pro Bowl edge rusher for being a disruptor in multiple ways during Wednesday’s joint scrimmage between the Rams and Raiders.
“Any time he gets within five feet of me, he’s yelling ‘sack!’ in my face,” the Rams’ quarterback said. “I’m not just an absolute statue back there. I can move a little bit. I gotta watch the tape.
Check out our initial batch of fantasy football defense rankings for 2023 draft season!
Good morning, I’m Kevin Sweeney, pinch-hitting for Dan Gartland. We’ve got an abbreviated newsletter for you this morning, which might be good for Yankees fans reading this.
In today’s SI:AM:
⚾ Yankees’ disastrous season hits a new low
⚽ USWNT coach steps down
🏈 Dispatches from Rams, Raiders camp
Not much has gone well for New York since the All-Star break.
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Yankees Shut Out … Again
The 2023 season has officially gone off the rails for the Yankees.
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Max Verstappen will need to wait a little longer for his Hungarian GP trophy
Last month, we covered the saga of Max Verstappen’s first-place trophy at the Hungarian Grand Prix. The handcrafted porcelain trophy, which a team of 30 workers helped craft, was caught up in the podium celebration.
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Christopher Morel ended a game, then lost his mind
A night after Luis Robert shushed Chicago Cubs fans after his seventh-inning home run gave the Chicago White Sox a one-run lead, Christopher Morel made sure he had those fans’ back.
Then lost his mind in the process.
The Cubs were down 3-1 in the ninth inning at Wrigley Field Wednesday night, and Morel was at the plate facing newly-minted closer Gregory Santos. Two runners were on, and Morel was in the hole 1-2, having swung and missed twice to begin the at-bat.
The Browns and Eagles are holding joint practices in training camp this week, and as such, reporters are observing the sessions, trying to glean as much information as they can ahead of the new season.
Eagles reporter Eliot Shorr-Parks of 94WIP.com posted a picture of Browns quarterback Deshaun Watson on Wednesday, and went into detail about his mixed performance against Philadelphia.
“Deshaun Watson Training Camp Stats vs. Eagles defense,” Shorr-Parks posted on X. “The Eagles defense definitely got the better of Watson during the joint practices.