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Beth Harmon was fiction. Bodhana Sivanandan is 11, British, brilliant, and already making chess history. Meet the real Queen’s Gambit. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/the-real-queens-gambit-is-11-year Read more.
The Dodgers won the World Series, but not because of better baseball. Meghan Markle cursed them in LA, but Drake’s curse on Toronto proved more powerful. iPINIONS examines how celebrity jinxes determined the winner of this fall classic. Read my full take on Substack: https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/drake-curse-helps-dodgers-defeat Read more.
Bobby Riggs thought he could beat Billie Jean King. This guy thinks a triathlon might be too ambitious. Meanwhile, Natalie Grabow, an 80-year-old grandmother, just completed an Ironman: swim 2.4 miles, bike 112 miles, run 26.2 miles. From STEM to military service, women keep proving they’re the stronger sex — physically, mentally, and morally. iPINIONS… Read more.
When betting pays better than playing, integrity becomes the underdog. iPINIONS unpacks how sports have morphed into casinos — and how fans became gamblers in the stands. Read my full take on Substack:https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/alas-sports-are-casinos-now-making Read more.
Rodgers in a downward spiral Stephen A. Smith is arguably the most influential sports analyst in America. Therefore, it speaks volumes that he has branded “that baaaad man, Aaron Rodgers,” as one of the best to play the game of football. Except that, in what can only be described as a tragicomic descent, Rodgers seems determined to rebrand himself… Read more.
Peyton Manning caught using steroids The Al Jazeera undercover probe, which was posted online early Sunday morning and aired on television later in the day, reported that Manning was given human growth hormone in 2011 while he was recovering from neck surgery. … [The report] contends that steroids and other drugs were shipped to the home address… Read more.
