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Ethiopian runner Welteji banned over missed drug test which overshadowed world champs
SportYahoo22h ago

Ethiopian runner Welteji banned over missed drug test which overshadowed world champs

One of the world's top middle-distance runners has been banned for two years in a dispute over a missed drug test which overshadowed the opening of last year's world championships. Ethiopia's Diribe Welteji, the silver medalist in the women's 1,500 meters at the 2023 world championships, was ruled to be “negligent” in failing to comply with an attempt to collect a doping test sample last year, the Court of Arbitration for Sport said Thursday. World Athletics wanted a four-year ban but CAS r...

Bodo/Glimt knock Inter out of Champions League as Newcastle, Atletico reach last 16
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Bodo/Glimt knock Inter out of Champions League as Newcastle, Atletico reach last 16

Norway's Bodo/Glimt pulled off one of the most remarkable results in modern Champions League history on Tuesday, beating last season's runners-up Inter Milan 2-1 at San Siro to reach the last 16 with a 5-2 aggregate triumph, while Newcastle United, Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen also went through.Hakon Evjen made it 2-0 on the night and 5-1 on aggregate, leaving Inter with too much to do, even if Alessandro Bastoni pulled one back with a shot that just crossed the line.

‘Service first, argue later’, says Marcos amid political differences
Politicsinquirer4d ago

‘Service first, argue later’, says Marcos amid political differences

MANILA, Philippines — President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. has insisted that his current priority is to address the mounting issues the country is facing, as he sets aside for now forging a possible alliance with the “original” opposition to field front-runners for the 2028 presidential elections. “Differences in politics should never prevent us from working

Paraw Regatta: Asia’s oldest sailing event opens in Iloilo
Cultureinquirer4d ago

Paraw Regatta: Asia’s oldest sailing event opens in Iloilo

ILOILO CITY — The 53rd Iloilo Paraw Regatta Festival, recognized as Asia’s oldest traditional sailing event, officially opened Sunday, Feb. 22, drawing early-morning runners, churchgoers and coastal communities to Arevalo for the start of a week-long maritime celebration. Carrying this year’s theme, ‘Sailing Forward, Guided by Tradition,’ the 53rd edition of the festival moved ahead

Runners take part in 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon
SportYahoo5d ago

Runners take part in 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Hundreds of runners from around the world gathered for the 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon on Saturday. This year, the start and finish line was at the Mississippi Veterans Memorial Stadium in Jackson. Participants were able to compete in several races. “To finish, I’m excited. I’m not trying to win. I’m trying […]

Runners gear up for 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon
SportYahoo6d ago

Runners gear up for 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon

JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – The 2026 Mississippi Blues Marathon will be held on Saturday in the capital city. Runners are excited for Saturday’s race. They said training for the race is just as important as having the right gear. “Making sure I’m eating healthy, making sure that I’m doing all the things, taking care of […]

Habtom Samuel, Pamela Kosgei claim 5k titles at Mountain West Indoor Championships
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Habtom Samuel, Pamela Kosgei claim 5k titles at Mountain West Indoor Championships

This hasn’t been the busiest indoor season for Habtom Samuel and Pamela Kosgei. New Mexico’s star distance runners have combined for a light six races since December, with the latter only competing in two after a highly successful summer and fall. If there was any rust for either, it certainly didn’t show Thursday. Samuel and Kosgei dominated the men’s and women’s 5,000-meter finals at the ...

‘The Interrogator’: Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie Join Stephen Fry Drama Series For Fox As Showrunners
Culturedeadline1d ago

‘The Interrogator’: Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie Join Stephen Fry Drama Series For Fox As Showrunners

EXCLUSIVE: Writers-producers Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie (The Lost Symbol) have boarded Fox’s new drama The Interrogator, starring British actor-comedian Stephen Fry, as executive producers and showrunners. The project, co-produced by Lionsgate Television and Fox Entertainment Studios, was recently picked up with a 12-episode straight-to-series order for the 2026-27 season. The Interrogator centers on former MI6 […]

Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs
Politicsvanguard-ng3d ago

Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs

The Kaduna State Police Command has recorded significant successes in its ongoing operations against banditry, gunrunning, kidnapping, and other violent crimes, arresting several suspects and recovering illegal firearms and hard drugs over the past two weeks. The post Kaduna police neutralise bandits, arrest gunrunners, recover weapons and drugs appeared first on Vanguard News.

Messi has losing start into MLS season, Müller wins
SportYahoo5d ago

Messi has losing start into MLS season, Müller wins

Lionel Messi's Major League Soccer champions Inter Miami suffered defeat in their season opener while runners-up Vancouver Whitecaps with Thomas Müller had a winning start. Miami lost 3-0 at Los Angeles FC in front of the second-largest crowd in MLS history, with 75,673 fans present at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Kdeux Saint Fray can put a dent in Emmet Mullins’s stellar Kempton record
SportThe Guardian6d ago

Kdeux Saint Fray can put a dent in Emmet Mullins’s stellar Kempton record

With Cheltenham fast approaching, the Ladbrokes Trophy Handicap at Kempton on Saturday provides a fascinating field With pre-Cheltenham purdah fast approaching, the Ladbrokes Trophy Handicap Chase at Kempton on Saturday could well be the most competitive betting heat for the next two-and-a-half weeks and Emmet Mullins’s decision to field two runners in the 13-strong field adds a further layer of complexity to the puzzle. Mullins has a well-earned reputation for sliding contenders into handicaps at Cheltenham and Aintree on very competitive marks, but his Kempton record – three wins from five runners – is not too shabby either. Continue reading...

Messi has losing start into MLS season, Müller wins
SportYahoo5d ago

Messi has losing start into MLS season, Müller wins

Lionel Messi's Major League Soccer champions Inter Miami suffered defeat in their season opener while runners-up Vancouver Whitecaps with Thomas Müller had a winning start. Miami lost 3-0 at Los Angeles FC in front of the second-largest crowd in MLS history, with 75,673 fans present at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.
BusinessBusiness Insider8d ago

Miami is not the next Silicon Valley. It's something much weirder.

Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images; Getty Images; Rebecca Zisser/BI Tech's elite are taking their talents to South Beach — again. In January, David Sacks, the venture capitalist and crypto and AI czar, proclaimed that Miami will soon replace New York City as America's financial capital. Stripe's Patrick Collison has been marveling at the city's "boomtown" vibes. With California flirting with a one-time tax on billionaires, said billionaires like Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Mark Zuckerberg are buying oceanfront mansions. And on Tuesday, Palantir announced that it's moving its headquarters from Denver to Miami. Is Miami the next Silicon Valley? We've been here before. The pandemic sent waves of coastal workers to the city, turning it into a Zoomtown full of online venture capitalists like Keith Rabois and Delian Asparouhov, bitcoin bull runners, and purveyors of the finest NFTs. Billboards went up in San Francisco featuring a mock tweet from then-Miami mayor Francis Suarez: "Thinking about moving to Miami? DM me." Here's the thing: It's easy to fall for Miami when a big chunk of the workforce is stuck at home and online. Five years later, it's a lot harder to build companies there. "Miami is great three months out of the year," says one prominent venture capitalist who moved to the city during the pandemic but is now returning to an established hub. While the Floridian tax benefits are real, the investor has found that the social scene hollows out in the summer as residents leave, making it "hard to build roots or have reliable friends." More critically for the startup ecosystem, the scene lacked the "hustle" of San Francisco or New York. Silicon Valley practically runs on a conveyor belt from Stanford and Caltech to Y Combinator's Dogpatch offices. The machine turns students into founders, builders into companies, and companies into the next wave of founders. Miami, meanwhile, lacks a major university to pipe in tech talent. Instead, the investor says, the city tends to attract people who have already "made it." Miami and Fort Lauderdale-based startups raised $3 billion in 2025. Bay Area-based startups raised $177 billion. The Miami market, while busy, significantly lags behind the major hubs. Startups in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale metro raised about $3 billion in 2025, per PitchBook, down from $8.6 billion in 2022, when money and crypto sloshed about. The Bay Area, by contrast, still grabs 52% of the nation's venture funding, with $177 billion in capital pouring in last year. Alligators may be all around in Miami, but unicorns are hard to find. In January, Cast AI, a startup that helps companies cut cloud costs, crossed the $1 billion valuation mark, becoming the region's first homegrown unicorn in years. Before that, Adam Neumann, the ousted WeWork cofounder, debuted his Miami residential real-estate venture, Flow, at a $1 billion valuation in 2022. Even Garry Tan, the Y Combinator president and gadfly who's usually first in line to dunk on San Francisco's politics, has been blunt about where the breeding grounds are best. Tan recently said on X that the accelerator still hasn't opened offices outside the Bay Area because founders are simply more likely to build unicorns there. According to a Business Insider analysis of Crunchbase data, of the at least 97 new unicorns that investors minted in 2025, 43 of them were based in the Bay Area. But those who dismiss the city entirely miss the point. Miami isn't the next San Francisco. It's establishing itself as something else. Patrick Murphy, a former Florida congressman and entrepreneur, says that Miami's tech scene is growing, it's just being built in "reverse order." Silicon Valley, he says, emerged from an if you build it, they will come approach: Engineers built great companies first, which eventually created fortunes that cycled back into the community to fund the next generation of companies. Miami, however, has a more if you come, they will build it tact. It's attracted the "wealth achievers" first — the family offices, private equity names, and already-successful founders who emigrated for lifestyle reasons. Finance heavyweights like Citadel and Thoma Bravo arrived early. Vanguard, one of the world's largest asset managers, is eyeing an expansion in Miami as it targets more Latin American wealth. The city is now importing the machinery that follows them. Legal, accounting, and consulting firms are opening local offices to stay close to clients — and scoop up star talent that no longer needs to live near HQ. This dynamic has established Miami as a "control center" for decision-makers, Murphy argues, but not yet the "factory floor" where the actual work gets done. Murphy says that despite running a successful construction-tech startup, Togal.AI, his engineering team has been offshore from the beginning because the local talent pool simply "didn't exist" when he started in 2019. "If you go to Miami, you're not going to see dozens of engineers at a Starbucks cranking away," he says. "That's not here yet." Still, Miami's flood of wealth is creating demand for startups built on the city's local economy, especially in property tech and fintech, Murphy says. Togal.AI's annual recurring revenue has grown 1,000% over the past two years, Murphy says, and is now raising fresh venture funding in order to hire dozens of new employees this year. Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote on X. Maya Bakhai, a Fort Lauderdale resident and founder of the early-stage venture firm Spice Capital, tells me that the city will flourish alongside "net new" industries that are still taking shape and where the center of gravity isn't locked in yet. Crypto firms like MoonPay and QuickNode still treat South Florida as a home base, she notes. A new space-tech accelerator backed by the state is trying to persuade founders to stick around by pairing them with funders. Bakhai's bigger bet is that just as New York became the hub for e-commerce, Miami could become the place where creator businesses get built. Research out of the University of Hong Kong found Miami has more top influencers per capita than New York or Los Angeles. And then there's Palantir, the strongest signal flare yet that tech is taking America's Playground seriously. It's hard to know what the data giant's HQ move will mean in practice — Palantir hasn't said how many employees it plans to relocate, or whether it will offer moving packages to lure talent south. The company did not respond to an email request for comment. If Palantir does move a meaningful slice of its workforce, it would give Miami something it's been short on: a marquee tech employer that can recruit and keep technical workers on the ground year-round. On X, Palantir's move immediately became a kind of Rorschach test for Miami's future. ""Florida is the future," cheered Andreessen Horowitz investor Katherine Boyle. Others were less convinced. "Florida is the new crypto," one user wrote. "For the next 20 years, nothing will change, but they will always tell you 'big things are happening in Florida.'" Turning Miami into Silicon Beach is a long game, Bakhai argues. It won't be built by the billionaires buying houses to snowbird in today, she argues, but by the young strivers arriving for their first serious jobs — the entry-level analysts heading to Citadel and the junior lawyers starting at firms like Orrick. For the first time, she says, ambitious graduates can launch careers in Miami instead of treating New York or San Francisco as the default. The payoff, she says, comes years later, when they eventually spin off to start their own companies. Until then, Miami remains largely a playground for the "made it" crowd, waiting in the sun for the builders to come. Melia Russell is a reporter with Business Insider, covering the intersection of law and technology. Read the original article on Business Insider