The ongoing $2m, 206-player World Cup in Goa, India, has a brutal format designed to maximise the chance of shock results. Its knockout matches consist of the best of just two classical games, followe...
11.07.2025 Theguardian.com and 2 sites
“Let me take my jacket off, ” Nicholas Christopher said. “I’ve got to redeem myself. ” This was on a grim October afternoon, the day before Halloween. Christopher, a star of the Broadway revival of “C...
11.12.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
Northland’s Marsden Point Rail Link could be the country’s first to be built with a public-private partnership, with companies showing keen interest in the project. The rail link is a 19km spur from t...
11.13.2025 Nzherald.co.nz
Northland’s Marsden Point Rail Link could be the country’s first to be built with a public-private partnership, with companies showing keen interest in the project. The rail link is a 19km spur from t...
11.13.2025 Nzherald.co.nz and 1 sites
In the winter of 1977, Sports Illustrated reporter Ray Kennedy ventured into the Riverside Table Tennis club at 96th and Broadway. It was a dingy joint with leaky pipes, below street level, beneath a supermarket, inhabited by characters with names like Freddie the Fence, Betty the Monkey Lady, and Tony the Arm, a smattering of celebrities—Walter Matthau! Art Carney! Bobby Fischer! Kurt Vonnegut! —and a group of violinists from the Metropolitan Opera. The club’s main draw was the magniloquent Mar...
11.12.2025 Defector.com