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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Week 6 recap: Big upsets and big injuries define a wild NFL Sunday  Yahoo Sports Source link

(Bloomberg) — Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered. Most Read from Bloomberg A further Bitcoin plunge of about 70% to $5,000 next year is among the “surprise” scenarios that markets may be “under-pricing,” the bank’s Global Head of Research Eric Robertsen wrote in a note on Sunday. Demand could switch from Bitcoin as a digital version of gold to the real thing, spurring to a 30%… Source link

Carlos Alcaraz burst onto the world tennis scene less than a year ago, and now he’s taking down giants. On Saturday at the Madrid Open, he became the first player to ever beat Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal at the same clay-court event. He’s 12th player (and the youngest ever) to beat them at the same event overall, and just the fifth player to beat them in back-to-back matches (the first since Roger Federer in 2010). The Spanish teenager, who turned 19 on Thursday, defeated world No. 1… Source link

There’s nothing more exciting in sports than seeing an elite team get upset by a plucky underdog, and that doesn’t ring any truer than in the NBA, where a playoff upset is legitimately extremely difficult to come by. From Dirk Nowitzki’s No. 1 seed Dallas Mavericks losing to the No. 8 seed We Believe Golden State Warriors to Alonzo Mourning, Tim Hardaway and the Miami Heat – No. 1 seeds in their own right – losing to the New York Knicks, another No. 8 seed, in Round 1, the NBA has… Source link

With just over six minutes left for his team to save its season on Sunday night, Auburn coach Bruce Pearl made an eye-opening decision. He substituted for Walker Kessler with the second-seeded Tigers trailing by 10, benching the all-SEC 7-footer to go with a smaller lineup. While 10th-seeded Miami had to wait a little while longer to celebrate a 79-61 victory and an improbable berth in the Sweet 16, Pearl’s desperation move was the equivalent of him raising a white flag. In a second-round… Source link

A year after winning just two games, Iowa State is moving on to the Sweet 16. The Cyclones, the No. 11 seed in the Midwest region, upset No. 3 seed Wisconsin 54-49 in the second round of the NCAA tournament. And they did it in front of a largely pro-Wisconsin crowd on Sunday night in Milwaukee. The Cyclones (22-12) had a 2-22 record in 2021 but have now won two games in the NCAA tournament in their first season with T.J. Otzelberger as head coach. Gabe Kalscheur led the way for ISU in what was… Source link

Michigan is making another NCAA men’s tournament run. The No. 11 Wolverines are in the Sweet 16 for the fifth consecutive NCAA men’s tournament after a 76-68 win over No. 3 Tennessee in the Midwest region. The Volunteers had plenty of chances late in the second half, including on a made basket by Zakai Zeigler with 1:38 to go that left his hand a fraction of a second after the shot clock expired. Michigan led 68-64 at the time and was able to keep the Volunteers at bay over the final 98… Source link

Saturday was a wild day in men’s college basketball. Upsets occurred throughout the day, including No. 2 Duke in a thrilling ACC battle with Miami. By the end, seven ranked teams fell. Here’s everything that went down throughout the top 25 on Saturday: Miami shocks No. 2 Duke Miami’s winning streak continues. The Hurricanes picked up their ninth straight win on Saturday night with a huge 76-74 road win over the Blue Devils, thanks largely to a hanging layup from Kameron McGusty in the final… Source link

UAB got its second bowl win in team history Saturday.  DeWayne McBride rushed for over 180 yards in the Blazers’ 31-28 upset over No. 13 BYU in the Independence Bowl. The win means UAB finishes the season at 9-4 and has won at least nine games in three of the past four seasons. It’s an incredible turnaround for a program that didn’t exist in 2015 and 2016 after it was shut down. UAB hadn’t finished above .500 from 2005-2014 and university leaders didn’t think the program was worth… Source link

The 2021 French Open continues Friday with a major upset on the women’s side. Follow along below for the latest upsets and surprises. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova stuns Aryna Sabalenka to move to fourth round The top-seeded women’s player at the 2021 French Open fell in the third round. Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka — the world’s No. 3 — was upset by Russian Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova — ranked No. 31— in the third round of the tournament.  Pavlyuchenkova battled back against Sabalenka to take… Source link