Bindi Irwin and brother Robert share emotional tributes to late dad Steve on his 64th birthday





















Center secures first men’s title for US since 1980
Americans break Canadian hearts in overtime
It might not have been a shocker on the order of a bunch of scrappy college kids toppling the polished Soviet juggernaut at Lake Placid. But 46 years to the day of the Miracle on Ice, it often felt that way as another underdog United States men’s hockey team ended their Olympic gold drought in a white-knuckle contest dominated by Canada until Jack Hughes’ seismic overtime winner.
Call it the Marvel in Milan.
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Paul Thomas Anderson drama enters final Oscars furlong as firm favourite after scoring six awards, as Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley becomes first Irish woman to win leading actress Bafta, and Chalamet and DiCaprio denied leading actor award
One Battle After Another, Paul Thomas Anderson’s counterculture comedy about a washed-up revolutionary trying to protect his daughter from a ruthless military officer, has dominated the Baftas, taking home six awards including best film, best director, best cinematography, best editing, best supporting actor and best adapted screenplay.
The film, inspired by Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland, was nominated for 14 awards going into Sunday’s ceremony, the most of any contender – including nods for stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Sean Penn, Benicio del Toro, Chase Infiniti and Teyana Taylor.
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Miami star confronted officials in a doorway after 3-0 loss
League determined area was not off-limits to players
MLS has suspended players for entering officials’ room
Major League Soccer has cleared Lionel Messi of wrongdoing after the Argentinian appeared to pursue match officials after Inter Miami’s season-opening loss to LAFC on Saturday evening.
In a video posted to X by Síntesis Deportes reporter Giovanni Guerrero, Messi appears to confront match officials as they entered a doorway within the LA Coliseum after the match, a 3-0 win for LAFC. Miami forward Luis Suárez is seen restraining Messi, who slips out of his teammate’s grip and disappears behind a door. He emerged seconds later and retreated with Suárez to Miami’s locker room.
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© Photograph: Jessie Alcheh/AP