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Nov 13, 2026 - Sports

Get the latest odds, prediction and pick for the Week 11 UCLA vs. Illinois game, as well as information on how to watch.

Nov 13, 2026 - Sports

Will a record-tying six quarterbacks go in the first round again? Rob Rang sorts the 14 best draft-eligible QBs into tiers.

Nov 13, 2026 - Sports

The Norwegian world No 1 will be among 500 competitors in the 10-round contest of 15-minute gamesMagnus Carlsen makes a very rare appearance in an open tournament on 5-6 December when the Norwegian, who has topped the world rankings for 15 successive years, competes in the 10-round Super Rapid at the XTX Markets London Classic. The venue is the Novotel West at Hammersmith and the time limit is 15 minutes per player for the entire game, plus a 10 seconds increment for each move.In 2025, 267 players entered the Super Rapid. On Monday, when Carlsen’s participation was announced, the entry doubled in just 12 hours and is now close to 400. The capacity is 500 and Alex Holowczak, the Chief Arbiter, expects that figure to be reached this weekend or early next week. His advice to anyone contemplating entry is to do so as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. The link to the entry form is here. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - Sports

Football and the art world have long remained distant but the breadth of entries for this year’s award revivals a healthy revivalIt may be the Beautiful Game, but in its early decades football was a rare subject for artists. The Italian Futurist Umberto Boccioni whirled an athlete’s body into a vortex of movement in his 1913 painting Dynamism of a Soccer Player. You can see one of the earliest fine art depictions of a match – a smoggy, factory-adjactent scene called Any Wintry Afternoon in England – at the Manchester Art Gallery. If 1930s abstraction is more your thing, you can enjoy decoding the geometric shapes in Kazimir Malevich’s Painterly Realism of a Football Player – Color Masses in the 4th Dimension. I’m guessing the small green pea shape is a ball.These, in any case, were exceptions. In 1953 the Football Association launched an art prize, backed by the newly formed Arts Council: the winning works included Going To The Match by LS Lowry, with its crowds flocking to Bolton Wanderers’ then home ground, Burnden Park. An exhibition of the submissions, Football and The Fine Arts, toured the country and the FA secretary, Sir Stanley Rous, said he hoped it would finally break the barrier between those two worlds. Continue reading...

Nov 13, 2026 - Sports

Mauricio Pochettino is leaving the United States men’s national team for Manchester United.