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Yahoo
10 hours ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Jordan Spieth Has Made A Big Prediction For His 2026 Season
Jordan Spieth Has Made A Big Prediction For His 2026 Season originally appeared on The Spun. In the 2010s, Jordan Spieth ranked among the top golfers in the world, winning back-to-back majors in 2015 and adding a third in 2017. But over the past several years, he's found success hard to come by, so he's setting a new goal for 2026. Speaking to reporters at the Wyndham Championship, Spieth said that he expects he can be back at the top of the golf world next year. He believes that 2026 is "going to be a really good year" for him and believes that he's improving to that end. "Next year's going to be a really good year for me, I can feel it. It's all coming along. I'll be healthy, and just structurally putting, the mechanics are all getting really, really close," Spieth said. "One good offseason should get me nailed down to where I could be as good as I've been. That's my goal." Spieth has a pretty steep hill to climb towards that goal though. He currently ranks No. 51 in the Official World Golf Ranking and has not won an event since 2022. His luck hasn't been particularly good in the majors either. He has missed the cut in three of his last 11 major appearances and has not cracked the top 10 in any. Spieth only finished in the top 20 in one of them - this year's Masters. The 2025 golf major season saw Rory McIlroy complete the rare career Grand Slam by winning the Masters. With a Masters, Open Championship and U.S. Open under his belt, Spieth needs to win a PGA Championship to join McIlroy, Tiger, Jack and all of those other legends. It's just going to be hard to take Spieth seriously as a real contender until he finally starts winning events again. In the eight years since he won the 2017 Open Championship he has won a grand total of two events and none since the 2022 RBC Spieth Has Made A Big Prediction For His 2026 Season first appeared on The Spun on Jul 31, 2025 This story was originally reported by The Spun on Jul 31, 2025, where it first appeared.
Malay Mail
20 hours ago
- Politics
- Malay Mail
‘Too good': Senegal's mystics draw crowds with eerie prophecies at annual Xooy ritual
SENEGAL, July 31 — The crowd sat rapt as Senegalese master fortune-teller Adama Gackou entered a trance to predict what the future holds for the west African country. Dead silence reigned as Gackou, his face dimly lit up in the late-night shadows, foretold a tumultuous year of violent protest while swaying back and forth. Then the tension lifted as the young mystic proclaimed a bumper harvest season to come, prompting a jubilant audience to break out into frenetic dance. Bedecked in talismans, a large ox horn hanging from his chest, Gackou was just one of around 20 traditional fortune-tellers, known as 'Saltigues' in Senegal, delivering their predictions during the annual ritual. Several delegations from across the country had travelled to the Fatick region for the weekend's 'Xooy' ceremony, a tradition rooted in ancient African spirituality held ahead of the country's rainy season. From traffic accidents and natural disasters to celebrity deaths and even society gossip, no subject is off-limits for the Saltigues' incantations. His voice booming, Gackou warned of tensions at the top between President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, elected in 2024, and his Prime Minister and former mentor Ousmane Sonko. 'If they do not make the necessary sacrifices, they each risk going their separate ways by the 2029 presidential election,' the mystic thundered. Besides their predictions of the future, the Saltigues can likewise recommend what sacrifice must be made to avoid those catastrophes. The High Priest, known as Saltigue in Serer, Adama Gackou gets ready ahead of a Xooy (call) divination ceremony in Fatick, on July 26, 2025. — AFP pic Confidants of kings The Xooy is primarily practised by the Serer ethnic group, though the Lebous people of the capital Dakar are also known to take part. As an ancestral tradition transcending faiths, the ceremony is a keenly awaited event in Senegal. According to the Saltigues, when the kings of the pre-colonisation Kingdom of Sine prepared for war, they would always consult the soothsayers before committing themselves to battle. Though society may have changed, many Senegalese continue to believe in the supernatural and the Saltigues' prophesies. While admitting that many others do not, clairvoyant Abdoulaye Ndiaye insisted the Saltigues had warned the authorities to make offerings to prevent the sinking of the Le Joola ferry in 2002, which killed nearly 1,900 people. A scarlet bonnet embellished with sea snail shells on his head, Ndiaye even insisted that his fellow mystics had predicted the Covid-19 pandemic. As the tom-tom drums pounded, the mystics within the circle put on a show, each clad in distinctive charms decorated with mirrors, mummified bird heads or small white seashells. Some stomped their chests to the beat, while others faced off against their fellow Saltigues in a magic-measuring contest. A high priestess, known as Saltigue in Serer, delivers her predictions during a Xooy (call) divination ceremony in Fatick, on July 27, 2025. — AFP pic 'Too good' As Saturday turned into Sunday the Xooy dragged on, with the vigil lasting until the afternoon. Gackou appeared to be the hot ticket of the 2025 edition, the audience's eyes firmly fixed on him as he made offhand quips and snide remarks about his fellow mystics. He told AFP he drew his predictive prowess from 'djinns', genies who read the future for him. 'He's too good. Everything he foresees comes to pass,' said Amath Ndiaye, a young spectator from a village a few kilometres away. Amath's mystic namesake, Abdoulaye Ndiaye, explained that there were many ways to join the soothsayers' ranks. Some claim they were born clairvoyant or inherited the know-how from their parents. For others, Ndiaye said, it took years of hard toil before the elders passed on the secret of reading the water, the wind, fires and seashells for clues as to what will come. Many Saltigues also practise traditional African medicine. El Hadji Malick Ngom, chief of the Saltigues of Dakar's Lebous people, claimed the spirits helped the mystics diagnose diseases and prepare plant-based potions to cure them. Yet he lamented that this native know-how was 'very endangered' as the younger generations increasingly turn their backs on the tradition. — AFP
CNN
2 days ago
- Politics
- CNN
Analysis: Donald Trump's long history of fake history
President Donald Trump told a story on Monday about how he 'made a correct prediction' about the outcome of the United Kingdom's 2016 Brexit referendum while he was visiting his golf course in Scotland 'the day before the vote.' 'You remember?' he asked reporters. They couldn't have remembered. It didn't happen. Trump actually visited Scotland the day after the Brexit referendum, not the day before it. And while he did say about three months prior that he thought the UK would end up leaving the European Union, he made no public predictions in an interview the day before the vote – saying he personally favored Brexit but also that 'I don't think anybody should listen to me because I haven't really focused on it very much.' Trump's imaginary story about these events nine years ago might be considered trivial compared to his lies about pressing topics like inflation and the war in Ukraine. But it's part of a pattern – a long line of similarly fabricated tales from the president about his own history and world history. And the pattern has a purpose. Trump's stories serve to exaggerate his foresight about and knowledge of domestic and foreign affairs, embellish his biography and record in office, and diminish his political opponents. The stories tend to be colorful even though they're fake. Trump's historical fiction is sprinkled with vivid details and make-believe quotes, all the better to make it seem authentic and get it to stick in the minds of voters. A White House official, responding to CNN's questions on condition of anonymity, noted that Trump correctly predicted Brexit and then said, 'He was in Scotland before the vote.' The official didn't acknowledge that, contrary to what Trump claimed Monday and has claimed for years, he wasn't there the day before the Brexit vote and didn't make a prediction that day. Here is a fact check of eight other examples of false Trump stories about the past from the last two months alone: His false claim that he issued a 'don't go in' warning against the 2003 invasion of Iraq His false story about a supposed conversation with his late uncle about the Unabomber His false story about a supposed conversation with his late uncle about the Unabomber His false claim that he was the person who deployed the National Guard during civil unrest in Minneapolis in 2020 His false claim that he signed a law in 2020 to impose automatic 10-year prison sentences on people who damage monuments His false claim that he was being sarcastic when he repeatedly promised to end Russia's war on Ukraine within 24 hours of returning to office His false claim that the European Union was formed to take advantage of the US His false claim that tariffs were imposed merely after the Great Depression, not during it His false claim that South Korea convinced former president Joe Biden to allow it to stop making any payments to share the cost of the US military presence there Trump and the war in Iraq Trump, touting his foreign policy acumen, has been falsely claiming for years that he publicly warned the US not to invade Iraq in 2003. He did it again in comments to reporters in June: 'I said it loud and clear – but I was a civilian, but I guess I got a lot of publicity – but I was very much opposed to the Iraq war. And I actually did say, 'Don't go in, don't go in, don't go in.' But I said, 'If you're going to go in, keep the oil.' But they didn't do that.' Very firm quotes. Except Trump didn't utter them. There is no record of Trump issuing any such public warnings before the 2003 invasion. When radio host Howard Stern asked Trump in September 2002 whether he is 'for invading Iraq,' Trump said, 'Yeah, I guess so. I wish the first time it was done correctly.' Trump did not express a firm opinion about the war in a Fox interview in January 2003, saying that 'either you attack or don't attack' and that then-President George W. Bush 'has either got to do something or not do something, perhaps.' Trump started publicly expressing critical thoughts about the war shortly after it began in 2003, then emerged as an explicit opponent in 2004. He did get considerable publicity for this commentary – but it was post-invasion criticism, not the pre-invasion criticism he keeps saying it was. Asked about this false claim, the White House official responded, 'He said that he was against it.' In fact, though, Trump went further than simply claiming to have been against the invasion; he said he made specific pre-invasion public comments he didn't make. Trump's uncle and the Unabomber Trump has repeatedly invoked his late uncle John Trump, a longtime professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as evidence of his own intelligence and good 'genes.' At an event on energy and innovation earlier this month, he said he needed to 'brag' about his uncle's smarts, then made up a story that vividly but wrongly linked his uncle with the late 'Unabomber' terrorist Theodore 'Ted' Kaczynski. 'Kaczynski was one of his students,' Trump said, then went on to talk about having asked his uncle about what Kaczynski was like. ''I said, 'What kind of a student was he, Uncle John?' Dr. John Trump. I said, 'What kind of a student?' And then he said, 'Seriously, good.' He said, 'He'd correct – he'd go around correcting everybody.'' This supposed exchange could not have happened. Aside from the fact that MIT says it has no information suggesting Kaczynski ever attended MIT (he went to nearby Harvard), the president's uncle died in 1985, more than a decade before Kaczynski was publicly identified as the Unabomber in 1996. Given that Kaczynski had lived for years as a recluse in the wilderness, there is no apparent reason that Donald Trump would have been asking anyone about Kaczynski in 1985 or earlier. The White House didn't attempt to defend this story even on condition of anonymity. Trump and civil unrest in Minneapolis Trump, attacking a prominent Democratic opponent, told members of the military in a speech at Fort Bragg in June that 'I'll never forget' what happened with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020: 'That city was burning down, Minneapolis – it was burning down, it was gonna burn to the ground – and he wouldn't call the Guard. And I waited for a long time, and I called the Guard, and I saved it.' Whatever Trump claims to recall, this is not what happened. In reality, Walz, not Trump, was the person who deployed the Minnesota National Guard, more than seven hours before Trump publicly threatened to deploy the Guard himself. While Walz was criticized by many Republicans and some Democrats for not sending in the Guard faster, it is indisputable that Walz, not Trump, was the person who eventually did it. The White House official said Walz activated the Guard 'only' after Trump urged him to. That's an implicit concession that Trump was wrong when he said he was the one who activated the Guard – and the official's statement is wrong too. Walz activated the Guard before he spoke with Trump on the matter and before Trump's public statement. Trump and damage to monuments Trump told another dramatic but fake story about his response to 2020 protests during a speech in Iowa early this month. Trump said that, while protesters were marching toward the Jefferson Memorial trying to rip down a statue of Thomas Jefferson, 'we signed a law' – 'an old bill from 1909' – that 'said if you so much as touch a monument or a statue, you go to jail for a 10-year period. No anything.' He claimed that he held a news conference in the middle of the march saying anyone who touches a monument 'immediately goes to jail for a 10-year period,' and then 'that march broke up so quickly.' 'Do you remember that night? It was crazy,' Trump asked during his story. Nobody could possibly remember that night because it didn't occur. Trump did not sign any 'law' on penalties for damage to monuments, he did not do anything to impose rapid or automatic 10-year jail sentences on people who damage monuments, and the policy he did announce in June 2020 did not suddenly break up an active march to the Jefferson Memorial. What really happened: Trump announced that he had issued an executive order that directed the attorney general to prioritize investigations and prosecutions of people who damaged government-owned monuments and to prosecute offenders 'to the fullest extent' allowed under existing federal law, which provided for a maximum – not immediate or mandatory – sentence of 10 years in prison. It's not clear what impact, if any, this announcement had on the protests that followed Floyd's murder. Trump and Russia's war on Ukraine When a reporter reminded Trump at a press conference in June that Trump had previously promised to end Russia's war on Ukraine in '24 hours' but had later said he had been speaking sarcastically, Trump said, 'Of course it was sarcastic.' It was plainly not sarcastic. When Trump claimed in April that he had made the promise 'in jest,' CNN found 53 examples in which he had pledged on the campaign trail, in an entirely serious tone, manner and context, that he would end the war either within 24 hours of his return to the White House or even sooner than that, as president-elect. When CNN asked the White House about this false claim, White House spokesperson Anna Kelly responded on the record with a comment that did not directly address its accuracy. 'Russia and Ukraine are having direct talks for the first time in years because of President Trump's leadership,' Kelly said. The formation of the EU Trump occasionally offers lessons on world history to bolster his contemporary arguments. But those lessons have sometimes been bogus. In June, for example, he said while discussing his trade negotiations with the European Union: 'The European Union was formed in order to take advantage of the United States on trade. That was why they were formed.' Experts on the history of the EU have previously told CNN that this Trump claim is 'preposterous' and 'could not be more wrong or inaccurate,' noting US presidents consistently supported European integration efforts that were intended to stabilize the continent and promote prosperity. Tariffs and the Great Depression Trump has made tariffs one of his signature policy tools. During a Cabinet meeting early this month, he defended them with a wildly distorted history of their role in the Great Depression – wrongly claiming tariffs were revived 'after the Depression,' not during it. Trump said: 'There was no income tax system … in 1913 that came back, and lived well for a while, and then you had the Great Depression. And then later they brought – they tried to bring back their tariffs. But the whole thing was, you know – this was after the Depression. It was one of the great misconceptions as people like to say. 'Oh, but it was during the' – no. The country had a Great Depression, and then after the Depression, after – long after it started – they brought back tariffs to see if they could save it. But it took them really 25 years, wouldn't you say, about 25 years to get out of the Great Depression. A lot of people don't understand that.' Thoroughly wrong. The US imposed major tariffs near the beginning of the Great Depression, via the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930; they are widely thought to have contributed to deepening the Depression, which began in 1929 and is generally thought to have run until 1939. And while economic history can always be debated, there's no reasonable basis for the claim that it took 25 years to 'get out of' the Great Depression; World War II, from 1939 to 1945, served as a massive boon to the US economy. Biden and South Korea's military cost-sharing At the same Cabinet meeting, Trump repeated a false story about how South Korea supposedly persuaded Biden to let it completely abandon the payments it had been making to help cover the cost of the US military presence in South Korea, saying, 'And you know what Biden did? They probably went to him and they said, 'Listen, Trump treated us terribly and we shouldn't be paying anything,' and he cut it down to nothing.' In fact, Biden's administration signed two cost-sharing agreements with South Korea, one in 2021 and one in 2024, that included South Korean spending increases – meaning South Korea twice agreed to pay more than it did during Trump's first term. The White House official claimed that 'President Trump is right' because Biden negotiated 'bad' deals that secured 'much lower' payments than Trump would have. But that defense contradicts Trump's own false claim that Biden agreed to allow no payments at all.
Telegraph
3 days ago
- Sport
- Telegraph
bet365 6 Scores Challenge guide: Free-to-play game explained
Sign up to bet365 here and receive up to £30 in welcome bonuses: What is the bet365 6 Scores Challenge? The 6 Scores Challenge is a football prediction game that is free to play at bet365. You are asked to predict the scores of six football matches. The more scores you get right, the bigger the prize you win, with an ultimate jackpot of £250,000 at stake. Read on to find out everything that you need to know about a game that will become a firm part of your weekend football routine. Want to explore a vast array of online bookmakers? Check out the UK's best free bets and betting sites Latest bet365 6 Scores Challenge fixtures and tips The bet365 6 Scores Challenge will return for the first round of Premier League fixtures for the new 2025-26 season, which begins on Friday 15 August. Check back nearer the time for information on which fixtures will be included and gain a helping hand with exclusive score predictions from our expert tipsters. How do you play the bet365 6 Scores Challenge? The bet365 6 Scores Challenge game presents you with six football fixtures, for which you must attempt to correctly predict the final scorelines. It's a fun game where you can win some free spins if you manage to get one to three scores correct, or land a cash prize if you get between four to six right. If more than one player predicts either four, five or six scores correctly, then the cash prize is split evenly between them. So for example, if two players got all six scores correct, the maximum prize of £250,000 would be split two ways, with each player receiving a half-share of £125,000. The game is available to play ahead of the weekend Premier League fixtures and also during those midweeks in which European matches are taking place. Occasionally, there will be fixtures from the Championship or FA Cup. It's an easy game to play, but just to make it easier, here is a step-by-step guide to playing the bet365 6 Scores Challenge. Login to your bet365 account. You can find the 6 Scores Challenge page in bet365's Sport tab, Promotions tab or by clicking on the Soccer tab and then the Free Games link. Using the arrows to toggle through the possible scores, select your correct score predictions for all six of the listed games. Once finished, click on the green button marked 'Save your predictions'. What you can win when playing the bet365 6 Scores Challenge Take a look at the table below, which details the various prizes you can win with the bet365 6 Scores Challenge. bet365 6 Scores Challenge – key terms and conditions Here are some key terms and conditions to remember when playing the bet365 6 Scores Challenge. You may only make one entry to the 6 Scores Challenge each game week. The final score is deemed to be the 90-minute result which includes any added time from the referee. Own goals count towards the final score. If one of the six fixtures does not take place, then the prize pool is accordingly reduced. Should three or more fixtures not take place, then the entire promotion will be made void. Players winning free spins can only use them on selected games. Claim the free spins within three days by logging into your account, selecting an eligible game and clicking 'accept'. Once accepted, you have another three days to use the free spins. The free spins come with no wagering requirement. Does anyone ever win the bet365 6 Scores Challenge? Since the 6 Scores Challenge game was launched in the 2022-23 season, there have been three occasions on which the jackpot of £250,000 has been won. Three players got all six predictions right to share the prize fund when it was first won in September 2024. A single player was successful when the jackpot was next won in October 2024, which was also the case when it was most recently won in April 2025. The bet365 6 Scores Challenge is a difficult contest to win, but these examples prove that it is possible. If you get four or five predictions right you can receive a sizeable cash prize and, with there being no cost to enter, there's every reason to have a go each week. How to join bet365 to play the 6 Scores Challenge To play the 6 Scores Challenge you will need to have an account with bet365. Here's how you go about setting up your account. Visit the bet365 website and click on the yellow button marked 'Join' in the top-right corner of the screen. A registration form will appear. Enter your personal details, agree to the terms and conditions and confirm to open your account. While the 6 Scores Challenge game is free to play, you will need money in your account if you are going to make other bets. Click on the link marked 'Deposit' in the top-right corner of the screen, choose a payment method and the amount of money that you want to add to your account. Confirm the payment. With money in your account you are able to bet on the many markets available at bet365. You can also play the 6 Scores Challenge for free! Other free-to-play prediction games There are other betting sites that also provide free-to-play prediction games. Here are a couple of our other favourites. Sky Bet – Super 6 The Super 6 game from Sky Bet is similar to bet365 6 Scores Challenge, but has some subtle differences. Again, you have to pick out six correct scores, but you also have to make a Golden Goal prediction. With the Golden Goal, you select a minute in which the first goal will be scored, in any of the six featured games. There is a £250,000 jackpot prize, but if more than one player gets all six predictions correct, then one winner will be decided by who has the closest Golden Goal prediction. For weeks in which no one gets six predictions right, a prize of £5,000 goes to the player with the highest score. If the winner manages to get five predictions correct, then they receive an extra bonus of £1,000. LiveScore Bet – LiveScore 6 This free-to-play game from LiveScore Bet is another that features a top prize of £250,000. To win, you again have to correctly predict the scores of six games. If more than one player manages to achieve this feat, then the £250,000 prize is shared equally between them. Any player who manages to get five correct scores will receive a runner-up prize of £2,500. Telegraph verdict on the bet365 6 Scores Challenge The bet365 6 Scores Challenge is a fun game that can have a life-changing impact for anyone winning the top prize. For most players, a few free spins and the occasional small cash prize is the likely outcome, but there is always the hope of landing that huge jackpot. So it's well worth building this game into your weekend routine. It's a great way to test your football knowledge, that could make you very rich one day. bet365 6 Scores Challenge FAQs How do you play the 6 Scores Challenge at bet365? If you have an account at bet365 you can play this predictor game free of charge. You have to predict the scores in six chosen football matches. You can win free spins if you get between one and three scores right, or cash prizes for four to six correct scores. What is the jackpot on the bet365 6 Scores Challenge? If you get all six scores right on this game, you will win a share of £250,000. Should you be the only winner you will get to keep the entire prize, while it will be split equally if there are multiple winners. Has anyone ever won the bet365 6 Scores Challenge? The £250,000 prize for the 6 Scores Challenge has been won on three occasions. When it was first won, the £250,000 was split between three players, while on the other two occasions a single player took home the jackpot. Is the bet365 6 Scores Challenge free to play? Yes, the 6 Scores Challenge is completely free for bet365 account holders. Just log in and make your score predictions for a chance to test your football knowledge and hopefully scoop a big prize.
National Post
4 days ago
- Business
- National Post
Accidental Shoutout from MrBeast Sends Traffic Surge to Moneyline.com
Article content DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — In a twist of internet fate, a new sports information portal, saw a massive traffic surge after being unintentionally name-dropped in recent MrBeast videos. Article content On December 19, 2024, traffic to the site skyrocketed from an average of 40–60 daily visitors to nearly 3,000 in a single day, all without a single dollar spent on advertising. The unexpected influx puzzled the team behind currently in public beta, until they traced the source to MrBeast's YouTube video titled 'Beast Games', where at the 15:40 mark, the YouTube megastar clearly says ' while referencing his actual sponsor, Article content Article content While is unrelated to the financial services brand, the similarity in names led thousands of viewers to type in the wrong URL, sending over 55,000 unique visits and more than 1,000 user signups to the sports prediction platform. Article content allows sports fans to make predictions on major sporting events, with future plans to enable top pickers to monetize their insights by selling picks to other users. The platform does not offer real-money betting but links to licensed sportsbooks. Article content 'This was an unexpected but exciting moment for us,' said the team behind 'We've been developing this for over two years and just launched in beta with friends and family. The MrBeast mispronunciation gave us valuable traffic insights and early user feedback, all before our official marketing push.' Article content With beta testing nearly complete, is preparing to launch new features soon; this time, intentionally attracting attention. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
