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Jon Rahm breaks title drought at LIV Hong Kong

Jon Rahm captured his first individual tournament win since September 2024 on Sunday, carding a 64 for a three-stroke victory at LIV Golf Hong Kong.

Tied with Harold Varner III and Belgium's Thomas Detry entering the round, Rahm took over on the back nine with birdies on four consecutive holes, giving himself enough cushion to withstand a bogey at No. 18. His final round put him at 23-under for the event at Hong Kong Golf Club in Fanling.

Also breaking a long title drought was the Dustin Johnson-led 4Aces, who grabbed their first team win in 974 days with their 58-under showing.

Rahm started the season with back-to-back runner-up finishes before hoisting the Hong Kong trophy.

"Very relieving," said Rahm, who has won the past two season-long individual titles. "That's the only way I can describe it. I've been very ecstatic for wins in the past. This one just feels like a big weight off my shoulder. That's all I can say."

Detry shot a 67 on Sunday to finish 20-under and in sole possession of second place. Fellow Belgian Thomas Pieters (66) was a stroke behind Detry in third place, and Varner (69) finished in fourth at 18-under. Matthew Wolff (65) was fifth.

With the victory, Rahm snapped a streak of 26 events without an individual win, despite the success of his Legion XIII team.

"It's very fun when you can stand on that podium and celebrate with your teammates," Rahm said. "But as far as obviously being a competitor and as myself goes, I wanted to get this done. It feels different. I think I would be way more ecstatic if I was celebrating with my teammates for the win, like the Aces did today, but there's a sense of self-accomplishment and pride that goes with doing it myself."

The 4Aces won the team championship in 2022 and two event titles in 2023 but hadn't managed a win since. But buoyed by Detry and Pieters -- along with solid finishes by Johnson and Anthony Kim -- this week was different.

The group was 16-under on Sunday, led by a 65 from Johnson and a 66 from Kim.

"It's been a while since we've won, especially with the way we started, dominating, pretty much winning every single event, or if we didn't win, we were finishing second for the first couple years," Johnson said.

"Obviously since then, LIV as a whole, the players have gotten a lot stronger, a lot better. The teams have gotten stronger. So it's a lot harder to win. That's a little bit of a factor. I think this year we've put together a really good team, so I think we're going to be competing each and every week. So, I'm very happy with that."

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Jon Rahm breaks title drought at LIV Hong Kong

Jon Rahm captured his first individual tournament win since September 2024 on Sunday, carding a 64 for a three-strok...

Daughter of UFC legend Frank Mir wins NCAA wrestling championship

Bella Mir has added to her family's collection of championships.

Her dad Frank was twice the heavyweight champion of the UFC while helping the sport skyrocket in popularity during his 16-year career. He still holds the record for most submission victories in UFC's heavyweight division with eight.

And now Bella is writing her own history. On Saturday night inthe first-ever NCAA Tournament for women's collegiate wrestling, second-seeded Mir – wrestling for Division III North Central – upset No. 1 Reese Larramendy of Iowa with a 5-0 victory in the championship bout of the 145-pound weight class in Coralville, Iowa.

Mir built a 5-0 lead on Larramendy before delivering what would be the first-ever pin in an NCAA women's wrestling final. Mir was in control for much of the match and built that advantage up just 40 seconds into the bout against her former teammate – who handed Mir her only loss of the regular season — with a clinical takedown. Less than three minutes into the match, Mir pulled off a superb reversal of a takedown attempt by Larramendy to put on her back and secure the pin.

It ended a 35-match unbeaten streak for Larramendy.

The 22-year-old who started her collegiate career at Iowa before transferring to North Central – located in Naperville, Illinois – didn't have a point scored against her at the NCAA championships. She won her opener 11-0, and then took 10-0 victories in the quarterfinals and semifinals.

North Central finished in third place in the overall team standings at the NCAA championships. Division II McKendree won the team title narrowly over second-place Iowa, which is the only Division I school from a Power 4 conference currently sponsoring women's wrestling at the varsity level.

Mir is viewed by many to be the next great women's mixed martial arts fighter in UFC. She's already a two-time world champion in Brazilian jiu-jitsu and owns a 4-0 record as a professional MMA fighter.

Bella was 5 years old when Frank won his second UFC title. Ever since then,she told ESPNin a recent interview, she's wanted one of her own.

"There's been really special people that have stood out in the history of the UFC and the sport," UFC president Dana White told ESPN. "And I truly believe that Bella will be one of those too."

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British TV Star Brenda Blethyn Brings Classic Novel

Brenda Blethyn teams with emerging star Jessica Reynolds in a new adaptation of A Woman of Substance

Brenda Blethyn, right, with co-star at a screening for A Woman of Substance, on Mar. 3, 2026Credit: Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty

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The pair play Emma Harte at different stages of her rags-to-riches story
The original TV show was broadcast in the U.S. in 1985 following Barbara Taylor Bradford's bestselling novel

For veteran actorBrenda Blethyn,playing the heroine in the new dramatization of 1980s blockbusterA Woman of Substancehad a poignant resonance.

Blethyn, who plays Emma Harte inBarbara Taylor Bradford's bestselling story and is most recognized stateside for her role as Mrs. Bennet in the 2005 adaptation ofPride & Prejudice, has roots in a similar background.

Like Emma, who starts out in life as a maid to a tyrannical family in an old country mansion, Blethyn's mother was also a kitchen maid. "Any story about someone who triumphs over adversity is good to do," Blethyn said at an exclusive screening in London.

"My mum started life as a skivvy in a big house, down in Kent [England] — it's where she met my dad — he was a chauffeur. She used to tell me loads of stories about how hard the work was. And, you know, for very little pay. She would work about three or four jobs a day to make ends meet," the actress said.

Brenda Blethyn with showrunners Roanna Bardsley, left, and Katherine Jakeways at a screening of A Woman of Substance, in London on Mar. 3, 2026Credit: Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty

Blethyn, 80, added, "We were very, very poor growing up. But mum and dad always used to say you're as good as anybody else and if you work hard, you can achieve it," she told a screening in London. "That's the work ethic that Emma's mother instills upon her, saying the plan with the capital P is go for it, work hard."

Jessica Reynolds (OutlanderandHouse of Guinness) plays the younger version of Emma, emerging from poverty while working as a maid. Reynolds and Blethyn hadn't met until Blethyn headed to the Yorkshire hills to see Reynolds doing one of her scenes.

"Jessica came out of the house that was Emma's home, and we sort of looked at each other across the moor," she recalled adding she called out "Emma!" to her costar.

Jessica Reynolds, left, and Brenda Blethyn in London on Mar. 3, 2026Credit: Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty

Reynolds — who calls her costar an "icon" — adds, "It really did feel quite romantic. It was a really beautiful moment. We didn't say much, but we gave each other a big hug, it was beautiful."

She talked about how she initially dismissed auditioning as she didn't think her Irish background would work for the producers. She thought there would be many other actresses who were "going up that are gonna be able to step up to that in a way that well, in my head, that I wouldn't be able to," she said.

After landing the role, Reynolds said she was "so immersed in her . . . I stayed in the accent. I was like speaking in a Yorkshire accent in my sleep, no joke like. One morning like I woke up in the middle of the night and started speaking in a Yorkshire accent."

"She was a real part of me and she, she goes through such a journey, such ups and downs." She said that her character and her were so "bound together" that she "wrote a wee note" to say goodbye to her.

Another star of the production is the stunning and sometimes harsh Yorkshire countryside and producers have used the same country mansion – Broughton Hall – that doubled up as fictional Fairley Hall in the original TV version in the 1980s.

The eight-parter will be shown in the U.S. on Britbox in the coming months.Channel Fourwill broadcast the series in the U.K. on Mar. 11. An original adaptation of the book was an international hit in 1984 and 1985, starringJenny Seagroveand Deborah Kerr.

Jessica Reynolds who plays the young Emma Harte, at a screening in London on Mar. 3, 2026Credit: Ben Whitley/PA Images via Getty

News of the new adaptation came in the wake of Barbara Taylor Bradford's death at 91 in November 2024.

While Bradford wasn't able to see the second dramatization of her first hit book, she had been aware of its production and took a keen interest in its early progress.

A Woman of Substancewas the book that made her a name internationally. Published in 1979, it stayed on theNew York Timesbestseller list for 43 weeks. She went on to write 39 other novels includingThree Weeks in Paris(2002),To Be the Best(1988), and her most recent titleThe Wonder of It All(November 2023), selling more than 90 million copies in total.

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The author was born in May 1933 and was raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, in northern England. A voracious reader, she was the only child in the city to be allowed two library cards, and sold her first short story to a magazine at age 10.

At 15, she left school to embark on her writing career and joined the U.K. newspaper,Yorkshire Evening Post. She became a reporter a year later and was named its first woman's editor by age 18.

At age 20, Taylor Bradford moved to London and worked as a columnist and editor on the British national newspapers. A pinnacle of her life was when the celebrated author was awarded an OBE for her services to literature byQueen Elizabeth IIin 2007.

In May 2025, much of her collection of jewelry, art — and even her typewriter — was auctioned.

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Damon Stoudamire fired as Georgia Tech basketball coach after 3 years

Georgia Techhas decided to fireDamon Stoudamireas its coach following a three-year stint, the school announced Sunday, March 8.

The Yellow Jackets made the move one day after their 79-76 loss to Clemson in the last game of the regular season. With a 2-16 mark in Atlantic Coast Conference play, Georgia Tech finished 18th out of 18th in the league and did not qualify for theACC tournament.

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With Saturday's loss, the Yellow Jackets ended the season on a 12-game losing streak. The last win for Georgia Tech was a 78-74 road win over North Carolina State on Jan. 17. The Yellow Jackets won just two out of 17 games since the calendar flipped to 2026. They ended 2025 at 9-5.

Stoudamire, who played in the NBA for 13 years, went 42-55 in three seasons with Georgia Tech. The Yellow Jackets failed to make the NCAA Tournament under Stoudamire, who replaced Josh Pastner following a seven-year stint.

Georgia Tech owes Stoudamire $2.6 million during the next two years for the remainder of his contract, unless he takes another job.

Georgia Tech has not made an NCAA Tournament appearance since the 2020-21 season and has just four appearances since finishing as the runner-up in the 2004 tournament to Connecticut.

Prior to taking the job with the Yellow Jackets, Stoudamire was an assistant coach for the Boston Celtics. He also coached Pacific from 2016 to 2021, posting a 71-77 record in five seasons with the program.

Stoudamire played college basketball at Arizona from 1991-95 before becoming a first-round pick in the 1995 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors. He was rookie of the year for the Raptors in 1995 and also played for the Trail Blazers, Memphis Grizzlies and San Antonio Spurs.

Damon Stoudamire coaching record

Pacific (2016-17): 11-22, 4-14 WCC
Pacific (2017-18): 14-18, 9-9 WCC
Pacific (2018-19): 14-18, 4-12 WCC
Pacific (2019-20): 23-10, 11-5 WCC
Pacific (2020-21): 9-9, 6-7 WCC
Georgia Tech (2023-24): 14-18, 7-13 ACC
Georgia Tech (2024-25): 17-17, 10-10 ACC
Georgia Tech (2025-26): 11-20, 2-16 ACC

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Bill Maher reveals what Trump texted him after their White House dinner

Bill Maheris hitting back asPresident Donald Trumpcontinues to bash him on social media.

On the March 6 episode of "Real Time," the comedian addressed the fact that he was the subject of several of Trump's Truth Social posts earlier in the day. Without comment, the presidentsharedmultiplenews articlescovering his previous remarks slamming Maher as a jerk.

After pointing out that these posts were coming amid the United States'conflict with Iran, Maher expressed bewilderment and said, "This is getting weird."

Trump previously lambasted Maher in a Truth Social post in February, sayingit was a "total waste of time"for the two to have dinner together at the White House in 2025. The dinner was set up by their mutual friend Kid Rock, and Trump complained that Maher's HBO show has been "very boring" and "ANTI TRUMP" ever since they sat down together.

On his latest episode, Maher devoted a segment to responding to Trump's post. He alleged that Trump texted him "soon after" their dinner last year to complain that "I was still part of the lunatic left" and say that Trump "should have won a Nobel Prize for ending wars," to which Maher said he responded, "Yeah, and I should have won 20 Emmys."

According to Maher, he and Trump "argued for a while" via text, and Trump "ended by saying, 'Bill, you know what? Don't change. I wouldn't know what to do with you if you did.' "

"OK, that's the normal human being I saw the night we broke bread, and as long as I think there's even a spark of a possibility of bringing that guy out more, I will not consider the dinner a waste of time, even as I now see we're back to name calling," Maher said.

Bill Maher, right, responded to President Donald Trump's Truth Social post about him on the March 6 episode of "Real Time."

Maher objected to several of the claims Trump made in his Truth Social post about the dinner, maintaining that despite what the president said, he didn't "ask for" the dinner, he wasn't "nervous" or "scared," and it wasn't a "quick" sit-down.

"I was having a good time," Maher said. "So were you, Don, because we were talking like real humans, not like that crazy act you put on in public."

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Maher went on to show clips of him giving Trump credit for some things he has done in office to illustrate that he doesn't suffer from "Trump derangement syndrome" like the president has claimed, though he argued Trump is suffering from "Bill Maher derangement syndrome." Maher noted he has defended his decision to have dinner with Trump, even as some on the left criticized him for doing so.

Comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", will resume production after it was pulled off the air Sept. 17, following comments he made in the wake of Charlie Kirk's killing. Kimmel, a frequent critic of Donald Trump, often earned the ire of the president.

After the announcement, Trump urged other networks to do the same. Scroll to see the other late-night talk show hosts that have feuded with the president over the years.