GQ on The Man Who Broke Bowling: Jason Belmonte’s two-handed technique made him an outcast. Then it made him the greatest—and changed the sport forever.

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TIL: Hunter actor Fred Dryer is the only NFL player to have scored two safeties in one game. Here’s footage of him doing it (the match in question was the LA Rams vs. the Green Bay Packers in Game 6 of the 1973 season).

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How the Black Press Helped Integrate Baseball: Black newspapers often spoke to the conscience of the nation. As historian Bill L. Weaver notes, the Black press was ‘acutely perceptive and remarkably capable of assessing the importance of racial advances in the context of what the race ultimately hoped to achieve.’

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Soccer

Spain are the 2023 Women's World Cup champions

by lukealexdavis

Spain defeated England 1-0 to win their first Women’s World Cup and become the second nation to win a FIFA World Cup in men’s and women’s senior football. For England, it was another disappointing end to a World Cup but a positive run nonetheless.