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Most fantasy sports leagues suffer the same problem: retention. Leagues play out over monthslong seasons, require regular attention, and can punish players severely for missing even a single week. I’ve started Fantasy Premier League (FPL) multiple times, but never finished a season.That’s a problem for any fantasy league, but especially so for a new game in a growing sport, hoping to attract new fans who might grow along with it. And so when Manchester United take on London City Lionesses on the opening day of the Women’s Super League (WSL) season next month, fans will have a chance to compete…

Centrifuge has added Symbiotic’s liquidity network across three tokenized funds that represent about $1.6 billion in assets under management, giving eligible holders another route to exchange their positions for USDC.The integration covers Janus Henderson’s JAAA, an AAA-rated collateralized loan obligation strategy, JTRSY, a short-duration US Treasury strategy and New York Life Investment Management’s HYB, a US high-yield corporate bond strategy.Symbiotic’s Liquid Lane uses an onchain request-for-quote (RFQ) marketplace where market makers can tap liquidity from vaults to fill redemption requests. Market makers can then redeem the acquired fund tokens through the issuer or sell them through another RFQ transaction.The arrangement…

Liza Minnelli has opened up about the events that led to her first seeking professional help for addiction issues in 1984. “In Manhattan, I had favorite bars where bartenders were happy to serve me any hour I showed up. I had boxes of pills and bottles of booze stashed away in my co-op apartment. With no one watching, I self-medicated myself to foggy perfection, to a place where I felt nothing or no one could hurt me,” the iconic performer, 80, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, August 18. Her post, accompanied by a photo of herself looking drawn and sweaty…

Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion have completed the signing of former Nigeria U-23 international Promise David from Belgian club Royale Union Saint-Gilloise on a season-long loan. The deal, announced by Brighton on their official website, includes an obligation to make the transfer permanent if certain conditions are met. Should those conditions be fulfilled, David’s permanent move to the Seagulls would reportedly represent a new club-record transfer fee for Royale Union Saint-Gilloise. Born in Brampton, Ontario, the 25-year-old previously represented Nigeria at the U-23 level, earning two caps for the Olympic Eagles before switching his international allegiance to Canada.…

The Action Alliance presidential candidate, Adekunle Omo-Aje, has urged political parties, the Independent National Electoral Commission and security agencies to uphold the integrity of the 2027 general elections. Omo-Aje made the call after signing the National Peace Accord alongside other presidential candidates and political party leaders in Abuja on Tuesday. In a statement made available to journalists in Kaduna on Wednesday, the presidential candidate described the accord as a call to political actors and institutions to protect the integrity of the electoral process. He urged all parties to strictly abide by the terms of the agreement and conduct campaigns devoid…

Bitcoin (BTC) falling more than 50% from its $126,200 all-time high was a “positioning correction,” BlackRock says.Key points:A BlackRock report attributes Bitcoin’s decline below $60,000 to cascading liquidations as leverage was purged from the market.The long-term BTC investment thesis as a “low-correlation diversifier” remains intact, analysts confirm.BlackRock sees Bitcoin’s risk-asset correlation declining as time goes on.BlackRock predicts falling correlation of BTC with risk assetsIn a report published this week, the world’s largest asset manager preserved its bull thesis despite waves of outflows from its spot Bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) in 2026.BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) saw net outflows of $78.9…

Fans of Hayden Panettiere are once again vowing to boycott beauty brand Neutrogena after the star’s sudden death. “I will not buy from them ever again! They should have been supporting her and other women, not taking away help,” one Reddit user wrote on Monday, August 17, one day after the Heroes and Nashville alum died at the age of 36. The fresh backlash stems from Panettiere’s May memoir, in which she claimed that Neutrogena “cancelled” her “long-standing contract” due to her battle with postpartum depression. The brand faced initial backlash from Panettiere fans upon the release of the memoir,…

Soldiers of the 102 Guard Battalion, an elite unit of the Nigerian Army headquartered in Suleja, Niger State, have arrested 18 individuals described as “illegal miners” and recovered N2.4 million cash and operational tools. The suspects were arrested in Izom, a satellite town in Gurara Local Government Area of Niger State, during a routine patrol operation, according to a statement posted on Facebook handle of the Mining Marshals, a special, anti-illegal mining unit of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC). The statement added that the soldiers handed over the suspects to the NSCDC special force unit in Sauka,…

The Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Taiwo Oyedele, has called for stronger fiscal federalism, improved revenue generation and economic diversification to strengthen Nigeria’s resilience to economic shocks. The minister spoke in Owerri, the Imo State capital, on Wednesday at the ongoing 2026 National Council on Finance and Economic Development Retreat. Speaking on the theme ‘Strengthening Fiscal Federalism for Equity, Sustainable Development and Economic Resilience in a Volatile Global Economy,’ Oyedele insisted on the retreat interrogating the current allocation and derivation principles, even as he called for greater fiscal responsibility, accountability and cooperation among Nigeria’s three tiers…

Framework has refreshed its 12-inch convertible laptop, introducing Intel’s latest Core Series 3 processors, expanded hardware customizations, and a pre-built Linux option. The cheapest pre-built base configuration for the Framework Laptop 12 now starts at $699 — $100 less than the previous version when it launched last year. Preorders are open now, with the first wave of deliveries expected to ship in October.That pre-built base configuration is only available in green, and includes an Intel Core 3 304 CPU, 8GB of RAM, and 512GB of storage. It also comes preloaded with Linux Fedora 44 KDE Plasma, a decision brought on…