Breaking One

"In that moment it was a chaos of emotions," Josko Gvardiol says, reflecting on his last-minute goal for Croatia against Portugal at the World Cup. "At the beginning I was probably the happiest person in the world, then we all realised that it was offside because of the hair and everything…" Gvardiol had hoped to arrive at the World Cup fully fit, having missed the second half of Manchester City's 2025-26 season with a broken leg, but the pain from that injury will take a year to fully heal.

Most days, Marc Hofer, a cybersecurity researcher and journalist based in Amsterdam, trawls the internet for clues about how China surveils its citizens, a subject that has fascinated him since he worked there as a foreign correspondent.

A selection of summaries from The New York Times Book Review: FLORENZER, by Phil Melanson. (Liveright. 368 pages. $18.99.) Melanson's historical drama follows Leonardo da Vinci, a gifted but feckless young artist in late 15th century Florence.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, July 25, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, July 25, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.

Dodgers get: LHP Tarik Skubal Tigers get: OF Zyhir Hope, RHP River Ryan and RHP Brady Smith Dodgers: A+ Tigers: B If Skubal wants to return to Detroit to stuff his belongings into cardboard boxes and then hop in an RV and haul across the country to get to Southern California -- maybe he stops to visit the Rocky Mountains or the Grand Canyon, maybe he spends a night or two playing baccarat in Las Vegas -- he can take his time with his arrival. The Dodgers don't need him for August or September.

Rankings reflect sales for the week ending Saturday, July 25, which were reported on a confidential basis by vendors offering a wide range of general interest titles. Every week, thousands of diverse selling locations report their actual sales on hundreds of thousands of individual titles. The panel of reporting retailers is comprehensive and reflects sales in stores of all sizes and demographics across the United States.

Scotland's World Cup introspection could start in a few places. We could recount the cornerstones of the Steve Clarke era: the goalless training games that built the defensive base; the speech that dampened eyes before the epic night that sealed World Cup qualification against Denmark; the final supper in Charlotte last month when he announced that his new four-year contract would torn be up after just four weeks.

Here comes the anti-Dodger hysteria. Here comes another round of small-market defeatism. Here comes the lockout, not that its occurrence was ever in doubt. Yes, the Los Angeles Dodgers' trade for back-to-back American League Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal on Saturday night will only elevate the frustration of many fans and people inside the game with Major League Baseball's economic system. Yet, Skubal to the Dodgers was not fait accompli, nor should it have been.

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