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COVID-19 forced the 2020 Olympics to be pushed back into 2021, and, now, it could push the event back even further — or kill it. Advertisement Early today, the head of the Tokyo Olympics organizing committee, Toshiro Muto , announced he was not ruling out a “last-minute cancellation” of the Olympic Games, which are supposed to begin on Friday. This announcement sent bettors flooding to their local sports books to place money on the Olympics being cancelled. Per OddsChecker , in less than 12 hours since the announcement was made, odds for the Olympics being cancelled have fallen from +9000 (roughly a 1.1 percent chance) to +1000 (9.1 percent chance) with more than $128,000 being placed on the Olympics not taking place. The drop in payoff indicates the higher likelihood of the bet hitting, which is also why more people are betting it. Despite the announcement, oddsmakers still believe that the Olympics will happen. Currently, the Olympics are …

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Well, it looks like Kanye West is doing Kanye West things again. This time, the shenanigans are taking place in Georgia. Advertisement It’s been reported by TMZ that the musical legend is living in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium, where he has even built a studio and living quarters, along with a private chef to prepare his meals. Kanye is reportedly using his time in Mercedes-Benz Stadium to complete his newest album, Donda , which is named after his late mother, Donda West. The rapper hosted an album listening party at the stadium on July 22 and I guess he just decided he didn’t want to leave. A couple of days later, he was seen at an Atlanta United Soccer match, wearing the same outfit he wore to the listening party that Thursday. Apparently, Kanye was so inspired by the crowd at his listening party that he decided to start living there until the album was done, according to TMZ. G/O Media may get a commission Milwaukee …

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If you thought a global pandemic would stop one of the greatest athletes of our time, you’re sadly mistaken. Advertisement Over the course of the past 12 months, tennis phenom Naomi Osaka has not only been named the Associated Press Female Athlete of the Year and added a pair of slams to her resume, but she’s stood firm in her commitment to using her platform to raise awareness around social justice and police brutality . She’s also secured the bag, as evidenced by her collecting a jaw-dropping $55.2 million—more than any other woman in sports—within that time span, according to Yahoo Sports. This isn’t the first time she’s cashed out either, as we reported last May that she earned $37.4 million the previous year. But this time around, she’s maximized her profitability and ran it up outside of tennis, with $5.2 million of her earnings coming from prize money and an estimated $50 million coming from off the court. As such, she now lands at No. …

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Admittedly, I’ve spent the week in a blind rage thanks to the trade deadline in MLB. And that’s due to my former baseball flame, the Cubs, making a spectacle of themselves. But I’ve written that article, and may have to write it again later today should this be the day the Cubs ship Kris Bryant off for the three kids selling lemonade down the street from your house. Advertisement But it applies to all sports, and at the risk of being a soccer fan once again telling you everything that’s wrong with American sports (you probably have four or five of these in your life by now), the idea of a trade has always struck me as weird, illogical, and unfair. We know why trades exist in our sports and not elsewhere (there are swap deals in other places, but the players themselves have to agree to them). Leagues here are top-down entities, not bottom-up as they are in most of the world. There, the teams formed the league. Here, the league formed the teams (expansion teams, …

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Seven whole years ago, Mercedes AMG was on the forefront of electric sports car technology. It had experimented with both a hydrogen-powered and a full battery electric vehicle version of its begullwing’d SLS AMG sports car, even going so far as to throw down an electric lap record at the Nordschleife [ which has since been destroyed ] back before there was really a market for EVs. I mean, the Tesla Model S hadn’t even been on the market for a full year by that point. Mercedes had a four-touchdown lead in the first quarter, and blew it. Advertisement In case you don’t remember, the Mercedes SLS AMG Coupé Electric Drive was a limited edition electric sports car released in 2013. Only about 100 examples were built, but it packed one electric motor for each wheel, providing a combined 740 horsepower and 738 lb-ft of torque. It was NEDC rated with a range of 160 miles from a 60 kWh liquid-cooled battery stack. All of this advanced Mercedes tech cost around …

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While EVs are the next generation, it’s good to see some automakers still thinking about performance. And while crossovers do indeed suck (the fact that they are popular doesn’t make that any less true), I’ll take performance any way I can get it at this point. Enter the Atlas Cross Sport GT Concept , a look at what could be a performance crossover from VW in the making. Advertisement The new GTI and Golf R had VW wondering if they could do the same thing for its crossover. Or, at least, a trial balloon was worth it. As VW of America CEO Scott Keogh said, “This concept is proof that it’s possible to build SUVs that could appeal to our performance enthusiast base.” Engineers started with an Atlas Cross Sport SEL R-Line. With the help of a VW enthusiast named Jamie Orr , over the course of several months, the Cross Sport was modified. The exterior was hand-painted in a color called Eisvogelblau which VW says translates to “Kingfisher Blue.” …

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