Jim Morrison has endured almost unimaginable loss—first his wife and two young children in a plane crash, then his partner and climbing companion Hilaree Nelson in a Himalayan avalanche. But rather than stepping back from danger, he kept pursuing ever more risky objectives, culminating in the first ski descent of Everest’s nearly unclimbable north face via the Super Direct route. This profile explores Morrison’s perseverance and shows how, for some people, a life defined by extreme risk can never be retreated from.
“It was a profound, transformational moment for me to know that when I found Hilaree, she wasn’t in her body,” Morrison told me. “I dug her out of the snow. I held her in my arms. I screamed, and I cried, but it was just her dead body. She was no longer there, and it was as clear as anything has been in my entire lifetime. I had been haunted so much by my wife and my children, and what state they were in when the plane crashed, and how they were recovered. I had been haunted by these visions of their half-burned corpses. Then contrast that with what I went through with Hilaree. There was so much more finality to it.” Morrison had her body cremated in Kathmandu, at a Buddhist temple.
In 1993, an audience member at the Citizen Cup tennis tournament stabbed Monica Seles, then a 19-year-old phenom who was then dethroned from the top of the world tennis rankings. The attack, writes Terrence Doyle, “was a physical manifestation of a logic that has since become our default: the idea that an athlete is not a human to be witnessed, but a data point to be managed, edited, or deleted.” I briefly mentioned Doyle’s disturbing essay a week ago, but it has stayed with me since: a worrying meditation on the ease with which athletes are abstracted into mere data sets. It deserves your deeper consideration.
Perhaps the most profound shift is the collapse of our ability to trust what we see. In 1993, we had the tape. We saw Parche reach over the rail and thrust his blade into Seles’ back. We agreed on the wound. Today, that on-the-ground truth is being eroded. We’re being told by powerful forces to disregard the evidence of our own senses—to see every physical trauma as a narrative threat or a potential deepfake.
WNBA star Sophie Cunningham was given the honor of waving the checkered flag at Formula 1's United States Grand Prix on Sunday.
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Trade between China and Cyprus grew to $1.44 billion (€1.29 billion) during 2025, while the future holds even greater prospects for economic cooperation, attendees at a forum heard on Tuesday.
Speaking at a business forum held in Nicosia and organised by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (Keve), China’s ambassador to Cyprus Yang Yundong said bilateral trade in 2025 marked a 26 per cent year-on-year increase.
According to the ambassador, last year China became Cyprus’ fourth largest trading partner. Meantime more and more Cypriot products – like halloumi cheese, zivania and fresh juices – are finding their way to the Chinese market.
Yang noted the significant prospects for cooperation in shipping, tourism, green technologies and the digital economy.
He highlighted the role Cyprus can play as a bridge between China and the European Union.
On bilateral relations, the ambassador noted that the forum is part of events marking the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic ties between the two countries.
In his own address, Keve chairman Stavros Stavrou stressed the importance of transforming bilateral relations into specific business partnerships.
Cyprus, he said, can act as an entry point for Chinese businesses into the single EU market, making the most of its geography as it lies at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa.
China is a major market and an international hub for technology, innovation, manufacturing and investment – offering opportunities for Cypriot entrepreneurs.
Stavrou cited the upcoming agreement between Cyprus’ Top Kinisis travel agent and China’s Zhejiang Overseas (Ningbo) International Travel Service Co.
For his part Marios Tannousis, director at Invest Cyprus, said ICT (information and communications technology) has become a main growth driver for Cyprus, with an annual contribution to the economy of €4 billion – corresponding to approximately 15 per cent of GDP.
Tannousis said Cyprus has recorded an increase in foreign direct investment from various geographical regions.
He cited data showing that the island ranks among the top ten countries globally in terms of FDI per capita.
Theodoros Parperis, chairman of the Cyprus-China Business Association, likewise spoke to the potential for growing trade and investment between the two countries.
The association currently numbers more than 200 members.
Established in 1995, the Cyprus-China Business Association operates under the auspices of Keve and the Chinese embassy in Cyprus.
Hello and welcome to another edition of Free Agent! It's a great day to pour a Miller Lite out.
Let's talk about the NFL invasion of Australia and, soon, Japan. Is it the real deal or is something else at play? Then we'll close with the results of our reader survey about the World Series.
Someone made a site that tracks what people are talking about at public city council meetings across the US.
The only thing discussed more than data centers?
Pickleball courts. pic.twitter.com/qyda81Tw1W
— Turner Novak
Football in Europe is one thing—football in East Asia and Australia is another.
After the NFL played its first regular season game in Australia in Week 1, Commissioner Roger Goodell now says the league may double-down on working its way into East Asia and Australia. "Tokyo is clearly on our list, whether it's next year or the year after," Goodell told NFL Daily. "It's coming at some point in the near future." Another league administrator said they're considering a 10th international game next year, up from nine this year. The idea, one might think, is that by playing a game in Australia, Japan, or any other country, people with a tepid interest in the NFL become swarms of dedicated fans.
It won't work—at least not in the Eastern Hemisphere. The league is much too dedicated to the Eastern Time Zone for it to work. Consider the NFL's main kickoff times (the end of daylight saving time will soon alter these slightly).
Thursday Night Football: 8:15 p.m. Eastern, 9:15 a.m. Friday in Tokyo, 11:15 a.m. Friday in Sydney.
Sunday early afternoon: 1 p.m. Eastern, 2 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 4 a.m. in Sydney.
Sunday late afternoon: 4:25 p.m. Eastern, 5:25 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 7:25 a.m. in Sydney.
Sunday Night Football: 8:20 p.m. Eastern, 9:20 a.m. Monday in Tokyo, 11:20 a.m. in Sydney.
And so on for Monday Night Football.
Even the Super Bowl, the league's biggest event that we're always told is watched by millions of people in every country around the world, kicks off around 6:30 p.m. Eastern. That's 8:30 a.m. on Monday morning workday in Tokyo and 9:30 a.m. in Sydney. You'd have to be an American expat or an extremely dedicated foreign fan to watch—they exist, to be sure, but they're notable because they're a rarity (like my man @KoreaPistonsFan).
This is not like how American sports fans wake up on a weekend morning with nothing else going on and tune into European soccer matches—the NFL is hoping people will wake up in the middle of the night for an East Coast afternoon game, or tune in during their workdays for what we in the U.S. would consider a primetime matchup. (In Japan, watching every week appears to require an expensive subscription, whereas Australians at least seem to bundle many of the games into other packages like Disney+.)
Ask yourself: Are you frequently waking up at odd hours to watch the Australian Football League or J1 League soccer? Are you watching your favorite sports team in the middle of the workday? OK fine, if you work a flexible desk job like me, you might be tuning in for your baseball team's day games or throwing a golf major on your second screen. When I posted about this on X, people angrily responded that Japanese fans routinely watch baseball during the day—OK, fine, call me when the NFL gets its Shohei Ohtani.
But I'm not getting up at 2 a.m. to willingly start watching a sporting event, unless I'm studying abroad in London and the Tigers are in the playoffs for the second time in my life. While I don't miss a Formula 1 race, when they're on in the middle of the night I watch the next day—sometimes, but not always, without seeing any spoilers online.
The NFL will almost certainly sell out a game in Tokyo, but tickets aren't where the real money comes from, it's TV revenue they're chasing. That, and the 8:35 p.m. Eastern kickoff time for this season's Australia game (10:35 a.m. local, Friday), tell you who the real audience is.
It's you, my humble American friends.
The novelty of games in London and Germany is wearing off. The NFL thinks it can throw a game in Japan, sell it to Netflix for $100+ million, and then, most importantly, put it in primetime for the American East Coast.
The NFL might be hoping their football games in Australia and, soon, Japan, will create broader interest from those countries. What they're almost certainly more interested in is getting U.S. fans to watch another primetime game that the league can make hundreds of millions of dollars from in TV rights.
A lot of you must be pretty pleased with how baseball is going. About 70 percent of you said you're rooting for the Milwaukee Brewers, who now have a 3–0 lead in the World Series after battering the Tampa Bay Rays 10–1 on Monday night.
I, for one, am also rooting for the Brewers but had at least hoped for the teams to make it a little more interesting (at least Game 1 and Game 2 were close!). Both teams have managed to find pretty consistent success in recent seasons and "deserve" to be here, despite both being in fairly small markets and often up against more well-funded divisional opposition. Both, unfortunately, play in stadiums that are for some reason fully or partially owned by local government. But the Brewers, unlike the Rays, have good vibes, a great color scheme (I'm a sucker for navy–yellow/gold), and a strong fan base that deserves happiness.
The survey answers behind the Brewers were wide-ranging, from "The beer and cheese are better!" to "Beer. The answer is always beer." (Shoutout to whoever said "Channeling my inner Sarah Palin, I can see Milwaukee across Lake Michigan from my house in Grand Haven.") Several more said they are from Milwaukee, are from the Midwest, are just glad the Brewers beat the Dodgers, or think a "northern" team should win. A couple Red Sox fans chimed in to say they just hate the Rays.
The Rays, to be fair, might be seen as less objectionable because they have fewer fans to annoy everyone else with their success. No one, I assume, is climbing any street poles to celebrate if the Rays win the World Series (we may never know!). But we did get a few Tampa locals to chime in, and a couple Brewers haters, and one person who I sympathize with: "I have a dear friend who has been a Tampa Bay fan since the very beginning. She deserves a victory." Seems like she will be waiting at least one year longer.
The Brewers seem almost certain to be World Series champions going into what will likely be a brutal MLB lockout. Let us hope there are no games lost—any 2027 World Series champion is better than no champion, or season, at all.
Keep your eye on No. 5 car. Drivers don't usually go from 1st to 11th to 1st all in the span of one lap! (And since everyone turned out all right, you can also enjoy the carnage of this big crash.)
HOW DID KYLE LARSON PULL THIS OFF?!?! pic.twitter.com/nVhlg7JylD
— Rubbin is Racing (@rubbinisracing) October 25, 2026
That's all for this week. Enjoy watching the real game of the week while you skip the school Halloween party—it's Glendale at Salt River in the Arizona Fall League on Friday at 4:30 p.m. Eastern, where you can watch MLB test out a crazy new outfield rule.
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Rapper Jay-Z announced on Monday that he will be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles next year.
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LAHORE – Blow to Pakistan against Sri Lanka in fifth game of ongoing tri-nation ODI series, with the entire team bundled out for just 110 runs in 25.3 overs at Gaddafi Stadium on Tuesday.
Pakistan’s top and middle order crumbled under pressure, leaving Sri Lanka with modest target of 111 runs to secure victory in the tournament featuring Pakistan, England and Sri Lanka.
Opener Fakhar Zaman got just five runs from 13 deliveries before being caught by Pavan Rathnayake off Dilshan Madushanka. Fellow opener Maaz Sadaqat followed shortly afterwards, trapped LBW by Asitha Fernando for eight runs. Wicketkeeper Saad Baig also failed to make an impact, scoring just five runs before falling to Dilshan Madushanka, leaving Pakistan’s batting lineup under mounting pressure.
Babar Azam emerged as Pakistan’s leading run-scorer with 29 off 33 deliveries, including five boundaries, but even his resistance proved insufficient to rescue the innings. He was trapped LBW by Eshan Malinga.
| Batter | Runs | Balls | 4s | 6s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fakhar Zaman | 5 | 13 | 1 | 0 |
| Maaz Sadaqat | 8 | 11 | 1 | 0 |
| Babar Azam | 29 | 33 | 5 | 0 |
| Saad Baig (WK) | 5 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| Salman Ali Agha | 9 | 14 | 1 | 0 |
| Hasan Nawaz | 17 | 31 | 0 | 1 |
| Shadab Khan | 2 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Arafat Minhas | 10 | 18 | 1 | 0 |
| Shaheen Afridi (C) | 15 | 13 | 0 | 2 |
| Haris Rauf | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Naseem Shah | 2* | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| Extras | 7 | |||
| Total | 110 all out | 25.3 overs |
Salman Ali Agha contributed nine runs from 14 balls before being caught by Kusal Mendis off Sahan Arachchige. Pakistan’s batting crisis deepened when Shadab Khan, who had impressed against England, departed for just two runs. At one stage, Pakistan had lost six wickets with only 64 runs on the scoreboard.
Hasan Nawaz attempted to steady the innings but struggled to accelerate, scoring 17 runs from 31 balls, including a six, before being dismissed by Dunith Wellalage. Arafat Minhas, who had produced an outstanding all-round performance against England, also failed to repeat his heroics. He managed just 10 runs from 18 deliveries before becoming another victim of Madushanka.
Skipper Afridi provided some late resistance, striking two sixes in a quick 15 off 13 balls, but his dismissal ended Pakistan’s hopes of posting a competitive total. Haris Rauf scored one run, while Naseem Shah remained unbeaten on two as Pakistan’s innings folded for 110. The total included seven extras.
The collapse marked a sharp turnaround for Pakistan following their impressive performance against England earlier in the series.
With just 111 runs required, Sri Lanka entered the chase in a commanding position, while Pakistan’s bowlers faced the difficult task of defending one of the lowest totals of the tournament.
More updates to follow…
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