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A year ago, PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan used two words to describe the rogue LIV Golf League.“It’s an irrational threat,” he said. “One not concerned with the return on investment or true growth of the game.”On Tuesday, the PGA Tour had another word for the Saudi-Arabia backed business.Partner.In a stunning act of hypocrisy unmatched even in the mercenary world of professional sports, the PGA Tour has joined forces with its moral enemies in announcing a unification with the same LIV Golf League whose presence had…

The PGA Tour has agreed to merge with Saudi-backed rival LIV Golf in a deal that would see the competitors squash pending litigation and move forward as a larger golf enterprise.The two entities signed an agreement that would combine the PGA Tour's and LIV Golf's commercial businesses and rights into a new, yet-to-be-named for-profit company. The agreement includes DP World Tour, also known as the PGA European Tour.LIV Golf is backed by the Saudi Arabia Public Investment Fund, an entity controlled by the Saudi crown…

Leaders of the PGA Tour and Saudi-backed LIV Golf spent two years locked in a fight over the future of golf, trading barbs during media interviews that gave way to lawsuits. On Tuesday, the rival groups announced a shocking merger.The PGA Tour, DP World Tour and the Public Investment Fund, which operates LIV Golf, reached an agreement that combines PIF’s golf-related commercial businesses and rights with the commercial businesses and rights of the PGA TOUR and DP World Tour into a new, collectively owned, for-profit…

Liv Little founded the pioneering media company gal-dem, an online and print platform for women and non-binary people of colour that announced its closure last month. Her debut novel, Rosewater, derives from the same ambitions, following 28-year-old queer poet Elsie, who is living in south London and navigating her chaotic work, love and family life.The book opens with a literal bang, as bailiffs attempt to evict Elsie from her social housing flat. It’s a powerfully visceral and exposing moment. “I’m left with sixty…

Where is home? Do we ever really know where we belong? These are the questions that drive gal-dem founder Liv Little’s debut novel, Rosewater. At its centre is Elsie Macintosh, a gay 28-year-old poet of black Guyanese descent who left her parents’ house in Bristol after she tired of minding her twin brothers and settled down by herself in south London. The book opens on the morning Elsie is evicted from her flat.It’s a pleasure, too, to read the refreshingly original sex scenes that Little grounds in play, consent and…

Hollywood actor Liv Tyler is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe, 16 years after her last appearance. She will appear in 2024’s Captain America: New World Order, reprising her role from The Incredible Hulk (2008) as scientist Betty Ross, the daughter of General Thaddeus ‘Thunderbolt’ Ross. That role was originated by the late William Hurt, who reappeared several times for Marvel Studios, starting with Captain America: Civil War (2016), in which Ross had become Secretary of State. Harrison Ford…

Liv Tyler attends the premiere of 20th Century Fox’s Ad Astra on September 18, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. Photo: Amy Sussman (Getty Images)It’s been 15 years since The Incredible Hulk—the Louis Leterrier-directed, pre-Disney Marvel Studios film with Edward Norton playing the big green guy. A lot’s changed since then—but Liv Tyler’s character Betty Ross endures. She’ll make her Marvel return in Captain America: New World Order.In addition to being a) a scientist and b) the girlfriend of Bruce Banner, Betty was also…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeLiv Tyler is returning to the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the new Captain America film.The Lord of the Rings star appeared opposite Edward Norton in 2008’s The Incredible Hulk ​​as Bruce Banner’s girlfriend, scientist Betty Ross, and has not appeared in a Marvel film since.On Monday (27 March), it was announced that Tyler would return to the franchise after 16 years and reprise the…

Since 2008, Giant-owned bicycle manufacturer Liv has specialized in making bikes specifically for women. The Taiwanese company has now announced its first-ever carbon fiber electric mountain bike, the Intrigue X Advanced E+ Elite.Offered in four frame sizes and three spec packages, the E+ is designed for trail riding. Just to keep things simple, we'll be describing the highest-specc'd model in this article.Its frame consists of a carbon fiber front triangle linked to a carbon swingarm. A "Flip Chip" system allows users to…

Since the beginning of the high-profile legal wranglings between the PGA Tour and its rival LIV Golf last year, the Tour has consistently angled to place LIV’s backing from Saudi Arabia at the center of the feud. Now, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has granted one of the PGA Tour’s chief goals. A ruling issued late Tuesday will allow the Tour to add Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, LIV’s financial backer, and its governor, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, as defendants in its…