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The American Athletic Conference has a new name. It’s now just the American Conference. The league announced a conference rebrand on Monday, which includes the new name, no acronym, a mascot, motto and more. The league took the name “American Athletic Conference” in 2013 amid a wave of realignment within the Big East, when the conference’s non-football schools broke off …

On the jetty of the Gritti Palace in Venice, the fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger tried to step down into a water taxi. He miscalculated and almost fell in a lagoon as green as his velvet dinner jacket. Behind him, Tom Brady appeared to compliment one of the boat’s captains on the catch he made. Hilfiger didn’t get wet, in the …