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I have seen people say the Caitlin 1 is just a version of at least 15-20 different Nike basketball shoes at this point. That seems....suboptimal.
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Feels like a stripped down KD 17 with Mamba design language and some GT notes. But CC has talked up the on-court performance, so let's wait and see what that brings.
Caitlin Clark wearing her new signature shoe 👀 The Nike Caitlin 1s are expected to launch in October 👟 (via @CaitlinClark22)
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Caitlin Clark wearing her new signature shoe 👀 The Nike Caitlin 1s are expected to launch in October 👟 (via @CaitlinClark22)
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He's. Just. Still. So. Good. I think it's taken for granted, as hard as that is. And what a ball from De Paul. Inter Miami connection.

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The only people who might be almost as excited as Trevoh Chalobah and his family? Reebok. The brand will now have one of its key athletes in the World Cup as it tries to reignite its soccer business.
🚨 Official: Trevoh Chalobah replaces Tino Livramento into the England squad. ✅🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿
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🚨🔵⚪️ EXCL: Strasbourg agree deal to sign Swedish talent Benjamin Brantlind, here we go! Deal done with IFK Gothenburg as many clubs were in the race but the player has finally chosen Strasbourg and the BlueCo project as his next destination. 🇸🇪
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Y! Sports AM was only the beginning! Our next newsletter launches next week. Y! Sports Biz, authored by @DylanDittrich, will cover the intersection of sports and business, and make sense of all the ways that off-field dynamics are shaping the on-field action — and vice versa.
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Midway through Day 4 of the World Cup and Fox has gone to full-screen ads during every hydration break. When asked when we'll begin seeing the "hybrid approach" and at what frequency, Fox declined comment.
Eight matches in and we’ve yet to see a “hybrid approach” from Fox, as all 16 hydration breaks thus far have been full-screen commercial breaks.
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Eight matches in and we’ve yet to see a “hybrid approach” from Fox, as all 16 hydration breaks thus far have been full-screen commercial breaks.
Four matches in and we’ve yet to see a “hybrid approach” from Fox, as all breaks have been full-screen commercial breaks. We shall see.
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Caitlin Clark’s signature shoe arrives in October, nearly four years (and five seasons) after Nike first signed her. Why, even as its stock and revenue cratered, did Nike sit out the Clark phenomenon for so long? “It is one of the biggest failures I’ve ever seen.” espn.com/wnba/story/_/id/490…
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Look at the state of the blue haired transvestite protesting outside of the Oxford Union tonight. A meme brought to life.

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🚨 Domenico Grasso is the president of the University of Michigan. He makes a whopping salary of $1.3 million with perks that would make you throw up. Last week, the FBI arrested 8 domestic terrorists from his campus. They unleashed a campaign of violence against university officials and Jewish students. Despite being under the microscope of the FBI, 48 hours before arrests were made, Grasso allowed a graduation ceremony for students who honored Hamas martyrs and participated in radical campus riots. The ceremony celebrated the acts of these domestic terrorists. One of the students who was arrested for throwing chemical agents into the home of a Board Regent was in attendance. U of M fleeced taxpayers for $1.3 BILLION last year in federal funding. Your tax dollars funded what you’re seeing in the video.
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I see the LA Mayor's race as a little bit like Lance Armstrong: 'Wow, he sure is winning a lot of races. Do you think he's cheating with steroids? He says no! There's no way to prove it. And there are all these cycle experts lined up to say "He just trains harder." Guess we'll never know!' Elections shouldn't be like that.
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Not a single prediction in Al Gore's movie has come true.
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The scientists have been right about climate change all along, says former Vice President Al Gore on the 20th anniversary of the release of "An Inconvenient Truth," the Oscar-winning documentary about Gore's campaign to educate people about climate change. abcnews.link/n4Ndoqx
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Variety spent the last two months trying to ridicule the one Mayoral candidate who was going to help, and IATSE endorsed the very Mayor responsible for running Hollywood out of town. These people are brainwashed clowns.
Hollywood is at risk of becoming Detroit, advocates warn, unless the U.S. responds to the 81 countries embracing filmmaking as an economic tool. “I watched the demise of steel and rubber and automotive manufacturing as I grew up,” says IATSE vice president Mike Miller, who was raised in Cleveland. “This is identical in many ways. We have an undeclared trade war that our government is standing by and watching happen.” Read the full cover story on the mass exodus of LA productions by @GeneMaddaus: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHp4O
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“It is a very visually similar situation” Darializa Avila Chevalier, who is running for Congress, said the West Bank and Gaza are the same as her own district in New York City. She said in both cases the displacement is caused by “corporate interests” buying up the land. This might be one of the most intellectually dishonest things I've ever heard. Jews are not "corporate interests," those insistent on living in the West Bank do so because there is a deep cultural and religious connection to that land in particular. Palestinians also have a deep connection to that land, thus the conflict is born. Also, you're comparing the district you run to Gaza? Really?
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OH! And Chan is on the Marin County Citizens Oversight Commission. Total coincidence, I'm sure.
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💥NEW Newsom connection to the Sheng Thao/Rob Bonta/Andy Duong bribery and corruption scandal... Andy Duong's attorney, Winston Chan, helped Gavin Newsom out of a financial jam back in 2021. When Gavin was elected governor in Nov 2018 and moved the family to Sacramento they listed their home on Rock Rd in Kentfield (which carried a $3.25M mortgage) for $5.9M, then reduced the price to $5.6M in March 2019, then took it off the market in June 2019 and started renting it to neighbors who were remodeling. When that renovation was over, the Newsoms were still on the hook for the $15,000/month mortgage $34,000/yr property tax bill, plus other upkeep. In swept Winston Chan, who purchased the home for $5.9M in May 2021 in an off-market transaction.
Rob and Mia Bonta built their power in California on money from a human trafficking front, fraudulent nonprofits, and a donor network now under active FBI indictment. Mia Bonta’s 2021 Assembly campaign received thousands in straw donor contributions from “Music Cafe,” an Oakland karaoke bar raided by state authorities for ketamine and ecstasy distribution, prostitution, and human trafficking. The man investigators believe was the real owner of that front called Rob Bonta “brother,” partied with the Bontas in limousines, and sat courtside with them at Warriors games. Just months after those donations, Mia Bonta abstained on a bipartisan bill making the commercial sexual exploitation of children a serious felony under California’s Three Strikes law. She only reversed course after nationwide outrage and public threats forced her hand. This is the same couple whose operation includes Mia running Oakland Promise without a valid federal 501(c)(3) determination. She filed IRS Form 990s using a duplicate EIN from another nonprofit in clear violation of California corporation law. While the organization operated in legal limbo, she collected base salaries of $160,625, $147,000, and $128,125 in different years. Rob Bonta used his position in the Legislature to behest corporate and lobbyist money directly into organizations paying his wife six figures, including a $25,000 transfer from his own foundation that he initially tried to disguise as a loan on tax filings. Her 2021 campaign headquarters was located at 1241 High Street in Oakland — the exact former corporate address of Viridis Fuels, the failed biofuel company that received a $3.4 million state grant after Rob Bonta personally intervened with the California Energy Commission on behalf of its president, a donor with a documented history of tax liens and financial failure. The Duong family and their associates, now federally indicted alongside former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao on bribery and corruption charges, pumped over $172,000 into Rob and Mia Bonta’s campaigns — more than 30x their average contribution to other local politicians. When the FBI raids hit, Rob returned $155,000 “out of an abundance of caution.” His campaign then spent nearly $469,000 on private legal counsel from one of the most expensive firms in the country to navigate the investigation, including after receiving a letter warning that one of the targets possessed a “compromising video” of the Attorney General. While this was happening, Rob Bonta’s Department of Justice leaked the full personal data of over 240,000 Californians who held concealed carry permits — names, addresses, dates of birth, and license numbers — days after the Supreme Court struck down similar restrictions in Bruen. The same Attorney General who has positioned himself as a national champion of data privacy and sued companies for far less presided over one of the most reckless state-sponsored data breaches in California history. Mia Bonta authored AB 2624, legislation already being called the “Stop Nick Shirley Act” by critics. It attempts to criminalize journalists and citizens who document misconduct by taxpayer-funded nonprofits and government contractors — the exact structures her own record shows were used to move money and shield operations from scrutiny. Rob Bonta has used the powers of the Attorney General’s office to manipulate ballot language against tough-on-crime measures that later passed with overwhelming voter support, lost a 6-3 Supreme Court case for violating First Amendment donor privacy rights, and allowed foreign-linked money to flow into litigation he then personally promoted for political gain. They function as one closed system. She advances the agenda and shields the nonprofit pipeline. He controls the Department of Justice, the budget fights, and the legal apparatus that protects the machine. When one is threatened, the other’s power is deployed.
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