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Newsweek
13-07-2025
- Sport
- Newsweek
Caitlin Clark's Wild Sequence in Fever-Wings Has Fans in Disbelief
Based on facts, either observed and verified firsthand by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. Newsweek AI is in beta. Translations may contain inaccuracies—please refer to the original content. The Indiana Fever and superstar guard Caitlin Clark faced off against the Dallas Wings on Sunday. After a dominant win over the Atlanta Dream in their last outing, the Fever were looking to start a winning streak with the All-Star break coming up soon. Clark and Indiana put together a strong performance, pulling off a dominant win. During the game, there was a sequence that Clark put together that had fans in awe. Not only did she flash her defensive ability with a block, she backed that up with a beautiful full-court assist for a basket at the other end to Sophie Cunningham. Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever dribbles the ball in the first quarter of the game against the Minnesota Lynx at Target Center on August 24, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Caitlin Clark #22 of the Indiana Fever dribbles the ball in the first quarter of the game against the Minnesota Lynx at Target Center on August 24, 2024 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photo byClark Report took to X to share a video of the play. Caitlin Clark with the block and the full court dime OH MY — Clark Report (@CClarkReport) July 13, 2025 Fans did not waste any time at all jumping into the comment section. They were in disbelief about the play that Clark was able to pull off. Read more: Fever Superstar Caitlin Clark Reaches Another Major Career Milestone "Defense to offense, that was so beautiful to watch!" one fan commented. Another fan chimed in, "I was hollering like a Banshee!!!! Awwww oooooh!" "Such a perfect pass too. Those people are really going to have a hard time hating on this play," a third comment read. A fourth fan wrote, "If you watch the game without hate in your heart... there's simply no comparison." "That pass was Pat Mahomes like," another fan said. Throughout the course of the 2025 WNBA season, Clark has struggled with injury issues. She has missed two different stints of time with two separate injuries. Coming into Sunday's game against the Wings, Clark had played in 11 games. In those appearances, she had averaged 16.9 points, 8.6 assists, 4.9 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per game and shot 37.6 percent from the floor and 28.9 percent from three-point range. Read more: Caitlin Clark Names Best NBA Player of All-Time Without Hesitation Obviously, those aren't the numbers Clark was hoping to produce in year two. The MVP hype that surrounded her before the season hasn't been lived up to, but the injury problems have really derailed her season. Despite the slow start, Clark is starting to look like her old self. Over the last two games, the Fever have looked like the potential contender that they were expected to be. Hopefully, this is just the start of an impressive run for both Clark and Indiana as a team. Make sure to follow Newsweek Sports for all Indiana Fever and WNBA news and updates.
Irish Examiner
12-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
Book review: Distorted view of reality is a common theme
In Marni Appleton's short story Positive Vibes, Lia sees girls sitting at the tables outside the café where she works 'phones in hands, hunched over themselves as though they'd like to fold up flat and slip away entirely'. The scene encapsulates how technology dominates and diminishes the characters throughout Appleton's promising short story collection, I Hope You're Happy. On a school tour, girls ostracise a classmate by cropping her from a group photo so that 'only her arm remained, strung up in thin air like a dead thing'. A woman who becomes obsessed with a work colleague after a sexual encounter checks his Facebook page and Twitter feed every day to forge a sense of closeness with him. In the title story, Chloe intentionally doesn't block her estranged confidant Ana from her social media profiles because Chloe wants her posts to demonstrate that the dissolution of their friendship hasn't dented the vivacity of her life — and knows Ana is addicted to using the apps. The collection's 11 stories are mostly populated by millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996) and Gen Zers (born between 1997 and 2012). All Appleton's protagonists are female. The English author presents us with a glimpse of sexually fluid, uncertain, and hedonistic characters. Some snort cocaine off the back of their iPhones while others engage in threesomes. They're often in precarious employment, overwhelmed ('Doing nothing…no longer seemed an option'), and tentatively trying to negotiate the complications of strained relationships and rapidly-evolving social mores. They believe in manifesting and, perhaps inevitably, one of the book's epigraphs is from Taylor Swift ('Give me back my girlhood, it was mine first'). Appleton's writing has appeared in the Irish literary journal Banshee, among others. Shifting between the first and third person, her stories forensically dissect the subtle power dynamics of relationships and are frequently embossed with striking images. For instance, a teenager waiting outside a station sees her mother's white Toyota Prius among a cluster of black cabs as a 'swan in a huddle of ducklings'. That observation comes from the narrator, Allie, of Road Trip, a story that illuminates an important theme in the collection: Appleton's depiction of outsiders at the centre of her stories. In a frightening chronicle of neglect, Allie's irascible mother punishes Allie by shoving her out of a stationary car onto the side of the road and then drives away. 'No one is expecting me anywhere,' the narrator believes as she walks towards home. 'No one is expecting anything from me.' If the men in this collection are portrayed as, at best, virtue signallers and, at worst, perpetrators of coercive control, some of the female characters are equally adept at sabotaging one of their own. Female friends turn 'inward' to exclude a disloyal classmate for kissing the boyfriend of a group member before they deliver their misogynistic judgement on the betrayal: 'it's so much worse when a girl does it.' Body image is a recurring anxiety in the book and receives its most articulate expression in The Mirror Test. Melissa concedes she is always looking at herself in any available surface — a phone screen, a mirror, a train window — but doesn't recognise the person in the reflection. 'She is cruel and detached … It is true people hate her — that's the price she pays — but their envy, a weight, also lights her up.' The stories anatomise how technology and, particularly, social media distort its characters' view of themselves, but the collection also emphasises their culpability in this degradation. 'I know that anything I've lost,' one character suggests, 'has been given away freely.' Read More Book review: Do not put this book on hold
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Forbes
04-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
American Rosés For The Win[e]
SOLVANG, a small Danish community on California's Central Coast celebrates an All-American 4th of ... More July with a parade of floats, vintage cars, Military vehicles, and fireworks No matter on which side of the aisle you sit, there's one thing most Americans can agree on: July 4 is a big, beautiful grill day. Whether you're hosting or attending, having dogs and burgers or chicken and ribs, there's an rosé wine to go with your party, proudly made in the US of A. Take five: Roses from California Banshee Rosé 2023, Sonoma County. Fun label features an illustration of a Griffith, giving this a kind of Harry Potter or Lord of the Rings whimsical vibe. But the blend is serious: 46% Pinot Noir, 25% Sangiovese, 20% Petite Sirah, 3% Black Muscat, 3% Carignan and 2% Syrah, sourced across vineyards and appellations. It leans toward the candied end of the spectrum, so this might be a good gateway to a more sophisticated wine for those to younger drinkers (21 and older, of course!) who are stuck on oversweet sips. And the label is a fun way to lure them in, too. But it's a pleasing wine for anyone who shies away from high acidity. Bricoleur Vineyards Kick Ranch Vineyards 2023, Sonoma County. A little heavier in structure and alcohol (13.7%), you'll want this gold-colored Grenache-driven rosé with a cheese smash burger. Tinges of sweet stone fruit and tangerine make this a nice partner to sweet and sour ribs, cause you are having those, aren't you? Chamisal Vineyards 'Marlene' Rosé 2023, California. Sources from grapes five miles from the Pacific Ocean, this shows some cool-climate freshness. Sustainably produced and a reliable bottle to bring to a gathering, it leans on the light and tropical side of the rosé spectrum, with melon and grapefruit tones. Copain Wines 'Les Voisins' Rosé of Pinot Noir 2024, Anderson Valley Mendocino County. Earthy with fresh raspberry and tart cherry, this is a sophisticated mineral-driven rosé. Lots of acid makes this a little on the austere side—not a plush and lush sip—but that's what you want on a hot summer day. Fresh tropical fruits and pink grapefruit make this a lovely aperitivo. Ferrari-Carano Dry Sangiovese Rosé 2024, Sonoma County. I always like tasting the wines from this producer – they are consistently pleasing and reliable for any occasion. This one is a market-fresh fruit bowl of red fruits—strawberry leads the way—and blood orange. Drink on its own or with the grilled dogs or, if you're fancy, bratwurst and sausage. Three Finger Lakes roses for the grill! Dr. Konstantin Frank Winery, Finger Lakes. It's always a pleasure to taste the wines from this upstate New York pioneer. The vines in this established Euro-centric (but true to Finger Lakes) winery are some of the oldest in the U.S. The 2024 Dry Rosé, is a delicate and fleshy-preached-tone blend led by Saperavi and Pinot Noir, with pops of grapefruit and strawberry. Fresh and summery! Drink on its own or with crispy-skinned grilled dogs or a composed salad. The Dry Rosé of Pinot Noir is a copper-penny pink wine that delivers dried raspberries and cranberries and a bit of young cherry – tart and structured. Have this with grilled shrimp or a composed summer salad of roasted broccolini and tomatoes. The Dry Rosé of Saperavi leverages one of Georgia's native grapes, this is a go-between of red and Rosé – more structured and wanting a firm food partner from the grill—or a Georgian/Mediterranean inspired menu. High five! American roses for the grill Frank Family 'Leslie Reserve' Rosé of Pinot Noir 2024, Carneros, Napa Valley. Copper-penny pink, this is a fresh strawberry-inflected rosé layered with tropical fruit notes such as guava and grapefruit. Dry and on the structured side, don't be afraid to pair with a burger or sticky ribs. Inman Family Wines 'Endless Crush' Rosé of Pinot Noir, OGV Estate, Russian River Valley. Kathleen Inman's love letter to her husband and to rosé is a deeper-pink-hued wine that lends good structure to food on the grill. Pretty ripe strawberries and red bush fruit, delicate—even with the structure—and a consistently reliable wine that overdelivers and impresses. Matanzas Creek Winery Rosé of Malbec, Sonoma County. An earthy partner to grilled seafood and burgers (beef or turkey). Strawberry-driven, a bit of bramble. Certified sustainable, aged in stainless steel and neutral French oak. A lower-alcohol offering at 11% and a nice 'plays nice' with everyone kind of wine. Pedernales Cellars 'Aletheia' Rosé 2024, Texas High Plains. Aletheia means 'truth' and this blend of 50%/50% Mourvèdre and Grenache does, indeed, speak its truth as a straight-talking dry rosé with plenty of red fruit. Not everything in Texas is big, as this wine proves: it is a lighter interpretation of the Rhone grapes and delivers a delicate, fresh red-berry sip that rivals the south of France in sophistication. Spicewood Estate Rosé of Grenache 2024, the EB Vineyard, Texas Hill Country. From a pioneer in Texas, this is light pink in hue, tart grapefruit leads the way with other tropical fruits providing a smooth underlay. The dry wine is, overall, fresh with a snappy personality. A bit of Carignan and Graciano in the mix.
Digital Trends
12-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Digital Trends
New free-to-play Steam games: Here's how to play them
If you do a quick search for free-to-play games on Steam, you get over 6,700 matches — but that's not enough free games for Valve. The company adds more and more free titles all the time, and this month we've got yet another fresh batch. Covering genres such as multiplayer, horror, first-person combat, open-world adventure, and 3D platformers, Steam has added well over 20 games since the start of May. Here are some of the best-looking ones: Hamster Hustle: a multiplayer tag game where you play as ridiculously colored hamsters running around an elaborate cage. The hamsters also dance. Tankazooka: a 2D platformer about a broken tank that has to use its barrel gun to propel itself up and forward over obstacles. FALARMA – Open World: a pixel art open-world exploration game with missions, side quests, and regular content updates. Triage: a point-and-click adventure/narrative game where you play as a doctor in a small town suffering from a strange outbreak of illness. Sirocco: an early access MOBA that focuses on battleship warfare with 5v5 gameplay. Banshee: a first-person horror game about escaping from a house where all the doors are locked and a murderous banshee is chasing after you. Nanika Game Online: an item-matching, tetris-style game with online multiplayer gameplay. It has a simple style, cute pixel art, and a Japanese name that sort of translates to 'Something Game Online.' If you want to try out any of these games, simply head to the links or throw the name into Steam's search bar. Not every free game is available across all platforms, so make sure to check the icons above the 'Play Game' button. Many titles are Windows-only, but some will also play on macOS and/or SteamOS and Linux. Recommended Videos You can also check the system requirements toward the bottom of the page, though you should be able to play these simple games on just about any setup. If none of these titles interest you, use the filters and top-seller/top-rated tabs available on Steam's search page to check out thousands of other free-to-play games. There's also an 'Under $5' section where you can view the games with the tiniest price tags.
Yahoo
12-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Nokia delivers advanced tactical private wireless solutions to Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA)
Press Release Nokia delivers advanced tactical private wireless solutions to Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA) Enhanced battlefield connectivity with Nokia Banshee tactical private wireless solutions Supporting Marine Corps modernization efforts with resilient, high-speed communications Providing hands-on training for seamless deployment and operational success 12 May 2025Chantilly, Virginia – Nokia today announced that it has delivered its Banshee tactical private wireless solutions to the Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity (MCTSSA), reinforcing the U.S. Marine Corps' commitment to provide seamless, secure, and resilient communications for tactical operations. This milestone builds upon years of collaboration between Nokia and the Marine Corps in testing and refining next-generation communication capabilities to support critical operational needs. In 2023, Nokia and the Marine Corps conducted a two-day proof-of-concept at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, validating Banshee's ability to deliver secure, high-capacity tactical communications beyond expectations. That same year, Nokia and MCTSSA partnered at Project Convergence to showcase Banshee's effectiveness in denied, disrupted, intermittent, and limited (DDIL) environments. These demonstrations reinforced its role in enabling resilient, high-speed connectivity across joint warfighting networks. Following these findings, MCTSSA acquired multiple Banshee units in early 2025 for further evaluation and integration into Marine Corps exercises. To support seamless deployment, Nokia provided hands-on training to MCTSSA and other Marine Corps units, covering private wireless network operations, setup, troubleshooting, and live demonstrations of Banshee's capabilities. 'Banshee is a game-changer for the warfighter, providing the Marine Corps with a powerful, scalable private wireless solution that meets the demand of modern warfare. We are honored to support MCTSSA and the Marine Corps as they modernize battlefield connectivity while enhancing operational efficiency and resilience,' said Scott Ferguson, Chief Revenue Officer, Nokia Federal Solutions. 'High bandwidth, low latency transport is critical for sensor-to-shooter integration, enabling real-time data flow from sensors to weapon systems. This ensures precise, timely strikes, maintaining battlefield advantage. Even slight delays can jeopardize missions, making robust connectivity a strategic necessity for lethality and adaptability in modern warfare,' said Capt. Eric Perez, MCTSSA Cyber Network Operation Officer. The Nokia Banshee family delivers a high-speed, long-range, and secure tactical communication solution designed for rapid deployment in demanding environments. As a cost-efficient, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) system, it leverages industry R&D investments to provide a scalable alternative to traditional Marine Corps communications. With its lightweight, easy-to-use design and advanced security, Banshee ensures resilient, mission-critical connectivity while significantly reducing costs, aligning with MCTSSA's vision for modernizing battlefield communications. Multimedia, technical information, and related newsWeb Page: 5G tactical private wirelessPress release: Nokia launches the 5G Banshee Flex Radio: a revolutionary mobile broadband edge network for modern battlefield communications About NokiaAt Nokia, we create technology that helps the world act together. As a B2B technology innovation leader, we are pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, we create value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs, which is celebrating 100 years of innovation. With truly open architectures that seamlessly integrate into any ecosystem, our high-performance networks create new opportunities for monetization and scale. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. Media inquiriesNokia Press OfficeEmail: Nokia Federal ServicesJacqueline LampertEmail: media@ Follow us on social mediaLinkedIn X Instagram Facebook YouTubeError in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
