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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
Dortmund bring back loanee Coulibaly earlier than planned
SBorussia Dortmund's Soumaila Coulibaly (l) and Marcel Sabitzer fight for the ball during a training camp. Borussia Dortmund have brought back the loaned defender Coulibaly a few weeks before originally planned, the Bundesliga club said in a statement on Thursday. David Inderlied/dpa Borussia Dortmund have brought back the loaned defender Soumaila Coulibaly a few weeks before originally planned, the Bundesliga club said in a statement on Thursday. The player was expected to stay at French side Brest until the end of the month. Advertisement But Coulibaly is back in Dortmund and started recovery training as he's been out of action since March due to adductor problems. If he's fit in time, he can take part in the Club World Cup in the United States on June 14-July 13. Dortmund start their campaign against Brazilian side Fluminense on June 17.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
People Are Being Paid to Wear ‘Free Diddy' Shirts Outside Courthouse
Someone's working very hard to create an image of public support around Sean 'Diddy' Combs, according to a bystander who told the Daily Beast she was offered $20 cash to wear a 'Free $Diddy' shirt outside the court where he's standing trial. Sali Coulibaly, a 29-year-old tech project manager, was standing outside the U.S. District Court in New York's Southern District on Friday, watching the public gathering attracted by Combs' ongoing sex trafficking trial, when she said she came across a strange sight. 'I saw a group of [people] awkwardly standing outside of the playground across the street from the courthouse,' Coulibaly told the Daily Beast of the moment she spotted several clumped together strangers wearing 'Free $Diddy' and 'Free Puff' t-shirts. 'I was wondering why they were wearing those shirts,' she continued. 'I was curious. I crossed the street, and I'm standing there with my phone out, and then this older lady is staring at me. She's just staring at me for a period of time. Then she tells me, 'Do you want to come out here and wear a shirt for $20 an hour?'' The woman then motioned over to a younger man and told her, ''Just go to that guy. If you're already standing out here, you may as well get paid.'' A video of Coulibaly posted by freelance journalist Emilie Hagen went viral Friday, racking up millions of views. Rapper 50 Cent was among those who reposted it during his latest Diddy trolling session over the weekend. 'Diddy paying people to wear Free Diddy shirts is diabolical, but $20 an hour ain't bad,' he quipped. Who exactly is paying the bystanders to don the paraphernalia remains unclear. But drumming up the appearance of support is reminiscent of Combs' early days as a musician and producer—when he and others of the 'mixtape generation' would pay people to buy up his mixtapes, generating hype for a new music release. Coulibaly told the Daily Beast that most if not all the paid protesters outside Combs' trial appeared to her to be unhoused. At least one seemed to be on 'drugs or something, since he just kind of looked like he didn't know where he was.' She continued to observe the situation, noticing that a more coordinated version of the t-shirt operation seemed to be underway in the park near the courthouse. 'I went inside the park and I see the young man that was giving away the shirts, was sitting on the bench with maybe a bag or a box-full,' she said. 'And I can see a group of [people] were changing in the park. He was asking for their sizes.' An investigation by Hagen uncovered that the shirts promote $DIDDY coin, the growing internet currency token representing Combs' media moment—and thus, may be more of a cash grab than an ego boost for Combs. Even though Combs' camp denied involvement with the t-shirts, according to Hagen, his X account did at one point promote the $DIDDY crypto currency. 20 dollars a head seems to be motivation enough for the people milling around the courthouse to keep the shirt gambit going for now, whatever its endgame may be. 'She was very persistent, like she just wanted me to wear it so bad,' Coulibaly added of the woman who approached her. 'I just walked away.' Combs hopes to do the same, now that he's turned down a plea deal to face the federal charges against him and risk spending the rest of his life in prison. After his ex-girlfriend Cassie Ventura has finished her bombshell testimony, Combs' lawyers are hard at work to defend him from more state-presented evidence that he coerced mass numbers of victims into sexual activity through threats, blackmail, and violence. Combs has consistently denied all charges.
USA Today
15-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Texas A&M's Aicha Coulibaly gets selected in the 2025 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky
Texas A&M's Aicha Coulibaly gets selected in the 2025 WNBA Draft by the Chicago Sky Texas A&M senior guard Aicha Coulibaly was selected in the second round of the 2025 WNBA Draft as the 22nd overall pick by the Chicago Sky, becoming the 18th Aggie drafted in the program's history. Coulibaly joined the Aggies in 2023 as part of head coach Joni Taylor's highly talented transfer class. Over her two seasons with the team, she played a pivotal role, including leading Texas A&M to an NCAA tournament appearance. Despite a standout first season, her senior year was cut short after 19 games due to a leg injury. She finished her college basketball career averaging 13.3 points per game and 5.4 rebounds, making a strong impact in her starting role. Joining an impressive Chicago Sky lineup, Coulibaly will team up with first-round picks Ajsa Sivka and Hailey Van Lith, as well as fellow second-rounder Maddy Westbeld. The competition to secure a spot on the Sky's roster will be tough, but Coulibaly's skills and determination reflect her readiness to compete at the professional level. Her draft selection underscores her growth and dedication as a player, solidifying her as a notable addition to the WNBA. Contact/Follow us @AggiesWire on X and like our page on Facebook to follow ongoing coverage of Texas A&M news, notes and opinions. Follow Jarrett Johnson on X: @whosnextsports1.
The Guardian
06-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Amadou Bagayoko obituary
One of the most extraordinary success stories in the history of African music began in 1978 in the south of the Malian capital, Bamako, in the Institut des Jeunes Aveugles, a school for young blind people. It was there that Amadou Bagayoko and Mariam Doumbia began to make music together. Over two decades later, by now married and known as Amadou & Mariam, 'the blind duo of Mali' (as they were once billed) became an award-winning commercial triumph, headlining at festivals and concerts around the world. Amadou, who has died aged 70, played the electric guitar, sang with Mariam, and wrote or co-wrote many of their songs. They had enjoyed a lengthy, sometimes difficult career together when their lives were transformed by a collaboration with the French-Spanish globally-influenced pop star Manu Chao. He heard one of their songs on the car radio while driving through Paris, and offered not just to produce their next album but to co-write and sing on some of the tracks, adding his slinky, rhythmic style to the duo's rousing blend of African R&B. The result, Dimanche à Bamako (2004) introduced the duo to a new global audience, selling half a million copies worldwide and reaching No 2 in France. Blending gutsy blues-rock and impressive guitar work from Amadou on the song Coulibaly with a stomping dance piece, La Réalité, or the cheerfully rousing Beaux Dimanches, this was crossover music that appealed to rock and pop fans as well as enthusiasts for African music. When I asked Amadou about his guitar style, he told me: 'I love English music and started out listening to Alvin Lee, Eric Clapton, David Gilmour and Bad Company – and trying to find a link between them and our Bambara culture.' Amadou & Mariam now had a chance to show a wider audience that they were great live performers, with years of experience behind them. Their live shows in the UK after the album's success included the 2006 African Soul Rebels package tour, and an appearance at Glastonbury in 2007 as part of Damon Albarn's Africa Express. Here, backed by the Kick Horns, they provided a rousing opening to an extraordinary show that included Baaba Maal, Toumani Diabaté and the desert blues exponents Tinariwen, who were joined by Amadou on guitar. Albarn co-produced their follow-up album, Welcome to Mali, in 2008, which continued their Africa-pop crossover success. It included Sabali, a swirling electro-pop ballad co-written by Albarn, and guest appearances from the Somali hip hop star K'Naan and others, but was dominated by Amadou's guitar work, as on his collaboration with the kora virtuoso Diabaté. It was nominated for the Grammy award for best contemporary world music album. In 2012, the duo's album Folila included yet more 'special guests', including Jake Shears of Scissor Sisters, and a rousing guitar-rock song, Dougou Badia, featuring Santigold. By now their live appearances were becoming equally adventurous. In 2009 they played in Oslo when Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel peace prize, and in the same year gave a charity show for the homeless in London, at which they were joined by Gilmour. In 2011 they staged a series of Eclipse concerts in the dark, to remind their audiences of what it was like to experience music when blind. They supported rock bands including Blur, Coldplay and U2, and in 2019 toured the UK with the American gospel group the Blind Boys of Alabama, with whom they collaborated on several songs, with Amadou showing off his guitar skills on a thoughtful treatment of the Tom Waits song Down in the Hole. In 2017 they released La Confusion, now joined by Malian ngoni and kora players rather than international guests. This was followed in 2024 by the compilation set La Vie Est Belle, which included a slinky and charming new song, Mogolu. Last year they also played at the UK Womad festival and at Somerset House in London – with Amadou still on rousing form, especially on the old favourites from Dimanche à Bamako. The son of a bricklaying instructor and a civil servant, Amadou was born in Bamako. He suffered from congenital cataracts, with his sight deteriorating throughout his childhood, and compensated by developing an acute sense of hearing. He learned to identify the sound of different types of guitar, and as a young guitar prodigy himself, he joined one of Mali's greatest bands, Les Ambassadeurs du Motel, then including the singer Salif Keita. He quit in 1978, when the band moved to Abidjan in the (then) Ivory Coast to record, and with another former band member, Idrissa Soumaoro (who is not blind), moved to the blind school as teachers, and for Amadou to learn braille. There they set up a band, L'Eclipse, in which they were joined by the school's finest singer, Mariam, who was then 20. She had lost her sight through measles at the age of six. In 1981 she and Amadou were married. They started another band, Mirya, consisting only of blind musicians, then began performing as a duo, becoming so successful that Amadou found it hard to continue teaching. In 1986 he and Mariam set off for Abidjan, then the musical mecca of West Africa, where they stayed for six years, recording cassettes that became successful across West Africa – and among Africans living in France. In 1998 they released their first of three albums recorded in France, and Amadou's love song to his wife, Je Pense à Toi, became a hit on French radio. But it would be the collaboration with Manu Chao that finally brought Amadou and Mariam international success. With Mariam, Amadou won several awards, including France's Victoire de la Musique twice and the BBC World Music award in 2006. He is survived by Mariam and their three children. Amadou Bagayoko, singer-songwriter and guitarist, born 24 October 1954; died 4 April 2025
New York Times
13-03-2025
- Sport
- New York Times
Wizards' Bilal Coulibaly likely out for season after hamstring strain
DETROIT — Bilal Coulibaly, one of the Washington Wizards' prized young players, will likely miss the remainder of this season because of a right hamstring strain. Team officials announced that Coulibaly will be out approximately four-to-six weeks but did not say his season is over. Since there are only four weeks and three days until the Wizards' season finale on April 13, it appears highly unlikely Coulibaly will return. Advertisement Coulibaly's hamstring will not require surgery, a team official said, and he is expected to remain with the team while he recovers. But his injury is a tough blow to a team that hoped to use the final month of the season to continue developing its youngsters. The Wizards (13-51) rely on Coulibaly to guard opponents' best perimeter playmakers and scorers. Although defense is Coulibaly's trademark, the second-year wing has made strides on offense this season, particularly with his ballhandling and passing. He's averaging 12.3 points, 5.0 rebounds and 3.4 assists in 59 games this season. It's a sad coincidence that Coulibaly, 20, suffered his injury on a play that demonstrated his progression into someone who can beat defenders off the dribble. On March 10 in Toronto, Coulibaly pump-faked beyond the 3-point line, drove past the Raptors' Jamison Battle and threw down a two-handed dunk. As Coulibaly hung on the rim, Battle undercut him, causing Coulibaly to fall back-first onto the court. He strained his right hamstring and bruised his right hip in the process. In the immediate aftermath, team officials were thankful Coulibaly had not sustained an injury to his head, neck or back. 'Those are always scary for a coach,' Wizards coach Brian Keefe said Tuesday night before the hamstring injury was diagnosed. 'You never want to see that for any player, your own or opposing (players). It's the guys' livelihoods. You never want to see anybody have a play like that, but unfortunately, that stuff happens in this league.' An MRI revealed the hamstring strain. Coulibaly's rookie season was cut short last March by a season-ending injury. Coulibaly fractured his right wrist during a game against Chicago, underwent surgery and recovered in time to play for France's national team during the 2024 Paris Olympics. (This story will be updated.)
