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Wall Street Journal
6 days ago
- Business
- Wall Street Journal
Dick's Sporting Goods Maintains Outlook as Quarterly Sales Increase
Dick's Sporting Goods DKS 4.19%increase; green up pointing triangle maintained its outlook for the year after first-quarter sales and comp sales beat Wall Street's forecasts, joining a handful of retailers that keep their guidance intact despite lingering uncertainty in the economy. The sporting-good retailer recorded net income of $264.3 million, or $3.24 a share, for the first quarter ended May 3, compared to $275.3 million, or $3.30 a share, in the prior-year period.
The Independent
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Bakole's Sparring Tales: Hype or heavyweight truth ahead of vital fight on Canelo card?
Martin Bakole is hoping to bounce back after a second-round knockout loss to Joseph Parker last year – he takes on Efe Ajagba on the Canelo vs Scull undercard in Riyadh tomorrow, Saturday, May 3. The Congolese man possess immense power in both hands and claims to be the most-avoided heavyweight in the world because he has sparred with, and given a hard time to, the biggest names in the heavyweight division. Regaling stories of broken noses, wobbly legs and body shots, Bakole is either a great salesman or a genuine heavyweight threat. Which heavyweights does Bakole claim to have smashed in sparring? Joe Joyce The only claim of Bakole's with any evidence to back it up is that he and Joe Joyce went toe-to-toe in sparring. The video, posted to X in March, last year garnered a lot of attention in the boxing community. The clip shows he and Joyce exchanging single shots before Bakole unloads with a three-shot combination that knocks Joyce's headguard off. The post was captioned: 'This is the reason why UK heavyweights are avoiding me guys.' Bakole may not have been telling the whole story, however, as 'The Juggernaut' and his team responded with a video from what seems to be a different sparring session as Bakole is wearing different attire. It shows Bakole on his knees in the ring, looking like he was about to throw up into a bucket. Joyce's team claimed this was from an accumulation of body shots – Bakole refuted this, claiming he had eaten eggs on the way to sparring that had not agreed with him. Daniel Dubois Throughout 2024, Bakole seemed unable to go the length of an interview without mentioning or being asked about sparring with Daniel Dubois. Revealing what happens behind closed doors is usually not the done thing but Bakole was using it to get himself closer to a fight with the IBF champion. He told iFL TV: 'I broke his nose twice and stopped him. That is not a lie because, he would never come say that I am lying,' These claims have never been confirmed, nor have they been addressed by Dubois, but Bakole does admit that he uses these sparring stories to sell himself. "People are telling me not to talk about sparring,' he told talkSport. 'But people forget I'm from Africa and it's very hard for me to sell tickets, so I need to sell myself." Oleksandr Usyk Heavyweight champion Oleksandr Usyk is another of the names that the heavy hitter from the Democratic Republic of the Congo has claimed to have roughed up in sparring. "Even Usyk, I don't think he'd say yes (to fighting me)," Bakole said on Sky Sports, 'because I stopped him in Dubai in sparring. He knows how good I am. I don't know if he'll say yes again to fight me as well. I am telling the truth." The Usyk camp responded to this and although they gave credit to Bakole as one of the best sparring partners Usyk has had, they insisted that it was their man who nearly stopped the Congolese slugger. Anthony Joshua AJ sparred with Bakole in Sheffield whilst still under the tutelage of Rob McCracken. Bakole claims that he was one of seven guys to spar Joshua on the first day. Once the second day rolled around it was only him and Agit Kabayel left in the gym. He sparred six rounds with the former unified heavyweight champion. "The first round went nice," Bakole told talkSport."But AJ tried to knock me out but I was like, 'What the hell?'" So my coach said 'show him', and I caught him with a beautiful left hand. It shook his head and shook his legs. Everyone went quiet in the gym, I used the left hook yeah and people saw it." Bakole has made bold claims outside the ring — now he must deliver inside it. A convincing performance against Ajagba this weekend would be the first step toward proving he belongs among the heavyweight elite.
Geek Tyrant
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Tyrant
New Trailer For A24's New Horror Film BRING HER BACK Teases Some Genuine Terror — GeekTyrant
A24 has released a new trailer for it's twisted new horror thriller Bring Her Back , which comes from the directors of Talk to Me, Danny and Michael Philippou. I don't know about you, but to me the trailer seems to be giving off some serious Pet Sematary vibes. In the footage, Sally Hawkins welcomes two new foster children into her home after their parents die. When one of the kids asks how she coped with the loss of her daughter Kathy, she replies, "I didn't." This leads to Hawkins' character diving into some dark witchcraft in an effort to bring Kathy back from the dead, and as we all know, that never turns out very well for anyone. I'm ready for the unsettling and nightmarish ride that this movie is going to take us on. The directors talked about the film at a preview event, saying: 'It was more anxiety ridden because you have A24 to let down. You have Sally Hawkins to let down. Everything that you do, there was an extra pressure to it. So, everything just goes out the window, and it feels like you've never made anything. 'And then you're in the deep again, and you feel like you're drowning again. And you're like, 'Oh, why the f*ck did we put ourselves through this again?' And then, at the end of it, you come out. It's always a painful process, but a rewarding one.' The movie stars Sally Hawkins ( The Shape Of Water ), Billy Barratt, and Jonah Wren Phillips, and it looks like it's doing to deliver a twisted and jacked-up story. Bring Her Back is set to be released on May 30th.
News.com.au
14-05-2025
- Politics
- News.com.au
Liberal deputy leader Ted O'Brien refuses to commit to nuclear policy he championed
The new Liberals Deputy Leader has refused to say whether he supports retaining the nuclear energy policy he was in charge of after the party suffered a devastating loss at the May 3 election. Ted O'Brien, who as the energy spokesman for the Coalition, devised and championed the policy to establish nuclear energy plants in seven locations across the country, was grilled on the policy on 7.30 on Wednesday night. He said all of the party's policies – 'including our energy policy' – will be under review. 'We need to be humble enough to recognise that the Australian people had something to say on the third of May,' Mr O'Brien said. 'But we have to get to the bottom of what that is and we will do so in a very open and humble way. 'And that includes with nuclear energy, that includes with the energy policy moreover, and right across the policy suite.' Presenter Sarah Ferguson pushed Mr O'Brien on the nuclear policy, saying that it would be too late for nuclear reactors to replace coal by the time the Coalition returned to government. 'So I want to be crystal clear about this, are you saying it's still possible for nuclear reactors in Australia to replace ageing coal fired power stations?' Ms Ferguson said. In reply, Mr O'Brien said the party was not going to be rushed into policy decisions. 'So I can be as clear as you've been, we are at this stage not saying that any policy is out and gone, nor are we saying that any policy is accepted and locked in,' Mr O'Brien said. 'Our job right now is to ensure that we are understanding the message that the Australian people has sent us.' Mr O'Brien said he recognised climate change 'is a real issue' and too much time had been wasted on debating whether action was needed. 'My personal view is that what has held Australia back for too many years has been an unnecessary debate on the question of why act on climate change?' he said. 'It shouldn't be a debate about whether or not climate change is happening today, whether or not there needs to be action taken. Of course there needs to be action taken. 'The question is, what is the best pathway?' He said it was 'critical' to reduce emissions as quickly as possible, but needs to be balanced. When asked whether the Liberal Party would stick with its policy to remain in the Paris Agreement and the net zero climate emissions target, Mr O'Brien again all policies would be reviewed. 'No policy is definitively, in or definitively out. It would be premature to do so now.' The Liberal Party's coalition partners the Nationals may cause issues, with several members already pushing back on net zero and the push to transition from coal. The Nationals have more numbers in the coalition after the May 3 election, and leader David Littleproud keen to stick with the Coalition's nuclear policy. 'We're going to review all our policies and we'll do that in a calm, methodical way, similar to the way that we worked through the Voice to make sure we understand the implications of any decisions we make,' he said earlier this week. 'But we'll be principled – principled about the people that we represent and making sure we understand the implications of that. 'So we're not rushing into anything, but we will work through that in a collegial way.'
Straits Times
05-05-2025
- Politics
- Straits Times
The influencer election that wasn't: Amid Trump trauma, Australian voters logged off
A supporter of Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese wears sunglasses with the words 'Albo 2025' written on it on the day of the Australian federal election, in Sydney, Australia, on May 3. FILE PHOTO: REUTERS SYDNEY - When Australian podcast host Nigel Marsh booked Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for an interview on his show Five of My Life, he expected a surge of listeners due to his guest's high profile and the fact that an election was looming. Instead, his audience numbers came in at half their usual level. 'I was expecting a bump in the figures,' said Mr Marsh, who first posted the 35-minute sitdown in the lead-up to the last election, in 2022, and again three weeks before the M ay 3 vote which returned Mr Albanese to power. 'Truth be told, I was surprised that the listener downloads for the prime minister were noticeably lower than for other popular culture figures.' A campaign dominated by podcasts, TikTok and other non-mainstream media was widely credited with US President Donald Trump's win in 2024. But an attempt by Australian politicians to do the same fell flat in 2025, according to publicly available data and an analysis of social media activity conducted exclusively for Reuters. Australia's 2025 election was its first where all major party leaders went on podcasts and ran personal TikTok accounts. But voters largely tuned out of online political discussions after the campaign began in March and particularly since Mr Trump sent geopolitical shockwaves by announcing sweeping tariffs on April 2, the analysis shows. 'While there is no question that social media and podcasts do play an important role, I think in this particular election, that has to be viewed as secondary to the most dominant political trend in the world, and that is Trump,' said Professor Gordon Flake, CEO of foreign policy think tank, the Perth USAsia Centre. After Mr Albanese's March 26 appearance on lifestyle podcast Happy Hour with Lucy and Nikki, 'comments per 100 likes' for the show's TikTok account - a closely watched measure of audience engagement - fell by two-thirds by late April. A 48-minute interview with Mr Albanese on popular YouTube channel Ozzy Man Reviews ranked 18th out of the channel's last 20 videos. It had about one-third the views of a video about Olympic breakdancer Raygun, according to data published on the streaming website. Ozzy Man presenter Ethan Marrell said the decline was due to fewer overseas viewers and his Albanese interview reached the same number of Australians as his other content. 'I'm pleased with how it performed,' he said by phone. Likes are not votes The opposition conservative coalition generated one-third more likes on its heavily meme-driven TikTok page than the governing Labor Party, according to published data, but still lost Australia's first election where most voters were aged 44 and under, the platform's main demographic. The left-wing Greens party also performed poorly despite some high-profile influencer support, losing at least two of their four House of Representatives members, including TikTok's most-followed Australian lawmaker, Mr Max Chandler-Mather. 'Often social media is a useful way of setting the agenda in mainstream media,' said Dr Jill Sheppard, a political scientist who works on the Australian Election Study, the country's biggest research project on voting behaviour. 'That doesn't seem to have happened in this election.' Australia's compulsory voting system effectively overrides the need to encourage non-voters to the ballot box, as Mr Trump's appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience and other podcasts was credited with doing, Dr Sheppard said. Plus, Australian influencers were typically inexperienced political interviewers and candidate campaigns had become 'so risk-averse and so scripted that the audiences can't be really enjoying it', she said. Behavioural disengagement After the conservative opposition led most polls for nearly a year against a government accused of failing to fix a living cost crisis, an abrupt turnaround coincided with the start of the campaign and Mr Trump's constantly changing tariff regime which roiled markets - and pension fund balances. Engagement with politics on social media plummeted around the same time, according to US disinformation tracker Cyabra. Analysis conducted for Reuters showed an 84 per cent decline in Australian election-related posts, likes and comments from the start of April, compared to the month before, from 13,000 posts across 6,000 accounts on Facebook and X. The downturn suggested 'a deeper behavioral disengagement from political discourse in Australia's online ecosystem', the company said. Decisions by social media giants including Facebook and Instagram owner Meta and X to cut content moderation had enabled more misinformation, 'creating voters that are sceptical and, frankly, exhausted by the deluge of political messaging being aimed in their direction', said Mr Adam Marre, chief information security officer at cybersecurity firm Arctic Wolf. On Reddit, concern about Mr Trump was 'strongly observable' across 20 Australian political forums analysed by Queensland University of Technology's Digital Observatory. Users frequently drew parallels between opposition conservative leader Peter Dutton and Mr Trump, particularly in the campaign's early stages, said data scientist Mat Bettinson. 'Trump is probably having more of an impact than any single influencer online at the moment,' said Mr Finley Watson, a researcher of social media and politics at La Trobe University. 'Economic uncertainty tends to favour the incumbent and Trump has been probably one of the more dominant salient aspects of this election.' REUTERS Join ST's Telegram channel and get the latest breaking news delivered to you.
