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CNET
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- CNET
Today's NYT Connections: Sports Edition Hints, Answers for June 2 #252
Looking for the most recent regular Connections answers? Click here for today's Connections hints, as well as our daily answers and hints for The New York Times Mini Crossword, Wordle and Strands puzzles. Connections: Sports Edition has a mix of difficulty levels today. Read on for hints and the answers. Connections: Sports Edition is out of beta now, making its debut on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 9. That's a sign that the game has earned enough loyal players that The Athletic, the subscription-based sports journalism site owned by the Times, will continue to publish it. It doesn't show up in the NYT Games app but now appears in The Athletic's own app. Or you can continue to play it free online. Read more: NYT Connections: Sports Edition Puzzle Comes Out of Beta Hints for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Here are four hints for the groupings in today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group. Yellow group hint: Not offense. Green group hint: Leave home in baseball. Blue group hint: Football stars. Purple group hint: Song by the Pointer Sisters. Answers for today's Connections: Sports Edition groups Yellow group: Defend. Green group: Ways to reach first base. Blue group: Hall of Fame running backs. Purple group: ____ jump. Read more: Wordle Cheat Sheet: Here Are the Most Popular Letters Used in English Words What are today's Connections: Sports Edition answers? The completed NYT Connections Sports Edition puzzle for June 2, 2025. NYT/Screenshot by CNET The yellow words in today's Connections The theme is defend. The four answers are blanket, cover, guard and shield. The green words in today's Connections The theme is ways to reach first base. The four answers are error, hit by pitch, single and walk. The blue words in today's Connections The theme is Hall of Fame running backs. The four answers are Dorsett, Little, Sanders, Sayers. The purple words in today's Connections The theme is ____ jump. The four answers are broad, high, long and triple.
Geek Culture
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Culture
‘Grand Theft Auto VI' Trailer Scores Breaking 475 Million Views In One Day
Grand Theft Auto VI might have been pushed to 2026, but that isn't dampening the hype from fans as they eagerly await Rockstar Games' upcoming sequel, as the title's second trailer has received over 475 million views across platforms within a day of its release on 6 May. This news comes courtesy of The Hollywood Reporter, with Rockstar claiming that the trailer marks its biggest video launch to date. Viewership has also led to the increased popularity of its soundtrack, with Hot Together by The Pointer Sisters, the song featured in the trailer, seeing its streams on music platform Spotify increase by a staggering 182,000% since its release. ' Grand Theft Auto cuts through popular culture like almost nothing else,' Spotify's global head of editorial, Sulinna Ong, said in a statement to the Hollywood Reporter. 'Music has been synonymous with the series since the very beginning, so it's great to see fans both new and established connecting with an iconic track in this way.' This excitement should come as no surprise considering that Grand Theft Auto VI is by far the biggest upcoming game over the next year. For comparison, the first trailer for the game, which was released in December 2023, garnered 93 million views in the same time frame, which was also impressive as it was a YouTube exclusive, and made it the biggest non-music video launch on the platform at the time. With its latest milestone, the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer has also shattered a record previously held by Marvel for the first Deadpool and Wolverine trailer, which debuted to 365 million views in its first 24 hours, similarly surpassing its other highly anticipated films like the upcoming The Fantastic Four: First Steps , which saw an announcement trailer debuting to 202 million viewers in the same time frame. Amidst the excitement, Rockstar has also recently confirmed that its latest trailer featured a mix of gameplay and cutscenes, and was captured on the PS5, and if its gameplay looked so good that it could be mistaken as a cutscene, it only spells good news for the upcoming title. Grand Theft Auto VI will be released on 26 May 2026 for the PS5 and Xbox Series X|S, with a PC release coming after. Kevin is a reformed PC Master Race gamer with a penchant for franchise 'duds' like Darksiders III and Dead Space 3 . He has made it his life-long mission to play every single major game release – lest his wallet dies trying. Grand Theft Auto Grand Theft Auto VI GTA 6 Rockstar Games
CNET
06-05-2025
- Entertainment
- CNET
This Is Not a Drill: A New Grand Theft Auto 6 Trailer Is Out
Rockstar Games surprised everyone Tuesday by dropping a new trailer for the highly anticipated Grand Theft Auto 6, and the company is expected to launch the game on May 26, 2026. Rockstar also shed some more light on the upcoming game's story. "Jason and Lucia have always known the deck is stacked against them," the company wrote online. "But when an easy score goes wrong, they find themselves on the darkest side of the sunniest place in America, in the middle of a criminal conspiracy stretching across the state of Leonida — forced to rely on each other more than ever if they want to make it out alive." From the trailer, we see Jason driving around Vice City before picking up Lucia after she's released from jail. Then things take a turn as we see the two lovebirds holding people hostage, people loading cargo onto a plane at night and a meeting with what I'm guessing are some crooked cops. Honestly, there's so much more happening in this trailer. There are explosions, a fight on an airplane and an airboat chase through the swamp. And it's all set to the song Hot Together by the magnificent Pointer Sisters, making the trailer feel that much more fun. The trailer lands a few days after Rockstar announced it was pushing the game's launch date back to 2026 after the company aimed for a 2025 release. While I'm a little annoyed the game got pushed back, the latest trailer looks excellent, and I'm more than happy to give Rockstar a little more time to finish the game. Because I want a great gaming experience, and I'd rather wait a little longer than play something that isn't as good as it could be. And if there's one thing Rockstar knows how to do, it's make solid games. For more gaming news, here's what to know about higher Xbox consoles prices, the latest games included in PlayStation Plus and when Gears of War lands on the PlayStation 5.
New York Times
18-04-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Mac Gayden, Stellar Nashville Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 83
Mac Gayden, the co-writer of the pop evergreen 'Everlasting Love' and an innovative guitarist who recorded with Bob Dylan and helped establish Nashville as a recording hub for artists working outside the bounds of country music, died on Wednesday at his home in Nashville. He was 83. His cousin Tommye Maddox Working said the cause was complications of Parkinson's disease. Strangely enough, Mr. Gayden's most illustrious achievement — his percussive electric guitar work on 'Absolutely Sweet Marie,' a track on Mr. Dylan's 1966 opus, 'Blonde on Blonde,' most of which was recorded in Nashville — went uncredited for decades. It was only recently, when a new generation of researchers discovered the omission, that he received his due. Mr. Gayden, who was self-taught, had a knack for inventing just the right rhythm or mood for an arrangement. In the late 1960s and early '70s, when Nashville was just beginning to break out of its conventional country bubble, he had a particular affinity for collaborating with cultural outsiders, among them Linda Ronstadt and the Pointer Sisters. 'Mac Gayden was a genius, genius, genius — the best guitar player I ever heard,' Bob Johnston, the producer of 'Blonde on Blonde,' was quoted as saying in 'Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City,' a 2015 exhibition at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville. On J.J. Cale's 1971 Top 40 single 'Crazy Mama,' Mr. Gayden played bluesy slide guitar with a wah-wah pedal, creating an uncanny sound later employed to droll effect on the Steve Miller Band's chart-topping 1973 pop hit 'The Joker.' Decades later, the steel guitarist Robert Randolph, a Pentecostal-bred star in jam-band circles, adopted the technique as well. 'A few years ago, a writer called me 'father of the wah slide,'' Mr. Gayden wrote in his autobiography, 'Missing String Theory: A Musician's Uncommon Spiritual Journey' (2013). 'It's humbling to realize I developed a stylistic approach to playing slide.' Those accolades notwithstanding, Mr. Gayden's greatest — and most enduring — success came not for his playing but for 'Everlasting Love,' a declaration of boundless devotion written with Buzz Cason, who died last June. A perennial favorite at weddings, the song reached the Top 40 in four consecutive decades: It was a hit for the R&B singers Robert Knight in 1967 and Carl Carlton in 1974, for Gloria Estefan in 1995, and for the pop duo Rex Smith and Rachel Sweet in 1981. U2 released a bare-bones take of the song as one of two B-sides of their 1989 single 'All I Want Is You.' Mr. Gayden, who also sang on some recordings, wrote two other hits associated with Nashville's late-1960s R&B heyday: Clifford Curry's 'She Shot a Hole in My Soul' (1967) — later covered by both the Box Tops and Huey Lewis and the News — and the Valentines' 'Gotta Get Yourself Together' (1969). Along with 'Everlasting Love,' both those singles were included on the Grammy-winning 2004 compilation 'Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues.' McGavock Dickinson Gayden was born on June 5, 1941, in Nashville, one of six children of Hamilton Virgil and Ann (Dickinson) Gayden. His father was an obstetrician and gynecologist; his mother was an equestrian whose career was cut short by a near-fatal fall in a competition at Madison Square Garden. Mac attended the Storm King School in Cornwall-on-Hudson, N.Y., before completing high school in Nashville in 1958. After two years at George Peabody College for Teachers (now part of Vanderbilt University), he joined the U.S. Army Reserve and saw active duty during the Cuban missile crisis. Mr. Gayden played in local bands during this period, mostly at fraternity parties and sock hops. In the early 1960s, he joined the Escorts, a pop combo led by the prolific studio musician Charlie McCoy, and through him Mr. Gayden gained entree to Nashville session work, including the chance to play on 'Blonde on Blonde.' As the 1960s gave way to the 1970s, Mr. Gayden and several other alumni of the Escorts formed two improvisational country rock bands, Area Code 615 and then Barefoot Jerry. Area Code 615 was best known for 'Stone Fox Chase,' the chuffing instrumental that became the theme for the BBC music show 'The Old Grey Whistle Test.' Barefoot Jerry, an early Southern rock band, featured Mr. Gayden's soulful lead vocals and guitar, but he left after just one album (the band would release six more) to pursue a more spiritual direction with a solo release, 'McGavock Gayden,' produced by Mr. Johnston and released in 1971. Possessed of a mystical streak, Mr. Gayden next formed a group, Skyboat, that drew inspiration from sacred texts like 'Black Elk Speaks' and 'The Bhagavad Gita.' A prototypical jam band, Skyboat bore witness to Mr. Gayden's ever-expanding musical palette, embracing jazz, funk and psychedelia. 'Hymn to the Seeker,' Skyboat's second album for ABC-Dunhill, was recorded at Criteria in Miami in 1976 in a studio adjoining those where the Eagles were making 'Hotel California' and Fleetwood Mac was working on 'Rumors.' The Eagles' Randy Meisner, who died in 2023, sang on one track of Mr. Gayden's album. Increasingly focused on nurturing his spiritual life, Mr. Gayden recorded only sporadically after that, releasing 'Nirvana Blues' in 1996. A decade later he played on and produced 'Cyber Gypsies,' a family project featuring his daughter Oceana Gayden as lead singer and songwriter and his son, Mac Jr., on guitar. They survive him, as do Mr. Gayden's wife of 51 years, Diane Boyte (Haynie) Gayden; two other daughters, Kathryn Krispin and Kimberly Gayden; nine grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; a sister, Ida Gayden Ezell; and a brother, Kip. Another daughter, Kellie Nelson — who, like Mac Jr. and Kathryn, was from his marriage to Phyllis Phifer, which ended in divorce — died in 2021. Mr. Gayden released his last album, 'Come Along,' in 2020. 'I look at music from a different angle than most people,' Mr. Gayden said, reflecting on his circuitous career, in a 2022 interview with the alternative weekly Nashville Scene. 'I got into meditation a few years ago, and it's been really good for me — for my personality and for my vibe, you know?' he continued. 'I started looking at music differently when I got into Eastern music, to see where they're coming from. They look at music as a life's journey, you know? It changed the way I looked at things.'
