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Axios
23-07-2025
- Sport
- Axios
Detroit fans want fresh name for WNBA team
Detroit's new WNBA team deserves a new name and not a Shock redux, the results of our reader poll show. Why it matters: The process of naming the city's new WNBA team is just getting started and the ownership group says " multiple options" will be considered. State of play: 39% of poll voters want to bring back the Shock name. 61% want a new name. 💡 The intrigue: Many readers suggested team names of their own. The Midnight:"An homage to Detroit's code name on the Underground Railroad," wrote Elizabeth T., who also suggested the Detroit Renaissance. The Supremes, from David Z: "Motown has never let us down. The car industry lets us down all the dang time." The Diamonds, from James T.: "It's classy and the appeal for apparel, branding, and logos would be infinite." The Coyotes:"Coyotes are intelligent, adaptable predators that embody the character of resilience," Harold M. wrote.
Time of India
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time of India
Best build for Yuzuha in Zenless Zone Zero
Image via miHoYo Yuzuha is one of the standout Electric agents in Zenless Zone Zero, known for her fast-paced, agile combat style and stylish, electrified attacks. Being a slash-type character, she is a combination of speed and burst capability, which makes her exceptionally enjoyable in the right hands and lethal at that. However, to bring out the best in her, you have to build her up. This guide dissects the best W-Engines, Drive Discs, and the best team setups to ensure that Yuzuha packs a punch and has the sparks flying every time. Best Yuzuha build guide for Zenless Zone Zero ULTIMATE Yuzuha Guide! [Builds, W-Engines, Teams, Showcase, MORE] Zenless Zone Zero 1. Top recommended W-engines To enhance Yuzuha's damage and skill uptime effectiveness, always choose the right W-Engines. Here are the best options: Six-Shooter (5★) — This is Yuzuha's best in slot. It enhances both her skill damage and critical rate, which shred enemies with her electrifying combos. Steel Cushion (4★) — A possible alternative if you don't have a 5-star option. It boosts her basic and dash attacks. The Brimstone (3★) — A solid starting weapon option that will work fairly well until you unlock better weapons. 2. Best drive disc set Yuzuha thrives with electric-damage-boosting and skill-damage-focused sets: 4-piece thunder metal —This leads to an increase in her electric damage and gives her an extra boost in output after applying Shock, which fits her kit naturally. 2-piece thunder metal + 2-piece woodpecker electro —a great hybrid build combo for balanced electric and crit-based scaling. 3. Ideal stat priorities To get the best stats from your gear, focus on the Main stats : Crit Rate / Crit Damage (Headset) ATK% (Watch) Energy Regen or ATK% (Battery) Sub stats you should look for : Crit Rate / Crit Damage ATK% Energy Regen PEN Ratio 4. Best team synergies Yuzuha performs her best when in electric-focused or dual-DPS teams. Shock team example: Main DPS : Yuzuha Sub DPS/Support : Anton Anomaly/Stun: Nicole or Soukaku Burst team example : Main DPS: Yuzuha Energy Battery : Rina Support/Defense: Grace It is very fast, fashionable, and shocking with Yuzuha. Getting the proper equipment and team, she becomes a mobile juggernaut capable of zapping her way through the enemies. Invest in crit-based stats, electric-boosting gear, and intelligent synergy between your teammates to make her become a real force in Zenless Zone Zero. A highly constructed Yuzuha will not disappoint you, whether you are on a story basis or the more difficult tasks. Catch Rani Rampal's inspiring story on Game On, Episode 4. Watch Here!
Yahoo
15-06-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
Boston Celtics legend Larry Bird sparked old rivalry in 2009 WNBA playoffs
With the Indiana Pacers in the 2025 NBA Finals against the Thunder, it's put a spotlight on the basketball-crazed state. Plus, Caitlin Clark has been part of the storylines as the Fever and WNBA superstar has been at plenty of Pacers playoff games over the past few weeks. So, enter another Indiana (and Celtics) legend into the fold: Larry Bird. In diving into the friendship between Clark and Pacers star Tyrese Haliburton in an ESPN story by Ramona Shelburne, Bird ended up being a fun footnote. The C's legend did whatever he could to beat an old rival during the 2009 WNBA playoffs. Advertisement Shelburne dug up an old story where the Fever played the Detroit Shock in the 2009 WNBA East Finals. Bird was the Pacers' president of basketball operations at the time. While he supported the Fever, there was another layer to the series: the Shock were coached by former Pistons big man Rick Mahorn. But, notably, before Mahorn was the interim coach for that year, Detroit was actually coached by Bill Laimbeer, who resigned three games into the season. And, well, Bird and Laimbeer's longtime hatred is well-documented from decades ago. Former Fever president Kelly Krauskopf told Shelburne that Bird would say to her, 'I'm always here if you need anything.' Bird stuck to his word when Krauskopf asked for his help before Game 3 of the East Finals against the Shock. Bird called Pacers CEO Rick Fuson because he 'wanted to buy up all the empty seats in the upper bowl and then give them away the next morning.' Plus, Krauskopf asked Bird for a pregame speech. 'He gave quite the inspirational speech that morning,' Krauskopf told ESPN. 'It's not suitable to repeat, but it was personal. And they felt it.' Still, while Laimbeer was no longer the Shock coach by the 2009 WNBA playoffs, he had plenty of influence on the organization at the time. He won three WNBA titles in 2003, 2006 and 2008. Plus, the Shock eliminated the Fever in the 2008 WNBA playoffs, so Bird likely didn't want a repeat in 2009. Advertisement Bird and Laimbeer's longtime rivalry is well-documented from the 1980s. The Celtics and Pistons met in the East playoffs frequently. While Boston had the edge early on, the 'Bad Boy' Pistons got the better of them at the end of the decade. Those series included altercations between Bird and Laimbeer, so, it's no surprise that Bird was perhaps a bit fired up to beat the Shock back in 2009. More Celtics content Read the original article on MassLive.
Economic Times
24-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Economic Times
Rebellious, retro, radical chiclet: How chewing gum may just sum up our times
Watching IPL , I noticed that no one quite chews as much gum as cricketers. In other sports - swimming, hockey, tennis, squash, football - gum gets in the way of playing. Not so in cricket. So, why doesn't IPL have an official gum? Just like Amul is the official ice-cream partner? Suryakumar Yadav a.k.a. SKY would make the perfect poster boy for a gum brand. The man's jaws are constantly working away at last time we had an official gum partner was in 2009, when Wrigley 's tied up with all IPL teams. Last year, Mentos was the exclusive chewing gum sponsor for Esports World Cup, the global gaming festival - 'to keep gamers fresh and de-stressed.'I am a gum chewer. There are some people who one can never imagine chewing gum - like Manmohan Singh, Narendra Modi, my folks. Back in the day, we didn't have Hubba Bubba in all its variety. Bubble Yum was the big one in North India in the 1980s. Wrigley's came via the phoren gum chewers, there was a ladder to climb. One started with chewing gum, then graduated to the big boys' club: bubblegum. It was a bit like learning how to blow smoke rings. Initially, one would get cock-eyed with concentration. It took some learning to pull the thin film of gum over one's tongue, then blow it out seemingly effortlessly with just the right amount of unassuming gum also had a touch of rebellion, a kind of insouciance to it. If you popped one in the school classroom, it was a minor offence. One was made to spit it out. Madonna went a step further and made bubble gum sexy. There are any number of images of her blowing big countries like Singapore, gum could potentially be dangerous. It was banned in 1992 due to its nuisance value. Extant stocks of gum were confiscated, and fines - even jail terms - announced. Reasons given were to do with littering, jammed lift doors, and disruptions caused to the mass rapid transport system by gum chewers sticking gum on door would travel to Johor Bahru in Malaysia to pick up gum and bring it in illegally. When a BBC reporter argued that such laws would stifle creativity, Lee Kuan Yew said, 'If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.'In India, classic chewing gum commercials have vanished from TV screens. Ask any copywriter/visualiser and they will tell you that gum TV ads allowed for wacky freedom. Popping a gum was akin to swallowing an LSD tab. Crazy things happened to the Shock went with the tagline: 'Hila ke rakh de'. In one ad, a man goes to his barber and gives him a picture of a spiky punk haircut that he wants. The barber puts a piece of Centre Shock in his mouth, blowing up his - 'Dimag ki batti jala de' - had a TV commercial featuring the evolution of man, which ends with a homo sapien turning tables on a donkey. People Tree in Delhi's Connaught Place subverted the Polo mint (not strictly gum) commercial by printing t-shirts which declared, 'There's a hole in my ass, so why shouldn't there be one in my mint?' It featured a donkey with a hole punched into its can we forget the Chiclets commercials? A memorable one had a couple seeking each other out inside a darkened cinema - by shaking their packets of Chiclets and following the is also a metaphor for the times we live in, what with bubble gum social media, bubble gum politics and religion, bubble gum cricket, and bubble gum attention spans. Even more reason to put bubble gum ads back on TV.
Yahoo
14-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
5 bold predictions for the 2025 WNBA season: Seismic shifts, 3-point firepower and more dunks
The 2025 WNBA season officially tips off on Friday, and every team will be in action this weekend to start what should be an important season in the league's history. The pressure is on for the league to follow up on what was a historic 2024. We'll have plenty of predictions this week on who will win it all, and who will take home individual trophies, but we have a few other predictions — some wild, some not — of what will happen this WNBA season. At least one team will change ownership While owning a WNBA team is about supporting the growth of women's sports, it's also an investment. Most people want to make money off of their investments, and most WNBA owners got into the game for a fairly low fee. Considering the popularity of the game, growing attendance numbers and television ratings, this would be a smart time for an owner who doesn't want to deal with the demands of running a professional sports team to get out. Advertisement For example, Michael Alter, the owner of the Chicago Sky, bought the team for a reported $10 million. A valuation of the Sky in 2023 put them at $85 million. The Connecticut Sun were purchased in 2007 for a similar amount by the Mohegan tribe. Now the team, which has arguably the worst facilities in the league, is reportedly looking for bidders . The growth of the WNBA means that players expect better facilities and resources, and the smart move for some owners is to turn over the keys. The all-time WNBA attendance record will be broken In 2024, the Washington Mystics and Indiana Fever broke the WNBA regular season attendance record in a September game at Capital One Arena. However, the all-time record is still held by the Detroit Shock/Tulsa Shock/Dallas Wings for a 2003 Finals game between the Shock and the Los Angeles Sparks at the Palace of Auburn Hills. The Deanna Nolan/Swin Cash-led team won the title in three games, and 22,076 fans were there to see the Shock win. Advertisement Currently, there are no WNBA arenas with a capacity higher than 20,000, which is the capacity of the Target Center in Minnesota. But teams have moved games to bigger arenas when the demand is there, and that trend will continue this season. There aren't any NBA arenas that have the capacity to break the record, but perhaps we'll see the Fever move a game or two to Lucas Oil Field, which has hosted the NCAA tournament and can hold 70,000 for basketball. Sonia Citron will break Sabrina Ionescu's 3-point contest record Sabrina Ionescu's performance at the 2023 All-Star Game 3-point contest was jaw-droppingly good, as she hit 35 of 37 shots. But every record that is made can be broken, and Washington Mystics rookie Sonia Citron, who hit 37.2% of her 3-pointers in her final college season, has the kind of shot that could make huge waves in the 3-point contest at the All-Star Game in Indiana this summer. She'll likely be going up against Caitlin Clark, who said she would participate this year, but Citron showed time and time again at Notre Dame that she can handle pressure, and she will likely have plenty of fans in the stands from her time in South Bend. Get after it, Sonia. Dunks will become a more common occurrence Though slam dunks are seen as a flashy way to score two points, they are also a way for an offensive player to ensure the defensive player can't block their shot. As the men's game evolved — and rules banning dunks were rescinded — dunks became a more common tool for offensive players. Advertisement WNBA defenses have evolved, and players like A'ja Wilson, Ezi Magbegor and Brittney Griner find ways to swat the ball left and right. Throw in that there are more players who can dunk, like Griner and Magbegor's new teammate Dominique Malonga? It's a recipe for more dunks, and an easy answer to silly people who think the WNBA needs to lower the rims. The WNBA and WNBPA will avoid a work stoppage OK, maybe this is more of a hope than a prediction. The players opted out of the collective bargaining agreement the day after the Liberty won the WNBA title in 2024, and they have several issues that need to be settled. With the league signing new television rights deals, the players want their fair share of the new revenue. They are also concerned about retired players' pensions, facilities and better deals for foreign players. The word the players' union keeps using is 'transformational.' They expect a CBA that will reward them for the time and effort they have put into building the league into its current state. While the current CBA expires at the end of the 2025 season, the true deadline is the start of the 2026 season. Deadlines always inspire action, so it's possible they could avoid a stoppage. But the players have indicated they're preparing themselves for the possibility.
