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The Herald Scotland
14-07-2025
- Sport
- The Herald Scotland
More thought to be given to Thunder target
Narrowly denied in the Wokingham, Tom Marquand got there on the line on Saturday and he holds of host of entries throughout the summer. 'Tom got there just in time and I have to say I don't think he'd have won if he hadn't changed sides, it made a difference,' said owner Saeed Suhail's racing manager Bruce Raymond. More Thunder (left) just gets the better of Aalto (Joe Giddens/PA Wire) 'Of course we were very happy and now we need to decide what the best next step will be. 'We're all guessing about what his best trip will be. His owner told me he felt he'd have won the July Cup! I'm not so sure as it doesn't work out like that. I just feel seven furlongs might be his trip but that might be the easier route. 'I've had a word with Tom who feels six might be best for him. You can guarantee if we run over six next and he gets beat everyone will say 'why didn't you run him over seven?'. 'He's in all the right races and handicaps are out now – I just don't know where we'll run him.' On the same afternoon another former Stoute inmate, Andrew Balding's Never So Brave, took the step up to Group company in his stride at Ascot in the Summer Mile but his next step is also undecided. Never So Brave wins the Group Two Summer Mile Stakes at @Ascot! The son of No Nay Never takes the rise in Class in his step, mowing down the tearaway Point Lynas in the closing stages to score for @AndrewBalding2 and @davidprobert9! Where would you go next if you owned him? — At The Races (@AtTheRaces) July 12, 2025 'Never So Brave has taken that next step already but when Jamie (Spencer on Point Lynas) looked like he'd slipped the field, it was an awful feeling,' said Raymond. 'I thought David (Probert) was absolutely brilliant on him not to panic though. It's about 100 years since I was riding and I remember that feeling but when I spoke to him, he said turning in he felt he had everything covered so he was confident. 'He's another who's versatile trip-wise and who is to say he wouldn't get further in time, although there's no need to try it yet. I think he'll get a mile and a quarter but thee's no need to rush it. 'I don't know what we're going to do. He's not in the Sussex but he is in the Lennox back over seven, so we'll see. 'It was a good weekend, they've both come out of it well and now we need to start thinking about where they are going to go. The owner is a very patient man, he's been well educated by Sir Michael.'
Global News
08-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Global News
Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, episode 044: The East Coast-West Coast hip-hop war
It was just after midnight on March 9, 1997, when one of the greatest rappers of all time got ready to leave for a party in the Hollywood Hills. At 12:30 am, he left with his entourage in two green 1997 Chevrolet Suburbans headed towards Steve Stoute's house. The record company executive was hosting an after-party, and the music was so overcrowded and loud, the smoke so thick, that neighbours called the Los Angeles Fire Department. When they got to Stoute's home, they shut the party down. Meanwhile, the rapper was still on his way, travelling in the front passenger seat of one of the Suburbans alongside his associates Damon 'D-Roc' Butler, Junior M.A.F.I.A. member Lil' Cease, and driver Gregory 'G-Money' Young. The other vehicle was being driven by Kenny Story and carried Eugene 'Gene' Deal, Anthony 'Tone' Jacobs, Stevie J, and Bad Boy Records executive Sean Combs. The two SUVs were trailed by a Chevrolet Blazer carrying the company's director of security, Paul Offord, and driven by an off-duty Inglewood police officer named Reggie Blaylock. Tensions were high. The men in the two vehicles felt like they were in enemy territory. And they were right to be wary. Story continues below advertisement Six months earlier, another influential rapper had died in a drive-by shooting on a Las Vegas street. Many blamed the rapper currently making his way through L.A. streets this evening. The two had been embroiled in a bicoastal feud that would cost many more their lives. Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy By 12:45 a.m., the streets were crowded at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and South Fairfax Avenue. Many had left venues on what is known as Museum Row as the rapper's SUV stopped at a red light. Less than 50 metres away, a dark-colored mid-90s Chevrolet Impala SS drove towards the side of the rapper's Suburban. The driver of the Impala was a Black man wearing a light blue suit and bow tie. He stopped beside the car, lowered his window, drew a 9 mm pistol, and fired six shots into the Suburban. The rapper was hit four times. He was rushed to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where doctors performed an emergency thoracotomy. Their efforts were fruitless, and he was pronounced dead at 1:15 a.m. This time on Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry, it's the story behind the death of Christopher Wallace, better known as the Notorious B.I.G., and how his death led to a 'peace' summit in what was known as the East Coast-West Coast hip-hop war. Get Uncharted: Crime and Mayhem in the Music Industry wherever you get your podcasts. Both Uncharted and The Ongoing History of New Music will be heard back-to-back overnights five days a week on these Corus news stations: Story continues below advertisement Showtimes (all times local)
CNBC
02-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
CEO trusted by Jay-Z, Google exec says 'conflict' is the key to success: 'It's OK to disagree'
It might sound counterintuitive, but conflict and disagreement are two essential ingredients to a business' success. That's according to marketer, entrepreneur and music executive Steve Stoute, who counts Jay-Z, McDonalds, the New York Knicks and Google's Lorraine Twohill among the many big names that have relied on his expertise. In an interview with The New York Times, Stoute said that "there's something wrong" if a business has "no conflict." "Getting people comfortable around challenge in a respectful way is a very important value," he said. "What I'm trying to do is have people embrace the idea that it's OK to disagree." The 54-year-old encourages healthy conflict within his teams by keeping it top-of-mind. Because video conferencing software like Zoom "allows you to avoid conflict," Stoute said he makes sure to talk about its importance the same way he would talk about any other part of running a business. "The same way I talk about bonuses or health care or wins or losses, we talk about conflict," he said. "If tension gets overlooked, then the company will not reach its full potential." Indeed, Stoute's thoughts on conflict are backed by experts. Robert Bordone, the founder and former director of the Harvard Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Program, told CNBC Make It earlier this year that it is better to embrace conflicts and learn to navigate them rather than to avoid them entirely. "The work of being conflict resilient is entering into a landscape that doesn't have a script because it's motivated by a sense of curiosity about something of the other person," he said. Having a conflict or a disagreement is different from having a fight. Kurt Gray, a social psychology professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, told CNBC Make It that the best approach is to think of a disagreement as a conversation rather than as "a chance to score points or try to make the other person look stupid." Gray recommended taking the time to understand the other person's motivation and learning how they came to their conclusion before explaining why you disagree. "Establishing a connection with someone, seeing them as a fellow human being, I think it goes a long way," Gray said. ,
