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National Post
a day ago
- Business
- National Post
12BET Makes the Shortlist at the 2025 EGR Marketing & Innovation Awards
Article content Article content Article content LONDON — 12BET, a pioneering name in the igaming world since 2007, is honored to be shortlisted in two categories at the 2025 EGR Marketing & Innovation Awards: Sportsbook Marketing Campaign, and Marketing Team of the Year – B2C. This recognition highlights the brand's ongoing dedication to creating meaningful and original experiences that resonate with sports audiences and digital communities. Article content The EGR Marketing & Innovation Awards are among the most respected accolades in the online gaming industry. Held annually, the awards celebrate creativity, strategic thinking, and innovation across the sector, attracting participation from many of the world's leading companies. For 12BET, being named a finalist is a meaningful milestone that showcases the brand's energy, originality, and deep-rooted passion for sports culture. Article content 12BET's approach to creativity is rooted in connection. From immersive storytelling to interactive challenges and global sports initiatives, the brand focuses on delivering fresh ways for audiences to engage with the sports they love. Every initiative is designed to build community, spark excitement, and reflect the evolving interests of its users. Article content Built on a foundation of trust, energy, and continuous innovation, 12BET remains committed to shaping the future of sports-driven digital experiences. The team thanks its community for their ongoing support and looks forward to what comes next with confidence and imagination. Article content 12BET, founded in 2007, is a pioneering igaming company with over a decade of experience delivering multilingual services across Europe and Asia. Recognized globally and ranked 17th by eGaming Review Magazine's Annual Power 50, 12BET has become a major force in Asia's igaming market. Built on the core values of sincerity, fairness, and kindness, 12BET provides a secure, reliable, and exceptional entertainment experience for users around the world. Article content Article content Article content Article content Article content
New York Times
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Connections: Sports Edition hints for June 2, 2025, puzzle No. 252
Need help with today's Connections: Sports Edition puzzle? You've come to the right place. Welcome to Connections: Sports Edition Coach — a spot to gather clues and discuss (and share) scores. A quick public service announcement before we continue: The bottom of this article includes one answer in each of the four categories. So if you want to solve the board hint-free, we recommend you play before continuing. Advertisement You can access Monday's game here. Game No. 252's difficulty: 2.5 out of 5 Scroll below for one answer in each of the four categories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Yellow: COVER Green: WALK Blue: LITTLE Purple: BROAD The next puzzle will be available at midnight in your time zone. Thanks for playing — and share your scores in the comments! (Illustration: John Bradford / The Athletic)
BBC News
2 days ago
- General
- BBC News
Padel: The emerging racquet sport booming in Wales
The emerging racquet sport of padel is growing so fast that courts "will be full for the next 10-15 years", the national governing body for tennis has - a blend of tennis and squash - was invented in Mexico in 1969 but in recent years has grown in popularity, with an estimated 30 million players across the Cymru said it expected there would be 4,500 padel players in Wales by the end of 2025, and more than 6,000 by Wheatley, 64, from Cardiff, who has been playing the sport for more than four years, said he wished he had found it "20 years ago". "I was getting to an age where squash was becoming too much for me and my bones were aching," said Mr Wheatley."So I was looking to play tennis, and I'd been to Spain and I'd seen this game [padel] and I thought 'that would be lovely in the UK, but it's never going to happen'." Mr Wheatley said he bumped into a friend who told him about a padel court in Penarth that was open to non-members."He invited me along for a taster and it's just gone from there," he said."It's a fabulous game, it really is."It's got the element of squash in it with the ball coming off the glass at the back, and the tennis side of it as well."It's super sociable, and a game where you can just play some amazing shots. It's good fun, it's good exercise." What is padel? is a racquet sport that uses the same scoring conventions as lawn tennis but is played on courts around a third game is mainly played in the doubles format, with players using solid racquets with no strings. The courts are enclosed and, like in squash, players can bounce the ball off the balls are smaller than those used in tennis and players serve game was created by Mexican businessman Enrique Corcuera and his wife Viviana as they enjoyed their holiday home in Las Brisas, a suburb of couple began throwing a ball at a wall, and Viviana quickly fell in love with the rudimentary version of the game.A court measuring 20m (65ft) long by 10m (32ft) wide was built out of cement, making it easy to maintain, with walls of up to four metres (13ft) on each side to prevent balls from escaping onto neighbouring sport soon caught on abroad, reaching Europe and the UK. In 1992 the British Paddle Association was formed and since then the sport has grown throughout Britain, In 2020 Tennis Wales was recognised as the national governing body for padel in are now county championships held in Wales and Tennis Wales hopes to host international competitions in the future. The sport is considered inclusive, open to people of all ages and abilities and played on a smaller Llewelyn, from Swansea, started playing after a court opened in the city."Me, my sister and a couple of friends thought 'let's give this a go', and we played, and we didn't get off for four hours because it was so much fun."We didn't know any rules, we didn't understand the glass, we were just whacking the ball back and forth and it was really fun, and then we started playing once a week."The 31-year-old has now been playing for a year and a half and said for her 30th birthday they went to Malaga and played all weekend."I think it's quite a fast game, so if you turn up you can just get into it."You don't have to serve like tennis, because I can't serve, so I couldn't hold my own in a tennis game."But with the underarm serve it's so easy to pick up and it's so much easier to find three other girls to play with."We used to play netball together, we couldn't find 14 girls but we could find three." There are around 17 padel courts in Wales at the moment. Four years ago there was only one, but now there are plans to double the current number to 32 by the end of has already started on a new padel court in Llandaff in Cardiff, one of the many new courts that have popped up in the capital city over the last few chair for Tennis Cymru, Hywel Lewis, said: "Growth is going to come down to the number of courts and venues because we can only get so many people on court at the moment."If you compare the number of courts we have to tennis or squash we're very much a minority sport at the moment."But in terms of participation it's such an engaging sport and so easy for everyone to get involved, I think that we'll fill the courts, however many courts get created, for the next 10 to 15 years at least."
Washington Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- Washington Post
Is baseball actually troubled — or is it as good as it's ever been?
If we could love only perfect things, our days would be bleak. Baseball, as we find it today, is an opportunity to appreciate an imperfect thing and allow it to make us feel happy. This year I've watched plenty of MLB games and enjoyed them — a lot. I find baseball just as well-paced, dramatic and aesthetically pleasing — by which I mean imperfect but no more so than in other eras — as the sport I first fell for long ago.
CBC
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBC
Meet Ottawa's snooker legend
Ervin Budge was inducted into the Ottawa Sport Hall of Fame for his contributions to snooker in the nation's capital.
