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Yahoo
28 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Indiana Fever React to Aliyah Boston's Bullet Pass on Tuesday
Indiana Fever React to Aliyah Boston's Bullet Pass on Tuesday originally appeared on Athlon Sports. Aliyah Boston and the Indiana Fever looked to go into the WNBA All-Star break with their longest winning streak of the season. Advertisement On Tuesday, the Fever began a back-to-back, facing Tina Charles and the Connecticut Sun at TD Garden in Boston. Boston is having arguably the best season of her three-year WNBA career. Averaging a career-high 16.2 points on 58.3% shooting, 7.9 rebounds and 3.6 assists (prior to Tuesday), Boston was also named to her third All-Star game, becoming a starter for the first time. And against the Sun, Boston was quick to show off her playmaking skills. With just over six minutes left in the second quarter, Caitlin Clark received a pass beyond the arc from Boston, who then set a screen for the point guard. As Clark was doubled, she passed to Boston at the top of the 3-point line, before the former South Carolina star zipped a pass to a wide-open Natasha Howard, who made an easy layup. This increased Indiana's lead to 37-30. Advertisement WNBA All-Star Aliyah Boston has been stellar for the Indiana Fever this season.© Dale Zanine-Imagn Images Even the commentators on ESPN were impressed by Boston's assist, calling it a "blaze of a pass." The Fever reacted to the play by sharing multiple different angles of Boston's pass on social media. "'That was a blaze of a pass!'" the Indiana Fever wrote on X. "Every angle of Aliyah Boston's bullet pass to a wide-open Natasha Howard under the basket is tonight's 360 degree play presented by Sequel 🤩" Following the Sun game, the Fever will finish their back-to-back on Wednesday, facing Breanna Stewart and the New York Liberty for the third time in 2025. Related: Sophie Cunningham Stuns With Outfit For Fever-Sun Game on Tuesday This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports on Jul 16, 2025, where it first appeared.
Express Tribune
28 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Kane Brown's MLB All-Star Game performance divides fans
Country music star Kane Brown delivered a soulful rendition of 'Georgia on My Mind' at the 2025 MLB All-Star Game pregame ceremony at Truist Park in Atlanta—but his performance drew mixed reactions across social media. Honoring his Georgia roots, Brown performed the Ray Charles classic as part of a larger tribute to Atlanta's diverse music scene. The musical lineup also included hip-hop icons Ludacris and Jermaine Dupri, while the Zac Brown Band performed the national anthem and Canadian singer Lauren Spencer Smith sang 'O Canada.' The annual MLB All-Star Game, also known as the Midsummer Classic, celebrates the league's top talent. This year's game featured stars like Shohei Ohtani of the Dodgers and Aaron Judge of the Yankees and aired live on FOX. Viewers took to X (formerly Twitter) with passionate opinions about Brown's performance. Many praised the 31-year-old singer, with comments like 'Nice rendition Kane Brown!' and 'Good Lord but Kane Brown is good at singing…' going viral. One viewer added, 'I'm not the biggest Kane Brown fan but this was amazing.' Kane Brown sings Georgia On My Mind. Chills. #AllStarGame — Rick Farlow (@FarlowRick) July 15, 2025 Please don't say the word country singer and then say Kane Brown smfh. Pop country he is . — Roger (@Roger774501171) July 15, 2025 I have always like @kanebrown! He sing patriotic music and has a great voice. And he absolutely nailed Georgia On My Mind on the #AllStarGame pregame show tonight. And Ludicrous didn't place his hand over his heart during The Star Spangled Banner. Artists are not the same! 🇺🇸⚾️🎶 — The Grey Beard Biker™️ 🇺🇸 (@yadi_molina4) July 16, 2025 However, not everyone was impressed. Some criticized his stage presence, outfit choice—a sleeveless Brewers jersey and light-wash jeans—and his low-energy performance. Kane Brown is the best we could do? — Bryton Harbeson (@BrytonHarbeson) July 15, 2025 Kane Brown can't dance — Diet Coke Trad (@bewicksong) July 16, 2025 Despite the divided opinions, Brown's appearance succeeded in sparking conversation and highlighting Atlanta's musical legacy on one of baseball's biggest nights.
Yahoo
28 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kelly Ripa Brands Morning Sex With Mark Consuelos 'Disgusting' In Candid Remarks About Their Marriage
Kelly Ripa has dropped another bombshell about her love life with her husband, Mark Consuelos. The TV personality revealed that she finds morning sex with him "disgusting" and also thinks morning kisses are far from sexy. Kelly Ripa has also previously admitted that if they were ever to divorce, she wouldn't date again or ever get naked in front of another sexual partner. During her appearance on Tuesday's episode of Amanda Hirsch's "Not Skinny But Not Fat" podcast, Ripa gave fans a peek into her sex life with husband Mark Consuelos, revealing that, unlike him, she is not a fan of morning sex. "I find it disgusting," Ripa told host Hirsch about her distaste for morning sex before revealing that her 54-year-old husband prefers it at that time, per Page Six. The "Live with Kelly and Mark" star then acknowledged that she is well aware men tend to prefer morning sex. However, she admitted that over time, she grew tired of this arrangement with her husband and eventually had a conversation with him about switching things up occasionally. "I said to him, 'Here's the thing,'" Ripa recalled the discussion, "'there needs to be a yin and a yang here. It can't always be your way. 'Cause it feels like 90 percent of the time it's your way. And now that we work together every day, it's gonna have to sometimes be my way, and my way's at night only.'" Beyond asking for sex in the morning, Ripa claimed that Consuelos also tries to kiss her during those moments. But similar to her distaste for morning sex, she also doesn't like morning kisses, which she described as unsexy. "I have a retainer in. I gotta rip that out," Ripa explained to her host. "And he's got his nasal strips on. It's like we are the most repulsive, disgusting [people]." Fortunately for Ripa, now that she and Consuelos have an early morning show together, he seems to have lost interest in the morning sex routine. "The greatest thing about this job, this thing has like, almost repulsed him from morning time during the workweek," the TV personality said, adding that it is "like a miracle." Gushing further about her good fortune, Ripa jokingly said she hopes their show lasts "until Consuelos suffers from erectile dysfunction." In that moment, she seemed to realize her husband's age and playfully asked Hirsch why Consuelos, despite being in his fifties, wasn't showing any signs of impotence. "Shouldn't that be happening now? I was promised!" Ripa laughed aloud. Despite a few pet peeves about their sex life, the couple has managed to stay in love ever since they first fell for each other on the set of the hit soap opera "All My Children." However, Ripa has previously shared that if they were to divorce, she has no plans to date again. "Let's just say you were to leave me. I can say with 100% certainty that dating is out of the question," Ripa told Consuelos on an episode of their show earlier in the month, per People Magazine. "I've had three kids, there's too much to explain," she added, referencing her kids with Consuelos, namely, Michael, Lola, and Joaquin. Opening up about what her sex life would look like after a divorce, Ripa joked that she has no plans to ever be naked in front of a partner again. "I'm not ever getting naked again - and I resent having to get naked in front of you sometimes," Ripa said to her husband, who found her remarks amusing. "I'm like: 'No, no, no. Light out. You can wait until dark. Also, turn off that light, and also turn off your cell phone light.' I want it pitch-black in here. And no unexpected touching!" However, unlike Ripa, Consuelos appears to have a different perspective on what his post-divorce life will look like. Earlier this year, Ripa said on their show that Consuelos would "absolutely fall apart, completely" if they ever divorced. At the time, Consuelos agreed that it was the most likely scenario but joked that there would probably be some interested ladies who would come around to help fill the void and help him cope with the emotional fallout. "I do feel like someone would be there on the other end just to pick me up and make sure I'm okay. I'd have to get used to their college schedule and all that stuff," Consuelos teased Ripa.
Yahoo
28 minutes ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Lupita Nyong'o reveals uterine fibroid battle
Lupita Nyong'o has revealed she has spent more than a decade fighting uterine fibroids. The Oscar winner shared details of her longtime struggle with the chronic condition in a candid Instagram post and explained she learned of her diagnosis more than a decade ago. "In March 2014, I won an Academy Award. That same year, I discovered I had uterine fibroids," Lupita, 42, wrote on 15 July. "30 fibroids. I had surgery to remove them. I asked my doctor if I could do anything to prevent them from recurring. She said: 'You can't. It's only a matter of time until they grow again'." Lupita went on to explain that fibroids are "non-cancerous growths that develop in or around the uterus" but that while they might be far from rare, with "8 out of 10 Black women" and "7 out of 10 white women" experiencing fibroids, they were infrequently discussed. "When we reach puberty, we're taught that periods mean pain, and that pain is simply part of being a woman," she wrote. "I started talking about my experience privately, and I realized so many women are going through this. We're struggling alone with something that affects most of us. No more suffering in silence!" To that end, Lupita explained, she had joined forces with a group of congresswomen with the aim of legislating funding for research, early detection and treatment.
News.com.au
29 minutes ago
- Science
- News.com.au
How Australia will be impacted by the ‘doomsday glacier' that could swallow cities
It sounds like something out of a disaster movie, but it's a very real and concerning threat we are facing. There's a glacier in Antarctica so big and unstable that scientists from The International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration call it the 'Doomsday Glacier'. And if it collapses, it could raise sea levels enough to swallow parts of cities all over the world. Thwaites Glacier is in West Antarctica and is roughly the size of Great Britain. It's more than 2 kilometres thick in places, which, when melted, is an astonishing amount of water. Scientists warn that if it fully collapses, it could raise global sea levels by approximately 65 centimetres. 'If Thwaites Glacier collapses it would cause a rise of around 65cm (25 inches) in sea level,' said Dr Alastair Graham of the University of South Florida. That might not sound like much … until you think about what it actually means. A 65 centimetre rise is enough to flood huge areas of low-lying land. Cities like New York, London, and Bangkok would see chronic inundation. Entire islands in the Pacific and Indian Oceans could become uninhabitable. Even Australia isn't safe. Much of our population lives along the coast, and many suburbs in cities like Sydney, Melbourne, and the Gold Coast sit just metres above sea level, making them vulnerable to chronic flooding if the sea rises even half a metre. What's worse is that Thwaites is already melting fast. Its ice flow into the ocean has surged, spilling ice at more than twice the rate seen in the 1990s. The floating ice shelf in front of it, which acts like a doorstop slowing the glacier down, is cracking and weakening under pressure. 'This year is really different,' Ted Scambos, a glaciologist at the University of Colorado Boulder and leader of the Science Coordination Office for the International Thwaites Glacier Collaboration, told CNN. 'It's very difficult to recover from this in one season. The game has changed.' Some scientists believe parts of that ice shelf could break apart within the next few years. If that happens, the glacier's flow could speed up dramatically, dumping even more ice into the ocean. The truly terrifying part is that Thwaites is sometimes referred to as a 'keystone' glacier. If it falls, it could destabilise other nearby glaciers, eventually unlocking enough ice to raise sea levels by several metres over centuries. And while those worst-case scenarios would take a long time, Thwaites is already adding to the current sea-level rise. How quickly it will deriorate depends heavily on future greenhouse gas emissions. Climate scientists say this is yet another warning sign that our planet is heating in ways that will reshape coastlines, displace millions of people, and create massive economic and humanitarian challenges. Fears as Antarctica melts at rapid pace The story of Antarctica's ice isn't limited to this one glacier. In fact, the entire continent is sending us alarm bells. According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, 'Antarctic sea ice has hit record-low levels for winter.' Although sea ice isn't the same as land ice (it doesn't raise sea levels when it melts), it still plays a critical role in the climate system. It acts like a giant mirror, reflecting sunlight back into space. Less sea ice means more dark ocean absorbs heat, warming the water even further. That extra heat can creep under floating ice shelves all around Antarctica, making them melt from below. When those ice shelves weaken or collapse, they can no longer hold back the vast land-based glaciers behind them. That's exactly the mechanism threatening Thwaites and other big glaciers in West Antarctica. Scientists see the record-low sea ice as part of the same climate crisis threatening to reshape our world. The frozen parts of Earth are changing faster than expected, and those changes are likely to come back to bite us all.
