Would You Swap the Trail Blazers Roster for the Phoenix Suns? That’s the subject of today’s Blazer’s Edge Mailbag. Dave, Been reading with interest your after season analysis. I agree with most of it including the part where you say the Blazers are in a void ... 05/2/2024 - 6:17 am | View Link
Jimmy Butler’s potential extension at center of important Heat offseason. A look at the situation As the Heat’s best player, Butler has led the Heat to three Eastern Conference finals appearances and two NBA Finals appearances during his five seasons in Miami. However, the Heat came up short of ... 05/2/2024 - 3:08 am | View Link
Options for the Trail Blazers in the 2024 NBA Draft Just one year into their rebuild, the Portland Trail Blazers have yet to confirm much about their future. Scoot Henderson, despite a solid end to the season, had his fair share of rookie woes. And the ... 04/30/2024 - 3:25 pm | View Link
NBA offseason: What is the CBA’s second apron? And how does it limit high-spending teams? The second apron is a new, additional threshold, slated as roughly $11 million ($190 million total) above the first apron for the 2024-25 league season. It will handicap team decision-makers more than ... 04/30/2024 - 10:56 am | View Link
Celtics' Brad Stevens named NBA Executive of the Year after trades lead to 64-win season Stevens coached the Celtics from 2013-2021, amassing over 350 wins, but never leading his team to the NBA Finals. His track record since moving up to the front office, however, has been stellar. In ... 04/30/2024 - 5:21 am | View Link
Platon proudly calls himself a cultural provocateur. While other mononymous artists like Bono or Madonna use music to provoke, Platon communicates through photography. Photographs, he argues, are only effective if they “make you stop in your tracks to think about the times we’re living in”—they should “choke like mustard gas.” A professional photographer since the late ’90s, Platon has consistently applied this approach to his work creating images of boldface names across every sector, including President Barack Obama, Serena Williams, Prince, Mark Zuckerberg, Muammar Gaddafi, and President Vladimir Putin.
(WASHINGTON) — An orangutan appeared to treat a wound with medicine from a tropical plant— the latest example of how some animals attempt to soothe their own ills with remedies found in the wild, scientists reported Thursday.
Scientists observed Rakus pluck and chew up leaves of a medicinal plant used by people throughout Southeast Asia to treat pain and inflammation.
When Victoria Hinckley, a 21-year-old student organizer at the University of South Florida, participated in a pro-Palestinian protest Tuesday evening, the night ended with tear gas and rubber bullets used by police against the activists.
“It makes me really disappointed, but more than anything, it really, really makes me angry to see this sort of response,” says Hinckley, who says she was suspended later that evening over email.
Perhaps the ad, which has run on an endless loop since the start of March Madness, just irks you. Maybe at this point it’s haunting your dreams, your soul, every freaking fiber of your DNA.
If you’ve watched an iota of sports on television over the past few months, you know the spot in question: two stylish guys wearing dark jackets, who it turns out are young Oklahoma City Thunder star basketball players Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and Chet Holmgren—though you might not know that if you aren’t a hoophead—walking out of a hotel, to the team bus, while singing a takeoff of the 1999 Christina Aguilera hit “What a Girl Wants.” In the ad, Holmgren tells Gilgeous-Alexander—often referred to simply as SGA—that AT&T “just sent me a heads-up on the best plan for me.” After SGA approves, Holmgren says, “They know what a pro wants.” SGA responds, “What a pro needs.” Then the singing.
(WASHINGTON) — Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age.
The legislation calls for the federal government to spend more on clinical trials on menopause as well as the hormone therapy that is used to treat hot flashes and other symptoms.
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Berry, 57, shouted about menopause outside the U.
In his first public remarks on this week’s campus protests, President Joe Biden criticized much of the unrest over the Israel-Hamas war erupting at colleges across the country, saying “none of this is a peaceful protest.”
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“Destroying property is not a peaceful protest,” Biden said Thursday. “It is against the law.