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PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff might have earned her fifth consecutive trip to the French Open quarterfinals with a straight-set victory Monday, but she still is catching flak because she forgot to bring her rackets to a match earlier in the tournament.The No. 2-seeded Gauff, who won the 2023 U.S. Open and was the runner-up in Paris in 2022, has been engaging in a bit of back-and-forth with another American and Roland-Garros quarterfinalist, Frances Tiafoe, over the equipment blunder.Tiafoe teasingly called the 21-year-old Gauff “Mrs. Mature.” Gauff’s retort: “I feel like maybe just playing tennis, it forces you to grow…
CNN — Jason Sudeikis has broken his silence to say some lovely things about his late uncle, actor George Wendt. The “Cheers” star died last month at age 76. Sudeikis made an appearance over the weekend at a fundraiser for Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, where he was asked about Wendt. “With regard to my uncle George, I mean, there’s that old saying of like, ‘Don’t meet your heroes,’ usually ‘cause ‘they let you down,’ I assume, is the back half of that statement,” Sudeikis said in a video captured and posted by KSHB 41. “But he’s not…
Oklahoma City’s Mark Daigneault has the best record of any coach in the NBA this season. And he has the second-best record of any coach in his house.Daigneault is a coach, and a coach’s husband, too. His wife is Oklahoma assistant women’s gymnastics coach Ashley Kerr. She and the Sooners went 33-2 this season and won another national championship, their third in the last four years.So, as Daigneault chases his first NBA title — he and the top-seeded Thunder open the NBA Finals at home against the Indiana Pacers on Thursday night — his wife has now been part of…
A new study has found a link between chronic cannabis use − including in edible form − and an increased risk of cardiovascular disease that’s comparable to the effects of smoking tobacco.The study published May 28 is the latest to associate cannabis with negative health impacts and was conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, who analyzed the cardiovascular health of 55 people who consumed cannabis at least three times a week for at least a year.They found vascular function was reduced by about half when compared with those who did not consume cannabis regularly. They also…
The defense team is going through text messages between Sean “Diddy” Combs and his former assistant Mia. In 2018, Mia texted Combs during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. “Merry Christmas love you so so much,” Mia wrote in one text. She had just seen Combs at Kim Porter’s funeral, Mia testified. Porter, who shared three children with Combs, died in November 2018. A few weeks later, on January 15, 2019, Mia texted Combs that she was thinking about him because she had a nightmare that she was trapped in an elevator with R. Kelly and Combs saved her, according…
The Class of 2025 is preparing to enter the workforce, and it can be a daunting prospect.In a conversation with Business Insider, Irmgard Naudin ten Cate, global talent attraction and acquisition leader at the Big Four firm EY, told us about the key pieces of advice she shares with college students preparing to embark on their careers.She said students should lean into networking early, be open to trying out job simulations, prepare with AI, and emphasize soft skills in interviews.Develop your soft skillsNaudin ten Cate said it’s important to highlight soft skills as well as more technical skills in your…
Buttery mashed potatoes. Creamy macaroni and cheese. Luscious ice cream and smoothies. It’s hard to overlook the fact that when it comes to soft foods Americans seem to have, well, a soft spot. Just ask the Atlantic, the New York Times and Salon, the latter of which cited an evolutionary purpose for the preference. And it’s no wonder: These foods are not only delicious but also comforting.“Soft foods are just very satisfying because they feel really indulgent,” registered dietitian Bree Phillips tells Yahoo Life. “A lot of those foods tend to be really rich in fat or sugar, like mac…
More than two decades after Steve Ballmer’s frenzied “Developers! Developers! Developers!” chant became a viral sensation, the former Microsoft CEO said it wasn’t just for show.Ballmer broke down the iconic moment — sweat, shouting, and all — on an episode of the “Acquired” podcast published Monday. He said it was a strategic “call to action” for Microsoft then.Ballmer was frustrated with how Microsoft’s culture in the early 2000s still saw itself as “just a platform company,” he said.Internally, teams were focused on building the infrastructure — Windows, Windows Server, ActiveX — but weren’t doing enough to engage external developers to…
Generative AI comes in many forms. Increasingly, though, it’s marketed the same way: with human names and personas that make it feel less like code and more like a co-worker. A growing number of startups are anthropomorphizing AI to build trust fast — and soften its threat to human jobs. It’s dehumanizing, and it’s accelerating. I get why this framing took off. In today’s upside-down economy, where every hire feels like a risk, enterprise startups — many emerging from the famed accelerator Y Combinator — are pitching AI not as software but as staff. They’re selling replacements. AI assistants. AI…
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Pacers have finally ended the franchise’s 25-year NBA Finals drought, achieving the unthinkable after starting 10-15 and looking like anything but a title contender.Now Indiana will try to exorcise the demons of its decades-long, snake-bitten history and actually win the title when the Pacers take on the Oklahoma City in the NBA Finals.“It is really a special thing that happened 25 years ago, I wasn’t even six months old,” Tyrese Haliburton said after Indiana’s series-ending victory over New York. “There’s a lot of fans who have never seen success from this organization, especially people around my…