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Brighton icon and Grammy-winning DJ, Fatboy Slim, real name Norman Cook, has combined two of his biggest passions, football and music, to launch a special edition football shirt in collaboration with Admiral and Modfather Clothing.A lifelong Brighton & Hove Albion supporter, Cook has teamed up with the classic kit manufacturer to drop a stunning, nostalgia-infused design inspired by a near-forgotten third shirt from the 1994/95 season.Dubbed the ‘Stand or Fall’ Fatboy Slim x Admiral kit, the limited-edition release features a retro ribbed collar with twin popper-button fastening, contrast blue and black stripes, and a subtle all-over print of Admiral’s 90s…

Ben Simmons and Landry Shamet are candidates to fill the final veteran minimum contract slot, according to Ian Begley of SNY. The team has enough room for one veteran minimum and one rookie contract before they reach the second apron. The Knicks are reportedly looking for a backup point in the role. Simmons averaged 5.0 points, 4.7 rebounds, and 5.6 assists in 51 games with the Nets and Clippers last season. Though not a point guard, Shamet is open to a return to the team. Shamet averaged 5.7 points and 1.2 rebounds in 50 games with the Knicks last season.

Parts of the Northeast continue to be washed away by heavy rainfall. One resident captured heavy flooding on a neighborhood street, as the area is under a flood watch until the end of tonight.A slow-moving cold front approaching the East Coast on Monday is unleashing flooding and heavy rain throughout major cities along the I-95 Corridor. A Level 3 out of 4 risk for flash flooding has been outlined across part of the mid-Atlantic and Northeast, encompassing major cities such as Baltimore, Washington D.C. and Philadelphia.New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy declared a State of Emergency for the state due to…

Brussels – Europeans are concerned about the 30 percent American tariffs. This was stated on Monday in Brussels by the State Secretary of the Ministry of Economy of the Slovak Republic, Vladimír Šimoňák, after a meeting of the EU Foreign Affairs Council, trade segment. This was reported by TASR correspondent. Šimoňák said that trade relations between the EU and the USA were the main topic of discussions, although the ministers also appreciated the signing on Sunday of the conclusion of several years of trade negotiations with Indonesia. He pointed out that all member states and all ministers saw Trump’s letter…

I know of a young man who is mentally handicapped. He aspires for a job as a dishwasher in a restaurant, or stocking shelves in a supermarket, or pushing a broom around pretty much anywhere. He is big and strong, and can easily do any of these types of work, but he is slow. He has quirks. He tries to follow the orders of his bosses when he is employed, but cannot do that well enough not to be fired. He is located on the very edges of the labor market. He has had numerous jobs in the last few…

Barcelona have made their second signing of the transfer window, bringing in Roony Bardghji from Copenhagen.

Here’s Detroit Pistons sophomore Ron Holland II on the productive summer he’s had so far (averaging 21.5 PPG/6.0 RPG/2.5 APG/3.0 SPG/0.5 BPG/54.2% FG/54.5% 3-PT/68.8% FT/+18 +/- in two NBA 2K26 Summer League games). (via Detroit Pistons): “I feel like I’ve grown a lot. I took the summer day by day, getting in the gym every […] The post Ron Holland II: “I feel like I’ve grown a lot” appeared first on TalkBasket.net.

Florida, Texas and California top the list for the most damage caused by lightning strikes.Two lightning strike victims injured on June 29 during storms in Ohio and North Carolina later died from their injuries, according to family and friends of the victims.On June 29, Jason Gurganus, 53, was on a boat around the Scotts Hill Marina when he was struck, according to the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission. A female passenger on the boat with him did not suffer any serious injuries. The victim was taken to shore via a personal watercraft where bystanders tried CPR. Gurganus was taken to…

What do you get when you combine artificial intelligence trained partly on X posts with a CEO’s desire to avoid anything “woke”? A chatbot that sometimes praises Adolf Hitler, it seems. X and xAI owner Elon Musk envisions the AI-powered chatbot Grok — first launched in November 2023 — as an alternative to other chatbots he views as left-leaning. But as programmers under Musk’s direction work to eliminate “woke ideology” and “cancel culture” from Grok’s replies, xAI, X’s artificial intelligence-focused parent company, has been forced to address a series of offensive blunders. X users can ask Grok questions by writing…

From WSJ July survey out today: Figure 1: GDP (bold black), WSJ July survey mean (tan), lowest/highest 10% based on 2025 q4/q4 growth (gray lines), GDPNow of 7/9 (inverted light blue triangle), NY Fed nowcast of 7/11 (red square), all in bn.Ch.2017$, SAAR. Source: BEA, WSJ, Atlanta Fed, NY Fed, and author’s calculations. Only one forecast is for two consecutive negative quarters of GDP growth (AC Cutts, five consecutive quarters), while there are many forecasts of an individual quarter of negative growth. The WSJ survey mean trajectory is close to the May SPF median. Not surprisingly, the WSJ growth rate…