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WNBA by Caroline McCarthy Published June 15, 2024, 8:01 PM ET Arike Ogunbowale is done with “politics”. The Dallas Wings star said Thursday that he has withdrawn his name from consideration for the U.S. basketball team for the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris because he felt the selection process had little to do with “my game.” ” [the Olympic trials]”It doesn’t really have much to do with your game,” Ogunbowale said on “The Nightcap” with Shannon Sharpe, Gilbert Arenas and Chad Johnson. “What really matters is who fits on the team, so I removed my name from the list months…
A new study reveals that for the first time, demand for toys among toy lovers aged 18 and over, particularly millennials and Gen Xers, is outstripping demand from preschoolers, driving sales of $1.5 billion from January to April. When asked about the trend, popular online toy influencer Dan Larson told the New York Post that while today’s children don’t engage with physical toys in the same way that previous generations did, adults, described in Circana’s research as “the most important age group for the toy industry,” are increasingly buying toys for themselves, with 43% buying toys for personal use in…
We take the MTR together, but while Mimi heads straight for Hong Kong International Airport, I have decided to take a more roundabout way, following the Belt and Road Initiative between the two locations.A high-speed train pulled in at Kunming Nan (Kunming South) Railway Station. Photo: Kristian OdebjerSo with my wife just a few hours away from being able to order a bowl of authentic khao soi, I board a high-speed train at West Kowloon Station.We have all heard a lot over the past 10 years about newly built railways, ports and highways in far-flung places all enabled by the…
We take the MTR together, but while Mimi heads straight for Hong Kong International Airport, I have decided to take a more roundabout way, following the Belt and Road Initiative between the two locations.A high-speed train pulled in at Kunming Nan (Kunming South) Railway Station. Photo: Kristian OdebjerSo with my wife just a few hours away from being able to order a bowl of authentic khao soi, I board a high-speed train at West Kowloon Station.We have all heard a lot over the past 10 years about newly built railways, ports and highways in far-flung places all enabled by the…
Lina Mills recalls how she came to this country from Colombia at the age of 16, having never worked in her life. After arriving, she found work in a restaurant. “I had to fend for myself,” Mills told CalMatters recently. “I basically ran away from home.” She knew some English and studied further, eventually rising to catering manager, and now, 36 years later, she runs two businesses in San Francisco. She employed 12 people at Creative Ideas Catering and Creative Ideas Café, but “I had to send everyone home” during the COVID-19 lockdown and subsequent economic downturn. She has since…
Ethical ConceptsGetty As a business consultant, I am too often pressured to support business processes and decisions that appear to skirt ethical boundaries in the name of improving the business or resolving intruding conflict. I firmly believe that for long-term success, the benefits of ethical decision-making will always outweigh the alternatives of critical thinking and business leadership. I was pleased to see the key benefits of good business ethics detailed in a recent book on how to become a critical thinker, How to Become a Critical Thinker: Awaken Your Business Superpower (Author: John Cetro Sibos). John is a renowned academic…
CHANDIGARH: With the Lok Sabha elections over and state elections underway, the Haryana Congress faction of Bhupinder Hooda and the BSRK faction (Virender Singh, Selja, Randeep Surjewala and Kiran Choudhury) are once again locked in a fierce contest. Led by Haryana Assembly Speaker Uday Bhan, the Hooda faction, which has over 18 key legislators and four MPs, is set to hold its first post-election workers’ rally in Karnal on Sunday. Meanwhile, the BSRK faction is set to hold its own workers’ rally in Old Hisar district, which includes Jind, Sirsa, Fatehabad, Hisar and Bhiwani. On Saturday, former Union minister Virender…
Despite making its debut in this year’s tournament, Team USA made history on Friday by achieving a record-breaking milestone in qualifying for the Super Eights stage of the T20 World Cup. Even better, the record will get new life in the same year the country (along with the West Indies) will host its first-ever Cricket World Cup. New York, June 12 (ANI): USA’s Saurabh Netravalkar celebrates the dismissal of India captain Rohit Sharma during a Group A match of the ICC T20 World Cup 2024 at the Nassau County International Cricket Stadium in New York on Wednesday. (Surjeet Yadav) {{^userSubscribed}}…
SHIMLA: Chief Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sukh on Saturday assured students of Himachal Pradesh University (HPU) that the state government was exploring the possibility of holding the Students’ Central Association (SCA) elections and was in discussion with the university authorities in the matter. SCA elections were earlier banned due to incidents of violence on the campus. tnnWe also recently published the following articles:Four MBBS students from Himachal Pradesh suspended for bullying juniorsFour senior MBBS students from Tanda Medical College in Himachal Pradesh have been suspended and fined for assaulting a junior student, following which a complaint was filed with the National…
Getty ImagesWNBA Super star Arike Ogunbowale She won’t represent the U.S. national team at the 2024 Paris Olympics, but it’s not because she wasn’t selected. Instead, Ogunbowale, a three-time WNBA All-Star, told Shannon Sharpe and Chad Johnson that she was withdrawing from consideration for the team president position due to “politics” within the team. “Well, actually, I thought I wouldn’t be doing it,” Ogunbowale said on Nightcap, “so after all those years of trials and all that stuff that’s happened… I did it, saw the vibe, saw me being myself, and I just got the vibe.” “To be honest, when…