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And just like that, the Spring/Summer 2027 season is coming to a close. Paris Fashion Week has officially begun, kicking off the fourth and final calendar of shows this September. Following New York City, London, and Milan, the French capital is welcoming a flurry of industry professionals and front-row stars alike, all eager to see what's next for our favorite designers.
The schedule started off strong on Monday, with a lineup that opened with 2026 LVMH Prize winner Julie Kegels and closed with avant-garde, industry-favorite Matières Fécales. Rihanna was spotted at the latter, making a grand, fashionably-late entrance in a gold tinsel two-piece, while fellow A-listers—Jennifer Lawrence, Tate McRae, Kendall Jenner with Jacob Elordi, Katie Holmes with Jason Bard Yarmosky, Alexa Chung, and Gabbriette—settled into their hotels and toasted the week ahead at parties and dinners galore.
On Tuesday, Jonathan Anderson sat the likes of Rosalía, Jennifer Lawrence, Anya Taylor-Joy, Cynthia Erivo, Greta Lee, Eileen Gu, Mia Goth, Ejae, and Karlie Kloss front row at his presentation for Christian Dior. Maison Margiela and Saint Laurent followed suit later that evening.
On Wednesday, the Row, Balmain, Dries Van Noten, Stella McCartney, Vaquera, Acne Studios, and Tom Ford welcomed more celebrity sightings, and as the week continues, so will Chloé, Balenciaga, Schiaparelli, Loewe, Givenchy, Victoria Beckham, Vivienne Westwood, Miu Miu, Valentino, Mugler, Jean Paul Gaultier, Chanel, and more. The season will wrap on Tuesday, October 6, with Louis Vuitton.

#jennifer #season #front

On September 10, IBEX Limited (NASDAQ:IBEX) held its fourth-quarter and full fiscal year 2026 earnings call, and the numbers backed up a message management has been building toward for months. The company posted record full-year revenue, adjusted EBITDA, and free cash flow, all while pitching itself as a business that has flipped the AI narrative in its favor rather than becoming its next casualty. For a sector that has spent the last two years bracing for automation to gut it, that is a notable claim to back with actual client wins.
Full-year revenue hit $644.1 million, up 15.4% organically, and fourth-quarter revenue reached $164.3 million, up 11.6% from a year earlier. That marked the sixth straight quarter of double-digit growth, a streak that suggests the momentum is not a one-off. HealthTech led the charge, climbing 38.5% to $114 million for the year and blowing past the $100 million target management had set for the segment, driven largely by demand from large insurance payers. Technology grew 27.4% in the quarter, while travel and logistics added 17.8%, helped by a new AI agent partnership with Philippine Airlines.
That Philippine Airlines deal is the clearest evidence that IBEX's Sierra AI partnership, formalized in January and announced publicly in May, is more than a slide in an investor deck. During the proof of concept, the AI agent handled interactions in English, Tagalog, and Taglish, hit resolution rates above 20%, and scored a 4.7 out of 5.0 on customer satisfaction, on par with human agents. A separate deployment for BJ's Wholesale pushed resolution rates above 40% and matched that same satisfaction score, beating the marks the client's prior BPO vendor had put up with human agents alone. The company added 17 new trophy logo clients across the year, and its top five clients now make up 33% of revenue, down from 36%, a sign the business is not leaning on a shrinking handful of accounts to carry it.
Not every line moved in the right direction. Fourth quarter GAAP net income slipped to $8.7 million from $9.6 million a year earlier, and diluted EPS fell to $0.59 from $0.66. Management pointed to training costs tied to all those new client wins, a temporary hit from shifting work out of nearshore centers into offshore ones, and higher fuel prices hitting utility and transportation costs, particularly offshore. Adjusted EBITDA margin for the quarter slipped to 12.3% from 13.9%, the same set of pressures showing up in the profitability line rather than just net income.

#revenue #fourth

Atlético warns its fans about the importance of NOT using flares at this Wednesday's match against Santos at Arena MRV, the second leg of the Copa Conmebol Sudamericana quarterfinals. Kickoff is at 7:00 p.m.
The use of flares is expressly prohibited in Conmebol competitions, so please do not harm Galo.
Let's support the team the way only we know how, turn the Arena into a true cauldron, but without using flares.
This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇧🇷 here.

#flares #conmebol #santos #galo

Matchday 27 continued this Saturday (12) with six more games.
After the "crazy" 3-3 draw between Coritiba and Athletico-PR in the opening match of the round last Friday (11), the "rain of goals" continued in the Brasileirão.
The day began with Atlético-MG's solid 3-1 win over Fluminense in Belo Horizonte.
Both the Minas Gerais side and the Rio de Janeiro team fielded reserve/mixed lineups because of their continental deciders next week.
Galo need to overturn a 2-0 deficit at home against Santos in the Conmebol Sudamericana quarter-finals, while the Laranjeiras Tricolor travel to Argentina to face Platense holding a 2-0 advantage in the Libertadores quarter-finals.

#quarter #Friday

There was more than one Coco at Chanel's celebration of its new Coco Mademoiselle Crush Absolu fragrance at Balthazar last night.
Actress and singer Coco Arquette was among the evening's starry attendees, alongside Euphoria's Anna Van Patten and Sterling Point's Ella Rubin. She channeled her mom Courteney ******* 's '90s style in a sleek cream slip dress, lived-in straw-colored waves, and a cool-toned nude lip. "All I know is I just wanted to look pretty," says Arquette of her approach to getting ready for the night. And she had one beauty non-negotiable: "Always lashes galore."
Her makeup artist, Benjamin Puckey, brought that vision to life. "I wanted the makeup to feel polished, yet in that very Chanel way, cool and effortless, and completely true to Coco," he says.
The look began with a glowing complexion. "I kept the skin luminous and dimensional, with a gorgeous warm pink flush on the cheeks," says Puckey, who used Chanel Les Beiges Water-Fresh Blush in Warm Pink for the natural-looking effect.
Behind the scenes of Coco Arquette's glam session with makeup artist Benjamin Puckey.
Credit: Carly Sharp

#coco #night

Atlético traveled on the afternoon of this Friday (11) to Montes Claros, where they will face North in the first round of the Octagonal Stage of the Minas Gerais U-15 and U-17 Championship. The matches will take place this Saturday (12), at 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17), at CT Credinor.
The Octagonal Stage is scheduled to be played through October 31. Unlike the first phase, in the Octagonal, the points of each category are not added together. In total, eight teams compete in a single round-robin format for four spots in the semifinals of the competition. In the event of a tie on points, the tiebreaker criteria, in order, are: number of wins, goal difference, goals scored, head-to-head record, fewer red cards, fewer yellow cards, and drawing of lots. All cards received in the previous phase have been reset.
1st round – 09/12 – North x ATLÉTICO – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Montes Claros2nd round – 09/19 – ATLÉTICO x América – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Sesc Venda Nova3rd round – 09/26 – Cruzeiro x ATLÉTICO – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Toca da Raposa I4th round – 10/03 – ATLÉTICO x Athletic – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Cidade do Galo5th round – 10/17 – ATLÉTICO x Boston – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Cidade do Galo6th round – 10/24 – Itabirito x ATLÉTICO – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Arena Morro das Pedras7th round – 10/31 – ATLÉTICO x Coimbra – 9 a.m. (U-15) and 11 a.m. (U-17) – Sesc Venda Nova
Photo: Fabio Pinel / Atlético
Under head coach Rômulo Rodriguez, the U-15 Crias finished the first phase of the State Championship with the best record, earning 38 points — five more than the runner-up. The team went unbeaten in 14 matches: 12 wins and two draws. They also had the best attack and best defense of the first phase, with 41 goals scored and only four conceded. Forwards Moisés Caetano and Maurinho lead Galo's scoring in the competition, with 10 and nine goals, respectively.

#tico #head

India's refineries have been running at 105% to 108% capacity utilization in the past six months as demand for diesel soars and international fuel markets tighten amid the ongoing Middle East crisis.
Refinery capacity utilization in the world's third-largest crude oil importer has been between 105% and 108% since the war began, a senior executive at Mangalore Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited (MRPL) said at the APPEC petroleum conference in Singapore on Wednesday.
"Most of our refiners are complex, ‌can take a wide ‌variety of crude from an API range of something like 16 to 45 or 48," Nandakumar Pillai, a company director at MRPL, said at the event, as carried by Reuters.
MRPL operates a refinery with the capacity to process 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) on the coast of India's southern state of Karnataka. The refinery has a versatile design with complex secondary processing units and high flexibility to process crudes of various API, delivering a variety of quality products, the refiner says.
MRPL will continue to run its refinery at above 100% until March 2027, Pillai told Reuters on the sidelines of the conference.

#mrpl #utilization #crude

Several of architect David McLay Kidd's most popular courses have focused on extreme and creative playability, with Gamble Sands in Washington and Mammoth Dunes at Sand Valley in Wisconsin as prime examples. Even his first-ever design, the original Bandon Dunes layout at the famed resort of the same name in Oregon, put playability at the forefront.
Kidd had a few deviations from the playability theme in his career, but in recent years he has talked at length about designing courses that are approachable for any level of golfer. The trick, he has said, is to challenge the best players while allowing less-skilled golfers to keep swinging.
Consider that challenge accepted at Bone Valley in Florida, his latest completed creation that will open in late September for preview play at the well-regarded Streamsong Resort. Built with an appreciation of the resort's other courses and with those layouts' DNA in mind, Kidd has constructed a new, full-sized 18 that offers ample width and plenty of opportunities to bounce **** into greens – those are keys to playability for less-skilled players.
But just as megalodon shark teeth can be found in the sand piles left over from the site's history as a phosphate mining operation, Bone Valley can offer a bit of a bite. Stray too far from the best scoring lines, and even the best players will struggle with the angles as they attempt to set up birdie putts.
"My team and I felt like we got to build something really, really fun both visually, strategically, creatively," Kidd said. "I think golfers, when they come here, won't be disappointed. I think they'll have a blast trying to figure out how to navigate their way through. I think every hole has a dozen different attacks you could make, a thousand different ways you could recover from error. It's not overly penal, but she is going to put up a fight against scoring. I think I've been able to refine that over the last dozen years or so."

#think #players #dunes

It could only have come from the heart of the Massa. And so it was, amid the Street of Fire created by the supporters, that Galo's new third kit came to life last Tuesday (1st). Tattoo artist Thiago Scap and supporter Lucas Gusmão wore the kit for the first time among the Atlético fans who guided the Club bus's arrival at Arena MRV. Inside the stadium, rapper Djonga was also one of the first to wear the new shirt, straight from the stands. Now, Nike and Atlético officially present all the details of the new kit for the season. Inspired by one of the most striking traditions of Atlético supporters, the new shirt celebrates the 'Street of Fire,' the blazing human corridor of flares, pyrotechnics, and chants created by the Massa to welcome the team bus before major matches.
FROM THE FIRE OF THE STREETS TO THE OFFICIAL SHIRT
Born in the narrow streets around Horto, consecrated at Mineirão, and perpetuated at Arena MRV, the Street of Fire is the ultimate moment when the Atleticano's unshakable belief becomes unconditional support. It is the ritual in which the first goal starts being scored outside the stadium, building an unbreakable bond between supporters and players.
The new third shirt translates that energy burning in the streets and in the hearts of Atleticanos into high-performance design. The same flame that guides the bus's arrival now dresses the team on the pitch.
"The Street of Fire represents the connection between Atlético and the Massa: the ability to turn passion into strength for the team. The third shirt carries that flame beyond the streets and beyond matchdays, as a permanent symbol of the energy the supporters bring into the stadium," says Renato Aguiar, marketing director at Fisia, Nike's official distributor in Brazil.

#massa #tico #Third #first

By Cal Meachem
TRANSFER TRACKER STATUS: Signing
Atlanta United have acquired midfielder Giuliano Galoppo on loan from Argentine powerhouse River Plate, the club announced Wednesday.
The 27-year-old Argentine joins through June 30, 2027, and the deal includes a purchase option.
"Giuliano is a dynamic midfielder who has a good tactical understanding of the game, quality on the ball and the ability to contribute goals from midfield," chief soccer officer and sporting director Chris Henderson said.

#atlanta #united

NFL bounceback candidates: Jayden Daniels, Malik Nabers headline players most likely to return to form in 2026 originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.
With every NFL season comes surprises.
With the amount of parity across the league — including five different Super Bowl champions in the last six seasons — a few injuries or bad weeks can quickly derail a season. But 2025 is in the rearview mirror. Another Week 1, which opens with Seahawks vs. Patriots on Sept. 9, is a new opportunity to set higher expectations.
Whether due to recovery from a significant injury, or simply just poor performance on the field in 2025, plenty of NFL stars are poised for an improved 2026 season. From superstar quarterbacks coming off season-ending injuries, to a likely future Hall of Fame wide receiver coming off a down year, there are bounceback candidates galore.
Here are 12 NFL players who are set up for a better 2026 season than they had in 2025.

#here #bounceback #coming #jayden

Atlético Mineiro are the first semifinalists of the 2026 Copa do Brasil.
They lost a starter before the ball had even rolled, went behind thanks to Kaio Jorge, and came back after going a man up.
Galo were strong, vengeful, and had the talent of the decisive Fred to secure a 2-1 win over their rivals on Tuesday night, September 1, after a 1-1 draw in the first leg.
The spot was sealed in front of 42,992 fans, the biggest crowd of the year at Arena MRV.
The introduction of Cruzeiro's No. 19 had forced the Atlético defender to be substituted in the first leg.

#galo

(Bloomberg) -- Dragoneer Investment Group dangled its prized stakes in OpenAI and ***** eX as it sought to raise $2 billion for a new fund with old ***** ets it wants to hang onto for longer.
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#dragoneer #group #SpaceX

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#probe

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#traders #president #owned #lutyens

Matchday 25 of the 2026 Brasileirão kicked off this Saturday (29) with three games.
With both teams involved in the Copa do Brasil quarterfinals, Atlético-MG and Vitória played an entertaining match in Belo Horizonte.
Galo took advantage of the red-and-black side's defensive mistakes, won 2-1, and climbed the standings.
Later, at MorumBIS, São Paulo ended a four-month winless run in the Brasileirão by beating RB Bragantino 2-1.
Manager Dorival Júnior had not beaten a Brazilian team in six months — including the final stretch of his time in charge of Corinthians.

#belo

A plaque has been unveiled at the former home of Liverpool Football Club's most successful manager Bob Paisley.
He took over in 1974 after Bill Shankly's shock resignation and in his nine seasons in charge, Paisley won six league **** les, three European Cups, three League Cups, a Uefa Cup, Super Cup and three Charity Shields. He was also manager of the year on six occasions.
Originally from Hetton-le-Hole on the outskirts of Sunderland, Bob Paisley spent 45 years at Liverpool as a player, physiotherapist, coach, **** istant manager, manager and director.
He lived for many years in the Liverpool suburb of Woolton where today a plaque was unveiled at his former home on Bower Road.
Paisley lived in the bungalow in Woolton during his time as Liverpool manager [BBC]

#paisley

Atlético drew 0-0 with Internacional this Saturday (22) at Beira-Rio, in the 24th round of the Brazilian Championship.
With a heavily changed lineup, and away from Belo Horizonte, Galo earned another important point in the competition.
The result extended Galo's unbeaten run to 11 matches. The team was coming off a draw with Bragantino in the Copa Sudamericana, a result that secured qualification for the quarterfinals, and now it also keeps the streak alive in the Brasileirão.
With an eye on the derby against Cruzeiro in the first leg of the Copa do Brasil quarterfinals, head coach Eduardo Domínguez opted for an alternative lineup. Names that have been important throughout the season were rested, while players with fewer minutes were given an opportunity.
Among the new faces was Fred, who made his debut in the Galo shirt. The midfielder came on in the second half and took part in the closing stages of the match.

#important #result

Internacional and Atlético-MG are drawing 0-0 this Saturday (22), in the 24th round of the 2026 Brasileirão.
Despite the cold in Porto Alegre, the first half was heated at the Beira-Rio Giant.
It started with an indirect free kick awarded by the referee when center-back Ruan poorly played the ball back to Everson, and the Galo goalkeeper had to use his hand to stop Inter from scoring.
But the biggest highlight of the first half was provided by Alan Minda.
The Ecuadorian Galo forward came close to producing a likely Puskás Award contender after dribbling past the goalkeeper and leaving two opponents on the ground before shooting.

#despite

Two goals, impressive numbers, and an unforgettable afternoon at Arena MRV. Tomás Cuello was one of the standout performers in Galo's 3-0 win over Grêmio and, last Sunday, lived one of those days that help define a career.
The goals took the Argentine to six this season, matching his 2025 total. With another six ***** ists, Cuello now has 12 direct goal contributions in 2026. For Atlético, he now has 78 matches, 64 as a starter, 12 goals, and 13 ***** ists — 25 direct goal contributions since joining the club.
But Sunday afternoon cannot be explained by numbers alone. It is the result of a journey that began long before Cuello put on the Galo shirt.
To understand the player who now decides matches and receives the love of the Massa at Arena MRV, you have to go back a few years. Back to Tucumán, through his first experience in Brazilian football, and into a story that says a lot about the Argentine's personality.
During the pandemic, while still playing for Red Bull Bragantino, Cuello had to leave Brazil and return to Argentina. When football resumed, he got the news that he had to return to the club. There were no flights available.

#arena #sunday #numbers #afternoon

On the morning of last Sunday (16), Atlético's youth academy director, Luiz Carlos de Azevedo, welcomed the owners of Kiala FC, Kelly Key and her husband, Mico Freitas, and showed them the youth facilities at Cidade do Galo.
The visit formalized the partnership between Galo and the Angolan club for the recruitment and development of African athletes by Alvinegro.
The project will include a permanent Galo scout on the African continent, in addition to presenting the youth academy methodology to Kiala's professionals. In return, Atlético hopes to receive more players from the African continent in the coming years.
In an interview with GaloTV H2BET, Luiz Carlos spoke about the unprecedented partnership in Brazilian football.
Photo: Arthur Henrique / Atlético

#Youth

Atlético-MG continued its good run this season and beat Grêmio 3-0 this Sunday (16).
The result at Arena MRV was built on a first-half goal by center back Vitor Hugo and two from Cuello in the second half.
Galo have now gone nine games unbeaten in all competitions and moved closer to the Libertadores qualification zone.
Grêmio, on the other hand, remain close to the relegation zone.
See the match highlights below:

#zone #libertadores

Atlético-MG and Grêmio have announced their lineups for this Sunday's (16) Brasileirão match.
The game will take place at Arena MRV and is valid for the 23rd round of the championship.
The two teams are separated by just four points in the table, with Galo ahead.
In the first-round meeting, in Porto Alegre, Grêmio won 2-1.

#arena #alegre

Sophie Cunningham has become one of the WNBA's most talked-about players, but her latest viral moment had nothing to do with a stat line or a controversial play. Instead, the Indiana Fever guard found herself celebrating with fans after another big victory for the team.
What happened next quickly caught the attention of the WNBA community, with supporters praising Cunningham for showing a more carefree side away from the court.
Cunningham and the Fever were coming off a thrilling 98-87 win over Paige Bueckers and the Dallas Wings on Friday. Caitlin Clark led the way with 29 points and 10 ****** ists as Indiana secured its 22nd win of the season, improving to 22-12 and moving ahead of the Atlanta Dream (21-12) for the coveted No. 4 spot in the standings.
The win set the stage for a memorable night away from the court.
After the game, Cunningham spent time with fans at a bar, joining in a singalong as supporters celebrated the hard-fought victory. The unexpected scene quickly made its way around social media and prompted plenty of reactions from the WNBA community.

#fever #community

Cruzeiro and Atlético-MG will compete for a spot in the Copa Betano do Brasil semifinalCredits: Gustavo Aleixo/Cruzeiro
CBF held the draw for the quarterfinals of the 2026 Copa do Brasil this Tuesday (11), in Rio de Janeiro, which will feature, for the first time since 1989, three state derby matchups. On one side of the bracket, the competition will have the clashes between Internacional x Grêmio and Cruzeiro x Atlético-MG. On the other, Vasco x Vitória and Palmeiras x Santos.
Of these four matchups, two have previously decided the tournament: the Minas Gerais derby, Atlético-MG x Cruzeiro, in 2014, when Galo were crowned champions, and the São Paulo derby, Palmeiras x Santos, in 2015, when Alviverde lifted the trophy.
Historically, all four matchups have taken place before. Grêmio and Inter faced each other only once, in 1992, in the quarterfinals, when Colorado advanced on penalties. Cruzeiro and Atlético-MG, in addition to the 2014 final, met in the quarterfinals in 2019 and 2025, with one victory for each side.
Grêmio and Internacional will face each other in the quarterfinals of the 2026 Copa Betano do BrasilCredits: Ricardo Duarte/SC Internacional

#cruzeiro #copa #matchups #betano

I've never seen a documentary about Girl Scout Cookies before, so I went into Alysa Nahmias's "Cookie Queens" figuring that it might include, among other things, a tantalizing history of this beloved American institution — a rundown of the nine current varieties of Girl Scout Cookie (my favorite: Samoas, obvi! With Tagalongs a close second), a survey of some of the dozens of discontinued flavors (Rasberry Rallies, we hardly knew ye), and — more to the point — a look at how Girl Scout Cookies came to be, how the Girl Scout Cookie season developed into a wholesome Middle American pastime, and what Girl Scout Cookies have meant, through the decades, to those of us who hungrily consume them and to all the girls who've devoted themselves to selling boxes of them.
But no! "Cookie Queens" includes none of that stuff. The movie unfolds entirely in the present and never gives you even a fleeting sense of the past, of how Girl Scout Cookies rose in prominence to become the phenomenon they are today. (In case you're wondering, they were launched in World War I to raise money for U.S. soldiers.) The opening credits, set to the Julie Ruin's "Cookie Road," which sounds like a great lost track from the B-52's, play over black-and-white photographs and old film footage of Girl Scouts from bygone eras. But once the credits are over, the movie gets down to its single-minded theme and obsession: how Girl Scout Cookies, once a quaint piece of Americana, have lurched into their late-capitalist phase, with the girls who sell them vying to become champions by fashioning themselves into 12-year-old entrepreneurial go-getters.
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#queens #american #girls

Welcome back to Part 2 (Electric Boogaloo) of my journey to and through the Sydney Super Cup, talking through what the tournament and trip was like from a fan perspective… but also from having access a fan might not usually have. Part travel blog, part human-interest piece, part fan boy experience; here's what it felt like as a fan walking into the press box and seeing Spurs play for the first time. Hopefully you enjoy.
Check out Part 1 here, if you haven't already.
So there I was: in the press box ahead of Tottenham Hotspur kicking off against Sydney in what would be my first live Tottenham Hotspur experience. Worth It had taken a 17-11 lead into the second leg against Not Worth It. I admired the view and sneakily took the photo you saw in the previous piece; I felt like a total fish out of water, and taking photos like a tourist would have cemented that status. In front of me were sitting a number of journalists and club media staff.
I stood awkwardly behind all of them, as my understanding was that each spot (there are rows of desks in the press box, with plug points and cabling slots for individuals like myself to set up) was set aside for a specific person; but I also noted that there weren't any names on any of the chairs or desks, and so I just kind of milled around until I picked up the courage to ask a friendly Australian whether or not the seats were reserved. I probably looked like a stalker. They were not reserved, so I needn't have worried.
I took a seat and realized two things: one, I was seated behind a handful of very well-known Spurs and Chelsea football journalists from the likes of BBC, The Athletic, and Football London; and two, I was extremely hungry.

#piece

T he death of young Filipino basketball player Rene Baterbonia at a training camp in June captivated social media users in the Philippines, including a TikTok post falsely claiming that an NBA coach had planned to recruit the 18-year-old for the 2026-27 season. AFP found that the clip had been digitally altered, while the original video was published before Baterbonia's death.
"OKC Thunder coach planned to recruit Rene Baterbonia after seeing his potential during his basketball games," the overlaid Tagalog-language text on a TikTok clip reads.
The post has racked up over 869,000 views since it was published on July 20. It claims Baterbonia "would've been the first pure Filipino to join the NBA".
The TikTok video shows Mark Daigneault, head coach of the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder (OKC Thunder), speaking at a press conference ( archived link).
Daigneault can be heard saying they planned to draft Baterbonia, an 18-year-old college student at Ateneo De Manila University, before he died (archived here and here).

#thunder #filipino

A nine-year-old boy who "loved life and nature" was killed by his "unconventional, doting" mother who then took her own life, a coroner has concluded.
Hudson Paterson, nine, and Tasmin Paterson, 31, were found dead by her partner in a bedroom in a bungalow at Fletchersbridge, near Bodmin, Cornwall, in September 2024, an inquest heard.
Senior coroner for Cornwall Andrew ******* said Ms Paterson had argued with Marcus Hughes and had gone to bed "distressed" with the thought the relationship was coming to an end.
Cox concluded Hudson's cause of death was unlawful killing and, for Ms Paterson's death, recorded a verdict of suicide.
Hughes said the couple had been sleeping in separate rooms and when he went to wake them, he grew concerned as there was no response, so he called 999 and forced entry.

#paterson

Rosie O'Donnell speculated on why President Donald Trump is "so obsessed" with her, decades after their public feud began.
On the July 17 episode of the Work in Progress With Sophia Bush podcast, O'Donnell, 64, shared her theory about the ongoing beef the POTUS, 80, has with her.
"It's so crazy to me, Rosie," Bush, 44, said. "He's so obsessed with you."
To that, O'Donnell said, "I have a theory. We both grew up on Long Island. He grew up in Queens; I grew up in Commack… He grew up with girls like me: tough, probably gay, Irish girls who didn't take s*** from no stupid, rich-boy wannabe – a**hole, liar, megalomaniac, no social skills, no empathy, no compassion. I would have told him to his face in third, fourth, fifth grade."
She continued, "And I think when I did it to him. quote unquote, on The View, he couldn't believe that I had the ******* to attack him. Because he thinks he is heralded, and held up, and belongs on Mount Rushmore, and, you know, solved 108 wars, and is the No. 1 person on 'Tic Tac.'"