Shaquille O'Neal opened up about the harsh reality of playing under the spotlight in Los Angeles, offering his perspective on why LeBron James never fully won over Los Angeles Lakers fans during his eight-year stint with the franchise.
Speaking on SiriusXM's NBA Today with Justin Termine and Eddie Johnson, the centerpiece of the Lakers' last championship three-peat reflected on the complex relationship between the 41-year-old superstar and the Purple and Gold faithful. O'Neal took a notably self-deprecating approach, acknowledging that he could relate to James' experience.
"They didn't love me, they loved Kobe," O'Neal said. "They didn't love me. This is what we call B-O-B, brother to business of basketball. You know, when you're like me, when I'm in charge I'm a difficult man to deal with. The thing has to be done my way, and sometimes people don't agree with that. And you know, so when they get you up out of there, so I can kinda understand both sides."
O'Neal said he understood why the connection often felt complicated. He candidly admitted that even his own legendary tenure in Los Angeles was not without friction, stressing the unique pressure and scrutiny that come with wearing the Lakers uniform.
His perspective highlights the delicate line superstar transplants walk in Los Angeles. While James brought a championship to the franchise in 2020 and broke the NBA's all-time scoring record in a Lakers uniform, many fans viewed him as an established outside icon rather than a homegrown Laker.

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Over the years, legal cannabis companies expanded rapidly across the U.S. as more states opened their markets to medical and recreational marijuana.
That growth created sprawling businesses that extend far beyond dispensary storefronts.
Behind many cannabis retailers are cultivation centers where marijuana plants are grown and harvested.
Additionally, there are facilities that process flower into products ranging from pre-rolls and vapes to edibles and other cannabis products.
Now, one major cannabis operator is significantly reducing that infrastructure in one of its biggest markets.

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O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory, an investment advisory firm, released its second-quarter 2026 investor letter. A copy of the letter can be downloaded here. During Q2 2026, the market experienced notable dispersion between perceived AI losers and winners. The firm has made investments early in AI infrastructure companies, which yielded gains during market repricing. The second quarter experienced strong equity rallies, with the S&P 500 gaining 15.2% and the Nasdaq 21.4%, marking the best quarter since Q2 2020. While the software sector faced challenges, with the iShares Software ETF dropping ~27% before a rally, reflecting high volatility. This volatility is seen as an opportunity, despite the potential for 'dead money' in underperforming stocks. The firm remains cautious, focuses on owning durable businesses at reasonable prices, holding cash, and hedging risks to navigate unpredictability. In addition, please check the Strategy's top five holdings to know its best picks in 2026.
In its Q2 2026 investor letter, O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory highlighted Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW). Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) is a technology company that operates through its Optical Communication, Display Technologies, Environmental Technologies, Specialty Materials, and Life Sciences business segments. On July 27, 2026, Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) closed at $143.36 per share. One-month return of Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) was -43.88%, and its shares gained 131.30% over the past 52 weeks. Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) has a market capitalization of $123.38 billion.
O'Keeffe Stevens Advisory stated the following regarding Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) in its Q2 2026 investor update:
"Qualcomm and Corning Incorporated (NYSE:GLW) both appreciated materially in Q2. We trimmed both positions using a combination of options and stock sales.
Corning appreciated over 20% in Q2. Corning spent the second quarter signing up the biggest names in AI as customers and partners. In May, Nvidia and Corning announced a multiyear commercial and technology partnership under which Corning will increase its U.S. optical connectivity manufacturing capacity tenfold and expand U.S. Fiber production by more than 50%, including three new plants in North Carolina and Texas. Nvidia paid $500 million for rights to Corning shares, including warrants on up to 15 million shares at a $180 exercise price; if exercised in full, Nvidia's total equity investment could reach $3.2 billion. In June, Amazon signed a multiyear, multibillion-dollar agreement for Corning to supply the optical Fiber, cable, and connectivity for its expanding U.S. data centers. These follow the up to $6 billion supply agreement Meta signed in January. Historically, data centers used copper cables to connect their technology, some of which is switching to Fiber. Corning's Fiber may be a future bottleneck. As legacy data centers convert to newer, Fiber-connected racks, Corning contends with new data centers demand

Over the years, legal cannabis companies expanded rapidly across the U.S. as more states opened their markets to medical and recreational marijuana.
That growth created sprawling businesses that extend far beyond dispensary storefronts.
Behind many cannabis retailers are cultivation centers where marijuana plants are grown and harvested.
Additionally, there are facilities that process flower into products ranging from pre-rolls and vapes to edibles and other cannabis products.
Now, one major cannabis operator is significantly reducing that infrastructure in one of its biggest markets.

#expanded

The European Commission (EC) has approved Saica Group's acquisition of Thimm Group plants in Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania.
The deal covers all activities in those four countries, comprising nine corrugated board plants. It also includes one preprint facility in Ilsenburg, Germany.
Saica said the operation will increase its corrugated cardboard production capacity by 1,200 million square metres and add around 2,500 employees.
The acquisition will support its objective of developing local markets and getting closer to customers, it added.
Saica Group president and CEO Susana Alejandro said: "We are very happy to integrate Thimm's team within Saica Group, its knowledge and skills are highly appreciated in the sector. At Saica Group, people makes the difference: they are what drives our organisation. We are convinced they will contribute to Saica's future and its success.

#plants

The giant natural garden which featured in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony will be moved to the athletics venue before taking up a permanent home in Scotland.
The creation featuring 2,400 plants greeted King Charles and Queen Camilla as they emerged from a Tardis at the start of the show.
Athletes from 74 nations and territories then paraded past the 200 sq m (2,153 sq ft) green jigsaw before taking their seats in the Hydro.
The garden, which is 15m (49ft) in diameter, was designed by Amalie White in collaboration with plantsman Jamie ******* erworth.
King and Queen emerge from Tardis to open Glasgow Commonwealth Games

#commonwealth #king

The giant natural garden which featured in the Glasgow Commonwealth Games opening ceremony will be moved to the athletics venue before taking up a permanent home in Scotland.
The creation featuring 2,400 plants greeted King Charles and Queen Camilla as they emerged from a Tardis at the start of the show.
Athletes from 74 nations and territories then paraded past the 200 sq m (2,153 sq ft) green jigsaw before taking their seats in the Hydro.
The garden, which is 15m (49ft) in diameter, was designed by Amalie White in collaboration with plantsman Jamie ***** erworth.
King and Queen emerge from Tardis to open Glasgow Commonwealth Games

#games #queen #garden #Scotland

Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. (ZBH) is a global medical technology company specializing in musculoskeletal healthcare. It designs and manufactures innovative orthopedic implants, surgical instruments, and digital solutions for joint reconstruction, trauma, and sports medicine. The company operates internationally with a corporate headquarters in Warsaw, Indiana. It has a market capitalization of $17.20 billion.
Zimmer Biomet is expected to report its second-quarter results for fiscal 2026 on Aug. 5, before the market opens. Ahead of the release, Wall Street **** ysts are tepid about the company's bottom-line trajectory.
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Tesla (TSLA) reported that its electric vehicle (EV) sales jumped in the second quarter, as the firm is likely benefiting from higher demand for EVs amid higher gasoline prices. And in a sign that the automaker expects the latter trend to continue for some time, Elon Musk's company reportedly plans to increase production at its German auto plants.
Still, with Tesla's self-driving technology and robotaxi initiatives underwhelming in many respects and the shares still changing hands at an extremely high valuation, TSLA stock looks very expensive. Further, given its poor execution in these areas, there's a sizeable risk that its newer initiatives, on which it's expected to spend large amounts of money, will not produce favorable results. In light of these points, the shares do not look appealing.
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AI data center demand runs around the clock, straining U.S. power grids and accelerating utility infrastructure spending that makes high-yield stocks increasingly attractive.
BIP yields 4.88% and carries Morgan Stanley's Overweight rating, while AVA pays a 4.83% dividend as an under-the-radar income pick.
Edison International (EIX) pays a 4.61% dividend with Barclays' Overweight rating and a $77 price target, making it a strong pick through 2026.
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Data center electricity demand has surged over the last few years as AI workloads have scaled up, becoming one of the biggest tailwinds for the U.S. utility sector. Training and running large AI models require massive, continuous computing power, and technology hyperscalers have been signing large-load power purchase agreements to secure capacity for new facilities. Because data centers run around the clock, as cooling systems, servers, and networking equipment don't power down overnight the way residential or commercial demand does, they create a more constant, predictable load that utilities can plan around. Still, the sheer scale of new demand is straining grids that were built for slower, more gradual growth. This has pushed utility companies to accelerate infrastructure spending, extend the life of existing power plants, and, in some cases, explore new generation sources to keep pace, all of which factor into the growth outlooks that continue to make utility stocks attractive to investors positioning around the AI boom.

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The flying taxi company just unveiled a military drone, and investors are betting it's a much faster path to a paycheck.
If you blinked, you might have missed it. Archer Aviation (ACHR) stock jumped +19.6% on Monday, a sharp reversal after hitting its 52-week low of $4.44 just the session before. While peers like JOBY also saw a lift, Archer's move was in a different league. So what exactly put the charge back into this electric aircraft developer?
On Monday morning, the company pulled the curtain back on a new partnership with a defense technology company. They unveiled an autonomous aircraft platform called Thunder. This isn't another sleek pod designed to whisk you over city traffic. It's a craft built with military and commercial applications in mind, marking a significant new direction for the company.
Because it gives Archer a second, more tangible story to tell. Crucially, Archer remains essentially pre-revenue, with its entire valuation pinned on the future commercialization of urban air mobility. But as one report noted, the eVTOL industry is seeing "slower-than-expected progress." This pivot into defense is a "major expansion beyond its core urban air mobility business," offering a potential path to revenue that doesn't rely solely on a consumer market that doesn't exist yet. It's a strategic hedge while commercial passenger certification moves through lengthy regulatory timelines.
The company isn't abandoning its original mission. The CEO reaffirmed the goal of achieving certification for its passenger craft by 2028. But the more immediate catalyst is on the commercial front. Archer is expected to announce its "first commercial customers later this week," which could provide another jolt of validation. This pivot firmly plants a foot in the aerospace and defense sector, a move that clearly resonated with investors tired of waiting.

#Monday #investors

Seagrass plants making it through winter is "promising" for a restoration trial, a research officer said.
Durham Wildlife Trust carried out the plantings at the River Aln at Alnmouth at the end of November.
The trust's seagrass and seaweed research officer Dr Martina Bristow said at one point the plants appeared to have vanished, but further checks this month found them healthy and growing.
Bristow said it was "really quite promising" after facing "so many setbacks and challenges".
"That's quite important in that it tells us that they can stay anchored in the sediment and they can continue photosynthesizing," she said.

DONNAS, Italy (AP) — The iridescent green beetles native to ******* an have become a growing menace in Italy, swarming through orchards and vineyards and leaving behind devastating lattice patterns in leaves that weaken the plants and reduce production.
The Popillia ******* onica, or ******* anese beetle, is a familiar pest in the United States, where it arrived more than a century ago.
But it is a relative newcomer to the European continent, first detected near Milan's Malpensa airport in 2014. In Italy, it has already swarmed through the northeastern regions of Lombardy, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, where it appeared last year in terraced vineyards above the town of Donnas.
"We're seeing the popillia steadily advance from terrace to terrace across our historic vineyards," said Luciano Zoppo Ronzero, a winemaker who produces Nebbiolo from the terraced vines. "We're now about the 10th terrace and can already see the popillia attacks. This means they're consuming and gradually moving up the mountain."
With no natural predators and an appetite covering over 300 plants and trees, the ******* anese beetle has made the European Union's list of priority pests, meaning that efforts must be made to contain and eradicate outbreaks.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — The United States announced another death of a service member as it launched more airstrikes at Iran on Sunday in response to the killing of U.S. troops, and Iran fired missiles toward Jordan that risked widening the conflict into neighboring Israel.
Step by step, the U.S. and Iran have returned closer to all-out war as last month's interim deal meant to permanently end the fighting has crumbled and shipping traffic in the Strait of Hormuz has largely stalled. Both sides have targeted civilian infrastructure relied on by millions of people.
The U.S. military said the service member was killed in Iraq on Saturday during the "controlled detonation" of a downed Iranian drone.
Earlier, the military said its strikes targeted Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for Friday's killing of troops in Jordan. One service member was missing after that attack, and the military's new statement said "unidentified remains" were found Sunday and were being examined. Since the war began, 17 U.S. service members have been killed.
The renewed exchanges of fire, now in their second week, have seen the U.S. target bridges, water desalination plants and electrical facilities in Iran. Tehran has hit U.S.-allied countries throughout the Middle East.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The U.S. military launched airstrikes Sunday targeting Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard to retaliate for the killing of American troops in Jordan, further widening crossfire between the nations as an interim deal seeking an end to their war has collapsed.
The strikes are part of a weeklong campaign that began with a struggle over control of the Strait of Hormuz and has seen Iran strike U.S.-allied countries across the Middle East.
The U.S. has targeted bridges, electrical facilities and other targets in Iran, and Tehran has retaliated by hitting power and desalination plants in Kuwait, threatening daily life in that small, oil-rich desert nation. Iran also has stepped up its threats to further expand the strikes, drawing a warning overnight from the United Arab Emirates.
Kuwait and Bahrain again activated air defenses Sunday morning as they warned of incoming Iranian drones and missiles.
The U.S. military's Central Command in its statement also said it hit "Iranian military coastal surveillance and air defense facilities, maritime capabilities and missile and drone storage sites." It also said for the first time it specifically targeting the Guard, a key power base in Iran's theocracy that controls its ballistic missile **** nal.

Artificial intelligence (AI) data centers are popping up everywhere, to the point where it's becoming a source of political backlash. Yet while the debate over where to build data centers rages on, one thing remains very certain.
As AI data centers proliferate, electricity demand will continue to rise as well. While this trend could bode well for utility stocks across the board, it could serve as a strong long-term catalyst for the following three electric utility stocks in particular: Constellation Energy Group (NASDAQ: CEG), Entergy (NYSE: ETR), and NextEra Energy (NYSE: NEE).
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Spun off from utilities giant Exelon in 2022, Constellation Energy Group provides electricity and natural gas to a variety of customers, including regulated utility companies. What makes Constellation especially interesting is its high exposure to nuclear power.
That is, the company owns and operates 15 nuclear power plants, primarily in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic. In the past, nuclear power has been a controversial industry, but in recent years, public and private stakeholders have recognized nuclear power's value as a scalable, low-carbon energy source, with nuclear power plants a viable "green" alternative to coal- and natural gas-fired power plants.

CHICAGO — FreightWaves unveiled the winners of its 2026 AI Excellence in Supply Chain Awards during a ceremony at the Old Post Office in Chicago as part of the FreightWaves Supply Chain AI Symposium on July 15, 2026. The awards recognize companies using artificial intelligence to transform supply chain, transportation and logistics operations.
The competition this year was fierce. FreightWaves received a record 60 nominations, more than double last year's total, reflecting how quickly AI has moved from pilot projects to production systems across the industry. To capture the full picture of that shift, the 2026 awards were split into two categories: AI Solution Providers, honoring the technology companies building AI tools for the industry, and Operational AI Integration, honoring the carriers, brokers, forwarders and shippers deploying AI inside their own operations.
This year's honorees in the AI Solution Providers category are Arkestro, CloneOps.ai, Intelligent Audit, Fixefy, Augment, Eranova, Gather AI, Trimble Autonomous Procurement, Fullbay AI and Samsara. The Operational AI Integration honorees are NFI, Flexport, YMX Logistics, Uber Freight and Atlas Energy Solutions.
Honoring the technology companies building AI tools for the industry
Arkestro earned recognition for its AI-enabled predictive procurement platform, which combines artificial intelligence and game theory to let procurement teams simulate sourcing events before they happen and shape outcomes before suppliers ever submit a quote. Rather than replacing human decision-making, the platform augments it, giving suppliers AI-assisted pricing guidance and real-time feedback on how their offers compare. Customers report an average 18.8% savings on spend and sourcing cycles accelerated by up to 60%. One manufacturer identified more than $55 million in savings with a two-month ROI across 40 plants and more than 400 suppliers; an LNG operator cut high-value sourcing cycles from days to minutes while achieving 29% savings; and a global medical device manufacturer compressed logistics request-for-quote timelines from four months to six weeks, saving $2.4 million.

Keeping Wrigley Field green takes more than sunshine and a dedicated grounds crew.
It also takes water -- and one Cubs employee found a creative way to conserve it.
Water conservation is a key part of the Chicago Cubs' sustainability efforts, and because Wrigley Field is more than 100 years old, the team has had to think outside the box.
That creativity led ***** istant Groundskeeper Graham Flora to look to his own backyard for inspiration.
While tending to the juniper plants that cascade down the ballpark's bleacher sections, Flora noticed an opportunity high above the field. At the top of Wrigley's iconic 60-foot scoreboard, rainwater from the roof drains away after storms.

Preformed Line Products Company (NASDAQ:PLPC) was among Jim Cramer's stock calls on Mad Money, as he advised investors to stick with the largest tech companies in the market. Cramer was bullish on the stock during the episode, as he stated:
After decades where software was in charge, now it's all about setting up massive buildings, filling them with tech, and even building new power plants to supply them with electricity. That's how something like a Caterpillar's become a big AI winner, and it's why Preformed Line Products keeps winning. In its latest quarter, the company delivered a monster earnings beat… Look, the electric grid hasn't grown much in this country in the last couple of decades, but now there's a colossal amount of spending to make the grid much faster and more powerful… I think PLPC is a great derivative play on the market's biggest theme. I think you're getting a nice entry point here given the recent pullback. Sure, it's doubled over the last year, but I don't think it's crazy anymore to buy a stock like Preformed at 35 times earnings in this data center-obsessed market.
So here's the bottom line… Preformed Line Products Company is a small but critical part of the AI build-out. If you believe in this story and you believe the company can earn nearly $13 per share in 2028, which is what the **** ysts are projecting, then you've got my blessing to put a position on right here. Now, look, ideally, the stock would pull back a little bit more… Because I don't see the data center build-out slowing down anytime soon. But the stock has already pulled back. I say you're getting it at a much better level than I thought you'd get anytime soon.
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Preformed Line Products Company (NASDAQ:PLPC) manufactures hardware systems, solar mounting solutions, and EV foundations for building and maintaining overhead, ground, and underground networks. The company supplies these products and drone inspection services to energy utilities, communication providers, and field contractors.

By Disha Raychaudhuri and Valerie Volcovici
July 14 (Reuters) - Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI has installed 59 natural gas turbines for its Colossus 2 data center project in Tennessee without securing federal clean air permits, according to communications between regulators and xAI representatives.
Potential emissions from the turbines are far beyond the threshold that would require a federal permit, and would be released near predominantly Black communities already estimated to be suffering disproportionately high rates of lung disease, according to a Reuters ****** ysis based on government data and information in the correspondence with regulators.
The findings, which have not been previously reported, reflect how exploding electricity demand from AI data centers is ‌driving companies to build off-grid power plants at a pace outstripping environmental oversight, with potentially big risks to public health.
The number of unpermitted turbines identified by Reuters is about double what xAI has publicly acknowledged. The company previously said it was running 27 unpermitted turbines for Colossus 2 as of January and has argued the permits are not required. ‌At least 57 of the 59 turbines are located in Mississippi, just over the state line from Tennessee where the data center is located.

BERLIN (AP) — Volkswagen's CEO indicated in comments published Sunday that he's trying to avoid closing plants as he seeks to turn around the automaker's performance.
The Wolfsburg, Germany-based company faces pressure to cut costs at home and increasingly intense competition in the lucrative Chinese market, in particular.
Last week, Volkswagen said its "fundamental realignment" over the past three years had reached its next phase, announcing plans to streamline the model lineup by up to half.
It didn't provide specifics, and questions remain over how else it will cut costs. There has been renewed speculation about the future of several plants in Germany.
"There are more intelligent solutions than closing plants," CEO Oliver Blume told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM), better known as TSMC, was sitting on the short elite list of Investor's Business Daily Sector Leaders earlier this week and currently is part of the IBD 50 list. TSM stock is trending sideways in tight weekly closes with the company's second-quarter earnings report due out soon.
TSMC is the world's largest contract chipmaker and produces specialized semiconductors for tech giants including Nvidia (NVDA), Apple (AAPL) and Broadcom (AVGO).
TSMC makes semiconductor technology and applications that serve the automotive electronics, high-performance computing, mobile and wearable device, and medical industries.
In addition to Taiwan, it has semiconductor fabrication plants in China, Arizona and ******* an, with a new facility being built in Dresden, Germany.
In its annual shareholder meeting on June 4, TSMC's Chief Executive C.C. Wei said it won't be able to fulfill demand over the next few years, even with the additional manufacturing capacity.

Chesterfield, Missouri-based Bunge Global SA (BG) is a leading global agribusiness and food company that connects farmers with consumers by sourcing, processing, transporting, and distributing agricultural commodities and food ingredients worldwide. The company has a market cap of $21.1 billion, and it operates an extensive network of grain elevators, oilseed processing plants, export terminals, refineries, and food manufacturing facilities across North and South America, Europe, Asia, and other key agricultural markets.
BG is expected to release its Q2 2026 earnings on Wednesday, Jul. 29, before the market opens. Ahead of the event, **** ysts expect the company's EPS to be $2 on a diluted basis, up 52.7% from $1.31 in the year-ago quarter. The company has exceeded Wall Street's EPS estimates in each of its last four quarters.
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War trades follow a script. A supply shock hits, prices go vertical, and money that never cared about the underlying market suddenly cares about nothing else.
The entry is the easy part. The hard part is knowing when the story that made you money stops being true.
For three months, one industrial metal owned that script. Missile strikes knocked out two of the Persian Gulf's largest smelters in late March. The Strait of Hormuz slammed shut, cutting off both finished metal and the raw materials the region's plants run on.
A market most of Wall Street had written off as oversupplied flipped into deficit almost overnight. Prices ripped to a four-year high by early June, and shares of producers around the world rallied with them.
Then came the peace deal. The strait reopened, the panic premium bled away, and prices slid to their lowest level in more than four months. The question hanging over the market was whether the war left a lasting dent in supply or a temporary one.

Synopsys (NASDAQ:SNPS) is preparing to discontinue a suite of semiconductor manufacturing process control software as the company redirects investment towards higher-margin artificial intelligence design technologies, according to six sources familiar with the plans.
Sources said the US chip design software company informed more than 10 semiconductor manufacturers during April and May that several manufacturing **** ytics products had reached "end of life." Customers reportedly include Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, Kioxia Holdings and Qorvo.
Under the move, Synopsys will stop developing new versions of the affected software while continuing to meet existing maintenance and contractual support commitments.
The software being phased out includes the Equipment Engineering System (EES) and Fault Detection and Classification (FDC) platforms. These applications are used within semiconductor fabrication plants to monitor production equipment, identify faults and help prevent manufacturing defects before they affect production yields.
According to two of the sources, the software plays a central role in monitoring fabrication processes across advanced chip manufacturing facilities.

Hunter Dobbins was entrusted with the starting duties of game 2 of the day/night doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers and did a great job of limiting their offense to minimal damage in the early innings. The St. Louis Cardinals offense did not make a significant appearance in the game and the 7th inning was a disaster – again.
The Brewers didn’t make a dent in Hunter Dobbins outing until Cooper Pratt tripled to lead off the top of the 3rd inning. He would score 2 batters later when Christian Yelich grounded out to Masyn Winn giving Milwaukee a 1-0 lead.
More trouble would arrive in the top of the 5th inning as walks would come back to haunt Hunter Dobbins. He walked Sanchez to start the Brewers 5th. After Frelick flied out, Dobbins then walked Pratt. Ortiz singled to right to load the bases. Hunter was able to strike out Christian Yelich, but one of Milwaukee’s top prospects who was just called up to the majors Luis Lara smacked his first major league hit into right field after a diving JJ Wetherholt scoring 2 and increasing the Brewers lead to 3-0. Hunter Dobbins would complete 5 innings allowing 4 hits, 3 earned runs while striking out 4 and walking 3.
Jared Shuster, who was just called up today from Memphis, entered the game in the top of the 6th inning with one runner on. He walked Jake Bauers, the first batter he faced, to give the Brewers runners on first and second with no outs, but struck out Sanchez. Shuster was also able to coax a flyout to center from Jackson Chourio for the second out. He got out of the inning when Cooper Pratt grounded into a force out to end the Milwaukee 6th.
The Cardinals bats were extremely quiet for the first 5 innings with the exception of Jordan Walker. He had one of the only St. Louis hits in the early innings and hammered an 86 mph changeup for another single with two outs in the bottom of the 6th inning. He would cross home plate shortly after thanks to a jolt that Nelson Velázquez put into a 93 mph four-seam fastball from Brewers pitcher Gasser as it sailed into the plants above the left field wall reducing the Milwaukee lead to 3-2.

June 30 (Reuters) - BMW on Tuesday announced the completion of a $1.7 billion investment ‌in its production plants in South ‌Carolina, gearing up for the launch of fully electric vehicle production in the country.
• The German carmaker said it completed the expansion of its main plant in Spartanburg as well as ‌the construction of ⁠a new plant in Woodruff
• BMW's iX5 SUV will be its ⁠first fully electric model made in the U.S., starting from late 2026
• At least five more fully electric models are scheduled to be ‌assembled in the U.S. by 2030
• The Spartanburg plant, which exports around half of its output, caters to the European SUV market and others

John Cena has shaved his head in preparation for his second hair transplant.
Taking to social media on Monday, the wrestler-turned-actor posted a photo of himself standing next to Dr. Ken Anderson of the Anderson Center for Hair.
In the accompanying caption, Cena explained that he was going in for "round two" of Follicular Unit Extraction (FUE) - a process in which the surgeon extracts individual hair follicles and implants them into a balding or thinning region on the scalp.
"Round 2 of FUE Treatment and this time I went all in for best possible results," he wrote. "Thank you Ken Anderson and the staff at Anderson Center for Hair for accompanying me on this journey!"
Cena has not discussed the results of the latest procedure.
In April 2025, the WWE star revealed he had decided to get a hair transplant around five months earlier because he had received taunts from fans over his "bald spot".

Merriam-Webster defines Schadenfreude as the enjoyment obtained from seeing or hearing about the troubles of others.
As sports fans, you probably experience it all the time.
If you root for the Bears, perhaps you experience it when the Packers lose.
If you root for the Cardinals, you may giggle when a Lincoln Park yuppie slips and faceplants in their own vomit on a Wrigleyville sidewalk.
And if you're an Illini fan, Juwan Howard getting ***** canned in Ann Arbor likely warmed the ***** les of your heart.

Data center developers are scrambling for reliable power, turning away from congested grids and toward on-site fuel cells. Rystad Energy research and ***** ysis projects a tenfold increase in fuel cell market revenues by 2030, rising from around $2.8 billion in 2025 to roughly $30 billion, as AI computing demand drives unprecedented growth in data center construction. A contracted order book of approximately 9 gigawatts (GW), including framework agreements with Oracle, AEP, Equinix, and Brookfield, points to growing confidence among major operators in fuel cells as a viable long-term power source.
US grid interconnection timelines have tripled since 2015, now stretching to three to six years for large loads. Rystad Energy's research projects 10.4 GW of ***** ulative fuel cell demand from data centers between 2026 and 2030, with around 40% of projected 2030 US data center capacity modeled as likely to pursue dedicated on-site power generation rather than grid connection. Unlike conventional grid connections or large gas plants, fuel cells can be deployed quickly and run on natural gas today, transitioning to biogas, renewable natural gas or hydrogen as supply matures, while producing lower on-site emissions than combustion alternatives. North America is expected to account for 91% of installed global on-site power generation capacity, thanks to a combination of grid delays, federal tax incentives and an established domestic supply chain.
"Power availability has become one of the defining constraints on data center growth, and operators are increasingly looking beyond the grid for solutions. Fuel cells have moved from a niche application to a measurable part of the firm power mix. The question now is whether the supply chain can scale at the same pace as demand," said Lein Mann Bergsmark, vice president of clean tech supply chain research at Rystad Energy.
Fuel cell manufacturers are expanding capacity in response. Aggregate operational and planned manufacturing output is on track to reach 4 GW per year by 2030, up from 1.8 GW today. Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) have become the dominant technology for always-on data center power, accounting for around 53% of ***** ulative stationary deliveries to date. Bloom Energy holds virtually every primary-load SOFC contract in the visible order book, a concentration that presents supply chain risk if demand accelerates faster than one manufacturer's production capacity.
That concentration extends to materials. Bloom Energy's SOFC technology depends on scandium, a critical metal used in its electrolyte chemistry. At full utilization of its planned 2 GW manufacturing expansion, Bloom's theoretical scandium requirement would approach the size of the entire global market, currently estimated to be around 60 tonnes per year. This potential bottleneck is compounded by the fact that China heavily controls the global scandium supply chain. Competitors using alternative electrolyte chemistries do not share this e