Wrexham fever reaches Santa Clara as Red Dragons take on Chelsea

SANTA CLARA — Whenever Wrexham AFC is in town, people will be watching – especially when facing an English Premier League titan like Chelsea, which Wrexham will do on Wednesday night during an exhibition match at Levi’s Stadium. That wasn’t the case less than four years ago, when the Red Dragons were a lowly Welsh…

Paris Olympics Opening Ceremony—Here’s What To Know And Where To Watch

Topline The Olympics opening ceremony this Friday is set to make history as the first ever outdoor (and floating) ceremony that will see more than 10,000 athletes, dozens of influential political figures and thousands of performers pull out all the stops to mark the start of the 2024 summer games in Paris. The Olympic rings…

The Boy Band Scam’ And Lou Pearlman’s Ponzi Scheme

Lou Pearlman and the Backstreet Boys Courtesy of Netflix/Tudum Netflix’s Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam tells the mind-blowing true story of Lou Pearlman, a con artist who catapulted several major boy bands to fame in the Y2K era, only to be later convicted of orchestrating a fraudulent empire and swindling investors out of hundreds…

What Happened to Lou Pearlman, the Disgraced Boy Band Manager?

Netflix’s new three-part docuseries, Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, examines the rise and fall of the late Lou Pearlman, a music manager who created – and then exploited – some of the biggest boy bands of the ‘90s, including Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, O-Town and LFO. By 2006, he was accused of running a industry…

How To Fund High-Impact Climate Innovations

Riffle Ventures – Funding high-impact climate solutions Riffle Ventures Funding climate solutions requires an enormous amount of capital – now it feels like common knowledge, but we have to say it anyway. According to McKinsey and Bloomberg NEF, we will need over US$200 trillion in cumulative financing to power the green transition, a lot of…

1972 Munich Olympics, marred by killing of Israeli athletes, loom over Paris Games

The 1972 Munich Olympics were viewed by their German hosts as a chance to leave the country’s history behind. Instead, the Games became notorious for terrorism after an attack on the Israeli team by Palestinian militants that left 12 victims dead, as well as five attackers. That history now looms over the 2024 Paris Olympics,…

Kasia Niewiadoma on the Unique Dynamics of the Olympics

However, during the Olympics, I am surrounded by Polish people, making the experience uniquely meaningful and somewhat homier. I feel I can truly be myself; my jokes are understood, and I receive much more support from my country than during other races. Having participated twice in the Olympics, in Rio and Tokyo, I’ve experienced the…

NBA announces $77 billion deals with ESPN, NBC and Amazon; TNT Sports threatens to sue, per sources

The NBA announced new 11-year TV deals with incumbent ESPN and newcomers NBC and Amazon Prime Video, rejecting TNT Sports’ right to match, which is expected to lead to a legal battle between the network and the league, according to sources briefed on the deal. The forthcoming agreements, worth $77 billion in total, with ESPN,…