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Tom Brady slams current NFL players — and strokes his own ego — with jab about preseason games

Tom Brady slams current NFL players — and strokes his own ego — with jab about preseason games

Published by Daniella Wilson

Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Stay ahead of the curve with our weekly guide to the latest trends, fashion, relationships and more Tom Brady is known for his ruthless work ethic — and he appears to think some of today’s NFL stars aren’t working hard enough. As the 2026 preseason gets underway, the seven-time Super Bowl champion, 49, recently called out players who have chosen to sit out of exhibition games. In a since-deleted Instagram Story, Brady reshared a clip of him throwing a touchdown pass to Randy Moss during a 2010 preseason game. “Preseason… Regular season… I never wanted to be taken off the field. Practice makes perfect,” the retired quarterback wrote. “Too many people looking for easy ways out these days. When you’re a football player, and it’s football season, your job is to play football.” Quarterback Tom Brady officially retired from the NFL …

The Strokes ‘Reality Awaits’ album review

The Strokes ‘Reality Awaits’ album review

Published by Sam Flores

Twenty-five years after “Is This It,” the Strokes are as big as they’ve ever been — and not just among old heads eager to relive the wasted glamour of the early-2000s garage rock revival. Go to a Strokes gig these days — they’re playing arenas and headlining festivals like next month’s Just Like Heaven in Pasadena — and you’ll find teens and 20-somethings in the audience; open up Instagram and there’s frontman Julian Casablancas dispensing viral hot takes on the New York City subway. On Spotify, the band’s most-streamed song isn’t the Giuliani-era “Last Nite” but “The Adults Are Talking,” which came out at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic — a feat of cultural endurance unmatched by any of the Strokes’ Gen X or millennial peers. So what better time to drop a new album full of arcane jokes, baffling vocal effects and light conspiracy theorizing? The group’s first LP since 2020’s Grammy-winning “The New Abnormal,” “Reality Awaits” is easily the nuttiest entry in the Strokes’ catalog, with a spooky opening track, “Psycho S—,” …

Koivun Moves 3 Strokes up at the 3M Open With a 3rd-Round 61 and Tournament-Record Back 9

Koivun Moves 3 Strokes up at the 3M Open With a 3rd-Round 61 and Tournament-Record Back 9

Published by Sam Flores

BLAINE, Minn. (AP) — PGA Tour rookie Jackson Koivun shot a 61 in the third round of the 3M Open on Saturday to take a three-stroke lead at 20-under par, setting a tournament record with a 28 on the back nine at the TPC Twin Cities. Emiliano Grillo and Ben Kohles each had a 65 and are tied for second at 17 under. Michael Brennan shot a 63 and shared fourth with Chandler Phillips at 16 under. Denny McCarthy, Billy Horschel and Michael Kim were in sixth at 15 under. Scottie Scheffler, the world’s top-ranked player, was six strokes behind Koivun in a four-way tie for ninth place with Davis Thompson, Seamus Power and Brian Harman. The 21-year-old Koivun, who was the top-ranked amateur player after a standout college career at Auburn and turned pro last month following the U.S. Open, had two eagles and six birdies to separate from the pack on a steamy and still afternoon that was ideal for low scores. “Just got to keep the foot on the gas,” Koivun said. …

In ‘Broad Strokes,’ Comedian Cat Cohen Turns a Brush With Death into Art

In ‘Broad Strokes,’ Comedian Cat Cohen Turns a Brush With Death into Art

Published by Sam Flores

“Really, right after it happened, I didn’t think about it a lot because I was just distracting myself,” says Cohen. But now, “it is interesting to be in a place of constantly thinking about it. Usually what comes forth is extreme gratitude. Like, holy shit! I cannot believe it wasn’t worse. I’m so lucky. That’s the takeaway: the more I live it, I’m like, I’m so lucky. I’m so lucky. I’m so lucky.” She admits that she’s also having more health anxiety than usual recently, likely due to reliving the story multiple times a day, in rehearsals and then in her nightly performances. Medical shows were never her bag; not even a high school dalliance with Grey’s Anatomy stuck: ”It just sends me down a place I can’t—I’m already there. I don’t need to go further down the rabbit hole. I’m trying to crawl my way out of the rabbit hole.” After a lifetime of health worry, sometimes founded but always real, she’s banned herself from using WebMD but admits to still googling symptoms (“it’s …

The Strokes: Reality Awaits review – a perfect marriage of mayhem and melody on their best album in years | Music

The Strokes: Reality Awaits review – a perfect marriage of mayhem and melody on their best album in years | Music

Published by Sam Flores

Here’s a sentence no old-head Strokes fan wants to hear: to understand Reality Awaits, the stalwart NYC group’s seventh album and first in six years, you first have to understand the Voidz. Julian Casablancas’s other band has been taking up more and more of his time in recent years, much to the chagrin of fans who may have dipped into the group’s painfully, awkwardly proggy 2014 debut Tyranny and decided to just let the old legend have his fun (away from their own speakers, of course). Anyone who decided to listen further will have found that the Voidz have turned into a great, crowd-pleasing, safely experimental zone for Casablancas to pull out some of the most energised, goofy work of his career. If you’re thinking I come to this guy for cool, not goof, I don’t know what to tell you: this is a man who spends interviews discussing his theories about ancient Sumerian culture. The artwork for Reality Awaits by the Stokes. Photograph: Richard Prince The 2018 Voidz record Virtue is a high point …

Catherine Cohen on Off-Broadway Play Broad Strokes

Catherine Cohen on Off-Broadway Play Broad Strokes

Published by Daniella Wilson

Three years ago, Cat Cohen was lying in a hospital bed feeling despondent. She’d suffered a small stroke — terrifying enough given she was only 31 years old — and the doctors discovered that she had a hole in her heart and needed surgery to repair it, and it felt, for a brief moment, like the end of the world. But then Cohen, an actress, podcaster, and comedian known for her blend of cabaret and standup, had an epiphany: This was incredible material. “It really was a spark,” she says. She started taking notes on her iPhone about what was happening to her, things the doctors were saying, how her family was reacting — all elements that, trauma aside, she says were genuinely funny. While she was on her phone after the stroke, she also saw a piece of reassuring news. “I read that Hailey Bieber had the exact same kind of stroke that I had, and it was my first flash of, I’m going to be okay,” she says. “She was already okay! She …

Summer soundtrack: Charli XCX and the return of The Strokes – arts24

Summer soundtrack: Charli XCX and the return of The Strokes – arts24

Published by Sam Flores

On today’s Arts24 music show, Jennifer Ben Brahim brings us a roundup of upcoming album releases to add to your summer playlists. From the return of indie sleaze icons The Strokes, who are set to release their first album in six years, “Reality Awaits”, to a British pop star hoping to recreate the success of her 2024 record Brat – the album that sparked the viral internet trend dubbed “Brat Summer”. Her seventh album, Music, Fashion, Film, features musician John Cale, designer Marc Jacobs and filmmaker Martin Scorsese on the cover. Here’s the single “Wink Wink”. We also bring you interviews with Franco-Cuban twins Ibeyi, who have released their sun-soaked album “Offering”, as well as French rising star Aupinard, who is touring festivals this summer with his debut album “spleen. social club”. Source link

New exoskeleton teaches stroke patients to walk with therapist guidance

New exoskeleton teaches stroke patients to walk with therapist guidance

Published by Jenni Sidey

A new kind of partnership between human and machine is beginning to reshape how stroke recovery may look in the future. Scientists say this approach could help restore one of the most basic human abilities, the simple act of walking. Each year, nearly 800,000 people in the United States survive a stroke. Many face a long and difficult recovery. Walking, once automatic, often becomes slow, uneven, and exhausting. Months of therapy can help, but progress is often limited by the physical demands placed on both patients and therapists. Now, researchers at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and Northwestern University have introduced a new system that brings therapist and patient closer than ever before. Their findings suggest a promising shift in how rehabilitation may be delivered. A New Way To Relearn Movement The system is called therapist-exoskeleton-patient interaction, or TEPI. It pairs both the therapist and the patient with wearable robotic devices that support the legs. A new exoskeleton system lets therapists and stroke patients move together, improving walking recovery and engagement. (CREDIT: Science Robotics) These exoskeletons connect …

Ina Yoon Widens Her Women’s PGA Championship Lead to 5 Strokes

Ina Yoon Widens Her Women’s PGA Championship Lead to 5 Strokes

Published by Sam Flores

CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Ina Yoon stretched her lead at the Women’s PGA Championship with a 3-under 69 that put her five strokes up on the second-place pack after another strong South Korean showing Friday. Yoon, who shot a record 63 in the first round at Hazeltine National Golf Club, had two bogeys with one birdie on the back nine to reach 12 under. The 23-year-old is seeking her first LPGA Tour victory. “The remaining two days will obviously be nerve-racking, but being nervous is human nature, and I think I want to embrace that and focus on what I can in my shots,” said Yoon, who missed the cut at the U.S. Women’s Open this month after tying for fourth at the first major of the season at The Chevron Championship. Nasa Hataoka, Brooke Henderson, A Lin Kim and Hae Ran Ryu were tied for second. Ryu shot a 64 for the best score of the day, three strokes better than Hataoka. Henderson finished with three straight birdies for a 68. Kim shot a …

Behold, the most realistic golf game ever – it took me 428 strokes to finish a hole | Games

Behold, the most realistic golf game ever – it took me 428 strokes to finish a hole | Games

Published by Sam Flores

I have always struggled playing golf. I wish I didn’t. It’s a beautiful game in concept. A leisurely walk in the sunshine, slapping a ball around, sandwiches and beer consumed during and after play. Sure, you have to dress like Huggy Bear from Starsky and Hutch, and getting membership of an actual club is more complex than joining the Freemasons (although many offer a two for one deal with this), but you don’t have to be fit, you don’t have to even run. It is the only outdoor sport where a fat dad can be the best in the world. The premise couldn’t be simpler: get the ball in the hole. But there is nothing worse in sport than knowing what you have to do and not being able to do it. Just ask amateur parachutists. It is this gap between what I want to do and my inability to do it that makes me angry when I play. And you cannot play golf angry. The only times I have ever finished a round of …