When I first saw this, I thought that meant we’d never see another Foot Locker again. But that doesn’t seem to be the case. Heck, we may not even notice a thing.
Dick’s said Thursday that it expects to run Foot Locker as a standalone unit and keep the Foot Locker brands, which include Kids Foot Locker, Champs Sports, WSS and Japanese sneaker brand atmos.
DOGE strikes again. For the second time this year, they eliminated my position, and I’m out of work. It definitely stinks, but I’m trying to look at it as another opportunity to build resilience. And you can’t really work on resilience without a little adversity, right?
I get to drive to Mineral Wells this weekend. I think I’ve told y’all about my Aunt Bonnie. She’s a first cousin, but it confused me as a kid because she was so much older. So, I just stuck to calling her Aunt Bonnie. Her only child, Amy, is traveling from Arizona to bury her next to her father (Bonnie’s husband, David), who died of cancer in 1978. He’s part of the Hatfield family of Mineral Wells. If you are from MW, then you should know Richard Hatfield (the number one Ram fan) and the Gulf full-service gas station his parents owned. Amy is a few years younger than I, and other than my kids, she’s now literally the only family I have in this county.
From her home in Arizona, Amy has managed to plan and arrange all of her mother’s funeral by phone, coordinating with the city, cemetery, church, funeral home, and a restaurant so a small number of us can all have a little get-together. She has zero Mineral Wells contacts and felt burdened to do it all by herself.
Here’s a photo of Aunt Bonnie on her wedding day. My grandmother hand-sewed that dress, which family lore says is cursed. It looks like the wedding reception was held at my grandparents’ house, which my father designed. Simpler times back then.
There’s a chart in the article, but here are some highlights:
Lana Del Rey leads as the priciest concert performer at $16.02 per song, while Charli XCX tops the per-minute cost at $3.55
Oasis generates the most revenue per song at $858,024, with nightly earnings of $17.16 million across their reunion tour shows
Budget-conscious fans get the best value from Ed Sheeran at just $0.91 per minute and Usher at $3.76 per song
It is a common misconception that most global communication is accomplished via satellite. In fact, over 95 percent of international data and voice transfers are currently routed through the many fiber optic cables that crisscross the world’s seafloors
‘RUMP’: Customers upset with missing ‘T’ in Trump-branded watch that cost $640 Tim Petit paid $640 for a limited-edition Trump watch that is only one of 250 made. “I thought it was really nice. It was beautiful, and I knew it would be something that she’d like,” he said. Petit bought the watch after hearing an ad for it on the radio, featuring Trump himself.
First look at Christian Bale and Nicholas Cage as Al Davis and John Madden in ‘MADDEN.’
This was too funny for me not to post. But I know many of you are conservative in nature, so instead of displaying the Twitter video below, you will have to watch it here. There’s no nudity, but breasts are involved, and I think there’s one curse word.
Was MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred aware that the Reds and White Sox were playing against each other later in the evening when he announced yesterday that the ban on Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe (their respective teams) was lifted? And how exactly will Trump take credit for this?
Paige Bueckers was at last night’s Stars game and sporting the team’s jersey. She seemed quite taken when the camera caught her after the hat-trick (23-second mark). My first impression of her first impression of Dallas was that she wasn’t happy to be here, but it looks like she’s slowly acclimating.
Today, it is the sixth busiest airport in Texas and the second busiest general aviation airport in the state, with more than 210,000 operations in 2024. A general aviation airport refers to all operations that are not commercial airline flights or military. This includes things like private and corporate, aircraft, flight training, aerial surveying and recreational flying.
And it begins… The new pontiff was asked if he had “any message for the United States.” “Many,” Leo replied with a smile. He added: ‘God bless you all.’
Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government [BR] (RNS) — In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.
The Mavs had a 1.8% chance of getting the number one draft pick in the NBA Lottery last night, and they did it. Unfreaking real. Interestingly, how often has a team won the NBA Lottery with lesser odds? Amazingly, three, and that’s why many feel it’s rigged.
The largest upset in the lottery occurred in 1993 when the Magic won the lottery with just a 1.5% chance to win. The second-largest upsets occurred in 2008 and 2014 when the Chicago Bulls and Cleveland Cavaliers both won their respective lotteries with just a 1.7% chance.
This article was written in 2011, and the hotline is still operating.
If you pick up your phone and call 719-26-OATES — at least as of this writing — you’ll get a computerized woman’s voice telling you what numbers to press to hear one of four Hall & Oates songs.
I didn’t have a high opinion of retired General Stanley McChrystal. And I thought it was interesting he was plugging a book titled On Character on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. But I became an admirer halfway through the interview and have reevaluated my stance. He spoke about his embarrassing resignation and how he felt he needed to start this book by addressing it. He talked about being born on an Army base, raised by an Army family, attending West Point at age 17, his career in the Army, and how he felt all that was stripped away in an instant, and being a leader of none, and literally said he felt like a failure. It was the way he described how he didn’t believe the Rolling Stone article was accurate, but accepted responsibility and owned the whole situation that caught me. He further described feeling like a failure and ashamed, which is something I’ve battled over the past five years. Surprisingly, he also talked about how President Obama was very gracious when he got fired. Man, talk about not carrying any bitterness and showing growth and character. He described coming home to his wife after offering his resignation to the president and how he came home and immediately told his wife, “It’s over.” Her reply, “Good. We’ve always been happy and we will always be happy.” He understood what she was really telling him it’s all about facing forward. Granted, he did jokingly say she lives life like she drives – that she has no use for the rear view mirror. But he also added how it’s about committing to something, that he committed to the military, his marriage, and his country. Not only do I admire him, but I admire his wife. She stayed committed to him; she didn’t give up on him. He found a woman of noble character. It made me think of the doubt of character I felt about the person I was about to marry, and justified that no one is perfect. But in the end, I learned I shouldn’t have sacrificed on character. People of character don’t quit on their commitment.
Comedy Central previewed a special focused on focused young Donald Trump voters by Daily Show correspondent Jordan Klepper that will air next Monday. I noticed he was on the Texas A&M campus, so it should be “interesting.”
Personally, I think the public is getting trolled, and something else they have planned is going to happen. I’d like to argue that the Secret Service wouldn’t allow it because it takes a lot of work to get such a thing safe enough for a sitting president. However, it doesn’t matter who tells him no; he’s going to do what he wants when he wants to. I don’t feel I can get upset over any of this. His party nominated him, and the majority of the voting public voted him in, knowing exactly what they were getting. And from what I heard from General McChrystal, only 65% of eligible voters chose to exercise that right.
But hey, if all it takes is for a foreign government to gift him a $400 million luxury plane to get him to leave office, I’m all for it.
Holy cow, I had no idea these things were so long.
Beach worms time their feeding with the tides, popping up when waves bring food-rich water to the shore.
