Month: April 2019

Adidas needs Beyoncé more than Beyoncé needs Adidas. Last week’s announcement of their multi-year brand partnership was more a coup for Adidas than a win for the artist. Any brand in the world would gladly work with her, and she hardly needs the money but that didn’t stop her fans from congratulating her on social…

It was a little after 2am one Friday morning two Novembers ago when I found myself on the Red Line train, on the north side of Chicago, though I had been all the way north and south a few times already that night. I was tired, a little cold, and things were getting sketchy. I’d…

There is no precedent in American pro sports for the relocation that the Golden State Warriors will make this summer from Oracle Arena, their unlovely yet beloved home in Oakland for the past 47 years, to the $1bn Chase Center, located across the bay near downtown San Francisco and stocked with all the amenities that…

Cory Booker’s early fundraising numbers are well behind those posted by other major candidates in the race to challenge Donald Trump. The New Jersey senator, who campaigned on Sunday in New Hampshire, said he raised more than $5m in the two months since he entered the 2020 primary, and has more than $6.1m cash on…

When a group of performance artists erected a replica of Berlin’s Holocaust memorial next to the home of a far-right politician, they were hoping to draw attention to the revisionist views of a rising figure on Germany’s nationalist right. But as the collective finds itself targeted by the first criminal investigation of its kind against…

Scientists estimate that at least 100 million and maybe as many as a billion birds die each year in the US when they collide with buildings, especially glass-covered or illuminated skyscrapers. And, in a new report, conservationists now have a better idea which American cities are the deadliest for those on the wing. Chicago, with…

1) Dunk finds Brighton positives after semi-final defeat It is hard to look for the positives when you have, as Lewis Dunk put it, missed out on something that “maybe comes up once in a lifetime”. The quashing of the FA Cup final dream hurt but the Brighton defender has urged his teammates to take…

Scott Morrison has called animal rights activists “un-Australian green criminals” following protests around Australia, including a major one in Melbourne which led to the arrest of 38 people. The prime minister said Australia was prepared to join a legal challenge if any landholder wanted to launch legal action against animal rights activists protesting on their…

The stampede for Irish passports since the UK voted to leave the EU has been widely interpreted as an effort by Britons to avoid hassle at airports. Produce proof of an Irish granny and voilà, no matter what happens with Brexit, you have a burgundy passport and can travel freely throughout the EU. For some,…

How hard do Tottenham press? There are two ways to play against Manchester City. You can press high up the pitch, as Liverpool and Lyon have with some success over the past two seasons, and try to force their defenders actually to defend, or you can sit deep, look to absorb pressure and hit them…