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[The Ivors Academy @IvorsAcademy]

🏆 @raye accepted the Ivor Novello Award for Songwriter of the Year with her grandad Michael.

She dedicated her award to him - a songwriter who in the past was cheated and had a song stolen from him.

Declaring her award a win for her and her grandad, she dedicated it to all the songwriters who were always good enough and just needed a break that didn’t quite happen.

#TheIvors #IvorNovelloAwards #Raye

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 1999, Australian truck driver Bill Morgan was involved in a serious accident that left him in a coma. Even though doctors said he had no chance of living, he miraculously woke up after 12 days and was completely fine.

Feeling lucky for having survived, he went on and bought a scratch lottery ticket. The result? He won a $17,000 car.

Normally, winning a car wouldn’t have made it to the news, but because of Morgan’s accident story, Channel 9 decided to do a feature on the man who was "clinically dead and came back to win the lottery."

While filming, they asked him to buy a lottery ticket so they could reenact the winning scratch. He happily obliged and started scratching the ticket on camera. To everyone's dismay, he won a further $250,000.

[Daily Loud @DailyLoud]

Jamie Foxx throws a football full court and makes it in the hoop 🔥🏈

[𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚌𝚌 𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚗𝚐𝚞𝚜 🍄 @anactualwalnut]

Gillian Anderson has always been that bitch but I think she’s a prime example of why women should stop listening to people telling us to fear aging and how we’re basically old and gross after our 30’s, because Gillian Anderson NOW is literally just as hot

[Ms. Andry Noir, PhD @keatingssixth]

I learned today that South Korean women are doing a full blown birth & relationships strike to combat misogyny and other structural issues in their society, enough that it’s actually statistically affecting birth rates and causing the govt to talk about changing policies.

Hmm…

[EnGee @_EnGee]

Dan Ashworth at the San Siro tonight

[Norwich City FC @NorwichCityFC]

𝗔𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀, 𝗶𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗯𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝘃𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗴𝗴𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗼 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲, 𝗯𝘂𝘁 𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗴𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗽𝗼𝘁.

Check in on those around you.

#WorldMentalHealthDay | #YouAreNotAlone | @samaritans

[Keith Downie @SkySports_Keith]

No Botman ❌
No Joelinton ❌
No Willock ❌
No Wilson ❌
No Barnes ❌
No Problem for Eddie Howe 😎

Newcastle’s most complete performance in many a year — with £160m worth of talent out injured.

Mbappe & co leaving Tyneside with their tails between their legs…
#NUFC

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

Two players in this picture scored last night. 🔥

[Newcastle United @NUFC]

⚽️ Longstaff 21'
⚽️ Burn 31'
⚽️ Botman 35'
⚽️ Wilson 56'
⚽️ Gordon 61'
⚽️ Almirón 68'
⚽️ Bruno 73'
⚽️ Isak 87'

EIGHT goals from EIGHT different goalscorers!

An incredible afternoon at Bramall Lane! 🤯

[Keith Downie @SkySports_Keith]

Come to Italy they said… ☔️ 💨 🇮🇹 🤔
Wild conditions here at The San Siro #NUFC

[HLTCO @HLTCO]

This VAR decision in Ligue 1 has been broadcast with total transparency and clarity over the decision making process for those watching.

It’s a real breath of fresh air compared to the radio silence you get in the English game.

[abi balingit 🌸 MAYUMU OUT NOW! 🌸 @theduskykitchen]

now why is the lechon’s badonkadonk BOUNCING

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

Newcastle are set to sign Harvey Barnes on permanent deal from Leicester, here we go! ⚪️⚫️ #NUFC

Deal sealed on £38/39m package and personal terms are also agreed now.

Barnes wants Newcastle and deal will be completed soon.

🇸🇦 Saint-Maximin, now closer to Al Ahli move.

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

The first man not named Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic or Andy Murray to win the #Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles since 2002.

@CarlosAlcaraz 🆕

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Brad Pitt is three years older than Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz combined 🤯

#Wimbledon

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

The new $2.3 billion Sphere in Las Vegas is insane.

• 17,600 seats
• 168,000 speakers
• 1.2 million LED lights

It could do $25M+ in annual advertising revenue alone, and they are already building a second one in London.

Here's the breakdown 👇

James Dolan is mastermind behind this project.

Dolan is the son of cable mogul Charles Dolan ($4.3 billion net worth) and has been in charge of MSG's sports & entertainment properties for 20+ years.

He's underperformed with the Knicks (NBA) and Rangers (NHL), and he is currently facing a lawsuit for using facial recognition technology to kick fans out of arenas that talk s**t about him on social media.

But Dolan is hoping the Sphere can change his reputation.

The idea is simple: With most concerts taking place in sports venues (stadiums, arenas, ballparks, etc.), Dolan wanted to build a venue specifically designed for art and music.

The project broke ground in 2018 and was expected to cost $1.2 billion.

But COVID hit, and costs exploded.

The construction cost was revised four times, and the project ended up costing nearly 2x more ($2.3 billion).

But that might end up being a bargain — because there is NOTHING like the MSG Sphere.

The inside has a 250-foot high screen with 360° views all the way around.

There are 168,000 speakers, promising to deliver the same pristine sound to every seat, whether someone is in the top row or down on the floor.

And the outside of the Sphere has 1.2 million LED lights (the size of hockey pucks) spaced eight inches apart that each contain 48 diodes (aka semiconductors) and can display 256 million different colors.

But the craziest part might be their studio.

MSG opened a 68,000-square-foot studio in Burbank, California.

It has a 28,000-square-foot miniature sphere for testing, and this is where all the in-house creative, production, tech, software, and engineering teams will implement content on the Sphere’s exterior.

The venue can host MMA and boxing matches, and U2 is kicking it off in September with a 25-show residency.

But the Sphere should make millions on advertising too.

MSG has already stuck a deal with the NBA to display Summer League content on its exterior every day during the 11-day competition (that's the video below).

And with buildings like One Times Square in New York City making $25 million in annual advertising revenue, there is no reason why the MSG Sphere can't do something similar.

And it’s not like MSG is going to stop at one building either.

James Dolan and his partners already own a plot of land in the Stratford area of London for their next project.

That’s because they want the Sphere to become a global brand.

And with the company's stock ($SPHR) up more than 25% since the Las Vegas Sphere went live on July 4th, investors also seem excited about the idea.

**This breakdown is an excerpt from my 3x weekly podcast (Top 50 in US Sports). Subscribe below so you don't miss any episodes going forward!**

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[Jogo Bonito @ufcfooty]

Zlatan retired from football a couple of days ago. So here’s a thread.

The game lost an icon… 👇

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A stockbroker named Nicholas Winton saved the lives of 669 Czechoslovakian children, most of them Jewish, by taking them to England. He never told his wife what he had done. He refused to take credit until his wife found a scrapbook of the children that he saved and gave it to the BBC. This is what a real hero looks like.

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Welcome to the era of spatial computing with Apple Vision Pro. You’ve never seen anything like this before!