Candace Parker is months removed from a masterful 15th WNBA season. She made her seventh All-Star appearance, was named to the All-WNBA First Team and helped lead the Chicago Sky to the league’s second-best record en route to a five-game, semifinals loss against the Connecticut Sun. Many considered her to also author an All-Defensive Team-caliber campaign.
Parker is a free agent, but should she elect to return for a 16th season, she will certainly have suitors, given how her last year went. Speaking with The Athletic’s Richard Deitsch on the Sports Media Podcast, Parker said the current plan is to play another season. However, she noted it’s far too earlier in the offseason to make any definitive claims.
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“Right now, yeah, I’m game. Let’s see if my body, you know, is this way in January and February. But I plan to, you know, I plan to play, I plan to come back,” Parker said. “But at the same time last year, it was the reverse. I couldn’t imagine lacing up shoes. I couldn’t imagine going through game 27 on the schedule. And then, a flip switched in February and I was ready to go. So, you know, I like to take the offseason to take my time. But, you know, right now, I don’t know if I’ve dribbled my last ball.”
Parker averaged 13.2 points, 8.6 rebounds, 4.5 assists, one steal and one block per game in 2022.
Christina Applegate was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame recently in her first public appearance since announcing her multiple sclerosis diagnosis. While the “Married… With Children” alum cracked jokes, she also shined a spotlight on the importance of showing up for friends.
Applegate uses a cane to help her walk, but there was one unmistakable person standing behind her, quite literally holding her up at times—Katey Sagal. If you were a teen in the ’90s you’ll remember that Sagal played Peg Bundy, the mother of Applegate’s Kelly Bundy in “Married… With Children.”
The speech was touching on its own and watching Sagal protectively stand and wait while her TV daughter-turned-friend spoke cranked up the emotional factor. Applegate’s support team didn’t stop there. Her TV brother David Faustino was in attendance as well as her two co-stars from “Dead to Me” as the star choked up, explaining what they meant to her.
Friendship is something that can easily be taken for granted and it doesn’t always survive the tough moments of life. But it seems as if Applegate has found a group of friends that prove how important it is to build the family you want by taking inventory of the friends that show up. Applegate fought back tears when she said, “I don’t have friends, I have family. These people take care of me. They take care of me every day of my life and without them, I don’t know what I would do.”
If you’ve ever needed a reminder on how important building your community is, watch Applegate’s speech. The people that show up for the hard stuff are the ones you want to surround yourself with when celebrating the better times. Check out her speech below.
It’s possible you know Kahleah Copper best for a photo of her that circulated widely in the 2021 WNBA playoffs. Yes, the one where she’s bending down over Sophie Cunningham on the floor, Copper’s face inches from Cunningham’s and a coy, almost calm smile playing on Copper’s face after a three second tangle for the ball that was anything but.
The Sky would go on to win the WNBA championship and Copper went on to be named Finals MVP. It was just her second season as a starter, and she rode the momentum to Spain in her offseason to be named an MVP of the Spanish League, EuroLeague, and make All-EuroLeague First Team.
What you should know Copper for, however, are her incremental improvements season over season, like finishing this past year with career-high points. Or for the way she can dash down the floor, making eagle-eye reads at either end, and control her body midair to make impossibly contorted floaters look graceful or impossibly deep shots like she’s zoomed in on the basket.
At the end of this past season, Copper entered into a partnership with Gatorade. To kick it off, returned to her hometown of Philadelphia to give 400 pieces of new equipment to kids in the community with the Fuel Tomorrow Initiative. Copper took a few minutes out of her appearance to chat with Dime about her progress, Candace Parker getting on her case, her stint as an assistant coach at Purdue Northwest, and why giving back to the community that shaped her is important.
Something I don’t think people fully grasp when we talk about athletes staying ready is what actually goes into that. You came off the bench for a few seasons before you were consistently starting and then you went on to have your championship season. How were you keeping yourself ready physically and also mentally? What were you focusing on day to day?
Personally, I just take pride in getting better every single year. There’s plenty of things that I know I can grow at in my game. I’m working out every day, but most importantly, I’m getting stronger. That’s what’s going to be a big thing for me this offseason. You know, before this season, nobody really knows but I don’t lift. I don’t lift weights cause I don’t like it, but I’m getting a little older these days. I’ve had many conversations with my teammate Candace Parker — I make fun of her for being old, but she makes fun of me because she says I’m not strong.
So I think this offseason, a big thing for me is about getting stronger. Right now I’m lifting, I’m taking care of my body, and working on different, small parts of my game. But most importantly was being healthy coming from the World Cup and getting stronger.
Do you like that feeling of putting in rep after rep? I know with some athletes it can feel kind of monotonous. But do you like seeing the change at the other end of it?
Yeah, I think I’ll never get bored. Looking at my career, seeing myself continuously get better but also looking and like, “Damn, I’m just scratching the surface.” You know, there’s so many things that I really want to tap into as far as my game. I think the sky is really the limit. Like, it’s super cliche, but really, that’s what I believe.
Something you’ve said you want to focus on is making an All-Defensive team by building on your ability to be an impactful two-way player. Do you set goals for yourself, season to season like that?
Yeah, I think it’s important to set goals. It gives you something to look forward to and it keeps you motivated.
Between seasons in 2020 and your Championship season in 2021, you were an assistant coach at Purdue Northwest — how did that opportunity come about?
So [head coach] Courtney Locke went to Rutgers University, and I think that sisterhood there is very strong. I was home during the offseason, and we’re friends on social media, and she saw that I was home — it was really random — she’s like, “Hey, what do you think about coming to coach with me?” And I’m like, you’re joking, right? She’s like, “I’m serious!” COVID was still around and really bad in Europe, so I decided not to play overseas and was like, this can’t hurt, right? And it was right outside of Chicago, so I was like I’ll do it. That was a really good experience, it definitely showed me a lot. I think it helped on my side of being a better leader, a better communicator, and I was seeing things differently.
Is that a place you could see yourself going back to down the road, into a coaching role?
Yeah, I definitely have to give a major shoutout to the young women that I coached, because they were like sponges. They just wanted to learn, they wanted to get better. They made it so easy for me. And I appreciated that because they listened. For me to be able to really teach, and then for me to see the growth in them, their progress, it’s like okay, I’m doing this thing right. That was special for me. I could definitely see it for me. I’ve had so many great assistant coaches in my life so I know how important those relationships are. That was a special time, and it led me into a great season.
You’ve talked before about [Rutgers] coach C. Vivian Stringer being a reason why you could see yourself going to the WNBA. What did she instil in you to make you feel that would be possible?
I think coach Stringer was the ultimate leader. She poured into me not only as a basketball player, but a young woman, she humbled me from day one, which was very important. She just loved on me, and that was what I needed. I needed that leadership, I needed that love, and I needed that tough love. And not only was she teaching me the game of basketball, she was teaching me how to come up in this world as a young woman and how to be successful.
What does it mean to you to now be instilling that same sense of belief in girls and young women, whether they’re fans or they’re the women you’ve coached, who’ve watched you make jump after jump in your career thus far?
That part of it is so inspiring. They have moments and they have times where they just feel they aren’t good enough, and for them to see my career, it’s like wow, anything is possible. For them to see that, it’s not super cliche — you work hard, you get the results. And for them to be able to really see me, and ask questions, and for me to tell them there’s no cheating the game. You put in the work, you get the results. For them to be able to witness it first hand — because I was doing player development at Purdue Northwest — I was also developing myself. So for them to see me work out with them, and then to see the results, it was like okay, I need to work out [laughs]. This is what I need to do, there’s no getting around it, that’s just the blueprint to it.
On that note, you’re partnering with Gatorade and are in your hometown of Philly to launch that partnership. Could you tell me a bit about the Fuel Tomorrow Initiative?
Gatorade
The Fuel Tomorrow Initiative, along with Good Sport, was special because we were donating 400 pieces of new equipment. That was important because we’re creating opportunities and just being able for them to have the things that they need. When I was growing up, I didn’t have all the new equipment, I was working with the things that I had in order to be successful. I think sports has the power to change lives — this is working to create more opportunities and equality and belonging in sports.
Why is it important, and what does it feel like to be back there and be able to give back to your community like this?
It’s special for me because Philly has really shaped who I am. It’s made me the player and the person and the competitor that I am. For me to come back where I’m from and to see little girls that look like me, for them to see that I’ve accomplished so many things that they’re automatically inspired, and they know that it’s something that is possible.
Candace Parker has previously been a part of this same initiative. Growing up, you’ve said she was one of your favourite players, now she’s your teammate, but now you also share your contributions to this program. What’s that like?
It’s special. Like you said, I grew up watching Candace, watching her play, and seeing her be successful. But for me to become her teammate and be able to learn her off the court, and see how important giving back and creating these opportunities are also important to her, so we share some of the same values and views. For us to both have this partnership with Gatorade, and for them to really pour into us and see our vision and want to support our vision, and the things we’re passionate about, it’s very important. We appreciate and love that.
Candace Cameron Bure has been pretty open about her conservative views over the years (she was on The View after all), but after Hallmark started producing movies with gay couples, it was the final straw for her! And now she is openly opposing same-sex couples, which is not panning out well.
Earlier this week, the Fuller House star very confidently stated that her new network will be keeping “traditional marriage at the core” and likely have no gay characters. “My heart wants to tell stories that have more meaning and purpose and depth behind them,” the Christmas Movie Queen told The Wall Street Journal. “I knew that the people behind Great American Family were Christians that love the Lord and wanted to promote faith programming and good family entertainment.” Unsurprisingly, people were not happy about that.
Hilarie Burton called Bure a “bigot,” while Jojo Siwa took to Instagram to rant about Bure. This is months after the mini “feud” the two had over a TikTok trend when Siwa called Bure “the rudest celebrity she had ever met.” Maybe she wasn’t too far off after all?
That’s when Jodie Sweetin, Bure’s former co-star and someone who knows a lot about good family entertainment, commented in support of Siwa. “You know I love you,” the comment said, paired with a heart, which seemed to indicate that Sweetin was not on board with Bure’s controversial comments.
Bure has not responded to the backlash, though her daughter Natasha defended her mom on Instagram. DJ Tanner would have never done this….she knows that the best families are non-traditional and feature a cool uncle who throws rock shows in the living room!
Paramore fans might have noticed a change on the band’s self-titled album art on streaming platforms, as the swap is clear and significant. The band removed their ex-bassist, who was present in the original photo for 2013’s Paramore, out of the updated art completely.
The original art featured lead singer Hayley Williams, guitarist Taylor York, and then-bassist Jeremy Davis posing together. Now, the photo is simply of Williams alone — and she is wearing a jacket that reads, “Grow up.” So, some shade might be being thrown in Davis’ direction…
Making matters worse, Davis (who left for the third and so-far-final time in 2015) eventually sued the rest of Paramore. He claimed he hadn’t been fairly compensated for his contributions to the band. However, by 2017, the lawsuit was settled in court.
Now, the trio consists of Williams, York, and returning drummer Zac Farro. Paramore’s new album, This Is Why, drops early next year under this same lineup. The band has played a handful of shows in New York and Los Angeles as they gear up for two major tours next year: both to support their new record and as an opening act for various Taylor Swift tour dates.
Continue scrolling for some additional reactions to Paramore’s album art swap.
@paramore’s self-titled album art work has been changed on spotify.
been wondering for a while now.. why paramore didnt just do this (cropped jeremy from the picture lol) if they wanted jeremy away from this 2013 album cover pic.twitter.com/vWgBXBgmbq
Meghan McCain has never been shy about her disdain for Donald Trump, even during the times when she held her nose and defended his administration against their shared enemy: The Democrats. But when it came time for Trump to announce his 2024 presidential run on Tuesday night, McCain did not hold back. After watching the party suffer a humiliating defeat in the midterm elections, McCain is joining the growing number of Republicans who would like to see Trump go away now, please.
The former The View co-host started in on her target before he even took the podium. She posted a GIF of Jack Nicholson drinking in response to the campaign’s official FEC filing, which made it clear that Trump was actually going to run.
Once the announcement began, McCain mocked the event with a notably Trumpian insult. “LOW ENERGY” she tweeted in all-caps before asking, “Why is this so boring…?” McCain then likened the speech to a scene from Napoleon Dynamite. “The whole vibe is giving Uncle Rico talking to Napoleon about what a great football player he used to be in high school.”
Not content with dragging Trump on Twitter, McCain devoted her latest Daily Mail column to letting the former president know he’s going to have to do “a hell of a lot better than this” if he wants to compete against candidates like Ron DeSantis:
This was no repeat of the ‘Golden Escalator’ moment from the 2016 campaign, when he descended into the lobby of Trump Tower and proceeded to shock the nation with his first announcement of a White House bid.
Frankly, it was low energy. Trump was not bombastic, enthusiastic or compelling. The speech was flat, and it lacked purpose.
“He didn’t offer any new vision for the country,” McCain wrote before placing the lack of a red wave at Trump’s feet. “In fact, he just repeated the GOP talking points that led to one of the most disappointing midterm election results in modern political history.”
Tokischa is experimenting with Mexican corrido music for the first time. The rising Dominican star released her music video yesterday (November 15) for “Kilos De Amor” featuring Mexican singer Natanael Cano.
Tokischa is known for helping globalize Dominican dembow music. Rosalía enlisted Tokischa for “La Combi Versace” on her Motomami album. Madonna later tapped into Tokischa’s dembow sound for a remix of “Hung Up” titled “Hung Up On Tokischa.” Her latest single marks a sonic departure from the dembow genre.
For “Kilos De Amor,” Tokischa teamed up with Cano, who is known for leading the corridos tumbados movement in regional Mexican music. Cano’s sound blends the traditional Mexican corrido with a trap music flow. On the fiery corrido track, Tokischa and Cano trade verses about dealing out their love like it’s some kind of drug. Tokischa digs deep to deliver a punk rock-like performance. Though it was an unlikely pairing, Cano complements her well with his Mexican swagger.
“This song I feel is so different and so special to me,” Tokischa told Uproxx. “The way that I wrote this song is so different, and I feel very proud of the lyrics. It’s one of my favorites. [It’s] probably in my top three of my songs.”
The “Kilos De Amor” video that was directed by Raymi Paulus was shot in Mexico City. Tokischa and Cano pay homage to Frida Kahlo, her husband Diego Rivera, and Mexican culture with the video’s creative styling.
Early on the video, Soccer Mommy, whose real name is Sophie Allison, hops into her pick-up truck, which is bedecked with stickers reading “A woman and her truck, it’s a beautiful thing,” “Goddess on the loose,” and a Buffy The Vampire Slayer sticker. She drives through the country, rides through the woods on a horse, and practices some solo live-action role-play.
On the song itself, Allison details the mixed emotions that come with getting older.
“I got a truck out in the drive / And it made me a hundred thousand miles / And it still runs good, yeah, she gets the job done / Drinkin’ regular from the gasoline pump / And I got a heart that beats too fast / And I shake in my hands and a pain in my back,” she sings on the song’s opening verse.
“‘Feel It All The Time’ is a song that felt really easy and honest for me as soon as I wrote it,” said Allison in a statement. “It uses this idea of an old truck to kind of compare this feeling of aging too fast. There are also these glimpses of light and freedom, from something as simple as the wind in your hair, that can make you feel alive.”
Check out the video for “Feel It All The Time” above.
21 Savage has been on a press campaign to promote his and Drake’s new album Her Loss for the past couple of weeks. The tour appears to be doing double duty as a shade campaign, though, as he’s found ways to annoy both fans of hip-hop greats like Nas and his own contemporaries, such as fellow XXL Freshman Kodak Black. After saying Nas “isn’t relevant” and that he’d “smoke” Kodak in a Verzuz hits battle, fans of both protested loudly on Twitter, prompting him to wonder, “Where all y’all fans be at when these n****s drop albums?” Savage, indeed.
Where all y’all fans be at when these niggas drop albums
While Nas has yet to respond, instead focusing on encouraging his successors not to fight over being the best, Kodak had time this week, posting a response on Instagram. “Homie, that ain’t gangsta,” he wrote. “You n****s know what I done been thru in this shit! Anddd you n****s had a whole consistent run with no hiccups fr and yall 30 years old plusss! Im a yung n**** doing this shit since I came in the game I was in and out of jail! And yall still aint really doing nun to where I gotta catch up. I’m doing pretty damn good for myself still like I ain’t never been nowhere! Imagined if I didn’t though. But let’s see how this sh*t go now that I been home and I’m consistent wit this sh*t.”
Plus, it’s not like 21 has had the smoothest ride either. For the past few years, he’s lived under threat of deportation over an expired visa, curtailing his own ability to travel for work and losing a significant amount of tour time to his own lengthy detention in ICE custody. For what it’s worth, though, his last solo album, I Am > I Was debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 131,000 equivalent units, winning a Grammy Award for the hit single “A Lot,” so from a pure mass appeal standpoint, it’s easy to see why he feels the way he does.
For most people, friendships change when they reach their 30s and 40s. The carefree days of youth give way to new responsibilities such as marriage, family and career. Unfortunately, that pushes a lot of important relationships to the sidelines.
A 2012 analysis published in Psychological Bulletin found that friendship groups tend to expand until the age of 25 and then begin to contract rapidly.
Our relationships change as we get older, but that doesn’t mean they’re not important. According to Psychology Today, having meaningful social relationships is one of the biggest predictors of longevity.
Amy Weatherly, 39, a parenting blogger and author of “I’ll Be There (And Let’s Make Friendship Bracelets)” wrote a poignant Facebook post about how friendship changes in people’s 30s and 40s and it resonated with a lot of people. It makes the point that although relationships may begin to look different and happen in new places as we get older, they are still just as valuable.
“Friendship looks a little different in your 30’s & 40s than it used to,” Weatherly writes. “Now it looks like hanging out together on the bleachers at baseball games. … Now it looks like ‘I’ll come, but only if I can wear stretchy pants.’
“Whatever you have to do, however you have to do it — make time for your friendships,” Weatherly concludes the post. “Make time for the people who feel at home, because they matter and don’t come around very often. We need them just as much now as we did back then.”
Friendship looks a little different in your 30’s & 40s than it used to.
— Now it looks like hanging out together on the bleachers at baseball games.
— Now it looks like “What kind of concealer have you been using? I need a good one.”
— Now it looks like a quick hug in the parking lot at school pickup time.
— Now it looks like “Hey, how was your mom’s surgery? I’ve been praying for you.”
— Now it looks like group texts that make you laugh out loud.
— Now it looks like “Ok, I’m coming, but I’m so tired I may fall asleep right in this glass of wine.”
— Now it looks like half-conversations at birthday parties that keep getting interrupted by screaming kiddos.
— Now it looks like “Was that really 5 years ago? Seems like yesterday.”
— Now it looks like hiding in your closet for a 3 minute conversation on the phone.
— Now it looks like “Hey, why don’t y’all grab lunch and come hang out while the baby naps?”
— Now it looks like quick little chats in the aisles at Target.
— Now it looks like “Girl, I know. I’ve been there too, and it is so hard. I’m here for you.”
— Now it looks like showing up in your rattiest sweatpants and not even flinching because you know they won’t judge you.
— Now it looks like Marco Polo messages and Snapchat pictures and tagging each other in memes on Facebook.
— Now it looks like “I dropped off a cup of coffee and a box of cookies on your front porch.”
— Now it looks like “I’ll come, but only if I can wear stretchy pants.”
— I’m coming over for coffee tomorrow and I’ll have a box of donuts. I really wanna see you. Does that work? I can even help you do laundry.
— Now it looks like “I’m not free until 2026.”
— Now it looks like “I miss you” and meaning it with your whole heart.
Whatever you have to do, however you have to do it — make time for your friendships. Make time for the people who feel like home, because they matter and they don’t come around very often. We need them just as much now as we did back then.’
Love, Amy
“It was honestly just a quick list of things that I put together, probably while I was sitting at one of my son’s baseball games, realizing how much I enjoyed that time,” Weatherly told Good Morning America. “Because yes, I love watching my son play baseball. But that is the only time that I had to connect with other women my age.”
What’s moving about the post is how even though the circumstances surrounding friendships may change, it doesn’t mean they should be seen as less valuable. In some ways, we begin to value time together more as we get older because it’s harder to get together. When free time is at a premium, who we choose to spend it with matters even more.
A lot of people tagged their besties in the post and used it as an excuse to make plans together or remind them of how much they are loved. “Let’s put something on the calendar,” Kelli wrote to Michelle.
“Angelica, bring me some donuts and coffee and do my laundry,” Stephanie wrote.
In the end, it’s worthwhile putting in the time to cultivate these friendships as we get older so they don’t fall by the wayside.
“I just want people to know you do have to be really intentional because that time is not going to fall into your lap,” Weatherly said. “I think people, with friendship, it’s like they want the tree but they don’t want to actually plant the seed and that’s not how it works.”
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