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LEXINGTON, Ky. – A total of 124 University of Kentucky student-athletes were named to the 2026 Southeastern Conference Spring Academic Honor Roll as announced by SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey on Tuesday. The 2026 SEC Spring Academic Honor Roll includes the sports of baseball, men’s golf, women’s golf, softball, STUNT, men’s tennis, women’s tennis, men’s track and field and women’s track and field. All numbers are based on academic grade point averages from the 2025 Summer, 2025 Fall and 2026 Spring terms. Stunt led the way with 47 selections this spring, followed by 20 for women’s track and field and 16 for baseball. Among other criteria, a student-athlete must maintain a grade point average of 3.00 or above during the academic year to receive honor roll status. Earlier this year, University of Kentucky Athletics announced that the department had surpassed its goal of a 3.0 cumulative grade-point average for the 28th consecutive semester.  All 23 varsity programs achieved a 3.0 team GPA or higher in the spring. UK Athletics supports the academic success of its student-athletes through CATS – the first academic center of its kind dedicated solely to serving student-athletes. CATS is an important component of UK’s Student-Athlete Experience division

The Milan-based acquirer behind AOL, Evernote, Vimeo, and WeTransfer is set to debut on the Nasdaq under ticker BSP after pricing its IPO above its marketed $26 to $28 range, targeting a valuation of roughly $19 billion. The numbers Bending Spoons brought to Wall Street are not easy to dismiss. Revenue hit $1.31 billion in 2025, up 95% year over year. Q1 2026 came in at $601 million, more than double the $259 million it posted in the same quarter a year earlier. The company swung from a $112 million net loss to $27.5 million in net profit in a single year. Revenue per full-time employee more than doubled to $2.6 million. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Allen and Company are running the books. Demand for shares came in at multiples of the offer, and the company priced above range. If you're looking for a deal that Wall Street is clearly excited about, this is it. But the question worth asking before the opening bell Wednesday is whether any of this is actually new, or whether Bending Spoons has built a genuinely defensible business model, or is simply the best-run version of a very old trade. CEO Luca Ferrari calls the

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TENBY AFC has been granted £2,500 for clubhouse renovations. The decision was made at the Tenby Town Council full council meeting on June 9. The mayor, Councillor Dai Morgan, visited the site and noted that the clubhouse had changed little since his youth. Tenby AFC's application said the funds will assist with the refurbishment and renovation of the outdated clubhouse. The full cost of the project is estimated to be £20,000. Tenby AFC has around 365 players across its teams and is run by volunteers. It also plays a vital part of the community, with the clubhouse on the Clicketts also playing host to many different sports, The council noted the club had gone from strength to strength, and that it would be a positive to commit funds to sporting and youth organisations that do so much for youngsters of the town. Councillor Tom Sloan proposed the grant, which was unanimously agreed upon. The council resolved that the £2,500 be granted to Tenby AFC.  » Read More

Get Ready For Target’s Grand Opening In BrookingsGet Ready For Target’s Grand Opening In Brookings Shabaz Usmani/UnsplashSouth Dakota's fourth-largest city is about to welcome the state's sixth Target location. July 26th, the Minneapolis-based chain is debuting its Brookings store as part of an 11-store opening wave across the country. The 127,000-square-foot facility will be part of the Brookings Marketplace shopping center on Lefevre Drive, north of 6th Street (Highway 14) and directly east of the Interstate 29 interchange. READ MORE: Missing Nebraska Wedding Ring Ends Up in Sioux Falls .Plans for the new store were first announced in December 2024, with groundbreaking in May 2025. Target currently has five stores in South Dakota with two locations in Sioux Falls and single stores in Aberdeen, Rapid City, and Watertown. Ten other new Target stores will open across America in July in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, South Carolina, Texas and Utah, bringing the total number of stores nationwide around 2,000.  » Read More

YouTube is by far the dominant digital streaming player in Japan, new research shows. Behavioral data from AMDP Analytics shows that the Google video platform commands more than 65% of Japan’s video-on-demand hours, with news and baseball leading the way genre-wise. AMPD‘s YouTube dashboard intelligence tool shows Japanese audiences watched 2.8 billion hours of content on YouTube in May, which is 38.5 hours per viewer. “Japan’s YouTube viewing looks far more like television than people assume — long-form content dominates, audiences are spread across every age group, and engagement peaks at nine in the evening. YouTube isn’t competing at the edges of the screen economy in Japan; it’s operating at its centre,” said Sam Yousif, Managing Director of AMPD Analytics. In terms of viewing trends, ANNnewsCH, TBS News Dig and 日テレNEWS networks led the way, ahead of entertainment brand Oricon. In sports, three channels – PacificLeagueTV (Pacific League baseball), Pivot and SPOTVNOW – lead the way in both free and paid-for streaming, with DAZN Japan and horse racing channel JRA also strong in the free space. Watch on Deadline On the entertainment front, Oricon and Netflix Japan sit alongside indie creators such as ほんの1分 and MrFuji from Japan. Around 70%

YouTube accounted for more than 65% of all digital video-on-demand hours watched in Japan in May, reaching 72 million viewers who collectively logged 2.8 billion hours on the platform, according to new behavioral data from ampd Analytics. The figures come from the ampd YouTube dashboard, a streaming-intelligence tool launched by ampd Analytics, a Media Partners Asia company. Japanese viewers averaged 38.5 hours apiece on the platform during the month. “Japan’s YouTube viewing looks far more like television than people assume – long-form content dominates, audiences are spread across every age group, and engagement peaks at nine in the evening. YouTube isn’t competing at the edges of the screen economy in Japan; it’s operating at its centre,” said Sam Yousif, managing director of ampd Analytics. Popular on Variety The data points to a mainstream, nationwide audience rather than a youth-skewed one. YouTube’s reach splits almost evenly by gender, with 36.1 million male viewers and 35.5 million female viewers, and spans every age bracket, from 18 million viewers aged 10-29 to 13 million aged 60 and over. Viewing skews toward the Kanto region, which accounts for 32 million viewers, and toward middle-income households, with the four-to-eight million yen income bands forming the

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A Kenosha woman says she was the victim of a theft after a Facebook Marketplace deal went wrong when potential buyers took a $23,500 Polaris Slingshot for a test drive and never returned. KENOSHA, WI — A Kenosha woman says she was the victim of a theft after a Facebook Marketplace deal went wrong when potential buyers took a $23,500 Polaris Slingshot for a test drive and never returned. Dave and Susan Pierson were trying to sell a 2021 three-wheeled slingshot when the incident occurred Sunday night. Susan Pierson had been selling on Facebook Marketplace for years. When her brother, Dave, wanted to sell his slingshot, she wanted to help. She met with the buyers Sunday night. They are pictured in video from the scene, but their faces have been blurred as they have not yet been charged with a crime. Watch: Kenosha woman warns caution after she was the victim of a Facebook Marketplace theft Kenosha woman warns caution after she was the victim of a Facebook Marketplace theft The buyers asked to test drive the vehicle,  » Read More

A Round Lake Park man who has been a registered sex offender for several years pleaded guilty Monday in McHenry County in a new case with a new victim involving a similar offense to the one that previously landed him on the registry. Anthony D. Morales, who turns 32 Tuesday, pleaded guilty to aggravated criminal sexual abuse of a child younger than 17 years, a Class 2 felony, according to court records and a news release from the McHenry County State’s Attorney’s office. Judge Tiffany Davis sentenced Morales to 10 years in prison, court records show. His prison time will be followed by four years of mandatory supervised release. He must follow conditions of the sex offender registration act for the rest of his life. Following his arrest last year in the McHenry County case, prosecutors said he had committed “the exact same crime” to which he’d pleaded guilty in Lake County and which landed him on the sex offender registry. He was still serving probation on the Lake County conviction when he was charged in the McHenry County case, records show. That offense occurred in Vernon Hills and involved a 15-year-old child, according to courtroom testimony. In the McHenry