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☆ Prada dresses Caitlin Clark on WNBA draft night
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-16 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +3 min

And while Caitlin Clark, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer across men’s and women’s basketball, was snapped up as the No. Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesIn previous years, dress codes at the draft had tended to lean toward daytime suiting and dresses, but on Monday night it was clear that the stakes had been raised. Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesRickea Jackson in a playful, high-low pantsuit. Sarah Stier/Getty ImagesPrada’s move to dress Clark is likely a sign of luxury brands’ further expansion into the sport. Designer brands now jump at the chance because they know this will be publicized, styled, and shown to millions.”Ahead of the draft, Clark called her collaboration with Prada “pretty special,” in a red-carpet interview (though, technically, said carpet was orange-colored) with the WNBA.

Persons: Caitlin Clark, Prada, Clark, Sarah Stier, Stanford’s Cameron Brink, Tennessee’s Rickea Jackson, Carolina’s Kamilla Cardoso, LSU’s Angel Reese, Angel Reese, Rickea Jackson, ’, — Clark, Cardoso, Reese, Jazmine Motley, Maddox, DeWanna Bonner, Alyssa Thomas, ”, “ It’s Organizations: CNN, Indiana Fever, Iowa Hawkeyes, Los Angeles Sparks, Brink, Banco, Chicago Sky, NBA, NCAA, WNBA Locations: men’s, LA, Bronx

☆ Caitlin Clark put on 8 pounds of muscle to 'take her game to the next level.' Here's how she did it, according to the trainer who helped her.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-05 | by ( Meredith Cash | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

Advertisement"That hindered me at points last year; people were physical with me," Clark told Haley Jones on the "Sometimes I Hoop" podcast. AdvertisementSummer 2022 "was the first summer where we actually had a full summer of training," Alexander said. Alexander told the New York Times she saw that video and told Clark: "I don't think you were running fast enough." The final piece of the puzzle for Clark or any other player, Alexander said, is their commitment to doing their "best every single day." AP Photo/Michael Conroy"I think that's really showed throughout conference play especially, but obviously earlier in the year too," Clark told Jones.

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☆ ‘Every Politician Has Got to Have Somebody That’s the Hit Man’
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Ian Macdougall | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

As he neared a retention pond, Clark pulled over and stepped out into the warm Florida air. A little before noon, sheriff’s deputies found Clark lying behind the pond, the handgun in the grass between his legs. A few years earlier, he had decided to reconnect with Larry Householder, the powerful speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives. Clark and Householder first met in the late 1990s, a couple of years after Householder joined the Ohio House. Householder was a self-styled outsider, none too fond of the Ohio Republican Party’s Reaganite establishment, which was, in turn, none too fond of him.

Persons: Clark, “ DeWine, ”, ” Clark, Larry, Ohio Republican Party’s, Bob, Betty Buckeye Organizations: Statehouse, Ohio, Ohio House, Ohio Republican, Republicans, Republican Locations: Florida, Gulf, Columbus, Perry County, Appalachia

☆ Some Flexport insiders say layoffs and an influx of former Amazon leaders are wrecking morale. Others say the change is needed.
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-03 | by ( Emma Cosgrove | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

And like every other logistics company, it just saw the biggest boom in freight volume in a century, followed by a steep drop. They like to speak louder than the other people in the room," said one laid-off employee who described Flexport feedback pre-Clark as conversational. The company needs to adapt," another laid-off employee said, adding that the introduction of precise metrics for measuring success was needed. I can say generally, the company's shift to profitability came at the cost of employee satisfaction, but I think that's pretty typical," said another laid-off employee. "Now it seems like it's about how much money Flexport can make," said one laid-off employee.

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