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Bradley Beal and Jayson Tatum are fierce rivals on the court, as their squads have vied for Eastern Conference supremacy over the last five years. Off the court, though, the two share a bond that has lasted since childhood, through adolescence, and finally to their stardom in the NBA.

Beal is four years older than his Celtics’ rival, but the pair grew up together in St. Louis. Tatum attended the same middle and high school as Beal, Chaminade College Prep, just a few years behind. 

“Brad’s mom was my mom’s volleyball coach in high school, and we grew up in the same neighborhood,” Tatum said on a recent episode of the Draymond Green Show. “I went to Chaminade in middle school and my first year was his last year, so when I was in seventh grade, Brad was in twelfth grade. That was really the stamp. I had a perfect role model, a perfect visualization every day, of where I wanted to go, what I wanted to be—and he was living proof.”

Beal and Tatum both earned Gatorade National Player of the Year awards during their high school days. Beal went on to spend one year as a star at the University of Florida before the Wizards drafted him third overall in 2012. Tatum went one-and-done at Duke, before getting drafted third overall by Boston in 2017. Their roads to the NBA are near perfect parallels. 

“Brad is the big brother that I didn’t have. I remember, it was either my freshman or sophomore year [of high school], like one of my spring breaks,” Tatum said. “Brad just texted me, he was like, ‘Yo, ask your mom, can you come up here and just chill with me and come to a couple games?’ I’m like, alright bet, I’m out. I went up to D.C., I spent like a week with him, him and his brothers, went to a couple games.”

Beal continued to take Tatum under his wing throughout the latter’s final years at Chaminade, his lone year at Duke, and even through the development of his pro basketball career. Now, Beal is the bonafide star of the Wizards and Tatum has turned into an MVP candidate as the two-way star of the Celtics. They have six All-Star appearances between them.

“He always was telling me that he wanted to do for me what nobody did for him. From that point on, I’ve always had nothing but love and the most respect because he didn’t have to do that,” Tatums said. “From day one, he always told me he wanted me to be better than him…I wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Brad.”

Not everything revolved around basketball during their upbringing. Even future NBA stars, just like the rest of us, wanted to have fun during their teen years. Tatum even regaled Green with the story of how his mother reprimanded Beal for taking her son out for a night on the town.

“Brad was the first person to take me to the club when I was like 16. He took me to the club a couple times, my mama found out, she cussed him out, but it was all love after that,” Tatum said. “That’s the kind of relationship we had. My mom cussed Brad out in front of my house one day, like, ‘You got my son at the club, he’s still got stuff to lose,’ blah, blah, blah. It was just the principle. She wasn’t really mad, but she couldn’t act like she was cool with it. But yeah, Brad was the first person to take me to the club. We did it all.”

Now, many years later, Beal and Tatum are fully entrenched as prominent figures in American basketball. Their two clubs, Washington and Boston, face off on a Sunday matinee this weekend. Though Beal won’t play due to his wrist injury, a warm reunion between the two has been commonplace for Wizards-Celtics matchups.

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Love Looks Like This: I Fell for a Rider in My Peloton Class - Brides

Brides is committed to guiding ALL couples through not only their wedding planning journey, but through relationship milestones and ups and downs. Every love story is beautiful, has its own distinct history, and its own trials—there's no relationship that looks the same. To celebrate that uniqueness, we're asking couples to open up about their love story, for our latest column, "Love Looks Like This." Below, Peloton senior instructor Christine D’Ercole tells her love story.

From my lens, love looks like this—utterly unexpected. The strangest thing about falling in love with Brian was the fact that he is not female. For over 10 years, I thought I had figured “it” out. “It,” meaning who I was. And who I was, was gay.

Our friendship started with a (coveted, but random) shoutout in a Peloton cycling class. As an instructor, we scan the leaderboard to congratulate riders on milestone rides and interesting usernames. “Hi #BreatheNitrox! What’s Nitrox? Are you a dentist?” 

#BreatheNitrox was a home rider in San Francisco who just liked taking Live classes. My timeslot fit his schedule. He wasn’t even a fan. I didn’t play metal and at first, he thought I was too introspective.

He did, however, care enough to send me a Facebook message explaining his username. Nitrous Oxide is what dentists use. He was, in fact, not a dentist. He was a scuba diver and Nitrox is a gas mix that allows him to stay underwater longer so he can photograph sea slugs, manta rays, and octopi.

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I shared that scuba diving was on my bucket list. I am obsessed with octopi. With their eight thinking arms, they can see, sense, and solve from multiple perspectives. I imagine how we all might all live more mindfully if we considered things from eight different perspectives. He could talk about sea creatures all day long. He shared that he hadn’t biked outside in 17 years and was looking to start again and asked if I could offer any direction on shopping for a bike. I could talk about bikes all day.

The conversation began with good food, luxury kitchen fantasies, big red wines, fancy cameras, rules of thirds, and having “an eye.” He got a bike. I learned to dive. And, we talked all the time. We were driven to conversation. I found myself finding things to talk about just to keep talking. And so, we dove pretty deep. Gradually, it became clear that he was going to be a forever friend.

I remember on a couple occasions—randomly on the subway, driving to a bike race, making a playlist—feeling this sort of swell in my heart and hearing these words in my head: I REALLY like this guy. What an amazing friendship we have. I just love him (in that chummy, buddy, comrade sort of way).

Until one day, “I just love him” rang in my head a little louder. A lot louder. The volume of my heart couldn’t be turned down. All I could do was accept and surrender. I had fallen in love. More words kept playing over and over in my head with increasing volume and I listened. “I am going to marry him.” It never occurred to me to need to make sense of it. It just was. I told my friend Rachel. She snarfed her Cabernet right out of her nose. Blotting up the wine, laughing, she said, “Okay, but you’re gay. And, he’s a man.” “This is true. But I think it’s gonna work out,” I replied. 

I have a tattoo on my arm, “To thine own self be true.” The whole quote is: “This above all, to thine own self be true, and it shall follow as the night the day that thou canst then be untrue to any.” While it may take a moment to realize one’s truth, no matter what it is, it is always the way. When I realized my truth it was the clearest moment of my life. 

I had no fear or anxiety over saying it out loud, and I had no concern over how he might respond. I was compelled to let him know that he had permanent residence in my heart—whatever that ended up looking like. However he furnished that space was fine with me. 

I also did not then think to myself or feel compelled to proclaim to the world that I was now “straight.” I fell in love with this person. Period. Some of my friends joked, “You switched teams,” or “Oh no, we lost one!” or “Folks don’t go back INTO the closet.” None of this was funny to me. 

Others asked me to declare my position on the spectrum of queerness. Are you a lesbian in love with a man? Are you queer? Bi? Pan-sexual? Fluid? Ally? I thought, for all the boxes the community at large has fought to not be put in, why then recreate new boxes, and then scrutinize whether or not someone was enough of something to belong in a particular box? Why are there any boxes or closets at all? If I had a closet and was in it at some point, then my closet was made of glass and had a revolving door.

So, I don’t wave a flag around and I don’t need to declare to the world which box I’m in. I love Brian. And that love is so big and healthy it cannot be contained in a box.

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Back to the moment…We’d been chatting about food—demi-glace and reduction sauces—when I said, “We need to talk.” He took a large sip (gulp) of wine and excused himself to the bathroom saying, “Okay. Gimme a sec.” When he returned I looked him in the eye. “I am in love with you,” I said. He lit up. “That was not at all what I was expecting to follow the dreaded ‘We need to talk.’ I have been, for some time, preparing for the other conversation. The one where you say, ‘Listen, you need to calm down and pull back. Nothing is ever going to happen here. Remember, I’m gay.’ In fact, I have been telling myself, ‘It is so hard to make good friends in your forties, so don’t screw this up with delusional aspirations.’ I have been rehearsing my response in case this came up, to say ‘I honor your boundary. I deeply value our friendship. I will do whatever is needed to preserve this. Because I, too, am in love with you.”

So it began. Like the octopus, I came to see love from another perspective: unexpected. By embracing the unexpected with curiosity instead of judgment, we open ourselves up to fantastic possibilities. We have since breathed Nitrox under the sea to see those incredible eight-legged creatures. And, we cycled all the way to the tops of mountains like Haleakalā. The view from up there is profound. It’s not the vista that is so moving, but the new view of ourselves having done something so challenging. We climb mountains together. So many relationships ARE a mountain. This one is the vehicle that will get us up any mountain we encounter.

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As Covid restrictions eased, rebounds in the leisure and hospitality and business sectors helped to drive a strong March jobs report.

The U.S. economy added more than 400,000 jobs in the final month of the first quarter, the Labor Department said Friday.

Leisure and hospitality, which includes hotels, restaurants and amusement parks, added a net 112,000 jobs in the third month of 2022. Within the industry, restaurants and bars added 61,000 jobs, hotels and other lodging businesses tacked on 25,000 and amusement, gambling and other recreation climbed 16,400.

The industry, one of the hardest-hit during the worst of Covid-19 and government business shutdowns, has posted 15 straight months of net job gains of at least 100,000. Still, employment in leisure and hospitality has fallen by 1.5 million, or 8.7%, since February 2020.

The wide-ranging professional and business services sector also posted a robust March with a net addition of 102,000 positions. Accountants and other bookkeeping staff had a particularly strong month, with a climb of 18,000.

Computer system designers and management consultants, both of which fall under business services, added 12,300 and 15,100 jobs, respectively. Building services employees, including pest control and landscaping workers, added 22,100.

A top economic advisor to the White House welcomed the March report and said that the print underscores the "incredible resilience" of the labor market as it recovers from the pandemic.

"We're seeing about 560,000 jobs a month over the last quarter, and that's been consistent over the last year," Brian Deese, the director of President Joe Biden's National Economic Council, told "Squawk on the Street" following the report.

"Importantly, we're seeing that in broad breadth. And, of course, we're seeing the unemployment rate now down to 3.6%," he added. "There's only been three months in the last 50 years that the United States has had an unemployment rate lower than 3.6%."

Retail had a decent month with a gain of 49,000, thanks to healthy hiring at grocery stores (+17,800) and warehouse clubs and supercenters (+21,400). Gas station employment rose by nearly 3,000, and motor vehicle and parts dealers added 5,100 to payrolls.

Stores that sell furniture, electronics and building materials all saw minimal losses.

Transportation and warehousing, an industry scrutinized for potential supply chain relief, saw little change over the month, with a loss of 500 jobs. Within the sector, couriers and messengers that deliver mail and packages added 6,700 jobs while truck transportation shed almost 5,000 workers.

The broad health and social services sector added more than 30,000 to payrolls, thanks in large part to unusual hiring for social services workers, which include child-care workers, community food and housing staff and vocational rehabilitation employees.

Social assistance alone added 25,000 jobs last month on top of February's gain of 30,400. February's addition was the subsector's best one-month gain since September 2020.

— CNBC's Crystal Mercedes contributed reporting.

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Using the Divot Board will give you a sense of how your golf swing is moving, without having to think much about it

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Welcome to Play Smart, a game-improvement column that drops every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from Game Improvement Editor Luke Kerr-Dineen (who you can follow on Twitter right here).

Through some combination of weirdness and nerdiness, I tend to get deeply fascinated by some rather obscure topics. Last year, I dove down a rabbit hole on the concept of practicing — without a golf ball.

Sounds strange, I know, but there’s actually an ever-growing body of evidence that suggests that it’s the best way of practicing certain things, especially your technique. When you’re adjusting your golf swing, you’re not necessarily doing it to hit the next ball better. It’s more of a future investment in the golf balls to come. And the problem is, hitting bad shots while you work through an awkward change can distract from that goal. When you’re changing your technique, you’re better off making lots of swings without a golf ball. Just ask Will Zalatoris.

Which is why the Divot Board trainer caught my eye as an interesting idea when it showed up on my doorstep the other day. I gave it a quick try, and came away not just thinking it was an interesting idea, but a clever one that can actually help golfers get better.

Before we go any further a disclaimer: I get sent a lots of training aids (my wife isn’t thrilled about it), and I don’t need to write about any of them. I only write about the ones I like. I like this one! Here’s why.

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You can get pretty far in golf learning to do three things well: Hitting the ball before the ground, keeping your clubface relatively square, and your swing path (AKA, the direction you swing the golf club) in a pretty neutral spot. That won’t turn you into a pro overnight, but getting to a point where you can do those three things consistently can easily get you breaking 80.

But back to our earlier point, it’s not always easy to know if you’re doing those things well when you’re hitting a golf ball. That’s where the divot board comes in. The yellow circle represents the golf ball, and the train track lines the swing path. The goal is to make a swing and hit the yellow circle first, and send the club through the two lines. If you don’t do it, you’ll be able to tell immediately based on where the divot is.

Like this. Notice how the divot is going to the right, and starts behind the ball? That means you’re swinging too far from in-to-out and behind the ball, so you’re probably hitting a variety of chunks, drop kicks and hooks.

The divot is behind the ball and too far from in-to-out.

On the other end of the spectrum, here’s a classic slicer move. The club is going from out-to-in (over the top), which means you’re probably hitting pulls and slices.

If you slice the ball, your divot will go from out-to-in, like this.

You won’t be able to get minute details of your golf swing doing this, but that’s not really the point. It’s to give you a general sense of how your golf swing is moving, and to help you self-correct in a gamified way, without having to think too much about it. Your golf swing will be a lot better off because of it.

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Luke Kerr-Dineen is the Director of Service Journalism at GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com. In his role he oversees the brand’s game improvement content spanning instruction, equipment, health and fitness, across all of GOLF’s multimedia platforms.

An alumni of the International Junior Golf Academy and the University of South Carolina–Beaufort golf team, where he helped them to No. 1 in the national NAIA rankings, Luke moved to New York in 2012 to pursue his Masters degree in Journalism from Columbia University and in 2017 was named News Media Alliance’s “Rising Star.” His work has also appeared in USA Today, Golf Digest, Newsweek and The Daily Beast.

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I already had a million questions about Elizabeth Holmes, but The Dropout, Hulu’s retelling of the Silicon Valley scammer’s rise and fall, has only left me with more. Such as: Are Walgreens execs really this clueless? Why haven’t I listened to Passion Pit recently? And, most pressingly: Did Elizabeth Holmes really dance like that?

 If The Dropout is to be believed, Holmes (played by Amanda Seyfried) really loves to dance. In the show, she dances in her childhood bedroom, doing some sort of sweaty worship choreography in front of a Steve Jobs poster; she shimmies around the early Theranos office wired into a first-generation iPod; she vigorously flails her arms while wearing a creepy mask of her own face.

But there’s one scene that really haunts me: Holmes attempting to woo her boyfriend and business partner Sunny Balwani by dancing to Lil Wayne’s “How to Love.”

Let me try to describe it. Holmes, eager to make amends after pulling rank on Sunny during a workplace argument about how her technology doesn’t work, puts on this 2011 ballad and sashays into his adjacent office, lowering the blinds for privacy. Then comes a succession of confusing movements that I can only describe as dance moves from another universe. With what she clearly intends to be a seductive smile, she mimes what looks like a robot losing its balance; next comes a little jump with one knee lifted, followed by some sort of rhythmic shrugging.

Maybe you should just watch it yourself:

Has a dance scene ever been so unsettling? Was Elizabeth Holmes really like this?! Believe it or not, there is some evidence suggesting the real-life Holmes’s dancing was also quite strange. In an infamous clip from HBO’s documentary The Inventor, she struts into the Theranos HQ on the heels of a big FDA approval to the tune of MC Hammer’s “Can’t Touch This,” bopping around awkwardly in her black puffer vest.

In the podcast that inspired the show, Ana Arriola, the product designer Holmes poached from Apple to help design her machines, recalled witnessing Holmes’s dance moves. “Often I’d come into work really early,” they said. “We sometimes would pull up in the parking lot together. She was rocking and slamming her head to hip-hop music, just fully rocking out. I was like, Huh. I don’t think I was meant to see that.”

I don’t think I was meant to see that is exactly how I feel anytime Seyfried channels Holmes’s chaotic dancing. Show creator Liz Merriweather says The Dropout’s dance scenes were inspired by the image of the real-life Holmes headbanging in her car, which prompted her to imagine “what Elizabeth Holmes is like when nobody’s watching her.” Seyfried executes it brilliantly: The scenes, which she has said were unchoreographed, feel like tiny, spastic character studies. Holmes is known for her profoundly surreal attributes: the voice, the blinking, the misplaced intensity. Even in her most private moments on the show, she moves like she’s trying unsuccessfully to mimic human behavior. The movements themselves look wildly unnatural, but you get the feeling that somehow, this is Holmes at her most authentic.

Merriweather, who pointed out that the real Holmes went to Burning Man in the final days of Theranos’s collapse, theorizes that Holmes turned to dancing to process her emotions. And it does feel like, in these moments, the fictional Holmes is able to briefly ignore the rapidly deteriorating house of cards she’s trapped herself in. It might actually be the most relatable thing about her. At the end of the day, aren’t we all Elizabeth Holmes, dancing like an absolute freak while the world burns around us?

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The publication of the latest United Nations report on climate change was overshadowed by the outbreak of war in Ukraine. The conclusions still demand urgent consideration.

There have been increases in extreme weather events. Droughts are causing more food insecurity. Floods are threatening communities everywhere. Given the ever increasing number of desperately difficult challenges, a response of futility or weariness could be tempting to some.

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The hard work of qualifying is over. Now the teams headed to Qatar later this year will learn their opponents.

The World Cup field is almost complete. On Friday, soccer teams will learn the answer to the critical question they and their fans want to know: Who will they play when the tournament opens in November in Qatar?

The World Cup draw — part gala, part pep rally, part math seminar — will deliver intriguing clashes of styles, testy political collisions and, if past events are any guide, a few uncomfortable moments.

But given the stakes of the draw, it is also one of the biggest events on the global sports calendar. Here is a look at how it works.

When and where is the draw?

Friday at noon, Eastern time, at the Doha Exhibition and Convention Center in Qatar.

How can I watch?

Television coverage in the United States will be on FS1 and Telemundo starting at 11:30 a.m., Eastern time. The draw will be streamed at FIFA.com and on NBC’s Peacock service in the United States. The New York Times will also provide minute-by-minute coverage.

How does it work?

Each team has been assigned to one of four pots, based on its world ranking. One team from each pot will be placed in each of the eight World Cup opening round groups, to ensure the teams are divided by strength. There are also rules to keep them apart from regional rivals. Each group may have no more than two teams from Europe, for example, and no more than one from any other continent.

The entire process can feel a bit methodical at times: First, a ball is pulled from one of the bowls containing the names of each team in that pot. Then a second ball is drawn to place the team in its position, which must be done carefully to ensure that rules about regional rivalries are followed.

It can go badly wrong, as the Champions League learned in December. It had announced its highly anticipated knockout-round matchups before discovering its mistake, and had to stage an embarrassing do over.

Who will actually draw the teams?

Soccer luminaries including Cafu (Brazil), Lothar Matthäus (Germany), Adel Ahmed Malalla (Qatar), Ali Daei (Iran), Bora Milutinovic (Serbia), Jay-Jay Okocha (Nigeria), Rabah Madjer (Algeria) and Tim Cahill (Australia) will do the actual drawing of the balls out of the bowls.

Who’s in Pot 1?

Since the teams are ordered by their world ranking, Pot 1 traditionally contains the tournament favorites as well as the host nation. That means, in addition to Qatar, this year the pot includes Brazil, Argentina, Belgium, France, England, Spain and Portugal.

What about the other three pots?

Pot 2 consists of the United States, Mexico, the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Croatia and Uruguay.

Pot 3 is Serbia, Poland, Senegal, Morocco, Tunisia, Iran, Japan and South Korea.

Pot 4, nominally the weakest teams (though perhaps not this year), holds Canada, Ghana, Cameroon, Ecuador and Saudi Arabia.

Three teams that have not yet been determined will also be in that pot. A European spot will be taken by Ukraine, Scotland or Wales. Another spot will go to the winner of an intercontinental playoff between Costa Rica and New Zealand, and the last to one of Peru, Australia or the United Arab Emirates. All of those places will be decided by games in June.

Who’s missing?

The chief absentee is Italy, a four-time World Cup winner and the reigning European champion. After missing out in 2018, Italy was eliminated for the second straight cycle when it lost a playoff semifinal against North Macedonia.

Whom will teams want to draw or avoid?

Qatar, which has never qualified for the World Cup on sporting merit, is by far the weakest team in Pot 1, and every team in the other pots will be eager to land in its group. No one will especially want to play Brazil, because it is No. 1 in the world and because, hey, it’s Brazil. France is the defending champion.

Germany and the Netherlands look to be the strongest teams in Pot 2, and Serbia and Poland (with the FIFA world player of the year Robert Lewandowski) could be dangerous from Pot 3. Any team that can qualify from South America is going to be strong, and Ecuador in Pot 4 should frighten many teams ranked above it.

The same goes for Canada, which has a host of young talent and breezed to first place in its qualifying group ahead of the more traditional powers the United States and Mexico.

Who is going to win the World Cup?

The favorites are Brazil, France, England and Spain, in that order, bookmakers say.

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