La Selección Mexicana se quedó en la fase de grupos al no superar a Ecuador en su tercer partido y ahora los ecuatorianos se verán las caras con Argentina.

La apuesta period un Argentina contra México en la Copa América. La Selección Mexicana falló y rompió con los planes. Houston, Texas, estaba preparada para recibir a much de aficionados ante un possible enfrentamiento entre la albiceleste y el equipo de Jimmy Lozano, los boletos del NRG estaban casi agotados y varios aficionados mexicanos quedaron huérfanos, varados, con gastos de miles de pesos. Ecuador irrumpió.

“Ya teníamos contemplado que fuera quizá un México vs Argentina, esa period la tormenta perfecta, no se da, pero no vamos a menospreciar lo que traemos, son buenos equipos, mucho nivel. Ese partido va a estar padre”, reconoce Lester Gretsch, titular de comunicaciones para el Comité Organizador del Mundial 2026 de Houston.

México quedó atorado en la fase de grupos de la Copa América 2024. Necesitaba vencer a Ecuador y el juego terminó en empate a cero. La eliminación de México fue el resultado de anotar un solo gol en tres juegos de la fase de grupos, lo que frustró el reencuentro con Argentina, una posible revancha a dos años de la Copa del Mundo de Qatar 2022. La ausencia de la Selección Mexicana no afecta la venta de boletos, ya que estaba “pre hecha”.

“No creo que afecte tanto, porque la venta de los boletos ya estaba pre hecha, antes de que se supieran los equipos que iban a participar, ya sólo falta que se agoten los pocos que quedan, no afecta mucho”, explicó el titular de comunicaciones para el Comité Organizador del Mundial 2026 de Houston.

Aficionados mexicanos gastan hasta 50 mil pesos y México queda eliminado

En los rumores de redes sociales, circula la versión de que los aficionados mexicanos habían comprado más de 20 mil boletos para el possible juego entre Argentina y México, en los cuartos de closing de la Copa América, en Houston, Texas. Lo cierto es que la Selección Mexicana no llegó a esa fase y por las calles de la ciudad que alberga el NRG Stadium hay aficionados del Tricolor con boletos en mano.

“No, no estamos apoyando a la selección de Ecuador, estamos con el luto de México. Quisimos estar aquí, teníamos 10 boletos para toda la familia, pensamos que la Selección Mexicana llegaba a Houston, para enfrentar a Argentina, pero no se nos dio”, cuenta Arturo Martínez, aficionado de la Selección Mexicana, que viajó de Tuxpan, Veracruz a Houston, Texas, con la esperanza de ver al equipo de Jaime Lozano. “El problema es el tiempo, cada boleto vale como cuatro o cinco mil pesos, no tiene precio lo que nos hizo la selección”.

Los mexicanos que se quedaron desamparados de equipo en la Copa América han optado por acompañar a Ecuador. Ya con el dinero gastado, los alienta una posible sorpresa del equipo ecuatoriano ante la Argentina de Lionel Messi.

“Planeamos el viaje hace dos o tres meses, pensamos que México pasaba segundo y jugaba contra Argentina, ahí queríamos verlos contra Messi. También compramos 10 boletos, veníamos toda la familia. Seguimos a México en todos los Mundiales y falló, faltó un gol. Teníamos planeada la ruta, ya fuera en Houston o Dallas”, contó Ángel Martínez, aficionado de la Selección Mexicana.

México no llenó en su primer partido en Houston

México iba a jugar por segunda ocasión en Houston, en la Copa América. En esa ciudad había empezado su camino, contra Jamaica, y a pesar de que el equipo de Jaime Lozano es el segundo equipo que más boletos vendió en la fase de grupos, el NRG Stadium no se había llenado para ese compromiso.

“El partido de México no tuvo el auge que se esperaba, tal vez nos afectó que México jugó con Brasil, días antes, además del desempeño durante ese partido. También obviamente el hecho de que Colombia jugó con Paraguay, hubo 65 mil personas, se veía precioso y eso sirvió para aminorar el efecto de ese primer partido, ya para el partido de este jueves, entre Argentina y Ecuador, está a la espera de que el aforo se venda por completo”, reveló Lester Gretsch.

NPR’s Ailsa Chang talks with music author and critic Alim Kheraj about Kesha’s first single since splitting from mega-producer Dr. Luke’s report label.

AILSA CHANG, HOST:

Pop star Kesha is marking her personal form of independence day this July Fourth, as she releases her first single on her personal label. Additionally it is her first new music after settling a yearslong authorized battle with the producer Dr. Luke and splitting together with his label. The one is known as “Joyride,” and it is an aptly-titled electro pop celebration of the singer’s newfound freedom.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “JOYRIDE”)

KESHA: Oh, you say you’re keen on me. That is humorous. Nicely, so do I. (Singing) Joyride, joyride. I am simply searching for time tonight.

CHANG: Alim Kheraj is a music author and critic and is right here to inform us extra concerning the single. Welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

ALIM KHERAJ: Hi there.

CHANG: Hi there. OK, so while you first heard this track, what did you instantly assume? I am curious.

KHERAJ: So, I awoke this morning, and it was the very first thing that I listened to. And I believed that it was completely bonkers.

CHANG: Actually? Why?

KHERAJ: And I texted a buddy, they usually texted again saying, it is like listening to seven songs unexpectedly. And I feel that is…

CHANG: Like, all combined collectively.

KHERAJ: …Precisely.

CHANG: (Laughter).

KHERAJ: It is a type of Frankensteinian pop masterpiece in my thoughts. It is…

CHANG: Oh, so that you prefer it?

KHERAJ: Oh, I like it. I feel it is thrilling and energetic and adventurous. And I feel it is nice that we have now individuals in pop who’re prepared to push the boat out and check out one thing new.

CHANG: Yeah, completely. Nicely, you recognize, as we mentioned, that is her first single after splitting with Dr. Luke, whom she had accused of sexual assault, which he denied. So let me ask you, releasing this monitor on one thing known as Kesha Data, on the Fourth of July – what do you assume she’s attempting to say right here?

KHERAJ: Nicely, I feel she’s being a bit cheeky, and it is a bit on the nostril. However I feel she’s saying that I am impartial. I’ve my freedom. I feel that she’s taking part in into the narrative of her profession somewhat bit however playfully.

So I feel that, clearly, she is aware of that any music that she places out put up the conclusion of her authorized points with Dr. Luke – she knew that individuals had been going to be analyzing it, dissecting it, seeing if she was going to say something or if there was going to be any data revealed. And I feel what she’s carried out right here is she’s preempted that by saying, the track itself shouldn’t be about this, however I do know what you are all searching for. I do know why you are right here.

CHANG: (Laughter) Yeah. Nicely, the Gen Z pop star and actress, Renee Rapp, truly introduced Kesha out throughout her set at Coachella this previous April. What do you assume that claims about how different artists on the market are excited about Kesha and her contribution to pop music?

KHERAJ: I feel it reveals that persons are appreciative and form of giving Kesha her dues. And I feel it was actually intelligent of Renee Rapp as a result of I feel she is aware of that Kesha’s followers, who – possibly her followers grew up together with her – they had been children when “TiK ToK” got here out. And now they’re adults, they usually’re dancing to “TiK ToK” on an app known as TikTok.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “TIK TOK”)

KESHA: (Singing) Tick tock on the clock, however the occasion do not cease, no.

KHERAJ: And I feel it demonstrates the reverence for Kesha’s place inside popular culture.

CHANG: That’s Alim Kheraj, a music author and critic based mostly within the U.Okay. Thanks a lot for being with us.

KHERAJ: Thanks a lot for having me.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

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This story has been corrected to specify that the ability adapters are being recalled.

Hatch, a preferred sleep assist machine firm, has recalled greater than 900,000 Relaxation 1st Era sound machine adapters on account of a shock hazard.

“In partnership and compliance with the Client Product Security Fee (CPSC), Hatch has issued a voluntary recall for energy adapters issued with some Hatch Relaxation 1st era units, which had been primarily bought between 2019 and 2022,” the corporate acknowledged in a web-based recall discover.

“The recall is particular to energy adapters issued by Jiangsu Chenyang Electron Co. after studying that the white housing of those energy adapters can come off when eradicating them from the ability outlet, leaving the ability prongs uncovered and posing a shock hazard to customers,” the assertion continued.

Hatch added on its web site, “The corporate is pursuing this recall voluntarily as a part of its dedication to shopper security and incident prevention.”

Particulars of recall

About 919,400 merchandise have been impacted by the recall, based on the CPSC.

The affected energy adapters, which have a white rectangular plastic housing that plugs immediately into the wall socket, bear the mannequin quantity CYAP05 050100U.

“The mannequin quantity, amps ‘1.0A,’ ‘Jiangsu Chenyang Electron Co. LTD,’ and ‘Made in China’ are printed in black close to the prongs on the ability adapter,” the CPSC acknowledged. “The ability adapter was not bought individually.”

Incidents reported

As of time of publication, Hatch stated it has “acquired 19 reviews of the plastic housing surrounding the AC energy adapter coming off, together with two reviews of customers who skilled a minor electrical shock.”

The place recalled merchandise had been bought

The Relaxation 1st Era sound machines had been bought on-line immediately from the Hatch web site and Amazon, in addition to at BuyBuyBaby, Goal, Walmart, Nordstrom, Pottery Barn Youngsters and BestBuy shops nationwide from January 2019 by means of September 2022.

What customers can do if they’ve a recalled product

“Customers ought to instantly cease utilizing the recalled energy adapters bought with Relaxation 1st Era sound machines, and make contact with Hatch for a free substitute energy adapter,” CPSC acknowledged. “Customers ought to unplug the wire, reduce the wire on the recalled energy adapter, take a photograph of the adapter exhibiting the mannequin quantity and the reduce wire, add the photograph, and supply their identify and mailing deal with at www.hatch.co/adapterrecall.”

The company added, “Hatch is contacting all registered house owners immediately.”

This evaluation accommodates full spoilers for The Boys Season 4, Episode 6, “Soiled Enterprise”

Solely on a present like The Boys might make an episode about intercourse dungeon foreplay, lobotomies, and heroic gimps present welcome levity. “Soiled Enterprise” avoids feeling needlessly sophisticated or distracted, chasing a singular storyline that includes covertly infiltrating an alt-right cocktail soirée. It lifts our spirits after the downer that was final week’s teary-eyed conclusion, and even drops its personal bombshell of a parting reveal (that you just in all probability noticed coming for those who’ve been paying shut consideration). Unshackled from the a number of storytelling angles nonetheless caught in place after a multi-week lull, The Boys lastly seems like its rambunctious self once more.

The gravely voiced elephant within the room is lastly confirmed: Joe Kessler (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is an illness-induced hallucination like Becca (Shantel VanSanten). There had been clues sprinkled all through previous episodes, however nothing concrete till now. Billy Butcher (Karl City) isn’t round a lot in “Soiled Enterprise,” solely there lengthy sufficient to ascertain his twin imaginary mates — a now one-legged Dr. Sameer Shah (Omid Abtahi) earns the glory of calling out Butcher’s delirious state, full with a fast montage of Butcher speaking to empty rooms in previous scenes the place we thought Kessler was current. It’s not a groundbreaking twist, but having Kessler and Sameer react to Butcher’s whacked-out state helps the shock worth last more.

Elsewhere, and for the lion’s share of the episode’s length, we spend a night in Tek Knight’s (Derek Wilson) Bruce Wayne-like mansion — solely his Batcave is a Fifty Shades hideout. An invite-only, highfalutin affair brings The Seven’s A-list gamers along with United States authorities officers, full with all of the self-serving corruption we crave. The gathering’s objective is to collude and focus on an antinode to Robert Singer’s (Jim Beaver) presidency, which implies The Boys don’t have any selection however to ship Hughie (Jack Quaid) undercover as The Boys’ Spider-Man equal, a junkie named Webweaver (Dan Mousseau). Quaid performs tactically awkward and out-of-depths, which he’s already finished so effectively all through The Boys, till Hughie finds himself restrained, studying the arduous manner that Webweaver was solely invited as a pass-around pleasure boy.

Sticking harmless Hughie in a secret room with a horned-up Tek Knight and Ashely Barrett (Colby Minifie) is a recipe for comedy gold. It begins merely, with Hughie making an attempt to mimic Webweaver’s drugged-up stoner communicate — then panic units in when he notices Homelander (Antony Starr) on the occasion. Tek Knight later leads Hughie downstairs into his pervert lair, the place Ashley will get the primary crack at tickling “Webweaver” and herself till she climaxes. Hughie’s mortified regardless of laughing by means of the sticky-stanky ordeal, which Quaid sells with applicable undertones of excitable panic — however Colby Minifie is the key sauce. The best way she forcefully delivers vulgar strains as a sexually dominant alpha displays volcanic confidence, as Ashley beams her devilish smirk whereas degrading her companions in fetishistic shows of ball-crushing energy.

When Hughie’s outed by Tek Knight for forgetting Webweaver’s protected phrase, The Boys rush to his help – but it surely’s hardly a clear escape. Annie (Erin Moriarty) confronts Firecracker (Valorie Curry) in an upstairs hallway, the place she rightfully apologizes for being a correct monster in her pageant days earlier than incapacitating Vought’s racist, antisemitic mouthpiece. Mom’s Milk (Laz Alonso) suffers a panic assault after capturing Sister Sage (Susan Heyward) within the head, as he succumbs to pressures that by no means cracked Butcher. Kimiko (Karen Fukuhara) and Annie finally attain Hughie proper earlier than Tek Knight carves a brand new gap in his physique to penetrate, and so they flip the tables on the fornicating freak, however not till after what’s left of The Boys make noteworthy character strides. Annie’s confession, MM’s well being scare, and Hughie’s skill to confess he’s removed from okay are all concisely packed into the primary storyline. That’s an enormous improve from prior Season 4 episodes that really feel torn in fifty totally different instructions.

A narrower scope lets performances shine, like how Sister Sage and Victoria Neuman (Claudia Doumit) steal “Soiled Enterprise” towards the top. Sister Sage spends a lot of the episode enjoying thoughts video games together with her Vought-controlled pawns till MM’s bullet turns her into the Bloomin’ Onion craving Sister Sage at a hilarious second. She will’t assist Homelander win a crowd of constituents over along with his supe supremacy plan, so Victoria steals Homelander’s thunder and brings his monologue dwelling with bravado. Homelander, the tyrannical superhuman who retains insisting people are toys, shrinks to the scale of a pea when he fails to smile his solution to success. Worse, his masculine aura is shattered by Victoria’s actions and Sister Sage’s lack of ability to prop him upright. Homelander crumbles underneath strain like a Nature Valley granola bar, acknowledging his lack of ability to be Vought’s sole dictator.

“Soiled Enterprise” resuscitates The Boys’ satirical wits and bleak comedy past Hughie’s psycho-sexual episode. Victoria despises hobnobbing with wrinkly conservative ghouls to the purpose the place she imagines violently popping her personal head as some Roe v. Wade opposing official may be heard explaining inaccurate abortion information. A-Practice (Jessie T. Usher) has to hearken to Tek Knight’s despicably bigoted story about his household’s profitable legacy as slave catchers, remarking how he’d have given his great-great-grandaddy a run for his cash — A-Practice’s response is priceless. Self-proclaimed guardians Like Tek Knight say the quiet components right into a megaphone, and “Soiled Enterprise” follows villainy with simply deserts. After Tek Knight is reprimanded by Annie and Kimiko, they donate tons of of tens of millions from his financial institution accounts to charitable funds for Black Lives Matter or Elizabeth Warren’s Tremendous PAC as he protests in agony. He gained’t admit ache when taking part in essentially the most wicked carnal pleasures, however ship his filthy inheritance to worthy causes? His Muskian intolerance throws a tantrum.

Better of all, Tek Knight’s demise leaves The Seven in disarray. The Boys could also be in shambles, particularly with Frenchie (Tomer Capone) in jail, however their unintended actions are a intelligent dagger. Homelander realizes the mole remains to be alive — it was by no means Ashley’s sacrificial lamb Cameron Coleman (Matthew Edison) — and he’s one step nearer to the sting (and he’s about to interrupt). Enter Firecracker, who squirts him with medically-possible lactation as the last word olive department. Reduce to Homelander, draped in his cape, suckling on Firecracker’s teat, each sitting in entrance of an enormous American flag tapestry. It’s considered one of my favourite photographs in The Boys, as America’s best patriot is a man-baby behind closed doorways who’s nonetheless breastfeeding. That is the present that I do know and love; what an excessive amount of of Season 4 has been lacking till now.

It’s formally Dyson Williams time for the Utah Archers. 

With Challen Rogers out of the lineup this weekend, Williams – the sixteenth general decide within the 2024 Faculty Draft – is on the 19-man roster for the Archers’ matchup with the Maryland Whipsnakes on Saturday in Boston. For a Utah offense that has scored simply 9 factors in back-to-back video games, Williams might be the spark plug the membership wants. 

“He’s only a winner,” Archers head coach Chris Bates stated. “Dyson with Tom Schreiber feeding him, or Grant Ament feeding him, or working two-man with [Connor] Fieldsy or with Mac [O’Keefe] or with Ryan [Ambler] … it simply gave the impression to be the perfect mesh for our offense.” 

For Williams, becoming a member of the Archers is the proper vacation spot for him popping out of Duke. 

“I used to be fired up,” he stated of his response to being drafted by the reigning champs. “Seeing what they had been capable of do final yr and get it achieved. The offensive personnel that this squad has is unbelievable. It’s undoubtedly an amazing setting to come back into as a rookie.” 

Williams might be an amazing complement for Utah’s star-studded offense. His presence as a finisher alongside Ament and Schreiber will likely be a scary prospect for the Whips on Saturday. In the meantime, Williams already has chemistry working with Fields on the lefty wing after taking part in and rooming with him for Crew Canada on the World Lacrosse Championship final summer time. 

“The offensive personnel is unreal,” Williams added. “Whoever you’re taking part in with on this offense, you will get one thing occurring.” 

Wiliams spent most of his Duke profession as a crease attackman liable for trying to find open house, however his function will probably change with the Archers. O’Keefe and Fields are stalwarts at assault, so he’ll begin his skilled profession out of the field. Luckily for Utah, that’s one thing he did for Crew Canada alongside Fields final summer time. 

“(Fields is) clearly an excellent participant,” Williams stated. “To get to play two-man recreation on that left aspect, you’ve bought Mac clearly as nicely, it’s sick. It’s tremendous thrilling. I actually don’t have too many phrases for it. I’m simply fired as much as get going.” 

There’s a chance for Williams to carve out a recurring function on Utah’s 19-man roster. Rogers and Ryan Aughavin have each seen the sector because the Archers’ fifth offensive midfielder this season, however neither has been extremely productive. If Williams can assist additional activate Fields and O’Keefe on the lefty wing and persistently create offense as an off-ball menace, he might be the offense’s lacking piece.

It is July, and which means its Jaws season. Sure, it is the most effective time of 12 months to load up our residence theaters with all of the movies that made us fear a lot about dipping our toes into the oceans of the world. 

In case you’ve received Peacock (and you actually ought to), all 4 entries within the movie franchise (primarily based on the novel of the identical identify by Peter Benchley) at the moment are streaming. And sure, whereas we concede the standard dips the deeper you get into the quadrilogy, in the event you align your expectations, there’s lots to take pleasure in about every movie. 

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What Are the Finest Moments from Each Jaws Movie?

Jaws (1975) – “You are Gonna Want A Greater Boat”

Followers of Jaws will battle all day about what their favourite scene on this traditional, and nobody is gonna be flawed. From high to tails, there are dozens of unimaginable scenes that outline the film for myriad viewers; put collectively, they make an ideal film. Nonetheless, we’re going with, “You are gonna want an even bigger boat” for all of the issues it does to underscore what Jaws is.

Let’s begin with Chief Martin Brody’s (Roy Scheider) aggravated chumming, which reiterates the lowly man in opposition to the ocean theme. It is a scene framed for optimum foreboding, but nonetheless possesses the movie’s signature dry wit to softly dupe you into submission. Then the monster — the shark — erupts into the body for the primary time in all its large glory. Scheider’s full physique transfer away in frozen terror is so actual and commensurate to the witnessed menace.

He then backs into Quint’s (Robert Shaw) area, by no means letting his eyes off the ocean and utters what has change into the synonymous quote referencing the movie: “You are gonna want an even bigger boat.” That line itself has since entered the lexicon as a time period to imply somebody is woefully unprepared for the duty at hand. It is greater than the film when it comes to it good conveyance of, “Oh, you are in bother.”

Swelling to John Williams’ foreboding rating, we see the shark come beneath the boat the place a really distressed Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) sees its precise dimension for the primary time, and an equally humbled Quint ups its dimension to 25 ft. In simply this one scene, the stakes have been amped up dramatically, the foe has been totally revealed, and the heroes have all been sobered for the battle to come back. 

Jaws 2 – “Sharks vs. Sailboats”

The 1978 sequel from director Jeannot Szwarc, Jaws 2 is the most effective of the franchise sequels that includes a stable script from Carl Gottlieb and Howard Sackler, and one other nice efficiency from Scheider as Chief Brody. Revisiting the movie, there’s lots to understand the way it portrays the city leaders gasoline lighting Brody about his panic concerning one other doable shark assault, and his PTSD in coping with the final one.

It is also received some taut motion/thriller sequences, like this one, the place the youngsters of Amity Island are out boating and that new shark reveals up, capsizes boats, and virtually takes out Brody’s son, Mike (Mark Gruner). Crosscutting between the boats in jeopardy and the youngsters within the water with that large fin reducing between them is an actual knuckle biter of a scene.

Jaws 3-D – “Please Stroll, Do not Run”

Whereas it is maybe not on par with its predecessors, we will at the least recognize the comedy of Jaws 3-D, the sequel directed by the very gifted manufacturing designer of the unique movie, Joe Alves. This one places the Brody youngsters on the SeaWorld theme park when an amazing white shark has infiltrated the underwater reveals.

On this chosen scene, there is a sure horror gaze satisfaction in watching these terrible summer season vacationers get caught in an underground commentary tube… particularly that grownup male within the purple overalls. 

Jaws: The Revenge – “Killing the Beast”

Hailing from director Joseph Sargent, Jaws: The Revenge is a comedy and you’ll’t persuade us in any other case. The script finds a now-widowed Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) satisfied an amazing white shark is stalking her household, which is admittedly a bit on the foolish aspect.

On this finish sequence, we get flashes of Scheider’s Chief Brody taking his shot on the shark in Jaws, as we see this movie’s monster making its ultimate curtain name, leaving poor Mario Van Peebles having to maintain up a doubtful Jamaican accent whereas his character is bleeding out within the ocean.

Watch the Jaws, Jaws 2, Jaws 3, and Jaws: The Revenge, all streaming now on Peacock!