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- New York Post
Deion Sanders makes rare appearance alongside Lil Wayne while battling mysterious health scare
Deion Sanders made some time for the self-proclaimed 'Best Rapper Alive' while he works his way back from a mysterious health scare. Sanders posted a video to his Instagram account Friday from Lil Wayne's visit to his compound in Texas in what marked a rare appearance from the Colorado coach amid this health battle. Sanders and Lil Wayne — whose real name is Dwayne Carter Jr. — walked for several paces in the short clip accompanied by a rap song featuring vocals from the NFL Hall of Famer. 3 Lil Wayne (l) and Deion Sanders (r). @deionsanders/Instagram 'Thank You My Brother @liltunechi for coming to visit me & making sure I'm straight @liltwist (posted by @deionsandersjr),' Sanders captioned the post. 'Love y'all man!' A YouTube video from Sanders' son — Deion Sanders Jr. — featured the caption: 'Lil Wayne Visits Coach Prime in Dallas to Make Sure He's Good.' That eight-plus minute video showed the pair discussing snakes, with the 'Tha Carter VI' artist even looking for the creatures in the woods. While Sanders usually is front and center in the headlines, especially with the college season beckoning, he has not been as visible while dealing with this unspecified health issue. 3 The rapper and the NFL legend. @deionsanders/Instagram He missed contract-stipulated Colorado football camps in June, along with the Foundation for Sickle Cell Disease Research's annual symposium at which he would have been the keynote speaker. Sanders told former NFL star cornerback Asante Samuel in May, 'What I'm dealing with right now is at a whole other level,' and that he has lacked energy and lost 14 pounds. 3 Deion Sandes thanked the rapper for visiting him. @deionsanders/Instagram He provided a positive update June 11 when he posted to X: 'I can assure you all that everything is OKAY and will continue to be so. 'I'm excited to get back to Colorado to be at home with my staff, team & all associated to our program. When we arrive back to Boulder you will be updated on everything.' Sanders posted another upbeat message to Instagram roughly one week ago, including a photo of him wearing a vest while seemingly working out with Deion Jr. #Every little step I take My son @deionsandersjr has been there so we've decided to keep on stepping!' Deion wrote. '#CoachPrime coming to a stadium sold out soon. @welloffforever.' The Colorado coach has endured health scares over the past few years, including 2023 surgery to fix blood clots in his left leg. The Buffaloes open the 2025 season Aug. 29 at home against Georgia Tech.
Yahoo
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- Yahoo
Nostalgic parents are trying to recreate a boring, screenless, ‘90s summer for their kids
Remember when summer break felt endless? The next school year was an incomprehensibly distant prospect as hot, sunny days spent idling in the yard seemed to last forever. With no smartphones, no YouTube, and nothing but a landline to call your friends, you were left to your own devices — which mostly meant flipping through books, rearranging your Beanie Babies, or fighting with your siblings over who got the last Freeze Pop. Now, nostalgia-seeking parents are looking back on those long, lazy, uneventful days with surprising fondness — and trying to recreate that same unplugged boredom for their own kids. Ironically, some influencers are using social media platforms like Instagram to promote the idea of a screen-free, ''90s summer.' Shannele, known on Instagram as @reelmomstuff, has been sharing tips for raising ''90s kids' for over a year. In a video she posted in June, she explains her no-screens-in-the-car rule and emphasizes the importance of outdoor play. In another, she shared that her home has only one television and a landline phone for her kids to use, all part of her mission to bring back the pre-digital childhood. Others, like TikTokers @motheringmoon and Erin Monroe (@ have shared their approaches to a ''90s summer,' like outdoor family dinners, drinking pitchers of Kool-Aid, and playing in the sprinkler. Samantha Weber, who has an 11-year-old stepdaughter and a three-year-old daughter, is attempting to surround her kids with tactile games and activities to keep them off their screens. Her daughters are embracing it, putting on fashion shows in the living room. Her husband is an art teacher, 'so we always have coloring and paints out,' she told The Independent. 'We're big board game people,' she said, adding proudly that she just taught her stepdaughter how to play the card game Spit. 'We also have a pool, so that's an escape,' Weber said. Her daughters both have devices, but Weber and her husband recently discussed how to manage screen time over the summer, whether that means creating a schedule or limiting it to evenings only. 'Sometimes they need 'cool down' time from each other so we separate and say okay you can relax and watch or play a game,' she said. 'The games they play are also creative or learning-focused,' she added, like certain modes on Minecraft, or math or spelling games. 'I'm not saying we don't watch movies,' Weber said, 'but if we do, we make popcorn and do it together.' Family movie nights can be a great way of using screens without some of the bigger worries that come with solo screen time. A recent study from the American Psychological Association found that excessive or unsupervised screen use can contribute to emotional issues in kids — who may then rely on their devices as a coping mechanism, creating a harmful cycle. 'We are currently in a 'device detox' time, so that means they don't have them at all for a few days,' performer and mom-of-three Clare Cannizzaro shared with The Independent. Her trio of sons, ranging in age from 10 to 18, can check emails and messages for 'a short time, twice a day, or if we need them to carry a phone for means of calling us, but then it comes back to us the rest of the time.' For Cannizzaro, an 'old-school summer' means 'lots of outside time, more family game nights and less individual screen time.' To carry out her vision, Cannizzaro intends to have her kids engage more in tending the family's garden, caring for their ducks and chickens, building campfires, and catching fireflies. As a theatrical family, she's planning for the summer to be spent making films and putting on musical theater performances, with all the kids attending acting workshops. However, Cannizzaro admits there's a balance to be struck in the 21st century. 'Our kiddos were born into this age of technology and we do feel that it's imperative that they have the skills and knowledge surrounding that. They likely will need technology in any career or life path they choose,' she said. 'And if there is a good dose of real life as well — playing in the dirt and riding bikes — we have always felt that was a good balance. But sometimes more real-life experiences are needed so they can relate to that instead of what's on YouTube or Instagram.' For new mom Gabrielle Rabinowitz, those real-life experiences are part of her daily life as a daycare owner. In addition to her 13-month-old son, she constantly has her eye on four toddlers. So, water time with the hose and toys, nature observation, and playing with bubbles and chalk are all in a day's work. 'I've made it my mission to make our daycare days feel less like a typical 'school setting' and more nature-based and child-centered, which lends itself perfectly to an 'old-school summer' feel for all of us,' she told The Independent. 'The hours go by so much faster when we spend them outside.' Rabinowitz, too, keeps screen time to a minimum, even for the children she watches daily — and she's intent on keeping it that way. 'I have seen firsthand how offering an 'old-school summer' to young children can decrease those unwanted difficult behaviors, while simultaneously boosting their moods, allowing them to release energy in a positive manner, and connect with nature and loved ones in a very wholesome and grounding way.' There's no one way to have a '90s summer (and no singular name for it either: 80s summer, old school summer, kid rotting, call it what you please), but that's kind of the point. It's messy, meandering, and often made up on the spot. And in a world that rarely slows down, that kind of summer might just be exactly what kids — and their parents — need. Time to kick back like it's 1995.
New York Post
an hour ago
- New York Post
Conor McGregor offers to fight at potential UFC White House event while Jon Jones shows interest
President Donald Trump's idea of hosting a UFC event at the White House next Fourth of July already has some volunteers for the potential main event. Trump tossed out the idea Thursday of having an MMA card at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue next Independence Day to ring in the country's 250th birthday, and two of the UFC's biggest stars made it known they are interested in fighting that day. 4 President Donald Trump prepares to watch the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) with UFC CEO Dana White and Elon Musk at the Kaseya Center on April 12, 2025. Getty Images Conor McGregor, who is a supporter of the president, posted to X on Friday that he would be down to enter the octagon that day. 'Happy 4th of July, USA,' McGregor wrote. 'Excited with President Trump announcing a UFC fight event at the White House. I would be honoured! Count me in!' McGregor hasn't fought since he fractured his leg during his fight against Dustin Poirier in 2021 and had to pull out of a much-anticipated bout with Michael Chandler at UFC 303 in June 2024 after breaking his toe during training. The multi-time UFC champion visited Trump at the White House in May. 4 Conor McGregor prepares to fight Dustin Poirier in a UFC 264 lightweight mixed martial arts bout July 10, 2021. AP Chandler appears open to joining him there next year. He posted an AI-generated image of him and McGregor doing a faceoff in suits on the White House lawn with a faded-out Trump in the background giving a thumbs up. 4 Michael Chandler appears open to fighting Conor McGregor at the White House next July. Michael Chandler/Instagram 4 Michael Chandler fights Paddy Pimblett of England in a lightweight fight during UFC 314 on April 12, 2025. Getty Images 'Anybody fancy a good old-fashion, passionate, red, white and blue ass whoppin on the lawn of the White House?' Chandler captioned the photo. If that fight doesn't work out, UFC president Dana White might be able to get Jon Jones to un-retire for the event. Jones, who recently said he had called it quits from MMA and relinquished the UFC heavyweight championship, did a stunning about-face Friday after learning about Trump's proposal. 'Fighting at the White House?' Jones wrote on X Friday with an eyes emoji. He posted in a second tweet: 'Just re-entered the testing pool, that lasted for about two weeks. Figured we'd keep everyone's options open.' Trump, who has attended a number of UFC events, is close with White, so anything seems possible.
