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The Advertiser
5 hours ago
- Sport
- The Advertiser
Broncos forward knocks back Manly to sign one-year deal
Brisbane forward Kobe Hetherington has backed himself and the club to the hilt after rejecting a three-year deal from Manly to re-sign with the Broncos until the end of 2026. The 26-year-old has been in hot form to lead the Broncos' mid-season revival on the back of five wins ahead of Friday night's clash with Parramatta at Suncorp Stadium. Hetherington started the season at lock before coach Michael Maguire switched Pat Carrigan back there from prop in round 14. The past two games, with State of Origin players out, Hetherington started at lock and prop and was outstanding to prove he has a future as a starting middle. His manager Chris Haddad told AAP that Hetherington was thriving at the Broncos and had set himself an admirable goal. "Manly made an offer for three years, but we have signed a one-year deal to see if Kobe can get his starting lock spot back. He will give it a good shot," Haddad said. "Kobe believes the side can win a grand final this year and next year and he wants to be part of that success." Haddad said his client was satisfied to accept a one-year deal and keep his options open, even though the Broncos were prepared to extend the length of the contract. "Kobe loves the Broncos, but you never now what will happen in the future," he said. Hetherington also received interest from St George Illawarra and Canberra. The son of former Canterbury premiership-winning hooker Jason Hetherington, Kobe is one of captain Adam Reynolds' favourite players. Reynolds has likened him to a cattle dog because "he has a bit of mongrel and fight in him like a cattle dog and just keeps going". The genesis of his prowess was in a cattle-yard in rural central Queensland. "When Kobe and his twin Zac were five years old I would get them to tackle calves," Jason Hetherington told AAP recently. "I'd be doing all the cattle work and with the calves that I'd brand and let through I'd say, 'go and tackle them boys, wrangle them, jump on them and ride them'. They would get in there and bulldog them and scruff them." Kobe was recruited by shrewd Broncos recruitment chief Simon Scanlan. "The Broncos signed him from a schoolboy game in Rockhampton when Simon Scanlan spotted him and his brother Zac," Haddad said. "Canterbury came in with interest, and Jason sent Zac to Canterbury and Kobe to Brisbane." Brisbane forward Kobe Hetherington has backed himself and the club to the hilt after rejecting a three-year deal from Manly to re-sign with the Broncos until the end of 2026. The 26-year-old has been in hot form to lead the Broncos' mid-season revival on the back of five wins ahead of Friday night's clash with Parramatta at Suncorp Stadium. Hetherington started the season at lock before coach Michael Maguire switched Pat Carrigan back there from prop in round 14. The past two games, with State of Origin players out, Hetherington started at lock and prop and was outstanding to prove he has a future as a starting middle. His manager Chris Haddad told AAP that Hetherington was thriving at the Broncos and had set himself an admirable goal. "Manly made an offer for three years, but we have signed a one-year deal to see if Kobe can get his starting lock spot back. He will give it a good shot," Haddad said. "Kobe believes the side can win a grand final this year and next year and he wants to be part of that success." Haddad said his client was satisfied to accept a one-year deal and keep his options open, even though the Broncos were prepared to extend the length of the contract. "Kobe loves the Broncos, but you never now what will happen in the future," he said. Hetherington also received interest from St George Illawarra and Canberra. The son of former Canterbury premiership-winning hooker Jason Hetherington, Kobe is one of captain Adam Reynolds' favourite players. Reynolds has likened him to a cattle dog because "he has a bit of mongrel and fight in him like a cattle dog and just keeps going". The genesis of his prowess was in a cattle-yard in rural central Queensland. "When Kobe and his twin Zac were five years old I would get them to tackle calves," Jason Hetherington told AAP recently. "I'd be doing all the cattle work and with the calves that I'd brand and let through I'd say, 'go and tackle them boys, wrangle them, jump on them and ride them'. They would get in there and bulldog them and scruff them." Kobe was recruited by shrewd Broncos recruitment chief Simon Scanlan. "The Broncos signed him from a schoolboy game in Rockhampton when Simon Scanlan spotted him and his brother Zac," Haddad said. "Canterbury came in with interest, and Jason sent Zac to Canterbury and Kobe to Brisbane." Brisbane forward Kobe Hetherington has backed himself and the club to the hilt after rejecting a three-year deal from Manly to re-sign with the Broncos until the end of 2026. The 26-year-old has been in hot form to lead the Broncos' mid-season revival on the back of five wins ahead of Friday night's clash with Parramatta at Suncorp Stadium. Hetherington started the season at lock before coach Michael Maguire switched Pat Carrigan back there from prop in round 14. The past two games, with State of Origin players out, Hetherington started at lock and prop and was outstanding to prove he has a future as a starting middle. His manager Chris Haddad told AAP that Hetherington was thriving at the Broncos and had set himself an admirable goal. "Manly made an offer for three years, but we have signed a one-year deal to see if Kobe can get his starting lock spot back. He will give it a good shot," Haddad said. "Kobe believes the side can win a grand final this year and next year and he wants to be part of that success." Haddad said his client was satisfied to accept a one-year deal and keep his options open, even though the Broncos were prepared to extend the length of the contract. "Kobe loves the Broncos, but you never now what will happen in the future," he said. Hetherington also received interest from St George Illawarra and Canberra. The son of former Canterbury premiership-winning hooker Jason Hetherington, Kobe is one of captain Adam Reynolds' favourite players. Reynolds has likened him to a cattle dog because "he has a bit of mongrel and fight in him like a cattle dog and just keeps going". The genesis of his prowess was in a cattle-yard in rural central Queensland. "When Kobe and his twin Zac were five years old I would get them to tackle calves," Jason Hetherington told AAP recently. "I'd be doing all the cattle work and with the calves that I'd brand and let through I'd say, 'go and tackle them boys, wrangle them, jump on them and ride them'. They would get in there and bulldog them and scruff them." Kobe was recruited by shrewd Broncos recruitment chief Simon Scanlan. "The Broncos signed him from a schoolboy game in Rockhampton when Simon Scanlan spotted him and his brother Zac," Haddad said. "Canterbury came in with interest, and Jason sent Zac to Canterbury and Kobe to Brisbane."
Yahoo
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Caitlin Clark unveils Kobe 6 Protros ‘Cookie Monster' edition before Wings faceoff
The post Caitlin Clark unveils Kobe 6 Protros 'Cookie Monster' edition before Wings faceoff appeared first on ClutchPoints. Caitlin Clark has become one of the WNBA's biggest trendsetters for many reasons, and her sneaker game is definitely on that list. Clark's association with sneakers has been front and center since Nike signed her to a signature shoe deal in 2024, and the Indiana Fever star has already rocked a player-exclusive edition of Kobes. Now, Clark's debuting a brand new Nike Kobe 6 'Cookie Monster' colorway in a July 13 contest against the Dallas Wings. Clark's striking blue shoes made a statement on and off the court, bridging the gap between her pop culture influence and pro basketball prowess. The high-profile contest was the perfect backdrop for her nod to sneakerhead culture and a basketball icon. Clark's deal with Nike was worth about $28 million and includes the eventual creation of her very own signature shoe. For now, she's taken a liking to Nike's Kobe line and even partnered with the brand on an ad for a colorway named after her. The Nike Kobe 5 Protro 'Caitlin Clark Indiana Fever' colorway dropped on June 30 and sold out within minutes at a price of USD $190 for adult sizes. Nike aired the ad for the player-exclusive colorway that saw Clark transform into a Mamba mindset, homaging the late Kobe Bryant. She then took the court for the Fever in the new colorway of the same name shortly after. Clark has been wearing the Nike Kobe signature line since her playing days at Iowa. It's not uncommon for athletes to receive their own player-exclusive versions to wear in-game that match their team's color scheme, but it's not as common to see them released to the public — especially for WNBA players. The 'Cookie Monster' colorway could end up coming in handy for Clark against the Wings and as the Fever make their playoff push in the second half of the 2025 WNBA season. Related: Bronny James rocks the Nike LeBron 20 at NBA Summer League Related: Ja Morant, Nike dropping graffiti-inspired Nike Ja 3
South China Morning Post
2 days ago
- South China Morning Post
Japan man arrested for hiding dead mum's body in flat for 10 years due to social anxiety
Police in Japan have arrested a 60-year-old man on a charge of corpse abandonment after the body of his 95-year-old mother was discovered in her flat after being left there for 10 years. Takehisa Miyawaki told police that he knew his mother died a decade ago, but did not report it due to social phobia, according to a report on the news website Miyawaki is unemployed and has no fixed home address. The strange and unsettling case unfolded in the Japanese city of Kobe. Photo: Shutterstock The case aroused police attention after a public servant in Kobe City, Hyogo Prefecture, central Japan, found Miyawaki walking with a limp on the street on May 22. When the government official asked him for his personal information and about his mother, Miyawaki refused to say anything about her, raising suspicion. The official then alerted the local police. Officers then went to check the home registered in the name of Miyawaki's mother in June.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Health
- The Guardian
Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show
Whether it's an exam, flight or health check, some people take a sunny view of the future while others plan for catastrophes. Now researchers have found that people with an upbeat outlook show similar patterns of brain activity when they mull over future scenarios. 'Optimists seem to use a shared neural framework for organising thoughts about the future, which likely reflects a similar style of mental processing rather than identical ideas,' said Kuniaki Yanagisawa, first author of the research from Kobe University in Japan. He said the results could shed light on previous findings that showed optimists tended to be more socially successful. 'What this [new study] tells us is that the foundation of their social success might be this shared reality,' he added. 'It's not just about having a positive attitude; it's that their brains are literally on the same wavelength, which may allow for a deeper, more intuitive kind of connection.' In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said they asked 87 participants to complete a questionnaire to reveal how optimistic they were. Each participant also underwent an MRI brain scan, during which they were asked to imagine various different possible future life events, some of which were positive – such as taking an 'epic trip around the world' – while others were neutral or negative, such as being fired. A subset of the participants were asked to imagine scenarios related to death. The team found participants who were more optimistic showed greater similarities in the patterns of their brain activity in a region involved in future-oriented thinking, called the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) Yanagisawa said one possibility was that the more diverse brain activity among pessimists reflected a more varied set of concerns when thinking about negative scenarios. However, he said another possibility was that optimists viewed their futures within a shared framework of socially accepted goals which pessimists might feel disconnected from for personal reasons, meaning they each had a different way of thinking about the future. The researchers said the results had parallels with the first line of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina: 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' 'On the basis of this principle, we propose that optimistic individuals are all alike, but each less optimistic individual imagines the future in their own way,' the team wrote. The researchers also found patterns of brain activity in the MPFC showed clearer differences for positive and negative future events in optimists. 'This suggests that optimists not only 'think alike' in a structural sense, but they also process emotional information about the future differently with a greater ability to separate what's good from what's bad, which may help them stay resilient,' said Yanagisawa. He said previous work had associated this kind of clearer separation with a more abstract, psychologically distant way of thinking about negative events. 'We're not saying that optimists have identical thoughts about the future, or that they imagine the exact same scenarios,' said Yanadisawa. 'Rather, what we found is that their brains represent future events in a similar way, especially in how they distinguish between positive and negative possibilities. So while we wouldn't say they have the same thoughts, we can say that they appear to think in the same way – structurally.' Prof Lisa Bortolotti of the University of Birmingham, in the UK, who was not involved in the work, said the study suggested optimists pictured future negative events in less vivid and concrete detail than positive ones, meaning such potential scenarios affected them less. 'These findings might suggest that optimism does not amount to a form of irrationality or reality distortion because it does not change how we see things out there but how those things impact us,' she added. Bortolotti said assuming things won't go wrong brought no benefits if it left us unprepared for challenges, but noted that optimism worked when it motivated us to pursue goals. 'Picturing a positive outcome in detail as feasible and desirable makes us value it and work for it, ultimately making it more likely that we will achieve it,' she said.
The Guardian
2 days ago
- Health
- The Guardian
Optimists share similar brain patterns when thinking about the future, scans show
Whether it's an exam, flight or health check, some people take a sunny view of the future while others plan for catastrophes. Now researchers have found that people with an upbeat outlook show similar patterns of brain activity when they mull over future scenarios. 'Optimists seem to use a shared neural framework for organising thoughts about the future, which likely reflects a similar style of mental processing rather than identical ideas,' said Kuniaki Yanagisawa, first author of the research from Kobe University in Japan. He said the results could shed light on previous findings that showed optimists tended to be more socially successful. 'What this [new study] tells us is that the foundation of their social success might be this shared reality,' he added. 'It's not just about having a positive attitude; it's that their brains are literally on the same wavelength, which may allow for a deeper, more intuitive kind of connection.' In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers said they asked 87 participants to complete a questionnaire to reveal how optimistic they were. Each participant also underwent an MRI brain scan, during which they were asked to imagine various different possible future life events, some of which were positive – such as taking an 'epic trip around the world' – while others were neutral or negative, such as being fired. A subset of the participants were asked to imagine scenarios related to death. The team found participants who were more optimistic showed greater similarities in the patterns of their brain activity in a region involved in future-oriented thinking, called the medial prefrontal cortex (MPFC) Yanagisawa said one possibility was that the more diverse brain activity among pessimists reflected a more varied set of concerns when thinking about negative scenarios. However, he said another possibility was that optimists viewed their futures within a shared framework of socially accepted goals which pessimists might feel disconnected from for personal reasons, meaning they each had a different way of thinking about the future. The researchers said the results had parallels with the first line of Leo Tolstoy's novel Anna Karenina: 'Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.' 'On the basis of this principle, we propose that optimistic individuals are all alike, but each less optimistic individual imagines the future in their own way,' the team wrote. The researchers also found patterns of brain activity in the MPFC showed clearer differences for positive and negative future events in optimists. 'This suggests that optimists not only 'think alike' in a structural sense, but they also process emotional information about the future differently with a greater ability to separate what's good from what's bad, which may help them stay resilient,' said Yanagisawa. He said previous work had associated this kind of clearer separation with a more abstract, psychologically distant way of thinking about negative events. 'We're not saying that optimists have identical thoughts about the future, or that they imagine the exact same scenarios,' said Yanadisawa. 'Rather, what we found is that their brains represent future events in a similar way, especially in how they distinguish between positive and negative possibilities. So while we wouldn't say they have the same thoughts, we can say that they appear to think in the same way – structurally.' Prof Lisa Bortolotti of the University of Birmingham, in the UK, who was not involved in the work, said the study suggested optimists pictured future negative events in less vivid and concrete detail than positive ones, meaning such potential scenarios affected them less. 'These findings might suggest that optimism does not amount to a form of irrationality or reality distortion because it does not change how we see things out there but how those things impact us,' she added. Bortolotti said assuming things won't go wrong brought no benefits if it left us unprepared for challenges, but noted that optimism worked when it motivated us to pursue goals. 'Picturing a positive outcome in detail as feasible and desirable makes us value it and work for it, ultimately making it more likely that we will achieve it,' she said.
