It was a good week for some NFL bettors and a horrible Sunday for FanDuel Sportsbook, with the company cashing out $20million to its customers.
According to the New York Post, some sharp football fans got in on a juicy Week 2 parlay.
To win, each NFL team playing in the (all ET) 1pm, 4:05 and 4:25p slates had to kick a field goal.
This was priced at 200/1 on FanDuel, while DraftKings also had the special but at a leaner 30/1. Read More...
There’s a piece in today’s Times examining the relationship between Magnum condoms and hip-hop. Like Cristal before it, an “unsolicited lift by hip-hop artists” (i.e., rappers name-checking Magnums in their lyrics) has boosted sales of the brand by 14 percent. Trojan, which owns Magnum, has decided to capitalize on all this free advertising by turning it into not-free advertising. The company has hired Ludacris as a spokesman for Magnum’s first ever ad campaign, which will include print, online, and radio ads, as well as a contest soliciting the best Magnum-themed lyrics. Read More...
If you've spent any time online recently, you'll be familiar with ‘yassification’: the disconcerting social media trend, which takes ‘glow-ups’ to the next extreme. And Margot Robbie, AKA Barbie, is the latest celebrity to fall victim to it.
That's right, someone looked at a photo of Margot – with her slim frame, blonde hair, blue eyes etc. – (features which are already held as Eurocentric beauty ideals) and thought she needed FaceTune. Read More...