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(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Hawthorne High School has long served as something of an entry valve to the pipeline that feeds athletes into Division I colleges and then the National Football League. Jennifer King, the NFL's first Black female full-time coach (she's an assistant running backs coach with the Washington Commanders), played as both a quarterback and wide receiver for several teams. [Extracted from the article]

Nguyen would like to expand the Bra to other cities. The business idea was born after Nguyen, a passionate basketball fan and a chef by trade, grew frustrated trying to follow women's basketball at traditional, male-dominated sports bars. (Bloomberg Businessweek) -- By 4 p.m. on a Friday in September, there was already a waitlist for seats and a line out the door of the Sports Bra, a new watering hole in northeast Portland. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Carolyn Greco and Margaret Osmundson are professional athletes who together placed third in the world at a recent competition staged in Anaheim, California, that was streamed globally on ESPN3. In March 2020, Osmundson picked up and moved to Los Angeles to Northern California to compete with Greco in doubles teqball matches. Although they are among the world's highest-ranked teqers, both Greco and Osmundson work full-time nonteqball jobs, Greco as an environmental consultant and Osmundson as an operations manager for a sports academy. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- If you were an elementary school student in Oklahoma, you might meet Petro Pete, a cartoon child outfitted in the overalls and hard hat of an oil rig worker. Allan's organization, which has 40,000 members, is the largest science teaching membership organization in the U.S. Its website offers sample lessons and guidance for constructing scientifically-sound climate change curriculum to try and rebut the fossil fuel interests. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- On a recent Saturday morning in downtown Brooklyn, well before the Trader Joe's at City Point was to open its doors at 9 a.m., a line already snaked several blocks away from the entrance. A March 21 text message reviewed by Bloomberg Businessweek between an employee and a manager at a Trader Joe's store in the Midwest said: "There's easily 150 customers in here. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- While still an undergraduate at Brown University, Sadie Kurzban started offering dance-cardio classes in earnest. Olivia Young, founder of New York City-based fitness studio Box + Flow, is among those who's hoping for rent relief. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- While still an undergraduate at Brown University, Sadie Kurzban started offering dance-cardio classes in earnest. Olivia Young, founder of New York City-based fitness studio Box + Flow, is among those who's hoping for rent relief. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg Businessweek) -- Prison Dating Sites Are Under Threat Beyond helping inmates endure their sentences by letting them know someone on the outside is thinking of them, prison dating sites may be able to help reduce recidivism, says the University of Alberta's Churchill. The more common problems with prison dating sites will sound more familiar to anyone who's tried nonprison dating sites, or just dating, period. [Extracted from the article]

A few open houses later, Jackson was preapproved for a 30-year, fixed-rate mortgage and had put an offer in on a small, one-bedroom home in a triplex in Denver for $72,500. After a few open houses, Weiss had narrowed her search to apartments in smaller buildings with lower maintenance fees. Because ATTOM looked at more than 5 million homes with mortgages for this data point, the small difference translates to a lot of foreclosures. [Extracted from the article]

The company's decision could roil the Chuck E. Cheese's currency market - which, yes, is a thing. Collecting arcade tokens is a "relatively new phenomenon", says Rich Hartzog, who runs World Exonumia, an online marketplace and information resource for collectors of exonumia, or nonmoney money such as casino chips. [Extracted from the article]

Soon, Otiende was using the free messaging app to provide information to each of the women in Libya, who'd met in person or found one another through social media over several weeks and formed a support group. Messaging apps are helping some women escape human trafficking. [Extracted from the article]

Middle daughter Lady Edith, a "modern" working woman, has left the family seat to oversee a magazine in London. Credit the show's rich visual style and the comic timing of Dame Maggie Smith - whose performance as the Dowager Countess Violet alone was worth the time spent watching - for the continued strong ratings in the fourth and fifth seasons. [Extracted from the article]

On the weekend, however, from September to January, Campbell wears the black-and-white stripes and whistle of a Division I collegiate football referee. One gray Saturday in late October, Campbell, 57, and seven of his fellow refs prepare at a hotel in Louisville for a meeting of the University of Louisville Cardinals and the Boston College Eagles. Campbell and his fellow referees will spend hours after a game debriefing, either at a nearby hotel or in a designated spot near the stadium, depending on the facility. [Extracted from the article]