Sports & Entertainment Spotlight

Welcome back to the Spotlight! Historic events such as the recent mission around the Moon are notable not just because of their being, well…notable and historic, but also for their capacity to stimulate curiosity and imagination about space travel. Undoubtedly, the seeds for tomorrow’s sci-fi films and biopics have been planted through this captivating mission – making my task this week all the more difficult. SO, while I can’t promise that I will be able to show you the other side of the Moon or other celestial bodies, I will do my best to make this week’s Spotlight downright stellar, if not out of this world. With Apollo-gies, you’d have to be a lunatic not to keep reading, though if you don’t gravitate to puns, then maybe this is one you Artemis.

• • Emmy Award winning actor Zendaya builds on her partnership with apparel and footwear brand, On – rolling out a co-created collection of athleisure clothing to go with a new sneaker, the Cloudnova Moon. With the brand hiring Spike Jonze to direct the ad launching the collection, they are betting that sales will not crater.
  • Shaquille O’Neal unveils a new professional dunking league called “Dunkman” in which competitors will vie for prize money of $500,000 and a world championship title. Perhaps that can inspire my kids to slam their laundry in their hampers.
  • Faced with sponsors defecting over a string of antisemitic comments, actions and behaviors by its announced headliner, Ye, UK music festival Wireless was forced to cancel the festival altogether. Kudos to them for making the “difficult” choice of letting their conscience catch up with them (rather than rebranding as “Sponsorless”).