And apparently he spent the summer grooming for the job by learning French — a requisite for becoming the face of Les Habitants. MORE: NHL’s top active goal scorers | Leafs captain Dion Phaneuf makes commitment | Camp information Andrei Markov, P.K. Subban, Tomas Plekanec and Brendan Gallagher were named assistant captains. Pacioretty, 26, is the third American to captain the Habs. The others: Chris Chelios and Brian Gionta....
CSN Chicago reports senior safety Max Redfield was among the six players arrested in two separate incidents. Redfield, linebacker Te’von Coney, cornerback Ashton White, running back Dexter Williams and receiver Kevin Stepherson were arrested on a misdemeanor charge of possession of marijuana in Fulton County, which is about 50 miles outside of South Bend. MORE: SN Top 25 | Best case/worst case | Teams that can shake up Week 1...
Wiley, former counsel to Mayor Bill De Blasio, called the election process a “debacle” after she was eliminated in the eighth round of the new ranked-choice voting system. The Democratic primary was marred by a major error when the BOE was forced to retract initial results after inadvertently including 135,000 test ballots along with real votes cast in the election. The Associated Press, which many media outlets rely on for calling election results, declared Adams the winner on Tuesday....
Pearl Harbor was the first example of national cluster emotion. As that phenomenon, it lives not as a historic event but as personal recollection, not much different from a first kiss or a high-school graduation. Everyone sentient then remembers it; Americans born later have the family oral history thrust down their throats. By now, it’s our own Kabuki theater. Remember in “Stalag 17” when the bad guy is trapped just because he remembered Pearl Harbor occurring at the wrong hour of the day?...
The platform’s annual recap is quite well established at this point, with music fans eagerly awaiting (or dreading) its release each year. In case you are unfamiliar with the concept, it basically gives an overview of your Spotify activity from within a specific time window (a couple of months from the calendar are missed out for reasons that are explained in depth here). When it arrives in your email inbox at the beginning of December, Wrapped will collate all of your data into one easily digestible (and social media friendly) snapshot....
Italian newspaper Tuttosport had initially named a 24-man shortlist for the prize, but the likes of Manchester United star Marcus Rashford and Borussia Dortmund’s Christian Pulisic are now out of the running. Instead, Paris Saint-Germain’s Mbappe continues to head the field, having completed a loan move from Monaco in the summer after helping the Stade Louis II side to the semi-finals of the Champions League and the French title....
Democrats and Republicans have been at an impasse since August over the next coronavirus economic relief bill. The proposal up for vote on Thursday is expected to cost less than $1 trillion. Democratic lawmakers have said that the GOP bill does not go far enough to meet the needs of Americans affected by the coronavirus. “Republicans are making yet another overture,” McConnell said during a speech Tuesday on the Senate floor....
Even as Nancy Pelosi and Steven Mnuchin inch toward a deal, major disagreements persist, while Senate Republicans double down on their push for legislation that is less than one-third the cost of either proposal pushed by the House speaker and Treasury secretary. Pelosi and Democrats remain at $2.2 trillion, a measure they passed last month. Mnuchin, speaking for the White House, has come up to $1.8 trillion. But GOP senators will vote again next week on a previously failed measure worth only about $500 billion....
In a statement issued on Wilkes-Barre City Police Department’s Facebook page, law enforcement released surveillance photos of three men accused of assaulting the employee at the restaurant along East Northampton Street. Police did not say when the alleged assault took place and have not released the current condition of the victim. The statement asked anyone with information about the case to contact Officer Hartman on rhartman@wilkes-barre.pa.us or 570 208-4125....
Employees walked out of the restaurant at 2838 Crenshaw Boulevard in Los Angeles at 9.30 a.m. on Sunday, Fox11 reported. Bartolome Perez, who works as a cook at that McDonald’s location, told City News Service that he and his coworkers found out a female coworker had tested positive for coronavirus last week. But Perez said McDonald’s didn’t inform employees that the woman was off sick with COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus....
Lemon was arguably the best-known of all the Globetrotter personalities as their lead prankster and point guard. He joined the team in 1954 and played with the ‘Trotters until 1978. MORE: Notable sports deaths of 2015 | Images of the Globetrotter great A native of Wilmington, N.C., he displayed an array of tricks and a larger-than-life presence on the court. Lemon also had otherworldly basketball skills, including halfcourt hook shots with astonishing accuracy and dazzling no-look passes well before the Magic Johnson era began in the NBA....
As such, most of the great American TV shows over the years have had a go at a Thanksgiving episode—and along the way, they have made some great food that we at home can only aspire to. They have also had some absolute disasters that we can draw some important lessons from. Here are the biggest pointers about Thanksgiving food we have learned from classic Thanksgiving episodes, from Friends, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Succession and more....
But Flynt is not the only one working to get as much access as possible. Correspondents for the tabloid TV program “Inside Edition” and MTV were among the roughly 200 reporters who recently participated in combat-training boot camps sponsored by the Defense Department. Networks haven’t finalized specific programming details–Nickelodeon, A&E and Black Entertainment Television will provide niche coverage–but " ‘Inside Edition’ is planning to go with our strength: telling the human drama," says Jim Kelly, a producer....
That doesn’t end the debate about media outlets paying for access. Fierce competition to secure exclusive material have led to creative deals in which companies pay for related expenses, like production materials, while shying away from paying the subjects themselves. NEWSWEEK’s Alexandra Gekas spoke with Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism, a Washington-based nonpartisan research organization, about the ethics and prevalence of checkbook journalism. Excerpts:...
Players Conventional Wisdom M. Eisner up The magic’s back for the Mightiest Duck. But keep your hands off the Weather Channel M. Jordan up Hearring footsteps? Westinghouse chief will always be the other Michael Jordan. T. Turner neutral Old CW: Keep this barbarian away from CBS. New: Give this stateman a network. L. Tisch down CBS chief cashes out, leaves Tiffany network overstocked with cubic zirconia. W. Buffett up Genius investor, triple up-arrow icon, whaddaguy....
The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health (LACDPH) announced that a screener working at the airport’s quarantine facility was diagnosed with the virus. A screener working at the same facility was found to be infected on Tuesday and the two cases are believed to be related. Los Angeles county reports 13 total cases so far, out of at least 69 in California. “We will continue to see more cases of COVID-19,” said LACDPH Director Barbara Ferrer in a press release....
Apparently the Reliance scientists gave answers to the U.S. experts’ liking. As the NIH revealed last week, the Indian start-up is among 10 research centers in the world holding stem-cell colonies that meet the criteria laid down by President George W. Bush–most importantly that the cells were culled from embryos no later than Aug. 9 (following story). Another Indian outfit, Bangalore-based National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), has three more potential stem-cell lines, bringing the country’s total to 10 of only 64 lines identified by the NIH....
Not so well, according to a pair of new studies. The first one, appearing tomorrow in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at 334,204 black and white members of 151 Medicare plans—and found that only one plan was delivering equally well for blacks and whites, and even this plan was making the grade on only two out of four measures. The study didn’t aim to assess care in the doctor’s office per se, according to Dr....
“Basketball was something I thought I could go far in and I was expecting some offers to come in,” he told The Athletic in September. “But as a junior, I started to lean more towards football.” Claypool had been playing football “just for fun” since he was 8 years old, but it was on the court where he really stood out as a kid. He was averaging more than 47 points per game in AAU basketball before he shifted his focus to the gridiron....
This makes the character a unique casting challenge—there just are not many actors who are 6'5" with 50" chests outside of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Who is playing Jack Reacher in Reacher? Ritchson, 39, is probably best known to fans of superhero TV series. His TV debut as an actor came in 2005, when he was cast as Arthur Curry/Aquaman in the Superman origin series Smallville. Thirteen years later, Ritchson returned to the world of DC Comics to play Hank Hall/Hawk in HBO Max’s Titans (he also cameoed as the character twice in Supergirl and Legends of Tomorrow)....
