Christian Laettner and The Shot, Duke vs. Kentucky, 1992 East Regional final. I was sitting at the press table directly behind the Kentucky bench when Sean Woods landed that ridiculous banked half-hook directly over Laettner’s reach. I said to myself, and this is true, “What a great ending to a fabulous game.” I had no idea what was coming next. Mario Chalmers’ 3-pointer that forced overtime vs. Memphis, 2008 championship game....
ESPN’s House of Hot Takes is built as strong as ever, with no shortage of spicy and brain-breaking opinions to make the walls stronger than an ox but twice as ugly. Mike Greenberg is the latest to add a new wing to the house, with a nice, thick, brick of an opinion coming in hot on Monday’s “Get Up!”: The pontificator said that the Dolphins “got this thing wrong” when it came to drafting Tua Tagovailoa No....
On Tuesday night, the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the White Sox 8-4 behind seven innings from starter Marcus Stroman. He surrendered four runs and struck out five batters, his final punchout almost leading to punches. After retiring Tim Anderson, Stroman and the White Sox shortstop got into a bit of a staredown, which, on the baseball diamond, means both teams ran out onto the field, players were held back, and, as is the case in virtually every benches-clearing incident, no punches were thrown....
Sometimes, though, it is, and celebs are left to decide how and when they want to share their life updates. If they’re not forced into revealing everything by a third party in the first place. While this applies to many facets of celebrity life, it’s particularly prominent when it comes to women and their bodies, from plastic surgery to reproduction. Frankly, women in Hollywood deserve a break and a new industry-standard that knows where to draw the line....
The author and speaker from Texas tried to make her pitch to potential voters Thursday in Part 2 of the party’s initial debate of the election cycle. Her sound bites — or at least her delivery of them — were reminiscent of a Saturday night WCW show. Take, for example, this riff on the prime minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern: Pretty good promo, right? It was just missing “American Dream....
With relievers Fernando Rodney, Carson Smith and Tom Wilhelmsen on different rosters for the 2016 season, Dipoto acquired Joaquin Benoit from the Padres to slide into the set-up role with Cishek taking over the closer spot. MORE: Winter meetings winners and losers | Where will CarGo go? The $5 million AAV is less than what Cishek made in 2015 ($6.65 million) but the contract does include incentives that could bring the contract to a total of $17 million if he can remain on the club’s closer....
Mariupol, a port city on the Sea of Azov, has been facing antibiotic and painkiller shortages, forcing doctors in the city’s hospitals to carry out some procedures without them, the Associated Press reported. Injured residents and military members have been flooding hospitals amid the shelling, Euronews said. AP reported that the city is also short on water, food and power. Cellphone networks have not been functioning and desperate residents have been looting stores for supplies....
In a Twitter post Tuesday, the Georgia Republican posted a photo with a caption saying: “Democrats are trying to expel me from Congress. Help me raise $50,000 today and send a message.” The fundraising appeal comes as House Democrats weigh several options to punish the freshman congresswoman for a laundry list of incendiary remarks—which range from spreading conspiracies that school shootings were staged events to allegedly indicating support for executing prominent Democratic politicians....
According to a recent report by Axios listing a total of 14 impeachment attempts launched by the Republican Party, two more impeachment resolutions were filed by House Republicans against Attorney General Merrick Garland, while Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas were the targets of one impeachment article each. Last week, Greene introduced a new article of impeachment against Biden “for endangering, compromising, and undermining the energy security of the United States by selling oil from the United States’ Strategic Petroleum Reserve to foreign nations,” a practice that the Trump administration also engaged with....
Republican Senators Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney of Utah joined Democrats in voting to force Jackson’s nomination out of the deadlocked Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday. They are also likely to vote in favor of Jackson’s appointment when a full Senate vote is expected to take place by the end of the week. During Jackson’s confirmation hearings, other Republicans repeatedly questioned Jackson’s record of sentencing cases related to child porn....
Greene wrote to FBI Director Chris Wray and Yogananda D. Pittman, acting chief of the U.S. Capitol Police, on June 24 with a list of demands—including information about the officer who shot and killed rioter Ashli Babbitt. The letter was also carbon copied to Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and Michael Carvajal, director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. It was published on conservative website American Greatness on Friday....
“I just filed articles of impeachment on President Joe Biden,” Greene said in a video posted to Twitter. “We’ll see how this goes.” According to a press release posted to Twitter by Greene, the impeachment articles are for Biden’s “corrupt actions involving his quid pro quo in Ukraine and his abuse of power by allowing his son, Hunter Biden, to siphon off cash from America’s greatest enemies Russia and China....
Greene’s legislation, dubbed the Second Amendment Preservation Act (SAPA), proposes to cut federal funding from “implementing, enforcing, or advancing any measure, law, regulation, or guidance to the lawful use, purchase, sale, possession, or transportation of firearms by any citizen of the United States for Fiscal Year 2021.” The SAPA also would halt federal funding for the enforcement or implementation of any gun control law or guidance placed into effect by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) after November 1, 2020....
Politicians across the United States honored the work of Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday. But Greene, a Georgia Republican, appeared to equate the segregation faced by Black Americans to vaccine requirements in a Gettr post. “Thanks to the hard work of Rev MLK Jr. and others, growing up in Georgia, I’ve seen the beautiful fruit that blossomed from the Civil Rights Era, where segregation ended & equality began,” she wrote....
The Senate passed the bipartisan legislation late Thursday in a 65-33 vote, marking the most significant step toward gun reform from Congress in nearly three decades. Fifteen GOP senators, including Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, voted in favor of the bill, despite the strong opposition of former President Donald Trump. Because the House is controlled by Democrats and needs only a slim majority for legislation to pass, the bill is expected to be approved by that chamber as well....
For four years now, Greene has been mocked over her so-called “Jewish space laser” theory, which she single-handedly invented when she accused the Rothschilds, a prominent Jewish banking family, of profiting from California wildfires which they had themselves ignited with “lasers or blue beams of light” from space. The delusional theory, first published in a since-deleted 2018 Facebook post, was widely embraced by QAnon followers. But while mockery from critics of the controversial, far-right Georgia congresswoman is expected, the same comes as a surprise from fellow MAGA congresswoman Boebert....
In an interview with Politico published on Wednesday in which the publication asked Cuban and others to grade Biden’s first year in office, Cuban gave the president an overall B grade for his performance so far. Cuban said that the he thinks “the glaring problem is that there is absolutely zero charisma in the Biden administration.” “It may be unfortunate that it is even a consideration, but in a social media and sound-bite world where everyone is a performer, someone has to have some charisma that connects to people and overwhelms memes, headlines and soundbites as a source of information,” Cuban said....
During an appearance on Hannity’s primetime show, the host asked the Dallas Mavericks owner and Shark Tank star to admit that former Vice President Joe Biden is “not exactly with it,” in reference to Biden’s cognitive abilities, to which Cuban replied that Trump was not able to answer a question from Hannity “cohesively.” “Sean, you gave Donald Trump the ultimate softball question and he couldn’t answer it cohesively,” Cuban said....
While West has not played in the NBA since 2012 (his final season with the Mavericks), he had an impressive eight-year career nonetheless. Beginning with the Boston Celtics in 2004, West reached his highest points per game average in his third season with the Celtics, in the 2006-07 season, with a 12.2 point average, according to Basketball Reference. The previous season, he averaged 11.8 points per game. He reached similar averages in his first two seasons with the Cleveland Cavaliers, averaging 10....
His Advice to Businesses Now I’m telling them all the exact same thing. One, you have to be transparent. Two, you have to be honest. Three, you have to be authentic. Four, you have to talk. You have to communicate, because everybody’s freaked out. Everybody’s uncertain. Everybody’s working with imperfect information. You have to recognize that when everybody’s afraid, the best way to deal with it is by coming together....
