SAMUELS:Was it hard returning to R&B? BRAXTON: It was tough in the beginning. On Broadway you have to enunciate every word very carefully. When I went to record my album, the producers were, like, “Where’s the old Toni? We need to send you to church.” While you were doing the show, you had a stalker. How scary was that? I don’t like to call him a stalker, but a very, very enthused fan....
Earlier this morning, WWE removed all mentions of the match from its website and social media. While the main roster is known to do this and then just completely ignore it like it was never announced, to begin with, it seems that NXT is going out of their way today on social media to try to explain it and turn it into a story. Earlier this afternoon on social media, NXT correspondent McKenzie Mitchell tweeted the following…...
It was reported that Briscoe lost his life in an automobile accident. Tony Khan was the first to announce the tragic news to the world. He praised the 20-year veteran and mentioned that he and his company will do whatever possible to support and help the Briscoe family. During tonight’s episode of AEW Dynamite, Tony Khan took to Twitter to share the news that a special tribute for the late star will be filmed following the show and that it will be available for free for the entire world to see....
While speaking to Bloomberg Business of Sports, Tony Khan explained the reasoning behind AEW putting out four pay-per-views every year. He stated that he’s more focused on providing a compelling television product in the form of weekly Dynamite and Rampage episodes. He added that the combined three-hour of the two flagship programs is core for the company. Tony Khan believes the storyline build-up to these quarterly pay-per-views generates a lot of buzz among wrestling fans before the event:...
In his report on the run-up to the war, released in London last week, Lord Butler discovered that there was not a single meeting of the Defense and Overseas Policy Committee of ministers in the whole year before the invasion. “Excellent quality papers” were prepared by officials but never circulated to cabinet ministers, presumably on the instructions of Downing Street. Lord Butler records his concern that “the informality and circumscribed character” of the Blair style of management reduced the scope for “informed collective political judgment....
“Our work over the years is finally paying off,” says Ahmedin Jemal, Ph.D., a specialist in cancer occurrence and the lead author of the report. He pointed to medical advances, early detection and antitobacco campaigns as key factors in the progress made. But the report also underscores a stark disparity between men and women when it comes to surviving cancer. Death rates are falling about twice as fast for men as for women....
Part of Wordle’s beauty, and the reason it became a viral sensation, is surely its simplicity. Each day the player has to work out a five-letter word, in six attempts or less. After each guess the letters light up, indicating how accurate you were. When a letter goes green it means it is both in the word and has been put in the correct place. Yellow tells you the letter features, but not where you put it, whilst gray means it isn’t included at all....
The popularity of the show stems from its offbeat approach, engaging content, and an extremely interesting final round, which also allows audience participation, and is one of the chief attractions of the game show. This particular season has been one of the best ones in the long history of Jeopardy! owing to some brilliant contestants like Matt Amadio, Mattea Roach, and more recently, Ryan Long. Viewers can participate in the game show by guessing the correct answer to the final round ahead of the episode’s air time....
This is a preview of Fantasy Alarm’s MLB DFS Playbook. To see the full Playbook, as well as get access to Fantasy Alarm’s full suite of DFS tools, including a lineup generator, ownership and stat projections, value plays, and much more, become a subscriber! DOMINATE YOUR DFS CONTESTS: Join DFS Alarm from Fantasy Alarm Today’s MLB DFS Playbook: Lineup picks, tips for Friday Julio Urias, SP, Dodgers (@ Padres). Urias bounced back from his opening start flop with a great outing against the Reds, tossing five shutout innings with only one hit against while striking out five....
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A report just released by the national government’s Board of Audit shows Japan is likely to spend $25 billion to prepare the games, and the final number could go even higher. This is nearly a four-fold increase over Tokyo’s winning bid in 2013, which the report said projected costs of 829 billion yen, or $7.3 billion at the current exchange rate of 113 yen to the dollar. Tracking Tokyo costs is getting more difficult as work speeds up, deadlines near, and disputes arise about what are — and what are not — Olympic expenses....
RELATED: Tokyo Revengers: Every Main Character’s Age, Height, And Birthday Hinata isn’t just a simple character made to be protagonist Takemichi’s love interest, she’s much more than that. She is a complex character that hopefully fans will see much more in the upcoming season. Here are a few fun facts about Tokyo Revenger’s Hinata Tachibana that fans may not know. 6 She Has A Sweet Tooth While Hinata hasn’t mentioned her love for sweets in the anime so far, the official Tokyo Revengers character book has a few little hidden details that not many fans may be privy to....
“We decided as Tokyo 2020 not to sell alcoholic beverages and to ban drinking alcoholic beverages in the venues,” Seiko Hashimoto, Olympics organizing committee president said. The initial decision was likely pressure from financial sponsors, as Japanese brewer Asahi has contributed millions to the local operating budget, and was possibly hoping for a way to make back some of the money spent. Alcohol has been banned in the athletes’ village, though any athletes who want to drink to celebrate have been told to “drink alone” in their rooms....
Maybe that’s why Brady on Monday leaned on an old stock-market adage while appearing on WEEI’s “Kirk & Callahan” show: Past performance is no guarantee of future return. IYER: Brady has never played better “This is a day-to-day league. It really doesn’t matter last time we played them or last year because things change so much with the game and a game plan and players. Coach [Bill] Belichick talks about all the time, it’s not who you play, it’s how you play....
Throughout Brady’s career, many quarterbacks who have sat behind “TB12” have gone on to play in games in the NFL. Of course, there are differing results for all of them, but one thing’s for sure: None have been “Tom Terrific.” To that end, Bill Belichick’s resume when it comes to drafting quarterback talent isn’t exactly a tried-and-true and proven commodity. Had it not been for Brady, there’s a decent chance that Belichick would be wallowing in QB obscurity, wondering when the phone would ring again for his next job....
The Patriots quarterback appears in a scene in which he and Rudd run into each other at a spa in a strip mall. Per the series plotline, the spa replaces a depressed Rudd with a new and improved version of himself. In the cameo, Brady and Rudd’s character run into each other heading into the spa. “First time?” Brady asks. “Uh-huh,” Rudd responded. “You?” “Sixth,” Brady said, an allusion to his six Super Bowl championships....
Lattimore and the Buccaneers quarterback got into a verbal argument, only for Evans to enter from the sidelines and attack Lattimore. This didn’t sit well with Pro Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe. On the Fox Sports 1 show Undisputed, Sharpe said the 45-year-old quarterback needed to be quiet prior to the altercation, saying: Evans spoke to the officials after the incident, with him appearing to explain his rationale as:...
In addition, the Patriots were fined $1 million and had their first-round pick in the 2016 NFL Draft and a fourth-round pick in the 2017 draft taken away. MORE: Classic photos of Tom Brady | Iyer: Blame Pats’ shady past for Goodell’s bad decision | Pats will be just fine without Brady Brady will be able to participate in all offseason, training camp and preseason activities, including exhibition games. He won’t be eligible to play regular-season games until the Week 6, Oct....
The boycott over China’s alleged treatment of minority groups and pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong was confirmed by White House press secretary Jen Psaki Monday, according to the Associated Press. “U.S. diplomatic or official representation would treat these games as business as usual in the face of the PRC’s egregious human rights abuses and atrocities in Xinjiang, and we simply can’t do that,” Psaki said. Cotton, along with other Republicans and activists, took issue with U....
