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Big 12 reportedly looking to add Pac-12 schools, could become largest FBS conference
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Just 12 months ago, the Big 12 Conference was rocked by news that Texas and Oklahoma planned to depart the league for the Southeastern Conference in 2025. That left the the prospect of the Big 12 having just eight active members, but the conference moved quickly to add Houston, BYU, Cincinnati and Central Florida to its ranks no later than July 1, 2024. At the time, back in early September, it meant the conference was guaranteed to once more have 12 members. But that number could be changing again. Dennis Dodd of CBS Sports reported Tuesday that Big 12 is “in deep discussion...
The Kansas City Star
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Metallica is ‘totally blown away’ by how ‘Stranger Things’ used its song ‘Master of Puppets’
Metallica’s members were rocked by the way “Stranger Things” incorporated one of their heavy metal hits. The band said it was “beyond psyched” that the Netflix supernatural series featured the 1986 song “Master of Puppets” during a key moment for Joseph Quinn’s character, Eddie, in the Season 4 finale. “We were all stoked to see the final result and when we did we were totally blown away ... it’s so extremely well done, so much so, that some folks were able to guess the song just by seeing a few seconds of Joseph Quinn’s hands in the trailer!! How crazy cool is that?” reads a post on Metallica...
New York Daily News
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Woody Allen’s next film will be in French and ‘may be the last’
Controversial director Woody Allen is trading in la-di-das for ooh-la-las. The embattled “Annie Hall” director, 86, is pivoting from New York neuroses to actually filming in French for his newest — and potentially final — movie, he told Paris-based weekly newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche in a new interview. “I’m moving to Paris in September, for a two-year-old project postponed because of the Covid. This will be my 50th feature film. I found the financing in the United States, but the cast is entirely French and the film will be played in your language,” Allen told the outlet, according to a t...
New York Daily News
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Jan. 6 committee member Rep. Adam Kinzinger reveals threatening calls as hearings continue
Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., has shared hate messages he’s received over his participation in the Jan. 6 committee that is pressing its investigation of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The GOP lawmaker says disturbing messages targeting him, his family and his staff have escalated in recent days and weeks as the House probe reveals damaging new details about former President Donald Trump’s role in the attempted insurrection. “Threats of violence over politics has increased heavily in the last few years,” Kinzinger said. “But the darkness has reached new lows.” Kinzinger uploaded a harrowing po...
New York Daily News
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Florida teen attacked by shark will have leg amputated, hospital says
ORLANDO, Fla. — A 17-year-old Florida girl who was attacked by a 9-foot shark last week learned she will have her leg amputated Tuesday. Addison Bethea, of Perry, was scalloping Thursday with her brother in Keaton Beach — in Taylor County — when a shark pulled her underwater, according to Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare. The shark bit Addison’s upper right leg, causing her to lose her quadriceps, TMH said. “The bite also caused massive nerve and vascular damage,” TMH said in a post. “The injuries to Addison’s leg are so extensive that they will require amputation just above the right knee, whi...
Orlando Sentinel
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Highland Park has formed backdrop for iconic 1980s movies, from ‘Risky Business’ to ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Before Monday’s tragic mass shooting, affluent Highland Park, Illinois, had another claim to fame – as the film set for several iconic 1980s movies. One was “The Color of Money,” starring Paul Newman, Tom Cruise and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, in which Fast Eddie Felson teaches pool hustling to a mentee. The tony neighborhood also formed the backdrop for family tension in “Ordinary People,” the 1980 drama starring Robert Redford, Mary Tyler Moore, Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch and Timothy Hutton, about a family being ripped apart after the death of a son. There was also the 1992 “Prelude to ...
New York Daily News
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‘The Talk’ star Amanda Kloots honors husband Nick Cordero on 2-year anniversary of his death
“The Talk” co-host Amanda Kloots shared a sweet tribute to late husband Nick Cordero on the two-year anniversary of his death, saying she’s using the day to celebrate his life. Cordero, a Tony-nominated Broadway actor, died at age 41 due to complications from COVID-19. “There hasn’t been a day I haven’t missed him,” Kloots wrote in an Instagram post Tuesday. “Nick was a presence. His smile and laugh lit up a room. He loved everyone and was a great friend to anyone that knew him.” The post included a series of photos and videos of Cordero, who welcomed son Elvis with Kloots in 2019. Kloots said...
New York Daily News
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‘That’s So Raven,’ ‘Medium’ and other shows about psychics to check out after ‘Maggie’
Rebecca Rittenhouse can see her future in the Hulu show “Maggie,” but she’s not the first psychic to be portrayed on TV. Here are a few others — real or fake — who already glimpsed their own fate. “That’s So Raven”: Like Maggie, Raven Baxter really could see the future and her confused vision face proved it. But the hit Disney Channel show relied on Raven’s inability to properly interpret what she saw and the high jinks she and friends got into to stop whatever was coming. “Shut Eye”: The short-lived “Shut Eye” brought something new to the psychic market: Gypsies. Charlie Haverford (Jeffrey Do...
New York Daily News
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‘Stranger Things’ Season 5 — everything we know about the end of the Netflix series
The thrilling conclusion of the fourth season of “Stranger Things” hit Netflix last week, and many viewers already have one important question for the show’s creators. When does the fifth season come out? While that answer is unknown, it has been confirmed that “Stranger Things” will return for a fifth season. Here’s everything we know about the next season of “Stranger Things.” Will Season 5 of ‘Stranger Things’ be the last season?Series creators the Duffer Brothers revealed in February that Season 5 will be the final chapter of the series, which premiered in 2016. “Seven years ago, we planne...
The Charlotte Observer
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Double amputee Marine returns home for first time since deadly Kabul bombing
FOLSOM, Calif. — Marine Sgt. Tyler Vargas-Andrews came home to Folsom in time for Independence Day, and thousands of people were there to welcome him. “It’s surreal,” he said. He’s home after spending the past 18 months at Walter Reed National Medical Center in Maryland learning to live as a double amputee after a suicide attack outside the Kabul airport left him severely injured. That August 2021 attacked killed 13 U.S. military service members assigned to a humanitarian mission and at least 170 Afghan civilians, marking the chaotic end to America’s long war in Afghanistan. At a ceremony at t...
The Sacramento Bee
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