LAS VEGAS — With a chance to sign the second nine-figure contract of his career, Jalen Brunson was unavailable. Negotiations, if you could even call them that, on a probable extension could not begin until the clock struck midnight (ET) Friday. Yet, long before any legalese came his way, the All-Star point guard could guess…
Questions surrounding how would-be political assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks managed to get into a position just 100 feet from Donald Trump was speaking, take aim with a rifle and fire off at least eight shots, remain. Crooks, 20, was shot dead by a Secret Service sniper moments after he opened fire at the Trump rally…
First, he sank to the ground, grimacing. Play continued for a few seconds and then came the communal gasp. Lionel Messi was down. And Lionel Messi is not a player who goes down for nothing. Argentina’s playmaker and talisman clutched his right ankle. He had fallen on his own, with no obvious kick to point…
In a 2019 Variety article commemorating the 25th anniversary of the film’s release, Dean Devlin recalled Spader repeatedly pushing back on the dialogue. Spader was at a critical juncture in his career. Despite critically acclaimed performances in “Sex, Lies, and Videotape,” “Bad Influence” and “White Palace,” he couldn’t quite hit the A-list big time. Russell,…
A body has been found in the hunt for missing British teenager Jay Slater, who vanished on the Spanish island of Tenerife almost a month ago. The 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer, from Oswaldtwistle in Lancashire, was last seen on the morning of June 17. Although Spanish police are awaiting full identification, they say that ‘everything is…
It was past midnight in Berlin and, in the bowels of the Olympiastadion, one England player after another emerged from the dressing room in stony-faced silence. Some heads were bowed, some hoods were pulled up. There goes Harry Kane. There goes Jude Bellingham. There goes Phil Foden. There goes Declan Rice. It was a night…
While Riva joked to NPR in 2009 that it was pretty funny telling his kids about the custom toilet, in actuality the bit of plumbing represented a much darker turn for Tony Stark. “Tropic Thunder” screenwriter Justin Theroux was brought in to write an adaptation of Marvel Comics’ “Demon in a Bottle” storyline, which sees…
A flight carrying England fans back from Berlin has been forced to make an emergency landing due to what the airline said was an ‘undefined smell in the cabin’. The Manchester-bound flight was forced to return to the German airport around 15 minutes after it took off this morning. Flight EW8470 took off at 8.09am and…
One major benefit of “House of the Dragon” riding on the coattails of the success of “Game of Thrones” is that, unlike its predecessor, HBO has given creator/showrunner Ryan Condal a soaring budget that the first few seasons of the original were never able to enjoy. While that’s allowed the prequel’s creative team to depict…