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Follow live coverage of Canada vs Uruguay at the Copa America third place play-off What should have been a showpiece game in the semi-final of the Copa America in Charlotte on Wednesday night descended into something more akin to a bar-room brawl as several Uruguay players, including Darwin Nunez and the captain Jose Maria Gimenez,…
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The notion that anyone aboard the S.S. Minnow would’ve brought extra clothing for a would-be short boat tour is but the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the faulty logic of “Gilligan’s Island.” Far from an oversight, the show’s creatives deliberately chose to avoid explaining its nonsense, reasoning (correctly) that it was funnier that…
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Mountain rescuers are desperate to find a British man in Spain, who has not been seen since a row with his wife on Thursday. Officials say they have ‘maximum’ concern for the 48-year-old man’s welfare after he reportedly left his wife in a garage after arguing with her and dumped several personal belongings, before abandoning…
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LOS ANGELES — Lloyd Howell needs directions. “Wait,” the NFL Players Association executive director asks, weaving through a crowd of future star players and their entourages convened for a rooftop reception. “Which way is stage right?” It’s the penultimate night of the NFL Players Association’s Rookie Premiere, a business and marketing orientation for 18 top…
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In his 1994 memoir “Inside Gilligan’s Island,” Schwartz describes in admirably good-humored detail how his stubborn determination to be handy around the house left him in debilitating pain throughout the writing of the series’ pilot. The tale begins with workers noisily sawing down a massive eucalyptus tree in his backyard, thus distracting Schwartz from banging…
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By Lettice Bromovsky Published: 12:46 EDT, 13 July 2024 | Updated: 13:18 EDT, 13 July 2024 After seven long months of extravagant pre-wedding celebrations and festivities, Anant Ambani, the son of India‘s richest man, finally wed pharmaceutical heiress Radhika Merchant in a grand star-studded ceremony on Friday. The glamorous, long-awaited event is reported to have…
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Flavor Flav realizes it’s an unexpected crossover. The rap icon once had only a vague awareness of water polo, as he’d seen Olympic matches on television. But Flav has a new appreciation for the sport, marveling at the immense stamina required to play it, after recently signing a five-year sponsorship deal to serve as the…
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In the episode “Wisdom of the Ages,” Hughie (Jack Quaid) and Kimiko meet up with A-Train (Jessie T. Usher) to carve out a deal and are shortly ambushed by Shining Light soldiers, whom Kimiko had fought before alongside Frenchie. A particular soldier with a scarred face, Tala (Erika Prevost) remerges, leaving Kimiko guilt-ridden and distressed.…
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The boyfriend of one of the three women barbarically killed in a ‘targeted’ crossbow attack has today paid tribute to the ‘love of my life’ in a heartbreaking social media post. Alex Klein, who was in a relationship with 28-year-old Hannah Hunt, the daughter of BBC racing commentator John Hunt, shared a photo of the…
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By Stephen J. Nesbitt, Rustin Dodd and Eno Sarris The email landed in Cláudio Silva’s inbox on the evening of Dec. 6, 2011. One of the first things he noticed was the three letters in the subject line: MLB. Baseball? Silva was an NYU professor who specialized in data science and computer graphics. He had…