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Jack Harlow is taking on double duty on the Saturday Night Live stage tonight (October 29) as the episode’s host and musical guest. He performed on SNL last year, however his episode was hosted by was hosted by Maya Rudolph. Tonight, the rapper is showing off both his musical stylings and his acting chops.

During his opening monologue, he acknowledged many of the roasts he’s heard about himself.

“One guy said ‘I don’t know why y’all think Jack Harlow is so special, you can find somebody that looks like him at any local gas station’” Harlow said. “I’ve heard them say I look like if you try to draw Justin Timberlake from memory. I think my favorite one might be ‘Jack Harlow looks like the guy who rips the tickets in half at the movie theater.’”

Harlow addressed rumors that have circulated about him, saying, “Some people think I’m only five foot 10, stop it. Other people think I was created by the CIA, no telling. Some people have even gone as far as to accuse me of being white.”

Shortly after, he said, “I’ve also heard people try to romantically link me and Lil Nas X as an item. But I’m going to tell you right now, no. Everything that happened between us was casual. And consensual. And one of the best nights of my entire life.” He then clarified, “working with him, working with him, working with him.”

Check out Harlow’s opening monologue above.

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As has been the case for much of the 2022 season, Saturday night did not go particularly well for Michigan State as they got beat 29-7 by rival Michigan in the Big House, with the Wolverines scoring 26 unanswered points in the final three quarters of the game.

The Michigan State offense could only produce 252 total yards against Michigan, with just 48 of those coming in the second half as they fell to 3-5 on the season. While Michigan struggled to produce touchdowns in the red zone, they moved the ball at will on the Spartans and the game never really felt in doubt in the second half as the Wolverines steadily pulled away for a comfortable win.

However, while there wasn’t much in terms of competitive fight on the field in the second half, that didn’t stop there from being some extracurriculars in the tunnel after the game, as both teams share a tunnel at the Big House which can lead to some altercations. In this instance, one Michigan player found himself in the wrong area and got jumped by a group of Michigan State players, who punched and kicked at him until he eventually fled away.

It’s certainly not a good look for anyone, and while this video starts in the middle of the fracas it’s hard to imagine the Michigan player was, by himself, trying to start a fight with half the Michigan State team. This comes a week after Penn State coach James Franklin blamed Michigan’s tunnel setup for a halftime scuffle between the two teams, but in this case it feels more like Michigan State’s frustrations with the game boiled over in the worst possible way and one would think some suspensions might be coming for those on video doing the punching and kicking.

On Thursday, Kyrie Irving posted a link to a movie on his Twitter account that is based off of a book promotes a number of anti-semitic tropes — which are broken down in full here by Jon Blistein of Rolling Stone — leading to the yet another controversy regarding his social media posts.

In the days since, the Nets and the NBA have each issued a vague statement condemning “hate speech” without addressing Irving specifically or even noting what he did to prompt the statements.

“The Brooklyn Nets strongly condemn and have no tolerance for the promotion of any form of hate speech,” the team wrote. “We believe that in these situations, our first action must be open, honest dialogue. We thank those, including the ADL, who have been supportive during this time.”

Nets owner Joe Tsai did, however, address it head on, and said he wants to sit down with Irving and explain why his promotion of an anti-semitic film is hurtful and wrong.

Irving then posted a non-apology to his Twitter, while leaving the initial tweet up, saying he meant no disrespect to anyone’s beliefs while then trying to paint himself as a victim for having the “anti-semitic label pushed on me,” which is indeed what happens when you promote anti-semitic movies.

On the Nets broadcast on Saturday night, Richard Jefferson addressed the entire situation in stronger terms than the team or the league, while explaining why Irving is in the wrong, why he doesn’t get the benefit of the doubt after previous missteps like posting an Alex Jones clip to his Instagram, and why his apology rings hollow if the initial tweet remains up.

It is well done by Jefferson to address this on the Nets broadcast rather than trying to ignore it or dance around it. He lays out exactly why it matters what Irving posts to his social media considering his platform and how irresponsible it is to promote a film peddling in anti-semitic tropes.

Japanese Breakfast can add another incredible feat to her resume. Over the past two years, Jbrekkie has released her acclaimed album, Jubilee, performed a slew of festivals, and published her poignant memoir, Crying In H-Mart Last night (October 28), Japanese Breakfast, whose real name is Michelle Zauner, was surprised to find out her memoir was referenced as an answer in an episode of Jeopardy.

During the round, contestants were prompted, “Michelle Zauner writes about losing her Korean mother to cancer in her memoir Crying In this Asian grocery chain.”

A contestant named Sadie Goldberger replied, “What is H-Mart?”

Zauner caught wind of the Jeopardy nod, and took to Twitter to express her excitement.

“I’m dead!!!!!!!,” said the singer, instrumentalist, and author in a tweet.

Crying In H-Mart was published in April 0f 2021, however, in June of that year, it was announced that the book would be adapted into a movie. Back in March of this year, Zauner shared an update on the film with Consequence.

“So I actually just finished the first draft of the screenplay,” said Zauner. “My producers really like it, so hopefully the revision process won’t be too brutal. And yeah, hopefully that will come out sometime in the next couple years. I’m just playing a lot of festivals and being back on the road, and Crying in H Mart the movie [will arrive] maybe sometime in the next few years.”

Check out a clip from last night’s Jeopardy above.

On Friday night, the Spurs made a shocking announcement when the put out a press release an hour before they played the Bulls stating they were waiving Joshua Primo.

Primo was the 12th overall pick in the 2021 NBA Draft and the Spurs had picked up his third-year option less than three weeks ago, playing him in the first four games. The news arrived suddenly and without any real indication of what transpired that led to his release. The Spurs official statement said they hoped it would be best for both Primo and the team long-term, and none of the preeminent newsbreakers in the NBA world had any further details to provide in the hours after the release was sent out.

Primo himself released a very vague statement saying he was going to focus on his “mental health treatment” on Friday night, but there still felt like we were missing some key information into why the Spurs would outright waive him. On Saturday evening, that information arrived in the form of a brief report from ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski and Ramona Shelburne, as they reported Primo had allegedly exposed himself to multiple women, leading to the decision by the team to let him go.

The San Antonio Spurs’ release of guard Joshua Primo — the No. 12 pick in the 2021 NBA Draft — stemmed from multiple alleged instances of him exposing himself to women, sources told ESPN.

While we don’t know any details beyond this, it explains why the Spurs would move so quickly and let him go completely, rather than trying to move him in a trade or just have him step away from the team. It also brings into question Primo’s statement, in which he cites previous trauma he endured, and teams and the league will have plenty of questions about what took place before Primo can potentially find himself a new team.

Twitter had almost become a nice place to hang. A certain former president, infamous for spewing nonsense and inspiring violence, was permanently banned. The same went for other purveyors of misinformation. It wasn’t perfect, but it was something. Then Elon Musk, who appeared to be trying to back out of a deal he realized he didn’t want, had one of his unpredictable changes of heart. He bought it after all, and wouldn’t you know that overnight the service was clogged with garbage. Though at least O.J. approved.

A new report by Bloomberg found that as soon as Twitter had been taken over by the “free speech absolutist” head of Tesla and SpaceX, there was a spike in slurs, misinformation, even a resurgence in COVID flimflam that had all but disappeared. Some, Bloomberg speculated, were merely testing the boundaries of what could now be permitted, one-upping each other on offensive, combative content.

For example, the report mentions that an unnamed “racist slur” went from being mentioned at only a “low volume” to blowing up, seeing a 1,300% increase. What was said racial slur? Your guess is probably right.

Meanwhile, mentions of ivermectin — the deworming medication figures like Joe Rogan took to treat COVID instead of a safe, free, and reliable vaccine — shot up 2,900%. Also returning was “plandemic,” the term for claims that the once-in-a-century public health crisis had been orchestrated by some shadowy cabal. Also enjoying an resurgence: anti-Semitism, no doubt thanks in part to a certain rapper’s alarming, career-destroying activity.

Musk has vowed that Twitter under his rule won’t devolve into a “free-for-all hellscape.” At the same time, after firing top execs, he set up a council to review banned accounts, which could very well see the return of such figures as Alex Jones, the personal account of Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Steve Bannon, who was booted after threatening to decapitate Dr. Anthony Fauci. You might even see Tila Tequila, who sang the praises of Adolf Hitler, once again hobnobbing amongst polite — an impolite — company once more.

Musk couldn’t completely ruin his episode of SNL, which at least had its top shelf Mare of Easttown parody, but Twitter might not be so lucky.

(Via Bloomberg)

The Georgia Bulldogs don’t often need a lot of help winning football games, but they got some on Saturday afternoon in Jacksonville when what could’ve been Stetson Bennett’s second interception of the game became a 73-yard touchdown for star tight end Brock Bowers.

Already up 14-0, Bennett floated one down the sideline to Bowers that got tipped by Amari Burney, bounced off Burney’s helmet, and then into Bowers’ arms as he turned completely around to catch the bouncing ball as Burney fell to the ground. From there, it was nothing but green grass for Bowers as he jogged to the end zone to put the Dawgs up three scores.

There are certain plays that just indicate it isn’t going to be your day, and Florida was already dealing with all they could handle against the size of Georgia. Having what could’ve (and probably should’ve) been an interception to try and get back into the game turn into another Georgia touchdown was fairly demoralizing for the Gators and there weren’t a lot of smiling faces wearing orange and blue in Jacksonville after this one.

For Bowers, it’s another touchdown on his highlight reel as the true sophomore would very likely be a top 10 pick in the 2023 NFL Draft if he was eligible, but instead will spend another year tormenting opposing defenses in the college ranks before being a coveted player in the 2024 Draft.

Rob Pelinka has not done a good job by just about any metric in the last two years since the Lakers won the title in 2020, as he tried to completely rebuild the team around LeBron James and Anthony Davis twice while seeming to fail to learn the lessons of what worked for that championship squad.

Rather than putting shooters around LeBron and AD, he has brought in mostly non-shooters, headlined by Russell Westbrook, with the result being a cramped offense and a team that missed the playoffs (and even the play-in) last year and is off to an 0-5 start to this season. Even so, Pelinka was quietly signed to a 5-year extension this offseason to ensure stability in the organization and align his deal with Darvin Ham’s. It’s a vote of confidence in Pelinka not many Lakers fans would agree with, but for better or worse he is the leading voice in the basketball operations department.

In a bit of incredible timing, after the Lakers fell to 0-5 with a loss to the Timberwolves on Friday, Spectrum Sportsnet ran their latest episode of Backstage: Lakers, which gives fans a behind the scenes look at team meetings and more. On that episode, they show Pelinka giving a painful speech to the players about having a chip on their shoulder and taking the “I” out of things and replacing it with a we, doing so quite literally by removing the “I” in chip and replacing it with the Larry O’Brien trophy.

This is the type of motivational tactic you usually see in a college program — and even then it’d get met with plenty of eye rolls — but to try and fire up a veteran team with this is especially funny (or cringeworthy, depending on your viewpoint). I enjoy the cuts to the players just staring blankly back at Pelinka, wondering how much longer all of this is going to go. The good news for Rob is this clearly went over great and the team really bought in based off the early results this season.

Henry Cavill’s been playing Superman for about a decade now, but he hasn’t had a lot of chances to strut his stuff. The last time he played him, it was for Justice League reshoots that infamously had to work around that magnificent mustache he’d grown for Mission Impossible 6. But last week he had some good news: He was strapping on his Supes once again. Alas, that now comes with bad news: It means having to ditch his popular gig on the popular Netflix show The Witcher.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Cavill will be forfeiting the long grey mane of Geralt of Riva, the monster hunter on the medieval-inspired fantasy. But that doesn’t mean the show goes with him. For the fourth season, Cavill will be replaced by Liam Hemsworth.

“My journey as Geralt of Rivia has been filled with both monsters and adventures, and alas, I will be laying down my medallion and my swords for Season 4,” said Cavill in a statement. “In my stead, the fantastic Mr Liam Hemsworth will be taking up the mantle of the White Wolf. As with the greatest of literary characters, I pass the torch with reverence for the time spent embodying Geralt and enthusiasm to see Liam’s take on this most fascinating and nuanced of men.”

This also doesn’t mean you’ve seen the last of Cavill’s take on Geralt. After all, the third season, with Cavill still present, is due next summer.

(Via THR)

This article originally appeared on 01.12.18

Teacher Bret Turner thought he’d kick off the morning with his first-grade students using a little riddle.

On the whiteboard in the front of the class, he scrawled it out in black marker:

“I am the beginning of everything, the end of everywhere. I’m the beginning of eternity, the end of time & space.”

One student raised their hand, the first to venture a guess.

Now, the answer, of course, is the letter “E.” (Get it!?) But the student had a different idea.

“Death?”

Turner later described the incident on Twitter in a post that’s now gone massively viral. “Such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didn’t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter ‘E’, which just seemed so banal in the moment,” he wrote.

u201cThe first guess from one of my 1st graders was u201cdeathu201d and such an awed, somber, reflective hush fell over the class that I didnu2019t want to tell them that actually the answer is the letter e, which just seemed so banal in the momentu201d

— Bret Turner (@Bret Turner)
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People on Twitter got a huge kick out of the somewhat dark, existential moment. But there might just be an important lesson buried in this story somewhere about how to process “the end.”

Many users who replied to the Tweet were impressed by the unnamed kid’s thoughtfulness and ability to understand the concept of death at such a young age. (How many first graders would peg death as “the beginning of eternity?”)

But it turns out that kids are much more perceptive than we give them credit for.

An article in National Geographic breaks down the three key truths that children must eventually learn about death. First, that it’s irreversible (people who die aren’t just on vacation). Second, it makes your body non-functional (people who are dead aren’t just asleep). And third, it’s universal (everything and everybody dies eventually).

Some studies have shown that kids start to understand the concept as young as 3 years old and gradually learn to accept the many layers of it in the years that follow.

It takes time for anyone to fully grasp the gravity and foreverness of death. But we ought to learn to appreciate the whimsical, partial understanding that young children have.

Some Twitter users who read Turner’s account of the riddle accused the student in question of having a morbid personality or an unusual fascination with the macabre. After all, few adults would be brave enough to blurt out something so dark.

It’s a lot more likely the kid just hasn’t been conditioned to fear death yet, to speak about it in hushed tones — if at all. This might be the same kind of kid who finds out his grandma has died and says, casually, “Oh, OK. Bye, grandma! See you soon!”

When you think about it, that’s actually a pretty sweet and remarkably peaceful way of thinking about death. So let’s stop rushing kids into having adult-sized worries about the world and let them discover it at their own pace.

As long as it gives us funny moments like this one, anyway.