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Caitlin Clark is one of the top rookies in the WNBA when it comes to scoring and assists. She’s also one of the league’s top trash talkers, if one coach is to be believed. Las Vegas Aces head coach Becky Hammon said that while Chicago Sky rookie Angel Reese gets a lot of attention for…

UPDATED with Stone comment: After an outpouring of concern from Hollywood notables prompted by Joe Biden’s performance in the first 2024 presidential debate, Sharon Stone offered a counterpoint today in a video she posted to Instagram. “I’ve been thinking a lot about last night’s debate,” Stone says…

UPDATED with latest: Veteran ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale offered an update on his years-long battle with cancer today, and it was a tough one. “My report on the Biopsy of the Lymph Node in my neck has arrived & it is cancerous,” wrote Vitale. He went on to note he will have surgery on…

A lawsuit filed Thursday in California accuses Grammy-winning producer Diplo of distributing revenge porn. Diplo, real name Thomas Wesley Pentz, has produced or collaborated with Gwen Stefani, Britney Spears, Snoop Dogg, Madonna, Shakira, Bad Bunny and Beyoncé, among others. The suit was filed…

A former American Ninja Warrior champion has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for having a sexual relationship with a teenage girl. After prison, Andrew Drechsel, age 35, must additionally serve 15 years of supervised release and pay the victim $100,000 in restitution, Chief U.S…

The iconic Los Angeles punk band X is issuing what it is calling its final album, Smoke & Fiction, and has detailed plans for a U.S. tour.  The quartet of vocalist Exene Cervenka, vocalist/bassist John Doe, guitarist Billy Zoom and drummer DJ Bonebrake said they will end following a farewell tour…

The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is saying swimming, surfing, and playing in ocean waters at 18 area beaches should be avoided because of high bacteria warnings. The warning covers the following beaches: Santa Monica Canyon Creek at Will Rogers State Beach (near Will Rogers…

Erin Buker earned the second-lowest score in Jeopardy! history on Monday. A mother from San Pedro, California, Buker ended her episode with a score of -$7,200, a low that was just in front of contestant Patrick Pearce’s $7,400 in 2021. But Buker isn’t worried about appearances. On the show’s…

BET+ has set the return of Carl Weber’s The Family Business, starring Ernie Hudson. The series premieres on Thursday, July 4 on BET+ with two episodes, followed by a new episode every Thursday throughout the ten-episode season.  The finale arrives on August 29. The series follows the…

The original watercolor illustration for the cover of Harry Potter and The Philosopher’s Stone, the first book in author J.K. Rowling’s famous series, is now the most expensive piece of Potter-related memorabilia ever sold at auction. The illustration was on the debut edition of the 1997 novel. It…

When Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, he was more than $500 million in debt, according to court documents filed last week in Los Angeles. Jackson died at 50 while preparing for his extended “This Is It” residency at the 02 Arena in London, which was scheduled to run from July 2009 to March…

Los Angeles Dodgers bat boy Javier Herrera might have saved Shohei Ohtani’s season. Herrera was standing on the dugout steps during the team’s game against the Chicago White Sox when a vicious line drive came screaming into the dugout. Check out the video below. Ohtani was directly in back of…