(#1) Why Is The U.S. So Good At Women's Soccer? [FiveThirtyEight]
Even though the United States is a bit insecure about its place in the world's most popular sport, the U.S. women's national soccer team has been dominant on the world stage for nearly a quarter-century. Tonight it will face off in the semifinals of ...
(#2) Media points at Ben Affleck for split [Boston Herald]
Jennifer Garner, who has built a career on playing the understanding girlfriend/mom/wife, is almost universally being portrayed as the sympathetic figure in this Tinseltown drama, while Ben, well, not so much. Which is not good for Affleck — or his ...
(#3) Nick Gordon Controlled Bobbi Kristina Brown's Money After Whitney Died, Says ... [Hollywood Life]
Poor Bobbi Kristina Brown, 22. Not only did Nick Gordon, 24, allegedly abuse her, but he also controlled all of her money after her mom Whitney Houston died, according to Bobbi's close friend. In fact, that completely changed the dynamic between Bobbi ...
(#4) PHOTOS: So-called "Star of Bethlehem" seen over Houston [KTRK-TV]
Some called this "The Star of Bethlehem" conjunction because Jupiter and Venus did something similar near the star Regulus in 3/2BC. Many astronomers speculated that this ancient celestial event is the one recorded in the Bible's Gospel of Matthew.
(#5) Damian Lillard won't let LaMarcus Aldridge leave Blazers without a fight [SB Nation]
Damian Lillard isn't ready to see teammate LaMarcus Aldridge leave Portland just yet. Fresh off signing a five-year extension worth at least $125 million, Lillard is flying to Los Angeles for an unscripted visit with Aldridge as the free agent forward ...
(#6) FIFA Website Praises USWNT Star Alex Morgan As 'Very Easy On The Eye' [The Post Game (blog)]
For all the criticism FIFA takes for its views toward women, it really doesn't get enough credit for the resolute manner by which it clings to those outdated attitudes. Take, for example, Alex Morgan. If you pay any attention to the USWNT, you know ...
(#7) What Misty Copeland's ascension means for black girls [Boston Globe]
I'm not saying that if there had been a Misty Copeland when I was young, I would have been a professional ballerina. I had neither the discipline nor talent to be anything more than a skinny, bow-legged girl trying to remember the difference between ...
(#8) Winnipeg Canada Day marred by gang fight, machete attack [CBC.ca]
Three men were rushed to hospital — one in critical condition — after being stabbed during a gang fight in a Winnipeg restaurant parking lot on Canada Day. Nearby, earlier the same evening, a teenage boy was slashed with a machete during a fight at ...
(#9) Brandon Saad 'a little shocked' by trade to Blue Jackets [Chicago Sun-Times]
Maybe if Brandon Saad had been on the phone with Stan Bowman instead of his agent, he would have blinked first during the game of free-agency chicken. But agents do the negotiating, not players. And as a result, Saad is now a member of the Columbus ...
(#10) Online Petition Demands Name Change for Upcoming Film 'Creed' [Loudwire]
The film's storyline revolves around the son of Apollo Creed, who was one of Rocky Balboa's most iconic rivals in Rocky series. It sounds promising, don't get us wrong, but a larger issue is at hand. This film is treading on dangerous ground in that it ...
(#11) Man at center of AMBER Alert likely won't face charges, police say [SILive.com]
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The 50-year-old Staten Island man at the center of an AMBER Alert drama in Manhattan Tuesday afternoon drove to a medical facility in Brooklyn shortly after the alert was issued, according to police sources. New York State issued ...
(#12) A new generation of U.S. soccer emerged last night, and we have Abby ... [For The Win]
The Abby Wambach huddle is becoming a fixture between the first and second half of matches for the United States this World Cup. The entire team huddles around its biggest star, who screams words of wisdom, encouragement, and more than a few ...
(#13) First Draft | Chris Christie Carries Announcement Vibe to New Hampshire [New York Times]
Chris Christie of New Jersey opened his first campaign event as an official candidate for president on Tuesday by barreling into the town hall building here, with Bon Jovi's full-throated snarl blaring on the speakers as his wife and four children ...
(#14) Ask Siri to divide 0 by 0, and she gets snarky [KUTV 2News]
WASHINGTON (Sinclair Broadcast Group) — At Aaron Paul's insistence, everyone with an Apple device is asking Siri, the operating system's virtual assistant, a tricky math question. Early Tuesday morning, the “Breaking Bad” star tweeted, “Ask Siri 'what ...
(#15) 'Scream' Review: MTV Series Goes Straight For The Entertaining Jugular [Deadline]
Almost 20 years after the first witty and scary movie came out, Scream is back, this time on the small screen. Debuting on MTV tonight, Scream the TV series is, as my video review above says, a light but surprising shot of un-self-conscious summer ...
(#16) Anthony Davis sends powerful message with landmark agreement: Jeff Duncan [NOLA.com]
By the time Davis reaches his player option after the 2019-2020 season, he'll be 27, in his basketball prime and quite likely the best basketball player on the planet. By that time, he'll almost certainly have surpassed Drew Brees as the biggest sports ...
(#17) Outkick's Conference Expansion Cheat Sheat [FOXSports.com]
Boren also said that any expansion teams would receive equal shares of the Big 12's television payout from ESPN and Fox. (The equal share of existing television revenue in the event of expansion hadn't been public before.) There's nothing better to ...
(#18) Evangeline Lilly Expecting Second Child [TIME]
When Evangeline Lilly starred on the cult hit, she became very good at keeping a secret. And the actress showed that she's lost none of those skills when she surprised everyone on Monday by revealing that she's pregnant. The actress showed off her baby ...
(#19) Minka Kelly Rings In Her Birthday with Sean Penn [People Magazine]
Just one week after splitting with Charlize Theron, Sean Penn was spotted dining with Minka Kelly at the upscale eatery French Laundry in Napa, California, on June 23. Kelly was celebrating her 35th birthday and posted an Instagram photo of herself ...
(#20) 'Zoo': Welcome, Crazypants Television Of Summer! [NPR]
I want to own up to something right away: I was predisposed to laugh at CBS's summer action/drama/kookoopants series Zoo. I find the idea of a menace-driven show called Zoo inherently hilarious, in part because "zoo" is a word made up of exactly two ...
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