(#1) Fans Freak Out After Frank Ocean Releases New Album Blonde [TIME]
Just two days after releasing his “visual album” Endless, and a day after dropping a music video for the song “Nikes,” Frank Ocean finally came through with a full album. Called Blonde, the follow-up to 2012's Channel Orange ends four long years of ...
(#2) SCAM ALERT: Angelina Jolie death hoax [WATE 6 On Your Side]
KNOXVILLE (WATE) – A scam centered around actress Angelina Jolie is tricking internet users into clicking a possibly malicious link. The scary thing is, it COULD be posted by one of your friends. The spam is using existing Facebook accounts to spread ...
(#3) Mother Nature continues to haunt NASCAR, Bristol [Sporting News]
NASCAR and its teams woke up to more rain, and it was raining steadily at the track at 10 a.m.According to The Weather Channel, there was an 80 percent chance of rain throughout the day, with a 65 percent chance around 1 p.m., increasing to 75 percent ...
(#4) Caster Semenya cruises to win in women's 800 [USA TODAY]
RIO DE JANEIRO — There was a time when many of the things South Africa's Caster Semenya experienced were cruel and invasive, cutting to the very core of her biology and whether it was fair to her to run against women. For an elite athlete on the ...
(#5) Brazil vs Germany: Neymar seals Olympic football triumph - and banishes a ... [Telegraph.co.uk]
From the bowels of the Maracana a loud and terrifying noise went up: a guttural, feral roar that seemed to swallow the stadium whole. The Brazilian players sank to their knees, almost too physically tired and too emotionally drained to celebrate ...
(#6) Avenging a Flat Tire, Gwen Jorgensen Wins Triathlon [New York Times]
As she wobbled along on a flat tire four years ago in London, Gwen Jorgensen promised to turn that heartbreak into a conquering of Copacabana Beach. She crushed both the course and the competition in Rio, giving the United States its first Olympic ...
(#7) Amber Alert canceled as Port Huron boy is found, father arrested [Detroit Free Press]
An Amber Alert had been issued on Saturday for the boy. Port Huron Public Safety Director Michael Reaves identified the homicide victim as 30-year-old Lydia Ball. Her husband, 39-year-old Douglas Ball Jr., was arrested around 8:30 a.m. Sunday after ...
(#8) Denver Broncos quarterback battle remains wide open [NFL.com]
Expect the Denver Broncos' quarterback competition to continue into the third preseason game without a clear frontrunner. In his debut as a preseason starter Saturday night, Trevor Siemian marred an otherwise solid performance with a pick-six when he ...
(#9) Canadians bid adieu to beloved band Tragically Hip, whose singer is dying [Chicago Tribune]
The impromptu tribute by an emotional sold-out crowd that included Prime Minister Justin Trudeau began what was expected to be the final performance Saturday by Tragically Hip, a group known as Canada's Band, and lead singer and songwriter Gord ...
(#10) Matt Roberts, Original 3 Doors Down Guitarist, Dead at 38 [RollingStone.com]
They asked me if Matt Roberts was your son, I said yes, and they said 'we have bad news to tell you, Matt deceased last night,'" Matt's father Darrell Roberts told CNN. An autopsy will be conducted to determine Roberts' cause of death, but TMZ reports ...
(#11) Neymar says he won't be Brazil captain anymore [FOXSports.com]
Neymar was named Brazil captain in September of 2014 when Thiago Silva was out injured. Then-manager Dunga decided that the move would be permanent and Neymar would wear the armband even when Silva returned. But after nearly two years as ...
(#12) Elizabeth Smart Said Captor's Pornography Addiction Made Her 'Living Hell Worse' [People Magazine]
"She said to me, 'Elizabeth, what these people have done to you is so terrible and you may never feel like restitution is made, but the best punishment that you could ever give them is to be happy.' " Smart said. "And that advice has helped make me who ...
(#13) USA, Serbia ready for gold medal showdown [NBC Olympics]
The United States men's basketball team is one win from its third straight gold medal, only Serbia stands between Americans and another Olympiad as champions. The two teams have met already in Rio with the United States coming away with a three-point ...
(#14) Matthew Centrowitz Wins 1500-Meter Race, First US Man to Do So in More Than a ... [Wall Street Journal]
RIO DE JANEIRO— Matthew Centrowitz is typically a showman. He's been known to win races with flair, thumping his chest or drawing an imaginary pistol with his hands as he crosses the finish. He's a four-time U.S. champion in the metric mile, a two ...
(#15) Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC manager Lou Pearlman dies [CNN]
Pearlman had been serving a 25-year sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas, for running Ponzi and bank schemes. He was convicted in 2008 of fraud and swindling investors out of more than $300 million. In the mid-1990s he ...
(#16) Video: UFC 203 Trailer Featuring Miocic-Overeem Title Fight, CM Punk's Debut [MMA News]
With UFC 202 officially in the books, the UFC will now look ahead to their next pay-per-view offering, UFC 203, which takes place in early September. Following Saturday's pay-per-view, which featured Conor McGregor avenging his lone UFC defeat by ...
(#17) Texans QB Brock Osweiler makes progress in second preseason game vs. Saints [ESPN (blog)]
HOUSTON -- Quarterback Brock Osweiler appeared to have much better control of the Texans' offense in Saturday's 16-9 victory over the Saints. Osweiler, who signed a four-year, $72 million deal with the Texans in March, led the Texans down the field in ...
(#18) WWE SummerSlam 2016: The full rundown and why you should care [SB Nation]
WWE has tried to build SummerSlam up as something of a second WrestleMania. In 2015 they were successful with this, building an entire weekend of events and shows around the Sunday anchor of SummerSlam. This weekend, once again in Brooklyn, they ...
(#19) 'Dragon Ball Super' episode 55 recap and review: Zen-Chan – Son Goku's new BFF ... [YIBADA English]
In "Dragon Ball Super" episode 55, Zamasu and Gowasu are on planet Babari and they are looking at inhabitants murdering each other. Zamasu still feels that the mortals are not worth living. A Barbarian attack Zamasu and in return he kills him despite ...
(#20) Bills release RB Karlos Williams [ESPN]
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. -- The Buffalo Bills have waived second-year running back Karlos Williams, the team announced Saturday. The NFL announced in July that Williams is suspended for the first four games of the regular season for a violation of the ...
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