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Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inboxGet our free Inside Washington emailComedian Jim Gaffigan took a break from playing Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live to joke about the awkwardness of the mix of people in the room at the Al Smith dinner, joking that the seating plan was like something out of Family Feud. The comedian took no prisoners, Republican or Democrat, in his roast at the New York City charity event on Thursday night, awkwardly pointing out the state’s Attorney General Letitia James sitting just a few…
Dalton Knecht, the Lakers’ rookie guard, clutched the game ball inside his locker after he dominated the final minutes of the Lakers’ overtime win Thursday in Phoenix, a proud moment for someone who isn’t a stranger to dominating a game.“This felt just like Auburn,” he said with a smile, remembering the game last season where he scored 39 points in a win over Tennessee’s SEC rival.The differences, though, weren’t actually that subtle.That game in Auburn? It didn’t come with LeBron James and Anthony Davis fanning Knecht on the sidelines after he metaphorically caught fire. It didn’t happen with one of…
The No. 13 ranked BYU Cougars face the Oklahoma State Cowboys who will be hoping head coach Mike Gundy is competent enough to coach tonight after he was head-butted by his own cattle this week. Seriously, we hope he fully recovers from his “cow-cussion” by game time. This matchup kicks off at 7:15 p.m. PT/10:15 p.m. ET (8:15 p.m. MDT) on Friday, October 18 with a live broadcast on ESPN, and is also streaming live on demand.• WATCH: OK State vs. BYU football live for free with Fubo (free trial), with Sling (cheapest streaming plans, $25 off your first month)…
Andrew Garfield spoke from the heart about his late mother in a video with Elmo for the Sesame Workshop. In the video, Elmo asks Garfield how he is doing, to which he replies, “I’m just thinking about my mom today. She passed away not too long ago and you know, I just miss her a lot.” Garfield’s mother, Lynn, passed away in 2019 from pancreatic cancer. Garfield went on to say that it is “actually kind of okay to miss somebody.” “You know, that sadness is kind of a gift,” he continued. “Kind of a lovely thing to feel in…
When Cheryl Bradshaw appeared on “The Dating Game” in 1978, little did she know that the bachelor she chose to go on a date with, Rodney Alcala, was a serial killer.Bradshaw came out unscathed from her brief run-in with Alcala on the show, but many women he encountered were not so lucky. Alcala was convicted of murdering six women and one girl throughout the 1970s, although authorities suspect he may actually have killed more than 100 people.The story of Bradshaw’s encounter with Alcala on “The Dating Game” inspired “Woman of the Hour,” a new thriller out on Netflix on Oct.…
Myron MedcalfCloseMyron MedcalfESPN Staff Writer Covers college basketball Joined ESPN.com in 2011 Graduate of Minnesota State University, MankatoJeff BorzelloCloseJeff BorzelloESPN Staff Writer Basketball recruiting insider. Joined ESPN in 2014. Graduate of University of Delaware.Oct 18, 2024, 02:04 PM ETIn an emotional news conference announcing his retirement on Friday, former Virginia Cavaliers head coach Tony Bennett didn’t mince words on his reasons for retiring from college basketball, just three weeks before the season was set to tip.”I’m no longer the best coach to lead this program in this current environment,” Bennett, 55, said.In a vacuum, his announcement Thursday wasn’t entirely a…
Back at the dawn of the Trump age, weeks before the 2016 election, a conservative writer chided the media as it struggled with how to cover the outrageous Republican nominee. Salena Zito wrote in the Atlantic — as the title of her buzzy piece had it — that reporters should start “Taking Trump Seriously, Not Literally.” Opinion Columnist Jackie Calmes Jackie Calmes brings a critical eye to the national political scene. She has decades of experience covering the White House and Congress. That’s what Donald Trump’s supporters were doing, she said: Unlike journalists, his voters believed he was a serious…
See the moment an MLB superstar showed up to play backyard wiffle ballKansas City Royals catcher, Salvador Perez, stops to join a group of kids in a backyard game of wiffle ball in Kansas City, Kansas.USA TodayNEW YORK — The glass slipper doesn’t fit.The story book ending will be missing a final chapter.The New York Mets’ dream season isn’t officially over, but, oh, does it ever feel like it.The Los Angeles Dodgers once again snuffed out the Mets, winning 10-2 on Thursday night to take a 3-1 lead in the best-of-seven National League Championship Series.The Dodgers are just one victory…
NY Mets celebrate clinching 2024 NLCS trip with win over PhilliesThe New York Mets celebrated clinching a trip to the NLCS with a 4-1 win over the Philadelphia Phillies on Oct. 9, 2024, at Citi Field.NEW YORK – The Mets season is teetering on the verge of an agonizing end.For all of the theatrics that the Mets have pulled over the last two weeks to reach the National League Championship Series, the Dodgers have cast a shadow on that dream run.The stretch of unbalanced losses by the Mets continued in Game 4 on Thursday night.The Mets conceded 12 hits, walked…
Yankees’ Luis Gil pitches a sim game during Yankees’ pre-ALCS workoutYankees’ anticipated Game 4 starter Luis Gil pitches a sim game during Yankees’ pre-ALCS workout,CLEVELAND – Some of the biggest parts of Aaron Boone’s bullpen were operating on fumes Friday night, and the Yankees were trying to avoid using closer Luke Weaver due to a heavy playoff workload.A comfortable-seeming four-run Yankees lead in AL Championship Series Game 4 became a one-run advantage in the seventh, and a tie game in the eighth.Weaver began warming up in the ninth with one out, when Tommy Kahnle – faced with Cleveland Guardians on…