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‘SNL’ Hires New Cast For Season 51 Including Ben Marshall

‘SNL’ Hires New Cast For Season 51 Including Ben Marshall

Saturday Night Live has added five new cast members ahead of Season 51. The most headline grabbing name is that of Ben Marshall, one of the founders of comedy troupe Please Don’t Destroy, which regularly make digital videos for the show and appear in sketches. Please Don’t Destroy consists of Marshall, John Higgins, and Martin Herlihy, who all joined the …

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Ben Marshall, Veronika Slowikowska and More

Ben Marshall, Veronika Slowikowska and More

The “Saturday Night Live” shake-up continues, as Ben Marshall has been upped to the featured cast. Also joining as featured players are Veronika Slowikowska, Tommy Brennan, Jeremy Culhane and Kam Patterson. The news is part of a larger roster refresh at “SNL,” which this week saw the departure of Heidi Gardner after eight seasons, Michael Longfellow and Devon Walker after …

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Remembering Ben Arnet: A Mizzou Storyteller Gone Too Soon

Remembering Ben Arnet: A Mizzou Storyteller Gone Too Soon

Story Links Ben Arnet was so excited for the Mizzou-Kansas football game. So excited.  Few people in this market care as much about the history, the traditions and the stories when it comes to our local teams, especially Mizzou. As the Sports Director at NBC affiliate KOMU, Ben had become one of our town’s chief storytellers — and …

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Ben Shelton out of the US Open after shoulder injury

Ben Shelton out of the US Open after shoulder injury

NEW YORK (AP) — Ben Shelton had just acrobatically taken the third set of his U.S. Open third-round match, getting up from a tumble to the court during the point and then throwing his left arm into the air to encourage cheers after he won it. Just minutes later, he began feeling pain that would ultimately force him to stop …

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U.S. Intel – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

U.S. Intel – Stratechery by Ben Thompson

Now that everyone is using ChatGPT, the lazy columnist’s trick of quoting Wikipedia to open an Article is less cliché than it is charming (at least that’s my excuse). Anyhow, here is Wikipedia’s definition of “steelmanning”: A steel man argument (or steelmanning) is the opposite of a straw man argument. Steelmanning is the practice of applying the rhetorical principle of …

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Bears coach Ben Johnson rips ‘disappointing’ starting offense, considers narrowing playbook for season opener

Bears coach Ben Johnson rips ‘disappointing’ starting offense, considers narrowing playbook for season opener

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — This wasn’t what Bears coach Ben Johnson envisioned. Johnson isn’t panicking, but he seems to be resetting his expectations for quarterback Caleb Williams and the offense. He has taken issue with the offense’s lack of progress a few times throughout the preseason. Then in the finale Friday against the Chiefs, the precious momentum it had mustered …

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Falcons cut 12, including Morgan Fox, Ben DiNucci

Falcons cut 12, including Morgan Fox, Ben DiNucci

The Falcons began trimming their 90-player roster ahead of Tuesday’s 53-player cut deadline. They announced the release of 12 players Saturday. The Falcons cut offensive lineman Matthew Cindric, quarterback Ben DiNucci, running back Elijah Dotson, defensive lineman Morgan Fox, cornerback Lamar Jackson, inside linebacker Caleb Johnson, tight end Nikola Kalinic, inside linebacker Nick Kubitz, wide receiver Jesse Matthews, edge rusher …

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Ben Johnson calls Bears’ starting offense “really sloppy” in preseason finale

Ben Johnson calls Bears’ starting offense “really sloppy” in preseason finale

Friday night’s preseason game ended well for the Bears. It did not start well, specifically in the estimation of coach Ben Johnson. “Offensively, the first two possessions was really sloppy football that has plagued us in and out of camp so far, and unfortunately that’s what we got here tonight,” Johnson said after the game, via Courtney Cronin of ESPN.com. …

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