USA Basketball is expected to hire the Miami Heat‘s Erik Spoelstra as the next head coach of the men’s national team, sources told ESPN. Spoelstra succeeds Steve Kerr for the 2027 World Cup and the 2028 Summer Olympics after serving as a lead assistant on Team USA’s 2024 gold medal squad. This will be fourth straight Olympics that Team USA …
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SITTING IN A Beverly Hills hotel room during one of multiple media junkets, Dwayne Johnson spent nearly three minutes explaining how he morphed his mind and body into Mark Kerr for “The Smashing Machine” when he turned to the MMA pioneer and asked: “How did I do, by the way?” Kerr opted for an anecdote. His son, Bryce, saw the …
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Dwayne Johnson plays MMA fighter Mark Kerr in The Smashing Machine. Eric Zachanowich/A24 hide caption toggle caption Eric Zachanowich/A24 Movie star Dwayne Johnson has a laundry list of injuries he’s sustained over the course of his career as a profession wrestler and a college football player. There was a ruptured Achilles tendon, a complete shoulder reconstruction and either four or …
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Sep 30, 2025, 06:40 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO — Golden State Warriors head coach Steve Kerr is entering the final season of his current contract, the typical time in a contract cycle when established NBA coaches demand or at least discuss an extension. But that isn’t Kerr’s current plan, he said on Tuesday afternoon after the team’s first practice of …
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One of this fall’s most highly anticipated new movies is an A24 film about a Syracuse University alumnus. Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. The Rock, plays real-life MMA fighter Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine.” The movie, directed by Benny Safdie and also starring Emily Blunt as Kerr’s girlfriend, hits theaters next week. Kerr got his start as a wrestler in Toledo, …
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In February 2016, scientists at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational wave Observatory (LIGO) announced the first detection of gravitational waves (GW). These ripples in space time, originally predicted by Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity, are caused by the merger of massive objects (like neutron stars and black holes). Since then, gravitational wave observatories like LIGO, VIRGO, and the Kamioka Gravitational Wave …
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That he was still there on the second circuit of the Tokyo track was a cause for concern. Concern which became dismay on the penultimate lap as Kerr suddenly limped, skipped, then hopped his way around the top bend as his rivals streaked clear. That he gritted his teeth and dragged himself to the finish at all was some feat. …
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Wightman sought a refresh this year, making the difficult decision to end his coaching partnership with father Geoff, who was commentating inside the stadium when his son outlasted Jakob Ingebrigtsen to win gold in Eugene. In what has been a year of significant change away from the track, Wightman began working with his partner Georgie’s father, John Hartigan, and relocated …
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TORONTO – Dwayne Johnson has been part of some incredible stunts in his action movie career, but the physical challenge of changing his voice for his latest role was a different kind of test altogether. The A-list Hollywood star is generating massive buzz for his performance in The Smashing Machine, in which Johnson plays former UFC star Mark Kerr. Johnson, …
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Miranda Kerr is addressing Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry‘s split. If you forgot, the 42-year-old Australian model was married to the 48-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean actor from 2010 until 2013 and they share 14-year-old son Flynn. Orlando started dating the 40-year-old “Teenage Dream” singer in 2016, they got engaged in 2019, and welcomed daughter Daisy in 2020. It was …
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