Amazon’s upcoming Mass Effect series is being helmed by many of those also involved in the service’s acclaimed Fallout show. The first season of Fallout – which starred Ella Purnell as the wide-eyed and somewhat naive vault dweller Lucy, and Walton Goggins as the rather charismatic noseless Ghoul – debuted in April last year. On its release, the adaptation was …
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Veteran left-hander Rich Hill is back in the big leagues. The Kansas City Royals are calling up Hill, who had been with their Triple-A affiliate in Omaha, prior to Monday’s series opener with the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field, reports FanSided. The team has not yet announced the roster move. Hill could pitch as soon as Tuesday, as Kansas City’s …
Read More »With Posts on Sports Team Names, Trump Wades Into a Decades-Old Dispute The New York Times Trump aims at stadium over Commanders’ name ESPN Washington Commanders: Trump Has Little Leverage on NFL Team’s Name Change Bloomberg.com Trump Urges Washington and Cleveland Sports Teams to Revert to Former Names The New York Times Cleveland Guardians respond to Trump’s post about restoring former team name USA Today …
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In 2019, shark tagger Keith Poe was working off the coast of California when he hooked a surprisingly big “black mako” shark. The shark appeared larger and darker than shortfin makos (Isurus paucus), which are generally dark blue or gray with white undersides. This sighting is the basis of the new Shark Week show “Black Mako of the Abyss,” where …
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An international team led by astronomers from Tel Aviv University observed a light flash from a star being torn apart by a supermassive black hole, only to detect a nearly identical flash from the same location two years later, named AT 2022dbl. This marks the first confirmed case of a star surviving an encounter with a supermassive black hole and …
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Editor’s note: This article is part of our Rankings & Tiers series, an evaluation across sport about the key players, front offices, teams, franchises and much more. How much would it take to buy your favorite college football program? As much as college football has drifted toward professionalization, one major difference remains: NCAA teams are not for sale. Not yet, at least. …
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Los Angeles Sparks All-Star Kelsey Plum couldn’t help but “tattletale” on some of the players after the WNBA All-Star game ended on Saturday. During her postgame press conference, Plum, who was on Napheesa Collier’s team, explained that members of Caitlin Clark’s team (Collier and Clark were the captains of their respective teams) weren’t very present when both teams met before …
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Welcome to the MMQB’s Quarter-Century Week. All week we’ll be publishing lists, rankings and columns looking back at the past 25 NFL seasons. You can find all those stories here. If you had been asked, in September 2000, to predict who the best players of the NFL’s next 25 seasons would be, you probably would not have guessed the Patriots’ …
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CNN — England’s Jess Carter says she will step back from social media after the defender said she has received “a lot of racist abuse” since the beginning of the 2025 UEFA Women’s Euros. Carter has started all four matches for England as the team has reached the semifinal stage of the tournament, where the Lionesses are seeking to win …
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Donald Trump has weighed into a new fight – this time with two sports teams. The president wants Washington’s football franchise the Commanders and Cleveland baseball team the Guardians to revert to their former names, which were abandoned in recent years due to being racially insensitive to Native Americans. Trump said on Sunday on Truth Social that: “The Washington ‘Whatever’s’ …
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