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Iconic 90s band Boyz II Men promised a “pretty sexy” version of the US national anthem at the Las Vegas Grand Prix but the performance has fallen flat for many fans. Ahead of the second running of the race on the Las Vegas strip, it was announced the trio would sing the Star Spangled Banner at the event, which drew some enthusiasm from fans of the band. The four-time Grammy award winners, who are known for some of their classic songs including End of the Road and I’ll Make Love to You , came into the event teasing it would be as memorable as their 1998 Super Bowl and 1996 Olympic Closing Ceremony performance. Unfortunately the rendition belongs more in the realm of anthem fails with social media quickly turned on the performance, claiming it was “flat”, “off-pitch” and “a gimmick”. Chief editor of GPFans US Chris Deeley said: “Congratulations Boyz II Men for the worst anthem rendition of the season.” “This Boyz II Men national anthem is horrific,” one fan wrote. Another commented: “Boyz II Men had some bangers but man .... that anthem was not good lol.” A third added: “I can’t believe im saying this but Boyz II Men are flat.”
Advertisement Chuck Woolery died on Saturday, November 23, at the age of 83. The legendary game show star was best known as the original host of "Wheel of Fortune." Woolery became a conservative commentator and Trump supporter later in his life. Chuck Woolery, the media personality best known for hosting the game shows " Wheel of Fortune " and "Love Connection," died on Saturday at the age of 83. Woolery's friend and podcast co-host Mark Young said in a statement on X: "It is with a broken heart that I tell you that my dear brother has just passed away. Life will not be the same without him, RIP brother." Related Video Young, who hosted the podcast "Blunt Force Truth" with Woolery, told the Associated Press that the star had died at his home in Texas with his wife present. Born in Ashland, Kentucky, Woolery found early success in the music world after serving a stint in the US Navy. In 1968, he scored a Top 40 hit with the song "Naturally Stoned" as part of a pop group called The Avant-Garde. Advertisement After failing to follow up the success as a solo artist, Woolery turned to acting in the 1970s. However, it was through his role as the original host of the hugely popular game show "Wheel of Fortune" that he really made his name. The NBC show, which premiered in 1975, earned Woolery a Daytime Emmy nomination. His six-year tenure on the show ended in 1981 following a pay dispute. Advertisement Host Chuck Woolery speaking to contestants on the gameshow "Lingo." Carlo Allegri/Getty Images Woolery was also known for his time on "Love Connection," where he coined the phrase, "We'll be back in two minutes and two seconds." Across his career, he hosted several other shows, including "Scrabble" and "Lingo." He was inducted into the American TV Game Show Hall of Fame in 2007. Later in life, Woolery became a vocal supporter of Donald Trump and often shared his political views on X.
PETE Wicks has said it's 'not his dancing' keeping him in Strictly Come Dancing after being saved by the public. The former TOWIE star was left stunned on Sunday night as he and pro dancer Jowita were kept in the competition. Strictly fans watched as Jamie Borthwick and his partner Michelle Tsiakkas were eliminated . It came after they faced the dance-off alongside Montell Douglas and Johannes Radebe. But as fans fumed that Pete Wicks was saved, he himself has acknowledged his miraculous save. Speaking to Claudia Winkleman after hearing the news, Pete, 36, said: "There is literally only two reasons I'm still here and that is for people at home. "I've never done anything like this and I am so overwhelmed people are supporting us like genuinely, it's certainly not down to the dancing, but also Jowita. "If I had been with anyone else I wouldn't be here, they're all amazing but she's become like a best friend to me. Like I'm so pleased I get to spend another week doing this with you." Following Pete's save, fans took to social media, with one saying: "Seriously people please please stop voting for Pete enough is enough." A second wrote: "Pete Wicks seems like a nice enough chap but I can't believe people are voting for him over Montell." "I love Pete, he's a laugh and he's trying and he's what it's about. But I'm sorry what the f**k," said a third. While a fourth commented: "They will not let Pete near the dance off." Gorka Marquez joined Strictly Come Dancing as a professional dancer in 2016 when he was partnered with EastEnders actress Tameka Empson. The following year he was partnered with singer Alexandra Burke. They reached the final and finished as one of the runners-up. In 2020, he was partnered with actress Maisie Smith. Again, he made it to the final and finished as a runner-up. He failed to make it third time lucky in 2022, finishing runner-up again with Helen Skelton. Nadiya Bychkova joined the show in 2017 with EastEnders actor Davood Ghadami. The pair reached Week 11, finishing in 6th place. Her best performance to date came in 2021 when she finished fifth with Dan Walker. Neil Jones has been without a celebrity partner more times than he's had one since joining in 2016. His best finish was with ex-footballer Alex Scott in 2019, finishing in fifth. Katya Jones was another 2016 addition and made an instant impression with politician Ed Balls. Their Gangnam Style routine is still a favourite to this day. In 2017 she lifted the Glitterball with Joe McFadden. The following year she was at the heart of a show scandal after snogging her dance partner, the comedian Seann Walsh. Karen Hauer has been an ever-present since 2012. Despite her lengthy association with the show, she's never lifted the Glitterball. The closest she came was in 2020 when she finished runner-up with Jamie Laing.Russia's Update on Nuclear Doctrine Can Be Considered Signal to West - Kremlin
Jaylen Brown leads Celtics over TimberwolvesNoneIf you’re on the lookout for , you're in luck. Some of our favorite models are already on sale, with some prices expected to drop even further when the big day arrives. Specifically, Ninja's air fryers see some of the best discounts during the across a range of top-selling devices, with almost every model seeing a significant price cut in recent years. I've tested most of Ninja's current line-up of speedy cookers, and I can confidently say the hype is well-deserved. When reviewing air fryers, I'm looking for even, crisp results, quick cooking times, a versatile range of cooking modes and presets and a form factor that suits the modern kitchen; Ninja delivers time and again. However, there are three specific models that I think will be the ones to watch this year. 1. Ninja Air Fryer / Air Fryer Max Looking for an air fryer under $100 or pounds? The standard Ninja Air Fryer has you covered. The smaller, 4qt model is excellent for students, people who live alone or first-timers, and costs just $89 / £99. It remains one of the most popular air fryers sold by Ninja for its simplicity and effectiveness, offering four cooking modes. And if you need a little more capacity you can opt for the Ninja Air Fryer Max with its 5qt capacity. Both of these models usually see pretty hefty discounts during sales events like Black Friday, with the best price we’ve seen on the 4qt model being this year’s sales price of $59 / £68, and the 5qt model dropping as low as $79 or £99. Read our full . 2. Ninja Double Stack XL We think this is one of the you can buy, and it’s the one I personally use at home. Instead of the wide form factor sported by other dual basket air fryers, the double stack, well, double stacks its baskets, offering an unparalleled blend of cooking countertop real estate. If you want to air fry larger foods like a pizza, you’re out of luck, but the Double Stack still offers all the same great features as other Ninja air fryers with its six cooking modes as well as Sync and Match cooking functions, earning it five stars in our review. The XL model, which we’d recommend due to its larger capacity, usually retails for $229 / £269, but we’ve seen it drop as low as $179 / £219 in previous sales events. Read our full 3. Ninja Foodi FlexBasket / FlexDrawer Last but not least is the immense Ninja Foodi FlexBasket – or FlexDrawer, if you’re in the UK. On the other end of the spectrum from the Double Stack is this behemoth air fryer. It features a removable divider to transform its two cooking zones into one Megazone, meaning you can cook larger foods like a whole chicken. It’s an excellent choice for larger households, though you’ll need a fair amount of space to house it. Again, there are two size variations; however, the US fairly exclusively stocks the six-setting 7qt model for $179, while the UK mainly stocks the £279 seven-setting 10.4L model. Both are great, and offer the same sync and match cooking functions. The lowest prices we’ve seen for these models are an astonishing $99 and a slightly more mediocre £179, respectively. Read our full .UTAH TECH (1-5) Ariyibi 4-6 6-7 14, Bieker 1-4 2-2 5, Byrd 5-8 9-9 23, Gonsalves 5-11 2-2 15, Riley 1-7 4-5 6, Rainwater 1-2 2-2 4, Berrett 4-10 0-0 10, Misic 0-0 0-0 0, Hutchings 1-2 0-0 2, Schenck 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 22-50 25-27 79. CS NORTHRIDGE (4-1) Fofana 2-3 2-4 6, Jones 8-15 5-10 23, Lewis 1-3 0-0 2, Fuller 0-0 0-0 0, Washington 7-14 2-2 19, Adams 11-16 2-3 25, Brinson 0-2 0-1 0, Beard 2-4 0-0 4, Martindale 2-3 0-0 5, Barbee 2-2 0-0 5, Cain 0-1 0-0 0. Totals 35-63 11-20 89. Halftime_Utah Tech 50-40. 3-Point Goals_Utah Tech 10-27 (Byrd 4-5, Gonsalves 3-9, Berrett 2-7, Bieker 1-4, Riley 0-2), CS Northridge 8-17 (Washington 3-6, Jones 2-2, Barbee 1-1, Martindale 1-2, Adams 1-3, Beard 0-1, Brinson 0-1, Cain 0-1). Rebounds_Utah Tech 22 (Riley 5), CS Northridge 31 (Jones 9). Assists_Utah Tech 16 (Rainwater 4), CS Northridge 15 (Beard 4). Total Fouls_Utah Tech 17, CS Northridge 17. A_138 (7,321).
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. -- The Detroit Lions have gone 10 straight quarters without allowing a touchdown. It’s a streak that started with the team’s improbable win over the Houston Texans two weeks ago. It continued through last week’s complete destruction of the Jacksonville Jaguars. And even after taking some hits on the first two drives of the game in their win over the Indianapolis Colts, the streak has persevered. #Lions have not allowed a TD in consecutive games for the first time since 1999. #OnePride pic.twitter.com/XLR3VZH7YP
NEW YORK (AP) — Having waited 63 years for an Ivy League football title, Columbia had to stand by for another 40 minutes. The Lions had beaten Cornell 17-9 but needed a Harvard loss against Yale to secure a share of first place on the season's final day. So Columbia players retreated to their locker room on a hill a few hundred feet from Wien Stadium to watch the game in Boston on TV as a few hundred fans remained and gazed at the gold-and-orange foliage of Inwood Hill Park glowing in Saturday's afternoon sun. When Yale recovered onside kick with seconds left to ensure a 34-29 Harvard defeat, players let out a scream and streamed back onto the field to celebrate, smoke cigars, lift a trophy and sing “Roar, Lion, Roar” with family and friends. Who would have thunk it? “You had the realization of, oh, I’m a champion, which is something that hasn’t been said here in a while,” co-captain CJ Brown said. Harvard dropped into a tie with Columbia and Dartmouth at 5-2, the first time three teams shared the title since 1982 — the conference doesn't use tiebreakers. “It was nerve-wracking, for sure, but definitely exciting because that's something that not a lot of people have experienced, especially here," running back Joey Giorgi said. There have been several top players at Columbia — Sid Luckman, Marty Domres, Marcellus Wiley among them — but the school is perhaps better known for owners such as the New England Patriots' Robert Kraft and former Cleveland Browns head Al Lerner. Columbia's only previous championship in 1961 also was shared with Harvard. That Lions team was coached by Buff Donelli, a former Pittsburgh Steelers and Cleveland Rams coach who scored for the Americans in soccer's 1934 World Cup. Columbia set a then Division I-AA record with 44 consecutive losses from 1983-88, a mark broken by Prairie View’s 80 in a row from 1989-98. Since 1971, the Lions’ only seasons with winning records until now were 1994, 1996, 2017, 2018, 2021 and 2022. Al Bagnoli, who won nine Ivy titles in 23 years at Penn, couldn't manage one at Columbia from 2015-22. He quit six weeks before the 2023 opener, citing health, and was replaced on an interim basis by Mark Fabish, his offensive coordinator. Jon Poppe, now 39, was hired last December after working as a Bagnoli assistant at Columbia from 2015-17 between stints at Harvard from 2011-14 and 2017-22, plus one season as a head coach at Division III Union College. He led the Lions to a 7-3 record overall, their most wins in a coach's first season since George F. Sanford's team went 9-3 in 1899. Poppe had wife Anna and 7-year-old daughter with him in the locker room watching the countdown to the title. “Sixty-three years of whatever into now,” he said. “Just seeing a lot of that history myself, personally. This is a hugely — a feeling of elation, seeing my dad on the field, a lot of emotional things with that.” Before a crowd of 4,224, quarterback Caleb Sanchez's 1-yard touchdown run put Columbia ahead in the second quarter. Giorgi's 1-yard TD run opened a 14-3 lead in the third and Hugo Merry added a 25-yard field goal in the fourth, overcoming three field goals by Alan Zhao. Giorgi rushed for 165 yards and finished his career with 2,112, second in school history. He and Brown missed what would have been their freshman season in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic. Given Columbia's athletic history — the most successful sport is fencing — it is not an obvious football destination. “I saw the dedication, whether it resulted in wins or losses,” Brown said. “I saw their dedication to the product that they put out on the field and also the athletic department, the facilities that we had here, the busses on schedule and stuff, I was like, OK, they care about their athletes. People here want to win and it doesn’t matter what’s happened in the past, it matters what we’re going to do now.” Poppe cited a mindset. “You get 10 opportunities, unlike other sports, it is a grind to play this sport and prepare the way we do just for 10,” he said. As the final whistle sounded in Boston, Brown noted an unusual initial reaction in the locker room. “It was like kind of awe when they recovered the kick,” he said. “It was a lot quieter than you would think it would be, but you could feel the joy and the elation.” They accomplished what more than six decades of their predecessors had failed to. As the players headed out, Poppe had a final word. “Day off tomorrow,” he said. Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here . AP college football: https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll and https://apnews.com/hub/college-football
( MENAFN - The Conversation) We are well and truly in cricket season. The Australian men's cricket team is taking centre stage against India in the Border Gavaskar Trophy series while the Big Bash League is underway, as is the Sheffield Shield. It is a packed summer schedule, with the Australian women's cricket team competing in an Ashes series against England that will culminate in a historic Test at the MCG on January 30: the first women's Test played at the venue since 1948–49. That match will also be the 90th anniversary of the first ever women's Ashes series, when England toured Australia in the summer of 1934–35. It's an exciting schedule for fans and one Cricket Australia will be looking to capitalise on. But is all this cricket driving participation? Like most sports, cricket faces a challenge to retain junior players in an oversaturated sports market. It is also competing with other entertainment offerings, increased screen time, financial pressures, and parent and guardian unavailability. Read more: No cash, no play? Have cost-of-living pressures impacted sports participation in Australia? Ahead of the 2024–25 summer, Cricket Australia released its annual report , which included 2023–24 participation numbers. On the whole, things are looking somewhat positive, with growth in junior cricket (ages 5-12) increasing 5%. For women and girls, the numbers are even more encouraging, with Cricket Australia reporting 18% growth for the 2023–24 season, attributed to a 44% rise in school competitions, 6% growth in social competitions and a record-breaking year of youth girls' participation (ages 5–12). But Cricket Australia highlighted challenges in that next phase – the teenage years, with the governing body reporting an overall 5% drop in teenage participation . There has been reflection recently about the decline of junior participation in some demographics and a changing cricketing landscape . A query that often arises in these conversations is whether the sport's traditional breeding ground, backyard cricket, is under threat. What is interesting is the nostalgia many cricket fans hold for the days of the iconic pastime and how it is central to a person's, and maybe even our national, identity. Backyard cricket has long been a staple for many Australian families (and those in cricketing countries). It has attracted a certain rose-coloured nostalgia that fills the memories of generations – the sounds of a ball bouncing off a wheelie bin, the shouts of“car!” in quiet suburban streets and maybe sometimes, of smashed glass and the cries of angry parents to not play near the windows. Cricket fans can connect to stories of backyard cricket, reflecting on simpler times, mates made in the streets and maybe even how they perfected their action in narrow driveways, to avoid trees or to not lose the ball over the neighbour's fence. Cricket lovers can not only recall their childhood and growing cricket fandom, but also imagine how their cricketing heroes were likely doing the exact same thing. In 2009, Steve Cannane wrote the book First Tests – Great Australian Cricketers and The Backyards That Made Them . The book is a testament to the romance of backyard cricket and how we can relate as fans to the icons of the game, who also experienced modest beginnings in similar streets. They were just like us. But recreation looks different to today's teens, with the rise of technology and other entertainment options, as well as changing social patterns where organic interactions are less likely or not encouraged . This can make it hard to find fielders for those long cover drives down the driveway. I recently discussed this on ABC Radio's The Conversation Hour . We discussed how children might be less likely to approach other children to play today , which might be a result of COVID restrictions or general concerns about children's safety. Australia's changing housing market is also affecting backyard cricket. Apartment living and smaller homes in urban areas with limited outdoor space make the activity not only very difficult but not visible to invite others in. Modern city planning appears focused on making cities more compact and experts note the loss of outdoor space could increase the risks of physical and mental health problems among city residents. It appears for many, the days of walking down a street, seeing kids playing a game and joining in until your parents called out“dinner” (or“tea” in the rural neighbourhood I grew up in) are long gone. Kerry Packer's 1977 World Series Cricket is what inspired CEO of Softball Australia Sarah Loh to pick up a cricket bat when her family migrated to Australia when she was six years old. She told ABC Radio Melbourne : While traditional cricket fans often bemoan new formats, flashy tournaments and increased commercialisation of cricket, for many, these innovations also offer entry points, drive interest and allow their fandom to grow. Cricket Australia's chief of cricket James Allsopp has spoken of the need for more social forms of cricket to keep kids interested in the game and prevent the drop-off in teen years. A balance must be achieved in our rapidly changing society – the challenge for cricket's administrators will now be to connect with kids, women, and diverse communities in ways that respond to their needs and bring them to the sport on their terms. They must also do this in a way that protects the history that has already brought so many people together every summer in front of televisions, in stadiums and in backyards across the country. MENAFN22122024000199003603ID1109021829 Legal Disclaimer: MENAFN provides the information “as is” without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the provider above.
In a significant development, authorities in the United Arab Emirates have detained three individuals in connection with the alleged murder of Israeli citizen Rabbi Zvi Kogan, 28. Sources from the Emirati interior ministry confirmed the arrests without detailing the charges or suspects' identities. The UAE pledged to utilize all legal powers to decisively counter actions threatening social stability. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly condemned the killing of Kogan, whose involvement with the Orthodox Jewish Chabad movement in the UAE marked him as both an Israeli and Moldovan national. Israeli officials are investigating claims of antisemitic motives behind the killing, exacerbating already tense relations. The ramifications are felt deeply within the UAE's growing Jewish community, which reacted with shock to Kogan's murder. Members of the community now exercise increased caution, with informal synagogues in Dubai shutting temporarily for security reasons. Despite the tragedy, Israeli-Druze politician Ayoob Kara expressed confidence in continuing the burgeoning bilateral relations. (With inputs from agencies.)