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super park Sheeran's beloved Ipswich Town had just earned a surprise 1-1 draw with United in their Premier League clash Ed Sheeran has gatecrashed the first post-match interview given by new Manchester United manager Ruben Amorim – see the footage below. READ MORE: Ed Sheeran – ‘Subtract’ review: his troubled times laid bare The pop megastar is a proud fan of Ipswich Town, who earned a surprising 1-1 draw with United in their Premier League fixture at Portman Road on Sunday afternoon (November 24), Amorim’s first game in charge of his new club. During his post-match interview on the pitch, Amorim was speaking to Sky Sports host Kelly Cates and pundits Roy Keane, Izzy Christiansen and Jamie Redknapp when Sheeran, who had been shown in the crowd repeatedly during the game, interrupted the interview to shake hands with Redknapp. “I don’t think he wants to speak to me,” Sheeran quipped as Cates attempted to bring him into the conversation, referring to the fact that Ipswich had denied United an expected victory. Ed Sheeran crashed Ruben Amorim's first post-match interview 😂 pic.twitter.com/cTSMgyTE8w — Sky Sports Premier League (@SkySportsPL) November 24, 2024 “I love it, I love being back in the Premier League,” Sheeran added, before leaving the panel to continue the broadcast. Ipswich were promoted into the league at the end of the 2023-24 season, finishing second in the EFL Championship. Not everyone on social media was complimentary about Sheeran’s decision to butt into the interview, with one X user writing: “I’m honestly a bit aghast at how rude that was from Ed Sheeran. Amorim should have told them all to get fucked.” I’m honestly a bit aghast at how rude that was from Ed Sheeran. Amorim should have told them all to get fucked pic.twitter.com/Hjm0VWovdF — Richard (@gamray) November 24, 2024 Another X user added: “Rúben Amorim should walk on stage in the middle of the next Ed Sheeran concert, start giving his band mates high fives and ask them how they’re doing.” Rúben Amorim should walk on stage in the middle of the next Ed Sheeran concert, start giving his band mates high fives and ask them how they’re doing. — Pilib De Brún (Phil Brown) (@Malachians) November 24, 2024 See other reactions here: Amorim should have walked off screen when sky sports had Ed Sheeran there. Ridiculous stuff in a professional environment — Hogan Ephraim (@HoganEphraim) November 24, 2024 Ruben Amorim did not look happy when Sky Sports allowed Ed Sheeran to gatecrash his interview. Was a bit awkward. Sheeran looked like he just wanted to give Redknapp a hug & the whole Sky team got easily distracted. If you ask the manager to talk to you, show him some respect. — Jonny (@JonnyLeck97) November 24, 2024 It's not an overreaction to say this was incredibly disrespectful by Ed Sheeran. Wait for the interview to finish. Don't care what your standing is in society or who you think you are, have respect & courtesy. If he wasn't before, Ruben Amorim is very aware of the circus he has... https://t.co/VCwiozieOZ — Adam (@AdamJoseph____) November 24, 2024 In other Sheeran news, he recently said that despite his vocals being included in the new ‘Ultimate Mix’ version of Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, he would have respectfully declined to give permission for it had he been asked . “A decade on and my understanding of the narrative associated with this has changed,” he explained, citing Fuse ODG’s argument that the song had “perpetuated damaging stereotypes” about Africa . Band Aid mastermind Bob Geldof has vigorously defended the song , saying: ““This little pop song has kept millions of people alive. Why would Band Aid scrap feeding thousands of children dependent on us for a meal? Why not keep doing that? Because of an abstract wealthy-world argument, regardless of its legitimacy?” “No abstract theory regardless of how sincerely held should impede or distract from that hideous, concrete real-world reality,” he added. “There are 600 million hungry people in the world — 300 million are in Africa. We wish it were other but it is not. We can help some of them. That’s what we will continue to do.” An appeals court also recently found that Sheeran did not infringe on the copyright of Marvin Gaye’s ‘Let’s Get It On’ with his track ‘Thinking Out Loud’. Related Topics Ed Sheeran PopAuthored by Austin Alonzo via The Epoch Times (emphasis ours), Although President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party swept the 2024 general election, the cryptocurrency industry feels it is the real winner. Powered by donations from some of the biggest figures in cryptocurrency and venture capital, three political action committees poured more than $100 million into efforts to influence the 2024 election. “ This election was a huge win for crypto ,” co-founder and CEO of Coinbase Global Inc. Brian Armstrong wrote on Nov. 7 in an article on X. Coinbase, a cryptocurrency exchange founded in 2012, donated about $55 million to the super PAC Fairshake, according to Federal Election Commission records. Armstrong personally donated $1 million. As Armstrong wrote, the industry had much to celebrate in early November. It saw its preferred candidates take the White House and win key seats in both houses of Congress. He declared that the 119th Congress will be the “most pro-crypto Congress ever.” In his message, Coinbase’s leader wrote something that is usually implied but rarely said in the world of political spending, too. “ [Washington] received a clear message that being anti-crypto is a good way to end your career ,” Armstrong said. Twenty years ago, few people had heard of cryptocurrency—a term used to refer to decentralized digital currencies as opposed to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) that are controlled and backed by a government or central bank. One week after the Nov. 5 election, a Bitcoin was trading for more than $89,000. Gold, by comparison, traded for about $2,600 an ounce on the same day. Between 2007 and 2009, a person or group known as Satoshi Nakamoto conceived of and launched Bitcoin . It was a new type of digital money secured via encryption technology. Unlike traditional currency, Bitcoin can transfer value online without a bank or a payment processor. It is not backed by any government, central bank fiat currency, or physical asset. Bitcoin began as an obscure novelty worth less than 10 cents per token. However, its price has exploded in the last decade, creating significant public interest in the digital asset. According to the crypto website Coinranking, as of Nov. 13, Bitcoin’s market capitalization was about $1.83 trillion. Nevertheless, public opinion polling shows that a majority of Americans are not confident in cryptocurrency as an investment. A Pew Research Center study published in October found that just 5 percent of the people it surveyed in February said they were “very” or “extremely” confident in the reliability and safety of cryptocurrency. The same report found that 17 percent of Americans have ever invested in, traded, or used a cryptocurrency. As an investment, about 38 percent of respondents said cryptocurrency has done “worse than expected.” Rick Claypool, the research director in the president’s office of Public Citizen, told The Epoch Times that cryptocurrency, generally, is an extremely volatile investment vehicle without any intrinsic value—one that is now very risky for the average investor. Public Citizen, founded in 1971, is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization. In May, it published a report describing the cryptocurrency industry’s investment in politics as part of a “strategy of combating enforcement crackdowns and designing a regulatory system that meets the industry’s specifications.” The growing use of cryptocurrency over the last decade, and concern about the consumer risks, has led to a rush to begin regulating the fast-growing industry. The swift rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and his cryptocurrency exchange FTX highlighted the potential for fraud in a lightly regulated sector of the economy. In March, Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison and ordered to pay $11 billion in forfeiture for what the U.S. Department of Justice called his “orchestration of multiple fraudulent schemes.” Bankman-Fried was accused of stealing more than $8 billion of his customer’s money through FTX and Alameda Research, a cryptocurrency trading firm he founded. Bankman-Fried was initially arrested in the Bahamas and extradited to the United States, where he was charged with multiple fraud offenses, in December 2022. FTX collapsed in November 2022. A year earlier, Securities and Exchange Commission chairman Gary Gensler asked the Senate’s Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee for additional resources to begin addressing regulatory concerns surrounding the cryptocurrency industry. In that testimony, he said the entire crypto asset class was “rife with fraud, scams, and abuse.” Under Gensler, who was appointed commissioner by President Joe Biden in April 2021, the SEC views most crypto assets as securities. Since 2022, the SEC has charged multiple firms with violating federal securities law by offering and selling unregistered securities. As recently as Oct. 9, when he appeared at a conference at the New York University School of Law, Gensler said he continues to view the crypto industry as a hotbed of “fraudsters,” “grifters,” and “scams.” Gensler’s actions made him the crypto industry’s top political enemy , Claypool said. In 2024, the industry began spending on political causes through three linked committees: Fairshake, Defend American Jobs, and Protect Progress. Claypool said while these PACs were founded and funded by crypto, none of the advertisements and political messaging they paid for said anything about cryptocurrency or a candidate’s positions on financial regulations. Fairshake was launched in May 2023. According to federal records, within its first six months, it received donations of $1 million or more from Armstrong, Coinbase, and venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz’s co-founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz. By the end of 2023, it had raised about $85.7 million. Representatives of Coinbase, Andreessen, and Horowitz did not respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. According to its latest FEC disclosure, covering its activities through Oct. 16, the PAC raised about $118.4 million and spent about $153.3 million in 2024. Its top donors were Coinbase, executives at Andreessen Horowitz, and Ripple Labs Inc. Representatives of Ripple did not respond to a request for comment from The Epoch Times. Fairshake’s most significant independent expenditures against a single candidate, totaling more than $10 million, went toward opposing Rep. Katie Porter (D-Calif.) in her bid to replace outgoing Sen. Laphonza Butler (D-Calif.). Porter lost in the state’s Democratic Party primary to Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in March. Ahead of Porter’s primary, a new political group called the Stand With Crypto Alliance emerged. In its inaugural release, dated Feb. 7, Stand With Crypto said it planned to launch a “candidate questionnaire and voter education program” in California. Read the rest here...Exactly one month after tearing his hamstring, Dak Prescott reached a milestone in his recovery. “This is actually my first day driving, so I'm living it up in the truck right now,” the Dallas Cowboys quarterback told Yahoo Sports on Tuesday. “Wearing a brace but being able to drive again after a few weeks is a huge win. Even though I still have my crutches, being able to have a normal walking gait now with my crutches [and] put more weight on my leg is a big win.” Prescott’s hamstring tendon partially tore off the bone in the Cowboys’ Nov. 3 game at the Atlanta Falcons. Prescott missed the remainder of the game, then underwent surgery Nov. 13 to repair his tendon. His early recovery has required first allowing the hamstring and bone attachment to heal. But Prescott has begun rehabilitating the area. “I've started some weight transfers and different core exercises,” Prescott said, speaking in partnership with DICK’S Sporting Goods. “When I get to put down my crutches to do a workout is something I'm looking forward to next.” The looming offseason gives Prescott the ability to follow recovery benchmarks with “no hard timeline,” he said. The Cowboys have five regular-season games left and just a 4 percent chance of making the playoffs, per NFL Next Gen Stats. The Cowboys went 3-5 with Prescott and have gone 2-2 since. Prescott expects his recovery window to conclude before 2025 offseason activities start. “Not necessarily rushing back,” he said. “However, I do see myself entering this offseason [with] no restrictions. Not even it being discussed. Planning on by the time that comes, I'm full go, not even in the rehab mode and working to make myself a better quarterback for this team.” Prescott watched the Cowboys’ Thanksgiving game from the coaches booth to avoid the chance of a collision that he’s not mobile enough to avoid, a concern that nearly occurred when he was on the sidelines for Dallas’ Nov. 10 game against the Philadelphia Eagles. 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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Carter Whitt scored 14 points as Belmont beat Middle Tennessee 82-79 on Saturday. Whitt also added eight rebounds, eight assists, and three steals for the Bruins (8-2). Isaiah Walker also scored 14 points while going 6 of 12 and 2 of 4 from the free-throw line while they also had eight rebounds. Sam Orme had 12 points and went 5 of 11 from the field (1 for 3 from 3-point range). The Blue Raiders (7-3) were led by Jlynn Counter, who recorded 22 points and five assists. Middle Tennessee also got 21 points and two blocks from Jestin Porter. Essam Mostafa finished with 13 points and 11 rebounds. Belmont went into the half ahead of Middle Tennessee 38-30. Walker scored eight points in the half. Belmont pulled off the victory after a 19-2 run spanning both halves erased a three-point deficit and gave them the lead at 44-30 with 19:01 remaining in the second half. Whitt scored 10 second-half points and his four free throws in the final half-minute helped the Bruins maintain their lead. The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar .Maybe 15 minutes before the Wild hosted and defeated the Nashville Predators on Saturday, general manager Bill Guerin took a few minutes to talk to the media about his first noteworthy acquisition of the season—the trade with Columbus, which will bring David Jiricek to the State of Hockey in the first few days of December. Maybe it’s just the pessimistic nature of a fanbase that hasn’t seen a men’s professional team play for a championship in more than three decades, but the grumbling had begun even before the collected media had reached the press box for Saturday’s game. “Seems like a lot to pay for a minor-leaguer,” was one of the comments overheard at the rink on Saturday. Indeed, to get Jiricek – the sixth overall pick in the 2022 NHL Draft – and a lower-round pick, Guerin surrendered defenseman Daemon Hunt and four draft picks, including Minnesota’s 2025 first-rounder and a second round pick in 2027. He wasted no time in getting an up-close look at the new guy, calling Jiricek up to the NHL level on Sunday, and sending former Gophers forward Travis Boyd back down to Iowa. Guerin and Blue Jackets general manager Don Waddell are old friends from their time working together with the Pittsburgh Penguins. But there was no discount offered from Waddell to his old pal in Minnesota. “It took awhile. Donny,” Guerin said with an exasperated grin. “He played with me. He’s one of my old mentors. He made me work for it. He’s the best.” Still, Guerin would not have pulled the trigger had he not believed in two things: 1) The Wild can turn all of Jiricek’s size (6-foot-4) and potential into another piece of their bright future on the blue line. 2) The price they paid was not as steep as it might look on the surface. To that second point, consider that Hunt was not really part of the Wild’s NHL-level defensive picture, even at a time like this when Jonas Brodin’s long-term viability is a serious question mark. And after getting two points with an overtime win over the Predators on Saturday, the Wild were tied for the most points in the NHL, meaning that at this pace, that 2025 first-round draft pick is going to come in the 25th spot or later. If the Wild go into a tailspin this season, the pick sent to Columbus is lottery protected, meaning the Blue Jackets will not get to pick in the top 10 at the Wild’s expense. To the first point, Jiricek is a player Guerin and his assistants have had their eye on for some time, even before he was named the top defenseman in the tournament while playing for Czechia in the 2023 World Juniors. “He’s not 30, he’s not a rental. He’s a 21-year-old defenseman that we can invest in. And we did. That’s how I look at it. It’s an investment,” Guerin said. In 2022, the Wild grabbed Liam Ohgren with the 19th overall pick, more than a dozen selections after Jiricek was picked by Columbus and was posing for pictures in a new red-white-and-blue sweater. “He was somebody that we really liked (during) his draft year. We knew we weren’t going to get him, but we liked him,” Guerin said. “And, you know, when this became available, I did my due diligence and asked our staff what they thought. They were all on board with it. So it’s good.” Perhaps in hopes of getting the fans on board, Guerin also stressed patience. Jiricek has not yet been a star in the NHL, despite his high draft stock. But the Wild are confident that their system of developing players — especially defensemen — is the change the new guy needs. “He’s a young player. He’s got a lot to learn. He’s going to continue to improve, just like all young players,” Guerin said, name-dropping two youthful every-night members of the Wild roster who still have ample room to grow. “Brock Faber’s got to get better. Matt Boldy’s still going to get better. All these guys are going to continue to improve because they’re so young. So just because they’re in the NHL doesn’t mean they’re not going to develop their game and get better. That’s our job as the coaches, management. That’s our job to help him get better.” If he has to spend some future draft capital to put those pieces in place, that is clearly a chance Guerin is willing to take.

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