Jason Collins, who was the first active openly gay player in NBA history, died on Tuesday after a battle with brain cancer, the league announced. He was 47. “We are heartbroken to share that Jason Collins, our beloved husband, son, brother and uncle, has died after a valiant fight with glioblastoma,”
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General Motors has been hit with the hefty sum after they sold the private data of customers to data brokers over a period of four years.
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“Sad dynamite”… emphasis on the dynamite. The highly-anticipated Yellowstone spinoff Dutton Ranch is set to premiere very soon on May 15th. Beth Dutton (Kelly Reilly) and Rip Wheeler (Cole Hauser) will reprise their roles and return to the screens of fans all over the world, and this new show has been described as “Yellowstone Season 6.” We’ll get a sense of where it’s all going when it premieres later this week, but in the lead up the first episode, Kelly and Cole, who play a […]
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Working aboard a fishing vessel is incredibly dangerous. I am reminded of the film The Perfect Storm, which graphically depicts that hazardous profession. The same goes for the Discovery Channel series Deadliest Catch. It is not glamorous or breezy labor to get the fish that we eat for dinner. The work can (and sometimes does) […]
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One of country music’s most famous power couples. Keith Whitley and Lorrie Morgan were married back in 1986, the second marriage for both artists. Their love was forever immortalized with the posthumous release of “Tell Lorrie I Love Her,” a song that Keith wrote for their wedding and recorded as a worktape in his home. But their love story started years before that, backstage at the Grand Ole Opry. Lorrie and her son, Jesse Keith Whitley, recently joined hosts Bobby […]
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It’s almost time for the 2026 PGA Championship at Aronimink Golf Club, which begs the question… will golf legend John Daly be teeing it up? When a player wins the PGA Championship, they are exempt to play in the tournament for life (much like The Masters). John Daly won the major tournament all the way back in 1991, and it was quite the unlikely story that helped propel him into the spotlight. If you aren’t familiar, Daly was the ninth […]
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Garth Brooks cleaned up at the ACM Awards back in 1991. There probably wasn’t an artist that had a more dominant run in the 90s than Garth Brooks. Everything he touched turned to gold, and at the 26th annual Academy of Country Music Awards, that was on full display. The country star took home not one, not two, not three (I’ll skip the next couple numbers to save us some time), but six separate awards in one night. All of […]
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