An unopened copy of Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 has sold at auction for $1.56 million. Heritage Auctions in Dallas said that the 1996 game sold Sunday, breaking its previous record price for the sale of a single video game. A spokesman did not immediately respond to an inquiry about who purchased …
Read More »NFL vows to stop use of “race
The NFL on Wednesday pledged to halt the use of “race-norming” — which assumed Black players started out with lower cognitive function — in the $1 billion settlement of brain injury claims and review past scores for any potential race bias. The practice made it harder for Black retirees to …
Read More »Kentucky Derby winner cleared to compete in the Preakness after passing drug tests
Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has been cleared to compete in the Preakness Stakes after passing three drug tests, the Maryland Jockey Club said Friday. The announcement comes after the horse tested positive for the steroid betamethasone in a sample taken after the Derby, throwing the horse racing world into turmoil. …
Read More »NCAA apologizes for disparities between women’s and men’s facilities
The NCAA is promising to bring better resources to the Women’s Division I Basketball Tournament after videos and images of the women’s facilities sparked outrage among fans and athletes online. Ahead of March Madness, student-athletes and coaches shared comparisons between the men’s training facilities and a single rack of dumbbells …
Read More »“Bachelor” host Chris Harrison is temporarily “stepping aside” after “excusing historical racism”
Chris Harrison, the longtime host of “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette,” announced Saturday that he is “stepping aside” from the franchise for an undisclosed “period of time.” The bombshell announcement comes in the wake of a controversial interview, in which he defended a current contestant’s racist photos. “This historic season …
Read More »Giannis Antetokounmpo wins second straight MVP award: “I gotta keep getting better”
Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks has been named this year’s NBA MVP, his second consecutive year winning the award, the league announced Friday. The 25-year-old forward, who also won Defensive Player of the Year, joins Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon as the only players to win both awards during …
Read More »Colin Kaepernick and Ava DuVernay team up for Netflix series about his high school years
Colin Kaepernick fans will soon learn a lot more about the activist and football player — thanks to a new six-episode scripted series centering around his adolescent life. Netflix on Monday announced that renowned filmmaker Ava DuVernay and Kaepernick have created a limited series, titled “Colin in Black & White.” “The series …
Read More »Jay Pharoah says “sorry” from LAPD cops who forcibly detained him with guns drawn is “not enough”
Former “Saturday Night Live” comedian Jay Pharoah said he was scared and confused when the Los Angeles police stopped him in April. Earlier this week, Pharoah shared a video of the encounter on Instagram. Surveillance video shows LAPD officers running toward him with guns drawn. They ordered him to the …
Read More »Elon Musk just dropped an EDM track titled “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe” on Soundcloud
Billionaire Tesla CEO Elon Musk unexpectedly released an EDM track on Friday. The 48-year-old said he wrote the lyrics and performed the vocals for a four-minute song titled “Don’t Doubt ur Vibe” – and he tweeted about it to his 31 million followers. “This song is hard,” he wrote on …
Read More »“Mobituaries with Mo Rocca”: The art of obituary writing
“The dirty little secret is, it’s the best beat in American journalism,” said legendary New York Times obituary writer Margalit Fox. “But I’m firmly convinced the child has not been born who comes home from primary school clutching a theme that says, ‘When I grow up, I want to be …
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