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 …
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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 »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 »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 »Ball drop New Year’s Eve: TV channel, watch live, online, stream as Times Square rings in 2020
Over a million people packed into New York’s Times Square on New Year’s Eve to ring in 2020. They and millions more television viewers watched a nearly 12,000 pound Waterford crystal ball drop to tick off the final seconds of 2019. Following a recent string of attacks against Jewish people …
Read More »Andre Emmett death: Former NBA player Andre Emmett shot and killed in Dallas at age 37, hours after posting video with daughter on Instagram
Former NBA player Andre Emmett was was shot and killed in Dallas early Monday morning, his family confirmed to CBS Dallas/Fort Worth. Emmett was found lying on the side of a road by a passerby at 2:30 a.m. The 37-year-old had a gunshot wound, and Dallas Fire Rescue transported him …
Read More »R. Kelly arrested again: New charges include child pornography, enticement of a minor and sex trafficking as singer back in jail again today
R&B singer R. Kelly was arrested Thursday in Chicago on federal sex trafficking charges. Law enforcement sources told CBS News he was arrested by the New York Police Department and federal Homeland Security agents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office in northern Illinois said Kelly is facing 13 counts, including child pornography, …
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