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The Wildcats escaped with a 68-66 win against Notre Dame in the Midwest Regional final in one of the most exciting games of the college basketball season. Some fans believed Calipari did not give enough credit to the Fighting Irish for providing one of the few real challenges Kentucky has encountered all season. MORE: DeCourcy on Kentucky win | Recap | Elite Eight photos | Video highlights “We didn’t play very well and Notre Dame played really well, controlled the whole thing,” Calipari said to Turner Sports after the game....

The trouble for the co-founder of the Monty Python comedy troupe began Sunday morning, when someone shared a screenshot of a September 30th tweet from Cleese that went somewhat unnoticed at the time–it was a signed letter expressing “solidarity” with J.K. Rowling, the Harry Potter author who has spent the better part of the year rousing controversy with transphobic remarks and one particularly incendiary essay. (She was even publicly denounced by Daniel Radcliffe, who famously portrayed Potter onscreen....

Hinckley, 66, announced the show in a Twitter post last week, writing that he will be performing at the New York City borough’s Market Hotel on July 8. “Get your tickets while you can,” Hinckley wrote at the time. According to Pilot Venue, the website selling tickets to the event, the show is now sold out. Hinckley will be released from the court-ordered restrictions he has lived under for years in June, a month before the scheduled concert....

John William Hummel, 45, received a lethal injection for the 2009 killings at the state penitentiary in Huntsville on Wednesday evening. Hummel said a brief prayer while strapped to the gurney in the death chamber. “Yes, when they lay me down to sleep, for I am to die for justice, the Lord my soul to take. I’ll be with Jesus when I wake,” he said, according to a prison transcript provided to Newsweek....

Video surfaced this past week of two players from John Jay High School — senior Mike Moreno and sophomore Victor Rojas — hitting a referee in the closing minutes of a game. On Tuesday, a few details of the investigation were announced. MORE: Dirty incidents in sports | High school referee attack among frightening incidents targeting officials A major development is that assistant coach Mack Breed has been placed on administrative leave for saying to the players, “that guy needs to pay for cheating us,” referring to the ref....

For the first time in his 14-year career, John Lackey has won his first three starts of the season. MORE: Why every MLB team should panic now Lackey, who signed a two-year, $32 million deal with the Cubs this offseason after spending two seasons in St. Louis, dominated his former team with 11 strikeouts over seven innings on Monday. He even added an RBI single to help his own cause as the Cubs became the first team to 10 wins with the 5-0 shutout....

The rapper and designer, 45, announced his presidential bid on the Fourth of July, 2020—revealing that he was running as an Independent under the “Birthday Party”—after publicly expressing his support for then-President Trump. Amid the fallout from his ill-fated campaign, West saw his friendship with fellow musician Legend, 43, become strained, which the singer addressed last month during an appearance on The Axe Files with David Axelrod podcast. Addressing how his comments were reported on at the time, Legend told The New Yorker that “what it got described as was, we stopped being friends because he supported Trump, which was a mischaracterization of what I said....

He said even though he retired following a study on CTE in NFL players, he has no hard feelings toward the league. He loved every second he played in the NFL, for the Ravens, and says he only made the decision to retire so he could focus on mathematics. MORE: 2017 NFL Power Rankings Continuing with that, he revealed he was a full-time Ph.D. student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....

The 57-year-old actor is in court today in the U.K. as he begins his libel trial against the publishers of British tabloid newspaper, The Sun, News Group Newspapers (NGN), for a 2018 article which referred to him as a “wife beater.” Depp has provided a witness statement detailing alleged attacks from Heard, in which he claims she punched him as well as severing the top of one of his fingers....

The resurgence of Aggies football helped Texas A&M raise a record $740 million in donations during the past year. The Austin American-Statesman reported Monday that the fundraising haul exceeds the university's previous high mark by nearly 70 percent. It also dwarfed the more than $400 million raised by rival University of Texas during the same period. Texas A&M Foundation president Ed Davis says the campus is enjoying more energy thanks in part to the Aggies' return as a college football power....

The former Browns quarterback after a year-long hiatus from football again claims he’s ready to pick up where he left off in the NFL. The troubles that prompted his family and close friends to fear for Manziel’s life are behind the 24-year-old, according to him. And, also according to him, Manziel achieved sobriety without professional help, he told ESPN’s Ed Werder. MORE: How Manziel flunked out of football Manziel after the 2014 season tried the rehab route but failed to overcome his addiction issues after a lengthy stay at a treatment facility....

The majority of the nation was set to watch Green Bay vs. Buffalo as the early game, but that was before Manziel got the start. Of course we’re all curious to see how he’ll preform under the pressure. He’s been saying all season that he’s ready and believes he can help the team, and after Brian Hoyer’s past few games, people are starting to believe he can. Sorry Aaron Rodgers, it’s Johnny Football time to shine....

That’s understandable. He won six Sprint Cup championships, including five in a row, under the old Chase systems. Johnson wanted to reserve judgment on the elimination-style format implemented last season. And even though he was eliminated in the second round, he says NASCAR has made him a believer in the new Chase. “I wanted the stats to tell me that it was better and the stats that NASCAR shared with the drivers a couple of weeks ago definitely showed things going in the right direction,” Johnson said....

Johnson had two slams in the game after winning the pre-scrimmage contest, scoring perfect 10s from three judges as he took his own bounce pass, went between the legs and threw down a clean right-handed jam. He made 7 of 13 shots for the Blue team. View on Instagram Sophomore forward Rondae Hollis-Jefferson scored 13 to lead the Red, which won 53-46. Freshman Dusan Ristic, a 7-footer expected to back up third-year starting center Kaleb Tarczewski, made 7 of 8 shots and scored 14 points....

According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Gruden’s lawsuit stated that “Through a malicious and orchestrated campaign, the NFL and Commissioner Roger Goodell sought to destroy the career and reputation of Jon Gruden, the former head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders.” The lawsuit also claimed that Gruden was “forced to resign,” according to the Las Vegas Review Journal. In a statement sent to ESPN, Gruden’s attorney, Adam Hosmer-Henner of McDonald Carano, said, “The complaint alleges that the defendants selectively leaked Gruden’s private correspondence to the Wall Street Journal and New York Times in order to harm Gruden’s reputation and force him out of his job....

Amid Rogan’s ongoing backlash for spreading COVID-19 misinformation on his Spotify podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, Stewart has defended the commentator for his openness to different points of view. In his most recent episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart, Stewart spoke with Harvard professor Joan Donovan, who leads the Technology and Social Change Project, to discuss the slippery slope of misinformation. Donovan began the episode by discussing the difference between misinformation and disinformation....

The decal on Jonathan Herrera’s helmet had an interesting day. MORE: Second half predictions | Tigers’ Kinsler ejected for slamming bat First it was upside down. Then it made its way toward the top of the helmet. Then it made a slight right. Then Herrera put it back in place.

The 23-year-old right-hander made his major league debut Friday for the Yankees against the Rays, pitching five shutout innings to earn the win. TRADE RUMORS: Yankees calling lots of teams in quest for pitching help Even before he took the mound at Yankee Stadium, he was something of a fan favorite for something besides baseball. Twitter, please explain: For the record, here’s the official pronunciation from the Yankees: Now back to the game — and the puns....

The job became vacant last December after controversial tactician Ephraim ‘Shakes’ Mashaba was dismissed by the organisation. A Safa disciplinary committee found him guilty of gross misconduct‚ insubordination and violating Safa’s communications policy. Safa has since failed to meet their own deadline to announce the new Bafana coach, it has now laid the blame at the door of the local media. Now that the CAF elections are out of the way, Jordaan was quoted saying he “was going to work to deal with this matter....