The controversial host of The Joe Rogan Experience began trending on the platform on Wednesday after a number of tweets about his fake death began circulating. “We are saddened to announce the passing of Joe Rogan,” reads one tweet from an account called Joe Rogan Headquarters @joerogannhq. “He died peacefully in his home this afternoon, we will provide more details as they arrive, with respect to his family’s wishes.”...
Rogan, 52, who spearheads the massively popular “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast on YouTube, has indicated his operation could soon shift to the Lone Star state for several reasons, including the high cost of living on the West Coast. The host spoke after Elon Musk, who recently appeared as a guest on the show, teased he could move Tesla production to Texas amid an argument with Alameda County officials regarding the re-opening of his Fremont car manufacturing plant....
Embiid, who was already ruled out of Thursday’s NBA showdown against the Celtics, will be re-evaluated in 1-2 weeks. The All-Star dislocated his left ring finger in the opening quarter of Monday’s 120-113 victory over the Thunder. Embiid, however, continued and finished with 18 points, nine rebounds and eight assists in Philadelphia. “All of a sudden, we’re different,” 76ers head coach Brett Brown said prior to Thursday’s game. “We’re just different....
NBA LEAGUE PASS: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The playoff series everyone wants to see is littered with spicy storylines from James Harden squaring off against his former team to Ben Simmons and the hostile relationship with the Philly fans after forcing his way out of town, but the subplot that trumps everything is the elite battle on court, in the budding rivalry between Joel Embiid and Kevin Durant....
Chestnut first dove into the world of competitive eating in 2005 while he was a student at San Jose State University. His first major victory came that year when he ate six-and-a-half pounds of fried asparagus in 11 1/2 minutes. That year, Chestnut qualified for his first Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and ate 32 hot dogs. MORE: Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest odds, prop bets By 2011, Chestnut had become such a force on the eating circuit that he was able to quit his full-time job in construction management and focused solely on training for eating competitions....
The former Oregon star called out what he considers bandwagon fans who have been very vocal after the team’s 2-2 start. MORE: This week’s SN Power Top 20 | Pac-12 Power Rankings He recalled a run-in with a man in the parking lot before a recent game that exemplified what he believed was a lack of support and understanding by many new fans. “If there is 60,000 people at a big game in the new Autzen Stadium, a quarter of the stadium is filled with people who weren’t there prior to 2001,” Harrington said on CSNNW....
He was coming off his best season ever by finishing eighth in 2013 and he figured his second year at Penske Racing should be better than the first. MORE: Lineup breakdown | Harvick on pole, Logano second | Jimmie’s struggles | Junior laying low | Picks But there obviously were questions about Logano, about whether his first trip to the Chase for the Sprint Cup also would be his last....
To have ruled over the England, they basically needed to best one team: Manchester City. They could not, and so they remain Premier League princes. “The Premier League is the one I want,” LFC legend John Barnes told Sporting News. “The best team is the team that wins the league. The Champions League is fantastic, and it’s a great achievement. But we came so close in the league last year, and hopefully we can go one step further....
In an interview with Newsweek, Bolton—long one of the most hawkish voices on Iran in the Washington, D.C. foreign policy community—said he believes a deal to revive the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) can be done, largely thanks to the Biden administration’s appetite for success. “The Biden Administration has prostrated itself for the past year to try and revive this deal and they’ve made one concession after another,” Bolton said....
The defender was injured in the first half Wolfsburg’s 1-0 DFB-Pokal win over Eintracht Norderstedt. The injury means Brooks will almost certainly miss the remainder of World Cup qualifying for the United States, which plays two qualifiers in September and then their final two matches in October. Brooks was making his competitive debut for Wolfsburg after having made a €20 million switch from Hertha Berlin — the largest fee ever paid for a U....
MORE: John Calipari through the years | Meet this year’s Hall of Fame class When he spoke during the news conference after longtime NBA official Dick Bavetta choked up a bit – “I was going to strangle him,” Calipari said, fearing it would be contagious – he made it through unscathed. He sat with reporters for more than a half-hour and reflected on his life, his career, his challenges and his family – even his beloved late mother, Donna Mae, who passed away in 2010 – and Calipari was plenty animated, but not quite emotional....
The 25-year-old running back reportedly asked Cleveland to move him in early April and he has not reported to the team’s voluntary offseason workout program. But, Dorsey told reporters Thursday he views Johnson as a “member of this organization moving forward.” “He understands the role that he’s going to play within this offense,” Dorsey said via the Beacon Journal. “That’s what’s important because Duke, everybody knows, is a very talented playmaker, and I look forward to seeing him on the field on Sundays....
John Elway knows a little something about deciding to retire from the NFL at age 38. The Broncos’ Hall of Fame quarterback turned executive vice president doesn’t see that happening with Peyton Manning. “We’re hopeful Peyton comes back,” Elway said of his current Hall of Fame QB at the NFL Combine Thursday. “We want him back. He hasn’t given me a definitive decision. I believe he will be back. … He’s the best player for us (at that position)....
MLB is moving the game in protest of Georgia’s new restrictive voting laws. Some conservative commentators have claimed that Colorado has similarly restrictive voting laws to Georgia. However, there are both similarities and differences between voting laws in the two states. Hickenlooper, the former governor of Colorado, hit back at claims the state’s voting laws were restrictive in a statement on Tuesday. “Colorado set the gold standard for making elections fair, secure, and accessible, and the MLB recognized these efforts by moving the 2021 All-Star game to Denver,” he said....
One of 11 children, Hooker grew up in a sharecropping family on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta. By the time he turned 14 he was playing guitar in Memphis, Tenn. From there he moved to Cincinnati and sang with gospel quartets before moving to Detroit in 1943. There he resumed his career as a blues musician. Intensely prolific, he recorded more than 100 albums, many of them under pseudonyms like Birmingham Sam and His Magic Guitar and the Boogie Man....
The multiple Grammy-winning singer was responding to Trump’s criticism of Legend and his “filthy mouthed wife” after he appeared on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt to discuss criminal justice reform in the U.S. The president appeared irate about not getting credit for passing the First Step Act into law in December 2018. The First Step Act reduces mandatory minimum sentences in certain cases, as well as helping inmates reintegrate themselves into society following their release....
The elder Thompson just couldn’t help himself on Tuesday night and interjected into his son’s press conference after Georgetown beat Creighton, to complain about the officiating. MORE: Best active college players at every jersey number “Last two games have been terrible. You can tell the f—ing commissioner and everybody else in the Big East that I said that,” he said, according to Casual Hoya. John Thompson III was a liiiiiiittle bit more diplomatic in addressing the officiating....
Washington guard John Wall has been ruled out for Game 2 in Atlanta after injuring his left wrist in Sunday’s 104-98 victory in Game 1. MORE: Celtics offseason outlook PHOTOS: Must-see Round 2 photos Wall has averaged 17.4 points and 12.6 assists in five playoff games this season, and certainly will be a major loss for the Wizards on Tuesday. Still, it’s probably best that he takes time to rest his wrist with a 1-0 lead and significant swelling still posing a problem....
The Giants pitcher posted a video to Twitter during the DR’s epic comeback victory over the United States in their showdown on Saturday night. RIVERA: The WBC is great, whether you like it or not It contains a lot of whistling, a lot of random woofs, and one “Let’s go, damn it!” in Spanish. While Cueto is busy prepping for the upcoming season down in Arizona, the fact that he was watching his Dominican compatriots shows how much the tournament means to him....
The actor, 58, was handed the honor in Belgrade by Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić for “outstanding merits in public and cultural activities, especially in the field of film art and the promotion of the Republic of Serbia in the world,” per website Balkan Insight. “I truly, sincerely thank you, President Vučić, and this medal of merit, if I am given the honor to walk away with this, I thank you for being kind enough to bestow it upon me,” the actor said after receiving his medal....
