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Mark Walter says the Dodgers can’t win all the time. Even Magic Johnson agrees
On the morning after the Lakers got swept out of the playoffs and the Dodgers lost their third consecutive game, Magic Johnson flashed his trademark smile and stepped to the podium to talk soccer. “The world’s game is coming to the greatest city in the world,” Johnson said Tuesday. In Los Angeles, Johnson joined in…
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Shohei Ohtani ends home run drought, but struggling Dodgers fall to Giants again
The Dodgers fell 6-2 to the Giants on Tuesday, extending their losing streak to four games. The loss ensured that the Dodgers could not win the four-game series at Dodger Stadium this week, making a tie the best possible outcome for the home team. The Dodgers struck first Tuesday, loading the bases in the first…
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Oregon teen dies month after proposing to high school sweetheart when doctors failed to remove ‘plant matter’ from stitched wound: lawsuit
An intrepid teenage powerlifter died of sepsis a mere two months after graduating high school and one month after getting engaged when his doctors failed to clean a stitched-up wound infested with “plant matter,” his grieving father alleged in a lawsuit. Ethan Cantrell, 18, died on Aug. 20, 2024, just five days after an injury…
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Ducks surrender goal in overtime, fall to Golden Knights in Game 5
LAS VEGAS — The Ducks are a loss away from summer after Pavel Dorofeyev scored on a rebound 4:10 into overtime, giving the Vegas Golden Knights a 3-2 victory in Game 5 of the teams’ second-round Stanley Cup playoff series Tuesday. Dororeyev, who also scored on a power play in the first period, batted the rebound of…
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UCF commencement speaker met with boos over pro-AI remarks during ceremony: ‘Struck a chord’
A Florida real estate bigwig faced mockery and boos for proclaiming “artificial intelligence is the next industrial revolution” during her commencement speech at the University of Central Florida last week. Gloria Caulfield, the Vice President of Strategic Alliances at Orlando-based Tavistock Development Company, made the highly ridiculed remark in front of communication and media graduates…
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First ‘VisionQuest’ Footage: Paul Bettany’s Vision Reunites With James Spader’s Ultron in Marvel Series
After being delayed multiple times, Marvel’s “VisionQuest” finally has a premiere date. The live-action series will premiere on Oct. 14 on Disney+, and during Disney’s Upfront presentation on Tuesday, Marvel released the first footage of the show. For most of the footage, we see Paul Bettany in his human form, essentially watching Vision’s memories like…
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Sexual violence was systematic and integral to Oct. 7 attacks and their aftermath, report says
TEL AVIV — Sexual violence was systematic, widespread and integral to the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attacks and their aftermath, a new report by an Israeli nonprofit has found. The report, titled “Silenced No More,” was published Tuesday by the Civil Commission, an independent group that documents and researches gender-based violence by Hamas after its 2023 attack…
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Jimmy Kimmel Jokes About Disney Pulling Him Off the Air and Subsequent Backlash at Upfronts: ‘I’ve Cost Our Company Billions’
Jimmy Kimmel made light of Disney pulling him off the air and Donald Trump’s continued effort to get him fired at Disney’s Tuesday upfronts, joking about how much the target on his back has made him a liability for Disney. As Kimmel took the New York City stage, he joked that all of the “bulls–t”…
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Elon Musk Questions Lupita Nyong’o’s Beauty in Reignited Crusade Against ‘The Odyssey’
Elon Musk has more to say about Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey.” Nolan spoke to Time on Tuesday about his adaptation of Homer’s epic, his first film since winning Best Picture and Best Director for “Oppenheimer.” In the interview, Nolan confirmed the long-rumored casting of Lupita Nyong’o as both Helen of Troy and her sister Clytemnestra…
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Suozzi breaks with fellow Dems pushing to speed up NY partisan redistricting: ‘I’m opposed to all gerrymandering’
Rep. Tom Suozzi criticized fellow Democrats for pushing to speed up New York’s redistrictingprocess in a bid to help their party gain seats in the 2028 elections. “I’m opposed to all gerrymandering. I’ve always been opposed to gerrymandering,” Suozzi said when CNN anchor Abby Phillip asked him about the New York Democrat lawmakers’ proposal —…