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The Memphis Grizzlies are currently three games behind the Denver Nuggets for the top seed in the West. With four games still remaining, a first-place finish is still within reach for Ja Morant and Co. This starts with a matchup against a tanking Portland Trail Blazers side on Tuesday. At this point, however, the Grizzlies could be without one of their key players when they battle a Damian Lillard-less Blazers side. This is after Dillon Brooks popped up on the injury report ahead of Tuesday’s matchup. Dillon Brooks injury status vs. Blazers At the moment, Brooks is considered questionable to play with a hip injury. The official diagnosis…

Before HBO’s The Last of Us broke the video game adaptation curse, such projects failed regularly at the box office. One such dud was the Universal Studios-produced Doom (2005) starring Dwayne Johnson and Rosamund Pike. The adaptation of the first-person shooter game cost $70 million, but it failed to gross even $60 million at the box office. Critics and fans hated everything from the plot to the set design as well as the acting of the stars in the film. The Rock and Pike also reportedly didn’t have a great time filming it. The two Hollywood stars have slammed the film in various ways…

Angelina Jolie visited Iraq on Wednesday. The Oscar-winning actress posted several images to her Instagram page the following day as she noted what she did when in the war-torn country. ‘An emotional day with my friend @Nadia_Murad, who I was honored to spend the day with in Sinjar in Iraq,’ began the mother of six, who had tears in her eyes in the images. The Salt star said that her Nobel Price laureate friend Nadia is doing so much through Nadia’s Initiative to help the Yazidi people and other communities. The people in Sinjar are recovering after struggling through ‘conflict and genocide,’ noted…

The Dallas Cowboys seemingly would like to draft another quarterback this year. While they re-signed Cooper Rush to backup Dak Prescott, it was only a one-year deal and it’s been a while since they invested in a gunslinger. Tennessee’s Hendon Hooker was initially dubbed a perfect target for Dallas, but he has since morphed into a potential first-round pick. At worse, Hooker will go in Round 2, and odds are he’s gone by the Cowboys’ No. 58 selection. With that, Purdue’s Aidan O’Connell is someone to watch. NFL Network reported last week the former Boilermaker had a private workout with Dallas. O’Connell…

The New York Giants appear fully aware they need to address cornerback during the 2023 NFL draft. They are showing “interest” in Cam Smith, already “hosting him on a facility visit after dining with him before South Carolina’s Pro Day,” according to Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post. Smith is an intriguing prospect in a class loaded at the position. He’s been compared favorably to Sean Murphy-Bunting, who won Super Bowl LV with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to cap the 2020 season by Bleacher Report’s Cory Giddings. There have been other notable comparisons made, including the Draft Network’s Joe Marino likening Smith to Atlanta Falcons’ shutdown star…

A North Atlantic right whale is seen in 2018 feeding in Cape Cod bay off the coast of Plymouth, Mass. As many as 70 right whales were seen in the area on Friday. About one-fifth of the world’s entire population of North Atlantic right whales were all spotted hanging out in Cape Cod, Mass., heading into the weekend. Between 60 to 70 right whales, including a mother and calf, were seen feeding outside the east end of the Cape Cod Canal in the Cape Cod Bay on Friday, according to the Massachusetts Environmental Police. Scientists believe that fewer than 350…

Frank Hadfield and his team from Dinosaur Valley Studios in East Coulee, Alta., are just back from a trip to Newport, Oregon, where they collected bones of a blue whale. The idea is to mount the skeleton on a metal frame to make it look like it’s swimming in the ocean. It’s the biggest project the team has ever tackled. “We’re going to have it in a pose that’s very dynamic,” said Hadfield, who is the president of the company. “So it shows how these giant animals were still quite active in their environment in the ocean so that’s our…

CHARLES Barkley and Kevin Durant are both known for their decorated career in the NBA. Barkley, now an NBA analyst, has focused some of his comments on NBA superstar Durant who currently plays for the Phoenix Suns. Kevin Durant now plays for Charles Barkley’s old team, the Phoenix Suns Kevin Durant and Charles Barkley’s feud origins explained The feud between the two basketball players began during the 2022 NBA playoffs when the Celtics knocked Durant’s then-team, the Brooklyn Nets, out in the first round. Barkley, who is an analyst on TNT, commented on Durant’s performance on an Arizona radio station, saying he was more of a “bus rider” than a “bus driver”–…

The Dallas Cowboys worked out former first-round wide receiver Laquon Treadwell, Field Yates of ESPN reported. The Cowboys are coming off a season in which they fell in the NFC Divisional Playoffs to the San Francisco 49ers. The previous season, Dallas recorded 12 wins and a division title in 2021 before losing in the Wild Card round of the playoffs to San Francisco. The Jacksonville Jaguars signed Treadwell ahead of the 2021 season and had a career season with the franchise, catching 33 passes for 434 yards and one touchdown. Treadwell has played in 76 career games in the NFL with 23 starts. Treadwell…

THE 49ERS WANT another run at hosting the Super Bowl less than a decade after bringing the championship game to Santa Clara. San Francisco 49ers CEO Jed York said at the NFL annual meeting this past Tuesday that the team is hoping to host the 2026 Super Bowl. This would mark a decade after Levi’s Stadium first hosted the 2016 Super Bowl. The decision is expected to be made in May, according to a 49ers spokesperson. Advocates said hosting the nation’s largest sporting event for a second time would bring a much-needed boost to local businesses. “The Bay Area has a strong history of hosting…

If anyone knows what former Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott is going through it’s newly-minted Pro Football Hall of Famer DeMarcus Ware. Like Elliott, Ware went from being a celebrity first-round pick of the Cowboys, star player and face of the franchise to the the ignominy of being cut by the only home he had ever known for salary cap reasons after in 2014. Ware wasn’t surprised the Cowboys cut Elliott because of the way he was playing in 2022 and the emergence of Tony Pollard as the team’s best back. Ware, who participated in the Invited Celebrity Golf…

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – Marcus Kemp is a two-time Super Bowl champ with the Kansas City Chiefs — a dream that felt out of reach after leaving University of Hawaii undrafted. Kemp spent four years as a wide receiver for the ‘Bows. He added his name to the history books as the 12th receiver in program history to surpass 1,000 yards. After graduating in 2017, the NFL draft came and went — his name wasn’t called. “I think it really shaped me and propelled me to where I am now,” said Marcus Kemp. Kemp joined the Chiefs’ practice squad in 2017,…

ADRIEN Porras could one day follow in the footsteps of Victor Wembanyama. The center at Sequoia Pathfinder Academy in Arizona already looks like an NBA player with his six-foot-10 frame at the age of 14. Adrien Porras, who stands at 6’10” at the age of 14, has been labeled a ‘cheat code’ after his highlight reel went viral on social media Porras has been compared to French superstar Victor Wembanyama The NBA’s future arguably never looked brighter. Unbelievably talented basketball prospects are lining up to enter the league while superstars such as Luka Doncic, Nikola Jokic, and Giannis Antetokounmpo are still in their…

Things could look a lot different for the Warriors next season, but Steph Curry is confident everything will fall into place as it’s meant to. The two-time NBA MVP stopped by 95.7 The Game’s “Steiny & Guru” on Friday, where he was asked about uncertainty surrounding the 2023-24 NBA season when it comes to the contracts of 11-year veteran Draymond Green and president of basketball operations/general manager Bob Myers. “I think we can all acknowledge and keep it real that had we not won a championship last year, then those questions would have been a lot more … everyday, I guess?” Curry…

The Warriors need every win they can get to lock in a guaranteed playoff spot amid a wild playoff race in the Western Conference, and on Sunday night they blew a golden opportunity against the Denver Nuggets. Despite the Nuggets being without two-time MVP Nikola Jokic, the Warriors’ road struggles continued and they proceeded to lose 112-110. Steph Curry finished with 21 points but shot 8-28 from the field and an abysmal 2-14 from deep. Klay Thompson had 25 points but shot 9-28 from the field. Thompson even had two chances to win it, but his first game-winning attempt missed…

Scientists from the Cascadia Research Collective have discovered a rare dolphin-whale hybrid off the coast of Kauai, Hawaii, according to a report published last week. The marine mammal monitoring program, funded by the US Navy, first spotted the animal in August 2017. The team tagged various species, including commonly seen rough-toothed dolphins and rarer melon-headed whales. However, researchers soon noticed that one tagged animal that looked a little odd. Although it had a typical melon-headed whale’s dorsal fin shape and dorsal cape, it was also blotchy in pigmentation and had a sloping forehead, more reminiscent of a rough-toothed dolphin. A genetic sample soon…

VANCOUVER—Researchers say they suspect one of the oldest killer whales in the West Coast’s southern resident population has died. The Center for Whale Research in Washington state says researchers have determined that orca J2, known as Granny, has not been seen since Oct. 12 and is believed dead. The centre says in a statement on its website that it does not know what killed Granny, but she was believed to be at least 78 years old and was the eldest within the three family pods of endangered southern resident whales. She was also considered the matriarch of J-pod. The centre…

NEW YORK — For just the second time in a decade, the New York Knicks will be in the NBA playoffs. But after beating the Washington Wizards on Sunday evening to officially secure a top-six spot in the Eastern Conference, the Knicks made it clear just getting to the playoffs won’t be enough to make this season a success. “It’s a great accomplishment, because it’s one of the goals,” Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau said after New York’s 118-109 win at Madison Square Garden. “One of several. It’s the next step along the way. So keep going. That’s where the focus is. We know how important the…

In what was considered a “must-win” Miami dropped the ball in this one. The Miami Heat get blown out at home in what was an important matchup for playoff seeding against the Brooklyn Nets, 129-100. The Heat dropped to 40-35 on the season as the Nets improve to 40-34, pushing Miami back to the 7th seed in the Eastern Conference. The Nets have also swept the season series against the Heat 3-0. After starting the game off hot, the return of the “turd quarter” was too much to overcome. Just an ugly game in the second half on both ends…

The Golden State Warriors title defense has been overshadowed by rumors of multiple core members of the team possibly looking for new beginnings. There have been whispers of possible exits of both general manager Bob Myers and star forward Draymond Green, after the season comes to a close. Golden State’s franchise point guard Stephen Curry recently addressed those rumors during a radio interview with 95.7 The Game’s Steiny & Guru, explaining that he believes that the Warriors will be able to keep their championship core together. “I think we can all acknowledge and keep it real that had we not won a championship last year,…

Iowa Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark has been Stephen Curry in a ponytail. Clark is having a historic season and has led the Hawkeyes (31-6) to their first NCAA Women’s Championship Game appearance, where they will face the LSU Tigers (33-2) on Sunday. The Naismith National Player of the Year, Clark has averaged 27.7 points per game this season and shoots 38%  from the 3-point range. “Those are shots that I work on all the time when I’m in the gym,” Clark told reporters. “That’s just the biggest thing. It’s not like I just get into games and just start chucking them…

Hollywood is being overrun by WWE legends and we are all here for it. The saga of Dwayne Johnson’s decade-long battle in the movie industry has been a renowned one. Racked with rejection, asked to conform, and being invalidated at every turn, The Rock’s journey is at once paved with impossible success and the story of one man’s defiance against the norms that rule the film and television industry. Now, Johnson is not only one of the highest-paid actors in Hollywood but also one of the most globally recognizable faces. But as he grows ever more famous in his acting…

Bella Thorne set temperatures soaring on Thursday afternoon as she appeared on Instagram in two skimpy bikinis. The former Disney Channel star, 24, is vacationing in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico with her older sister Dani Thorne, 29. Taking to her Instagram Story, Bella struck a seductive pose in a black mesh two-piece suit while venturing out on the water on a luxury yacht. Bikini babe: Bella Thorne set temperatures soaring on Thursday afternoon as she appeared on Instagram in two skimpy bikinis Reminiscent of lingerie, Bella’s bikini top had lace detailing on the cups and gold hardware meant to adjust the straps on her shoulders…

CASEMIRO has rocked up at Manchester United training in a new £200,000 Bentley. The Brazilian signed an eye-watering £350k contract as the Red Devils snapped him up for £70m from Real Madrid last month. 13Casemiro’s has a new car following his signing of a big money contract at Old TraffordCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke13The former Real Madrid star is yet to start a game since his arrivalCredit: Eamonn and James Clarke He is the third-highest earner at the club behind Cristiano Ronaldo and David De Gea following this transfer window. He is yet to start for the club but could be in the first…