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Cooper Flagg: the 17-year-old ‘cold-ass white boy’ breaking the basketball discourse
Thought Caitlin Clark was a funhouse mirror for the zeitgeist? Meet Cooper Flagg, the Duke star tapped to be the first white American in 48 years to go No 1 in the NBA draft

Andrew Lawrence

19, Dec, 2024 @11:45 AM

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Scottie Pippen and the heady rise of the athlete turned crypto bro
Sports stars are rushing to promote coins and exchanges. But they are stepping into a world of which they often have scant knowledge

Andrew Lawrence

13, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM

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‘No shortage of comforts’: why Head of State is my feelgood movie
Latest in a series of writers highlighting mood-lifting films is a tribute to Chris Rock’s prescient 2003 political comedy

Andrew Lawrence

09, Dec, 2024 @10:00 AM

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From field to farm: the US pro athletes trying their hand at agriculture
Former NFL, WBNA and NBA stars are ushering in a wave of athlete-farmers who see farming as a greater mission

Andrew Lawrence

06, Dec, 2024 @5:00 PM

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An Eddie Murphy-Martin Lawrence romcom is the comfort watch America needs right now
Eric Murphy and Jasmin Lawrence, the children of the comedy legends, are engaged. What better setup for their next collaboration?

Andrew Lawrence

05, Dec, 2024 @11:00 AM

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Colorado’s Travis Hunter: college football’s mind-warping dual threat is one of one
No player has been as impactful, as exciting or as deserving of the Heisman Trophy than Colorado’s two-way superstar. So why will he almost certainly be snubbed?

Andrew Lawrence

04, Dec, 2024 @9:30 AM

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Rapper Rhymefest on Trump, Kanye and David Cameron: ‘There’s a political realignment happening in the US’
Che ‘Rhymefest’ Smith co-wrote some of Ye’s biggest hits. Now he’s plunging into the vipers’ pit that is Chicago city politics

Andrew Lawrence

02, Dec, 2024 @3:00 PM

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Noah Lyles: ‘America has a winner’s mentality. That’s the good and the bad’
Noah Lyles, the Olympic 100m champion, plays a starring role in the second season of Netflix documentary Sprint. And he is as outspoken as ever

Andrew Lawrence

27, Nov, 2024 @9:00 AM

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Luther Vandross: the tragic R&B crooner who struggled for acceptance
A new documentary looks back on the career of a singer whose undeniable talent wasn’t always enough for a limited and image-obsessed industry

Andrew Lawrence

14, Nov, 2024 @9:08 AM

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Quincy Jones and Frank Sinatra: the audacious partnership that rocketed them to another planet
Jones was behind many inflection points in American music, but it all began with a brotherhood with Ol’ Blue Eyes

Andrew Lawrence

05, Nov, 2024 @2:00 PM

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‘I was a coke fiend, I made a lot of bad choices’: Garrett Morris on SNL’s early days – and how the show lost its courage
Saturday Night Live’s first Black cast member broke ground for the comics who followed him, fighting against typecasting and ‘a lot of racism going on’

Andrew Lawrence

31, Oct, 2024 @12:00 PM

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Beauty in Black review – Tyler Perry’s Netflix series is another lurid mess
The wildly successful mogul’s first drama series for the streamer is a disaster with one-dimensional characters and haphazard plotting

Andrew Lawrence

25, Oct, 2024 @1:32 PM

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