Year: 2022

It’s been four months since the tragedy that occurred in Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival. It resulted in ten deaths and hundreds of injuries, and for the most part since then, Travis has kept a rather low profile. He’s made few appearances in the public in the months that followed and he’s also done his best to help the families of the victims and give back to the community as a whole. An example of the latter is his recently announced Project HEAL which listed a number of community-based initiatives he plans to put in motion. However, as of late, Travis has been stepping out a bit more.

A recent example of that came during a pre-Oscars party on Saturday where Travis delivered his first performance since the Astroworld tragedy. According to Rolling Stone, Travis performed a small set at the private party, playing songs like “Sicko Mode” and more. The event took place in Bel Air, California and it features a star-studded guest list that included Leonardo DiCaprio, Venus and Serena Williams, YG, Tobey Maguire, and more.

Travis’ performance at the private party came after he and longtime girlfriend Kylie Jenner had their second child together. They initially revealed that the baby boy’s name was Wolf Jacques Webster, with Jacques being Travis’ legal first name. However, a month later, Kylie announced that they would be changing their son’s name because they “didn’t feel like it was him.”

(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book IV: Force will be found below.)

From the start of Power Book IV: Force, it’s been Walter Flynn’s hope that Tommy Egan would eventually realize that there was no place for him in Chicago and that he’d eventually leave and let things go back to normal. Unfortunately for him, the complete opposite has happened. Tommy has convinced Vic to work with him on a few occasions while also, unbeknownst to Walter, connecting with Claudia Flynn to sell their new drug, Dahlia. Walter is running out of options to get the upper hand on Tommy, and it seemingly left him with one choice.

What Does Walter Flynn Offer Tommy?

After calling Tommy over for a meeting at his house, Walter offers him a position in the Irish Crime Family. With this, it’s clear that Walter’s mindset is “if you can’t beat them, join them,” but even then, it seems like Walter has something up his sleeve. Nonetheless, Tommy turns down Walter’s offer citing his inability to trust him as someone who will stick to their word. It’s also through this conversation that Tommy learns of Walter’s desire to kill Gloria and finally remove her from Vic’s life.

New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available to watch on Sunday at 12:00am EST.

(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book IV: Force will be found below.)

Vic and Gloria’s relationship has been a complicated one from the get-go. Gloria has yet to be accepted into the Flynn family due to their desire to have Vic marry an Irish woman in order for him to take over the family business — that being the Irish Crime Family. Vic has struggled to pick between his responsibilities to the family and his true desires, and this battle nearly drove Gloria away from him. However, after she disappeared in last week’s episode, Vic made the decision to finally place her above the family. So, finally, when she returns, Vic only sees one option for them: run away.

What Happens When Vic And Gloria Try To Run Away?

Vic’s decision to run away with Gloria is aided by a courteous head’s up that he received from Tommy. After a meeting with Walter, Tommy informs Vic that Walter is going to try and kill Gloria, and despite his initial skepticism, Vic believes Tommy and decides it’s time to head out of Chicago. Tommy gives Vic the keys to a clean new car to drive away in and instructs him to use backroads and quiet streets. Unfortunately, Vic doesn’t listen to Tommy and it seemingly costs Gloria her life as she and Vic are ambushed at an intersection in Chicago. Gunshots are exchanged and it results in Gloria being shot in the head which leaves Vic in absolute devastation.

New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available to watch on Sunday at 12:00am EST.

Colombian officials have offered new details regarding Taylor Hawkins’ death a little over a day after his passing was announced. The Foo Fighters drummer was found unresponsive in a hotel room in Colombia before the band’s scheduled performance there on Friday night. Foo Fighters were in Colombia as a part of their South American tour which got underway before their string of shows in North America which is set to kick off in May. The investigation into Hawkins’ death is still ongoing, but a new toxicology report is helping to paint a picture of what led to Hawkins’ death.

On Saturday evening, just a day after Hawkins’ death was announced, the Attorney General’s Office of Colombia reported that a urine toxicology test revealed that Hawkins had ten types of substances in his system. According to TMZ and Billboard, the substances included THC (marijuana), tricyclic antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and opioids. The Attorney General’s Office also made sure to note that the National Institute of Forensic Medicine will continue its investigation in order to come to “total clarification of the events that led to the death of Taylor Hawkins.”

The new report arrives after Bogota’s District Health Office revealed that Hawkins had an ambulance called to his hotel due to “chest pains” prior to his passing. “Efforts to resuscitate Hawkins were tried,” the Spanish-language press release read. “However, there was no response, and the patient was declared deceased.”

(SPOILERS for this week’s Power Book IV: Force will be found below.)

Tommy and JP have grown pretty close since learning that they were half brothers in the first episode of Power Book IV: Force. Tommy has taken the time to help JP out in multiple ways. He’s stopped by their grandmother’s house to help fix and repair things and he’s given JP money to recover from the family’s bar being shot up. While this is all well and good, JP reaches a point where he no longer wants to receive a handout from Tommy, and after confronting him on what he actually does for a living, JP asks to join Tommy in the drug game. Tommy is emphatically against it, but push comes to shove, and soon enough, they’re working together.

How Do Tommy And JP Start Working Together?

It began with a conversation at their grandmother’s house. Tommy is in need of a second cook to construct the street version of Dahlia, and seeing that JP is someone who is good with their hands, Tommy concludes that JP can in fact help him. To kick things off, Tommy brings JP to his apartment where he and Liliana teach him how to put Dahlia together. Tommy reminds JP that there’s no room for error here, and while that is certainly a lot of pressure to put on him, Tommy also believes that JP can get the job done.

New episodes of STARZ’s ‘Power Book IV: Force’ are available to watch on Sunday at 12:00am EST.

The Duke Blue Devils are on their way to New Orleans. Duke took on Arkansas in the Elite 8 on Saturday evening, and thanks to a 78-69 win, Mike Krzyzewski is taking a team to the Final 4 for the 13th time, breaking a tie with the late John Wooden for the most appearances in the Final 4 in a coaching career.

Coach K, of course, will see his career come to an end whenever the Blue Devils are eliminated, as it was announced before the season that he is going to retire and hand the program over to former player and current associate head coach Jon Scheyer at its conclusion. But for now, the team is cruising along, even if its head coach got a little annoyed at one of his presumed lottery picks in the 2022 NBA Draft.

In the game’s immediate aftermath, Coach K gave an interview to Tracy Wolfson of CBS when two of his players, Wendell Moore and Paolo Banchero, walked up and embraced him. Banchero took a moment to say “this is the GOAT” right here, which Krzyzewski did not enjoy.

“No, no,” he said. “Shut up.”

Duke doesn’t play again until next Saturday — they’ll either play North Carolina or Saint Peter’s — so if we hear that Banchero had to run a few sprints in practice on Monday, we can probably assume this is why.

For a record-setting 13th time in his career, Mike Krzyzewski is headed to the Final 4. The Duke Blue Devils throttled the Arkansas Razorbacks on Saturday night, 78-69, to win the West Region and extend their Hall of Fame coach’s career by at least one more game before he retires.

While it was not quite a wire-to-wire win for the Blue Devils, they did not relinquish the lead after going up, 10-9, with 14:17 left in the first half. The Razorbacks managed to keep things close, but eventually, Duke was able to turn on the jets, imposing themselves on both ends of the floor. Whether it was the stout defense of Mark Williams protecting the rim or one of their numerous talents providing scoring on offense, the Blue Devils seemed to take control early and kept Arkansas at arm’s length the rest of the game.

Four players scored in double-digits for Duke. AJ Griffin led the way with 18, Paolo Banchero pitched in 16, Wendell Moore had 14, and Williams pitched in 12 with 12 rebounds and three blocks. Two more Blue Devils — Trevor Keels and Jeremy Roach — had nine.

Banchero did end up on the receiving end of a poster from Jaylin Williams in one of the few bright spots on the evening for the Razorbacks. Williams led the way for his team with 19 points, 10 rebounds, three assists, and two steals, while JD Notae and Stanley Umude both had 14.

Duke’s next game will make history one way or the other, as the Blue Devils will either play North Carolina in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in the rivalry’s decorated history, or they’ll take on 15-seed Saint Peter’s. The Tar Heels and the Peacocks will go head-to-head in their Elite 8 matchup on Sunday at 5:05 p.m. ET.

Here is a video of Andre Drummond doing his best impression of a very good free safety during the Brooklyn Nets’ game against the Miami Heat on Saturday night. Kyle Lowry tried to throw a pass on the perimeter to Tyler Herro, but did not see that Drummond was preparing to jump the passing lane and force a turnover. The big fella did just that, tipping the pass towards his basket, grabbing it, taking one dribble, and dunking.

Perhaps you noticed that he threw out his left hand right as he was gathering. Well, here’s another angle of the whole thing, in which Drummond decided he was going to troll Herro by throwing up a peace sign as he ran away from him and threw down.

Drummond very much deserved to talk a little trash here, as did the entire Nets team. This dunk meant that Brooklyn — who, we must add, very well could end up playing the Heat in the first round of the postseason depending on how things shake out in the Eastern Conference — extended its lead on the evening to 82-55. It’s been a bad night for Miami, sure, but this is one heck of a way to have some salt rubbed in the wound.

The Toronto Raptors played host to the Indiana Pacers as Scotiabank Arena on Saturday night in a game with huge Eastern Conference playoff ramifications. While the Pacers are playing for ping pong balls during the lottery, the Raptors are on the verge of overtaking the Cleveland Cavaliers for the 6-seed, meaning their path to the postseason would not require participating in the play-in tournament.

Things were going quite well for Toronto in that endeavor, as they had a 66-38 lead over Indiana a little more than halfway through the second quarter, when all of a sudden, the game needed to be stopped and the authorities needed to be called in due to a fire in the stadium. More specifically, there was an electrical fire involving one of the speakers, so everyone had to be cleared out so it could be properly tended to.

Ultimately, the whole thing got sorted out, but the decision was made that the game would resume without any fans in attendance.

At the time of the stoppage, Precious Achiuwa led the Raptors with 16 points in 12 minutes off of the bench, while Pascal Siakam provided 15 points, four assists, three rebounds, and two steals. Meanwhile in Cleveland, the Cavaliers entered the halftime break against the Chicago Bulls trailing 53-35.

For the third time in six years, the Villanova Wildcats are headed to the Final 4. Villanova took on the Houston Cougars on Saturday evening in the South Regional Final and took care of business, grinding out a 50-44 win over the champions of the American Athletic Conference.

It was not exactly an aesthetically pleasing first half of basketball. The vaunted Houston defense managed to keep Villanova’s offense in check rather well, as the Wildcats only put up 27 points on 28 percent shooting from the field and 25 percent shooting from three in the frame. While the trio of Jermaine Samuels, Caleb Daniels, and Eric Dixon scored 20 of those points, they had to work for everything they got. They did, however, do what they do better than any team in Division I history: get to the free throw line and make the other team pay, as they connected on all 10 of their attempts from the stripe.

Unfortunately for the Cougars, they struggled to turn defense into offense, as Villanova likewise gave them all they could handle on that end of the floor. The team only scored 20 points before the break and did not hit any of their eight attempts from three. Their top scorers, Taze Moore (six points) and and Jamal Shead (four), went 5-for-16 in the half, and as a team, Houston hit on 30.6 percent of their attempts from the field.

The second half was much of the same — Houston’s offense kept it from mounting a serious challenge, and every time they managed to start clawing back, something would happen to tilt the scales back in Villanova’s favor. Eventually, though, the Cougars were able to steady themselves and make it a one-possession game with 5:15 left thanks to an 11-2 run. Moore, in particular, kept coming up big, including when he scored the bucket to cut the Wildcat lead to two.

After a timeout, Villanova was once again able to build up a little breathing room on its very next possession thanks to a bucket by Collin Gillespie.

And just like that, Houston’s offense once again went cold. The team went four minutes following Moore’s bucket before it scored again, and while Villanova did not exactly run away with things, the Wildcats were able to score enough to keep the Cougars at arm’s length. Samuels led the way for Villanova with 16 points and 10 rebounds, while Daniels provided 12 points and six rebounds off the bench. There is, however, one damper on this for the Wildcats, as Moore, the team’s starting guard and second-leading scorer, suffered a leg injury in the waning moments of the game and was unable to return.

Villanova will play either Kansas or Miami in the Final 4. The Jayhawks and Hurricanes will go head-to-head on Sunday afternoon at 2:20 p.m. ET.