Month: January 2024

Everyone in the basketball world seems to be waiting for the Milwaukee Bucks to officially hire Doc Rivers. After firing Adrian Griffin 43 games into his stint with the team, reports immediately began to pop up indicating Rivers is the frontrunner to fill the vacancy.

Whether or not Rivers actually gets the job remains to be seen, but in a pretty strange turn of events on Tuesday, TNT’s NBA studio show broke the news that the deal is done. Citing CNN Sports, TNT’s Adam Lefkoe told viewers that Rivers accepted the role in Milwaukee.

It was a curious report for a few reasons. The obvious one, of course, is that CNN Sports isn’t exactly considered a place to get breaking news, but the much weirder thing is that none of the usual NBA insider had this one. That included Chris Haynes of Bleacher Report, who was one of the first to have the news of Griffin’s ouster and is TNT’s go-to NBA insider. (Bleacher Report, CNN, NBA TV, and TNT all exist under the Warner Brothers Discovery umbrella, and Haynes was part of TNT’s NBA coverage on Tuesday evening.)

This isn’t to say that scooping bigger names is impossible, it’s just not especially common. Add in that there was nothing on the CNN Sports website or Twitter account and something seemed amiss here. And then, Bill Reiter of CBS Sports brought word that the report was false, and a whole lot a red flags started to pop up.

Despite that, CNN stated that the report went through its usual editorial process, which made them comfortable running with the news.

In the aftermath of the game between the Los Angeles Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers that featured Haynes as the sideline reporter, Lefkoe continued to talk on TNT about the deal like it was done, even as Jamal Crawford appeared to express a little skepticism.

Not long after this, we got our weirdest twist of this whole saga: Haynes — who, again, is usually the person TNT goes to for these sorts of things — just flat out refuted the report from CNN, saying that there’s no deal in place as of now.

It’s again worth mentioning that Rivers, a currently in-game analyst for ESPN, appears to be the clear frontrunner here, in part because the Bucks front office had him serve as an “informal consultant” to Griffin earlier in the year. We’ll keep you updated on this one.

The Oklahoma City Thunder were able to survive a scare by the Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday night, although it did not come without some controversy. With Portland up by one and less than 20 seconds on the clock, Malcolm Brogdon got trapped near midcourt, picked up his dribble, restarted it, and got hit with a double-dribble.

The problem, according to the Blazers, is that Chauncey Billups was attempting to call a timeout that just wasn’t given. In the aftermath of the double-dribble, Billups was unsurprisingly upset, which led to him getting hit with a pair of technical fouls that ended his night a little early. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander hit the free throw, Jalen Williams made a jumper on the ensuing possession, and the Thunder came out on top, 111-109.

According to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN, Portland is going to attempt to do something about this, as the team plans on filing a formal protest with the league.

“The referee in the slot position was refereeing the double team that was right in front of him, which makes it difficult for number one to hear and number two to see a coach request a timeout behind him,” crew chief Bill Kennedy said after the game. “He is taught to referee the play until completion, which a double dribble happens, and he correctly calls the double dribble and then pursuant (to that) the technical fouls come forward.”

Warning: This post contains spoilers for the Netflix show Fool Me Once.

Used to be that one-off limited series were fine. A show would only run a set number of episodes, telling a single, contained story, then that would be it. The world would move on. Nowadays that’s not always a sure thing. People were enraptured by Nathan Fielder and Benny Safdie’s The Curse, with Emma Stone, but that’s probably not getting a second season, for reasons we can’t get into because spoilers. But even that’s no guarantee of no return.

Likewise, what’s going on with Fool Me Once? The British Netflix series boasts a tantalizing premise: Maya (Michelle Keegan) is shocked to find that her husband (Richard Armitage), who was killed in front of her eyes, popping up in surveillance footage. What’s going on? As it happens what’s going on also explains why there’s probably not going to be a Season (or, since this is British, series) 2.

If you don’t want the twist ending of Fool Me Once spoiled, abandon ship forthwith.

Turns out Maya is the one who had her husband killed, but only because he murdered her sister, to protect his evil family. Sadly, Maya is then murdered by her dead husband’s brother. On the plus side, said killing was caught on a nanny cam, suggesting he won’t get away with it.

Does this mean the end of Fool Me Once? Not necessarily! There could be a prequel. Or they could take the White Lotus route and, like, make a series about a different but similar incident. Whatever happens, if they do a second season, it has to be called Fool Me Twice.

We are months away from Sueños Festival, a two-day fiesta featuring the biggest names in Latin and reggaeton music. This year marks the festival’s third year, and Sueños Festival 2024 boasts a festive line-up featuring newcomers like Manuel Turizo, Young Miko, and Bad Gyal, along with veterans like Alexis Y Fido. Peso Pluma, Rauw Alejandro, and Maluma are all headlining, and there will be a special performance by Ivan Cornejo. Tickets are expected to sell out rather quickly, so we’ve put together a guide on how to purchase passes.

Sueños Festival 2024 will take place on May 25 and 26 in Chicago’s Grant Park. Tickets for Sueños Festival 2024 go on sale this Thursday (January 25) at noon CT. Fans can register to purchase tickets here.

General admission passes begin at $310; GA+ at $460; VIP at $660; and El Sueño at $1,660. Thankfully, the festival promises no hidden fees, and fans will also have the opportunity to set payment plans for their tickets. You can see a breakdown of the festival tiers here.

You can check out the full line-up for Sueños Festival 2024 below.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Russell Westbrook is going to get inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame one of these days. Despite this, the Los Angeles Clippers guard has long had one major achilles heel: He’s not exactly the best shooter of all time. For his career, Westbrook has connected on 30.5 percent of his attempts from behind the arc, and this year, that number’s down to a paltry 28.4 percent.

To be clear, Westbrook at his peak did so many things well that this didn’t matter all that much. But perhaps there’s a fix to his shooting woes that is worth considering, which we saw during Tuesday night’s game between the Clippers and the Los Angeles Lakers. Westbrook had some trouble with the sneaker on his right foot, and once he realized his efforts to get it back on were for naught, he just kicked it off and decided to play. To take it one step further, he pulled up from behind the three-point line, knocked it down, and then got back on defense.

The best part of the clip, in my opinion, is Ty Lue taking the sneaker and putting it softly on the scorer’s table for whenever Russ got around to putting it back on. Unfortunately, Westbrook did not want to explore the one shoe thing for much longer, as he ended up putting his sneaker back on.

Has Donald Trump ever been happy? Sometimes he seems joyful, but only when he’s trashing his many enemies in front of adoring crowds (or telling them about how magnets don’t work). But has he ever experienced actual, unfettered happiness, the kind that doesn’t involve gloating in the vanquishing of others? It sure doesn’t seem like it. On Tuesday the former president easily beat his last GOP primary rival standing, former employee Nikki Haley. (Or was it Nancy Pelosi?) Alas not even that could tame the savage beast, who went on one of his all caps social media tirades before delivering a decidedly non-celebratory victory speech.

Per Mediaite, Trump’s fury began even before the race had been called, with him making baseless conspiracy theories about “all of the Biden Votes going for Haley!!!” (This seems to be part of his claim that registered Democrats are allowed to vote for Republican candidates in the New Hampshire primary. That’s not true.)

As the obvious became clear — that she was going to lose — Trump did some gloating. But as she delivered a concession speech, in which she vowed to still stay in the race, Trump hit the caps lock button and left it on over such succinct posts as “DELUSIONAL!!!”, “SHE CAME IN THIRD LAST WEEK!”, and the slightly confusing “SHE JUST LOST NEVADA, WHICH IS UP NEXT!”

Was Trump just bragging? Maybe something else was sticking in his craw. Trump had been predicting that he’d blow Haley out of the water, perhaps with a distance of 30 percentage points. As of this writing, with 55% of the votes tallied, he’s “only” up by less than 10%, with nearly 45% of voters favoring her. Even famed political analyst Dave Wasserman, a senior editor at Cook Political Report, noted that wasn’t “going to be a total Trump blowout.”

Perhaps Trump realized that there do exist wide swaths of the Republican party who are turned off by him, by his 91 criminal charges, by his antics during his last weeks in office, by his general air of being a chaotic vampire America should never have invited into politics. When he took the stage for his victory speech, he was far from humble. Instead he couldn’t shut up about the person he’d just conquered.

At one point he called Haley an “imposter” for running against him. He then angrily claimed that he wasn’t angry, only to repeat one of his more chilling favorite lines: “I don’t get angry; I get even.”

Later on he made a bizarre detour about what could happen to Haley if she won, which he assured everyone she wouldn’t.

“But if she did, she would be under investigation by those people within 15 minutes,” he said, signaling to some people in the back. (Reporters? The DOJ?) He then claimed he could tell them “five reasons” Haley could be investigated — “not big reasons, a little stuff she doesn’t want to talk about.” He added that Ron DeSantis would have faced similar scrutiny.

Would they, though? Trump is alleged to have committed some major crimes, some of which he did right out in the open, such as helping foment the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

All this begs the question: Will Trump getting his old job make him happy? Seems like it will only make him angrier, and more unhinged.

(Via Mediaite)

It’s no secret that Americans on average have too much stuff. Yay, capitalism!

Seriously, though, most of us bring new things into our homes pretty regularly, and if we aren’t purging regularly, they start to accumulate. We fill drawers, closets, bins, basements and garages with it, and then at some point realize we’re swimming in stuff and need to declutter.

The problem is, as much as we may want to pare down and simplify, a lot of us are really bad at getting rid of things. Decluttering involves decision-making, and decision-making can be exhausting. There are also psychological and emotional reasons we hold onto things, and those mental hurdles are often what we need the most help overcoming.

So along with practical decluttering tips like having a garbage bag and a giveaway box with you as you go through different areas of your home, try using these four mantras to help clear the mental clutter that makes physical decluttering difficult.

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1. “Stuff = stress”

There’s plenty of research that shows clutter causes stress and anxiety, and it’s pretty hard not to have clutter when you have too much stuff. Keeping the why of decluttering front and center can help keep you motivated as you start to purge.

Every item in your home costs you time and energy every time you encounter it. Moving the thing from one place to another, deciding where to put it, cleaning or dusting it, or even just having it take up space in your life costs you something mentally. Lots of small things add up to a large mental load, so ask yourself—Is this item worth what it’s costing me?

Stuff = stress. Less stuff = less stress. Keep that simple, freeing truth top of mind as you declutter.

2. “Maybe means no”

We’ve all been there with something in our hand trying to decide whether to keep it.

This notebook might come in handy sometime…

Maybe I’ll want to wear this dress one day…

But I might need that gadget in the future…

Nope, nope, nope. As soon as the words “might” or “maybe” come into your decision-making process, it’s a sign to ditch the thing. “Maybe” or “might” means you don’t need it right now, you aren’t using it right now, and you don’t know if you ever will.

If you keep things on the off chance that you might need them someday, you’ll never get rid of anything. The reality is there are very few things that you won’t be able to get in the future if you really need it. Your home is not a general store. And you are living in your home right now, not in the future.

When it comes to decluttering, maybe means no. Every time.

3. “Things aren’t memories”

This is a tough one for a lot of people to swallow, but some of us hold onto way too many things for sentimental reasons because we tie them to memories. Souvenirs, playbills, concert tickets, wedding gifts, grandma’s knick-knacks—so many things that make us go “Aww, remember when…” when we look at them, but here’s the thing:

Things are things. Memories are memories. Things aren’t memories. You can 100% still have the memories without keeping the things.

Things might trigger memories, but you can easily accomplish that by taking a photo of the thing that triggers the memory and getting rid of the thing itself. Make a “mementos” photo album for all those “but that reminds me of that happy thing” memory triggers and pass on the things themselves.

Of course, there may be some genuinely meaningful and valuable personal treasures that you truly love and want to hold onto. But most memory-associated items aren’t that. They’re just things. Keep the memories. Let the things go.

4. “Keep it flowing”

This is the main mantra to hold onto as you move forward. Once you’ve decluttered to a point where you feel light and free and good about what you have, it’s time to think about how to maintain that sense of freedom. And the key to that maintenance is, “Keep it flowing.”

Rather than seeing your home as a receptacle to inevitably get filled up, see it as a channel that things naturally flow in and out of. Look at it as a flowing river, not a stagnant pond. New things will always be coming into our lives, therefore old things need to go out.

The reason we end up with so much stuff is that we fail to recognize this flow. Some of us come from a deprivation mindset, so we are afraid to let things go even when new things come in. Some of us are influenced by the “more is more” mindset of consumer society, so we keep adding without subtracting to keep a balance.

In our modern world, things come and go. Keep that flow going on purpose whenever you bring something into the house, and you won’t have to do another big declutter project again.

Your ultimate Sueño is about to come true. Sueños Festival will make a return to Chicago’s Grant Park this spring. Over the course of two days in May (May 25 & 26), fans can look forward to seeing the biggest names in reggaeton and Latin music take the stage. Hot buzzy acts like Peso Pluma, Rauw Alejandro, Maluma, and Ivan Cornejo are set to headline the festival, while veterans in the game Alexis Y Fido, and many others are also set to perform.

With a line-up this promising, fans are counting the days to when they’ll be able to buy tickets.

When do Sueños Festival 2024 tickets go on sale?

Passes for Sueños Festival go on sale Friday (January 25) at noon CT. Fans can register to purchase tickets here.

General admission passes begin at $310; GA+ at $460; VIP at $660; and El Sueño at $1,660. Thankfully, the festival promises no hidden fees, and fans will also have the opportunity to set payment plans for their tickets. You can see a breakdown of the festival tiers here.

Check out the full Sueños Festival 2024 line-up below.

Some of the artists mentioned here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

When people get married and plan to have children, they expect that they will be in a partnership where their partner takes on equal parts of the parenting role. This doesn’t just include changing diapers and cooking meals. Parenting is much more than a few actions, it’s sharing the mental load and showing up without needing to be asked because you see what needs to be done.

A young woman still in the dating world put a call out to older women to ask how to know they’re picking someone who will be an equal parenting partner. Cheryl Neufville shared the moment that let her know that her now husband would make a good father, she encourages others to look for the sings.

While dating some of these signs may be easily overlooked if you don’t know what you’re looking for. Neufville’s example shows just how subtle the signs can be.

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The experienced mom explained that before she and her husband started dating they were visiting a friend that had given birth to her fifth child. While visiting the baby was being fussy and having trouble calming for the friend, so the future husband stepped in instinctively taking the baby to help it calm. He even took the baby outside to get some fresh air giving the stressed new mom a break.

“I think about that quite often in regards to what I saw before we were dating. Where he didn’t have to wait to be told what to do, he just kind of took charge and helped that woman out with her baby and I just knew that he would be the same way towards our children,” Neufville reveals.

Commenters agreed, one person saying, “No, for real a man will definitely show signs of being a good dad before becoming a father. And it will be in the simplest of ways, we just gotta pay attention.”

“I think men who are good fathers stick out. Like I don’t know how to explain it, but the signs are there! I knew my husband was going to be a good father,” another says.

Someone else chimes in, “yes!!! I knew my husband beforehand and he was always helpful to his friends and I KNEW who he was. Watch how they treat others.”

Neufville shares a couple of beautiful stories that may help people looking for an equal parenting partner that spills into the comments with a plethora of more experienced women chiming in.

You can check out the entire video below:

@heyy..cheryl @Justine’s Camera Roll 📸✨ ♬ original sound – Cheryl Neufville

It’s the 21st century, and as a civilization, we’ve come a long way. No, there are no flying cars (yet), but we all carry tiny supercomputers in our pockets, can own drones, and can argue with strangers from all around the world as long as they have internet access.

And yet women are still having to ask their partners to help out around the house. What gives?

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Recently, Blogger Constance Hall went on a highly-relatable rant about spouses assuming responsibility for housework, and women everywhere are all, “🙌 🙌 🙌 .”

Recently while bitching about the fact that I do absolutely everything around my house with a bunch of friends all singing “preach Queen”, someone said to me “if you want help you need to be specific… ask for it. People need lists, they aren’t mind readers.”

So I tried that, asking.. specifics..

“Can you take the bin out?”

“Can you get up with the kids? I’m just a little tired after doing it on my own for 329 years”

“Can you go to woolies? I’ve done 3 loads of washing and made breaky, lunch, picked up all the kids school books, dealt with the floating shit in the pond.”

And yeah, she was right… shit got done.But I was exhausted, just keeping the balls in the air.. remembering what needs to be asked to be done, constant nagging..And do you know what happened the minute I stopped asking…?

NOTHING.Again.

And so I’ve come to the conclusion that it’s not your job to ask for help, it’s not my job to write fucking lists.

We have enough god dam jobs and teaching someone how to consider me and my ridiculous work load is not one of them.Just do it.Just think about each other, what it takes to run the god dam house.

Is one of you working while the other puts up their feet? Is one of you hanging out with mates while the other peels the thirtieth piece of fruit for the day? Is one of you carrying the weight?

Because when the nagging stops, when the asking dies down, when there are no more lists….All your left with is silent resentment. And that my friends is relationship cancer..It’s not up to anyone else to teach you consideration.

That’s your job.Just do the fucking dishes without being asked once in a while mother fuckers.

Hall’s post touches on the concept of emotional labor, which can be defined as “the process of managing feelings and expressions to fulfill the emotional requirements of a job.”

In other words, although Hall’s partner may be the one carrying out the tasks she assigns him, it is still Hall’s job to be the “manager” of the household, and keep track of what things need to get done. And anyone who runs a household knows that juggling and keeping track of chores is just as exhausting as executing them.

At time of publication, Hall’s post was shared nearly 100,000 times. That’s a lot of frustrated ladies!

When your girl Far Kew sends you the perfect present. You will find this and more cunty cups on her facebook page 👌🏽
Posted by Constance Hall on Thursday, November 30, 2017

Women in the comments section seemed to overwhelmingly agree with Hall’s post.

Let’s all learn to share the load…laundry and otherwise.

This article originally appeared on 08.27.18