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Remember when Will Smith was a goofball? Ever since his fateful Oscars slap, the beloved rapper-turned-actor has been in the doghouse, out of the public eye, off social media, only seen when apologizing. But on Friday, the older Smith was back with a joke about the mess he’s made.

As per The Hollywood Reporter, Smith took to Instagram with a little video of a baby gorilla hesitantly poking a much larger gorilla, only to earn its ire. “Me trying to get back on social,” he wrote over top.

After slapping presenter Chris Rock on live television — then, about 20 minutes later, winning an Oscar — Smith was quiet. At first he offered a measured apology. Then he seemed to drop off the face of the planet. He wound up in India for spiritual purposes, doing yoga and meditation. Some of his upcoming projects were cancelled, though Martin Lawrence later claimed a fourth Bad Boys was still in the offing.

Late last month, he started baby stepping back into the public eye, dropping a longer, more fulsome apology. He said “no part of me that thinks that was the right way to behave in that moment. There’s no part of me that thinks that’s the optimal way to handle a feeling of disrespect or insults.” He also denied that his wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, told him to “do something,” that strutting on stage to attack someone who’d made a joke was his idea and his idea only.

Anyway, so begins the Will Smith Comeback Tour, apparently.

(Via THR)

Folks, it’s almost football season. College football is right around the corner, while the NFL is in the midst of its preseason. But in some places, football season is already here. That’s the case down in the great state of Georgia, where Loganville High School and Monroe Area High School on Friday night under the lights.

According to MaxPreps, the game ended with Loganville winning 45-39. But the scoreline doesn’t quite tell the whole story, because as you can see in the box score, Loganville outscored Monroe Area in overtime, 28-22. But even that doesn’t tell the whole story! Here is a tweet that is making its way around of how the game ended in quadruple overtime — just watch it once and then try to figure out what happened after that.

At first glance I straight up wondered if I missed something and the quarterback threw the ball past the line of scrimmage. But then, you realize what happened: The signal caller took the snap, handed the ball to a tight end, and then the big fella — with his back to his offensive line — just hucked the ball over his head. It looked like the defense just kinda stopped playing, while the ball landed softly into the outstretched arms of another tight end.

I still have zero idea how this worked, or where this is in the team’s playbook, or why you would even call it, but hey, Loganville won because of it.

NBA players suiting up and participating in summer pro-ams is nothing new, and this summer, we’ve seen some of the biggest names in the game take the floor at these sort of huge offseason events. LeBron James has even gotten in on the fun, as the Los Angeles Lakers star participated in The Drew League alongside DeMar DeRozan last month and had a monster performance in a win.

On Friday, we learned that James will play in another pro-am before the summer ends, as he’s headed to Seattle to participate in Jamal Crawford’s The CrawsOver. It features an absolutely loaded roster of NBA players, with Paolo Banchero, Tari Eason, Chet Holmgren, Dejounte Murray, and Isaiah Thomas all slated to attend.

But as it turns out, Crawford has one more trick up his sleeve. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Crawford announced that Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum is slated to make his CrawsOver debut alongside James.

Tatum seems like he can’t wait to take the floor in what is suddenly becoming the most star-studded game that we’ve seen this summer.

If Tatum is going to play in the same game as James, click this link to learn how you can watch.

LeBron James has kept himself busy this summer. Back in July, James made a special appearance at The Drew League and played alongside DeMar DeRozan, marking the first time in more than a decade that the 4-time league MVP took the floor at the legendary pro-am. He had a big afternoon and helped lead his team to a win, going for 42 points and 16 rebounds while earning player of the game honors.

Appearing at The Drew apparently gave James, who signed an extension with the Lakers this week, an itch that he continues to want to scratch. On Friday afternoon, Jamal Crawford announced that James will head to the Pacific Northwest to suit up in his annual pro-am, The CrawsOver. James will be joined by a number of hoopers from that neck of the woods — Paolo Banchero, Chet Holmgren, Dejounte Murray, and Isaiah Thomas are all slated to show up — but the Los Angeles star is the headliner, as it marks the first time in more than 15 years that he’s played in Seattle.

This weekend’s event is scheduled to begin on Saturday afternoon at 4 p.m. ET, while James’ game is slated to tip off a little later in the night at 8:30 p.m. ET, according to the official NBA Twitter account. If you’d like to watch LeBron in action, his game will air on the NBA app (you can download that, right here) and on NBA.com.

On the heels of his latest album, the 30-track long Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind, The Game paid a visit to the House of Aces podcast The Debut Live. During his interview, he visited back on monumental moments of his career, including the making of his breakthrough single, “How We Do.”

“I was walking down this long-ass hallway, and I was like, ‘fresh like, uhh, Impala, uhh,’” he said, “And then Dre was walking back in the studio…like, ‘Ay.’ I was like, ‘Yeah?’ He was like, ‘What’s that?’ And I’m like, ‘What’s what?!’ And he like, ‘What you mumbling?’ I’m like, ‘Nah don’t worry about it.’ He like, ‘What you mumbling?’”

Dre liked what he heard, and immediately decided to record the track with The Game. To his surprise, 50 Cent later jumped on the track, throwing in additional verses

“[Dre] was like, ‘Let’s lay that,’” The Game said, “After I got done, Dre was like, ‘Yeah, I f*ck with this sh*t.’ Two weeks later, came back to the studio and 50 was on this motherf*cker. … And it was at this time 50 was big as a motherf*cker, so I was happy about that because we was in G-Unit. But Dre had let 50 get on it, and 50 knew what the f*ck it was when he heard it. So he just got on it with me, and that’s how ‘How We Do’ was made.”

On the heels of his latest album, the 30-track long Drillmatic: Heart Vs. Mind, The Game paid a visit to the House of Aces podcast The Debut Live. During his interview, he visited back on monumental moments of his career, including the making of his breakthrough single, “How We Do.”

“I was walking down this long-ass hallway, and I was like, ‘fresh like, uhh, Impala, uhh,’” he said, “And then Dre was walking back in the studio…like, ‘Ay.’ I was like, ‘Yeah?’ He was like, ‘What’s that?’ And I’m like, ‘What’s what?!’ And he like, ‘What you mumbling?’ I’m like, ‘Nah don’t worry about it.’ He like, ‘What you mumbling?’”

Dre liked what he heard, and immediately decided to record the track with The Game. To his surprise, 50 Cent later jumped on the track, throwing in additional verses

“[Dre] was like, ‘Let’s lay that,’” The Game said, “After I got done, Dre was like, ‘Yeah, I f*ck with this sh*t.’ Two weeks later, came back to the studio and 50 was on this motherf*cker. … And it was at this time 50 was big as a motherf*cker, so I was happy about that because we was in G-Unit. But Dre had let 50 get on it, and 50 knew what the f*ck it was when he heard it. So he just got on it with me, and that’s how ‘How We Do’ was made.”

The NFL preseason is an opportunity for football players to get the rust off of them after a long offseason. This applies to punters, too, because even though they’re specialists and the one thing they do is something they can work on all year, there is a major difference between booting the ball on a field with no one around and kicking during a live NFL game.

But through the start of preseason, we’ve seen a few punters show absolutely zero signs that they’re working to get into game shape. Earlier this week, Buffalo Bills rookie punter and noted guy who is popular on the internet Matt Araiza lined up at his own 18-yard line and sent a ball into the opposite end zone for a remarkable 82-yard boot.

Not to be outdone, New Orleans Saints punter Blake Gillikin decided to get in on the fun. Gillikin and the Saints are playing the Green Bay Packers on Friday night, and during the third quarter, Gillikin absolutely ripped one 81 yards into the opposite end zone while Packers return man Amari Rodgers had to decide whether or not he was going to try and field this thing or just let it bounce for a touchback.

The longest punt in NFL history is 98 yards. It will be very hard to beat, but I have faith someone who punts in the NFL right now can do it.

Last year, rapper and superproducer Dr. Dre made news after suffering a brain aneurysm. Although he appeared to be in good health during his performance at this year’s Super Bowl, one may never guess that he almost died after his medical emergency.

In an interview with Dolvett Quince for an upcoming episode of the Workout The Doubt podcast, Dre shared his family visited him at the hospital, fearing that it would’ve been the last time they see him

“I’m at Cedar Sinai Hospital and they weren’t allowing anybody to come up, meaning visitors or family or anything like that because of COVID,” he said. “But they allowed my family to come in. I found out later, they called them up so they could say their last goodbyes because they thought I was out of here.”

Dre revealed that during his two-week stay in the ICU, doctors woke him up every hour, on the hour, to conduct tests.

“[The tests were] basically looking like sobriety tests,” Dre said. “Touch your nose, rub your heel on your calf and all that sh*t. So every hour for two weeks I had to wake up and do that.”

You can hear a clip from the episode here.

P-Lo is turning up the heat on his new song, “Stunna Anthem.” On his latest single, the Filipino-American rapper maintains his reign within the Bay Area, rapping along to a bouncy, hyphy Oakland-influenced beat.

The song contains a prominent sample of his fellow Bay Area rapper Too Short‘s “Shake That Monkey.” In the song’s video, P-Lo is seen enjoying breakfast in his home, surrounded by women dancing and lifting weights. He briefly dances with the ladies by the pool, falls asleep, then is immediately awoken by the famous dance group, the Jabbawockeez, who then take him to perform and dance in a banquet-like setting.

Over the years, P-Lo has worked behind the scenes with artists like Kehlani, Kamaiyah, YG, Tyga, and several other west coast artists. In an interview with Revolt, he detailed the process of writing and producing music of his own, and shared what fans can expect from his upcoming album.

“I was aimlessly recording and making songs at the beginning of last year,” he said. “I’m a producer. So, I wanted to push the boundaries of my sound. So, it took a little time to figure out the sonic landscape and the album’s energy.”

Check out “Stunna Anthem” above.

I think it’s pretty safe to say that when it comes to evolution, most people typically picture aquatic life forms sprouting legs then coming onto land … not the other way around.

Shockingly enough, a creature almost synonymous with the sea didn’t actually begin that way. And boy, is it a whale of a tale.

A mind-blowing video recently posted by PBS Eons reveals that whales were actually predatory land animals … the same ones that would later become wolves, specifically.

Yep, you read that right. Land animals. With arms and legs and everything.

To explain, we’ll need to go back 52 million years.

Before the warm and rainy Eocene epoch—the same time period that brought us the first horses and bats—whales looked more like the image below.

Something like a mix between a wolf and crocodile, if you ask me.

Yes, animals did move from the sea to the land, bringing us the first mammals. But then, over time, some mammals were like, “nah, it’s that ocean life for me.” Including some of these fellas.

These creatures first went into the water during the Eocene time period and eventually traded in their arms to become “sleeker and more streamlined,” while still holding onto their teeth.

By now they look less like a wolf and more like a murderous dolphin.

Cut to roughly 34-36 million years ago, and the species have diversified into the two major whale groups we see today: the Odontoceti (or “toothed whales”), which include sperm whales, orcas and dolphins, and the Mysticeti, better known as baleen whales … you know, those big guys with the filter-like “teeth” (aka baleen) that eat loads and loads of plankton?

The baleen whale’s evolution in particular has scientists a bit baffled, as there is no definitive evidence as to how, when or even why they began filter feeding in the first place. In fact, the first fossil of a mysticetes appeared around 36 million years ago, but baleen doesn’t show up until later, around 11 million years ago. Even the baleen’s oldest ancestor, the Mystacadon, according to the PBS video, showed no signs of baleen when researchers discovered it in 2019.

One theory: The cooled ocean current of the Oligocene epoch brought about an abundance of nutrients—specifically plankton—which made it more advantageous to bulk feed rather than hunt for single prey. This also helps explain the giant boom in different whale species.

Still, it’s all up for debate, and likely will be for a while since ancient baleen is hard to come by. Baleen, unlike teeth, is made of keratin, the same biodegradable substance hair and nails are made out of and, therefore, doesn’t fossilize well.

As the host cleverly quipped, “It’s basically like a big mustache inside the whale’s mouth.”

Bottom line: We know a lot about nature, but there is still so much to learn.

If you’d like to find out more—like how the Mystacadon ate its prey by doing a super weird thing called suction feeding—you can check out the full video here: