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Stephen A. Smith Called Out Draymond, ESPN, And Himself For Needing To Do Better By Women’s Sports

Draymond Green has never been shy about speaking his mind, but he’s recently put his foot in his mouth on a couple of occasions when speaking about the push for fair and equitable pay in women’s sports. Green was first taken to task by Megan Rapinoe and others on Twitter after a lengthy thread in which he showed how he’s clearly missed the mark with his comments. Green later double down, saying women need to stop “complaining” and put together a plan, which once again showed his ignorance on the issue as women like Rapinoe have long presented ideas, facts, and paths forward to provide more equity to women’s sports.

On Thursday, Green faced criticism for those comments from a somewhat unlikely source. Stephen A. Smith became the latest to call out Green for being uninformed on the topic, but also pointed to himself, ESPN, and just generally men in the sports world as the biggest part of the problem, rattling off facts and numbers to show where the interest in women’s sports really is.

As Smith notes, even during the pandemic when sports TV ratings as a whole have dropped, women’s sports, and particularly the WNBA, have seen them jump. He notes that all of us who are men in the sports space have a responsibility to step up and be advocates, not just passive observers, in bringing women’s sports more to the forefront. He points out how ESPN holds fault as well, noting that they were more likely to show women’s sports highlights for games where Kobe Bryant was in attendance, and that he likewise needs to do better in shining light on women’s sports with his massive platform.

Hopefully he does that, and it was nice to hear him shout out his women colleagues at ESPN who helped him with the research and pointed out a lot of these things for the segment. That he’s listening to them is a good step, and hopefully one that he’ll follow through on. For now, it’s an important message and one that hopefully will land with a wider audience given who it’s coming from.

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Bartenders Shout Out Their Favorite Gose Beers For Spring

As spring rolls on, there are tons of seasonally appropriate beer styles available for your drinking pleasure. You can’t go wrong with a spiced, cloudy white ale, a hazy pale ale, a bold bock, vibrant hefeweizen, a classic pale ale, a lager, a pilsner, or a juicy IPA. But if you’re really going to put winter in the rearview, you’ll sip on a subtly sour, tart, salty gose (pronounce goz-uh).

While it’s only become popular in the US over the past ten years, gose is a classic, northern German-style that’s been made for centuries. The first reference to the brew comes from the year 1000, but it truly gained in popularity (like many well-known beer styles) in the 1700s. That’s some serious history.

To put it into the simplest terms, a gose is an unfiltered wheat beer. But it’s also so much more than that, because it’s brewed with lactic acid, spices (like coriander), and sea salt. These beers are also often made with fruit like raspberry, grapefruit, or blood oranges — adding to the spring-y-ness of it all.

These mouth-puckering, refreshing, dry, and crushable beers are such a natural fit for early April that we asked a handful of our favorite bartenders to name their favorites. Check them out below!

Atlas Works Blood Orange Gose

Atlas Works

Dennis Shea, beverage director at Fish & Fire Food Group in Washington, DC

My favorite Gose is Atlas Brew Works Blood Orange. Its slight saline taste along with its light-bodied and effervescence makes for a great choice.

The 4.4% ABV helps to make it a warmer weather winner.

Average Price: $13 for a six-pack

Sierra Nevada Otra Vez

Sierra Nevada

Eoghain Clavin, brewery ambassador for Guinness

Sierra Nevada Otra Vez. I first got to try this beer up in Chico, California, home of the Sierra Nevada brewery, a couple of years ago. I love citrus flavors in the spring. Otra Vez has the citrus grapefruit and lime I’m looking for while being balanced by the sweet agave notes.

Average Price: $9.99 for a six-pack

Lough Gill Wild Irish Gose

Lough Gill

Chris Hennessy, bartender at Dylan Whisky Bar in Kilkenny, Ireland

For gose beer, I always aim for bright and refreshing — with a good dollop of salted citrus tang. This is nailed down by the folks at Lough Gill with their Wild Irish Gose. Your lips will pucker, and the saline dryness will go on and on into infinity.

Average Price: $5.99 for a 4-pack of 16-ounce cans

Destihl Here Gose Nothin’

Destihl

Tom Garvin, beverage manager at Tribeca’s Kitchen in New York City

Destihl Brewery’s Here Gose Nothin’ tastes amazing. The name is great in itself and the beer truly does have a lot of fantastic flavors. It’s fermented from wild yeasts but also goes through lactic fermentation, giving it a good texture. There is a little salinity to the beer which balances the tart citrus flavors that exist in traditional goses.

Average Price: $10.99 for a 4-pack

Boulevard Hibiscus Gose

Boulevard

Austin Zimmer, bartender at Le Privé in New York City

The Hibiscus Gose from Boulevard due to the crisps and dry flavors along with a slightly lingering sourness, tempered by the sea salt. Also the slight salty character adds a refreshing balance to the residual sweetness and lemony taste.

Average Price: $11.29 for a six-pack

Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT

Dogfish Head

Maren Nazera Erickson, bartender in San Antonio, Texas

Dogfish Head SuperEIGHT or Sea Quench are my two go-to’s when looking for a gose beer.

SuperEIGHT is made with prickly pear, mango, boysenberry, blackberry, raspberry, elderberry, kiwi juices, toasted quinoa, and Hawaiian red salt — giving it a distinctive red color and a palate that’s perfect for spring sipping.

Sea Quench is a little lighter and less fruity, for those who don’t want a full gose. It’s a mix of Kölsch, gose, and Berlinerweiss brewed using blackened limes, sea salt, and sour lime juice — for a very margarita-like feel. Refreshing and crushable.

Average Price: $13 for a six-pack

Transmitter W4

Transmitter

Johnny Swet, bartender and owner at Jimmy at the James Hotel in New York City

For a sour, gose beer, I recommend W4 from Transmitter Brewery. It’s bright and full of citrus flavor, especially from the lime. It’s also dry and tart.

This is awesome with oysters and seafood. Plus, there’s a super cool label on the can.

Average Price: $15 for a 750ml bottle

Kent Falls Alternate World

Kent Falls

Frederic Yarm, USBG bartender in Boston

Kent Falls’ Alternate World takes the classic style and dry hops it to add subtle grapefruit, honeysuckle, passion fruit, and pine accents to the expected grassy, lemony, funky, and briny flavors. The result is a great beer for the springtime months.

Average Price: $10 for a 500ml bottle

Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose

Anderson Valley

Joseph Fredrickson, bartender at Society Lounge in Cleveland

Goses are a great warm-weather go-to. I love the Anderson Valley Blood Orange Gose. This gose is tart but approachable, with notes of saline, citrus, and baking spices. The acidity and saline make it great with refreshing foods and, surprisingly, with many desserts.

Average Price: $11.99 for a six-pack

Writer’s Pick:

Left Hand Wheels Gose ‘Round

Left Hand

This 4.4% gose is tart, salty, thirst-quenching. It’s brewed with raspberries, lemon, and sea salt. The result is a tangy, sweet, citrus, and berry-filled sipper that ends with a subtle, pleasing salinity.

Average Price: $12 for a six-pack


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These Dark Rums Will Transport You To The Tropics This Spring

Most years, spring kicks off with adventures to tropical locations around the globe. But due to the pandemic, traveling abroad still feels like a dream. Not too distant — thanks to the rollout of vaccines across the country we’re officially in “Yay! Traveling internationally is on the horizon!” territory — but we’re not booking tickets to Antigua, Jamaica, or Cuba just yet.

Thankfully, there’s rum, which is 1) delicious and 2) a wonderful way to both conjure and learn about the tropics (where most brands are made). In fact, some rums carry such a clear sense of place in their flavor profiles that we find ourselves inspired to add their countries of origin to our travel wish lists.

Consider the list below a tasting guide and a travel assistant — letting you know what to sip now and where to visit later.

Ten To One Caribbean Dark Rum

Ten To One Rum

ABV: 40%
Average Price: $44

The Rum:

This dark rum is a blend of eight-year-old Barbados and Dominican column still rums, combined with Jamaican pot still rum, plus Trinidadian rum. This multi-island spirit is then matured in American white oak ex-bourbon casks.

Tasting Notes:

With a swirl of scents ranging from banana to leather, your palate is immediately locked in for a taste. The bright and divine sip is features hints of baking spices, spicy cinnamon, and brown sugar. There’s also the presence of vanilla and candied apple notes hiding below the surface. The finish is long-lasting and drizzled with heat.

Bottom Line:

If the tropics had a flavor, this would be it.

Appleton Estate Reserve Rum 8 Year

Appleton Estate

ABV: 43%
Average Price: $25

The Rum:

Appleton Estate rums mature quicker in the tropical Jamaican weather than spirits aged in cooler climates, allowing fuller flavors to develop in a shorter span of time. Crafted by renowned Master Blender Joy Spence, this rum has been aged for a minimum of eight years.

Tasting Notes:

Do you know the person that dominates the conversation but is legit good at it? That’s the orange peel aroma that overtakes the nose here. It’s powerful, but also cheery and welcome. That same orange peel that greeted you at the beginning of the experience is met with flavors of clove, banana, and oak on the palate. The finish is longish — those flavor notes stay to play long after you enjoy a mouthful.

Bottom Line:

Come for the beautiful Jamaican landscape, stay for the Appleton Estate rum. It’s just that simple.

Ron Abuelo Oloroso Sherry Cask Finish

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ABV: 40%
Average Price: $60

The Rum:

This 15-year-old rum is aged in American oak barrels before being finished in Spanish Oloroso sherry casks. It was crafted by expert distillers at Varela Hermanos, a family-owned company that dates back to 1908, when Don José Varela established the first sugar mill in Pesé, Panama.

Tasting Notes:

Smoky oak coupled with the aroma of ripe oranges lures you in for the beginning of a delightful tasting experience. Dark cherry shares the glory alongside vanilla bean notes on the palate, contributing to the complexity of the rum. The slightly heated finish quickly dissipates, leaving you with the taste of toasted almonds at the back of the palate.

Bottom Line:

I’ve never been to Panama. This rum has single-handedly made it a travel priority of mine.

The Rum Cooperative Volume Two

Bully Boy Distillers

ABV: 42%
Average Price: $36

The Rum:

Made by Boston’s first craft distillery, Bully Boy Distillers, The Rum Cooperative Volume Two, is comprised of premium rums sourced from five prominent rum-making regions: Martinique, Panama, Mexico, Puerto Rico, and Colombia. It is crafted with a blend of eight to 12-year-old pot-stilled and column-distilled rums.

Tasting Notes:

The faint scent of vanilla and oak doesn’t build much anticipation for the first sip, but once the rum hits your palate, you’re in for an unexpected ride. The creamy, flavor-rich sip is riddled with coconut, sugar cane, and dark cherry. The blend of flavors coupled with the subtle spicy finish demands you to savor your pour.

Bottom Line:

Unconventional but also just flat-out delicious. Take me to all the tropical locations this rum is crafted from!

Coconut Cartel Special

Coconut Cartel Special

ABV: 40%
Average Price: $37

The Rum:

This aged Guatemalan rum is distilled with sugarcane molasses before its barreled and aged for up to 12 years in new, charred American white oak barrels. Using fresh, locally sourced coconut water, the distillery then proofs the rum blend from cask strength down to bottle strength (40% abv).

Tasting Notes:

It’s not called Coconut Cartel Special without reason. The aroma’s main star is — you guessed it — coconut. But don’t let that prevent you from indulging in the drink itself. Rich caramel and coconut complement each other, while a slight hint of banana completes the tasting experience. There’s hardly any heat on the finish and that’s okay, because the delectable flavors remain on the palate.

Bottom Line:

If you’re loco for coconuts (I couldn’t resist), then you’ll *really* enjoy this rum…and a trip to Miami. Because when would you not want to go to Miami.

Flor de Caña 12 Year

Flor de Caña

ABV: 40%
Average Price: $33

The Rum:

From a fifth-generation family estate, this 12-year old naturally aged rum is distilled with 100 percent renewable energy and is Kosher certified, plus sugar-free. Especially noteworthy is the fact that this rum is also sustainably produced (Carbon Neutral & Fair Trade certified).

Tasting Notes:

There’s depth to this rum that you can grasp from the honey and oak aroma. It has a velvety mouthfeel that’s beaming with character in the form of baked green apples, vanilla, and peppery spice. The finish is a quick kiss of heat coupled with a delicate sweetness.

Bottom Line:

I’ve been to San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua, and enjoyed this rum chilled while watching the sunset. You should do the same.

Cruzan Estate Diamond Dark Rum

Cruzan Rum

ABV: 40%
Average Price: $19

The Rum:

In the late 1700s, a sugar mill crushed cane at the site of the current Cruzan Rum distillery in St. Croix. Inspired by the name of this old sugar mill estate, this dark rum was born. It’s a blend of five to 12-year-old rums aged in American oak barrels.

Tasting Notes:

Beautiful amber hue, and a tantalizing nose comprised of hints of cinnamon alongside vanilla. The palate is as equally pleasing, with subtle sweet vanilla and oak, thanks to the barrel-aging process. Slight heat on the finish.

Bottom Line:

This rum is just as tasty neat as it is in a spirit-forward cocktail. Plus, anything that puts me in the mood to visit the US Vigin Islands is a winner.

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The Marlins Got Jobbed On A Walkoff Hit By Pitch On A Ball In The Strike Zone For The Mets

The Major League Baseball season is only a week old and we’ve already had some all-time baseball weirdness. On Opening Day, Dodgers star Cody Bellinger hit a home run and got called out on the same play because Justin Turner thought the outfielder caught the ball and ran all the way back to first base as Bellinger continued rounding the bases, which by rule you can’t pass the baserunner in front of you and as such Bellinger was out with the world’s longest RBI single.

On Thursday, the Mets maybe managed to one-up that moment for the weirdest play of the early season, as they won in dubious fashion on a walkoff hit by pitch. Michael Conforto, down 1-2 in the count with the bases loaded and one out, leaned dramatically into the strike zone to let a pitch that the umpire was calling strike three hit him on the elbow. Somehow, the umpire allowed it to be a hit by pitch to walk it off for the Mets in a 3-2 victory. Even the Mets announce crew thought it was a ridiculous call.

It is a miserable way to lose for a Marlins team that doesn’t exactly need the assistance of the umpires to drop games, and it will be the source of plenty of controversy around baseball. It’s an absolutely atrocious call, especially considering the ump was ringing Conforto up before recognizing it grazed his elbow pad. How you don’t recognize something is amiss in a situation where you go from calling strike three to calling a hit by pitch is unfathomable, but the Marlins have plenty of reason to be upset after that ending.

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‘Jeopardy!’ Will Turn To A ‘Big Bang Theory’ Star And A CNN Silver Fox For Its Next Round Of Guest Hosts

With Aaron Rodgers about to wrap-up his stint guest hosting Jeopardy! in just a little over a week, the classic quiz show has announced its next batch of temporary hosts along with the dates that fans can expect to see them gracing the podium that was filled by the late Alex Trebek for over 30 years. Unlike the previous group, which rankled fans with the inclusion of the controversial Dr. Oz, it looks like the producers won’t have any fires to put out this time.

According to USA Today, CNN anchor Anderson Cooper will be the first up after Rodgers’ stint, followed by 60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker. From there, The Big Bang Theory and Blossom star Mayim Bialik will take over. Their hosting dates are:

Anderson Cooper: April 19 – 30
Bill Whitaker: May 3 – 14
Mayim Bialik: May 31 – June 11

TODAY anchor Savannah Guthrie and Dr. Sanjay Gupta will follow Bialik at dates that have yet to be announced.

Noticeably missing from the group is LeVar Burton, who recently went all-in on efforts to make him the permanent successor to Trebek. On Monday, the Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation star tweeted a fan petition in case “the powers that be are listening,” and it makes a compelling case for Burton to take over as the new Jeopardy! host. Via Change.org:

Between hosting 21 seasons of the educational Reading Rainbow, playing the brainiac engineer Geordi La Forge on Star Trek: the Next Generation, and filling the roll of Kunta Kinte in the ever important mini-series Roots, LeVar Burton has inspired and shaped the minds of several generations of trivia-loving nerds. This petition is to show Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc. and producers Mike Richards and Harry Friedman just how much love the public has for Burton, and how much we’d all love to see him as the next host of Jeopardy!

When Burton tweeted the petition at the beginning of the week, it was at roughly 135,000 signatures. It’s now sitting north of 200,000 and has since received the support of Dick Van Dyke and Stephen Colbert.

(Via USA Today)

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What’s On Tonight: Katey Sagal Is An Erin Brockovich-Inspired ‘Rebel,’ And The ‘Glee’ Cast Reunites For GLAAD

Rebel (ABC, 10:00pm EST) — Steven Soderbergh’s Erin Brockovich (2000) led to an Oscar win for Julia Roberts and the household-name elevation of the environmental activist who persisted with her cause (justice!) despite all odds. Add in some Gemma Teller flavor on behalf of Sons of Anarchy‘s Katey Sagal, and you’ve got one heck of a spicy protagonist. Sagal stars as a Brockovich-inspired in this series that’s executive produced both by Brockovich and Grey’s Anatomy showrunner Krista Vernoff.

GLAAD Media Awards (Hulu, 10:00pm EST) — Many former Glee cast members (including Matthew Morrison, Jacob Artist, Chris Colfer, Darren Criss, Vanessa Lengies, Jane Lynch, Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Alex Newell, Amber Riley, and more) will reunite to pay tribute to Santana Lopez, the character of the late Naya Rivera who came out as lesbian one decade ago. Glee guest star Demi Lovato will also be on hand.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (NBC, 9:00pm EST) — Olivia (Mariska Hargitay) and Fin (Ice-T) welcomed back Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) last week. This week, the duo switches back toward putting sex offenders behind bars while jousting with an incensed neighborhood watch group.

Law & Order: Organized Crime (NBC, 10:00pm EST) — Here’s that full-on Stabler Time that I mentioned. This week, Stabler is on the hunt for his wife’s killers, all after that other killing at the carousel. He’s also learning to work with Bell and two other unfamiliar faces on the same task force while attempting to connect other crimes to their case.

Clarice (CBS, 10:00pm EST) — Clarice and Ardelia are diving into a cold case that’s almost too disturbing to describe here (actually, it is). Meanwhile, Clarice is burdened with other knowledge.

Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Mark Wahlberg, Hunter Biden, The Wallflowers

The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon — Carey Mulligan, Caleb McLaughlin, Lil Tjay Ft. 6lack

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert — Hank Azaria, Cheap Trick

The Late Late Show With James Corden — Jeffrey Dean Morgan, London Grammar

In case you missed these recent picks:

John Wayne Gacy: Devil In Disguise (Peacock miniseries) — The NBCU streaming service is stepping into the true crime game with a six-part series about one of the most terrifying and notorious serial killers. The docuseries will contain a full-on interview with the subject from prison while presenting accounts from an ex-wife, a confidant, and other exclusive interviews. Prepare to be horrified and riveted and afraid to turn out the damn lights at night.

Made For Love (HBO Max series) — HBO Max recently struck dark-comedy gold with The Flight Attendant, and the WarnerMedia streamer is poised to do so again with Cristin Milioti maneuvering around a premise that’s even more dizzying than that of Palm Springs. Cristin stars as Hazel, and Ray Romano plays her father, who’s attempting to help her flee from a god-awful marriage with a guy (Billy Magnussen) who’s implanted a chip in her noggin, so that he can track her every move and emotion. It’s such a cynical spin on relationships, and it’s terrifying, all of it, to consider, but heck, this show will suck you into its compelling vortex. Did we mention that dad is a widower with a “synthetic partner”? Oh boy.

Creepshow: Season 2 (Shudder and AMC+ series) — The spooky anthology show returns with many, many featured players on board, including Ali Larter, C. Thomas Howell, Ted Raimi, Kevin Dillon, Anna Camp, Josh McDermitt, Adam Pally, and Ashley Laurence. Just FYI, the Marilyn Manson episode got axed following Evan Rachel Wood’s allegations against the singer.

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Post Malone Launches A Merch Line Based On His Rosé Brand, Masion No. 9

In today’s cross-branded world of diversified revenue streams, it seems like every rapper is also an entrepreneur, pitching everything from cannabis to alcohol in addition to their usual array of album and tour merchandise. Post Malone, who has invested in all of the above, seems to have found yet another way to ensure maximum monetization of his ever-expanding portfolio.

Post loves taking an off-kilter approach to marketing himself and now, he’s applying that outlook to his non-music endeavors. Despite only launching his rosé line Maison No. 9 less than a year ago, he and business partners James Morrissey and Dre London have updated the wine’s logo and color scheme and created a Maison No. 9 merch line to draw attention to the young brand. The 2020 vintage of the wine will receive a new look, as well.

The merch is designed by Post himself and includes T-shirts, a hoodie, and a baseball cap. Post will also share seasonal cocktail recipes curated himself. You can check out images of the merch below.

In addition to selling fancy French wine, Post has also jumped into the world of crypto-products, producing an NFT experience for fans to play beer pong with him, and is pursuing acting. He appears as a bank robber in the trailer for Jason Statham’s upcoming action revenge thriller Wrath Of Man after playing an incarcerated criminal in Netflix’s Spencer Confidential.

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Draymond Green And Kevin Durant Explained What Happened In Their Infamous Blowup In L.A.

Draymond Green and Kevin Durant have a fascinating relationship, as the two former teammates starred together on one of the greatest basketball teams the NBA has ever seen, winning a pair of rings together. At their best, those Warriors teams felt unstoppable but eventually, the ride ended after apparent internal discord led to Durant’s eventual departure to Brooklyn.

The most visible conflict happened in a loss to the Clippers in November 2018, when Green didn’t give Durant the ball and then turned it over at the end of a loss, leading to some shouting that carried over into the locker room, as reporting indicated Green told Durant the Warriors don’t need him and he can leave. The two have insisted in the time since that it wasn’t really that big of a deal, but it made for an easy target for those wondering what happened to lead to Durant wanting out.

On Thursday, Green joined Durant on his podcast, The ETCs, and the two addressed that rather infamous blowup, what was said, what happened on the play from each’s perspective, and how they moved on from it.

Draymond: I got the rebound, obviously, and I took off up the court.

KD: Alright, now, now, now, let’s talk about that.

Eddie: It’s way funnier cause you fell. You went up the court and fell.

Draymond: I’m gonna tell you why I fell. I get up the court, K’s clapping for the ball and I’m taking off, he’s like, ‘HEY! C’mon!’ So I take it, I’m driving up the court, in my mind this was all that was about to happen. K’s about to come in for the trail, I’m about to cut straight across the court and pitch it back, he’s gonna walk into the three, we’re going home, we got a game tomorrow and play the Hawks. This is how this whole play’s gonna happen as I envision it. As I turn to go across the court for the pitch back, K has completely stopped coming. So I’m looking for him and as I’m looking for him to pitch back, I f*cking dribble the ball off my foot looking for him, and sh*t went all wrong.

KD: So I’m gonna give my perspective from the rebound. What I thought was supposed to happen. In my mind, this is how I played it out. We got the stop, I’m grabbing the rebound, I’m running up and as soon as I get across halfcourt, I’m shooting it. That was the disconnect. That was it, between us. I wanted the moment, Draymond seen it a different way, and that was the clash. I ain’t run back cause I was like, ‘Damn, I ain’t got this mother*cker in my hairs right now?’ I was so distraught, and then I snapped back into it, but by that time Shai Gilgeous had already got his hand in there. … Then boom, we get back to the huddle, then, go head Dray.

Draymond: So I’m walking off the court cause I turned that mother*cker over, and K yellin’, ‘Give me the mother*ckin ball!’ And I’m just looking at him and literally my response was, ‘I was f*cking passing you the ball if you f*ckin ran!’ So we’re walking back to the bench and that’s what’s said. I sit to the right, K’s to the left like three chairs over. He leans over and slaps the chair right next to me like, ‘N**** I said give me the f*cking ball.’ And that’s when I was like, ‘Yo, aye mother*cker I do this too. I was gonna give your ass the ball if you wasn’t b*tchin.’ I do this too.’ One thing said another, we argue, DeMarcus pulls me apart, tells me to shut the f*ck up, and I’m like, ‘Naw, that’s bullsh*t. Nobody says sh*t to K and all he had to do was f*ckin run and I was fixin to pitch him the f*ckin ball back. That’s bullsh*t.’ And then in my opinion, from there, everybody took it and made it this whole thing. To me it wasn’t a big deal because, Kevin has like, through this whole run, the only person that would really cuss me out was Kevin. So the only person that I’ve ever been cussed out by being him, very often I would always get that from K, so to me, did we get into a bad argument, yes. But, as far as like me and K, yeah he cussed me out all the f*ckin time.

It’s pretty funny to hear the two of them look back on it and recognize that they just simply miscommunicated on what each thought should happen on the play, and Green goes on to discuss how he felt the Warriors suspending him blew everything up more than it needed to be — although he admitted he said some “sh*t I shouldn’t have said,” which seems to indicate they left out some of the conversation, at least the locker room part, in this discussion. Still, Green didn’t love how the Warriors handled it and felt he and KD should’ve just been allowed to work through it themselves, noting they’d had blowups before and this wasn’t all that new, it just happened to be on national TV.

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Tony Thinks Globally, Adulters Locally In The Latest Sopranos On Pod Yourself A Gun


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For this very special episode of Pod Yourself A Gun, Matt and Vince are joined by their coolest, handsomest, most shredded guest yet to discuss the Sopranos season four episode eight, “Mergers and Acquisitions.” Who is this iconic sex-symbol special guest? None other than Los Angeles-based comedian from The Reactivaders podcast and producer of PYAG, Brent Flyberg (sono io, stunad).

Sort of ironic to have such a universally-beloved figure as guest to talk about this episode of The Sopranos considering how much of the plot centers on Paulie’s mom’s status as a social pariah at the Green Grove retirement center. Take it from me, Nucci, if you want people to like you, put your teeth in, stop crying, and stop snitching.

A highlight so far in season four, the episode also has Tony asking some big questions about human sexuality. What is sex? Is it more than just penisary contact with a Volvo? And how raw can your proto-Youtube prankster goomar rub your colleague’s penis with a cheese grater before she is off limits? Find out by listening now. Solid B+ episode with an A++ guest.

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Heartwarming video shows students celebrating their cafeteria manager for becoming a citizen

The students and staff at Deer Creek Prairie Vale Elementary School in Edmond, Oklahoma shared an inspiring video on Facebook Tuesday showing the joy of what it means to become an American citizen.

The students and staff lined the hallways of their school cheering on cafeteria manager Yanet Lopez and chanting, “U.S.A.,” “U.S.A.,” after she passed her test to become an American citizen.

Lopez is an immigrant from Cuba who moved from Houston, Texas to Oklahoma to find better job opportunities.


Passing the citizenship test was a lifelong dream for Lopez. “When I was a child, I have a dream like, say, Martin Luther King, right? My dream was (to) come here to this great country,” Lopez said according to ABC.

Lopez passed the test along with her whole family, including her husband and three children, ages 17 to 28.

“Every morning, Ms. Yanet walks into the office and proclaims ‘Good Morning, Pretty Ladies’ and with a smile and a laugh, she always starts the day with a positive message!” the school wrote on Facebook.

“I am so excited for Ms. Yanet and the realization of one of her dreams in passing her citizenship test! We laughed that she would know more than those of us born in the U.S. I am honored to work with one of the best U.S. citizens I know,” the school added.

The video also shows that even though the country has gone through an era of politics where immigrants faced a lot of demonization, the average American still has a lot of love in their hearts for immigrants.

It’s also a wonderful example of teaching children to celebrate those who sacrifice to come to America for a better life.

A recent poll by Gallup found that the number of Americans who want an increase in immigration has increased is to its highest point since 1965.

“Thirty-four percent of Americans, up from 27% a year ago, would prefer to see immigration to the U.S. increased,” a poll from 2020 found. “Meanwhile, the percentage favoring decreased immigration has fallen to a new low of 28%, while 36% think it should stay at the present level.”

The poll found that when asked if the numbers should increase, decrease or stay the same liberals, were much more likely to approve of higher numbers of immigrants than conservatives

But when Gallup asked a slightly less political question it found that most Americans, in general, approve of immigrants.

“Nearly 8 in ten (77%) Americans think immigration is a good thing for their country,” Gallup said. “When measured in this more general sense, public support for immigration shows far less of a partisan divide, and both parties express a more generally positive view of immigration.”

Celebrating immigrants is also a way to remind ourselves that we live in a country that is still seen as a place of hope and opportunity for most people in the world. It’s an opportunity to forget about all of the partisan bickering and focus on the true strengths of our country.