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The Cleveland Browns never trailed on Sunday in blustery conditions that caused a 35 minute delay before kickoff of their game against the Houston Texans. Cleveland took a 3-0 lead on their first drive of the game and then neither team scored until a Nick Chubb touchdown with 13 minutes left in the fourth quarter put the Browns up 10-0.

Houston would manage to find the end zone with five minutes left to make it 10-7, and suddenly Browns bettors were in for a sweat. The Browns were between -3.5 and -3 favorites depending on the sportsbook of your choice, and as such they were either going to push or lose without a score on their last drive. That required a borderline miracle, but wasn’t out of the realm of possibility. When Nick Chubb broke free down the sideline on a toss play, it appeared a lock you would win no matter what number you got Cleveland at, but Chubb — having seen fellow Georgia alum Todd Gurley make the wrong move by scoring a touchdown to allow too much time — stepped out at the 1 with no one around him to let the Browns put two knees on it to end the game at 10-7.

It’s a bad beat and also probably the deserved outcome for Browns bettors, as there wasn’t a lot of hope prior to that play for a cover, but there’s nothing worse than thinking you have a loss, then suddenly getting hope for a win, only to have it ripped away from you in this kind of manner. Honestly, there wasn’t really a great math argument for or against this move by Chubb, as it was pretty much a lock for Cleveland to win either way as they’d go up by 10 (not, say, a touchdown to make it a one score game) and it still required two non-fumbled snaps to win on knees.

That said, it wasn’t the wrong play either and the Browns got the win, just not the cover to the dismay of everyone with that -3.5 ticket.

In what is the third shooting incident in less than a week to involve a member of the hip-hop community in Texas, Benny The Butcher was reportedly shot in the leg outside a Walmart in Houston on Sunday. According to TMZ, the rapper was visiting the city and stopped by the retail store with a few friends. As Benny and his crew were in the store parking lot, a vehicle with five individuals pulled up next to them with guns out and demanded that they give up their chains.

Apparently, Benny and co. were moving too slow for the alleged robbers’ liking … and cops say one of the 5 fired a round into Benny’s leg, which caused the crooks to flee. We’re told Benny and his friends booked it too, but eventually pulled over and called the police.

Benny was taken to a hospital for treatment — his condition is unknown at this time. Cops say the men who attempted to rob him are also still at large, and an investigation is underway.

The incident occurred less than a day after Boosie Badazz was shot outside a strip mall in Dallas on Saturday. The Baton Rouge rapper was in a sprinter van outside of Big T’s Plaza when someone opened fire on the van. The incident caused Boosie to suffer a gunshot wound just below the knee. TMZ reported at the time the news broke that the rapper was doing well and recovering from his injuries. Prior to this, Dallas rapper Mo3 was shot and killed on Robert L. Thornton Freeway on November 11.

(via TMZ)

Dua Lipa’s 2020 has been filled with praise and acclaim mostly thanks to her sophomore album Future Nostalgia, which was received well by both fans and critics. Her year continued with several award show nominations for various awards and the eventual release of her Club Future Nostalgia remix album with help from Madonna, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani, and more. Now, the singer’s latest moment comes in the gaming world as news arrived that Dua Lipa would soon appear as a player in FIFA 21.

The announcement came after a data mine of the game’s new update revealed that Dua Lipa, along with David Beckham, DJ Snake, and others would appear in the game as playable characters. Gamers won’t be able to use the singer just yet in the game, as she is currently a locked player in FIFA 21. Hopefully, the game’s developer will make the singer an available option to use in their soccer endeavors in future updates. It should be noted that the Blessed Madonna remix of Dua Lipa’s “Love Is Religion” also appears on the game as a part of its soundtrack.

The singer also confirmed that a b-side collection for Future Nostalgia will arrive next year. She announced it in the comments of a YouTube chat, saying “B sideeeee next year [heart emoji].” Dua Lipa will also appear on Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts album which arrives on November 27.

You can check out a video of Dua Lipa in FIFA 21 above.

Dua Lipa is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Prior to this past week, it’d been a while since he heard some new music from Lil Nas X. As fans were waiting, the singer made sure to keep them updated on what the future held with new releases from the Georgia native. Finally, the wait ended as the singer made his return with “Holiday,” his first single in well over a year. Fresh off the new single, Lil Nas X brings his talents to Roblox for a livestream concert experience.

The gaming platform labeled the show as “a groundbreaking concert experience” with some of his most popular records, limited edition items, and more. The concert found a digitally rendered Lil Nas X taking the stage in the gaming world as his fans watch from nearby. His performance also marks the first time the singer performed his new “Holiday” single since its release.

Shortly after his three concerts, two of which occurred on Saturday and the final one on Sunday, fans took to Twitter to share their reactions to the livestream.

One fan alluded to the concert’s high quality in a tweet that said, “‘you changed’ bro i went to the lil nas x roblox concert.” Another one said, “I met lil nas x at the roblox concert he stepped on my head.” Thanks to the success of the three shows, Lil Nas X announced that he would hold three more concerts for fans who missed out or wanted an additional opportunity to see the singer.

To join in on the fun with Lil Nas X, click here.

Putting a cross-generational large group of stressed out and maskless people in an indoor room during a pandemic sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. It also sounds a like Thanksgiving. An Ohio State University survey found that nearly two in five Americans are planning a Thanksgiving gathering with more than 10 people. Those two in five people should probably rethink their plans.

According to the director of the CDC, small gatherings in people’s homes (which is exactly what Thanksgiving is) is a big source of COVID spread. They recently updated their guidelines for holiday celebrations. Virtual activities are the safest way to gather right now. The more people who show up to an event in person, the higher the risk is.

An analysis found that there’s a near 100% chance of a COVID positive person showing up at a mid-sized gathering in the hardest-hit parts of the country, like the Dakotas. The odds are only slightly less for regions that have fared better in the COVID crisis, but it’s still not great.

If you don’t want to see your family this year, it’s totally fine. This year, of all years, gives you the best excuse for not schlepping across the country for an extra-long weekend of tryptophan-fueled family fights. New Coronavirus infections are at an all-time high. Even though we’re all sick of it, it’s better to remain vigilant so we don’t become actually sick.

We’ve had a chance to see what happened to our neighbors to the north. Canadian Thanksgiving, which took place in October, led to a spike in Canadian COVID cases. While numbers were on the rise before the holiday (and they’re also on the rise here, by the way), the two weeks following Canadian Thanksgiving saw the highest number of COVID cases yet. Contract tracing also found a link between holiday gatherings and an increase in cases.

All of this doesn’t necessarily mean you need to be fearful. But it does mean you should be cautious, considerate, and vigilant. “It’s important for all of us to not let our guard down during Thanksgiving,” Dr. Deborah Brix said during a media briefing. “This virus can spread among families and among friends if you take your mask off and are primarily indoors.” Brix also warned that it’s not wise to let your hair down just because you’re not out and about. “When in private, we [need to take] the same precautions that we take in public.”

Skipping a visit with your family this year can help ensure that they’re around for you to visit next year. Plus, there’s no shame in ordering take-out turkey then hopping on a zoom to argue about politics with grandma.

As great as being a cat owner is, one of the most frustrating parts about it is not being able to understand your cat. You can’t really get a straight answer from questions like, “What’s so important that you feel you need to block my computer screen while I’m working” or “Why do you keep on peeing on everything?” But thanks to technology, we might be able to better understand our cats, even though we don’t speak the same language or even have the same type of vocal chords.

Javier Sanchez, a former Amazon engineer who worked on Alexa, has developed a new app that can translate your cat’s cute mews into human words. It’s called MeowTalk, and it incorporates similar technology to that of Alexa to bridge the language barrier between human and cats.

Sanchez, both a cat lover and cat owner, was inspired by the NPR series “The Secret Language of Cats. According to Sanchez, cats can develop their own vocabulary, which they employ constantly to do things – like ask for a treat even though they literally just already had a treat. “It’s not a language. They don’t share words or communicate with each other. Cats never meow at each other out in nature,” Sanchez told KING 5.

Sanchez found that cats have nine basic needs. MeowTalk categorizes your cat’s meows among those nine basic needs, then provides a human language. It can tell if your cat is trying to say, “I’m hungry,” “I’m happy,” “I’m in pain,” or the inevitable, “you left me outside.” Sanchez used a prototype on his own cat while he was holding the cat and it translated the cat’s meows as, “I’m angry! Leave me alone!” That sounds legit.

The app can also be trained to understand an individual cat’s specific cat language through user input. Users can create a cat profile and assign labels to their cat’s meows when they think they know what their cat is asking for. The app will learn the new “word,” then predict what the cat is saying the next time the app hears it.

Sanchez hopes that the app allows pet owners to understand their cats better during a time when we’re all stuck at home with our pets. “A tool like this can help certain people bond even more with their cats, especially if they can’t be in contact with other people on a regular basis,” Sanchez told Geek Wire. “So this could be a real game changer for a key demographic that have cats.”

The app is still under development, but the prototype is available to download for Apple and Android phones. Ultimately, Sanchez wants to create a collar that can translate for the cat with a vocal response. So basically, he wants to make sci-fi movies come true.

TikTok has been at the forefront of social media platforms for quite some time now, especially when it’s looked at from a musical standpoint. Plenty of artists have joined the app and some have found success on it thanks to their music becoming the template for viral videos on TikTok. While she may be late to the party, it’s better late than never for Billie Eilish as the singer recently joined the app to give her fans some entertaining content in her free time.

The “Therefore I Am” singer joined the app, but chose a different name to go by that fans may not have expected to find the singer under. For those looking to indulge in Billie’s TikTok content, she can be found under the username “coochiedestroyer5.” The singer only has two videos on her page. The first video finds her using a face-distorting filter to enlarge her nose, which she finds hilarious after seeing the results. In the second video, Billie recalls the time she was able to fit a ukelele head in her mouth. Shortly after, she reattempts the tasks and successfully completes it once again.

Fans shared their reaction to Billie’s new TikTok on Twitter. One fan posted a screenshot from one TikTok and said, “miss Billie eilish joined tiktok- I love November.” Another one questioned why the news of the singer’s appearance on the app did not make their way to them. “was no one going to tell me that billie eilish made a tiktok called coochiedestroyer5 ? i just had to find her on my fyp like that.”

You can check out Billie’s TikTok posts above.

Fans of Better Call Saul are accustomed to long waits in-between seasons. There was a year and a half between the fourth and fifth seasons, and now because of the pandemic, it’s likely to be at least another year and a half between the fifth season and the sixth and final season. The final season is not expected to begin filming at least until after Christmas, and with the virus raging and one of the drama’s stars, Jonathan Banks (who is 73 years old) in a high-risk category, shooting may have to wait a little longer.

However, Peter Gould and the writers are nevertheless busy writing the final season. According to Rhea Seehorn (who plays Kim Wexler on the series), they have just broken episode five or six of the final 13-episode season. Other than that, she doesn’t seem to know much else, or at least isn’t saying as much, including how much the final season will intersect with the Breaking Bad timeline. However, in her interview with Marc Maron this week, she did offer some other interesting and insightful revelations about her character.

For instance, Seehorn didn’t have a lot of work in the first two episodes of Saul — she had two lines in the pilot — but her character was informed early on by a small scene direction in which she fixed a trash can that Saul kicked while he wasn’t looking. “I was like oh, he does this a lot and she always cleans up after him,” she told Maron, which clued her into as to what kind of relationship the two had. But her character was also informed in the first season by something as simple as the fact that she did not use contractions.

“I didn’t have contractions in the first eight episodes,” she told Maron. “There was a part of me that wanted to ask them like ‘You don’t mind if I say wanna instead of want to or gonna?’ I was like, ‘No. Maybe this will unlock something,’ and it did. This person is so controlled about what she wants you to see and what she doesn’t want you to see, that maybe she also doesn’t really let people see what she’s thinking on her face. Maybe she’s also extremely still in her body.”

It’s the little things on Saul that mean so much, and of course, we learn over the course of five seasons how controlled she is, and what she’s hiding behind all of that control.

Seehorn also said that she and Patrick Fabian (who plays Howard Hamlin) were nervous early on in the series about whether their characters would be killed off. We “would flip, flip, flip through every new script and cheer at the end of each, ‘I’m not dead!’”

She also said that her co-star, Bob Odenkirk, had some insecurities early on, and if she asked him how to perform a scene, he would say, “You’re the real actor. You tell me.” He’s very hard on himself, Seehorn continued. “In his head he had this idea that, ‘I’m a sketch comedy guy,’ although I don’t think he thinks that way anymore.”

On a more personal note, Seehorn also said that she became friends with director Lynn Shelton — Marc Maron’s girlfriend, who passed away unexpectedly a few months ago — due to reaching out to her on Twitter after watching Shelton’s lovely Your Sister’s Sister. Shelton was obsessed with Better Call Saul and would DM Seehorn after episodes to talk about her performance. The two had talked frequently about working together before the pandemic arrived. Unfortunately, Shelton died only a few months later.

Better Call Saul is expected to return for its final season in 2021. Hopefully, it will be the year that Seehorn is finally nominated for an Emmy.

Source: WTF with Marc Maron

Rick Moranis earned headlines earlier this year not for anything he did, but for unfortunately being the victim of a blindside attack in New York city. The incident — which saw Moranis get punched from behind under a scaffolding on the Upper West Side — was caught on tape and quickly went viral.

And it earned outrage from all over, including legions of fans online and even Captain America himself, Chris Evans. But if the justice system is to be believed, those restless souls can sleep a bit easier tonight knowing that the person police feel is responsible for the attack is in custody.

According to the Associated Press, a 35-year-old man is in custody that police think is the guy wearing an ‘I (heart) NY’ sweatshirt’ seen on camera sucker punching the beloved star of Honey I Shrunk The Kids.

A New York man was arrested Saturday in connection with an unprovoked assault against Rick Moranis that occurred as the 67-year-old actor was walking near Central Park in October.

New York City police said 35-year-old Marquis Ventura, whom authorities listed as homeless, was arrested Saturday afternoon. It wasn’t known if Ventura had retained an attorney who could comment.

It’s far from official here, as Ventura has yet to have his day in court. But news that police feel Moranis’ attacker is in custody hopefully means the somewhat-unretired actor who was the victim of a random act of violence . It’s obviously a complicated matter, but now it’s in the hands of America’s very trustworthy criminal justice system.

[via AP]

Verzuz is just days away from making its return for the second season of 20-song battles between a number of the music industry’s biggest names. The platform was set to kick things off with a head-to-head matchup with T.I. and Jeezy but late Saturday night the platform made an announcement that surprised all hip-hop lovers on social media. Verzuz announced that Gucci Mane would replace T.I. for the upcoming battle and the Atlanta rap legend would go against Jeezy on November 19. The news was a shock, as the two rappers have not seen eye to eye in nearly two decades.

Gucci Mane made the announcement on his Instagram page with a post that was captioned, “Tell buddy Get ready Thursday Nov 19 @verzuztv Trap God vs Snowcone.” The caption proves that while two rappers will sit down for the matchup, it doesn’t entirely mean that things are happy and peachy between them. T.I. also posted the flyer for Gucci and Jeezy’s battle and said, “Now THIS… Is what the people wants to see!!” He added, “Trap Muzik salutes y’all.”

The exact details of what took place to make this a matchup between Gucci and Jeezy a reality are unknown at the moment. It should be noted, however, that T.I. sat down with the Thug Motivation 101 rapper back in July and urged him to dispel his beef with the fellow ATL trap star. Throughout the conversation on T.I.’s ExpediTIously podcast, Jeezy showed respect for Gucci “decades” of bad blood.

You can check out the flyer above. Tune in 11/19 at 5pm PST/ 8pm EST to watch Gucci Mane and Jeezy battle it out.