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Agents of chaos, rejoice, because two of gaming’s most whimsically frantic games are teaming up for a new collaboration. Untitled Goose Game, the 2019 indie release in which you are a silly goose that raises hell, and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, which came out earlier this year and puts gamers through several levels of chaos en route to crowning a champion, are coming together for a new partnership that will bring the former to the latter.

Fall Guys announced the news on its Twitter account. Those who play the game will be able to acquire a collection of skins inspired by Untitled Goose Game, and eventually a honk emote that will come with a corresponding sound effect will make its way into the game. It’s going to be a little tricky for gamers to acquire UGG gear, though, as the available head and butt will both cost five crowns. It’s a hefty price for some: in order to get a crown in Fall Guys, you must win a game.

The news of the two games teaming up comes a little more than a month after Fall Guys unveiled its second season for gamers. While it hasn’t started to get to the Fortnite level of having gigantic partnerships with every major thing under the sun, there have been other games to receive this honor. And according to Game Informer, this won’t be the only time Untitled Goose Game gear will be available, as groundskeeper and boy with glasses attire will become available once the goose top and bottom is out of the game.

It has been a while since I have been punched in the face, but I do remember that it hurts really hard. Despite this, people who are professional fighters in a number of different sports — boxing, mixed martial arts, etc. — are quite good at getting punched in the face and not collapsing into a puddle immediately.

Still, sometimes, punches connect a little too cleanly, and we end up getting some pretty spectacular knockouts as a result. An example of this came on Friday evening when Uly Diaz fought Donelei Benedetto at Bare Knuckle Fighting Championship 14. Diaz knocked out Bendetto so fast with a right hook that I should probably just stop talking and drop in the video, so here you go.

It was such an impressive knockout that UFC star Yoel Romero jumped out of his seat and did a whole bunch of NSFW screaming over Diaz giving Benedetto a two piece and a biscuit.

At three seconds, it was the fastest knockout in the promotion’s history, and Diaz was pretty stoked about what he accomplished, which is not a surprise, because this is insane.

This is not quite as explosive as Jorge Masvidal’s famous flying knee knockout of Ben Askren, but this is one heck of a way to end a fight right after the opening bell.

Westside Gunn has had an absolute monster year in 2020. The Buffalo rapper has released not one, not two, but three albums in 2020 thanks to his Pray For Paris, Flygod Is An Awesome God II, and Who Made The Sunshine drops. Despite the success he’s had this year, Gunn may enter 2021 as a “free agent” as the rapper revealed he is no longer signed to Shady Records on Saturday.

The news came during an appearance on the Joe Budden Podcast where he simply said, “I’m off Shady,” when he was asked about his label situation. He added, “I’m actually a free agent.”

The announcement came after Gunn laughed off Eminem’s poor promotion of his Who Made The Sunshine album. After a fan noticed that Eminem posted The Alchemist’s The Food Villain project — which is not a Shady release — to Instagram without doing the same for Westside’s album, the fan said, “No post of @westsidegunn album that’s in your own label? Lol wtf.” The Buffalo rapper caught wind of the comment and replied with a series of laughing and shushing emojis.

After revealing the news, the hosts on the Joe Budden Podcast asked the rapper if he felt like the label fell short of their goal for him, but he opted to stay tight-lipped on the details. “I’m not no pillow talking type of n****,” Westside said. “That’s how I move. … It’s like saying me and [Benny The Butcher] or Conway or Conway or Benny or whoever, we may have a disagreement the world will never know about it. It’s just going to be brothers and cousins. It’s the same way with business.”

You can watch the full Joe Budden Podcast episode with Westside Gunn above.

The college basketball season is slated to begin later this month. Doing this in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, however, presents a number of challenges, and in the eyes of one of the sport’s most prominent coaches, there’s no point to rush getting back onto the floor.

Rick Pitino, who is slated to make his return to coaching in the States this year with Iona, called on the NCAA to postpone the start of the 2020-21 campaign. While advocating for “May Madness,” Pitino stressed that he believes a delay would help “Save The Season,” and that trying to start right now is “impossible.”

Pitino is coming at this from the perspective of someone whose program is in a holding pattern due to COVID-19. Someone within the Gaels’ program who is not a player had a positive test recently, and as a result, Iona got put on ice for 14 days. This, per the New York Post, means Iona’s opener on Nov. 25 is out, and games in Mohegan Sun at the end of November/beginning of December are in jeopardy.

Myron Medcalf of ESPN laid out some of the issues in the world of college hoops right now. One coach at a school in Michigan that isn’t D-I said his conference is apparently planning on players wearing masks during games, while other coaches have repeated Pitino’s sentiment.

One high-profile coach recently told ESPN that the current situation for college basketball is “scary.” Another coach in a non-Power 5 league said he thinks it’s “impossible” for his league to play.

The first college basketball games this season are scheduled to take place on Nov. 25.

January will mark five years since Rihanna graced us with an album, namely Anti. Since then, fans have grown impatient waiting for the singer’s return. Unfortunately, most of Rihanna’s attention has been focused on other endeavors, including her Savage X Fenty brand. Recently, though, Rihanna has given minuscule details about her upcoming ninth album. The latest update comes from Pharrell, who had some positive things to say about her latest work.

In an interview with Allure, Pharrell fulminated about the singer. “Rih is in a different place right now. Like, wow. She’s from a different world,” he said. His comments come after Rihanna revealed that the singer and producer would be involved. “It’s somebody I’ve been wanting to work with him for a long time,” she said in an interview with The Cut before naming Pharrell as the collaborator.

Back in September, Rihanna revealed her ninth album “will be worth the wait.” “I’m always working on new music. Just because I haven’t released an album in a few years doesn’t mean I haven’t been working on it,” she said in an interview with New! Magazine. “I’m not just going to put music out because people are craving it. I’m going to make it worth the wait – and it will be worth the wait.”

(via Allure)

Trick plays rule because one of two things invariably ends up happening: Something cool happens because they work out perfectly, or something horrific happens because the whole thing gets blown up. That second scenario popped up on Saturday afternoon, as Tulane played host to Army in a battle of two pretty solid non-Power 5 programs.

The Green Wave ended up coming out on top, 38-12, with their final touchdown being the sort of emphatic nail in the coffin that can only happen in this incredibly weird sport. Tulane scored on a two-play, 17-yard drive with just under four and a half minutes in the fourth quarter, and on the ensuing kickoff, Army tried to inject a spark into things.

The issue was that, well, yeah.

So obviously, credit where it’s due, outstanding play by Tulane’s Jaetavian Toles to reel this in and break for the end zone. And honestly? Good on Army for trying this — they had a whole 12 points at the time this happened and their offense very obviously wasn’t getting it done, so they might as well go for broke. The issue, of course, is that they went extremely broke. Oh, and as an added twist, the total on this game was 47. The two teams combined for 43 points before this play and it hit 50 after it. Oof.

A week after the presidential race was called for Joe Biden, supporters of the former vice president’s losing opponent, one Donald Trump descended upon Washington D.C. They called it the “Million MAGA March,” stealing an idea from the “Million Man March” of 1995, which asked the nation’s African Americans to fill the nation’s capital. That one “only” scored about 400,000 people. But Trump’s outgoing press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, claimed this one actually lived up to its ambitious, if not impossible, name. It didn’t.

While official tallies have yet to come in, even Fox News has claimed attendance was only in the thousands — far less than even 10,000, let alone one million. Still, McEnany — the soon-to-be former president’s third press secretary, who’s received even worse reviews than predecessors Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Sean Spicer — took to Twitter to claim there were over a million attendees. She even posted two pictures of clogged streets of mostly maskless attendees. There definitely weren’t a million of them.

In fact, even by late morning, it actually looked more like this.

McEnany’s tall claim — for a president who himself loves to exaggerate his successes and grossly inflate numbers — was met with widespread mockery over Twitter, with many questioning her counting skills.

A number of people did a side-by-side comparison with the 2017 Women’s March — the largest single-day protest in American history, with just under half a million people participating across the nation. Just so you know what that looks like.

Some were even less charitable, calling McEnany just another lying Trump press secretary.

But she did help the Trump administration come full circle, ending its reign by inflating supporter numbers.

As for Trump? He golfed instead.

One last thing: Here’s a reminder that Kayleigh McEnany is about to be without a job.

The coronavirus pandemic has unfortunately shown no signs of ending since it appeared in the United States at the start of the year and changed life for us all for the foreseeable future. In those eight months, the virus has taken some notable names from the music world as well as more than 220,000 other citizens across the country while infecting millions as well. Unfortunately, Jeremih joins the list of many who have come down with the virus and according to some of his collaborators, the singer is not in the best condition at the moment.

Chance The Rapper and 50 Cent took to social media on Saturday and called for fans to pray for Jeremih. The singer apparently tested positive for the virus and was reportedly admitted to a Chicago hospital as his symptoms worsened.

“Please if you can take a second to pray for my friend Jeremih, he is like a brother to me and he’s ill right now,” Chance said in his tweet. “I believe in the healing power of Jesus so if you can for me please please say a prayer over him.” 50 Cent on the other hand posted a picture of himself with the singer and said, “Pray for my boy Jeremih he’s not doing good this covid shit is real.” He added, “He’s in ICU in Chicago.”

Hitmaka, who executive produced Jeremih’s last project, his Mih-Ty album with Ty Dolla Sign, asked for fans’ to pray for the singer as well. “I need everyone to pray for my brother @jeremih,” he said in his Instagram post. He added, “This message is posted with his mothers blessings.” Big Sean also sent some love to Jeremih in a tweet that said, “Prayers up, praying for your strength.”

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A lot of shows have been cancelled during the pandemic, and while all have been painful, some hurt more than others. Among the biggest was The Venture Bros., the long-running Adult Swim cartoon that, over seven seasons spread over 17 years. Back in early September it was revealed the show not had the show been given the axe, it had been given the axe months prior, while the team was in the midst of planning what would have been its eighth season. But finally there’s some good news.

The show’s fanbase was, as you can imagine, not happy with the cancellation, and they’ve made their ire known on Twitter, having launched a #SaveTheVentureBros hashtag in the hopes that someone in charge would notice. Well, someone in charge did.

On Thursday, Andy Forssell, an exec at HBO Max — streaming home to a good number of Adult Swim shows, from Aqua Teen Hunger Force through Joe Pera Talks with You — took to Twitter with some cautiously optimistic words. “The Venture Bros fans are passionate, but incredibly civil,” Forssell wrote. “I’ve received tons of emails, all of which are short very well written notes, oozing with politeness. Class fans. Nothing imminent, but know that we’re working on it.”

So that’s nice! And take note, people who want to coax the rich and powerful into un-cancelling shows like, let’s say, GLOW: If you’re polite, maybe there will be another Andy Forssell who will appreciate that and take action. Again, “nothing is imminent,” but 2020 has been…not a great year for even semi-good news. But after Joe Biden’s win, we’re feeling optimistic that we’ll be hearing from Drs. Venture, Orpheus, Killinger, and we don’t mean a postcard.

(Via The A.V. Club)

Despite the fact that they’re the current NBA champions, there is still some uncertainty about the future of the Los Angeles Lakers. Sure, LeBron James isn’t going anywhere, and Anthony Davis skipping town would be a shock, but there are still a number of players around them who need to have their situations resolved sometime soon.

One such example is Kyle Kuzma, who is eligible for an extension this offseason and would reportedly like to be paid handsomely. He could become a restricted free agent next summer if he so chooses, but before then, L.A. has the opportunity to keep him around.

The issue, according to Ian Begley of SNY (who confirmed other media reports), is that there is no consensus on how to handle Kuzma wanting to get paid.

Also, in Los Angeles, there isn’t a consensus among decision-makers about signing Kyle Kuzma to a contract extension, SNY sources confirm (as first reported by The Ringer). I don’t see Los Angeles seriously considering a trade of Kuzma in the offseason, but it’s something worth keeping an eye on if you’re a Knick fan. The Knicks pursued Kuzma in trade talks at the 2020 trade deadline.

This is hardly the first Kuzma-related rumor in recent days. Kevin O’Connor of The Ringer brought up a potential deal where he’d be flipped to San Antonio for DeMar DeRozan, while Ramona Shelburne mentioned that the Lakers are gauging the trade market, even if they are interested in bringing him back.

Still, Kuzma is an interesting case, as he took a reduced role to facilitate Davis coming to L.A. The issue with that was his numbers dropped off in reduced minutes — 12.8 points and 4.5 rebounds in 25 minutes per game with nine starts — and he’ll turn 26 next summer. He’s not a bad player at all, but figuring out how he fits into the Lakers’ future is a bit tricky, which is evident in Begley’s reporting.