While much of the sports world hunkers down for another pair of episodes of ESPN’s Michael Jordan docuseries The Last Dance, the hockey world gets its own deep dive into one of its all-time great teams on Sunday night.

NHL Network will air The 1970 Bruins: Big, Bad & Bobby as part of its Originals documentary series on Sunday night. The project celebrates the 50th anniversary of the infamous Cup-winning goal from Orr that clinched the title for the Bruins long before Boston became a modern-day title town.

The film airs 50 years to the day that Orr soared through the air after clinching the 1970 Stanley Cup with a dive across the crease in overtime against the St. Louis Blues in overtime of Game 4 in the Boston Garden.

“I don’t know what nirvana looks like,” said former NFL great Howie Long of the lasting image of Orr celebrating in midair, “But that’s it. That’s nirvana.”

A statue of Orr with his skates up now stands where the old Garden once did in Boston, just the start of the team’s legacy in the city. Narrated by Ken Casey of The Dropkick Murphys, the documentary covers the rough and tumble 1970 Bruins team and how their rise to greatness changed both the city of Boston and the NHL as a whole. The team, known as the Big Bad Bruins, was powered by Orr’s legendary defensive play as much as the team’s reputation for toughness and willingness to scrap.

Featuring interviews with members of the team, including Orr and many others as well as notable fans of the Bruins, the film puts into perspective a four-year run that took the Bruins from NHL bottom dwellers to the toast of the league. Any film that tries to capture how magical Orr was in his prime is a worthy endeavor, but in a largely sports-less landscape the opportunity to celebrate on of the league’s great teams is as welcome as ever.

It’s also a fascinating look at how much the Bruins meant to the city of Boston, which was captured by this particular team in a way that changed the city and its sports fans. Long before the Patriots were perennial winners and the Red Sox broke the crease, the Bobby Orr Bruins were treated like rock stars in a city largely known in the sports world for the dynasties of the Celtics.

The event comes with an hour pregame show starting at 7 p.m. ET, with the documentary to follow at 8 p.m. Any night that gives us the opportunity to revel in the greatness of both Jordan and Orr is a blissful one given the rest of the current sports calendar.

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WWE Money in the Bank 2020 airs this Sunday, May 10, live on WWE Network. This year’s edition features two Money in the Bank ladder matches happening at the same time, staged from the ground floor to the top of a ladder on the top of the roof of WWE headquarters. Also, R-Truth vs. MVP for some reason! Here’s the complete card.

WWE Money in the Bank 2020 card:

**note: these two matches are happening simultaneously**
1A. Men’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Daniel Bryan vs. Rey Mysterio vs. Aleister Black vs. King Corbin vs. Otis vs. AJ Styles
1B. Women’s Money in the Bank Ladder Match: Asuka vs. Shayna Baszler vs. Nia Jax vs. Dana Brooke vs. Lacey Evans vs. Carmella

2. Universal Championship Match: Braun Strowman (c) vs. Bray Wyatt
3. WWE Championship Match: Drew McIntyre (c) vs. Seth Rollins
4. Smackdown Women’s Championship Match: Bayley (c) vs. Tamina
5. Smackdown Tag Team Championship Match: The New Day (c) vs. Forgotten Sons vs. The Miz and John Morrison vs. Lucha House Party

Just Added:

6. Sheamus vs. Jeff Hardy
7. MVP vs. R-Truth

If you’d like to read our predictions for the show, you can do that here.

Make sure to give your favorite comments from tonight’s open discussion a thumbs up, because as always we’re including ten of the best, funniest, and most insightful in tomorrow’s Best and Worst of Money in the Bank 2020 column. Be sure to flip your comments to “newest” in the drop-down menu, and enjoy the show!

After sharing his “6 Rings” track in honor of Kobe Bryant earlier this year, Bad Bunny continues his strong year with a bit of a surprise. Following the memoriam track, Bunny would later join PartyNextDoor and Drake for a remix of “Loyal” before sharing his Yo Hago Lo Que Me Da La Gana album with the world. The album grew to become the highest-charting Spanish language album ever as it debuted at No. 2 on the albums charts, but just a little over 2 months after releasing YHLQMDLG, Bad Bunny returns with another album.

Standing as his fourth album, Bad Bunny returns with Las Que No Iban a Salir which translates to The Ones That Were Not Coming Out. The album arrives after he previewed new music during a thrilling Instagram livestream that saw 320,000 viewers at one point along with appearances from Drake and Tory Lanez. Equipped with ten songs, Las Que No Iban a Salir sees guest appearances from Nicky Jam, Don Omar, Zion & Lennox, Yandel, Gabriela, and Jhay Cortez.

The album arrives a little over a month after Bad Bunny delivered a strong message in their video for “Yo Perreo Sola” song. A song written from a woman’s perspective, Bad Bunny dressed up in drag for the video in order to get the full experience of a woman, letting viewers know at its conclusion: “If she doesn’t want to dance with you, respect her, she twerks alone.”

Las Que No Iban a Salir is out now via Rimas Entertainment. Get it here.

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Adding to a difficult weekend for the music world, legendary R&B singer Betty Wright has died at the age of 66. Tracking back to the late 1960s, Wright began her career at the age of 14 when she released her first album, My First Time Around, where she earned her first top-40 hit, “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do.”

Throughout her career, she delivered a number of R&B hits including “Let Me Be Your Lovermaker,” “Shoorah Shoorah,” “Tonight is the Night,” and “Where is the Love.” With her niece Chaka Khan confirming her death to TMZ, a cause of death has yet to be revealed.

Khan first alluded to a possible health concern with Wright on May 2 after she tweeted, “Calling all my #PrayWarriors. My beloved sister, Betty Wright @MsBettyWright, is now in need of all your prayers.”

After her success in the 1980s, Wright would go on to start her own music label, Mrs. B Records, becoming the first female artist to do so. It was there where she recorded “No Pain (No Gain)” and “Mother Wit,” with the latter attaining a gold certification and making her the first female African American singer to go gold on their own label. Throughout her career, Wright earned six Grammy nominations and won the award once in 1975 for “Where Is The Love” under the Best Rhythm & Blues Song category.

Sharing nearly five decades of albums with the world, Wright became an influence to so many in music as names like Mary J. Blige, Beyonce, SWV, Tupac, Aaliyah, and Chance The Rapper sampling her work in their music.

Your own Wilson will be quaking on his subpar patio.

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This weekend won.

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