Harrison Ford is first and foremost a Hollywood legend, but he’s also famously unlucky with aircrafts. He’s walked away from a helicopter crash, been forced to land a plane on a golf course, and mistakenly landed on the wrong taxiway. Now, according to CNN, the actor is being investigated over yet another incident.

Last Friday, April 24, Ford, while piloting a plane in Los Angeles, crossed a runway where another aircraft was landing. The Federal Aviation Association is looking into the incident, but one of Ford’s representatives claims it was an innocent mistake.

“Mr. Ford crossed the airport’s only runway in his aircraft after he misheard a radio instruction from ATC. He immediately acknowledged the mistake and apologized to ATC for the error,” Ford’s representative told CNN. “The purpose of the flight was to maintain currency and proficiency in the aircraft. No one was injured and there was never any danger of a collision.”

Ford’s first major brush with aircraft infamy was in 1999, when he was forced to make an emergency landing while piloting a helicopter, which ended with the aircraft landing hard on gravel, hitting a tree, and flipping it on its side. Neither Ford nor his instructor suffered any injuries, and the former lived to joke about it on Inside the Actor’s Studio. In 2015 he landed a plane on a Venice, California golf course after it experienced engine failure, and two years later he accidentally landed on the taxiway of a Santa Ana airport. Now this.

(Via CNN)

It’s been six weeks since the NBA (and most other professional sports leagues) officially went on hiatus amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and despite some states now taking measures to reopen their economies and relax their social distancing protocols, the path to resuming the current season remains as murky as ever.

Commissioner Adam Silver has reiterated that the league will not return until the safety of the players, media, league personnel, and fans can be reasonably assured, which presents all sorts of logistical conundrums and no easy solutions. Plenty of ideas have been floated — some more feasible than others — and it’s clear that it’s going to require some creative problem-solving from everyone involved.

One possibility that has gained some traction is the idea of playing games in a single location that would reduce the amount of travel normally required. On Wednesday, Shams Charania of The Athletic tweeted that the league is considering the Disney World Resort in Orlando as one such location.

One possible playing ground for NBA if finishing season becomes safe for league and players: Walt Disney World Resort property in Orlando, sources tell @TheAthleticNBA @Stadium. League has kept different scenarios in mind.

— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) April 29, 2020

Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press went on to say that Disney President Bog Iger pitched the idea to league officials this week.

Disney’s Central Florida campus has been talked about for at least a couple weeks. https://t.co/PfDdyHYR4L https://t.co/zimPHF41f2

— Tim Reynolds (@ByTimReynolds) April 29, 2020

Las Vegas has also been mentioned as a possible location. The key in this scenario would be finding a way to quarantine players and other team personnel in a single location in order to reduce the risk as much as possible. It would also require the adequate facilities in which to play the actual games — which the Wide World of Sports would have — as well as the space to house such a large contingent. Regardless, any such scenario is likely still relatively far down the road.

Full disclosure, I’ve done my fair share of time in detention hall (and Saturday school, in-school suspension, regular suspension, etc. but that’s neither here nor there). The point is that high school boys can be a handful, and looking back on it, I have a great deal more empathy for the poor, overworked, and underappreciated educators who have to put up with so much nonsense.

But that’s still no excuse for casting these types of aspersions on what was clearly a talented young man with a bright future ahead. Back in 2014 when he was a high school student in Georgia, Jaylen Brown tweeted about how one of his teachers predicted that he’d end up in jail in the next five years.

The tweet originally resurfaced last year after Brown and the Celtics were in the midst of a big playoff run, and though he declined to go into specifics about what happened at the time, Brown said that he’s since moved on from the incident and no longer harbors any ill will toward the teacher in question.

But that didn’t stop him from commemorating the event once again, as Wednesday marked the sixth anniversary.

Rather than tout his trajectory of success in pro basketball in the years since, Brown simply shared this IG post from @celtics.everyday detailing just a few of his many accomplishments in the NBA and beyond.

Teachers can have a profound effect on a young person’s psyche. In Brown’s case, he was thankfully mentally strong enough to overcome perceptions and forge a different path through life.

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Past you is so jealous right now.

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“I’ve been practicing social distancing since I was 4 years old.”

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Y.A.K.T.I.N.S.F.W = Y’all already know this is “not safe for work.”

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“The most important part of a wedding day is marrying your person,” said bride Jen O’Leary. “We were still able to do that.”

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Welcome to this week’s Wednesday Night Wars open discussion thread. This week we’ve got an AEW Dynamite featuring Cody Rhodes vs. Darby Allin and Lance Archer fridging Dustin Rhodes in semi-finals matches in the TNT Championship Tournament going up against an episode of NXT featuring Charlotte Flair vs. Mia Yim, and a North American Championship match in the hoss division.

On tonight’s cards:

AEW Dynamite

• TNT Championship Tournament Match: Cody (Rhodes) vs. Darby Allin
• TNT Championship Tournament Match: Dustin Rhodes vs. Lance Archer
• No Disqualification, No Count Out Match: Best Friends with Orange Cassidy vs. Jimmy Havoc and Kip Sabian with Penelope Ford
• Mr. Brodie Lee vs. Marko Stunt
• Jon Moxley makes an appearance and “speaks,” hopefully not about Jake Hager

NXT

• NXT North American Championship Match: Keith Lee (c) vs. Damian Priest
• NXT Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair vs. Mia Yim
• Interim NXT Cruiserweight Championship Tournament Match: Drake Maverick vs. Tony Nese

As always, +1 your favorite comments from tonight’s open thread and if we get enough comments, we’ll include 10 of the best in tomorrow’s Best and Worst of NXT and AEW reports. Make sure you flip the comments by selecting “newest” in the drop down menu under discussion, and enjoy the show!