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Bad Bunny pulled double duty tonight (October 21) on Saturday Night Live, as both the host and the musical performer for this week’s episode. His new album title, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va A Pasar Mañana, translates to “Nobody Knows What’s Going To Happen Tomorrow,” but we can bet this record will bring in a promising season in his career.

Kicking off the show with a bang, Bad Bunny delivered a humorous opening monologue, during which, he assured the audience that he is capable of hosting the show in both English in Spanish.

“I can order McDonald’s in English, I can have sex in English, but I prefer sex in Spanish,” Bunny said.

He continued, delivering his monologue in Spanish, and during this portion, a subtitle reading “Speaking In Non-English” appeared on-screen. This alludes to a situation last season, when Pedro Pascal was hosting, and delivering his opening monologue in Spanish. The subtitles read “Speaking In Non-English,” to the chagrin of Spanish speakers.

Bunny was not having this, and immediately asked the powers that be to make the necessary corrections.

The subtitle then read “Speaking In Sexier Language.”

Shortly after, Pascal himself made a surprise appearance in the monologue.

Tonight marks the Puerto Rican superstar’s first time hosting SNL, his second time as the show’s musical guest, and his third overall appearance. In April 2020, Bunny appeared in a special “at-home” episode of SNL at the early onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and performed as the musical guest in a February 2021 episode, with Bridgerton actor Regé-Jean Page hosting.

You can see Bad Bunny’s full opening monologue above.

Michigan State’s football program has not been having a good year, as the Spartans entered Saturday night’s rivalry game with Michigan at 2-4 and are playing for an interim head coach after firing Mel Tucker for alleged sexual harassment earlier this season.

Things did not get any better on Saturday night, as the team got crushed by Michigan as the Wolverines rolled up 42 points in the first three quarters before calling off the dogs in the fourth. Adding to the dreadful night from the Spartans was a trivia video that got played during warmups on the jumbotron that attracted some unwanted attention. That was because there was a question about Adolf Hitler that included just having his photo up on the screen that looked truly awful if you just looked up and saw it without context.

Even with the context of being a random trivia game that was asking, for some reason, where Hitler was born, it’s not good and in the middle of the fourth quarter the Michigan State athletics department had to issue a statement apologizing for the video.

The third party video mentioned in the statement is just a trivia video from The Quiz Channel on YouTube, which was apparently not looked at well enough to realize that running a video that features a photo of Hitler might not be a good decision for a stadium jumbotron.

All week long, Mack Brown warned his No. 10 North Carolina team against eating “the poisonous cheese” in the veritable rat trap, so to speak. He knew a 1-win Virginia team coming to town might have his team feeling overly confident.

The warnings didn’t work, and whatever cheese the Tar Heels collectively bit into before the Virginia game was indeed poison of some kind as they fell 31-27 to the Cavaliers at home.

The game was sealed on a Drake Maye interception in the game’s final moments with the Heels trying to find a game-winning miracle, but it felt over long before that. UNC’s defense came into this game ranked 55th nationally in total defense, but played more like last year’s unit that ranked as one of the nation’s worst.

The Tar Heels have been known in the second Mack Brown era as a team with a really good offense but a struggling defense, a quarterback under center in Sam Howell and Drake Maye that seems destined to play on Sundays but can’t always be enough of a hero to outscore what the defense allows.

UNC and Maye scored on six of its first 10 drives, but the five punts were more than normal. After a field goal with 12:08 to go, though, UNC would not score again in its final three drives.

Virginia’s final go-ahead touchdown came with more than eight minutes to go, plenty of time for UNC to muster up a score. But the one time UNC got a break on a Virginia goal line fumble with 4:50 remaining, it couldn’t cash it in.

The drive started promisingly with plays of 33 and 29 yards to reach the Virginia 18-yard line. But facing 4th and 12 on the 20, UNC elected to go for it with 3:12 to go rather than cut the lead to 1 point and did not convert.

Virginia had to have a stop, and it did get it, getting the ball back with 1:12 to go. But the Tar Heels were not able to stop the clock as often as they’d have liked and after reaching Virginia’s 48-yard line with less than a minute to go and no timeouts, Maye threw the pick with 26 seconds to go and that was it.

UNC’s defense allowed Virginia to post a season high in yards against FBS opponents (436) and a season-high in rushing yards with 228. The Tar Heels had six penalties, but often at the worst possible moments, including a hold that wiped out a potential touchdown. UNC lost its starting punter to a season-ending injury a few weeks ago, and his replacement had a 16-yard punt. Virginia dominated special teams.

The Tar Heels held the ball nearly 15 minutes longer than Virginia and ran seven more plays, but it didn’t matter. Virginia’s offensive line had been bad entering the game, but it allowed UNC to sack quarterback Tony Muskett just twice and paved the way for a physical running game that UNC struggled to stop.

Now, the Tar Heels’ undefeated season and any hope, albeit slim, at a College Football Playoff berth are gone. And it happened at home, against a team that had not beaten an FBS opponent in over a year.

Pitt only trailed for 7 seconds of the game on Saturday, but make no mistake — the seeds of the Panthers’ ugly loss at Wake Forest on Saturday had been sown long before third-string Wake Forest QB Santino Marucci found Cameron Hite for the go-ahead touchdown.

Pitt got a huge win last week at home over Louisville, the Panthers’ first win over an FBS opponent this season. It was the first start for quarterback Christian Veilleux, and while he wasn’t perfect, he did a solid enough job that there was confidence he’d lead them to another win. And he completed 7 of his first 8 passes at Wake, including one for a touchdown.

Wake was coming into the game losers of three in a row and on a third-string quarterback in Marucci without a lot to feel good about. Wake was blown out by Georgia Tech at home for its first loss, then fell in a close-in-score-only game at Clemson 17-12 before proceeding to get blown out by a bad Virginia Tech team on the road.

Pitt came in the far more confident team, and it showed. Until it didn’t.

Pitt out-gained Wake 116-24 in the first quarter, had the ball for nearly 12 minutes to just 3 for Wake and eight first downs to none for the Demon Deacons. But it led just 7-0.

The game was 7-7 at the half, but Pitt’s yards per play dipped to 2.8 in the second quarter. The way both teams had been playing on offense, it was unclear whether either would score again.

The teams exchanged punts and three-and-outs and all-around bad offensive possessions before Marucci threw a interception at the Pitt 34-yard line, setting up a Pitt field goal to put the Panthers up 10-7 with 13:07 to go.

That felt like it could be enough. Wake punted again on its next drive, and Pitt got across midfield before its next drive stalled. Wake got it back with 6:05 to go and finally put a touchdown drive together, going up 14-10 with 3:02 remaining.

But Pitt quarterback Christian Veilleux, only in his second start, drove the Panthers down the field and found Bub Means for a 22-yard score with 1:30 to go.

Pitt’s odds went up even more after it intercepted Marucci again once Wake had driven to Pitt’s 37-yard line with a minute left. But Donovan McMillon got back-to-back unsportsmanlike conduct penalties after the interception and pushed the Panthers back from their own 28-yard line to their own 7.

It seemed like Pitt would overcome even that, as long as the Panthers could keep the football. Pitt ran it up the middle twice for a total of two yards. On 3rd and 8, Veilleux kept it and slid for what looked to be a first down — except he had started his slide too early. And on their own 16-yard line facing a 4th and 1, Pitt punted.

And to add to the string of mistakes, it was a bad punt by Caleb Junko — just 32 yards.

Wake’s drive started near midfield almost solely because of the multiple miscues. Marucci converted a 3rd and 11 and a 4th and 1 with pass plays of 10 and 24 yards, respectively, and then found Hite yet again for a 15-yard touchdown with just seven seconds left.

Both teams have looked like shadows of their former selves this season, but this loss will especially sting for Pitt as a win was in its grasp, and that win was a chance to change the momentum of their season.

The Minnesota-Iowa game lived up to expectations of being a truly hideous display of offensive football (and, conversely, some great defense and special teams). The game that closed with the lowest Vegas point total in history at 30.5 ended in a 12-10 Minnesota win, but not without some serious late game drama.

After stalling out once again on offense, Iowa, trailing 12-10, punted the ball back to Minnesota with two minutes to play and all three timeouts. The Gophers proceeded to go three-and-out, including throwing an incompletion, and had to punt the ball back to Iowa (into the wind) with just over 1:40 to play. Given the most dangerous weapon on Iowa’s team is defensive back/punt returner Cooper DeJean, this represented the probable best opportunity for Iowa to win the game.

Sure enough, DeJean delivered an unbelievable return off a bouncing ball on the sideline for what looked to be the go-ahead TD (and, given how these offenses operated, likely the game winner).

However, there was a lengthy review of the play, which the TV broadcast assumed was to look at whether he stayed in bounds, but apparently was more concerned with DeJean’s actions before fielding the punt. Replay ruled that DeJean waving Iowa blockers away from the ball constituted a fair catch, as explained on the broadcast by the rules analyst, which meant the play was dead the moment he touched the ball, negating his unbelievable return.

Iowa would, of course, go backwards on the ensuing drive, with Deacon Hill throwing an interception with a minute to play to, finally, put an end to the game.

There are two big things that could happen to Trump in the next year and change: He could win re-election over Joe Biden (or whoever nabs the Democratic ticket) and he could be thrown in the clink for all his alleged crimes. Both of these could occur. Him reclaiming the White House would not keep him from the slammer, and vice versa. Sean Hannity has pointed out that he could still run for commander-in-chief from prison. And Barbie critic Bill Maher is saying pretty much the same thing.

Per Mediaite, on Friday’s episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, the host was pow-wowing with former Bill Clinton advisor Paul Begala and conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens. Begala said friends in the know claimed Trump’s prolific legal woes are “not good for him,” even “terrible.” Stephens pointed out that the former president’s polls actually swell every time he’s indicted (even though he maintains that “the guy belongs in jail”).

“Ultimately,” Stephens concluded, “the only way I think you slay this beast is in an election or in a primary.”

“Absolutely absolute. It’s also very much possible, I think,” Maher agreed. “And I don’t think we’ll ever send him to jail, but I think he could get house arrest at Mar-a-Lago and be the president at the same time and run this world from an orange jumpsuit. That is not an unrealistic scenario.”

Begala joked that “he’s already got all the classified documents there, so.”

“He wouldn’t even have to leave his bathroom,” Stephens added.

Is being thrown in solitary what Trump needs to lock down 2024? Is he going to have to move the Oval Office to a prison cafeteria? He recently said he’s willing to serve time if he has to, and prolific critic Mark Hamill couldn’t agree with him more.

(Via Mediaite)

Eilish’s latest back tattoo, which the singer proudly showcased in a post on Instagram, have set the rumor mill ablaze. What about? The possibility that she’s no longer on the dating market. According to The Sun, Eilish allegedly has a new leading man. However, after getting wind of the rumor, Eilish rushed to her Instagram Stories to deny the claim.

The publication believes celebrity tattoo artist David Enth (who has inked pieces for Lana Del Rey and The 1975’s Matty Healy) and Eilish are an item. That couldn’t be anything further from the truth, said Eilish. In the screenshot captured Friday, October 20, by Life & Style Magazine, Eilish wrote, “I’m so dead. [I] literally couldn’t be more single right now, LMFAO. What the hell is all [of] this.”

Enth hasn’t addressed the rumors

Eilish and Jesse Rutherford reportedly called it quits in May but decided to remain good friends — until Rutherford released his song “POV.” Fans of Eilish called out her ex for allegedly taking subtle jabs about her, including the lyric, “She been listening to me since 2013 / I know she’s got daddy issues, welcome to the family.”

For those looking to shoot their shot with Eilish, it appears that you may still have a chance with her.

Everyone in the northeast is tired of the rainy weekends and it turns out that the frequent rain is not a figment of our imagination. Some cities have endured rain on their Saturdays and/or Sundays for two consecutive months. Boston has received rain for eight straight weekends while Providence and New York City have been soaked for seven straight weekends. New Jersey also checks in with six straight weekends of rain. Furthermore, out of the 42 weekends this year, only 12 of them have been dry in New York City. It hasn’t been as bad in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington D.C. as they’ve received rain on about half of their weekends over the past two months. Still, it begs the question: Why has it been raining every weekend?

Science has the answer for you! According to The Washington Post, there’s a “persistent area” of high pressure over Canada, Greenland or the Arctic. “I call it an atmospheric traffic jam,” John Homenuk, a meteorologist for New York Metro Weather, said in a video. Meteorologists refer to this occurrence as a “blocking pattern” and it can often lead to storms coming through a specific area every 6-7 days at a time, which is exactly what the northeast is experiencing now. As for it taking place on the weekend, that’s just bad luck says Homenuk.

“It very easily could have been that this block set up slightly differently, and the storms were coming through on Wednesday,” he said. “But instead, it’s happening on Friday and Saturday, which really stinks.”

Weather forecasts for next weekend in New York City, Boston, Providence, and Washington D.C. all point to a weekend without rain, but we’ll just have to wait and see if that proves to be the case.

Islam Makhachev TKO’d Alexander Volkanovski in the first round of their UFC Lightweight Championship at UFC 294 from the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The highly-anticipated rematch came together on short notice after Charles Oliveira was a late scratch from the tilt. The duo picked up right where they left off, with an even first minute of the fight that involved Makhachev attempting a takedown and Volkanovski stuffing it as he did in their first bout. Midway through the round, Makhachev caught Volkanovski with a glancing head kick that rolled the challenger’s eyes back before jumping on him for the referee stoppage.

Makhachaev submitted Charles Oliveira in October last year, taking care of the former champion in just two rounds. His win capped a meteoric rise that saw Makhachaev fight three times in 2021 and twice last year en route to becoming the top dog in the division. But Volkanovski offered the stiffest test of Makhachaev, taking him to a decision and offering enough offense to make that questionable from the judges.

After Yair Rodríguez won the interim title in February on the same card as Makhachaev-Volkanovski 1, the featherweight king returned to his division with a knockout victory over Rodriguez in July. Just three months later, he came back to avenge one of the rare losses in his career, but a first round head kick from Makhachev will likely send him back to the featherweight division.

Since going on strike in July, SAG-AFTRA has done a heroic job of keeping the public on their side. (The AMPTP’s sometimes inhumane threats have surely helped their cause.) They’ve also managed to keep a very, very large union moving in lockstep through perilous times. But recently they made one minor misstep: They issued some rules about Halloween dress-up that maybe sounded good on paper but which resulted in some rare inside dragging.

Per The Hollywood Reporter, on Thursday the guild informed members that they weren’t allowed to dress up as big studio IP. That means no Barbie, no Wednesday Addams, no Deadpool, etc., etc. Instead they implored them to “choose costumes inspired by generalized characters and figures — ghost, zombie, spider, etc.”

It’s not the biggest deal, but it did rub some prominent members the wrong way. “Is this a joke?” Mandy Moore wrote on her Instagram story. “Come on @sagaftra. This is what’s important? We’re asking you to negotiate in good faith on our behalf. So many folks across every aspect of this industry have been sacrificing mightily for months. Get back to the table and get a fair deal so everyone can get back to work.”

Noted goofball Ryan Reynolds took a sillier approach, tweeting, “I look forward to screaming ‘scab’ at my 8 year old all night. She’s not in the union but she needs to learn.”

Former SAG president Melissa Gilbert was less amused. “THIS is what you guys come up with?” she posted on Instagram. “Literally no one cares what anyone wears for Halloween. I mean, do you really think this kind of infantile stuff is going to end the strike? We look like a joke. Please tell me you’re going to make this rule go away….and go negotiate! For the love of God, people are suffering mightily and this is what you have to say…c’mon.”

By late Friday SAG-AFTRA brass walked their edict back a bit:

“SAG-AFTRA issued Halloween guidance in response to questions from content creators and members about how to support the strike during this festive season. This was meant to help them avoid promoting struck work, and it is the latest in a series of guidelines we have issued. It does not apply to anyone’s kids. We are on strike for important reasons, and have been for nearly 100 days. Our number one priority remains getting the studios back to the negotiating table so we can get a fair deal for our members, and finally put our industry back to work.”

So if you’re a SAG-AFTRA member, try to dress up like something that’s not a Marvel or Star Wars or Mattel character. But your family is free to let their freak flag fly.

(Via THR)