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Fans of Megan Thee Stallion were vocally supportive of the “Body” rapper in the case of the 2020 shooting by Tory Lanez, who was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in prison last month. A documentary about the shooting is scheduled to hit Discovery Plus in the UK this Monday, September 4.

In a trailer for the film, which is called Megan Thee Stallion VS Tory Lanez: Five Shots,the case is described as “the biggest case since O.J.” The clip also teases that the documentary will comprise of “two films, two sides.”

Since the trailer circulated online, many fans have taken to social media to express their disdain for the documentary, calling it exploitative.

“y’all be so geeked to profit off of someone’s trauma for entertainment, weird,” said one fan on Twitter.

Another fan likened the documentary to Netflix’s Depp V. Heard and accused streaming networks of profiting from women’s trauma.

“women’s trauma is just clickbait to these studios and they genuinely do not care about how amber and megan were dogpiled by the media just for being honest,” she said, “and i’d go as far to say that they encourage this mistreatment.”

At the time of writing, only a trailer for a UK streaming has made its way onto the internet, as Discovery Plus has since merged with Max to become one platform. Max has not yet shared a trailer on any of their social platforms.

A U.S. air date or streaming date has not been announced.

The Coach Prime era in Boulder is off to the best possible start. Deion Sanders, who made the jump to the Pac-12 last year after a stint as the head coach at Jackson State, led the Colorado Buffaloes into Fort Worth on Saturday afternoon to start their season against the 17th-ranked TCU Horn Frogs.

Despite going into the game as 20.5-point underdogs against the defending national runners-up, Colorado pulled off a gigantic upset, taking down TCU, 45-42. While TCU lost a number of key contributors from last year’s squad, the thought was that the No. 17 team in America would be able to take care of business against a Buffaloes squad that saw a gigantic roster overhaul as part of Sanders becoming their head coach.

A number of those players showed out in big ways. Shedeur Sanders, Deion’s son, was magnificent in his Power 5 debut, as the former Jackson State signal caller completed 38 of his 47 pass attempts for 510 yards and four touchdowns.

Four separate Buffaloes went for at least 100 yards through the air: Dylan Edwards caught five balls for 135 yards and three scores, Travis Hunter caught 11 balls for 119 yards, Xavier Weaver had six receptions for 118 yards, and Jimmy Horn Jr. went for 11 receptions for 117 yards and a touchdown. Weaver and Horn were transfers from South Florida, Hunter was a transfer from Jackson State, and Edwards is a true freshman.

Hunter wasn’t just an option on offense. The former No. 1 recruit in America played both ways, and was a lockdown corner for the Buffaloes defense. This included one of the best interceptions you’ll see all season, along with just generally shutting down whatever half of the field he was on.

Next up for the Buffaloes is a renewal of their longtime rivalry against Nebraska. The two teams have not played since 2019, and Colorado is currently on a two-game winning streak in the series.

Donald Trump must be sick of getting indicted on criminal charges, in many ways. For one thing, it gets in the way of his campaigning. For another he has to do things like show up to arraignments and court dates. At least those are voluntary. The former president has decided to skip his arraignment in Georgia, not out of protest but reportedly out of laziness.

As per Raw Story, The Guardian’s Hugo Lowell went on MSNBC Saturday, where he said Trump originally planned to jet up to Atlanta Wednesday to again sit in a courtroom and again be arraigned. Alas, the event is scheduled for 9:30am and Lowell said his team “tells me he just didn’t want to get up at 6am and go to Atlanta.”

That shocked MSNBC host Alex Witt, who said, “Are you saying, did any of your contacts there in Trump world, they suggested the president was willing to appear were it not for an early morning time slot?”

“I mean there is some suggestion, some discussion, according to our reporting about what Trump could do if he were to go,” Lowell replied. “Discussions about maybe we could hold a news conference or some sort of event to get media coverage, which as you know is their primary objective. But I think the lack of feasibility there, plus the fact that Trump simply doesn’t want to get up in the morning, is the major driver.”

Hey, 6am is pretty darn early, especially if you’re about to get on a flight, even a short one. Still, Trump is allegedly fit as a fiddle, a “very young 77 years old,” according to his daughter-in-law. If that’s true, he should have no problem seizing the day by flying to a courthouse so he can get arraigned on criminal charges.

(Via Raw Story)

Fans around the world are reflecting on memories of Jimmy Buffett, who was confirmed to have died yesterday at 76. Several artists have taken to social media to express their sadness and share condolences with Buffett’s family.

President Joe Biden also took to social media to pay his respects to Buffett, and looked back on their friendship.

Biden called Buffett “a poet of Paradise” and recalled how Buffett was able to “bring people together” through the power of music. He concluded his message by sending benedictions to Buffett’s wife and children.

You can see Biden’s full tribute below.

“A poet of paradise, Jimmy Buffett was an American music icon who inspired generations to step back and find the joy in life and in one another.

We had the honor to meet and get to know Jimmy over the years, and he was in life as he was performing on stage – full of goodwill and joy, using his gift to bring people together.

Jill and I send our love to his wife of 46 years, Jane; to their children, Savannah, Sarah, and Cameron; to their grandchildren; and to the millions of fans who will continue to love him even as his ship now sails for new shores.”

While there are plenty of questions that popped up about how the Deion Sanders era at Colorado would go, one thing that was pretty certain was that Travis Hunter would be a superstar. Hunter, the former No. 1 recruit in America who played under Sanders at Jackson State before following him to Boulder, is a rare two-way standout who plays both wide receiver and cornerback for the Buffaloes.

It’s not clear which one is his better position, because the dude is excellent at both. And in the third quarter of Saturday’s season opener against TCU, Hunter showed off his receiver skills while playing corner to prevent what would have been a touchdown to give TCU the lead. Horned Frogs signal caller Chandler Morris dropped back and attempted to find Major Everhart with the ball on Colorado’s 3-yard line. But Hunter managed to read things perfectly, and Morris had no clear he was going to jump this route and pick him off.

Hunter’s skills as a corner (this is a crazy play to see what Morris wanted to do and then jump the route) and a receiver (he went full extension and plucked this with his hands) were on display here. He’ll be playing on Sundays sometime in the not-too-distant future, but for now, he’s going to be a crucial piece of the puzzle for what Coach Prime is trying to build.

The news of Jimmy Buffett’s passing has the music world in shock. Across several decades, the “Margaritaville” singer set trends in the realm of music with his escapist fusion of rock, country, and pop.

Following the news several artists have taken to social media to mourn the loss of Buffett and express condolences to his friends and family.

Buffett’s “It’s Five O’Clock Somewhere” collaborator Alan Jackson shared a photo of them two on Instagram at a past CMA Awards ceremony.

“Shores distant shores, There’s where I’m headed for, I got the stars to guide my way, Sail into the light of day…,” read the post’s caption, quoting Buffett’s song, “Boats To Build.”

Kenny Chesney shared a carousel of video clips, one of Chensey covering one of Buffett’s songs while sitting on the beach with a guitar, another one of him and Buffett performing together.

“So goodbye Jimmy,” read the post’s caption. “Thanks for your friendship and the songs I will carry in my heart forever. Sail On Sailor.”

On Twitter, Toby Keith shared two pictures of them two together, and noted Buffett’s impact within music.

“The pirate has passed. RIP Jimmy Buffett. Tremendous influence on so many of us,” said Keith.

Country star and Barmageddon game show host Blake Shelton also took to Twitter to express his sadness about the loss of Buffett, and to share a special memory of them.

“Heart broken this morning hearing of Jimmy Buffett’s passing,” said Shelton. “What an incredible talent and man. His songs will live on forever. I’ll bet most of y’all don’t know that he wrote the theme song for @BarmageddonUSA for me about 2 years ago. Raising a glass today to the Son of a son of a Sailer.”

Kenny Chesney and Blake Shelton are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Remember Gwyneth Paltrow’s vagina candle? The former actress-turned-entrepreneur — who’s, by the way, totally fine no longer making MCU movies — used to sell a line of candles called “This Smells Like My Vagina” on Goop. Two of them reportedly blew up on their customers. It was also a perhaps inevitable fixture of fun. Well, Paltrow noticed people dragging it, and now she’s defending it as a “strong feminist statement.”

“So many women have been raised, at least in my generation, to think there’s something wrong with themselves or that the vagina is weird or gross or something to be ashamed of,” Paltrow said in a video posted on Instagram Stories (which you can watch over at TikTok). “The candle is supposed to be a very strong punk-rock kind of F-you to anyone who ever made us feel like that.”

The candle, one could argue, gained extra significance last year, when the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade, prompting a massive backlash against conservatives trying to replace women’s bodies. Paltrow argues it wasn’t right for the candle to become a joke.

“People tried to make it about something else, which is kind of a shame because it was really meant to be this strong feminist statement,” Paltrow said, adding, “But we no longer make the candle.”

It’s worth noting that the candle technically didn’t bear the exact scent of Paltrow’s vagina. Instead it was a mix of bergamot, geranium and cedar juxtaposed with damask rose and ambrette seed. Though the vagina candle is no longer for sale, Goop still sells a perfume called “This Smells Like My Vagina Roll-On.”

(Via HuffPost)

Jim Harbaugh will not be with the Michigan Wolverines for the first three games of the 2023 college football season. Prior to the start of the year, the university self-imposed a three-game suspension for their longtime coach, which means that he will have to watch as the Wolverines play East Carolina, UNLV, and Bowling Green.

ESPN has reported that this was all done to hopefully “soften the potential ruling from the NCAA” that is expected to come in 2024 for alleged recruiting violations during the COVID dead period in 2020. But no matter what, Wolverines players are very unhappy that this is a problem at all, and as a result, they used Saturday’s season opener against the Pirates to show support for their coach.

This extended to the team’s first offensive snap of the game. Instead of breaking the huddle and going up to the line of scrimmage, Wolverines players lined up in a straight line, held up four fingers — the number he wore during his playing days in Ann Arbor — and then lined up.

“I will continue to do what I always tell our players and my kids at home, ‘Don’t get bitter, get better,’” Harbaugh said in a statement of his suspension.

Harbaugh will return for the team’s fourth game of the season, which is a home tilt against Rutgers.

It’s been a few months since Tucker Carlson was unceremoniously fired by Fox News. How’s he doing? If his mostly low video view counts and tinfoil hat ravings about Trump being “assassinated” are any indication, not great! Still, he used to be considered hot stuff, enough that Elon Musk once quickly tried to scoop him up after he was let go.

As per Mediaite, Carlson did an interview with Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy Thursday, during which he reflected on his firing. Fox News didn’t just can him; they did the same to some of his team.

“Thankfully, they fired my executive producer, Justin Wells, like within four minutes of firing me. He really didn’t do anything wrong. He was the best producer in all of television and everyone knew it,” Carlson said. “And Fox has a lot of nice people, a lot of very incompetent people obviously running it. And he was one of the only competent people in the whole business. But they fired him, too.”

News spread fast that Fox News had kicked its biggest star to the curb, prompting the head of what was then still called Twitter to take action.

“And within I don’t know, an hour of that happening, Elon called him and said, ‘You should come to Twitter,’” Carlson said. “So I’ll never stop being grateful for that.”

News that Carlson had found a new home at Twitter came not long after he lost his job, though Musk clarified that the two weren’t as tight as it seemed. Carlson had a smash debut, though the numbers soon plummeted, spiking when he has a big guest interview. Then again, unlike with television, it’s hard to tell if people actually watch his videos in full or just start them and then quickly get bored.

(Via Mediaite)

When Donald Trump was arrested the other week, one detail jumped out above most: He claimed he was 215 pounds. It’s not an ideal weight; he’s 6’3”, which according to BMI calculators means he’s on the low end of overweight. Still, many weren’t buying that one. But at least one person thinks a guy who subsists on McDonald’s is somehow in great shape: his daughter-in-law.

Lara Trump, a person who married Eric Trump, went on Newsmax to sing the praises of her father-in-law regarding his alleged physical fitness. “Donald Trump is a very young 77,” she claimed. “For some, yes, age is just a number.”

Is it, though? The Daily Beast reflected on Trump’s checkered history when it came to reporting on his health:

In 2015, Harold Bornstein, a Manhattan doctor who had treated Trump, who is considered obese, has high cholesterol, and famously does not exercise, wrote in a letter that, if elected, Trump would be “the healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency.” Bornstein, who died in 2021, later confessed that Trump himself had dictated the letter.

It’s true that Trump has more energy than most his age. Even the young would find it draining to juggle political rallies and four indictments. Then again, maybe the constant strain on his brain is what leads him to doozies like “hamberders” and “roomer.”

(Via The Daily Beast)