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The 149th running of the Kentucky Derby took place on Saturday afternoon at Churchill Downs. In a thrilling race, Mage, which closed at 15-1 odds to win, was able to use a late charge to overtake Two Phil’s and win the race. You can watch the full race right here.

Two Phil’s was able to hold on for second, while Angel of Empire was able to take third. It was a stunning result for Mage, which entered the day with only three starts under its belt and one win, and now gets to add a win in the Kentucky Derby to its list of accomplishments. Mage was rode by Javier Castellano, a 45-year-old native of Venezuela who had never won the Kentucky Derby despite this being the 16th race in which he participated. After the race, NBC caught up with Castellano to get his reaction to finally getting over the hump.

Next up for Mage in its efforts to win the Triple Crown is the Preakness Stakes, which will take place on Saturday, May 20 at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore. The horse will look to become the first since 2018 to win all three races, when Justify became the 13th horse in history to earn the honor.

Bronny James is not going too far away from his own backyard to play his college basketball. James, the eldest son of LeBron James and one of the most highly-regarded prospects in his high school class, announced that he will head to USC on his Instagram account on Saturday afternoon.

It was believed that the Trojans were one of three schools that James was seriously considering, with Oregon and Ohio State viewed as the other reported finalists to land him. It’s worth mentioning that the James family kept Bronny’s recruitment largely under wraps, as one of the few public comments that anyone made came when LeBron refuted a report that the Ducks were the frontrunners last year.

James will join a highly-regarded recruiting class that includes the No. 1 player in the nation, Georgia guard Isaiah Collier, and a 4-star center in Arrinten Page, who is the No. 46 player in the class and Collier’s high school teammate. With the addition of James, the No. 21 overall recruit and a 5-star prospect per 247Sports Composite rating, the Trojans currently have the No. 12 class in the nation.

A 6’3 guard and a McDonald’s All American selection, James will join a USC team that went 22-11 last year and earned a spot in the NCAA Tournament. The Trojans lost as a 10-seed to Michigan State in the opening round.

The Miami Heat and the New York Knicks have had plenty of battles over the years that have led to tensions boiling over between the two teams. While things didn’t quite get to the level of some of the more notorious moments in the history of this rivalry, a handful of technical fouls got handed out late in the third quarter of Game 3 in Miami on Saturday afternoon.

Immanuel Quickley went for a runner and made it, all while a few players bumped into each other under the rim. Cody Zeller didn’t appreciate how Julius Randle was going about his business, which led to the Heat veteran shoving the Knicks All-Star in the back and shoving him to the ground. This led to some more pushing and shoving, with Isaiah Hartenstein going after Zeller and Cody Martin getting his teammate back.

Erik Spoelstra made a beeline over to the kerfuffle to get Martin and pull him out of there, while Tom Thibodeau eventually made his way over into the fracas, mostly to make sure everything was cool. By the time the dust settled, the officials determined that Hartenstein, Martin, and Zeller all deserved to get hit with a technical for this. We’ll have to wait until later in this series to see if things get so nasty between the teams that Thibodeau grabs onto someone’s leg.

In another timeline, Pete Davidson would have made his triumphant return to SNL this weekend, and only about a year after leaving the show. Instead negotiations between the Writers Guild of America and Hollywood studios and streamers broke down over matters such as fair pay and regulating AI technology. So instead, Davidson is giving pizza — great pizza — to striking writers.

As caught by Entertainment Weekly, the Bupkis star was seen visiting the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn, where a coterie of WGA members were picketing for their demands. He didn’t arrive empty-handed: He came bearing boxes of pizza from L&B Spumoni Gardens — one of the town’s most iconic Italian eateries, known for (among other things) their square Sicilian slices (and equally delicious spumoni). The joint is located in the deep South Brooklyn neighborhood of Gravesend, so Davidson made quite the trek to bring writers some top shelf grub.

“I got Spumoni’s for everyone,” Davidson says in the video. “Gotta support the writers, man! No shows without the writers.”

Davidson isn’t the only performer whose SNL hosting gigs have come to an end due to the WGA strike. Kieran Culkin was supposed to host with Labrinth, while Jennifer Coolidge and The Foo Fighters were set for the season finale.

He also joins a number of performers who’ve come out in support of the strike, including Quinta Brunson, Natasha Lyonne, Brett Goldstein, Bowen Yang, Cynthia Nixon, Rob Lowe, Jimmy Fallon, and Jay Leno. The Bear breakout Ayo Edebiri was even seen marching alongside the striking writers, while Drew Barrymore dropped out of hosting the MTV Movie & TV Awards in solidarity.

(Via EW)

The second game of a three-game weekend series between the Detroit Tigers and the St. Louis Cardinals took place on Saturday afternoon in Missouri. At one point in the bottom of the seventh inning, Lars Nootbaar was able to get ahead of the count against Will Vest, who started the first at bat of the half inning by throwing a pair of balls.

And then, the crowd started to roar, while Nootbaar asked for a timeout. The reason was pretty simple: There was a squirrel that ran onto the field and everyone wanted to take a second to make sure it got out of the way while the professional baseball players were playing their baseball game.

Vest just stood there and watched as the squirrel prepared to run over to Tigers first baseman Spencer Torkelson. The entire time, the crowd at Busch Stadium was cheering extremely loudly for the little guy, which eventually ran off the field and hid behind the tarp on the first base line. Unfortunately for the announcers which hoped this would lead to a rally, that didn’t happen — after a walk for Nootbaar, Paul Goldschmidt stepped up to the plate and grounded into a double play.

Conan Gray looked confident as ever in Balmain at the 2023 Met Gala last Monday, May 1. The singer-songwriter was spotted smiling with Olivia Rodrigo and posing next to Lil Nas X. Maybe Rodrigo was smiling because Gray clued her in on a new song.

On Saturday, May 6, people began tweeting photos of mysterious Gray-related poster, which read “HELP WANTED: CONAN NEEDS YOUR HELP WORKING THE NIGHT SHIFT.” At the bottom, a website to apply is listed.

Republic Records also posted a photo of the poster in Los Angeles, California to its Instagram Story.

According to fans’ tweets, the website asks people to text 323-576-0686, and there’s a muffled audio recording of (presumably) Gray saying, “You’re shopping at Food Heaven, where the deals go on and on and on and on and on and on — and on” ahead of a brief poppy beat.

One fan connected the audio teaser to Gray’s Instagram caption from April 20, and the same person relayed that posters have been spotted in LA and Texas.

Gray was Uproxx‘s August 2022 cover star following the June release of his second studio album, Superache, and forecasted what his next album might tackle.

“Maybe on my third album, I’ll have something about falling in love,” he said. “That would be great, wouldn’t it?”

He added, “I want someone to come into my life and just destroy my heart — stomp on it, make it disappear.”

Mikal Bridges had to move to Brooklyn a little earlier this year. Bridges was part of the monster package of picks and players that the Nets received upon sending Kevin Durant to the Phoenix Suns, which they did just before the trade deadline. While Brooklyn struggled a bit after the deadline, Bridges was a revelation, playing some of the best basketball of his career in 27 games as the centerpiece for the Nets.

Unfortunately, Bridges is sitting at home watching the postseason after Brooklyn was eliminated in four games in the opening round by the Philadelphia 76ers. This did, however, free him up to do stuff around New York, like go to the most famous bodega on TikTok and get a sandwich made by Rahim Mohamed, known by many as General Ock.

Bridges decided to go with a chopped cheese the Ocky way, then went back behind the grill to lend a hand. All told, the sandwich had a burger, peppers, bacon, cheese, Spicy Sweet Chili Doritos, and some spinach. It looked extremely good, and also, we can only assume that there are nutritionists with the Nets who hated watching this entire thing. They can, however, take solace in knowing that Bridges for a bottle of water with nutrients in it, because one of the most important things about going to this bodega is you can’t forget the bev. Neva, neva, neva.

Just because you’re brainy enough to get on Jeopardy! doesn’t mean you know everything. It’s not uncommon to watch contestants who know obscure world capitols and physics terms eat pavement when it comes to pop culture trivia everyone but them knows. Friday brought another example, in which three smarties proved they may know a lot but they don’t know The Golden Girls.

The category was “Everything’s Coming Up Rose,” and the $400 answer was an easy one: “In 1986 she won an Emmy Award for playing Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls.” The question, as most people know, is “Who is Betty White?”

Alas, that’s not the question any of the three contestants went with. One went with Rue McClanahan. Another guessed Bea Arthur. The third said nothing, not even Estelle Getty. Host Mayim Bialik very politely informed them it was the beloved Betty White.

The blunder gave many social media chuckleheads the opportunity to gloat about their superior intelligence, at least when it comes to beloved television that used to air on Saturday nights, right before Amen.

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It’s been a year-and-a-half since we lost Betty White, who was mere weeks shy of her 100th birthday. Perhaps the Jeopardy! contestants who couldn’t even guess her name should take a break from book-learnin’ and watch some Golden Girls, and maybe even some of her classic old school game show appearances.

(Via The Daily Beast)

Chris Brown turned 34 on Friday, May 5, and it appears controversy is following him into yet another year of his life. Reports and rumors are surfacing online that Brown got into a physical altercation with Usher at his birthday party.

Hollywood Unlocked posted this morning, May 6, that Brown’s party at Skate Rock City in Las Vegas “went downhill” when Brown acted “disrespectful” toward actor, creative director, and singer Teyana Taylor.

Hollywood Unlocked continued:

“The source explained that Chris Brown was noticeably ‘intoxicated’ when he initially approached her. A few guests and even Usher tried to intervene and calm everyone down. However, at some point during all the commotion, Chris Brown allegedly called Usher a ‘coward’ and left the venue.

The drama spilled over outside and onto Chris Brown’s bus as Usher followed behind to talk to the ‘Run It’ artist. Shockingly, that’s when things went completely left, with Chris Brown and his crew allegedly jumping the legendary R&B singer. The insider went on to say that the alleged beatdown was so bad that it left Usher with a ‘bloodied nose.’ Now, neither of the guys nor Taylor have spoken out to deny or clarify this report.”

The rumor was mostly met with skepticism online, but TMZ added more legitimacy to it this afternoon by sharing footage of Brown appearing to yell toward Taylor and Usher stepping in. The outlet said that the exchange “apparently led to some sort of scuffle that got violent outside.”

Per TMZ, Brown “was attempting to talk to” Taylor, but she was “ignoring him,” which an anonymous source relayed “pissed Chris off, and he started to yell at her, and that’s when Usher intervened and tried to calm him down.”

The TMZ report continued to echo was Hollywood Unlocked initially claimed:

“We’re told Chris wasn’t having it, cursing at Usher and Teyana — but then, mostly focusing his anger directly at Usher. Eventually, our sources say Chris told his crew they were leaving and they exited the facility. We’re told Usher took off his skates and went after them.

Our eyewitness — who says they were present for this — tells us they saw Usher go behind a string of charter buses that were parked in the lot … where Chris and his crew were at. We’re told a short time later, Usher emerged with what appeared to be a bloody nose.”

People online are unsurprisingly confused and trying to decide what to believe. Check out some of the reactions below.

Jack Harlow is Louisville through and through. Around the April 28 release of Jackman, his third LP, Harlow set his “They Don’t Love It” video in his hometown and launched the Kentucky-centric Jack Harlow Foundation.

Harlow was a fixture at last year’s Kentucky Derby. Just like this year, he was fresh off an album release, Come Home The Kids Miss You, and he filmed the video to his and Drake’s “Churchill Downs” during a glamorous day at Churchill Downs. People are still talking about Harlow getting carried across the track:

Today, May 6, Harlow is back to enjoy the 149th Kentucky Derby. He reportedly walked the red carpet and declined to do any press.

However, Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear used the Derby red carpet to gush over Harlow and why the two have become unlikely friends, according to Matthew Glowicki of the Courier-Journal:

“Jack and I have become friends. What I love about him is he could live anywhere in the country right now — he’s on the top of the world — and he chose to move back. He chose Kentucky. He chose Louisville,” Beshear said. “He’s here, and it’s thrilling. I, of course, thought our friendship was a closely held secret, and then I woke up one morning and a song apparently put it out there.”

The presumption is that Harlow references Governor Beshear on his Jackman track “It Can’t Be” when he raps about “havin’ dinner in Frankfort with Andy.” (Frankfort is Kentucky’s capital city.)

Harlow got into the Derby spirit at the Barnstable Brown Gala on Friday, May 5. According to People, Harlow “arrived to plenty of screams from his hometown fans, as he posed for selfies and even signed a few items while surrounded by police officers.”

See pics from the Barnstable Brown Gala below.

Jack Harlow is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.