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The nation’s shortest basketball team has knocked off the champions of the Big Ten. Fairleigh Dickinson, a member of the Northeast Conference that only made the NCAA Tournament because its conference champion was not eligible to head to the Big Dance, stunned the Purdue Boilermakers on Friday night in Columbus, 63-58.

While the Boilers entered the game with the presumed National Player of the Year in Zach Edey, the Knights entered the game with a sublime defensive gameplan that turned Purdue over, limited Edey’s ability to beat them, and challenged everyone else to come up big. Edey — who went the game’s final 9:25 without attempting a shot from the field — had 21 points and 15 rebounds on 7-for-11 shooting, but as a team, the Boilermakers went 19-for-53 from the field and only hit five threes.

All game long, they were sped up by FDU, which made them pay time and time again.

And by the time the final horn sounded, FDU put their collective names in the history books and made their head coach, Tobin Anderson, look awfully smart when he said after their First Four win that he thought they could pull the upset.

The Knights went 20-15 on the year and fell to Merrimack in the NEC championship game, but because the Warriors were not eligible to make the NCAA Tournament this year, Fairleigh Dickinson earned the conference’s automatic bid. FDU joins UMBC as the only schools to win a game in the NCAA Tournament as a 16-seed. Back in 2018, UMBC throttled Virginia, the No. 1 overall seed, 74-54. They would end up losing in the round of 32 to Kansas State. As for Purdue, this marks the third year in a row that they have fallen to a double-digit seed at the tournament. The 4-seed Boilermakers lost to 13-seed North Texas in 2021, and in 2022, they lost in the Sweet 16 as a 3-seed to a 15-seed, Saint Peter’s.

With the win, the Knights will move on to Sunday’s round of 32, where they will play either Memphis or Florida Atlantic with a spot in the Sweet 16 on the line.

Prolific hip-hop producer Hit-Boy is gearing up to drop his first-ever rap album. Today (March 17), he took to social media to share the cover art for his upcoming album, Surf Or Drown, which is set to arrive next week.

He revealed the album news yesterday during an interview with Home Grown Media Group.

“I’m literally dropping a whole album next week with me rapping,” he said. “I got features on it. It’s produced by me and a couple of the homies did some little pieces, but it’s a real good body of just what I’m on right now … It’s gonna be like 11 joints.”

The tracklist, which was revealed by Apple Music, boasts collaborations with Nas, Dom Kennedy, The Alchemist, Curren$y and more. Additionally, instrumental versions of the songs will also be included on the album.

You can see the cover art and tracklist below.

1. “Big Hit (Intro) [Live]”
2. “The Tide” Feat. Nas
3. “State Champ” Feat. Dom Kennedy and Jay 305
4. “CORSA” feat. Dom Kennedy
5. “Tony Fantana III” Feat. Curren$y
6. “Just Ask” Feat. Spank Nitti
7. “NU.WAV” Feat. Devin Morrison
8. “Slipping Into Darkness” Feat. The Alchemist
9. “2 Certified” Feat. Avelino
10. “MTR” feat. James Fauntleroy & C3
11. “Composure, Pt. 2”
12. “The Tide (Instrumental)”
13. “State Champ (Instrumental)”
14. “CORSA (Instrumental)”
15. “Tony Fontana III (Instrumental)”
16. “Just Ask (Instrumental)”
17. “NU.WAV (Instrumental)”
18. “Slipping Into Darkness (Instrumental)
19. “2 Certified (Instrumental)”
20. “MTR (Instrumental)”
21. “Composure, Pt. 2 (Instrumental)”

Surf Or Drown is out 3/24 via Surf Club.

The Minnesota Timberwolves’ push to avoid the Western Conference play-in tournament may have taken a major hit on Friday night. During the team’s game against the Chicago Bulls, All-Star guard Anthony Edwards rolled his ankle and was in considerable pain. Edwards needed to be helped into the locker room and was unable to put any weight on his leg.

Edwards had the ball at the top of the key late in the first quarter when he got picked up by Bulls guard Alex Caruso. He saw Mike Conley out on the wing, so he jumped in the air in an effort to throw him the ball. While it got there, Edwards landed and rolled his right ankle. He immediately screamed out in pain and began holding his leg, and after getting tended to by the team’s training staff was brought into the locker room.

It is a brutal turn of events for Minnesota, which sits at 35-35 at this point in the season and are in the 7th seed in the Western Conference. The team is one game out of the 6-seed in the West, but also only have a 1.5-game cushion on missing the postseason altogether. We’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available about Edwards’ status going forward.

After Courtney Love wrote an op-ed for The Guardian criticizing the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame for a lack of female representation, Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders took to Facebook to share her thoughts.

Hynde had a similar stance, noting that she doesn’t want anything to do with the program or its induction.

If anyone wants my position in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame they are welcome to it. I don’t even wanna be associated with it. It’s just more establishment backslapping. I got in a band so I didn’t have to be part of all that.
I was living a happy life in Rio when I got the call I was being inducted. My heart sank because I knew I’d have to go back for it as it would be too much of a kick in the teeth to my parents if I didn’t. I’d upset them enough by then, so it was one of those things that would bail me out from years of disappointing them. ( like moving out of the USA and being arrested at PETA protests and my general personality ).
Other than Neil Young’s participation in the induction process, the whole thing was, and is, total bollocks.
It’s absolutely nothing to do with rock ‘n’ roll and anyone who thinks it is is a fool.

Read Chrissie Hynde’s full statement about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame above.

After Shawn Mendes and Sabrina Carpenter were spotted on several occasions, causing dating rumors to swirl, it seems the Canadian pop musician has finally set the record straight. In a new interview with RTL Boulevard, Mendes rejected the question about Carpenter.

“We are not dating but I think we should talk about Tommy Hilfiger probably more than Sabrina,” Mendes replied, referencing his collab with the fashion brand.

The two had first been linked in mid-February through none other than a blind item that was posted on DeuxMoi. Things have also recently heated up rumor-wise after Mendes and Carpenter were filmed leaving the release party for Miley Cyrus’ Endless Summer Vacation together.

Then, a few days later on March 12, they were once again spotted chatting at the Vanity Fair post-Oscars party. An anonymous source previously confirmed their relationship to Entertainment Tonight.

“Shawn and Sabrina are seeing each other. They have been hanging out a lot and trying to keep things low-key. They were at a birthday party together a couple weeks ago and were cute together. Shawn is happy,” they said.

Meanwhile, Carpenter, in the teaser for her new collaboration with Charlie Puth, winds up making out with him. He posted the preview to TikTok, causing fans to continue to freak out. She also dropped the deluxe version of her Emails I Can’t Send album today (March 17).

Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Nearly a year after its release, Muna performed a special rendition of “Kind Of Girl” from their self-titled third album. During Lorde‘s Australian leg of her Solar Power tour, Muna has supported the New Zealand singer/songwriter as her opening act. On their final show as Lorde’s supporting act in Adelaide, Lorde brought them out, as she temporarily joined the band, singing a cover of “Kind Of Girl.”

She preceded the performance by telling the audience “It’s sort of a special night tonight. We are saying goodbye to our lovely Muna, who have been supporting us in Australia. So I thought I would bring them out to sing one of my favorite songs of theirs.”

She continued, revealing that she gets “choked up” at the song.

After the show in Adelaide, Muna took to social media to express their gratitude to Lorde and the fans.

“so thankful to @lorde and her wonderful band and team for bringing us on this aussie leg of tour,” said the trio in a tweet. “has been a pleasure to watch them perform and a total honor to sing kind of girl with her during her set last night. very grateful for this life as always.”

You can check out a clip of the performance above.

Lil Nas X once again offered some choice words to a social media hater. On Wednesday (March 15), someone posted a comparison attempt between a still from Nas’ “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)” music video and Andrew Tate, who was arrested in Romania for alleged human trafficking.

“On the left, we have ‘Lil Nas X’ twerking on Satan. On the right, we have Andrew Tate, who teaches young people to think critically, to take care of their physical health and build financial security,” the poster’s caption read. “Guess which one is deemed controversial and which is hailed as a role model.”

Nas, after catching wind of the post, both offered a drag and some serious advice to anyone reading.

“1. that is a cgi animated being not satan from the bible book,” he said.

“2. there’s no such thing as a good role model,” Nas added. “y’all need to find yourselves and stop looking for people to look up to.”

Others in the replies backed Nas up, making it clear to emphasize that Tate’s arrest should have also been at the top of the list — if anyone is comparing role models.

This is also not the first time the two have beefed either, as last October, Tate dubbed Nas as one of the “insanities of the world” during an interview.

“andrew tate please stop mentioning me! i am never gonna let u smash loser!” Nas responded, getting the last laugh in.

Hit songwriter Tayla Parx is back with another hit of her own. On her new track, “Dream Hotel,” she recalls a harrowing heartbreak.

Over a simple drum beat and guitar riffs, she sends listeners on a whirlwind of emotions.

“My baby broke my heart at the dream hotel / Even as I fall apart I wish her well / And I think that I’m okay / But only time will tell / My heart’s still at the dream hotel,” she sings on the song’s chorus.

Upon the song’s release, Parx revealed that the song was inspired by true events.

“I wrote this song on a couch in Nashville, clumsily finding the right chords and words that matched the way I was feeling at the time,” said Parx in a statement. “The Dream Hotel is a real hotel in New York City and I’ve had so many crazy memories there, one of them being where me and my ex broke up. This song reflects on those moments in that room on that night and the growth I experienced in the many difficult months after. Sonically, it’s one of my favorite songs I’ve released yet.”

“Dream Hotel” is expected to appear on Parx’s upcoming album, Many Moons And Many Suns, that is planned for release later this year.

In the meantime, you can listen to “Dream Hotel” above.

Tayla Parx is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

Becca Moore is a popular TikToker with over 800,000 followers who’s known for her funny, laid-back takes on dating. Like any influencer-type she was at the Coachella music and arts festival in Indio, California recently. While she was at Coachella, she was robbed of her phone, rental car keys and wallet.

“I went to Coachella this weekend and I thought this guy was kinda hitting on me but then he just robbed me,” Becca says at the beginning of her three-minute TikTok video with over 3 million views. After the festival, she was left with no ride, money, or means to get in contact with friends and family. She was stranded in the desert.

Becca’s friend’s hotel called her an Uber so she could get to a local store to buy a new phone. The driver she was incredibly lucky to be connected with was a lot more than a guy with a car in a time of need, he was a guardian angel named Raul Torres from Fresno, California, six hours north of Indio.

“A normal Uber driver takes you to a place and then drops you off. He insisted on coming in with me and making sure that I was going to have a ride after that,” Becca said.

The store wasn’t able to get her a new phone because she didn’t have access to her current plan. But Raul wouldn’t give up, so he took her to the local police station where they were able to locate the Airbnb where the thief was staying. The police let them into the room and they searched it but couldn’t find the phone.

@becccamooore

the uber driver that saved me from going missing is @buds4u559!! 😭 after spending the day w him he told me his daughter is a senior in high school & is having a hard time going through chemo. i made a gofundme, he could’ve left me and didn’t have to help me the way he did! I’d love to help his fam give his daughter a normal end to her senior year of high school this year (prom!!) i’m putting it in my bio!!

After the big let-down, Becca and Raul decided to take a break from their quest and refresh their spirits with some margaritas, on Raul. “Just because he’s an angel on this Earth,” Becca said in her TikTok video.

While the two bonded over drinks, Raul told Becca his daughter had been battling cancer and that’s why he’s been working as an Uber driver. “He told me all he wants is for his daughter to have a normal end to her senior year, and to be able to go to big events like prom and graduation,” Becca said.

Raul also revealed that his father had cancer as well.

His revelations put Becca’s troubles in perspective and made his decision to drop his driving for the day to help Becca all the more incredible.

@becccamooore

thank god he refused to leave me 😭 raul’s tiktok is @buds4u559. also you can donate to the fam in my bio!! thank you all for your donations and generosity. you today, me tomorrow!! #TipsForRaul

After the final slurps of their margaritas, Becca still wasn’t sure how she’d get home. But Raul wouldn’t give up. “We’re getting your phone,” he exclaimed. He drove her back to the thief’s Airbnb where she found the phone sitting on top of the outside gate. Becca believes the robber abandoned the phone after realizing the police were involved. Then, Raul helped Becca get a rental car so she could get home. Before saying their goodbyes, the two had spent eight hours together.

“Raul ended his Uber shift that morning to spend his day helping me, expecting nothing in return,” she said in her TikTok video. So she used her considerable audience to ask followers to help contribute to a GoFundMe page for Raul and his family. Over the first 4 days, the campaign has raised over $144,000.

“When I was in the car with him it seemed like we were both so focused on my situation. We were only talking about me getting a phone and like things that did not matter. And he completely glazed over the fact that his daughter and his dad were the ones that needed help,” she admitted.

On Friday, April 29, Raul’s dad passed away from cancer.

The story of Becca and Raul is a great reminder that no matter how big our troubles seem, it’s always important to put them in perspective.

This story originally appeared on 05.03.22

It’s pretty safe to say that everyone loves a good love story.

There’s a whole genre of music and movies dedicated to the idea of someone being swept off of their feet after circumstances tried to keep them from their true love. Romance novels could single handedly keep public libraries and bookstores afloat. Everyone loves “love” and the story of Betsy and Irv just takes the cake. Betsy Sailor attended Penn State University as a business major, which was almost unheard of in 1978 and Irv Pankey attended the university while playing football. The pair’s paths never crossed, until an unfortunate incident bonded the two forever.

That year, Betsy was at home singing and dancing with her refrigerator door as one does when looking for food, when she was sexually assaulted at knife point by none other than star Penn State football player, Todd Hodne. When Irv heard the evidence against Hodne during the trial, he knew he had to do something about it. In fact, he was the only one on the team who did.

After the assault Betsy moved back on campus, and that’s when she met Irv, a burly football player who understood what it was like to be outcast. He knocked on her door, introduced himself and offered to essentially be her protection as she traversed through campus. The pair were glued at the hip until graduation. Irv went on to play for the LA Rams and Betsy went on to work in human resources. They hadn’t spoken since, until 44 years later when ESPN decided to cover their unique bond that helped Betsy get through college.

Hear directly from Betsy Sailor and Irv Pankey as they discuss their relationship in my recent interview with them (created by director @nicole_noren ): 12/12pic.twitter.com/GmWVIYp38O

— Paula Lavigne (@Paula Lavigne)
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And that’s when this already compelling tale became a love story.

Irv and Betsy stayed in touch after the documentary was filmed, and when ESPN did an update, Betsy became emotional while talking about Irv. The two smiled and said they spend as much time together as possible. Irv said “We’re riding off into the sunset. Calling it a day. Peace out! I hope we can enjoy each other’s company for the rest of our lives and just move on,” He continued “We’re 65 years old. We ain’t got time to be messing around.”

If that isn’t a love story to write home about, then I don’t know what is. Best wishes Betsy and Irv. You both deserve a lifetime of happiness.

This article originally appeared on 04.29.22