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Tennessee picked up its biggest win in a very long time on Saturday evening, as the Vols managed to out-gun Alabama in a 52-49 shootout in Knoxville, winning on a last second field goal that just crept over the crossbar.

It’s the first time Tennessee has beaten Alabama since Nick Saban took over in Tuscaloosa, and it moved them from being one of college football’s nice stories to a legitimate contender in the minds of most. As one would expect after such a win, the 100,000 fans in Neyland Stadium poured onto the field and, for some reason, Tennessee doesn’t have the goal posts with a hinge that can be taken down so we got an old school goal post teardown scene, with fans eventually hauling the uprights out of the stadium like ants carrying leaves, and deposited them in the Tennessee River, as is tradition.

On Sunday, the SEC fined Tennessee $100,000 for the fans storming the field, which they won’t really care about, and school president Randy Boyd joked on Saturday night he didn’t care how much the goal posts were gonna cost to replace. However, the Vols posted on Sunday with a cheeky fundraiser trying to raise $150,000 to “replace the goal posts,” which got a mixed reaction on Twitter.

As of writing they’d raised $32,000, so it clearly worked with some folks, but there were plenty who replied and quote tweeted with links to the Vols $1.34 billion endowment or the $55 million payment they received last year simply for being in the SEC. Fundraising off a big win is standard operating procedure in college football, but this felt to some like an odd way to go about it for a program certainly not hurting for funding.

Rihanna‘s Emmy-winning Savage X Fenty fashion show returns for its fourth iteration next month. Rihanna announced the show this past weekend via social media with a video clip of her modeling some of the newest Savage X Fenty collections.

The musical performers and models have not yet been announced, however, a press release promises “a new all-star lineup of models, actors, some of the biggest names in music, and more, debuting the latest Savage X Fenty styles.” At the helm of the show is Rihanna herself, who serves as its creative director and executive producer.

Parris Goebel, who won an Emmy award for Vol. 3‘s choreography, will return as the choreographer for Vol. 4.

In tandem with the show’s stream on Prime Video, the new Savage X Fenty collection will be available to shop online at the official Savage X Fenty website, as well as the Amazon Fashion store.

The announcement of Savage X Fenty, Vol. 4 arrives just weeks after Rihanna was announced as the 2023 Super Bowl halftime performer. With such an incredible career milestone ahead of her, it may not be too long until we get new music from the Bajan pop icon.

Check out the teaser clip for Savage X Fenty, Vol. 4 above.

Savage X Fenty, Vol. 4 streams 11/9 on Prime Video.

NASCAR headed to Las Vegas on Sunday for the South Point 400, the first race in the third stage of the playoffs. However, it were a couple of drivers not in the playoffs currently that became the story of the race on Lap 94 when Bubba Wallace, who won Stage 1, got pushed up into the wall by Kyle Larson and then retaliated by driving down and spinning out Larson, who clipped Christopher Bell, who is in the playoffs after winning last week to advance, as Larson and Wallace went spinning up into the wall.

Wallace wasn’t done expressing his frustration with Larson as he charged over to the driver of the No. 5 after they both climbed out of their cars and tried to fight Larson, who was not trying to rumble as he just kept trying to get away as Wallace shoved him multiple times.

One would think a fine or something is coming Wallace’s way for the reaction — both on track with spinning Larson and after with the shoves — but it’s clear he felt Larson crossed a line with racing him up the track and into the wall coming out of the corner and he wasn’t letting him get away unscathed, diving down to clip the 5 and then letting him know all about it after.

Bubba explained exactly what he thought of Larson’s move after he left the infield care center.

Megan Thee Stallion‘s reign as the Hot Girl Coach just won’t let up anytime soon. During her appearance on last night’s Saturday Night Live, the “Anxiety” rapper was at the helm as a nurse at a “Hot Girl Hospital” in a hilarious medical drama spoof.

A voiceover indicated that the spoof show came “from Shonda Rhimes and the top commenters on The Shade Room’s Instagram.” By her side were Ego Nwodim and Punkie Johnson as fellow nurses assisting with treatments like BBLs and Fashion Nova fashion makeovers, as well as conducting emergency twerk exams.

During the sketch, Megan, Nwodim, and Johnson help a “mid as hell” patient played by Heidi Gardner become a full-fledged Hot Girl.

This sketch aligns perfectly with Megan’s health administration ambitions. Earlier in the night, during her monologue, she noted that she graduated from Texas Southern University.

“I got my degree in health administration because I have always wanted to help the people in my community,” she said. “I believe that it is important to have a sharp mind and a sharp body-ody-ody-ody-ody,” in reference to her 2020 hit, “Body.”

Check out the “Hot Girl Hospital” sketch above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

“Where my Jews at?”

That’s what Donald Trump wants to know. As Mediaite reports, the chronic complainer took time out of his busy Sunday morning to grumble about the lack of support he gets from America’s Jewish community, despite doing (what he believes is) so much for them. The former president took to his own (failing) TRUTH Social platform to carp — and to issue a seemingly stark warning:

No President has done more for Israel than I have. Somewhat surprisingly, however, our wonderful Evangelicals are far more appreciative of this than the people of the Jewish faith, especially those living in the U.S. Those living in Israel, though, are a different story – Highest approval rating in the World, could easily be P.M.! U.S. Jews have to get their act together and appreciate what they have in Israel – Before it is too late!

It’s hardly the first time Trump has complained about not being more widely embraced by America’s Jewish voters — though he’s done a fairly good job of further alienating them with by perpetrating stereotypes and making regular assertions that being Jewish and voting Democrat means you are “being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel,” as he said during a White House event in 2019.

In 2021, Mediaite notes, Trump was a guest on Jonathan Freedland’s Unholy podcast, where he further claimed:

There’s people in this country that are Jewish no longer love Israel. I’ll tell you the evangelical Christians love Israel more than the Jews in this country. It used to be that Israel had absolute power over Congress, and today I think it’s the exact opposite. And I think Obama and Biden did that. And yet in the election, they still get a lot of votes from Jewish people, which tells you that the Jewish people, and I’ve said this for a long time, the Jewish people in the United States, either don’t like Israel or don’t care about Israel. I mean you look at the New York Times, the New York Times hates Israel. Hates them. And they’re Jewish people that run the New York Times, I mean the Sulzberger family.

“In those examples,” writes Mediaite’s Ken Meyer, “Trump broached two anti-Semitic stereotypes: one arguing that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to their own countries, the other, that Jews control the media.”

Meyer wasn’t the only person to point out Trump’s antisemitic embrace of the dual loyalty trope:

(Via Mediaite)

On her second weekend of headlining Austin City Limits, SZA teased new music. Since the premiere of the “Good Days” video last year, fans have been anticipating a new track titled “Shirt.” A snippet of “Shirt” played toward the end of the “Good Days” video.

During her ACL performance, she addressed rumors that “Shirt” was supposed to be released that Friday (October 14).

“That was true,” she said. “But, it didn’t come out because I looked at the video, and I was stressed at one small thing in the video. But I fixed that, and it’s turned in and about to come out. That’s the truth.”

Afterward, she expressed desire to perform new music from her upcoming second studio album.

“If I wouldn’t be in so much trouble, I wanna sing all new songs,” she said. “’cause y’all deserve it.”

In a recent interview with Complex, SZA detailed her upcoming album, saying, that it is “all over the place.”

“I don’t even know what this album is about and what it sounds like,” she said. “Which is why I had to go to the mode of what feels good to my brain and to my energy and the songs that I think are hot, I just have to go with them. I have no idea what it sounds like to anybody else. I really don’t know. It’s so bizarre. It’s weird that I can’t put my finger on it. It’s a little bit of everything. It’s a little aggressive. Some parts are incredibly soft. Some of them are ballads.”

Bill Maher would desperately like someone to “explain Herschel Walker” to him. On Friday night, the Real Time with Bill Maher host took not just the controversial football player-turned-senatorial candidate to task, but the Republican party that allowed his candidacy to happen, too. Maher pointed out how there have been lots of think pieces written over the last month about how backing a guy like Walker means Republicans “have lost all sense of integrity.” To which Maher’s response is: “Really? Just now?”

“Of course I could make a long string of jokes about how unfit for office Walker is,” Maher said, “and I think I will.” As he explained:

Where to begin? Well, first of all, he’s just a f**king idiot on a scale almost impossible to parody. Although we did once present his book, called Herschel Walker, Science Talker. Because he says things like, ‘If man descended from apes, why are there still apes?’

Then there’s the lying, and the crazy, and the violence. Not only did he write a book about having 12 different personalities — he wrote it with two other people.

He admits that he used to play Russian roulette. He used to threaten to blow his wife’s brains out a lot. And seems to have never met a family member he hasn’t threatened to kill. He threatened to kill his girlfriend and he stalked a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader — but that was just to get Ron DeSantis her boots.

Maher went on to suggest that one of Walker’s personalities might be Dr. Oz, given the body mist he tried to sell that he claimed would cure COVID. He also described the Donald Trump-backed candidate as “very pro-family — just not his,” given Walker’s own son’s recent comment about his dad having four kids with four different women and not being “in the house raising one of them.”

The big question for Maher, though, is why Republicans are continuing to push Walker on voters. “The easy answer is they’re deplorables, ignorant and bad, and yes there is some of that,” he said, though he refuses to “write off half the country” that easily. The way Maher sees it is that, “Part of the appeal of a Herschel Walker or a Donald Trump — or any number of egregious a**holes Republicans have backed — is, in their mind, the worse a candidate is, the more it says to Democrats: Do you see how much we don’t like what you’re selling?”

You can watch his full deep dive above.

Jack Harlow will close out October with a bang. Later this month, the “First Class” rapper will take the Saturday Night Live stage as both the host and the musical guest.

The news was announced during a commercial break on last night’s SNL episode, which featured Megan Thee Stallion as the host and musical guest. This marks Harlow’s first time hosting the show and his second time performing. His first time performing on SNL was March 2021, with Maya Rudolph as the episode’s host.

It’s been a big year for Harlow. Back in May, he released his buzzy sophomore album, Come Home, The Kids Miss You. He spent the summer filming a remake of White Men Can’t Jump, and hosted the VMAs back in August.

While he’s been one of the most talked about artists of the year, Harlow admitted in an interview with Paper that he doesn’t feel pressure to keep the spotlight on him.

“To me, what puts me at ease is just the thought of evolution and realizing that there’s nothing I need to recreate,” Harlow said. “I think that’s where a lot of people get stuck. They have a moment and they’re like, in order to keep this same moment going, they feel like they need to replicate the moment. But I’ve evolved in many ways, from how my music sounds to how I look to how I carry myself to just who I am as a man.”

Jack Harlow will appear on Saturday Night Live on 10/29.

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

Megan Thee Stallion shined on last night’s (October 15) episode of Saturday Night Live, where she pulled in double duty as the show’s host and musical guest. During the episode, Megan, along with the SNL cast, shared a music video for “We Got Brought,” a skit hilariously detailing the social anxiety that comes with being somebody’s plus one at an outing.

In the video, Megan goes for a night out, playing the sister of SNL actress Punkie Johnson.

“I don’t love strangers, but I do love to drink,” Megan raps.

She is joined by Bowen Yang, who is the guest of his besty, Heidi Gardner. Ego Nwodim plays the girlfriend of Devon Walker. Walker, Johnson, and Gardner’s characters all know each other because they grew up together, and the three head to the bar to get shots, leaving Megan, Nwodim, and Yang at the table to hold their seats.

“It’s hell on earth, but we’re trying to push through,” raps Megan, “I ask where are y’all from.”

Nwodim jumps in, asking, “And what do you do?”

Megan later hilariously makes her escape by saying she’s going to the bathroom, but then activates an emergency exit alarm.

Check out the video above.

Megan Thee Stallion is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.

The idea that watching “The Shining” or “Psycho” or “The Invisible Man” could make you less anxious might sound backward. Anxiety is basically fear, after all—how could making yourself afraid on purpose by watching a horror movie possibly help? Scare yourself to be less scared? Doesn’t make sense.

Or does it?

One of the first things my daughter’s therapist said when she started phobia treatment was that anxiety thrives on avoidance. The more you try to avoid what scares you, the stronger the anxiety over it becomes.

That concept forms the basis of exposure therapy, which can be an effective way of overcoming clinical fears. Instead of avoiding things that make you anxious, exposure therapy involves approaching what scares you step by step, little by little and processing your fear at each step. Eventually, your tolerance builds up and those fears become greatly diminished.

Watching horror films as an anxiety management tool isn’t for everyone, but for those it helps, it can function as a form of exposure therapy. Basically, by putting yourself in a scary situation—but one that isn’t truly dangerous and that has a defined time frame—you give yourself a place to practice managing your fear.

Jocelyn McDonnell, a therapist at The Family Institute at Northwestern University, told HuffPost that horror films can be a useful tool for therapists to help clients learn to tolerate and manage the physical sensations of anxiety, such as a racing heart, sweating and heavy breathing.

“A client could see that even though their heart is racing, and their muscles are tight during the movie, they really aren’t in any danger,” McDonnell said. “This realization could help them in future situations in which physical sensations of anxiety are present, because they could remember that even though their bodies are preparing for possible danger, it is likely just a false alarm.”

Kurt Oaklee, MA, MFT, founder of Oaklee Psychotherapy in San Francisco, explained to Healthline how watching horror can help us learn to cope with stress.

“[Horror] can actually teach us how to handle real-world stress better,” Oaklee said. “During a stressful film, we are intentionally exposing ourselves to anxiety producing stimuli. We usually don’t engage in the same unhealthy coping mechanisms that we utilize in real life. We learn how to manage the stress in the moment. This practice can translate to helping us manage everyday stressors and fears.”

(On a related note, a study published in January 2021 found that horror fans exhibited greater resilience during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Perhaps the exposure to stress in scary movies helped prepare them for the horror of a once-in-a-century global viral outbreak.)

There are other theories on why watching horror can provide relief from anxiety for some people, such as the post-adrenaline letdown that leads to relaxation, the sense of control a person has over the scary movie and even the realization that whatever the person is afraid of in real life isn’t as terrifying as what’s in the film.

Some people, of course, do not find any relief from horror movies and may actually find them more anxiety-producing. While some people with anxiety find horror helpful, people with anxiety are more likely than the general population to respond negatively to horror films, so it’s wise to do what feels right for you and discuss the idea with a therapist if you’re unsure.

Therapists may not be regularly assigning horror flicks to their clients as direct treatment at this point, but there has been an increase in research and exploration of horror’s potentially therapeutic applications in the mental health world. The weekly podcast “Psychoanalysis: A Horror Therapy Podcast,” co-hosted by a licensed therapist, looks at mental health through the lens of horror. There’s even a full-length documentary on this subject, “Mental Health and Horror: A Documentary,” that’s currently in production. And there are many books and articles that delve into how horror can help people with certain mental health conditions.

Scary movies may not be for everyone, but they surprisingly might be right for people who already do daily battle with their own fears.