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The Champions League is an extremely not nice tournament, one where a single wrong decision can shape the course of the entire thing. That looked like it was going to be the case thanks to a terrible handball decision in the waning moments of Wednesday’s game between Atletico Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen. Atleti, a side that is very good at mucking up games in knockout tournaments, needed a win to keep their hopes of moving on to the knockout stage alive, but found itself tied 2-2 in the final moments of injury time.

A corner kick played into the box looked like the end of the game, as the referee blew his whistle and Leverkusen players started celebrating. And then, VAR intervened, giving a handball and a penalty to the Spanish side.

Yannick Carrasco stepped up to the spot to try and take it, with the entire Estadio Metropolitano placing their hopes on the right foot of the Belgian midfielder. You can scroll ahead to the 3:25 mark of the below video if you want to see what happened next.

So, basically, Carrasco’s effort was stopped by Lukas Hradecky, Saúl Ñíguez sprinted into the box and got a free header that bounced off the crossbar, and with the final kick of the game, Reinildo’s seemingly unimpeded path to goal somehow, someway hit the heel of Carrasco and went out of play to mark the end of the match and, eventually, Atleti’s hopes to move on in the Champions League.

Earlier this year, Kanye West went looking for a new footwear partner after becoming disatisfied with Adidas over what he called “copying his designs.” He began making overtures to such companies as San Antonio Shoemakers, which responded neutrally but didn’t outright accept or reject him.

That was last month. In the time since, Kanye finally got out of his Adidas deal, but only after going on an extensive media tour that saw him burning bridges and setting himself on fire in the process as he refused to shut up making antisemitic comments. Now, in addition to Adidas, he’s lost his talent representation, two of his sports agency’s biggest clients, and important fashion connections in Balenciaga and Vogue.

Now, he’s allegedly so desperate that TMZ reports his quest for a new footwear manufacturer has brought him to the HQ of the widely mocked (yet very successful) Skechers, where he was promptly shown the door after showing up uninvited. According to Skechers, Kanye “arrived unannounced and without invitation at one of Skechers’ corporate offices in Los Angeles. Considering Ye was engaged in unauthorized filming, two Skechers executives escorted him and his party from the building after a brief conversation.”

Meanwhile, a spokesperson said, “Skechers is not considering and has no intention of working with West. We condemn his recent divisive remarks and do not tolerate antisemitism or any other form of hate speech. Again, West showed up unannounced and uninvited to Skechers corporate offices.” The rejection shouldn’t have come as a surprise; Skechers is owed and operated by Robert Greenberg, who founded the company, and his son Michael, the company’s president. Yes, they’re Jewish.

Kanye has been making quite the schmuck of himself over the past few weeks as he continues to associate with far-right reactionaries like Candace Owens and her husband, whose divisive and controversial Parler app West is said to be interested in buying, and make comments that have neo-Nazi groups praising him. Now that even Skechers is refusing to work with him, his dreams of running his Yeezy brand himself appear to be going up in the smoke from all those bridges he’s burnt.

If it seemed that Nick Cannon was on a one-man mission to personally populate a small town before, it certainly looks like he’s well on his way now that Alyssa Scott has announced she’s pregnant with his 11th child, just two months after announcing the impending completion his first decade with model Brittany Bell. Scott was the mother of Cannon’s seventh child Zen, who died from brain cancer last year at five months old. The newly announced pregnancy marks Scott’s third.

Naturally, the news stirred the Twitter town square to rousing debate as fans inserted congratulations, jokes, and even political commentary into the discussion. “So a guy, like Nick Cannon, can have twelve or more kids with different women without being told he needs a vasectomy but a woman can’t have an abortion if she wants one,” noted one user. “tell me again how that’s fair??” Another commented, “Nick Cannon having 4 women pregnant at the same time is disgusting.”

As for Cannon himself, he joked last spring about wanting to get a vasectomy, but it’s clear he has yet to follow through. He also joked that these kids are eventually going to have to start paying for themselves. You definitely gonna see some Cannons on the screen and hear their music,” he said. “I’m going to have to recoup some of this. So they gonna be some talented babies.”

The Philadelphia Eagles are the class of the NFC so far this season. The team is the final undefeated squad in the NFL to this point, as they sit at 6-0 after beating the Dallas Cowboys 10 days ago. And with the conference as a whole looking down, it is not hard to imagine Philly making it to the Super Bowl.

Still, the front office apparently believed that there are ways that they can stand to improve as a team. As such, the team worked out a deal with the Chicago Bears to bring in star pass rusher Robert Quinn, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network and Adam Schefter of ESPN.

Schefter reported that the Eagles won’t pay too terribly much to bring him on board, as the team will send Chicago a fourth-round draft pick to bring Quinn on board.

Mike Garafolo of NFL Network added that Philadelphia won’t have to pay a ton of money, either.

Quinn joined the Bears as a free agent in the lead-up to the 2020 NFL season. After a relatively quiet first year off the edge, Quinn earned a Pro Bowl nod for his performance in 2021 as he registered 18.5 sacks, the second-best mark in the league behind only T.J. Watt. Now, he’ll take up a spot among the pass rushing group for a team that enters this week with the fourth-best defensive DVOA in the league.

After this year’s Star Wars Celebration event went by without Lucasfilm announcing a new movie, but instead, a slew of streaming shows for Disney+, fans began to wonder what exactly is happening with the franchise’s theatrical releases. Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron falling off the schedule only exacerbated those concerns as Taika Waititi‘s announced Star Wars film seemed less and less concrete.

However, the situation seemingly turned on a dime this week following a surprise report that Watchmen and Lost creator Damon Lindelof was working on a new film with Ms. Marvel director Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy. Despite outside appearances, Lucasfilm has been hard at work on getting a new Star Wars film into theaters, and it reportedly put together a “secret writers’ room” after Celebration to get the ball rolling.

Via The Hollywood Reporter:

The room held a two-week session in July and at the table were Patrick Somerville, who worked with Lindelof on Leftovers and then went on to create the buzzy Station Eleven; Rayna McClendon, a consulting producer on Lucasfilm’s own Obi-Wan Kenobi and writer on the company’s upcoming Willow series; and Andy Greenwald, the creator of the 2019 Rosario Dawson crime drama Briarpatch (on which McClendon was a story editor), among a couple of other writers.

Dave Filoni, a protégé of Star Wars creator George Lucas who is involved in many of the shows, may have also been present.

Also in the mix is Justin Britt-Gibson, a “young and rising writer” who worked on Guillermo del Toro’s The Strain and The Counterpart for Starz. Britt-Gibson is reportedly writing the script with Lindelof after the secret writers’ room concocted a story that could involve characters from the Sequel Trilogy, but it “would not be a continuation of the Skywalker Saga.” However, that would work.

(Via The Hollywood Reporter)

A photo of Kentucky coal miner Michael McGuire, 29, went viral because it was a moving example of a hardworking guy doing whatever it takes to be with his family. As The Athletic reports, on Saturday, October 22, McGuire worked a long shift that was supposed to end at 4 p.m. but he didn’t get off until 5 p.m. He had tickets to see the annual University of Kentucky Blue-White scrimmage game at Appalachian Wireless Arena with his family so he went straight from work, covered in coal dust, to the arena.

McGuire couldn’t miss his 3-year-old son’s first basketball game. Plus, the Blue-White game is a Kentucky Wildcat tradition where the team splits in half and plays each other. This year, proceeds from the game went to benefit flood victims in eastern Kentucky.

“It’s normal for us,” his wife, Mollie, told The Athletic. “It’s nothing for us to go out to eat or him to come to our son’s tee-ball games or family events covered in coal dust … So we’ve just gotten used to it, coal dust everywhere. We’re kind of proud of it. It’s just what you’ve got to do around here to make a living.”

What wasn’t normal was the public’s reaction to his sooty appearance.

When Kentucky’s coach, Basketball Hall of Fame member John Calipari, saw a photo of the miner at the game it struck a deep emotional chord. “My family’s American dream started in a Clarksburg, WV coal mine, so this picture hits home,” he tweeted, adding that he wants to locate the family to give them “VIP” treatment at Kentucky’s Rupp Arena when the regular season starts.

u201cThank you everyone for your incredible response to this. No one rallies like the #BBN!nnWe are looking forward to hosting @mcguire_mollie9, her husband Michael and their family at a game soon!!u201d

— John Calipari (@John Calipari)
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Word got to Mollie who responded to Calipari’s tweet.

This is my Husband Micheal McGuire with our son Easton! Sorry I had to create a new twitter account. Lost access to my old account since I rarely use twitter. We can be reached by Instagram, Facebook or this Twitter account!

— Mollie Gail McGuire (@mcguire_mollie9) October 24, 2022

Calipari called Molly and they talked for a half hour. “I was stunned,” Mollie told ESPN. The coach shared that his grandfather was a coal miner and how their ethics taught Calipari a valuable lesson about teamwork. “We go in together, we come out together. No one left behind, because we’re one crew,” he told Mollie. “That’s what I teach my team—that we’re one team and we can only do it together.”

The funny thing was Michael had no idea that the photo had gone viral because when it happened, he was working deep in the mine where there is no cell reception. He found out what happened when he was approached by his co-workers at the end of his shift.

“Shew, it caught me off guard big-time,” McGuire told The Athletic. “Everybody was saying, ‘There comes the celebrity! There comes the famous guy!’ I had no clue what was going on.”

Calipari told the family to pick a Kentucky home game at Rupp Arena where they will get to have dinner with him, hang out at the pregame shootaround and enjoy the action from courtside seats.

All of the attention is a great reminder for Michael of how he’s appreciated by his family and community.

“It’s not just his immediate family that appreciate him. It’s everyone,” Mollie told USA Today. “It’s all of eastern Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee. Everyone. He is appreciated. And I’m hoping that he feels that appreciation and that love once he realizes, you know, everything that’s happened.”

A woman was riding Colorado’s Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Train on Monday, October 10, when she noticed a distressed person near a riverbed waving frantically to the train.

The Durango Herald noted that it was incredible the woman was spotted because she “could only be seen from a very limited and particular angle.”

The Office of Emergency Management, San Juan County Colorado said in a Facebook post that after the passenger noticed the woman she notified train staff who initiated an emergency response. The staff notified Delton Henry who was following behind the train in the inspection motor car.

Henry pulled up to where the woman was last seen, called to her across the riverbed and learned she had a broken leg and couldn’t move. A superintendent for the train called 911 to get help from the San Juan County Search and Rescue.

“The 911 operator very quickly asked me if we had the name of the individual,” D&SNG Superintendent Darren Whitten told The Durango Herald. “She explained to me that there had been a hiker that was overdue and had been missing since Saturday, and that her parents had been frantically looking for her.”

The twenty-something woman was from Aztec, New Mexico, and had been missing for two days. She fell off a 90-foot cliff while taking pictures, broke her leg and got a concussion. She had no idea how long she was unconscious after hitting her head. To stay warm at night she tucked herself into a cliff face.

The fact that she survived the ordeal is nothing short of a miracle. Temperatures in the area can get down to 20 degrees and she was wearing only a tank top. Further, the area is known for having wolves and mountain lions.

“It’s an amazing feat that she survived two nights in the cold snap we are having,” said emergency management spokeswoman DeAnne Gallegos. “Our team thought that was pretty miraculous. And that she was aware the train was still running, and managed with a broken leg to crawl to the bank of the river to try and signal them.”

According to NPR, Nick and Kylah Breedon, a married couple, were on the next D&SNG train coming through the area and it stopped where the injured woman was located and they hopped off with emergency supplies. A CareFlight helicopter was called to the scene to airlift the injured woman but it couldn’t reach the area. So rescuers created a rope system to carry her across the river on a backboard. They were then able to get her to the helicopter that transported her to Montrose Hospital. Her condition has not been made public.

The Office of Emergency Management thanked the railroad staff for its help on Facebook.

“Silverton and San Juan County would like to thank the Durango Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad for their support and partnership in this successful search and rescue mission. Another person in a moment of need was successfully brought home due to teamwork and collaboration.”

It also thanked the Breedons for their heroism.

“We would like to thank Kylah with the @dsngrr for her bravery on our Monday Search & Rescue call. Her husband Nick was also there and supporting the injured missing hiker as well. Not all hero’s wear capes but these two are now honorary @silverton_medical_rescue team members.”

The rescue is a wonderful effort that involved a lot of people coming together to help one injured hiker. But it all started with one person who was paying attention, saw something and said something.

Conflict is something that most people don’t like. It can easily escalate into an argument, tempers can get flared and feelings hurt. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Dan Shapiro, a Harvard negotiator, demonstrates how to argue effectively in a new insightful four-minute video.

The video covers three keys to an effective argument that can leave the other party feeling heard, validated and understood. This may all sound like some sort of magic trick, but the man has got some solid points, especially as it seems like people’s ears stop working when someone disagrees with them.

Immediately in the video, Shapiro states that he personally doesn’t feel comfortable around conflict, which is kind of surprising since his job is negotiation. I’m not sure if everyone has seen how negotiations work but sometimes the exchange can get pretty heated. Don’t worry, he goes on to explain how conflict can actually be pretty helpful. The professor talks about how America has fallen into a “tribal trap” where you disbelieve and discredit everything someone with opposing views says.

Shapiro discusses people’s need to be right at all costs and to shut the other person’s view down—which isn’t a helpful strategy. He starts naming the secrets to effective negotiations or in this case, arguments. Identity, appreciation and affiliation are the three big things he breaks down to build a solid ground for respectful and understanding disagreements.

The professor addresses the emotion behind identity and how it relates to core values, which immediately helps set the tone for understanding how disagreements escalate. Watch Shapiro break it all down below and be sure to take notes if you also have trouble with conflict.

Natalia Lafourcade is continuing to tease her upcoming album. Yesterday (October 25), the Mexican singer-songwriter released her new single “Mi Manera De Querer,” in which celebrates universal love.

Lafourcade will release her new album De Todas Las Flores on October 28. The LP marks her first new album of original material in seven years. In the past few years, she released tribute projects to her Latina and Mexican heritage like Musas and Un Canto Por Mexico.

Lafourcade first teased De Todas Las Flores in June with the flamenco-infused “Tierra Querida.” The title track soon followed where she embraced elements of blues music. She is continuing to push Latin music to alternative places with the follow-up “Mi Manera De Querer.”

In the moving “Mi Manera De Querer,” Lafourcade blends jazz influences with Latin tropical music. Through her poetic lyrics, she sings about a romance that doesn’t have a face yet can be strongly felt. As a longtime advocate for the LGBTQ+ community, Lafourcade’s words can also be seen as her way of supporting universal love. “I don’t care if you’re a man or if you’re a woman / I see you as a being of light from head to toe,” she sings in Spanish.

“It is a song that talks about love without gender,” Lafourcade said in a statement. “A love which knows that the other person you look at is a being of light just like yourself. I feel that it keeps the spirit of joy that is perceived at the end of the journey, where there is a very strong connection with the acceptance of what one is and what one can deliver.”

Lafourcade will perform at Carnegie Hall in New York City tomorrow night. She is nominated for two Latin Grammy Awards this year, including Best Folk Album and Best Long Form Music Video. Lafourcade recently featured on Puerto Rican singer iLe‘s Nacarile album.

De Todas Las Flores is out 10/28 via Sony Music Mexico. Pre-order it here.

Doja Cat sent the internet into a frenzy earlier this week after her 27th birthday when she asked her followers on Twitter to send her a revealing photo she took during her masquerade-themed party in Los Angeles. In the photo in question, Doja poses with some of her famous friends but while many of the attendees, which included Hailey Bieber, Winnie Harlow, Dreezy, and more, wore some pretty risque ensembles, Doja herself trumps them all by going completely topless.

Among the awed responses were a number of tweets with comments such as “You’re 2 years late but we finally got here.” These, of course, were not-so-subtle references a May 2020 tweet from Doja in which she told followers, “I’ll show you guys my boobs really hard.” There was, however, a catch: Her surprise hit song, “Say So,” needed to go No. 1 on the Hot 100.

It eventually did, but in the aftermath, Doja laughed off her NSFW promise on Instagram Live, saying, “I’m nasty with it. I’m extra nasty with it, with a side of scam scam. I’m on my pirate sh*t right now, man. I’m f*cking ruthless. If I say I’m gonna show boobs, just know, I’m not gonna show boobs. And I’m okay with you guys thinking from now on, when I try to use that trick — which I won’t — if I do, just know motherf*cker, I am not being serious. It’s a lie. You know, what you gonna do?”

To be fair, only the most credulous rubes on the planet could possibly have thought she’d actually follow through, but unfortunately, the world is full of those. Just a couple of weeks later, Doja got thrashed on Twitter when she was accused of participating in racist chat rooms on TinyChat and a very old, experimental song of hers processing her own identity confusion resurfaced. Since then, though, she’s become an even bigger star, as the majority of fans shrugged off the accusations as a case of obvious sour grapes. At least those disappointed suckers got a consolation prize this week — even if it did take a few years to get it.