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The Las Vegas Aces are one loss away from their hopes of winning a third straight WNBA championship coming to an end. The Aces lost to the New York Liberty in Brooklyn on Tuesday night in their best-of-5 semifinal series, which put the Liberty ahead, 2-0, as things shift back to Vegas.

While the Aces have an uphill climb ahead of them, this is a team with championship experience, a deep roster, a great coach, and the best player in the world. And yet, in the aftermath of Game 2, Becky Hammon spoke candidly with the media about how difficult it is to win three titles in a row, and how distractions have followed the team throughout the year.

“Well, quite frankly, we haven’t had the edge all year,” Hammon said. “Now, we found it the last month, I feel like we’ve gained a lot of ground, but the feel was different from the jump. And this is why three-peating is hard. Let’s be real. The whole league has been pissed off for the last eight months, and my players are in commercials and this and that, and being freakin’ celebrities. And you get distracted. That’s why it’s hard. Because human nature is distracting.”

Hammon drew a parallel between the Liberty and her old team, the San Antonio Spurs, namely their series against the Miami Heat in 2013 which they lost in large part due to Ray Allen’s legendary shot at the end of Game 6.

“They lost it that year, the next year, they came back with so much drive, so much discipline, so much focus, that there was no way someone was beating them in 2014,” Hammon said. “That ball was popping. But they took a huge loss. Liberty took a huge loss last year, and I liken it to that a little bit where they had it, they felt like they had it, and we walked away with it. I did think we were the better team, but we were dealt a really freakin tough hand last year in the Finals, losing Chelsea and Kiah. So, I’m sure they feel like something was stolen, a little bit.”

The Aces will try to get the series back on track on Friday night, when they play host to the Liberty in Game 3.

Netflix is out there resurrecting interest for concluded shows right and left. Suits is the most obvious example with Dexter coming in a close second, although both have spin offs coming soon with Dexter even has both prequel and sequel series on the way. Then there’s FOX’s Prison Break, which ran for five seasons and ended seven years ago but is currently occupying three separate slots on Netflix’s current Top 10 Shows (English) roster.

With plenty of new eyeballs on the show, questions began to surface regarding a possible sixth season with the original cast, and that’s definitely not happening, especially since Wentworth Miller previously declared that he wasn’t interested in portraying Michael Scofield again,” and “I understand this is disappointing. I’m sorry.” However, better news for fans can be found in Hulu’s in-the-works reboot of Prison Break from an FX veteran showrunner. Let’s roll with what we can expect next.

Plot

Mayans M.C. co-creator Elgin James, who became the sole showrunner of the Sons Of Anarchy spin off after Kurt Sutter left the building, is executive producing a new Prison Break series, for which he’s also credited as lead writer. The show will be part of James’ overall continuing deal 20th Television deal and will stream on Hulu.

The show has been in the works since fall 2023 following James’ bloody end to his leg of the biker saga. Presumably, the show will leave the Wentworth Miller/Dominic Purcell dynamic fully behind, and the Hulu series will be what Deadline describes as both “a new chapter” and “a new incarnation” of the world in which Michael attempted to prove his brother’s innocence by landing himself in Fox River State Penitentiary as part of an intricate plan:

Described as a new chapter, the new installment is set in the world of Prison Break, sources tell Deadline. Details are being kept under wraps but it is not expected to involve the characters who were at the center of the original series and its followups on Fox, Michael Scofield (Wentworth Miller) and Lincoln Burrows’ (Dominic Purcell), we hear.

Will the show air on FOX or FX, too? Hulu hasn’t let those details slip yet, but we should be hearing more details as James brings his vision full circle.

Cast

You gotta imagine that Elgin James would bring in a few of the Mayans M.C. crew members for this series. Emilio Rivera? Clayton Cardenas? I’d be seated for either or both options.

Release Date

No pinpointed release date has been publicized by Hulu.

Trailer

Does Elgin James know how to do prison fight scenes? Hell yeah.

Hopefully, Danny Pino wasn’t too sore after this shoot, but this scene does serve as a fine sample of what Elgin brings to the table.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that Sydney Sweeney is the new face of Dr. Squatch. The Euphoria actress was enlisted as the “Body Wash Genie” for a series of commercials for the soap brand. In one spot, she says “guys only want one thing” as she appears in a poof of smoke in a man’s bathroom (that “one thing” is a natural body wash). In another, she strips a fella’s clothes off with a snap of her fingers just as his girlfriend walks in on them.

The most wink wink nudge nudge ad of the campaign, however, has Sweeney soaking in a bathtub, like Margot Robbie in The Big Short. “Hello, you dirty little boys,” she says. “Are you interested in my body… wash?”

You can watch that one above, and the rest of the spots below.

“She’s not only a rising star, but someone who resonates across broad demographics – especially with women who are often the ones purchasing grooming products for their male partners or kids,” John Ludeke, Dr. Squatch’s vice president of marketing, told Marketing Dive. “We always want to be a meaningful contributor to culture, and having her personality drive this message for us through marketing is huge.”

Maybe once she’s done filming her “female Rocky” biopic, Sweeney can reboot everyone’s favorite movie about a charismatic genie: Kazaam.

It has been a minute since rap fans last heard from Dreamville’s Atlanta standout JID. Perhaps it’s due to the pugnacious energy that’s been floating around hip-hop all year, or maybe it’s due to the advice he got from Top Dawg Entertainment President Punch, but JID’s only real musical releases in 2024 after setting the year off with “30 Freestyle” have been features for Lyrical Lemonade and BIA.

However, it looks like he’s ready for a comeback, dropping a follow-up freestyle, “31,” with a video embracing the pugilistic theme of the year by combining his performance with clips from various combat sports. Lyrically, he also gets into the competitive spirit of 2024, throwing out such lines as “Place your top five in the archive” and “I could say I’m better than- hmm, but you already know.” Given how Dreamville’s head honcho J. Cole bowed out of his proposed battle with Kendrick Lamar, it looks like JID is picking up the label’s standard and out to avenge their honor.

If he really is coming back, he’s given fans plenty to look forward to, even without an official release on the books. In addition to the album he’s supposedly cooking up with Metro Boomin, he teased a collaboration with Atlanta up-and-comer Anycia that has fans salivating over the future.

Watch JID’s “31 (Freestyle)” video above.

Back in the day, Netflix was a reliable source for picking up currently running shows (for new seasons) that were recently cancelled by networks, but over the past few years, the streaming service’s power to resurrect “concluded” series has gone unrivaled. As a result, Showtime will soon bring us two new Dexter spin offs and NBCUniversal is preparing to debut an official Suits offshoot, so there’s a valid question to ask: will White Collar be next?

The slick, stylish, Matt Bomer-led series ran on USA Network for six seasons and landed on Netflix for streaming back in April, and it was off to the irresistible races for those who hadn’t yet watched Bomer’s angelic face doing the con man thing, and people who simply wanted a second trip into his newly FBI-informing world. That’s even more the case with the show’s cast also excited about what co-creator Jeff Eastin has been working up, so let’s gather up the smoke signals on what to expect.

Plot

As viewers will recall, White Collar followed Bomer as charmingly handsome thief Neal Caffrey, who made a deal to become an FBI criminal informant for Tim DeKay’s Special Agent Peter Burke. The late Willie Garson portrayed Neal’s shady friend, Mozzie, also an informer, and the series co-starred Tiffani Thiessen as Peter’s wife, Elizabeth Burke, and Hilarie Burton as Neal’s love interest and an insurance agent. Additionally, the show introduced Sharif Atkins as Clinton Jones and Natalie Morales as Agent Lauren Cruz, among others. And back in June 2024, Variety reported that Jeff Eastin declared that “we’re gonna reboot” with Bomer exclaiming, “I’m in!”

Soon enough, multiple cast members (including Thiessen) began to rave about Eastin’s return-pilot script honoring Willie and Bomer adding that the new story feels “organic.” Eastin also recently revealed that he had been revising, and as he posted on X/Twitter, “[T]he studio is very happy with the new White Collar script.” A photograph of that script revealed that the title of the reboot would be White Collar Renaissance with the first episode titled, “Masquerade.”

What could come next? NBCUniversal giving this an official reboot proclamation. [Taps both feet and checks watch.]

If anybody up there on the studio level needs more persuading, Sharif Atkins noted that Eastin told him (via TVLine) that “Jones is still in the world.” He added, “I’ve heard that the script is top-notch. It pays homage, beautifully, to the late Willie Garson, and it just really picks back up where it left off in terms of the wit and the excitement and the relationships. I’m looking forward to it myself.”

How long would it take Bomer to slip back into those suits? Not long, although he previously did admit that this part of the job didn’t always come easy:

Cast

Matt Bomer, Tim DeKay, Tiffani Theissen, Sharif Atkins have declared themselves onboard for this effort that will honor Willie Garson in spirit. More announcements to come, no doubt.

Release Date

Suits: LA‘s impressive turnaround proves that once NBCUniversal gives the go-ahead to relaunching a USA Network series, it’s full steam ahead. If they could hurry up and announce that this reboot is official, we can expect the reboot to arrive within a year, especially since multiple script drafts have already landed with executives.

Trailer

Since there’s no earthly way that a reboot trailer exists yet, here’s a blast from the past with the first pilot trailer:

Kanye West’s Malibu “Bat Cave” continues to deliver headaches for the controversial rapper, even after he sold it this summer (at a massive loss). He was previously sued by the property manager, who alleged unsafe working conditions after Kanye demanded some unusual renovations. Now, he’s also being sued by the former security guard, who claims West never paid him, then fired him after he complained.

According to TMZ, Kanye hired Jonathan Monroe when he first purchased the property back in 2021 for a little over $57 million. Monroe says West offered him $30 an hour, at which he worked for between 36 and 50 hours a week, but that he never received payment and was fired just a month later, in October 2021. He also believes his firing was prompted when he brought up the unpaid wages. Monroe is suing for the unpaid wages, plus interest, as well as punitive damages.

Among the changes West had requested were disconnecting the home from city power and water, removing the windows, prompting the old manager to call it a “bat cave” and accuse Kanye of wanting an art project more than a home. He sold the boxy beachfront mansion, which was made mostly of concrete, in August for around $21 million — a $36 million loss — due to the damage done to the architecture. Its new owner is, Belwood Investments, whose CEO, Bo Belmont, complained about the renovations to the Los Angeles Times, calling them “dumb” and promising to restore the building to its former glory.

There is a world in which Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine doesn’t exist. Near the end of writing material for her fifth record, indie-folk songwriter Allegra Krieger barely survived a fire in her NYC fifth-floor apartment caused by a lithium battery explosion on the first floor’s e-bike shop. The remaining sessions for Infinity Machine sped by, not hurried so much as completed with a recognition of life’s exigencies.

Throughout the album’s 13 tracks, Krieger wrestles with themes of life and death; fate and absolution; infinity and transience. It’s headier than it lets on, as breezy acoustic guitars and Krieger’s buoyant timbre carry the music forward and impart a levity to otherwise heavy subject matter. This balance underlines the artistic strengths of Krieger, someone who is able to convey difficult truths through her own lived experiences.

Following the record’s release last month, Krieger sat down with Uproxx to talk about Elliott Smith, The Chicks, the lameness of AI, and more in our latest Q&A.

What are four words you would use to describe your music?

Angular, bittersweet, lyrical, cyclical.

It’s 2050 and the world hasn’t ended and people are still listening to your music. How would you like it to be remembered?

I’d just be happy to know people were still listening.

Who’s the person who has most inspired your work, and why?

Elliott Smith, he kept it very real and has a pretty singular voice.

Where did you eat the best meal of your life and what was it?

Grandma’s spaghetti & meatballs in her house. Love that

Tell us about the best concert you’ve ever attended.

Charmaine Lee playing on Oliver Street. Short and sweet, outside on a beautiful day – experimental, weird, intense and FUN! She’s pretty legendary.

What song never fails to make you emotional?

“Top Of The World” by The Chicks – so many connections there, truly heart-wrenching.

What’s the last thing you Googled?

“Is it ok to put a pole in a hotel room?”

Where’s the weirdest place you’ve ever crashed while on tour?

Above a miso factory!

What’s your favorite city in the world to perform and what’s the city you hope to perform in for the first time?

NYC or Chicago; I would love to play in Tokyo!

What’s one piece of advice you’d go back in time to give to your 18-year-old self?

Cool it you freak!

What’s one of your hidden talents?

I’m pretty good a doing a pistol squat.

If you had a million dollars to donate to charity, what cause would you support and why?

I would probably give it directly to individuals or families in need. Or community mutual aid.

What are your thoughts about AI and the future of music?

Lame!

You are throwing a music festival. Give us the dream lineup of 5 artists that will perform with you and the location it would be held.

Lucinda Williams, SZA, Björk, Laurie Anderson on large a rooftop in NYC

Who’s your favorite person to follow on social media?

veronika_iscool makes me laugh out loud — love her stuff.

What’s the story behind your first or favorite tattoo?

I don’t have any tattoos actually.

What is your pre-show ritual?

Water, stretch and a little bit of wine.

Who was your first celebrity crush?

Christian Bale in Newsies.

You have a month off and the resources to take a dream vacation. Where are you going and who is coming with you?

My boyfriend, and we are going to some quiet island in Greece to swim and lie in the sun. eat feta and olives, and drink wine and stuff.

What is your biggest fear?

I’m afraid of how randomly violent life can be. People, disasters, explosions, accidents.

Art Of The Unseen Infinity Machine is available now via Double Double Whammy. Find more information here.

For Juice Robinson, right now is all about building momentum. It’s been nearly a year since his last singles match before a back injury forced him out of the ring for six months. While the recovery was rough, he’s hopeful that’s all in the past.

“Everything’s right in the world because I’m a pro wrestler and if I’m not doing pro wrestling, it’s like I’m missing part of myself,” Robinson tells Uproxx Sports. “The six, seven months, that was pretty hard mentally. But the light at the end of the tunnel was to get back with my buddies, the Bang Bang Gang, Jay (White), Colten (Gunn), Austin (Gunn) and get back to doing wrestling.”

Robinson returned to the ring in June and has mainly featured in trios matches alongside Colten and Austin. Wednesday night, as part of AEW Dynamite’s 5th anniversary show, he’ll have his first real breakout opportunity since his return in a singles match against “Hangman” Adam Page.

“I’ve had quite a few big matches on quite a few big shows and I always get excited and it’s always a good opportunity. The fact that I’m going to get in there with Page, I feel like Adam the Arsonist is arguably one of the faces of AEW,” Robinson continues. “For me to get in there with him, it’s going to open a lot of eyes to me and what I’m about. I am the underdog, make no mistake, but it’s a familiar place to be fighting from for me, so I’m nothing but excited.”

Before joining AEW, Robinson carved out his own unique spot in New Japan Pro Wrestling against some of the best in the world. He points to the loaded roster in NJPW and opportunities to wrestle the likes of Cody Rhodes, Jon Moxley, and Kenny Omega that were instrumental in his development.

“I’m so thankful that I got to get all that experience under my belt because it’s invaluable, and I will continue to use all the things that I’ve learned as well as like FCW. But especially New Japan, gonna use those tools that I learned for the rest of my career,” Robinson says.

With a combination of his in-ring tools and the creative freedom provided by AEW, Robinson is thankful to be where he’s at at this stage in his career.

“I think with AEW there’s a lot of freedom and a lot of opportunity and I like both of those things. It’s a very healthy place to be creative and try things. It’s much easier than the WWE, at least when I was there,” Robinson continues. “It’s much easier to be free and not have the feeling that, ‘Oh, if I do this, will I get in trouble with the bosses and stuff like that.’ That’s no way to be creative in my opinion. And I don’t think it’s like that for everybody, but when I was like 22, 23 years old, it was definitely like that for me. Yeah, AEW as a 35-year-old adult is a great time.”

In this moment, Robinson isn’t about setting any extreme goals. He’s living in the moment and says he’s needed a match of this caliber, a “big-time match against a big-time opponent in a big-time spot,” and he’s ready to knock it out of the park.

“I just want to keep on keeping on, getting out there in front of people,” Robinson says. “Keep having fun and keep pushing it. Keep going. This is what I want to do with my life. It always has been and I’m doing it. So I just hope my body holds up, which it should now.”

Sabrina Carpenter launched the Short N’ Sweet Tour recently, and an immediate takeaway is that it appears she’s done doing her famous “Nonsense” outros, which saw her creating new lyrics for the song to suit the current situation.

At the opening show of the tour, right before the “Nonsense” outro was supposed to begin, the video screen behind Carpenter intentionally glitched out, and behind her, an on-screen message read, “We apologize for the interruption of our program due to technical difficulties.” Check out a video of that here.

Some saw that as Carpenter retiring the outros, and now she has confirmed it herself. This doesn’t mean she’ll never do a “Nonsense” outro again, though.

In a new interview with Time, Carpenter said, “The extreme ‘it’s over forever’ is just not in my repertoire. Maybe I’ll feel random one day and bring it back. [But] that was for that album, for that era. You’ve got to keep a thing good.”

The interview is attached to Carpenter being named to the “Time100 Next” list, which recognizes a hundred “emerging leaders from across the world who are shaping the future.” Not only did Carpenter make the list, but she’s actually on one of the versions of the magazine cover.

Sydney Sweeney has numerous projects on the horizon, including the next season of Euphoria and a Barbarella revamp, but she made a rare move by taking the summer off after holding a busy schedule for years. What did she do? Well, she made sure to visit theme parks for recreation, but she was also no doubt working out like a mofo.

Pumping some iron and hitting boxing drills are key to Sweeney’s “jacked” preparation to return to the true crime realm with a biopic that chronicles the rise and turmoil experienced by prizefighter Christy Martin, the boxer who was dubbed “Female Rocky” boxer and ruled the 1990s welterweight circuit. Let’s also get in fighting shape by punching in on what we can expect.

Cast

Sweeney has been confirmed for the leading role since May, and this week, a Black Bear Pictures press release added several names to the roster, including Ben Foster, Ethan Embry, Merritt Wever, Jess Gabor, and Chad L. Coleman. The studio hasn’t clarified who will portray Christy’s abusive (and attempted murderer) husband, Jim Martin, though that role will likely go to Foster or Emery. Coleman could be onboard to portray Don King, who counted Christy as his first female signee, but that hasn’t been confirmed yet.

A particular name of interest, however: Katy O’Brian, who recently told UPROXX that nobody kicks her ass and who hulked out (if you know, you know) in A24’s queer thriller Love Lies Bleeding. Will Katy and Sydney face off in the ring? It’s hard to imagine Katy being cast within or signing up for a boxing biopic in which she doesn’t don the gloves, but stay tuned there.

Plot

Christy Martin’s life story is a harrowing one, and the film’s working title, Apopka, refers to the Florida city where she endured a toxic marriage with her also-manager, Jim Martin, who shot her in 2010 when she tried to leave their marriage. This came after years of escalating emotional and physical abuse, and Jim is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence. ESPN previously published an incredibly graphic account of Christy’s injuries and recovery from her injuries, along with her foresight to leave a few drops of blood on “an obscured section of the wall” as proof that the abuse had been ongoing if she ever needed that documentation (and she did).

The film is currently filming with helmer David Michôd (War Machine, Hesher) having decided that Sweeney was the woman for the gig after watching her as a defendant in HBO’s Reality. He also co-wrote the script (with Mirrah Foulkes) and told Deadline about the framing of this biopic:

“The film is about Christy as a young gay woman in small-town West Virginia in the 1990s. She came from a relatively conservative family and wasn’t allowed to be who she was so she used boxing as a vehicle to express herself and her rage. She had to make some dangerous and fundamental compromises in her life, the most important of which was marrying an incredibly dangerous man.”

As for Sweeney’s approach, she told Deadline that this is right up her alley: “I grappled and did kickboxing from 12-19 years old. I’ve been itching to get back into the ring, train, and transform my body.” She did add, however, that this will be both a “physically and emotionally demanding” job because “Christy’s story isn’t a light one.”

Release Date

Filming began in late September and will be finished by the end of the year, so A24 will likely debut this on the festival circuit in 2025.

Trailer

No trailer, but here’s Sweeney talking about the importance of working out because it’s “really fun to be able to kick a guy’s ass.”