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Tom Brady retired this offseason for all of two months before announcing his return to the NFL and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for a 23rd season shortly after. Brady said his decision was to spend more time with his family, but there were reports the was in talks with Dolphins owner Stephen Ross about joining Miami’s ownership group and, potentially, returning to the field with the Dolphins next year.

That all got squandered by the Brian Flores lawsuit which led to a tampering investigation by the NFL that found Miami had tampered with Brady (twice) and earned Ross a hefty fine and suspension from the league. It also meant Brady couldn’t go through with the move and he returns to Tampa to play for the Bucs once again.

Ahead of his 2022 season debut on Sunday night against the Cowboys, NBC tabbed none other than Michael Jordan to cut a pretty great promo video for Brady’s return, as he knows a thing or two about returning from retirement.

As Jordan jokes, he made it two years before returning to basketball while Brady could only make it two months, but says that just shows how much he wants and needs it. Jordan goes on to talk about how, love him or hate him, Brady should be appreciated by NFL fans, noting greatness like that doesn’t come around all that often.

The New York Giants made their season debut in Tennessee on Sunday afternoon, as Brian Daboll made his first foray into the head coaching world against the Titans as 5.5-point underdogs.

The Giants trailed for the majority of the game, getting off to an ugly start offensively as the Titans took a 13-0 lead. Eventually, the Giants defense settled in and the offense found a rhythm, mainly on the ground as Saquon Barkley suddenly looked like the guy they took No. 2 out of Penn State once again. Barkley had 18 carries for 164 yards and a touchdown, leading the way for the G-Men as they clawed their way back into the game.

After tying things up at 13-13, the Titans quickly reclaimed a 20-13 lead late in the third quarter. Twice the Giants marched down inside the 10 with a chance to tie it back up, but the first opportunity dissolved on a horrifically late throw from Daniel Jones to Barkley that was picked off in the end zone.

Jones rebounded though, and while he didn’t put up gaudy numbers he was efficient at 17-of-21 passing for 188 yards, two touchdowns, and that interception. Riding the legs of Barkley again, the Giants got down inside the five and using the threat of their star back, worked their tight end wide open for the touchdown to give them a chance to even up the score.

However, Daboll was not here to try and force overtime, and he kept the offense out and left it in the hands of Barkley to give the Giants the lead. On a shovel pass, Barkley was initially stuffed but bounced it outside and fought his way into the end zone to put the Giants up 21-20 with just over a minute to play.

The Titans would march into field goal range, but as was a theme all day in the NFL, Randy Bullock’s game-winning attempt hooked wide left and the Giants emerged with a 1-0 record. With the Titans loss, the AFC South exits Week 1 without a single team winning after the Jaguars likewise lost in Washington and the Colts and Texans played to a tie in Houston.

For Daboll and the Giants, it’s a big win that also showed his offense a great deal of confidence in them to go for two, and you could see how much they appreciated that on the sideline after.

That’s not the kind of thing you saw on the Giants sideline much in recent years, and while we’ll have to wait and see how much this translates into more wins, it’s a great start to the Daboll era in New York.

The Miami Dolphins dominated the New England Patriots on Sunday at Hard Rock Stadium, but for a few fans going to see the Dolphins win came at the unfortunate cost of their cars.

During the game, fans inside noticed a large plume of smoke coming from near the stadium, as black smoke rose above the top of the awning.

The cause of that fire was, apparently, an unattended grill from a tailgate that became a fire that engulfed multiple cars in the parking lot, burning them to an absolute crisp. The photos and videos from the parking lot after are absolutely terrible.

It is an unfortunate reminder as NFL season returns that when tailgating you need to fully put out all grills completely, rather than putting them back in the car (or leave them near the car) still smoldering, because if something happens and they get knocked over or embers get blown out of them, this is the potential result. A stadium spokesperson released a statement on the fire to ABC Local 10.

“Around 1 pm, a vehicle fire began in a remote Hard Rock Stadium parking lot. Several vehicles were affected. Miami Dade Police Department and Miami Dade Fire Rescue were on the scene. The fire has been extinguished and is being investigated by Fire Rescue. No injuries have been reported and there is no current threat to the stadium.”

There were no injuries caused by the fire, but at least four cars were completely destroyed and a others appear to have suffered at least some, if not complete, damage. Those people will hopefully get enough from insurance to get new vehicles but that never fully replaces what was lost due to circumstances that, for most of them, was completely outside their control.

The Las Vegas Aces played host to the Connecticut Sun on Sunday afternoon for Game 1 of the WNBA Finals and early on it looked like Vegas might run away.

A’ja Wilson got busy early on after getting her MVP trophy on the court prior to the game, coming out looking to make a statement against the Sun’s very good frontcourt.

Chelsea Gray also got it going early, knocking down tough buckets as she has all playoffs, and the Aces jumped out to a quick double-digit lead.

However, the Sun had a response, chipping away at the lead, led by Alyssa Thomas and Jonquel Jones, who went to work inside to give the Sun their first lead of the game.

Overall, it was a 21-9 quarter in favor of Connecticut, giving them a four-point edge going into halftime as they were dictating the tempo of the game and bothering the Aces with their swarming defense. The third quarter went to the Aces, who took a two-point lead into the fourth quarter, setting up a tense quarter that featured a lot of defense and only a few timely buckets.

The Aces were able to seize control thanks to Gray and Wilson, as their stars who have led them all postseason stepped up once again down the stretch. First, it was Wilson with the kind of two-way play that earned her the MVP and DPOY honors this season, blocking DeWanna Bonner and then finishing the break on the other end.

With the lead still just four, it was Gray’s turn to go to work, as she continued her sensational shot-making run this postseason with another tough pull-up bucket to put the lead back to six.

The Sun wouldn’t go away, staying within two possessions most of the way, and when the Aces threw a loose pass with under a minute to play, Connecticut pounced on it with Alyssa Thomas taking it in for a layup to cut the lead to three.

Coming out of the timeout, the Aces let Gray go to work, but she didn’t create a good look, coming up well short on a contested three by Thomas, with the Sun snatching the rebound with 13.4 seconds to play, giving Curt Miller a chance to try and draw up a game-tying three. They ultimately got the ball to Bonner, but she was unable to knock down a leaning three as the Aces swarmed her on the perimeter and Vegas held on to take a 1-0 series lead.

It was a rough shooting night for Bonner in particular, who went just 1-of-9 from the field for three points, with the Sun as a team hitting only five threes on 16 attempts. Thomas was terrific for Connecticut with 19 points, 11 rebounds, five assists, three steals, and three blocks, but they just didn’t have enough offensive punch in this one down the stretch. The Jones’ played well — 15 points and nine boards for Jonquel and 12 points off the bench for Brionna — but the lack of a consistent perimeter threat doomed the Sun despite their strong defensive effort.

For the Aces, it was the same story as all postseason, with Gray (21 points) and Wilson (24 points, 11 rebounds, four blocks, two steals) doing a bit of everything, and getting just enough help, this time from Jackie Young’s 11 point night, to get the job done. Still, the Aces will want Kelsey Plum to get going, as she was 1-of-9 from the field and 1-of-7 from three, continuing some three-point struggles that are the thing that could be a separator in this series for Vegas. As a team, the Aces were 5-of-24 from deep and against the size of the Sun, that’s an area they figure to need to be better if they’re going to get games to their preferred temp.

Still, it’s a big win for the Aces who proved they can get in the mud and play a physical, slower paced game how the Sun like and still pull out a win, and now are two wins away from their first WNBA championship.

For four long years, Atlanta — widely hailed as one of the most distinctive shows on television — was off the air. Creator/star Donald Glover was very busy. Then there was that pesky pandemic. But this spring the show was finally back. Not only that, even more episodes were promised later this year, the result of them filming seasons three and four back-to-back. Enjoy them while they last, though, because this is the end of the show, which premiered back in 2016. This begs the question: Will Atlanta end soon?

The answer is: sort of. Season 4 debuts with two episodes on September 15. It will also be shorter than previous seasons. Seasons 1 and 3 ran 10 episodes each; Season 2 ran 11. Season 4 will only go to eight, which means Atlanta comes to an end on October 27, or about a month and a half as of this writing.

Atlanta has always thrived on the unexpected, with pretty much every installment being a “bottle episode.” But Season 3 threw even its biggest fans for a loop. For one thing, it left its namesake city. What’s more, the back half of the season mostly sidelined its main foursome, namely Glover, Brian Tyree Henry, Lakeith Stanfield, and Zazie Beetz, instead following new and/or different characters. The finale left people with lots of questions.

Whether those will be answered remains to be seen, but Season 4 does promise to return to the Georgia capitol for what Glover has called “the most grounded season” yet.

Atlanta Season 4 kicks off on September 15 with two episodes.

The Pittsburgh Steelers won the most outrageous game of Week 1, taking down the defending AFC champs in Cincinnati in a 23-20 win that saw both teams miss game-winning kicks in overtime after the Bengals had the game-winning extra point blocked at the end of regulation.

It was a wild game and in the chaos of the overtime period, the Steelers losing TJ Watt very possibly for the entire season got put on a backburner. Watt suffered the injury on the final drive of regulation, when he got tagged for illegal hands to the face after a bull rush and hit on Burrow. It was on that hit that Watt injured his left arm and came off the field immediately holding his shoulder/chest area and appeared to tell the sideline that he tore his pec.

That fear was confirmed by Adam Schefter shortly after the Steelers won the game, with the announcement that Watt will undergo tests but the concern is that his season is likely over due to a torn pectoral muscle.

Watt was dominant in the game, recording six tackles (three for a loss) with a sack, two pass deflections, and an interception. His performance figured to be the start of a potential DPOY season, but now it’s possible he’ll miss the rest of the year which would be a massive blow for a Pittsburgh team led by Watt and this defense.

In his upcoming film, My Policeman, Harry Styles plays a closeted police officer named Tom, who is married to a teacher named Marion (Emma Corrin), and balancing a relationship with a museum curator named Patrick (David Dawson). The movie, which is based on a novel by Bethan Roberts, premiered this weekend at Toronto International Film Festival.

At a press conference, Styles detailed the process of getting into the character of a gay man and how he was able to tap into that headspace, as reported by Variety He also shared what his character means to him.

“I think he’s very curious,” said Styles. “I think he’s someone who is born into a very small world and, if you’re born into that kind of environment, you feel like you know where the edge of the world is. Slowly throughout the story, I think he’s realizing that it is a little further away than Brighton. I think people live entire lives in very small bubbles like that, and if that’s how you’ve been brought up, and everyone around you and generations before you, your parents, etc. have all lived within their kind of small bubble, it’s obviously very difficult to even picture the world outside of that.”

Styles continued, saying that Tom is a sheltered, curious man, who finds himself able to explore various worlds with Patrick, while maintaining a genuine platonic love for Marion.

“It’s feeding his curiosity, it’s kind of strange for him to be curious about stuff,” said Styles. “And then I think with Marion he also finds ultimately a friend who is the most accepting of him, and I think that’s why, kind of regardless of whichever way you think on their relationship, I think their friendship is incredibly real and loving and tender.”

During TIFF 2022, Styles, Corrin, and Dawson won the TIFF Tribute Award for Performance as a collective unit, marking the first time an ensemble has received this honor.

My Policeman arrives to theaters on 10/21 and premieres on Amazon Prime Video on 11/4.

Joe Burrow had a horrific start to the Bengals Week 1 opener against the Steelers, throwing a pick six to open the game to Minkah Fitzpatrick.

From there, the Steelers led the entire way, thanks in large part to three more interceptions of Burrow, who had a dreadful afternoon, often finding himself under siege by T.J. Watt and the Steelers defensive line. However, as the second half progressed, Burrow started to find a bit of a rhythm and the Bengals slowly reeled in Pittsburgh, which was getting very little from their offense. Trailing by six in the last minute, Burrow moved the Bengals deep into Steelers territory — one possession after failing to score on four tries from the goal line.

This time, Burrow found Ja’Marr Chase for what looked like a walkoff touchdown, provided Evan McPherson, arguably the best kicker in the league, could make an extra point.

There was one problem, though: the presence of Minkah Fitzpatrick, who came flying off the edge and blocked the kick, sending the game to overtime.

It was the perfect end to regulation, where the defense did just about everything for the Steelers while the Mitch Trubisky-led offense scuffled. Unfortunately for the Steelers, they were not able to do anything offensively to start overtime, going 3-and-out and punting the ball back to Burrow, who marched the Bengals back inside the red zone again. This time, the Bengals played for the field goal, setting McPherson up for the game-winning attempt, and the man who drilled a 59-yarder earlier in the game absolutely shanked it left from short range, giving the ball back to Pittsburgh.

The Steelers then drove down the field thanks to an incredible Diontae Johnson catch, moving into “field goal range,” whatever that means in this game, and sent Chris Boswell out for a 61-yard kick. At this point, you should know what happens (turn the sound up for this one).

BONNNNNNGGGGGGGGGG. And the Bengals, again, took over with a chance to win the game.

Cincinnati would move across midfield, but a sack fumble moved them back to the 50 for a fourth down — thanks to the “Holy Roller” rule that doesn’t allow players to advance a fumble if they didn’t fumble it — giving the ball back to Pittsburgh. After throwing a near interception, Trubisky found a rhythm and got the Steelers across the Bengals 40, setting up one last kick from Boswell who finally, mercifully, ended the game and gave Pittsburgh a win.

Look up “how to be healthier” or “how to get fit” and the majority of entries are going to be about intense training regimes or divergent diet plans. Implementing these new methodologies to your weekly routine can require systemic changes to your lifestyle, schedule, grocery buying, and many, many gym visits. But one fundamental way to vastly improve your overall health and give you a longer life expectancy is to improve your quality of sleep.

Going to bed can seem simple on paper, and it essentially is, but for many getting a good night’s rest is a real struggle. The problem is that humans are creatures of habit and when we get into bad ones they can be difficult to break. For many, there are roadblocks that lie between them and the sheets in many forms — social media, streaming services, food choices, or social events.

These distractions are fine, perhaps even beneficial, when done in moderation. But when they start to affect our periods of deep sleep — the crucial time when we recover from the wear and tear of the day — changes need to be made. Here are a few small adjustments you can make to your nightly routine that will help you recover better so you can perform better the next day.

STICK TO A SLEEP SCHEDULE

One of the best, and easiest ways, to get better rest is to lock in on your natural sleep-wake cycle, the time that your body wants you to go down for the night. This process is known as your circadian rhythm and helps regulate your body’s production of melatonin, which is the most important hormone when it comes to sleep. Since this sleep-wake schedule is so crucial, you should do whatever you can to keep it intact. That means finding a reasonable time for you to go to bed at night and wake up every morning.

There are a few key ways that you can protect the circadian rhythm like avoiding sleeping in on the weekends because that will confuse your system. And to that same effect, significant naps should be avoided. That doesn’t mean that you have to cancel all naps but keep them no longer than 20 minutes.

GET OUTSIDE…EARLY

Getting back to melatonin, which is your gateway drug to a peaceful rest — it’s regulated by your eyes taking in light. Exposing your eyes to natural sunlight as early in the morning as possible is a great way to help your energy levels and get your mind ready to take on the day. Studies have shown that people who suffered from insomnia and exposed their eyes to bright natural or artificial light had improved rest and fell asleep faster. [Source]

REIN IN TECHNOLOGY USE

There are a number of reasons to pull away the phone or laptop a few hours before bed. For one, in this day and age work has a way of following us into the evening hours which makes it virtually impossible to wind down. On top of that, social media and streaming services are designed for the specific purpose of keeping us on them for as much of our evening hours as they can (to surface ads!). That’s not to say that you aren’t allowed to enjoy your favorite show, but it’s important to stay vigilant when adhering to your schedule and knowing how to shut off the television.

The blue light that comes from the screens of your technology is also disruptive, so getting off them as early as possible will benefit your sleep. If you need to be on your phone or laptop for some reason, try glasses that are developed to block out blue light like these from Lensabl. Otherwise, it can be helpful to put your phone away as you wind down — as another way to signal the end of the day. Perhaps you can use that time to read a book!

EAT AND DRINK SLEEP-SMART

How we sleep at night has a lot to do with how we start our day, and what we do nutritionally is a big part of that. Kicking off the morning with a nice healthy breakfast is a great way to tell your body it’s time to come online, and in reverse, if you skip breakfast you can see abnormalities in your blood sugar rhythm and an increase in stress, which can be disruptive to your sleep. Eating correctly throughout the day, including healthy snacks, is a great way to maintain good energy which will lead to better sleep.

As far as what you’re drinking it’s important to stop your caffeine intake from things like coffee before nightfall, and to limit your alcohol consumption, as it only takes a few drinks to alter your melatonin production. One last thing to consider is the after-dinner drowsiness that can come after a big meal. For the majority of people, going to bed immediately after eating their last meal of the day, and in fact, it is unwise to do so. In that pursuit, find something active to do once you’re done, like washing dishes or doing the laundry.

GET A GOOD WORKOUT IN

Everybody knows that one of the best ways to get someone ready for bed is to have them “tired out” by bedtime. It works with children and dogs, and it works for us as adults too. Finding a regular time to get some quality exercise that includes cardio — like bicycling or running — is a great way to make sure we’re looking forward to going lights out at the end of the day. The best course of action is to hit your sessions at some point during the day, and at least 4 hours before bedtime.

Check out a few great workouts that you can do anywhere here and here.

It may be a while before Ariana Grande puts out a follow-up to her sixth studio album, Positions. The “34+35” singer is hard at work on the film adaption of the stage musical, Wicked, in which, she will play Glinda the Good Witch.

The film will be released in two parts, the first in 2024, and the second in 2025.

Earlier this year, Grande admitted she hadn’t begun recording material for a seventh album, as she had been directing much of her energy toward Wicked, however, it appears she may already have some collaborations lined up once she’s ready to hit the booth again.

In a live stream on TikTok, Kali Uchis shared that she and Grande are planning to work together after Wicked wraps production.

“She’s not recording right now,” Uchis said, “because working on her movie stuff; her play that she’s doing… She said that when she’s done with that, we are going to work. I’m excited for that.”

While Wicked is sure to take some time, fans of Uchis can rest assured that new music is coming soon. In an interview with Vogue, Uchis revealed she has two albums underway; one in English, and one in Spanish.

“I just want to show all the different sides to me,” Uchis said, “and that I’m multi-dimensional when it comes to my music, my style, my everything. So I think it’s more about just having fun with it and letting my fans see and hear this other side of me that they never have before.”