Today, in a statement to Variety, disgraced Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein said the four words so many people have wanted to hear from the typically defiant mega-producer: “I am sincerely sorry.” Except the apology in question had nothing to do with the dozens of women who have publicly accused him of sexual misconduct. Nope, Harvey’s heartfelt act of contrition was over some Milk Duds.
The box of candy, which is considered contraband in the clink, was discovered all the way back on November 10, 2021, after a routine search following an in-person meeting Weinstein had with Shawn Burkley, one of his lawyers. In true Weinstein style, he initially responded to the charges with a “deny, deny, deny” philosophy. As Gene Maddaus wrote for Variety:
The Milk Duds were confiscated, and the guards warned that they would have to search his attorneys’ legal binders and laptop bags on future visits. Weinstein claimed to the guards that he had brought the Milk Duds with him when he was extradited from New York in July. But the jail officials said he had been searched upon his arrival at the L.A. County jail’s medical facility, and nothing was found, leading them to conclude that the Milk Duds were passed to him during the attorney’s visit.
Both Weinstein and his attorneys issued official expressions of regret over the incident, with Harvey describing it as “an innocent misunderstanding,” and promising that “It will not happen again… I am sincerely sorry.”
Mark Werksman and Alan Jackson, Weinstein’s lawyers, echoed their client’s sentiments while issuing their own apology in which they shared that: “We have been informed about this and are very sorry it happened. It had not happened before, and never happened since. Harvey has been a model inmate and intends to continue as such.”
Reminder: We’re talking about a box of f@#%ing Milk Duds!
If only the one-time legendary studio boss could express the same level of shame and grief to the nearly 90 women who have accused him of sexual harassment, assault, and/or rape.
While Weinstein—who was once threatened by Tony Soprano himself, James Gandolfini—will be allowed to continue having face-to-face meetings with his attorneys as he prepares for trial, he has been warned that any other infraction will result in being placed inside a special booth. Presumably one that would make the passing of some Sno-Caps impossible.
The political pundits who serve as the smiling faces of Russia’s many state-run “news” channels are feeling a lot less cheery these days. Sure, they’re still putting their trademark pro-Putin spins on the events of each day—at least those events that the Kremlin allows them to talk about. But given that much of the world has united in its support of Ukraine and condemnation of Vlad for attacking the sovereign state, Russia’s news anchors are feeling a bit left out. Luckily for them, they’ve still got an ally in at least part of the Fox News team (with a couple notable exceptions).
As The Daily Beast reports, the Russian media is downright giddy over some repugnant comments retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor made while appearing as a guest on Fox’s Sunday Night In America With Trey Gowdy. When asked about the escalating war between Russia and Ukraine, Macgregor—who served as Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense during the Trump years—suggested that the people of Ukraine just give up already and bend the knee to the Almighty Putin. Macgregor also said that we, as Americans, need to stop demonizing Putin and accept that Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the comedian-turned-president of Ukraine who voiced Paddington in TWO movies:
We need to remember that Ukraine is fourth from the bottom of 158 countries in the world, at corruption. Russia is perhaps three or four places above them. This is not the liberal democracy, the shining example, that everyone says it is, far from it.
Mr. Zelensky has jailed journalists and his political opposition.
I think we need to stay out of it. The American people think we should stay out of it, the Europeans think we should stay out of it, and we should stop shipping weapons and encouraging Ukrainians to die in what is a hopeless endeavor.
Gowdy, making sure he understood Macgregor correctly, clarified: “Just let Russia take that portion of Ukraine that they want to take?”
Macgregor’s answer: “Absolutely.”
Meanbwhile, some of Gowdy’s Fox News colleagues have condemned Macgregor’s statements—most notably Jennifer Griffin, who was on the air with Gowdy just a few minutes after all of that pro-Putin gobbledygook. Even former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, of all people, criticized his former network for not stepping in. But while Americans may be aghast at Macgregor’s comments, Russian media figures are saluting him.
“Russian state media flooded their programs with translated clips of Macgregor’s proclamations, using them in support of their own messaging designed to demoralize the Ukrainians,” Julia Davis wrote for The Daily Beast.
There seems to be a bit of a 70s revival thing going on lately. With Licorice Pizza becoming a fan-favorite at the box office and Silk Sonic’s funky album aesthetics, it’s safe to say that vibrant (and tacky) 70s nostalgia is back in a major way.
The latest 70s-inspired piece of pop culture is HBO Max’s new show Minx, starring New Girl’s Jake Johnson alongside Ophelia Lovibond. Minx follows outspoken feminist Joyce, played by Lovibond, as she sets out to create a female-focused magazine in a male-dominated field. After being rejected by big-name magazine execs (all men, of course) she stumbles upon Doug, played by Johnson, an editor of erotic magazines, and the two embark on an unlikely collaboration.
Created by Ellen Rapoport (of Netflix’s Desperados) the series features Doug and Joyce as they create an erotic magazine for women, while still sprinkling in some feminist ideas between the pages, which is pretty unheard of for the time. They also wear some flashy, era-specific looks that will hopefully come back in style soon. The series also stars Taylor Zakhar Perez, Lennon Parham, Jessica Lowe, Idara Victor, and Oscar Montoya.
The 10-episode series begins streaming on March 17th on HBO Max. Check out the trailer above.
As football across all levels leans more and more on the passing game, the wide receiver group has become the marquee attraction at the NFL Combine, and 2022 was no different. A deep and talented group got to strut their stuff in Indianapolis on Thursday night and the first group put on an absolute show in the 40-yard dash, headlined by 4.31 and 4.32 runs from Velus Jones Jr. and Calvin Austin III, respectively.
They set the bar high for the second group that came later in the evening in Indy, but those times would not hold as Ohio State standout Chris Olave strolled up to the 40 line at Lucas Oil Stadium and proceeded to drop everyone in the building’s jaw with an outrageous 4.26 unofficial time.
If that time indeed holds up once the official numbers roll in — and it looked that fast if not faster — it would tie him for the fourth fastest 40-yard dash in NFL Combine history. Amazingly, he’s fourth fastest ever because he wasn’t even the fastest in his group, as Baylor’s Tyquan Thornton broke John Ross’ record with a 4.21 in his first run (again, that could change on the official number, but should be very close).
WOW. JUST WOW.@BUFootball WR Tyquan Thornton might’ve just broken the all-time 40 record with a 4.21u.
If that holds, it’s the fastest of all-time and it, like Olave, looked the part. Somehow, there was a third sub-4.3 in this group, as North Dakota State’s Christian Watson ran a 4.28 alongside them in what will go down as the fastest position group in NFL Combine history.
Back in 2019, a little over a year after Drake released his fifth album Scorpion, Drake was hit with a lawsuit over his No. 1 songs “In My Feelings” and “Nice For What.” Both songs were played a big role in the success of Scorpion, but according to Sam Skully (whose real name is Samuel Nicholas III), the track wrongfully sampled aspects of his 2000 song “Roll Call (Instrumental)” in the respective tracks. Skully’s first lawsuit was dismissed, as was his second case, because he failed to actually litigate them. However, according to Billboard, Skully has filed his third lawsuit against Drake alleging copyright infringement over “In My Feelings” and “Nice For What.”
In the lawsuit, Skully claims that aspects of “Roll Call (Instrumental)” were sampled and added to the records from Scorpion by the songs’ producer BlaqNmilD, whose real name Adam J. Pigott. Skully claims that Pigott used the same sample in other records that he worked on for other artists. However, Pigott’s representatives say that both he and Skully used the same sample from a 1986 record by legendary Queens hip hop duo The Showboys.
“It is this song, ‘Drag Rap (Triggerman),’ that Adam had indeed sampled for the compositions in question,” BlaqNmilD’s manager Craig E. Baylis says. “The Showboys will attest that Adam ensured that they were contacted for all proper clearances. Our question is, has the plaintiff done the same?”
Asylum Records, Cash Money Records, Republic Records, and New Orleans legend Big Freedia were also named in the lawsuit. Skully’s lawyer, Mark Edward Andrews, and representatives Drake and Warner Music Group did not return requests for comment from Billboard.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
ESPN hopes to enter 2022 with an all new Monday Night Football booth, but it may be a very familiar sound to NFL fans. Troy Aikman is reportedly headed to the Worldwide Leader on a 5-year, $90 million deal to bring them the big name analyst they’ve been desperately chasing since Jon Gruden went back to coaching.
In an ideal world, ESPN would not pair Aikman with current play-by-play man Steve Levy, and have apparently focused their efforts on his longtime partner at Fox, Joe Buck. The problem for ESPN is that Buck is under contract for one more year, and they’ll have to work out a deal with Fox in order to get him into the Monday Night Football booth in 2022. Jim Miller, who literally wrote the book on ESPN, reported on the Sports Illustrated Media Podcast with Jimmy Traina that he’s heard that ESPN and Fox are talking about what it might take to get Fox to let Buck walk before his deal runs up (transcription via Awful Announcing).
“In the ESPN book, I wrote about Al Michaels, and there was a Disney character of course, famous Oswald, that was part of the deal to let Al out early. But now, I think what’s been going on behind the scenes, and I’ve heard this from various people, is that there’s some real horse trading. I mean, look, does Fox want to keep Joe if Joe’s going to be unhappy? No. But do they want to be able to monetize this in myriad ways in order to really get some flesh out of ESPN? Absolutely. And what might that mean? You know, if I’m Fox, I might ask for two or three Big Ten games. You can be as outrageous and greedy and audacious as you can in this situation, because at the end of the day, look, it’s ‘Joe does a great job, and we don’t want to get rid of him. If you guys want to have both of those guys together, then you’re going to have to pay.’”
Buck, of course, is not just Fox’s lead for NFL broadcasts, but is also their top baseball play-by-play man for the World Series, so losing him would require the network to find replacements on their two biggest sports properties. As Miller notes, that likely means they’ll be asking for a considerable amount from ESPN and it’s a matter of how much ESPN wants to avoid putting someone in a stopgap position for 2022, since they could theoretically just nab Buck in 2023.
All of it makes for fascinating conjecture, and it is rare we get to see sports media trades go down like this. The idea of swapping some rights to college football games seems to be Miller’s idea, not necessarily reporting, but things could get weird if ESPN is set on the idea of getting their longterm Monday Night booth settled this season.
After the success of his second album Because The Internet, Donald Glover, aka Childish Gambino, reached new heights in 2016 with the release of his third album Awaken, My Love! The project was a large shift in the sound that was present on Because The Internet, as Glover had songs that featured him singing as opposed to rapping along with production that combined psychedelic soul, funk, and R&B. As of today, Awaken, My Love! is Glover’s most successful album and during a recent appearance on LeBron James’ HBO show The Shop, he explained what inspired him to create the album.
“Did you ever tap into something that is in you that you feel is kind of bad to win?” Childish Gambino asked the group that included Lebron and Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson. “Because I struggle with that. I am naturally petty. Like, extremely petty” He revealed that he made Awaken, My Love! to prove an unnamed critic wrong. “Awaken, My Love was literally because somebody said, ‘Oh, he can’t make a hit.’ And I was like, ‘Oh, not only will I make a hit, I won’t make a single video for it.’”
After its release in December 2016, Awaken, My Love became his highest-charting release after it debuted at No. 5 on the albums chart. The project also birthed Glover’s most successful single with “Redbone” which peaked at No. 12 on the singles chart and is currently 5X Platinum.
You can view the clip from the upcoming episode above. The full episode airs on March 4 at 9 am PST exclusively on UNINTERRUPTED’s YouTube channel.
The Brooklyn Nets have had a year full of stops and starts with regards to key absences from their roster. On Thursday, they saw some good news in the form of Kevin Durant’s return to the lineup after more than a month of being sidelined with a knee sprain, but unfortunately the injury news wasn’t all good for the Nets.
While Brooklyn did get some insurance for Harris’ absence in the James Harden trade in the form of Seth Curry, Harris’ absence is still a significant one. Having shooters around their stars, particularly whenever Ben Simmons is able to make his Nets debut, is critical to their success and losing one of the league’s most reliable three-point shooters is a significant blow for this team. They’ll continue to lean on Curry and Patty Mills to provide that spacing, and will move forward knowing they’ll have to fill that void without Harris for the remainder of this season.
The NFL Scouting Combine made its triumphant return with on-field drills on Thursday night as the quarterbacks, receivers, and tight ends took center stage in Indianapolis. After the tight ends got things started, it was time for the main event with the QBs and WRs split into two groups, and while only two quarterbacks ran the 40 yard dash, the receivers more than made up for their absence as Calvin Austin III out of Memphis stole the show as the first man up.
Austin was a track star at Memphis, so he came to Indianapolis with high expectations and, if he lived up to them, a chance to make himself some money come April. He did just that, as the receiver who measured in at just under 5’8 started with an 11’3 broad jump and a 39-inch vertical, both pacing the first group of receivers, and then torched the 40 with an unofficial 4.32.
Austin wouldn’t be topped but did get matched by Tennessee’s Velus Jones Jr., who ran 4.34 in his first run and followed that with a 4.32, as the first group of receivers featured plenty of burners.
#Vols WR Velus Jones runs a 4.32u on his 2nd 40 attempt.
Rutgers’ Bo Melton posted a strong 4.39 in his first run but came back even better on his second attempt, dropping his number to 4.34 to raise some eyebrows.
#Rutgers WR Bo Melton runs a 4.34u on his 2nd 40 attempt.
One of the most impressive runs came from Notre Dam’s Kevin Austin Jr., who posted a 4.37 unofficial in his first run at 200 pounds, as the biggest sub-4.4 guy on the turf to start things out.
These WRs are QUICK. @NDFootball WR Kevin Austin Jr. clocks in at 4.37u.
The second group will come later in the night and has a high bar to clear, as the first set of receivers burned up the turf in Indy and put on a show for the fans in attendance.
The West Coast IPA is probably best known for its amped-up and sometimes abrasive hop aroma and flavor, which can be aggressively bitter, dank, and resinous (sometimes so much so that it tastes like bong resin). It’s a love-it-or-hate-it type of beer. Still, it’s one of the most popular craft beer styles in America.
As with any beer style these days, there are countless overrated West Coast IPAs out there that seem to get all the acclaim, press, and love, even when others might be more deserving. So instead of simply writing about the highly-touted (and already well-established) West Coast IPAs, we thought we’d give some underrated brews their due. To find these gems, we asked a few notable craft brewers, beer experts, and brewing professionals to tell us their favorite underrated West Coast IPAs. Their picks ran the gamut from lesser-known upstarts to household names that just don’t get the respect they deserve.
Port Brewing Wipeout is a very underrated West Coast IPA. It’s brewed with big alpha acid hops from the home of the style. This beer hits every time with its bitter piney and citrusy flavor. It’s definitely a beer to try if you enjoy the style.
The most underrated West Coast IPA actually comes from the East Coast and that happens to be Pernicious IPA from Wicked Weed Brewing. It has a fairly straightforward malt profile which allows the hops to really shine. The big citrus and pine flavors are what do it for me.
It doesn’t get a ton of attention these days, but Firestone Walker Union Jack holds a special place in our brewery’s heart. Many a Union Jack was consumed while we were getting our brewery out of the garage. It’s citrusy, piney, and balanced, with a gentle malt backbone. What a pleasant IPA it is.
Racer 5 from Bear Republic is highly underrated. This beer has become a metric for West Coast IPAs everywhere. The pine/resin hop flavors paired with the classic West Coast IPA bitterness and crystal malts make this beer a home run.
Anchor Liberty Ale is the most underrated West Coast IPA. The OG West Coast IPA is dry, bitter, and hoppy. Unfortunately, I think people forget about Anchor Brewing, which is too bad because this is the beer that inspired so many young brewers out there. It’s distinctly American, with its aggressive Cascade hop bite and lack of caramel sweetness, which made it revolutionary from the English pale ale style.
Pizza Port Swami’s IPA
Pizza Port
Douglas Constantiner, founder and CEO of Societe Brewing in San Diego
For me, Pizza Port Swami’s IPA is the most underrated West Coast IPA. Living in San Diego, there’s fresh IPA everywhere. You see Swami’s so often that it’s easy to take for granted, but the beer exemplifies West Coast IPA. It’s crisp, refreshing, and loaded with pine and citrus flavors.
Asheville Brewing Shiva IPA is a properly bitter IPA with all the classic west coast flavors. The nose is dank and the lighter body allows the grapefruit/citrus notes to come through in the finish. It’s a beer that definitely deserves more credit than it gets.
One of the most underrated West Coast IPA’s in my opinion is the Project Alpha series at Cannonball Creek. Every time I get the pleasure of having one, I am reminded of how clean, crisp, and tropical they are. If you love West Coast IPAs, it doesn’t get much better than the impeccably balanced, delicate, hoppy, and crisp Project Alpha. Cannonball Creek does it right and should always be listed among the best West Coast IPAs in the country.
If you prefer your West Coast IPA to be dank, piney, and filled with ripe citrus flavor, the aptly named Beachwood Citraholic is for you. Brewed with Citra, Warrior, Columbus, and Simcoe hops before being dry-hopped with more Citra, it’s slightly bitter, fruity, citrusy, and has a nice malt backbone to tie everything together.
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