Dirk Nowitzki was honored on Wednesday night in Dallas with his jersey retirement ceremony following a 99-82 Mavs win over the Warriors, as the future Hall of Famer saw his No. 41 go into the rafters, with many of his former teammates coming together for the occasion to honor him.
Among them is current Mavs head coach Jason Kidd, who donned a Nowitzki jersey after the game to give a speech about Dirk, and while he eventually got to talking about Nowitzki’s work ethic, what he meant to the franchise and the league, and thanking him for that 2011 title, he had to shoot his shot with an offer to come back.
“We’re giving out 10-days, you want to come back?” is a tremendous line and Kidd delivers it with such a straight face you know he’s just a little bit serious about it. Dirk, wisely, will not be trying to make an appearance in a 22nd season, as he’s living his best life in retirement, but if Joe Johnson can come back and Lance Stephenson can have a 20-point quarter in Indiana again, it was worth a shot from Kidd.
Beyond (kind of) joking about bringing Dirk back, the Mavs also unveiled the statue they’ll put out front of the American Airlines Center, with Nowitzki shooting his signature leg-up fadeaway.
Mark Cuban unveils the concept for the statue that will be placed in front of the Mavericks arena pic.twitter.com/JLSVZfyi6m
It’s an interesting concept for a statue, particularly with the three basketballs to mimic the shot, and we’ll have to see how it looks once its full-size rather than model size.
This time last year, then-vice president Mike Pence could have died. On Jan. 6, 2020, a violent mob of Trump supporters, whipped up by voter fraud lies from the nation’s 45th commander-in-chief, stormed the Capitol building, hoping to overturn the 2020 election. Some of them wanted to hang Pence, who had refused to help. Since then, Pence has downplayed the event that could have led to his death. But his former staff isn’t following suit.
As per Axios, people who were part of or around Pence’s office have been extremely cooperative with the House Select committee investigating that fateful day. Some of them didn’t even need a subpoena. Among those playing ball are his former press secretary Alyssa Farah, who went on to become communications director for White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
There’s also former chief of staff Marc Short, who reportedly said he wouldn’t have cooperated had Pence given him the okay to do so.
Many of the ex-Pence staffers, Axios reports, met solely with the committee’s sole Republican members, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
Among the areas the committee is focusing on are the 187 minutes between the end of Trump’s speech and when he finally called them off, long after those around him, even Fox News stars, were begging him to do so. They’re also interested in learning more about what they call the “procedural coup,” which began on Election Night 2020 and which involved them sowing distrust in the integrity of the election results, in case Trump lost. Which he did.
Meanwhile, Trump was supposed to ring in the first anniversary of the day that effectively ended his single term in disgrace, but he pulled out of it, much as he did his failed blog.
Dubbing something “underrated” really comes down to what your definition of underrated actually is. To us, it has nothing to do with a beer’s sales but entirely with its perception. That’s why both a high-selling macro brew and a little-known craft beer can both be underrated and underappreciated.
When talking about underrated beers, Eric Warner, brewmaster at Karbach Brewing Co. in Houston, refuses to pick one specific beer. Instead, he opts for a whole style.
“I’m a huge fan of helles,” he notes. “The ‘every day’ pale lager that is on tap in every bar and restaurant in Munich. The malt aromas are often reminiscent of light bread and honey, and the subtle hop notes are floral and spicy. The taste is slightly sweet up front but then clean on the finish without being dry or bitter.”
While it’s easy to pick underrated styles, selecting underappreciated beers is a tougher task. To help out, we asked a handful of well-known brewers, beer professionals, and craft beer experts to tell us their picks for the most under-valued beers of all time. Keep reading to see all of their selections.
Professor Fritz Briem 1809
Professor Fritz Briem
Garrett Oliver, brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery in Brooklyn, New York
Dr. Fritz Briem’s 1809 Berliner Weisse is almost single-handedly responsible for the new rise of Berliner Weisse in the United States. When people talk about some seminal punk bands, they say “Almost no one went to their shows, but each person who went started their own band.” That’s Briem Berliner Weisse, the complexity of which showed us that real Berliner Weisse didn’t need a “schuss” of fruit syrup to be great.
Strong Rope JJ Bollerack Brown Ale
Strong Rope
Alex Wenner, owner and brewer at Lasting Joy Brewery in Hudson Valley, New York
ABV: 6.2%
Average Price: Limited Availability
Why This Beer?
I’ll give you an underrated beer in a criminally underrated style: Strong Rope Brewery’s JJ Bollerack Brown Ale. American brown ales are no longer the staple of every craft brewery that they were a few years ago, and honestly, it makes me sad. Jason Sahler at Strong Rope Brewery however brews this one just the way I like it with dark toast, dank hops, a little spiciness from the rye, and a little bit of a burnt caramel finish. It’s perfectly balanced, sweet, and bitter.
This is a beer that won’t be the one you talk about the next day but will order every time you see it.
Pilsner Urquell
Pilsner Urquell
Andrew Hood, wood cellar manager and brewer at Sun King Brewery in Indianapolis
The most underrated beer would be Pilsner Urquell. It’s a great lager that’s still brewed with an old-world style. Not many breweries are still doing that to this day. It’s crisp, refreshing, light, and highly crushable. What more could you ask for in a beer?
Coors Banquet Beer is that beer for me. This ubiquitous beer — that probably doesn’t rate high on the craft beer list — is wonderful with its refreshing sweet notes, light malt aroma, and zippy carbonation. Beer industry secret follows: It’s one of the favorites with my brewery sisters and brothers.
Zillicoah Kellerpils is my pick. The kellerbier style seems to fall off the radar for most beer-drinkers, but I’m drawn to it. It’s a little less refined than your classic pilsner. It’s unfiltered, dry, and crisp. So crushable.
The most underrated beer in my opinion is the brown ale. While I agree many can fall short and be a little lackluster, when you do find a good one, you’ll know it. The mouthfeel needs to be in that sweet spot: Not too thin or too heavy, sweet yet still refreshing with a hint of brown sugar and perfectly paired hops. My favorite brown ale, when I can get my hands on it, is Face Down Brown by Telluride Brewing Co.
I’m not sure if we’re talking about styles or specific brands, but we don’t make a brown ale anymore and really do love that style. We don’t make the style because it’s close to our Pop’s Porter and we wanted to focus on one dark style throughout the year. I think Cigar City Brewing’s Maduro is an excellent representation of a great brown and it’s delicious. We’re honestly lucky that we can get that beer year-round here in Florida. The malt backbone with the silky mouthfeel makes it a full-bodied brown ale that hits just right. You get some nice hints of chocolate and coffee too.
Samuel Smith’s Taddy Porter
Samuel Smith
Stephen Hale, founding brewer at Schlafly Beer in St. Louis
Although we’ve brewed quite a few porters over the years (including Holy Smoke Papal Porter for the Pope’s visit years ago), we currently don’t have a regular one in the lineup. Porters are generally understated, and pretty fabulous black ales without the big roastiness of stouts, and the ABV is often moderate which is a big win. Not that Tadcaster is underrated, it’s just that porters need a brighter spotlight sometimes.
Regardless of the time of year, it’s really hard to beat the clean, crisp, refreshing taste of a well-made pilsner. There’s a reason it’s one of the most popular beer styles in the world. Trumer Pils is a highly crushable 4.9 percent ABV and features a complex, well-balanced flavor profile of bright, floral hops and flavorful malts.
There’s a chance that you’ve never heard of this beer. And if you have, there’s a good possibility your father or grandfather drank it. But maybe they were on to something. This classic cream ale that’s been brewed the same way since its inception in 1960. It’s like a combination of a bold lager and an ale. It’s filled with flavors like caramel, sweet corn, fresh-baked bread, and a creamy vanilla-like sweetness. But there’s also a nice crisp, refreshing aspect as well.
Overall, this is a beer that deserves much more acclaim.
Coachella’s 2022 festival is just three months away, and it seems like organizers have finalized their lineup. Those who were once supposed to headline —Travis Scott, Rage The Machine, and Frank Ocean — wound up not working out. But organizers appear to have found their replacements. Last fall, Swedish House Mafia already confirmed an appearance, reportedly as headliners. Earlier today, TMZ reported that Billie Eilish signed on to the festival to replace Travis Scott. This leaves one remaining open spot for a headliner and it’s reportedly being taken by Kanye West.
Variety reports that Kanye will serve as the headliner for the respective Sunday editions of the festival, which takes place on the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24. Billie Eilish will headline on Saturday for the respective weekends. Variety also reports that it’s unclear if Swedish House Mafia will serve as the festival’s third headliner, their traditional “throwback” slot which is often reserved for a veteran artist or group to reunite at the showcase.
While it will be Billie’s first time performing at Coachella since 2019, it would be Kanye’s first time headlining since 2011. The news comes after Kanye said he is planning another show, this one at New York’s Madison Square Garden. It would be his second show in as many months after he and Drake over the Los Angeles Coliseum for their Larry Hoover benefit concert.
Kevin Porter Jr. has had quite the week. The Rockets guard left the arena at halftime after an altercation with an assistant coach in which he reportedly threw something and stormed out, driving home despite there being an entire half of basketball left to play after he and Christian Wood were criticized by their coach for a lack of effort and discipline in front of the entire team.
The two were then suspended for Monday night’s loss to the Sixers in Philly, and for a Rockets team that has been mired in an 8-game losing streak, things seemed to be going off the tracks. However, Porter Jr. and the Rockets team as a whole responded with their best performance in a long time on Wednesday in Washington, where they put an end to their losing streak thanks to some heroics from none other than Porter Jr.
Jalen Green (22 points), Christian Wood (22 points), and Eric Gordon (19 points) did much of the damage over the course of the game for Houston, but Porter Jr. got the biggest bucket of the night on the final possession for Houston, as he got a switch off a screen from Green to get Raul Neto, who he walked down, sized up, and fired a sidestep three just before the buzzer that hit the bottom of the net to give the Rockets a 114-111 win.
The Wizards had 0.4 seconds to try and answer, but Kyle Kuzma, who has a pair of game-winners this season, couldn’t get a shot off in time to force overtime and Houston snapped its skid in impressive fashion. Porter Jr. finished with nine points, eight assists, and seven rebounds in the win and the response from he and Wood coming off of their one-game suspension was exactly what the Rockets were hoping to see.
On Sunday, one of the strangest sagas in the NFL in some time played out on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers sideline in the third quarter of what became a comeback win over the Jets in New Jersey.
However, the two sides have disputed exactly what went down, with the Bucs cutting Brown and Bruce Arians unwilling to go into specifics regarding what happened in the build up to Brown leaving the field. According to Brown, it wasn’t him quitting but that he was being told to play through an ankle injury he didn’t feel he could play through anymore, and the Bucs cut him for not playing hurt. That is, of course, a serious accusation and one the league and the players association will both want to look into. The Bucs have denied that was the case, but Brown went into further detail about the situation in a statement through his attorney, in which he claims he was injected with a painkiller before the game but felt he could no longer play in the third quarter when a coach told him “‘You’re done’ while he ran a finger across his throat,” indicating he was being cut for not playing hurt before he walked off the field, as opposed to the Bucs insistence he was cut for leaving the field.
Brown says he will be having surgery on his ankle and says he wasn’t able to cut and push off the line of scrimmage as he felt he needed to in order to perform and the pain was extreme — and explained that there’s a difference between doing those things and jogging off of the field. All told, it seems like the Brown saga will not be coming to an end anytime soon, as an investigation into what happened seems likely and there will be plenty of questions for the Bucs if Brown can prove the alleged conversation on the sideline went down as he says.
The first anniversary of Jan. 6, when violent Trump supporters stormed the Capitol building, is upon us, and Republicans have no idea how to commemorate it. Trump, who helped foment the attack, announced what would have almost certainly been an unhinged press conference, but pulled out at the last second. Meanwhile, Fox News hosts keep getting busted for frantic texts they sent that day or, in Sean Hannity’s case, before and after as well.
Ted Cruz, who was instrumental in spreading lies about nonexistent voter fraud, took a truly unpredictable stance: He told the truth. Well, about the insurrectionists, anyway. On the Senate floor, he praised the Capitol police who put themselves in harm’s way, many of whom were injured, some of whom died later as a result of what happened. He even went a step further: He described the siege as a violent terrorist attack.”
Video of @tedcruz today that the Jan 6th mass trespassing event violently cracked down by police was a “violent terrorist attack on the capitol.”
He’s not wrong, although it’s difficult to know who his target audience was, considering his role in the lead-up to the assault. That’s what Tucker Carlson wondered on his show Wednesday night.
The Fox News host spent a segment slamming “supposedly conservative Republican senators” who are “busy repeating the talking points that [Attorney General] Merrick Garland has written for them.” He then singled out Cruz, airing his recent speech, and then tearing him a new one.
After calling him “legitimately smart” and “one of the more articulate people to serve in Congress,” Carlson removed his kid gloves, taking umbrage with his classification of violent people whipped up on lies, trying to overturn a free and fair election.
“Of all the things that January 6 was, it was definitely not a violent terrorist attack. It wasn’t an insurrection. Was it a riot? Sure!” Carlson asserted. “It was not a violent terrorist attack. Sorry! So why are you telling us that it was, Ted Cruz? And why are none of your Republican friends, who are supposed to be representing us and all the people who’ve been arrested during this purge, saying anything? What the hell’s going on here? You’re making us think maybe the Republican party is as worthless as we suspected it was.”
Carlson then admitted, “That can’t be true” and asked Cruz to “reassure us, please.”
It’s yet another example of the Republican in-fighting inspired by the continued investigation into one of the darkest days in American history, which has led multiple Trump allies to come after each other in an attempt to save face, especially as possible jail-time looms forsome.
Mark Meadows throws Sean Hannity under the bus. Peter Navarro throws Cruz and Gosar under the bus. Kerik throws everyone under the bus. Roger Stone throws Bannon under the bus. Pence’s team is talking. Trump canceled his press conference. Melania is having a Garage sale.
It was just a little over two months ago that dating rumors between Chloe Bailey and Gunna began. Back in October, the pair was spotted courtside together at an Atlanta Hawks basketball game against the Dallas Mavericks. As expected, images of thw two caused quite a storm on social media, but Gunna later denied that things were more than platonic between him and Chloe. “We’re not dating,” he said at the time. “That was just like a date, though, where you just go to the game and catch a vibe. But she’s my friend.”
However, that was in 2021. The pair was once again spotted together at a recent basketball game, this one between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Sacramento Kings. Once the game concluded, Chloe and Gunna were seen holding hands outside the arena. Many jumped on social media to share their thoughts about the video.
Gunna recently revealed the tracklist for his upcoming project Drip Season 4, which includes features from Chloe herself as well as Drake, Young Thug, and more.
You can view the video of Gunna and Chloe in the video above and reactions from fans below.
Chloe and gunna together is so random to me but good for her like@how the hell did they even meet
However, focus quickly shifted from Kyrie’s return to action to a different return, as Lance Stephenson has come back to the Pacers (for a third time) on a 10-day hardship deal after spending a week-plus in Atlanta earlier this year. Stephenson was a key member of some of the Pacers’ best teams of the early 2010s and had a brief career revival to end the 2016 season by returning to Indiana.
Once again, something about playing in Indiana has helped Stephenson turn back the clock, as he entered the game to a standing ovation midway through the first quarter and in six minutes went 8-of-9 from the field, including 4-of-5 from three, to score 20 points to carry the Pacers to a 37-32 advantage, punctuated by a stepback three at the buzzer that blew the roof off of Gainbridge Fieldhouse.
The best part of Stephenson’s first quarter barrage was the reaction of fans seeing tweets from reporters about Lance going off in Indiana and wondering if they had been transported back to 2012, as his signing on a 10-day hadn’t exactly registered as national news. For at least a quarter, though, we got a throwback night in Indiana as Stephenson stole the shine from Kyrie’s return with an out of body experience for six minutes. Between Lance’s first quarter on Wednesday and Joe Johnson’s return to the NBA in Boston, it’s been quite the month for fans of the early 2010’s Eastern Conference.
Hockey fan Nadia Popovici had been watching the Vancouver Canucks play the Seattle Kraken when she noticed something off putting from the stands that set off alarms from her training as a medical student.
As Canucks assistant equipment manager Brian Hamilton approached the bench, Popovici noticed a small mole on the back of his neck. The marking might have seemed innocent enough, but thanks to her experience volunteering for oncology wards, Popovici recognized the potential danger lurking. So, she quickly took action.
“The mole on the back of your neck is cancer,” read Popovici’s message in big boldly colored letters on her phone screen. It took a few attempts to get her message across during the hustle and bustle of the game, but she eventually got Hamiliton’s attention through the plexiglass.
And sure enough, her on-the-spot prognosis was right.
Hamilton received a biopsy which confirmed that the mole had been cancerous. And if it had gone unaddressed, it would have been life threatening.
“It was only on the outer layer of my skin,” Hamilton recalled at a news conference. “It hadn’t penetrated to the second layer of my skin and that’s because we caught it so early…And the words out of the doctor’s mouth were if I ignored that for four to five years, I wouldn’t be here.”
“She extended my life. I’ve got a wonderful family. I’ve got a wonderful daughter. She saved my life.”
🗣 Part 1 of Brian “Red” Hamilton’s interview with the media after finding the woman who he calls his hero pic.twitter.com/t5sS8RCZPW
Moved by this stranger’s act of kindness, Hamilton wrote a heartfelt letter on social media in an attempt to reunite with the woman who saved his life.
His letter read:
“To this woman I am trying to find, you changed my life, and now I want to find you to say THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH! Problem is, I don’t know who you are or where you are from…we are looking for this incredible person…help us find a real life hero, so I can express my sincerest gratitude.“
It didn’t take long before the message found its way to Popovici’s mother, who commented:
“She hasn’t even seen this message yet as she worked graveyard shift at the suicide crisis center in Seattle so she’s still asleep. She’ll be shocked to see this message! She will be at the game tonight in the same seats. She’ll be so happy and excited to know he got it checked! What wonderful news!!!! She just got accepted into multiple medical schools!“
Talk about the power of the internet.
And so, the pair had an incredibly sweet reunion at the start of the game that night.
The internet community helped us find Brian’s hero, Nadia, and tonight they met in person where he got to express his sincerest thank you to her for saving his life.
Displaying a truly amazing amount of empathy, Popovic shared with Sportsnet:
“The fact that I got to look him in the eye and hear what happened from his perspective. Imagine how jarring that is to for you to be at work and someone just kind of looks at you and says, `Hey, maybe you go see a doctor.’ That’s not what you want to hear. So the fact that I got to see him and talk to his family members that have been really impacted by him dodging a big bullet that’s so special.’‘
Popovici is well on her way to saving countless more lives, since both the Canucks and Kraken teamed up to provide a $10,000 scholarship for medical school expenses.
Though the Canucks won that night, they tweeted that Hamilton and Popovici being able to meet was their “biggest win.”
Popovici told Sportsnet that Hamiton’s mole was a “picture perfect example of what melanoma looks like.”
If you’re wondering what that picture perfect example is, one person left a very helpful tweet so that you might be able to tell the difference between a marking that’s benign and one that’s malignant. (Of course, this doesn’t replace getting the help of a trained professional.)
Thank you so much for asking!!! We use ABCDE (and F for Family: higher risk if a close family member has had melanoma) pic.twitter.com/EhpFv5CzGy
And to Nadia Popovici, who continues to be of service, thank you. More than ever, efforts to show compassion don’t go unnoticed.
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