As part of Mayne’s curtain call, he interviewed Green Bay Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers, who has been prominently in the news throughout the NFL offseason. Part of the interview touched on Rodgers’ current feelings about his standing with the Packers, including the assertion that he is fond of Jordan Love, Green Bay’s fan base and his fellow players, but not quite as excited about the team’s “philosophy.”
That clip certainly made the rounds, as every twist and turn from Rodgers is (rightfully) covered with bated breath. From there, though, Mayne left his imprint on the interview, signing off by pretty much dropping the mic on Rodgers by playfully ripping him for his takes on cryptocurrency and dropping an expletive on the way out.
This is something that Mayne can pull off with gusto, as evidenced by Rodgers laughing through it and sharing his appreciation for the beloved anchor. Obviously, this would not have worked with just anyone, but Mayne walking the tight rope between the real news with Rodgers to making everybody laugh is a perfect encapsulation of his appeal on the air in Bristol since 1994.
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The only thing better than standing over a grill, flipping steaks, sausages, and burgers on a hot, sunny day is doing it while sipping a frosty, refreshing beer. Crisp, thirst-quenching pale ales, pilsners, lagers, and IPAs were literally designed for hot, hazy days and long, humid nights. They’re also the perfect complement to grilled foods.
Whether you love steaks, chicken wings, carne asada, or portabella mushrooms, there’s a beer just waiting to be paired with the grilled meal of your choice. Below, you’ll find my 18 favorite beers to drink when I’m cooking over an open flame. Do you agree with my picks? If not, where did I go wrong?
If you get thirsty, click the prices. There’s sure to be at least one beer that becomes your next grilling go-to.
Beer geeks might scoff at this choice, but we challenge you to find a better example of a crushable beer to sip on while you grill. First launched in 1903, this crisp, easy-drinking beer stands the test of time thanks to malted barley, proprietary yeast, and Galena hops.
Tasting Notes:
It might seem silly to nose this beer, but if you do, you’ll be met with aromas of sweet corn, freshly baked bread, and sweet malts. The taste is that of fresh-cut grass. It’s subtly floral with hints of corn, biscuity sweetness, and just a touch of citrus hops at the very end.
Bottom Line:
This beer is dirt cheap. It’s highly crushable and pairs well with hot days and grilled meats, vegetables, and anything else you want to toss on a grill.
This 5% pale ale is only available from March until August. It’s brewed with 2-Row malts and a combination of German and American hops to guarantee a crisp, thirst-quenching summery brew.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find scents of fresh grapefruit, orange peel, lemon zest, freshly cut grass, and subtle resinous hops. The palate is filled with more grass, wildflowers, caramel malts, and vibrant, citrus hops. The close is refreshing, light, and dry.
Bottom Line:
Brooklyn’s Summer Ale is a seasonal classic that pairs well with yard games, grilled foods, and warm weather.
No refreshing, summery grilling beer story is complete without Corona. It might not seem like the most craft-centric of choices, but is there anything better than drinking down a few Corona’s with lime on a hot day? This pale Mexican lager is simple, refreshing, and goes down easy.
Tasting Notes:
Honestly, there isn’t much going on with this beer’s nose. You can smell faintly bitter, floral hops and corn-like sweetness. Take a sip and you’ll find a sweet, malty, subtly citrus-driven (especially with the customary lime wedge) brew. It all leads to a sweet, floral hoppy end. But the truth is you’ll be drinking it so fast you probably won’t taste much of it anyway.
Bottom Line:
Corona was meant for hot weather. Since many of us have to wait until the summer for that inevitable heatwave, we spend the season drinking as many lime-filled Coronas as possible.
Boston’s Harpoon launched Rec. League a few years ago. This surprisingly complex sessionable, hazy pale ale was brewed Cascade, Mosaic, Simcoe, Ekuanot, and Citra hops as well as some unique ingredients like buckwheat, sea salt, and chia seeds.
Tasting Notes:
Before sipping, take a moment to breathe in the scents of tropical mangos, guavas, and pineapples. This evolves into fresh limes and grapefruits. Taking a sip reveals flavors of grapefruit, lemons, sweet malts, and just a hint of tangy salt. It ends with a clean, refreshing sweet finish.
Bottom Line:
This beer was created to be enjoyed while you play kickball or slow pitch softball. Polish off the four-pack with an afternoon of grilling.
We easily could have put Narragansett Lager in this spot, but we prefer the crisp, bright flavor of Fresh Catch during the summer months. This sessionable blonde ale gets its subtly tart, highly crushable flavor from being dry-hopped with Citra hops.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll be greeted with aromas of juicy tropical fruits, fresh grapefruit, and tangerine. Sipping opens up flavors of ripe oranges, grapefruit, mango, sweet malts, and subtly bitter hops. The last few sips are sweet, fresh, and filled with citrus flavors.
Bottom Line:
The folks at Narragansett crafted this beer to be paired with shellfish (as is evident from the can), but even if you don’t grill up lobster, you can still pair it with a nice, charred burger.
This beer totally lives up to its name. If you like to pair your go-to grilled foods with a juicy, hazy, fresh beer that tastes more like a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice than a classic adjunct lager, this is your beer. Sloop’s flagship beer is filled to the brim with citrus-flavored American hops and has little to no bitterness.
Tasting Notes:
Breathe in the scents of guava, mango, passion fruit, and grapefruit before taking your first sip. When you do drink this beer, you’ll find notes of grapefruit, pineapple, and melted orange creamsicles. It closes out with juicy, sweet, and dominant tropical fruit and citrus flavors.
Bottom Line:
This juicy, hazy beer pairs well with rich, seasoned steaks and grilled chicken. It also pairs well with simply standing next to a grill while someone else cooks the aforementioned food.
There’s a reason Ballast Point Sculpin IPA is one of the best-rated beers in the world. This award-winning, 7%, year-round offering gets its vibrant, crisp, tart flavors from being hopped at five different times during the brewing process. Named for the sting of the Sculpin fish, it carries just the right amount of spicy, bitter hops.
Tasting Notes:
After you crack open a bottle of this iconic brew, take time to smell the overwhelming aromas of a forest of pine trees. This is followed quickly behind by a combination of sweet malts and tangy citrus. The flavors you’ll find when sipping this beer include fresh grapefruit, pineapple, lemon zest, and a whole slew of resinous, slightly bitter pine at the very end.
Bottom Line:
This tart, slightly bitter, citrus-filled IPA pairs well with spicy foods. Pair it with spice-rubbed ribs or jalapeno, cheddar burgers.
It’s tempting to Sierra Nevada’s iconic Pale Ale here, but grilling is a time for summery beers. The brand’s Summerfest is Czech-style pilsner brewed with 2-Row, Pilsner, and Munich malts, as well as Perle, Saaz, and Spalter Select hops. It’s known for its golden color, crisp flavor, and refreshing flavors.
Tasting Notes:
Before taking your first sip, breathe in the scents of lemon zest, cereal sweetness, clover honey, and light, floral hops. Sipping this beer reveals sweet corn, fresh grass, and a nice mix of citrus and floral hops. It doesn’t have much hop bitterness but finishes sweet and crisp.
Bottom Line:
This is an easy-drinking beer. It lives up to its name and makes us want to attend as many grilled-food-and-yard-game-centric festivals as possible this year.
Dogfish Head SeaQuench is a great change of pace beer from the usual lagers, pilsner, and IPAs of grilling season. It all starts with a thirst-quenching Kölsch-style beer. That alone would be enough, but the folks at Dogfish Head mixed it with a salty gose and a Berliner Weiss before adding black limes, lime juice, and sea salt.
Tasting Notes:
The nose is wall to wall lime. So citrus fans should be pretty stoked. You’ll also find citrus zest and just a hint of salinity. The palate is full of flavors like tangy, tart lime zest, subtle spices, sweet wheat, and a nice, salty, briny backbone that leaves you craving more.
Bottom Line:
This salty, sweet, tangy beer was designed to be the most thirst-quenching beer ever made. It lives up to the hype. It’s a great grill side sipper on a hot day.
When warmer weather strikes, we often forget about the hazy, flavorful wheat beer. But one sip of Oberon and you’ll continue drinking it all summer long. This 5.8% ABV brew is made using Bell’s proprietary house ale yeast. The wheat flavor is kicked up with the addition of wheat malt.
Tasting Notes:
A complex, hazy wheat beer of this magnitude is best enjoyed after a proper nosing. You’ll find strong aromas of candied orange peels, sweet honey, wet grass, and a bready sweetness. After that, when you take a drink, you’ll find a nice mixture of tropical fruits, ripe tangerines, and a nice kick of banana-like yeast. The finish is all citrus and spices.
Bottom Line:
Oberon is one of the eagerly-awaited seasonal beers from Bell’s for a reason. It’s hazy, juicy, and refreshing. It also pairs beautifully with marinated meat skewers and grilled vegetables.
When it comes to grilling beer hierarchy, Mexican-style lagers are high on the list. One of the best is Ska Brewing’s Mexican Logger. This award-winning, Mexican-style lager gets its refreshing bite from the use of Saaz hops. It’s sessionable, light, and pairs well with humid days and good times.
Tasting Notes:
You’re going to want to give this beer a nosing before taking a sip. You’ll find aromas of caramel malts, subtle citrus zest, floral hops, and just a bit of nutty sweetness. After your first sip, you’ll open a world of corny sweetness, clover honey, sweet malts, and just a hint of bitter, floral hops at the very end.
Bottom Line:
While we enjoy a true Mexican lager while we grill, this Saaz hop-centric beer is the perfect change of pace from your usual Tecate or Sol.
When it comes to the best hazy wheat beers well-suited for summer imbibing, there’s Bell’s Oberon and Allagash White. While we’re happy with either, if we had our choice, we’d pick Allagash. This Belgian-style wheat beer is brewed with malted wheat, raw wheat, and oats, as well as coriander and orange peels.
Tasting Notes:
This is the kind of beer that tastes even better when you give it a nice nosing before taking a sip. While the wheat isn’t overly abundant, there are obvious notes of coriander and other spices as well as ripe orange. This beer is sweet and filled with flavors of dried orange peels, sweet malts, banana yeast, and just a hint of spice at the finish.
Bottom Line:
This flavorful, hazy beer pairs well with many types of grilled foods. It shines when paired with grilled swordfish and other grilled seafood.
One of the most respected West Coast-style IPAs ever made, Stone IPA was first brewed back in 1997 to celebrate the brewery’s first anniversary. Since then, this resinous, citrus-filled, surprisingly well-balanced IPA has become its flagship beer and one of the most respected and award-winning of the style.
Tasting Notes:
On the nose, you’ll find scents of orange peels, sweet malts, grapefruit, and just a hint of cracked black pepper. The flavor is well-balanced with notes of orange, pineapple, grapefruit, caramel malts, and resinous, dank hops at the very end. It has the bitterness West Coast IPA fans love, but it’s tempered by all of the other flavors.
Bottom Line:
IPAs like Stone were made to sit beside a grill. The slightly bitter, citrus flavor works well with fatty, rich meats because its bitter, effervescent nature helps to cleanse your palate in between dishes.
Just looking at this can make us think of hazy, humid late spring and early summer days spent grilling and relaxing on a deck or porch. This unfiltered Belgian-style pilsner is brewed with Belgian lager yeast and floor malted Czech barley. It’s cellared until it reaches exactly the perfect fermentation level.
Tasting Notes:
Your nostrils will fill with the scents of honey, candied orange peels, citrus zest, and sweet, wheaty malts if you allow for a nosing before taking a sip. Tangerine, grapefruit, cereal malts, and honey are prevalent on the palate. The ending is crisp, hoppy, and finishes with subtle banana flavors.
Bottom Line:
Hazy summer days were made for Idyll Days Pilsner. It’s so thirst-quenching and complex, you’ll drink it all day — especially when you’re standing beside the grill.
This classic low-ABV pilsner was made in the traditional German style using both hops sourced from Bavaria as well as malts. This beer was crafted to be the first one you crack open after a long day at the office (or wherever you work). It’s known for its refreshing, subtly malty, easy-drinking nature.
Tasting Notes:
The first aromas you’ll notice when nosing this beer are those of citrus rinds, noble hops, and sweet, cereal malts. Crisp flavors of biscuit malts, fresh-baked bread, orange, and subtly bitter, floral hops are pronounced. All of this leads to a clean, thirst-quenching sweet finish.
Bottom Line:
This beer was created to be enjoyed after a long day of work. So do just that. Crack one open, throw a few steaks on the grill, and enjoy your evening the right way.
With a name like Sun Crusher, you better believe this 5.3% ABV summer ale is up to the challenge. It’s juicy, filled with citrus flavors, and highly crushable with Apollo and Amarilla hops. It gets an extra kick from being dry-hopped with Crystal, Amarillo, and Mosaic hops.
Tasting Notes:
Don’t drink this summer ale without first giving it a nice nosing. You’ll find aromas of grapefruit, tangerines, and lemon zest, as well as light piney hops. When you do drink it, you’ll notice hints of orange peels, sweet wheat, grapefruit, tangerine, and a nice hit of resin and pine at the very end.
Bottom Line:
You can crush the summer sun by drinking this complex, citrusy beer on a hot day. Pair it with rich, cheesy burgers and you’re all set for a great season.
This 7% IPA from Maine Beer actually wasn’t named for our favorite mid-day meal, it was named for a whale that’s been seen swimming along the coast of the state since 1982. Brewed with Amarillo, Centennial, and Simcoe hops, as well as 2-Row, Carapils, Caramel 40L, Munich 10L malts, and red wheat, this is a complex, grill-friendly, memorable beer.
Tasting Notes:
The well-rounded flavor profile begins with the nose of ripe grapefruit, lemon zest, mango, and sweet malts. Take a sip and you’ll be transported to a world of guava, pineapple, tangerine, caramel malts, and resinous, piney hops. It all ends with a nice mix of tropical fruits and citrus.
Bottom Line:
This isn’t the type of beer you crack open and guzzle as you grill. In fact, it doesn’t even come in cans. Open a bottle, pour yourself a pint, and enjoy it slowly while you stand behind a grill on a hot day.
You might be surprised to find a pilsner taking the top spot on this list. But if you think about it, a crisp, refreshing, dry-hopped American pilsner is exactly the type of beer any griller would love to crush. This European-influenced beer is brewed with Spalter Select, Tradition, and Saphir hops before being dry-hopped with more Saphir hops.
Tasting Notes:
Pivo has aromatic scents of fresh-baked bread, caramel malts, and a good deal of floral hops. On the palate, you’ll find hints of wet grass, tropical fruits, noble hops, and subtle pine. This beer closes with a crisp, fresh, floral, and sweet ending.
Bottom Line:
This well-rounded pilsner gets ramped up in the flavor department due to dry-hopping. It pairs well with spicy, grilled chicken wings and anything else you’d like to slather in hot sauce.
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We live in an almost certainly worrying era of big mergers, with large companies being devoured by even larger companies, with no government regulations to keep them from getting too big. This isn’t as troubling as Disney swallowing up Fox, but it’s still: According to The Hollywood Reporter, the already ginormous Amazon is very close to finalizing a deal to buy MGM, the legendary but troubled media company whose biggest asset is no less than James Bond.
Should the deal, which is reportedly going for “almost $9 billion,” go through, they’ll acquire — among many, many other things — a franchise that’s been effectively homeless since 2015. Sony lost the rights to the 007 series after Spectre, and its long-delayed latest, No Time to Die, is being released by MGM in tandem with United Artists Releasing, with Universal handling the international wing. Will that mean that the previous 24 entries, which have long drifted from streamer to streamer, will have a permanent home on Amazon Prime? It’s still too early to tell.
Amazon also stands to gain 4,000 movies and 17,000 hours of television, though not much of that will be from MGM’s vast back catalogue. A large section of that was long ago sold to Warner Bros., which is one reason why HBO Max is relatively lousy with classic Hollywood fare, at least compared to other streamers.
During the Golden Age of Hollywood, MGM was one of what they called the “Big Five,” along with Warner Bros., Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and RKO. But that was some seven decades ago. Nowadays they’re struggling. The company emerged from bankruptcy in 2010 and has cautiously stayed afloat. They were recently nearing a deal with Apple, but it appears Amazon has stepped in for their own big merger. A deal reportedly could be announced as early as next week, though it will likely take a bit longer for you to be able to casually watch Octopussy on Prime.
Game of Thrones came under quite a bit of fire for how it treated its female characters, as well as the actresses who played them. Early seasons were heavy on rape scenes, and the backlash — including from its own cast — was such that they eventually started rewriting such moments from the books. But there was one instance where they over-corrected, resulting in a scene where an actress found herself being waterboarded for 10 hours on set.
Hannah Waddingham now appears on Ted Lasso, but she spent eight episodes of in the fifth and sixth seasons as Septa Unella, the religious zealot best known for the “shame” meme. She talked about her experiences on Collider Ladies Night, and they weren’t pretty. There was one torture scene that was as written had her being raped by Hafþór Júlíus Björnsson’s Gregor Clegane, a.k.a. the Mountain. But when she got off the plane and arrived on set, she discovered it had been suddenly rewritten so that she underwent the kind of water torture the George W. Bush administration inflicted on prisoners during the Iraq War.
“I think they’d had so many complaints about the rape of Sansa [Sophie Turner] that they chose not to go with it,” she said during the chat. “Unbelievably, they changed it quite at the last minute. I think they possibly changed it when I was mid-air flying to Belfast because suddenly I got sent these new sides that said I would need a wetsuit top. I thought they’d sent me the wrong bits.”
When she asked the filmmakers for assurance that they weren’t actually going to waterboard her, they said, she claimed, “No, no, no, we are.”
And so Waddingham spent 10 hours bound with “proper big straps” to a wooden table as Lena Headey’s Cersei poured wine over her face, over and over and over again.
“Definitely other than childbirth, [it] was the worst day of my life,” Waddingham said. “Lena was uncomfortable pouring liquid in my face for that long, and I was beside myself. But in those moments, you go, ‘Do you serve the piece and get on with it?’ Or do you chicken out and go, ‘This isn’t what I signed up for.’”
When it was all over, she said, she walked past the episode’s director, Michael Sapochnik, who asked if she was alright. “Not really,” she said she told him. When she arrived back at her hotel, she said she was so traumatized that she could barely speak above a whisper and that there were “bruises already coming up like I’d been attacked.”
As anyone who’s been unfortunate enough to be waterboarded will tell you, its effects are long-lasting. “It definitely gave me claustrophobia around water,” Waddingham said. “It’s quite full on being waterboarded for 10 hours — and then, for only one minute and 37 seconds to be used on camera.”
With the help of a late jumper from Khris Middleton, the Milwaukee Bucks secured a memorable Game 1 victory over the Miami Heat on Saturday. Just two days later, the same two teams squared off at Fiserv Forum but, while the win-loss result was identical, the game flow was anything but similar. In fact, Milwaukee threw the first punch, then the second and third and… well, the Heat never punched back and the Bucks emerged with a thoroughly dominant 132-98 win to take a 2-0 series lead.
Mike Budenholzer’s team was brilliant from the opening tip, zooming to a 19-4 run in the first five minutes. Giannis Antetokounmpo set the tone with nine points, five rebounds and two assists in that span, and the Bucks caught fire with scalding-hot shooting.
The Bucks pushed their lead to 29-10 with the help of reserve guard Bryn Forbes, who made his presence felt with authority. The former Spurs guard made his first five shots, including four three-pointers, in his first six minutes of action, and Forbes’ 14-point barrage helped to break the game open for good.
Milwaukee led by as many as 28 points in the opening period before settling in with a 46-20 lead after 12 minutes of play. The Bucks shot a mind-blowing 72 percent from the floor in the quarter, converting 10 three-pointers and generating 17 assists. All told, the ten three-point connects were the most in any quarter this season for Milwaukee, and the team’s 26-point lead tied for the largest first quarter margin in NBA playoff history.
While the damage was largely done, the Bucks didn’t cool off and that especially went for Forbes. He scored 19 points in his first eight minutes, helping to extend the margin early in the second quarter.
By the halftime break, the game was essentially over with the Bucks leading by 27 points. Milwaukee set a franchise playoff record with 15 three-pointers in the half, shooting 56 percent overall with 22 assists, including 11 dimes from Jrue Holiday. Not only did the Bucks shoot the lights out, but they also secured 11 offensive rebounds (on only 23 missed field goals), and Milwaukee used that combination to score more than 1.5 points per possession in the first half.
Milwaukee didn’t dominate the third quarter, but they did more than enough to ensure that the Heat weren’t going to threaten. The Bucks won the third period by a two-point margin, taking a 28-point lead to the fourth quarter, and other than some fireworks and words exchanged between the two teams, the second half was largely academic in nature.
Perhaps the Bucks could have pursued NBA playoff history offensively if the game was more competitive, but they were ludicrously efficient on the whole. Milwaukee finished the night shooting 22-of-53 from three-point distance, and they assisted on 34 field goals despite nearly an entire half of garbage time. Antetokounmpo led the way with 31 points, 13 rebounds, six assists and three steals, with big nights from Holiday (11 points, 15 assists), Forbes (22 points) and Middleton (17 points on eight shooting possessions).
With the win, the Bucks seize control of the series, but the Heat can take minor solace in the matchup shifting to Miami beginning with Game 3 on Thursday. Though the saying goes that the series does not begin until the home team loses, the Heat will need to find solutions in a hurry against a Bucks team that is seemingly firing on all cylinders.
The last we heard from the National Rifle Association they had filed for bankruptcy. It was mid-January, Trump was on the way out, and news that one of the most reviled organizations in the country had gone Chapter 11 inspired much rejoicing. Executive Vice President (and public figurehead) Wayne LaPierre tried to calm his base, saying it was a convoluted attempt to wriggle out of a New York State lawsuit and that somehow they’d wind up stronger than ever. A new ad shows they’re at least keepin’ on keepin’ on, even if they apparently can’t hire a proofreader.
The brief clip finds Republican senator John Kennedy — no relation whatsoever — clutching and admiring a gun. “Folks, I believe that love is the answer,” Kennedy says. “But you ought to own a handgun just in case.” His words are helpfully printed on the screen. One problem, though: “believe” is spelled “belive.”
The NRA has long played a sinister presence in America, always there to sing the praises of guns after each and every one of the country’s many mass shootings, always able to use powerful lobbyists to keep the government from infringing on sales. So when they made a stupid typo, people who feel helpless to stop them made themselves feel better by doing a good old fashioned social media piling on.
The @NRA is bankrupt and obviously cannot afford a proofreader. Also everyone who saw this ad and approved of it at the @NRA is also illiterate. You too @SenJohnKennedyhttps://t.co/Vwiakk8bsD
Folks, I belive that the NRA and Sen. John Kennedy think you are an idiot.
Nobody is trying to take away guns from any law abiding citizens. Anyone who tells you different is lying to you and trying to get you advocate for gun manufacturers to keep selling guns to criminals. pic.twitter.com/Qw8cGYVs8w
— Brad Beauregard Jr (@BradBeauregardJ) May 25, 2021
— Chuck Todd’s Optics (@_CircusMaximus) May 25, 2021
Anyway, it’s just a typo! They’ll survive this and how. And pointing out a misspelled word does absolutely nothing to eliminate their powers. But it still feels good.
Golf is often referred to as the gentlemen’s game, one where respect for your fellow playing competitors and the game itself has been of the utmost importance. As such, golf rivalries are rarely actually spicy. They tend to be media creations, pitting the best players against each other and trying to form some competitive rivalry out of little more than familiarity at the top of leaderboards.
The guys on the PGA Tour are mostly friends, given that they travel from course to course each week and the nature of golf makes it very uncomfortable to have to play a round with someone you genuinely hate. As such, we rarely get actual hatred between playing competitors but we have just that right now among two of the best players in the world: Brooks Koepka and Bryson DeChambeau.
Koepka, a four-time major champion, always seems to show up in the biggest tournaments and the Florida State product is an immensely talented and strong player, often overpowering courses and opponents on his way to wins. He also is a very laid back personality off the course, putting in his work but he’s not much of one to talk about the nuances of the golf swing. DeChambeau is the opposite, a man obsessed with the science behind everything from the golf swing to the human body, and his approach to golf drives Koepka crazy. On top of how long Bryson takes to play, accounting for every possible variable and doing full on math calculations on the course before each shot, he’s also become obsessed with distance, bulking up and using guys like Brooks to measure himself and how much further he can hit it.
The two have yet to play together since their rivalry formed, as tournaments seem to want to let that pairing happen naturally on a weekend rather than force it. But for anyone wondering if their rivalry has cooled at all, Brooks legitimately losing his train of thought because Bryson walks behind him during an interview at the PGA Championship this weekend proves they still very much hate each other.
Brooks’ face as he tries to just ignore Bryson, surely talking to his team about something with his swing, is incredibly relatable for anyone who has tried to deal with someone obnoxious at work. That he completely breaks and is unable to continue his interview makes it even better.
My sincerest thanks to whoever leaked this from the Golf Channel compound, because it has made my, and the rest of the golf world’s, week so much better.
When it was announced that The Powerpuff Girls — that candy-colored pint-sized superhero cartoon that lorded over the late ‘90s through the mid-aughts — was getting a gritty, live-action reboot, it seemed too good to be true. Well, that’s because it was, sort of: According to Variety (in a bit teased out by The A.V. Club), the revival has been shelved, not because The CW, who ordered it, no longer wants it. It’s because they want to give it a Mulligan.
The network was announcing some of the shows that are definitely coming in the fall, including Ava DuVernay’s superhero show Naomi and the spin-off All American: Homecoming. But Powerpuff — as the reboot’s been called, and which was to revisit the characters as disillusioned twentysomethings, unhappy that they spent their childhood fighting crime — is not. That’s because it’s getting reworked. No reason was given. Perhaps they decided to make it less gritty. Perhaps they’re keeping it gritty but realized the version they made was just a bit (or a lot) off.
The latter seems more likely, as Variety reports they’re retaining all four leads — Chloe Bennet, Dove Cameron, Yana Perrault, and Donald Faison — as well as “the remainder of the cast and the creative team.” A gritty Powerpuff Girls certainly not a bad idea, and it would be fitting with such renegade superhero shows like Umbrella Academy and The Boys, which effectively do a more comedic version of Watchmen, dissecting comic book tropes and delivering more adult fare. So it sounds like the CW is giving the reboot team a second chance to get it right the first time.
You don’t hear about current White House press secretary Jen Psaki as much as you did Donald Trump’s four press secretaries, and one of them, Stephanie Grisham, barely held any press conferences. She’s comparatively boring, which is to say she’s professional, courteous to journalists, and — for the most part, though not exclusively — open about what’s going on in the Joe Biden White House. But every now and then she goes viral, and it usually involves her shutting down conservative reporter Peter Doocy.
Doocy is the son of Fox & Friends mainstay Steve Doocy, and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. He, too, works for Fox News, although his job entails dragging himself to the White House and pelting Psaki with rightwing talking points. The two established a frenemy relationship pretty much as soon as she took the job, and on Monday he tried to press her on newly awakened concern over how COVID-19 began.
A new Wall Street Journal article reveals that three researchers at the Wuhan Institute of Urology in China had been hospitalized with COVID-like symptoms in November, shortly before the virus spread worldwide. Doocy pressed Psaki about Biden pushing for more intel. Psaki responded that they were pushing for an “expert-driven evaluation of the pandemic’s origins that is free from interference or politicization.”
But then Doocy asked the leading question he really wanted to ask, one that tried to make Biden look incompetent. “With 589,920 dead Americans, at what point does President Joe Biden say, ‘We don’t want to wait for the W.H.O., we don’t know what they are doing, this needs to be an American-led effort’?”
When Psaki began to tell him that they first need “access to the underlying data and information to have that investigation,” he interrupted her, asking why he can’t just call Chinese president XI Jinping, she shut him down completely.
“I think you are misunderstanding how this process works,” she told Doocy. “An international investigation led by the world health organization is something we have been pressing for several months in coronation with a range of partners around the world, we need that data and information from the Chinese government. What we can’t do, and what I would caution anyone doing, is leading ahead of an actual international process. We don’t have enough data and information to jump to a conclusion.”
This wasn’t a moment like the ones with Trump secretaries, like Sean Spicer or Sarah Huckabee Sanders or Kayleigh McEnany, who regularly went viral by being snippy or rude to journalists asking sometimes unflattering questions. Psaki was cool and collected but blunt, attempting to mollify someone trying to instill fear and impatience in an already anxious American people.
And so social media, who usually ignores Psaki, decided to praise her for something she probably does too much, which is deal with people like Peter Doocy.
— ReallyAmerican.com (@ReallyAmerican1) May 24, 2021
Oh, and it still doesn’t get reported on, but Press Secretary Jen Psaki is still pounding away at buffoonish gotcha questions from propagandists like Peter Doocybag from Fox. Such a badass.
Peter Doocy’s over here asking why the US doesn’t go all Leeroy Jenkins into China which I’m sure would be totally chill and not at all a gigantic disaster https://t.co/UOYg9ryEim
Doocy over here basically asking Psaki why won’t President Biden invade China to get to the bottom of where COVID-19 originated. https://t.co/QirlXX2vkm
Others saw through Doocy’s methodology, which here involved citing the number of deaths was a clear attempt to pin hundreds of thousands of American deaths on Biden, not the president who oversaw the vast majority of them and did little to stop it.
Peter Doocy’s job is to try to inject right-wing propaganda into the White House press briefing, and every day he is met by a brick wall named Jen Psaki who isn’t letting lies pollute the American people.https://t.co/k1gqTxUQiO via @politicususa
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) May 24, 2021
The discussion surrounding NBA awards is wide-ranging and dominant, with ink spilled all over the basketball landscape each year. On Monday evening, the first of the league’s major trophies was handed out, and the hardware was distributed in a bit of a different way. Prior to a game between the Miami Heat and the Milwaukee Bucks, TNT’s Inside The NBA crew was interviewing Utah Jazz standouts Jordan Clarkson and Joe Ingles when Ernie Johnson prompted the pair on the history of the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year honor.
In short, it was a sneaky way to announce, via Ingles, that Clarkson is the 2020-21 winner of the award distributed to the league’s top reserve.
Ironically, it was Ingles that finished as the runner-up, with Clarkson receiving 65 of the 100 first-place votes and Ingles grabbing 34 of the remaining 35 votes at the top of the ballot. Ingles leaned into the bit, playfully indicating that Clarkson “stole” the honor from him.
“He stole it from me. I should’ve stopped passing him the ball.”⁰⁰Joe Ingles on Jordan Clarkson winning #KiaSixth Man of the Year pic.twitter.com/fPhWSzRQ0p
Only Knicks guard Derrick Rose secured a first-place vote outside of Utah. From there, the former NBA MVP finished just ahead of Dallas Mavericks guards Jalen Brunson and Tim Hardaway Jr. for third place overall.
Utah Jazz guard Jordan Clarkson has won the 2020-21 Kia NBA Sixth Man Award for his contributions in a reserve role, the NBA announced today.
Clarkson enjoyed the most productive season of his NBA career, averaging 18.4 points per game in 68 appearances for the Jazz. Utah’s team success unquestionably bolstered the candidacies of both Clarkson and Ingles, but Clarkson’s advantage in counting statistics (i.e. scoring average) seemingly pushed him over the line against Ingles, who put together a tremendously efficient profile.
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