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This winter league baseball tournament features some of the best clubs in the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation.

MLB teams might be about to report to spring training, but if you’re too impatient to wait, the Caribbean Professional Baseball Confederation has the tournament for you! The 2025 Caribbean Series begins on Friday, Jan. 31 at 4:30 p.m. Et on ESPN+ and ESPN Deportes, and will see the best teams in winter league baseball from Latin America competing for a title. Catch every strikeout and homerun with a three-day free trial of Hulu + Live TV.

How to watch the 2025 Caribbean Series When: Starts Friday, Jan. 31 at 4:30 p.m. Et TV: ESPN Deportes, ESPN+ Stream: Watch with a three-day free trial of Hulu + Live TV. From anywhere: Watch with a subscription to a Vpn. Free 3-Day Trio Trial $82.99+ / month hulu.com Everything you need to know about the 2025 Caribbean Series

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Serena Williams, the 23-time Grand Slam champion, has made her stance clear: she has not bleached her skin.

During a recent Instagram Live session, the 43-year-old tennis legend addressed persistent rumors and criticism about her skin tone. These rumors arose after a video of her attending a school event with her husband, Alexis Ohanian, and their daughters, Olympia and Adira, went viral.

Complexion Became A Hot Topic on Fun-Filled Family Instagram Live

In the video, Williams appeared to be having a great time with her family, but her complexion became a hot topic online.

Social media users speculated about changes to her skin tone, with one user writing, “What happened to her?” Another added, “she was a dark skinned black woman. Now? I don’t know wtf is going on.”

Williams took the opportunity to set the record straight during her live makeup tutorial for her cosmetics brand, Wyn Beauty.

An exciting update has been released for MLB 9 Innings 24, offering players a chance to acquire 5 legendary cards for their team. The mobile game by Com2uS is giving an opportunity for players to bolster their team with some of the most iconic faces in baseball over the years, celebrating the postseason.

Like the previous release of MLB The Show 24, MLB 9 Innings 24 uses official licensing and players to become an increasingly popular mobile game that lets fans control their favorite players on the field. Starting on October 1, players will now be able to use Rickey Henderson, Sammy Sosa, Roy Halladay, Ivn Rodrguez, and Warren Spahn. Each of these legendary athletes left a lasting impact on Major League Baseball, and are now available to be recruited by players to boost their roster to take down competition.

As well as these historic cards, the game is launching an in-game event that will give users...

Sure, Keanu Reeves might be listed as one of the action connoisseurs in Hollywood today but let’s not forget the time when he had us bawling in the sports drama, Hardball. The film contains probably one of the saddest and most tragic deaths in cinema history, giving viewers a reminder that life is unpredictable.

Hardball (2001) | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Hardball was released twenty-three years ago. While the critics might not have been kind to it, we can’t help but enlist it amongst the underrated gems of Hollywood. As the film celebrates its twenty-third anniversary, let’s take a moment to remember coach Conor whose life was changed by a bunch of little kids, and pay our respects to G-Baby.

Happy Twenty-third to Keanu Reeves’ Hardball G-Baby’s death in Harball | Credits: Paramount Pictures

Hardball was released on September 10, 2001. While the audience fully expected to see Keanu Reeves struggle as...

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Chicago – When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade—or in my case, when life gives you a denied photo pass, you grab a disposable camera and go full 1990s at a Green Day concert. I was all set to capture every sweat drop and guitar riff from the photo pit, but ironically this photographer was invited to the show without his camera.

No high-tech gear allowed! So, in honor of my teenage angst and Green Day’s prime, I ditched the Dslr and embraced the grainy, unpredictable glory of a disposable camera. If you thought “Dookie” was raw, just wait until you see these photos (above!).

Green Day’s night concert at Wrigley Field was nothing short of electrifying … a true testament to the band’s enduring legacy and their ability to transcend generations. From the moment Billie Joe Armstrong...

Some of the best international baseball teams from around the world will be coming together in Miami beginning on Feb. 1 for the 2024 Caribbean Baseball Series, and you can watch all of the action with Spanish-language broadcasters on ESPN+. With the first pitch between Nicaragua vs. Puerto Rico getting the tournament underway at 10:30 a.m. Et, seven teams will come together to play in a Major League stadium for the first time as the Miami Marlins’ loanDepot park will host all of the games through the finals on Friday, Feb. 9. All games will air on ESPN+, with ESPN Deportes carrying many as well. You can watch with a subscription to ESPN+.

How to Watch 2024 Caribbean Baseball Series When: Thursday, February 1, 2024 at 10:30 Am Est Where: ESPN+ Stream: Watch with a subscription to ESPN+. Sign Up Now$10.99+ / month espnplus.com About 2024 Caribbean Baseball Series

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The popular baseball video game, MLB The Show 23 includes a large roster of baseball legends, including Mark McGwire, Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, and more. Developed by San Diego Studios and published by Sony Interactive, this game takes the best of baseball and turns it into a video game for players everywhere to enjoy. For 2023 there were a fitting 23 Legends added to the game who can be played as or against, as well as collecting them to create the perfect team for Diamond Dynasty mode.

One of the exciting changes with each new yearly version of MLB The Show is the addition of new athletes for players to choose from in the game. The "Legends" Program within MLB The Show honors former Legends from the MLB teams and these Legends are all highly coveted within the game for their high stats. They are particularly useful for anyone wanting to play...

With one swing of the bat Tuesday night in Arlington, Texas, Aaron Judge is now baseball’s new (legitimate) home run king.

The New York Yankees slugger established — without debate — an American League record for most homers in a season with the 62nd home run, passing the mark fellow Yankees great Roger Maris set in 1961. Judge tied Maris’ mark on Sept. 28.

“I had a good feeling off the bat,” Judge said after the game against the Texas Rangers. “I just didn’t know where it was going to land or...

New York Yankees slugger Aaron Judge belted his 62nd home run of the season on Tuesday evening, setting a new, all-time record for the American League.

Judge’s milestone dinger came in an away game against the Texas Rangers, in the first inning opposite right-hander Jesus Tinoco. With the homer, the outfielder eclipsed the 61 mark set by Yankee great Roger Maris in October 1961.

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The New York Yankees are hosting the Boston Red Sox for a four-game series, but this edition of the teams’ fierce rivalry has different stakes than usual.

Rather than win-loss records or the playoff race, the main focus this time will be whether Yankees slugger Aaron Judge sets an American League record for home runs. And, to the consternation of media watchers and many Yankee fans, tonight’s series opener will only be available on Apple TV+, not on the Yes Network or anywhere else on the linear TV dial.

Apple and Major League Baseball in March announced a multi-year deal for Friday Night Baseball, with the tech giant paying a reported 85 million per season for exclusive rights to stream the weekly showcase. Unlike the norm for Prime Video, Peacock, ESPN+ or other sports streamers, Apple isn’t requiring viewers to pay to see the games, as they would to...

New York Yankees star Aaron Judge is poised to make history this week as he chases Roger Maris’ elusive home run record.

Judge slammed home run number 60 Tuesday night at Yankee Stadium, putting him within one round trip shy of Maris’ record of 61 long-balls in a single season. That record was set back in 1961, and as stood as the Major League mark for 37 years.

Judge has a chance to make history this week as the Yankees take on the Boston Red Sox at home. The long-standing rivalry between the two...

Aaron Judge continued his pursuit of baseball’s (legitimate) home run record Tuesday night when the New York Yankees outfielder hit his 60th home run of the year, tying him with Babe Ruth’s mark and putting him within one long ball of matching Roger Maris’ Yankees and American League record.

Maris’ sons Roger Jr. and Kevin were on hand at Yankee Stadium Tuesday night for Judge’s 60th homer, which kicked off the team’s improbable comeback from a four-run 9th inning deficit to win 9-8 against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

A newcomer to the sportscasting space might be tasked with chronicling a bit of Major League Baseball history.

Now that Aaron Judge has slugged home run No. 60 for the season, the New York Yankees outfielder is just one dinger away from matching Roger Maris’ all-time American League record, and two away from breaking it.

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ESPN has released some of the best sports documentaries out there with their ongoing 30 for 30 series. Last year, they tackled Bruce Lee with Be Water, the home run battle between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in Long Gone Summer, and the career and controversy stirred up by cyclist Lance Armstrong in Lance. But […]

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Exclusive: A documentary about American Gladiators, widely considered one of the first reality competition series, is set as ESPN’s latest 30 for 30.

Deadline understands that the untitled documentary, which explores the story of the show, which ran from 1989 to 1996 and was later rebooted by NBC in 2008, comes from Vice Studios and ESPN Films.

The project will feature many of the larger than life former Gladiators, as well as Johnny Ferraro, who has been referred to as ‘the Godfather of reality television.”

The show, which aired in syndication was created by Ferraro and Dan Carr, matched a cast of amateur athletes against each other as well as against the show’s gladiators.

Ben Berman, who directed The Amazing Johnathan Documentary, which followed the final tour of a dying magician and aired at Sundance in 2019, will helm the doc.

It is ESPN’s latest 30 for 30; the 2019/2020 season of the long-running sports doc...

It’s the jarring thought many face each year on Emmy nominations day as shows receive their just plaudits in the noms: what happened to that great show I was just watching? The one everyone’s talking about right now. Why isn’t it nominated? It’s easy to forget that Emmy’s eligibility window comes to a close on May 31, ruling out from consideration any shows that premiere in the gap between June 1 and today’s nominations announcement.

Last year, the pre-noms head-scratchers were Emmy favorites like Stranger Things Season 3, Big Little Lies Season 2 and Euphoria, which all appear in this year’s nominations as a consequence of their June/July 2019 bows. And this year’s field is especially compounded by the global pandemic, which has led to the longest first phase for Emmy in recent memory. The Television Academy tweaked submission and voting dates this year, pushing them...

Rarely in recent memory has a TV show been so propitiously timed as “The Last Dance.” The 10-episode documentary series about the Michael Jordan-era Chicago Bulls premiered in May, weeks after the coronavirus pandemic caused the shutdown of all major live sports events, leaving fans bereft.

Into that void slipped “The Last Dance,” turning five straight Sunday nights into must-see events for large swathes of audiences quarantined at home. Over the course of its run, “The Last Dance” averaged 5.6 million viewers. And in seizing the moment, it’s becoming emblematic of a wave in sports documentary programming that has been building for years.

“It’s a funny time to celebrate any project and pat yourselves on the back, but I will say, I think it was the perfect project at a really specific point in time in our history,” says Libby Geist, vice president & executive producer, ESPN Films and Original Content.

For the last four decades or so, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has been preceded by the Home Run Derby. The sport’s best(-ish) sluggers step to the plate and launch long ball after long ball into stands of “ooo”-ing and “ahh”-ing spectators. While watching towering shots threaten to shatter the lights of the stadium makes for fleeting entertainment, the problem with the Home Run Derby is that the grandest of long balls only occur in the wild. Home runs are best appreciated in the context of a game, which often gains added meaning from a season-long marathon, or even a 100-year championship drought.

Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...

For the last four decades or so, Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game has been preceded by the Home Run Derby. The sport’s best(-ish) sluggers step to the plate and launch long ball after long ball into stands of “ooo”-ing and “ahh”-ing spectators. While watching towering shots threaten to shatter the lights of the stadium makes for fleeting entertainment, the problem with the Home Run Derby is that the grandest of long balls only occur in the wild. Home runs are best appreciated in the context of a game, which often gains added meaning from a season-long marathon, or even a 100-year championship drought.

Look at Kirby Puckett’s 1991 World Series walk-off shot that set the table for a Twins’ title, or Kirk Gibson’s one-legged Game 1 bomb that, in his only plate appearance, launched the ’88 Dodgers to a pennant, or even Kyle Schwarber, the greatest...

"Watching those two guys - it was poetry." ESPN has debuted the first official trailer for a baseball history documentary titled Long Gone Summer, another impressive ESPN "30 For 30" feature film offering from the big sports network. Director Aj Schnack takes viewers back to the landmark 1998 baseball season – its tremendous highlights, massive impact, and undeniable complications. Mark McGwire of the Cardinals and Sammy Sosa of the Cubs competed against each other in the 1998 season to beat the home run record. With a musical score composed by Wilco's Jeff Tweedy, the doc film is a journey back through time that recalls how "seismic and emotional the story was – even as the legitimacy of the accomplishments at its center would later be called into question." Sadly, it was later discovered both of them used performance-enhancing drugs, but this still was an exciting and wild time in baseball's past. Check out the footage below.

Following the massive success of the Michael Jordan and Chicago Bulls documentary series The Last Dance, ESPN is trying to keep the hype alive by releasing new 30 for 30 sports documentaries on Sundays. One of them will be Long Gone Summer, which chronicles the famous home run battle in the summer of 1998 between […]

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I wouldn't exactly call myself a baseball fan, but even I was mesmerized by the home run derby between sluggers Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa in the summer of 1998, when I was just 14 years old. Those two guys put on a hitting clinic throughout the season as they chased Roger Maris' home run record together. It was heartbreaking to learn, years after the fact, that it was all too good to be true. McGwire and Sosa practically resurrected the sport of baseball that summer while driving in runs for the St. Louis Cardinals and the Chicago Cubs, …...

Faced with an ongoing lack of sports, ESPN has still found ratings success with The Last Dance, a 10-part series chronicling the final championship run of Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls. Since sports aren’t slated to return anytime soon, ESPN is bumping up a few more documentaries from their ongoing 30 for 30 series that […]

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ESPN will continue its Sunday night programming to fill the void left by the absence of live sports by airing three films in its documentary series “30 for 30” after the conclusion of the Chicago Bulls docu-series “The Last Dance,” including stories on Lance Armstrong, Bruce Lee and the steroid scandal that surrounded Sammy Sosa and Mark McGwire.

The films “Lance,” “Be Water” and “Long Gone Summer” will air on ESPN on Sunday nights after “The Last Dance” ends and will be available on ESPN+ immediately after their premieres. Both “Lance” and “Be Water” made their premieres at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year.

First up is “Lance” on Sunday, May 24, a two-part film directed by Marina Zenovich (“Robin Williams: Come Inside my Mind) that grants new access to the disgraced cycling champion, and the second part of the film will air the following Sunday on May 31.

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Turns out, The Last Dance is not the end, but the beginning.

After ESPN found a ratings bonanza with the Michael Jordan/Bulls doc “The Last Dance” on Sunday nights, ESPN Films’ 30 for 30 series will pick up the Sunday night baton when Dance ends.

Just as The Last Dance was moved up to give sports-hungry fans something to watch during the coronavirus pandemic, ESPN has bumped the three new documentaries into May and June.

Leading off the slate on Sunday, May 24 will be part one of the two-part film Lance, which features unprecedented access to Lance Armstrong who delivers personal perspective on his towering rise and dramatic fall from grace. Lance is directed by Marina Zenovich. Part two will premiere the following Sunday, May 31.

Be Water, an intimate look at the life and motivations of martial arts legend Bruce Lee, will debut on Sunday,...

Move over Vladimir Guerrero ... Sammy Sosa says it's His son who will be the Mlb's next big thing -- telling TMZ Sports his 5-year-old boy is legit!!! We got Sosa out at Lax this past week when he revealed his son, Rolando Sosa, has a sweet swing ... and he's projecting Big things for him in about a decade. "He's going to be good," Sosa says ... "He's got a good swing." Sammy scoffed at the idea...

Sammy Sosa says it's time to finally come back to Chicago ... the legendary Cub tells TMZ Sports he's looking to return to Wrigley after a 12-year hiatus!!! Of course, Sosa's been missing from the historic ballpark since he quit playing back in the 2000s ... mostly because team chairman Tom Ricketts has created an icy situation with the ex-superstar. And, why? Ricketts has said multiple times over the years he wants Sosa to come clean about...

Baseball probably had the most complicated performance enhancing drug scandal of any professional sport. Especially as Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa assault the single season home run record, Major League Baseball saw attendance, fandom, and finance all enhanced by drug enhanced home runs. Later on, things came to a head with Alex Rodriguez and his positive test for steroids. Within that scandal, and the whole human growth hormone scandal, are a number of unique characters. A few form the basis for the documentary Screwball, which finds a unique spin on what otherwise could have been a special on ESPN. This take helps set the doc apart and give it a fun bit of variety. The film is a very untraditional non fiction story. Truly a documentary, it also functions like a true crime dramedy, in that all of the non talking head or archival footage is dramatic recreations where the...

Sammy Sosa clearly ain't bitter at his broken relationship with the Cubbies ... 'cause the Chicago legend tells TMZ Sports he's still rootin' for the team to make the World Series!! Sosa's been blackballed from the Cubs organization since he retired -- with owner Tom Ricketts saying Sammy's gotta come clean regarding his alleged Ped use before they welcome him back. But, Sammy clearly ain't offended by all that ... 'cause he tells us he's not only...

Blac Chyna is cashing in on a beauty product -- a controversial one -- she says she's been using for skin care ... TMZ has learned. BC is partnering with Whitenicious by Dencia to roll out something called "Whitenicious X Blac Chyna Diamond Illuminating & Lightening Cream." It goes for $250 per jar, and the jar is studded with Swarovski crystals ... so ya know it's fancy. The cream is being marketed to men and women of all skin types.

In today’s film news roundup, “Screwball” is getting a domestic release in the spring, Brian Goldsmith re-ups at Lionsgate, horror novel “Snowblind” is in the works as a film, and “Room 13” has been cast.

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Greenwich Entertainment has acquired U.S. rights to baseball doping documentary “Screwball” and plans a theatrical release to coincide with the start of the Major League Baseball season in April.

The film, directed by Billy Corben (“Cocaine Cowboys”), centers on the Alex Rodriguez/Biogenesis doping scandal, which broke in 2013 when several Mlb players were accused of obtaining performance-enhancing drugs such as human growth hormone from the now-defunct rejuvenation clinic Biogenesis of America.

“Screwball” premiered in September at the Toronto International Film Festival and recently played at DocNYC. Corben and Alfred Spellman produced under their Rakontur banner.

“Billy Corben’s wildly entertaining doc is his latest look at a perverse pursuit of the American Dream,...

The real-life misadventures of central figures in the 2013 Major League Baseball doping scandal play like outrageous twists and turns in the seriocomic crime fiction of Carl Hiassen or Elmore Leonard throughout “Screwball,” an impudently entertaining documentary that suggests what might result if the Monty Python troupe were given carte blanche to produce an investigative report for “60 Minutes.”

It comes to us from Billy Corben, a filmmaker whose previous chronicles of illicit activity and entrepreneurial drug traders in and around Miami might now be viewed as warm-up pitches for his latest effort. This time on the mound, he throws heat and scores impressively with help from a lineup that includes baseball All-Stars, mob-connected lowlifes, tanning and bodybuilding enthusiasts, free-spending Mlb investigators, and an unlicensed anti-aging expert whose lack of bona fide medical credentials scarcely hindered his ability to provide, one way or the other, performance-enhancing drugs for his clients. The latter shady character,...

One of the biggest controversies in the baseball world for the past several years has been about former Chicago Cubs great Sammy Sosa. Fans have taken notice of his dramatically lighter skin since 2009, and some have even gone so far as to say that they think he actually wants to be white. Here's why he says the haters don't get to him! “Look at what I am today,” he said in a new interview with Sports Illustrated, while showing off his glamorous home in the United Arab Emirates. He has the utmost confidence in himself, and doesn't care that people have mean things to say about his skin tone, or anything else for that matter. “This is my life, and I don’t take garbage from nobody. I do whatever I want.” Sammy Sosa in 2018. (Photo Credit: Getty Images) Sammy's son Sammy Jr. revealed that his dad doesn't let the criticism get to him,...

[Editor’s Note: The following contains spoilers from “Atlanta” Season 2, Episode 6 titled “Teddy Perkins.”]

We are shook and yet in awe. “Atlanta” made good on the promise of violence and danger that was laid out in the opening moments of the season with Thursday night’s installment “Teddy Perkins.” The fact that FX announced the episode would air without commercial interruption (and – to the horror of TV critics – without an advance screener) should have been the first indication that something extra special was in the offing. This would turn out to be one of the most disquieting episodes of horror to ever grace a comedy series.

In the Darius-centric episode, “Atlanta’s” mumbling dilettante (Lakeith Stanfield) arrives at a stately but careworn mansion to pick up a special piano with colored keys from Teddy Perkins and Benny Hope, two brothers who shared a musical past and, as viewers soon learn, an abusive father. As the episode wears on,...

Sammy Sosa's newest look has raised a few eyebrows online.  The famed retired baseball pro has been living a relatively quiet life in recent years. However, Sosa mad headlines on the internet over the weekend when a photo of him and his wife Sonia Rodriguez celebrating at her themed birthday party popped up on social media. The photo took fans by surprise as Sosa and his spouse are sporting cowboy getups, immediately fueling comments about the pair's outfits and pose. "Ok I need to know which Jc Penney allowed this," one person quipped on Twitter of the photo. "This is everything I love about everything," someone else said of the shot. "[This] needs to be the stock photo in...

Scott Disick and Sofia Richie took their relationship to the next level.

The two made their first official public appearance as a couple on Wednesday night when they attended the Art Basel Kick-Off celebration hosted by DuJour founder Jason Binn and WellNEST at The Confidante Hotel in Miami, Florida.

They were a perfect match in their all-black outfits. Disick wore an unbuttoned shirt, slacks and loafers, while Richie -- who is DuJour's December digital cover star -- slayed in a figure-hugging mini-dress and heels.

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Scott Disick and Sofia Richie share a laugh with Jason Binn at DuJour's Jason Binn and WellNEST Celebrate Miami Beach's Art Basel Kick-Off at The Confidante on Dec. 6 in Miami, Florida.

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The 34-year-old reality star and 19-year-old model mingled with other guests at the event, and were seen throughout the night kissing and chatting. Other celebrities at the soiree, which included Whispering Angel spirits, were supermodel Karolina...

After proving they are most certainly still together earlier this week in Miami, Scott Disick and Sofia Richie continued their romantic vacation Wednesday night in the Magic City.

The twosome, who are in town for Art Basel, attended a glamorous party for DuJour magazine, of which Richie is currently the cover star. The couple arrived together at the Confidante Hotel, and although Richie posed solo on the red carpet, the lovebirds were seen, “chatting and kissing throughout the night,” sources tell People.

Witnesses say Richie and Disick were “very touchy” as the 34-year-old Keeping Up with the Kardashians star supported...

Here's former baseball star Sammy Sosa keepin' things light at a huge festival in Miami Beach. Sosa hit up DuJour's Miami Beach's Art Basel Kick-Off at The Confidante where he posed for pics on his way into the event ... weeks after T.I. blasted him for his alleged skin bleaching.  [[tmz:video id="0_3i5db9fn"]] Sammy's complexion has very obviously changed over the years. We can only find one interview where he addressed it -- from 2009 -- saying the lightening...

[[tmz:video id="0_3i5db9fn"]] Sammy Sosa hates himself and that's why he's turning himself whiter ... that's according to T.I. who went in on the ex-mlb star when we got him out at Lax. Sammy's complexion has very obviously changed over the years. We can only find one interview where he addressed it -- from 2009 -- saying the lightening was an unexpected result of a skin softening cream.  But T.I. ain't buyin' Sammy's excuse -- shaking his head...

Nothing gold can stay.

Despite the persistent prominence of Robert Frost’s words, it’s doubtful anyone expected the golden age of television to turn out like this. Sexual assault, misconduct, and harassment allegations are roaring through Hollywood, and Thursday saw two more of TV’s titans charged as feminist forgeries.

In an expose in The New York Times, five women said Louis C.K. committed sexual misconduct by masturbating in front of them. He has since corroborated these claims with a statement of his own. In the original story, one of the women said that when C.K. contacted her to apologize, he regretted ”shoving her in a bathroom,” instead of what he’d actually done. The implication of this mistaken memory is as frightening, if not more so, than the allegations that have come out so far. Further acts of sexual misconduct were not addressed in C.K.’s statement.

When the Chicago Cubs clinched the National League Pennant for the first time since 1945 on Saturday, people around the country were celebrating.

And up above the country, on her campaign plane, Hillary Clinton was doing the same â€. with an expression of shock and awe.

That look when you cap off a day on the trail by watching the @Cubs cement their trip to the #WorldSeries. #FlyTheW pic.twitter.com/94KMWpKHwe

— Nick Merrill (@NickMerrill) October 23, 2016

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Clinton’s long been open about her support for Chicago’s (until now) unlucky team: she was born in...

In the midst of March Madness and with the Kentucky Derby around the corner, the first pitch of baseball season is almost here.

A quote from Field Of Dreams best describes America’s national pastime, “The one constant throughout the years has been baseball.”

To mark the start of the 2016 season, here’s our list of the Best Baseball movies.

The Bad News Bears

Considered by some to be the best baseball movie ever, the film celebrates its 40th anniversary this month (April 7, 1976). In an article from the NY Daily News, one line reads, “It is a movie that someone like the late Philip Seymour Hoffman called his favorite, and one which resonates on many levels today, with all different generations.”

Who are we to argue with greatness?

After skewering all-American subjects such as politics (The Candidate) and beauty pageants (Smile), director Michael Ritchie naturally set his sights on the...

Hey there, reader! It’s me! Matt Donato! Safe, sound, and definitely not tied up while Deadpool hijacks his…I mean…My computer! Wait. Let’s just delete that part – and why am I typing in a steady stream of conscious? We’ll figure that out later. For now, delete. Why aren’t you working. You stupid little keyboard minion, I will unleash Holy Hell If You Don’T Unstick Yourself From This Chimichanga Sauce That Was Definitely Here Already. Well, I guess I can’t delete anything. Better be on my A+ journalism game. Can’t be that hard…because I’m Matt Donato, and live glued to a keyboard!

I’m here to tell you why Deadpool is the grooviest, most ass-kicking, henchman-decapitating explosion of orgasmic Awesomeness that’d excite even a stone-cold bastard like Old Man Logan. Sweet, crotchety, oh-so-handsomely-rugged…Keep It Together Deadpool. Think unsexy thoughts.

Is this heaven? Nope, it’s Opening Week.

Recently Mlb rounded up a group of players to recite, word for word, James Earl Jones’ famous “people will come, Ray” speech from Field Of Dreams.

Wamg declares America’s national pastime, Baseball, to be the official sport of movie fans everywhere. As Brad Pitt said in Moneyball, “How can you not be romantic about Baseball?”

It all started Sunday night with the Cardinals at the Cubs with St. Louis winning 3 to 0.

To celebrate the first pitch of Opening Week, here’s our list of the best Baseball movies.

The Rookie

One of the best baseball biopics to come along over the years, The Rookie, starring Dennis Quaid, tells the true story of Jim Morris, a man who finally gets a shot at his lifelong dream-pitching in the big leagues. A high school science teacher/baseball coach, Morris’ players make a bet with him:if they win district,...

Chicago – One of the specialities of HollywoodChicago.com is the film and personality interview. The majority of these chats came through me, Patrick McDonald, and I couldn’t narrow it down to a top 10 or even a top 20. For 2014, there were 25 top interviews, and it is a diverse range of voices.

It is a privilege to get the opportunity to participate in the promotional tours, awards ceremonies, film festivals, book appearances, phoners and other lucky happenstances that feature the notable among us. To whittle down the list, I mostly thought about what was said in these interviews, whether inspirational or provocative – plus the status of the participants, whether they are up-and-coming or established.

The interview highlights are broken down by “Background and Behind-the-Scenes” and the “Memorable Quote” associated with each subject, and are often accompanied with exclusive photography by Joe Arce of HollywoodChicago.com. Four notables who just missed the...

Chicago – With the 2014 Major League All-Star game coming up next week on July 15th, that break is a time to reflect on the current season and your favorite team. At the “Hot Stove Cool Music” event in Chicago on June 20th, HollywoodChicago.com got in the All-Star spirit by talking with the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs, Theo Epstein, plus baseball writer and former Espn commentator, Peter Gammons.

Hot Stove Cool Music was co-founded by Peter Gammons in 2000, and began in Boston. Theo Epstein and his family charity organization, “Foundation to Be Named Later” partnered with the event shortly thereafter, and in total it has raised more than $5.5 million dollars, creating positive opportunities for disadvantaged children and families. Cub Charities was also a co-sponsor of the night, which featured Gammons, Epstein and other Chicago talents rocking on the Cabaret Metro stage in Wrigleyville, about one block from the Chicago Cubs home base,...

Just like apple pie, McDonald’s, bald eagles and Beyoncé, baseball is the American way. Once upon a time (read: the 70s-90s, mostly), the Great American Pastime was routinely celebrated in movies like Major League, A League of Their Own, The Natural and, of course, Field of Dreams and Angels in the Outfield (people naturally love baseball ghosts). In the present day, the baseball craze has died down somewhat, possibly due to the fact that the sport hasn’t had a huge, Sammy Sosa/Mark Mcgwire-style showdown in years to get amped over. Recent, serious baseball-centric films like Moneyball and 42, which told the story of Jackie Robinson, have seen success, but there hasn’t been the same wave of feel-good sports flicks that Bobby and his Little League team could go catch after practice together. Now, there’s a film coming down the pipeline that is attempting to fill that void. Here...

Paramount is planning to resurrect Frank Drebin for a new Naked Gun movie.

Surely, you can’t be serious.

Forgive me for mixing my Leslie Nielsen movies — and don’t call me Shirley — but I’m dead serious. Tragic-blimp-accident-over-the-Orange-Bowl-on-New-Year’s-Day serious.

As Variety initially reported this morning, The Hangover’s Ed Helms is attached to the project, stepping into the sometimes-wrong, but never-in-doubt shoes of dimwitted cop Frank Drebin.

Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, who created Police Squad!, the short-lived TV series that starred Nielsen as Drebin and inspired the three successful Naked Gun comedies, are not involved with the new movie.

Chicago – The long goodbye of tainted cycling athlete Lance Armstrong continues – after all the victories, “Live Strong,” the multiple denials of cheating and finally the confession that he lied. Oscar winning documentary maker Alex Gibney is the latest to take on this legacy of dishonesty, in “The Armstrong Lie.”

The new film dissects the history of Lance Armstrong as he kept denying his use of performance enhancing drugs and methods, on his way to seven straight Tour de France bike race titles (which have since been revoked). In meticulous detail, Gibney – who began the documentary as a chronicle of Armstrong’s 2009 comeback – strips back the veneer of public relations and peer protection of Armstrong. The director even talked to Armstrong himself, after his infamous confession to Oprah Winfrey that he had use performance enhancement techniques to cheat his way to those race victories.

Director Alex Gibney (center) Puts the Spotlight...

If there’s one universal language that we all speak, it’s Sports. No matter where you live, or who you are, the one common denominator that we can all agree on is that we all love sports. Whether it’s a particular sport, a team, or a player, everybody has their favorite. Debating about sports just might be funner than debating about wrestling, but I digress.

Throughout my life time I have seen a lot of holy sh*t moments in sports. Things that we’ll never see again and moments that we probably take for granted. The purpose of this article is to relive some of those memories. Whether they’re personal to you or personal to your grandparents, sports transcends time and that’s what makes them so beautiful.

I hope this article can bring back some memories and maybe even put a smile on your face.