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With this year’s domestic box office expected to rise to $9 billion, of course the major Hollywood studios are taking Super Bowl LVII ad spots seriously. The big game, which last year attracted 112 million viewers, remains an enormous bullhorn when it comes to drawing attention to your tentpole movies — and this year, starting
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The NFL and Google have sealed a multi-year agreement giving YouTube TV and YouTube Primetime Channels exclusive rights to the NFL Sunday Ticket package in the U.S. The pact, which takes effect in 2023, replaces a partnership between the league and DirecTV since the introduction of the Sunday Ticket package — which delivers out-of-market games
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Soccer legend Pele‘s cancer has advanced, and he is currently receiving “elevated care” for kidney and heart issues, according to the AP. An update from his daughter indicates the family is sticking close to the 82-year-old, who is staying at the Albert Einstein Hospital in Sao Paulo. They will celebrate Christmas at his bedside. “We, as always,
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Longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl died today while covering the World Cup in Qatar. Details surrounding Wahl’s death are murky, but NPR reports he collapsed shortly before the end of the Netherlands-Argentina match today. Much more on that below. Wahl wrote for Sports Illustrated before starting his own substack. He regularly appeared on CNN, Fox
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UPDATED with latest results: The 2022 FIFA World Cup completed its second-round games Tuesday in Qatar, where the last of eight teams secured berths to the quarterfinals of the world’s biggest sports tournament. The quarterfinal matches get underway Friday with Netherlands-Argentina and Croatia-Brazil, and Saturday with Morocco-Portugal and England-France. All games air in the U.S.
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Wichita State Men’s basketball player Isaiah Poor Bear-Chandler isn’t pleased with how his culturally significant name was mocked by CBS Sports broadcasters. The basketballer is half Native American from the Oglala Lakota tribe and grew up on a reservation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota. CBS Sports broadcasters Chris Walker and Chick Hernandez joked that “Poor-Bear” was “Pooh
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