Jermain Defoe Visits Terminally Ill Sunderland Fan Bradley Lowery

Defoe, who recently signed for Bournemouth, has struck up a close bond with the six-year-old and chose him as the mascot to accompany him out on to the pitch when he earned a recall to the England team earlier this year. Bradley is an avid Sunderland fan and kept in regular contact with Defoe, who scored 15 league goals in 2016-17, as he received treatment for a type of cancer called neuroblastoma....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 296 words · Jim Koehne

Jermichael Finley Questions Marshawn Lynch Michael Bennett S Anthem Protests Then Backtracks

First, Finley criticized Lynch and Bennett’s motivation for sitting down for the national anthem before exhibition games last weekend in an interview with TMZ Sports that was posted Monday. He said sitting for the anthem was “not really in their heart that they want to do that” and called the protests a “marketing tool” for the players. MORE: Bennett calls on white NFL players to protest, too Lynch didn’t say much about his reasons for sitting during the anthem, but Raiders coach Jack Del Rio said Lynch told him it was “not a form of anything other than me being myself....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 397 words · Frank Davenport

Jerry Jones Says Brandon Weeden S Success In Houston Justifies Chance In Dallas

Even though things didn’t end well between the Cowboys and Weeden, Jones says he’s happy Weeden is getting another chance. MORE: Power Rankings: Cowboys fade, Texans rise | Playoff scenarios “I thought, believe it or not, (Weeden winning a start for the Texans) shows to some degree that he was worthy of the opportunity that he got with us,” Jones said on Dallas’ 105.3 The Fan. “I’ll never forget we were in the draft room the year before and we were looking at quarterbacks at that particular time in the draft room....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 266 words · Pamela Fields

Jerry Jones Tells Dez Bryant Let S Win Five Super Bowls In A Row

In video footage of the phone call released by the Cowboys on Thursday, Jones tells Bryant, “Let’s just win five Super Bowls in a row. How about it?” MORE: NFL’s 25 highest paid athletes | Bryant’s career through photos “I just want to hug your neck. I’m so proud … congratulations,” said Jones, who went on to give high praises to Jay Z and Roc Nation with the work put forth to help close the deal for Bryant....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 173 words · Kevin Higdon

Jerry Rice Today S Top Cbs Couldn T Cover Me

The greatest NFL receiver who ever lived has a message for today’s elite cornerbacks: You’d have no shot at covering me. MORE: Week 11 photos | Harrison says he could cover Gronk “They don’t have a chance,” Rice said. Rice tossed a few brief props toward Richard Sherman, Darrelle Revis and Patrick Peterson, but he quickly returned to why he would whomp all of ’em. “My job is to be elusive off the line of scrimmage and I was always good against bump-and-run,” Rice said, “and being able to double-move, triple-move, get off the line of scrimmage, which you don’t see a lot of that happening today, for guys being able to get a free release on the line of scrimmage....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 125 words · Benjamin Graczyk

Jese Wants To Join Las Palmas Despite Premier League Offers Insists Ramirez

Giovinco reveals why he rejected Barca The forward has failed to break into the starting XI at Paris Saint-Germain after his close-season move from Real Madrid, scoring one goal in nine Ligue 1 appearances. Middlesbrough boss Aitor Karanka confirmed on Thursday he was hoping to convince Jese to sign from PSG, while Roma have also been linked. The Spain U21 international is also said to want a return to La Liga with boyhood team Las Palmas, although Ramirez has always maintained they cannot offer the same financial incentives as other interested parties....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 212 words · Diana Smalls

Jesse Eisenberg Talks Facebook Snyder Cut And Andrew Yang

It’s the story of an American family of three grappling with love, loss and change expanding over three decades of their lives. The five-hour audio production is written and performed by Academy Award-nominated actor Jesse Eisenberg (The Social Network, Zombieland) and also stars Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things) and Kaitlyn Dever (Booksmart). The story first introduces us to Nathan (Eisenberg), a new father struggling to connect emotionally with his infant son, Ziggy....

December 25, 2022 · 5 min · 873 words · James Jimenez

Jets Fire Rex Ryan Gm John Idzik

It was widely reported over the last week that Johnson would make the move, and he made it official Monday morning. MORE: 10 best replacements for Rex Ryan | Geno welcomes change | Did management quit? “After extensive thought and reflection about the current state of our football team, this morning I informed Rex Ryan and John Idzik that they will not be returning for the 2015 season,” Johnson said in a statement released by the team ....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 392 words · Darryl Servin

Jets Qb Sam Darnold Could Miss Multiple Weeks With Mono Trevor Siemian To Start

In an unexpected move, Jets coach Adam Gase on Thursday announced quarterback Sam Darnold has been ruled out for Monday’s game against the Browns after being diagnosed with mono. A timeline for Darnold’s return is uncertain, but it’s clearly cause for concern considering symptoms of the disease — like fatigue, fever and swollen glands — can last months. Gase indicated Darnold could miss “multiple weeks” with the illness, though an Oct....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 285 words · Joshua Gliem

Internet Divided Over Woman Who Hacked Ex S Account In Viral Video Seen 1.8M Times

User @brookeyounng found a way to download all of her ex-boyfriend’s Snapchat data to see who he’s been talking too. In her caption she wrote, “that one time i was able to hack into my ex’s sc and literally found a way to see every message they sent/received and from who.” According to Statista, there are over 300 million users on the app. Snapchat is widely used for sending pictures....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 387 words · Daniel Widmer

Internet Horrified As Evicted Tenant Fills House With Thousands Of Bud Light Bottles

The smartphone clip shows empty alcohol containers obscuring the floor and furniture, and even reaching the ceiling’s fan on occasion. Uploaded by Reddit user Purple-Circle, the video clip swiftly went viral and generated 45,000 upvotes within 11 hours. More than 2,855 users rushed to express their shock in the comments. The clip, which Newsweek has yet to authenticate, was captioned: “Working his way up to real beer. Guy was evicted and left this behind....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 397 words · John Ledger

Internet Shocked A Woman Was Kicked Off Flight After Starbucks Feud With Flight Attendant

In a viral post on Reddit’s r/antiwork that has received 10,000 votes and nearly 700 comments, one user explained that she was removed from her flight departing Denver International Airport because of an earlier incident at the airport’s Starbucks location. “It’s 6:55 a.m. and I’m currently sitting at an airport Chili’s in my hometown (America) drinking a Bailey’s and coffee, ‘cause I just got kicked off my flight,” u/Dry_Investigator5020 wrote....

December 24, 2022 · 4 min · 658 words · Lavonne Hogan

Internet Slams Grandma Who Secretly Shared Son S Family Pictures On Social Media

Posting to the discussion-based site on December 7, under the account name Babybrain77, she started by revealing that her husband felt “extremely strongly about photos of the kids on social media.” Due to the fact he had “worked in cyber,” he doesn’t want “pictures of his kids online.” As a result, he will only share photographs of the children with family and friends via a secure messaging app, however his mother did not want to use it....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 495 words · Paul Harvey

Internet Slams Interviewer Who Laughed At Candidate Wearing Mask

“Interviewer laughed when I told him I’d rather leave mask on during interview, saying ‘pandemic is over,’” read the title of u/Enchilada_Lover’s post, which amassed more than 13,000 votes since it was posted on Sunday. You can read the full post here. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Omicron is the most dominant variant of COVID-19, and there are three common lineages of it. The agency reported that vaccines and masks are among the best forms of protection against the virus....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 601 words · Lila Marshall

Internet Slams Woman For Not Letting Cousin S Fianc E Come To Wedding

Using a throwaway account, u/TAplusonedrama shared their situation with Reddit’s popular “AmITheAhole” forum. She believes she might be the ahole for not inviting her cousin’s fiancée due to her “no plus ones” rule. The Reddit post has over 9,000 upvotes and 3,000 comments. The Redditor and her fiancé are only allowing plus ones to their wedding when they are either already friends with the couple, or people that the couple’s met and would “have a meal with....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 552 words · Lucille Perkins

Internet Split Over Wife Who Secretly Filmed Husband Crying And Posted Online

The video, which was posted to her TikTok and Instagram accounts, showed Gibson’s husband Seth wiping his face while in the backyard. “Sometimes men don’t know how to healthily deal with their emotions due to society’s expectations. Let’s encourage them to feel and release,” Gibson wrote in her TikTok caption. She explained in a longer caption on her Instagram post that she told him to go outside to take some time for himself....

December 24, 2022 · 4 min · 847 words · Lynne Richards

Interview Facing High Expectations

NEWSWEEK: Most analysts are saying the Malaysian people were endorsing you personally, not just the ruling coalition or your message. How does that make you feel? ABDULLAH: It makes me feel good, but at the same there’s a feeling of responsibility. The feeling that I have to deliver now. It’s a sobering feeling. Although PAS was routed in the elections, it still maintains some degree of public support. Are you concerned that certain elements within fundamentalist Islam will conclude that democracy is not for them and decide to go down a more extremist path?...

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 453 words · Roy Osborne

Interview The People S Laptop

NEWSWEEK: How can you make a useful laptop for so little? Negroponte: There are basically two ways to make a low-cost laptop. One is to take cheap components, cheap labor, cheap design and make a cheap machine. And that’s basically what’s been done in the world. If you go to China and India, you’ll see a lot of that. What we’ve tried to do is to use very large-scale integration [a method that uses fewer components], use really cool design and then of course make them in really large numbers, so that every kid gets one....

December 24, 2022 · 4 min · 718 words · Marie Mohseni

Invasion Of The Rat King

Perhaps it’s mere coincidence, but last summer America’s Warholian art starlet Jeff Koons switched off his X-rated machine (his explicit photo-paintings of himself and his Italian porn-star wife, La Cicciolina) and returned to family values in Germany. In a G-rated end run around the huge “Documenta IX” exhibition in Kassel (to which he was not invited), Koons installed a 40-foot-high sculpture of a puppy, covered with live, flowering plants, in the middle of the nearby town of Arolsen....

December 24, 2022 · 2 min · 350 words · Shirley Wallach

Invasion Of The Tree Snakes And Other Coming In

There are so many snakes on Guam they’re literally crawling out of the woodwork. In some areas there are as many as 13,000 per square mile, and they eat everything they can sink their teeth into. Eventually, many biologists think, the infestation is going to spread to Hawaii, which is just a short flight away. “It’s only a matter of time,” says Tom Fritts, a research biologist with the U....

December 24, 2022 · 3 min · 596 words · Michelle Jackson