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Who Is Amelia? Chicago Fire Season 12’s Brett & Casey Mystery Wedding Guest Explained – Screen Rant
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- ‘Chicago Fire’ Star Kara Killmer on Being Written Off With the ‘Perfect’ Ending After Nearly 200 Episodes: ‘It’s Bittersweet’ Variety
- Chicago Fire’s Kara Killmer Reflects on Sylvie Brett Farewell Episode Us Weekly
- Kara Killmer Says [Spoiler] Is What Made Casey & Brett’s Wedding So “Refreshing” NBC Insider
- Kara Killmer on her final ‘Chicago Fire’ episode — and why Brett and Casey were always endgame: ‘Pinch me’ New York Post
Steve Sarkisian responds to Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark’s remarks about Texas-Texas Tech game – Burnt Orange Nation
- Steve Sarkisian responds to Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark’s remarks about Texas-Texas Tech game Burnt Orange Nation
- Steve Sarkisian surprised by Brett Yormark’s jab at Texas – ESPN ESPN
- Texas’ Steve Sarkisian fires back at Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark as program prepares to depart for SEC CBS Sports
- Full Press Conference | UT Coach Sarkisian says Yormark likely won’t get holiday invite CBS Austin
- Steve Sarkisian responds to Brett Yormark rooting against Texas: ‘Embrace the hate’ The Athletic
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Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark tells Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire to ‘take care of business’ against Texas – CBS Sports
- Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark tells Texas Tech coach Joey McGuire to ‘take care of business’ against Texas CBS Sports
- Big 12 commish tells Tech: ‘Take care of business’ vs. Texas – ESPN ESPN
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- Brett Yormark confirms plans to attend Texas’ last Big 12 football game, tells Texas Tech to ‘take care of business’ On3.com
- Brett Yormark tells Texas Tech football coach Joey McGuire ‘you’d better take care of business’ against Texas this season LubbockOnline.com
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Memphis’ Jamirah Shutes charged with assault after punching Bowling Green’s Elissa Brett after Women’s NIT game – CBS News
- Memphis’ Jamirah Shutes charged with assault after punching Bowling Green’s Elissa Brett after Women’s NIT game CBS News
- Memphis’ Jamirah Shutes charged with assault for allegedly punching BGSU’s Elissa Brett in handshake line Fox News
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- Memphis basketball statement after Jamirah Shutes punches Elissa Brett in WNIT handshake line Commercial Appeal
- Memphis’ Shutes charged for punch thrown after BGSU game WJW FOX 8 News Cleveland
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‘Ted Lasso’s Brendan Hunt & Brett Goldstein Talk The Show’s Future; Pitch Spinoff Ideas – Deadline
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- Jason Sudeikis Says ‘Ted Lasso’ Season 3 “Is The End Of This Story We Wanted To Tell,” Addresses Potential Spinoffs Yahoo Entertainment
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- Jason Sudeikis Says Ted Lasso Season 3 Is the ‘End of This Story’ — but ‘We’ve Set the Table’ for Spinoff PEOPLE
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Brett Favre suing Shannon Sharpe, Pat McAfee claiming defamation over Mississippi welfare scandal, per report – CBS Sports
- Brett Favre suing Shannon Sharpe, Pat McAfee claiming defamation over Mississippi welfare scandal, per report CBS Sports
- Brett Favre sues Auditor Shad White, national media figures for defamation regarding welfare scandal WJTV 12 News
- Pat McAfee not shying away from legal battle with Brett Favre: ‘Let’s ride this f—er’ Fox News
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Cowboys’ Brett Maher has first extra-point vs. 49ers blocked, continuing historic playoff meltdown
Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher had himself an awful game last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
On each of the Cowboys’ first four touchdowns, Maher missed the extra point. He pushed the first two kicks wide to the right, then pulled the third one wide to the left. On the fourth kick, he hit the outside of the upright. He was the first kicker in NFL history to miss four extra points in a playoff game. (He did convert the extra point on Dallas’ fifth touchdown.)
Despite the poor performance, the Cowboys staunchly supported him throughout the week. Maher had gone 50 of 53 on extra points during the regular season, as well as 29 of 32 on field goals.
“I’m Money Maher’s biggest fan,” Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said following the team’s win over Tampa. “I talked to him individually after the game, just told him, ‘Hey let that go, we’re going to need it’ I just played like s— a week ago, so that happens. So I mean that happens. Knowing what that guy’s done, with the resiliency he’s shown throughout his career. Personally, no doubt that he’ll comeback and be perfect and help us win.”
Maher also got vocal support from Mike McCarthy and CeeDee Lamb. Nevertheless, during the week leading up to their divisional round game against the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys signed kicker Tristan Vizcaino to the practice squad, to give them another option in place of Maher for Sunday night. But Dallas didn’t elevate Vizcaino to the active roster, so Maher will be their kicker.
And apparently, he had a rough go of it during warmups. And not just when it comes to whether or not he was making his kicks. The 49ers apparently did not take kindly to Maher warming up on their side of the field, briefly interrupting his warmup before eventually allowing him to kick again.
Oh, and he did struggle to make the kicks as well. According to The Athletic, Maher missed at least four kicks during the early portion of his warmups, pushing them all to the right.
Things apparently went so badly (he missed two more kicks) that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones walked onto the field during warmups to give Maher a pep talk. To put it kindly, this is highly unusual, although Maher then went on to make his next three attempts.
Things didn’t subside once the game kicked off. After Dalton Schultz hauled in the game’s first touchdown in the second quarter, Maher had his first extra point attempt of the afternoon blocked. Even if the Niners weren’t able to get a hand on that kick, it looked like the attempt was going to go wide left regardless.
That is certainly not the development the Cowboys want during the most important game of their season. Now, it might influence their decision-making when it comes to whether or not to trust Maher in kick-or-go-for-it situations, though, because Cowboys special teams coach John Fassel is a believer in the yips. In fact, according to the Fox broadcast, the Cowboys have twice the number of two-point conversion plays as they did last week — in case Maher continues to struggle.
“I believe in the hot hand, and I believe in the yips, absolutely,” Fassel said, via ESPN. “And you know, you wonder sometimes how you get into the yips, and you wonder sometimes how you get back into the hot hand. I think it’s keep stepping up to the line and shooting that thing. We missed a couple of free throws [Monday] … He had a hot hand. Let’s face it, he only missed [six] kicks all season. The yips happen, so I expect a hot hand coming up.”
So far, Maher hasn’t rediscovered the hot hand just yet.
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Cowboys’ Brett Maher shaky in warmups ahead of 49ers game; team reportedly practices extra two-point plays
Dallas Cowboys kicker Brett Maher had himself an awful game last week against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers,
On each of the Cowboys’ first four touchdowns, Maher missed the extra point. He pushed the first two kicks wide to the right, then pulled the third one wide to the left. On the fourth kick, he hit the outside of the upright. He was the first kicker in NFL history to miss four extra points in a playoff game. (He did convert the extra point on Dallas’ fifth touchdown.)
Despite the poor performance, the Cowboys staunchly supported him throughout the week. Maher had gone 50 of 53 on extra points during the regular season, as well as 29 of 32 on field goals.
“I’m Money Maher’s biggest fan,” Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott said following the team’s win over Tampa. “I talked to him individually after the game, just told him, ‘Hey let that go, we’re going to need it’ I just played like s— a week ago, so that happens. So I mean that happens. Knowing what that guy’s done, with the resiliency he’s shown throughout his career. Personally, no doubt that he’ll comeback and be perfect and help us win.”
Maher also got vocal support from Mike McCarthy and CeeDee Lamb. Nevertheless, during the week leading up to their divisional round game against the San Francisco 49ers, the Cowboys signed kicker Tristan Vizcaino to the practice squad, to give them another option in place of Maher for Sunday night. But Dallas didn’t elevate Vizcaino to the active roster, so Maher will be their kicker.
And apparently, he had a rough go of it during warmups. And not just when it comes to whether or not he was making his kicks. The 49ers apparently did not take kindly to Maher warming up on their side of the field, briefly interrupting his warmup before eventually allowing him to kick again.
Oh, and he did struggle to make the kicks as well. According to The Athletic, Maher missed at least four kicks during the early portion of his warmups, pushing them all to the right.
Things apparently went so badly (he missed two more kicks) that Cowboys owner Jerry Jones walked onto the field during warmups to give Maher a pep talk. To put it kindly, this is highly unusual, although Maher then went on to make his next three attempts.
That is certainly not the type of news the Cowboys want to get ahead of the most important game of their season. It might influence their decision-making when it comes to whether or not to trust Maher in kick-or-go-for-it situations, though, because Cowboys special teams coach John Fassel is a believer in the yips. In fact, according to the Fox broadcast, the Cowboys have twice the number of two-point conversion plays as they did last week — in case Maher continues to struggle.
“I believe in the hot hand, and I believe in the yips, absolutely,” Fassel said, via ESPN. “And you know, you wonder sometimes how you get into the yips, and you wonder sometimes how you get back into the hot hand. I think it’s keep stepping up to the line and shooting that thing. We missed a couple of free throws [Monday] … He had a hot hand. Let’s face it, he only missed [six] kicks all season. The yips happen, so I expect a hot hand coming up.”
If his warmup kicks are an indication, Maher may not have rediscovered the hot hand just yet.
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Inside ‘Justice,’ Sundance’s Top-Secret Brett Kavanaugh Documentary – Rolling Stone
A collective eyebrow was raised when the 2023 Sundance Film Festival announced a last-minute addition to the lineup: Justice, a documentary probing the allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. That the film marked the first documentary directed by Doug Liman, the man behind Swingers and The Bourne Identity, and was produced by Amy Herdy, an ex-journalist and key researcher for the documentaries Allen v. Farrow and On the Record, only piqued curiosity further. Would the film contain new claims against Kavanaugh beyond what emerged during and around his explosive hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee? Or perhaps offer new evidence corroborating the accounts of women who’d already come forward against Kavanaugh alleging a range of sexual misconduct, including Christine Blasey Ford, Deborah Ramirez and Julie Swetnick?
Justice debuted on Jan. 20 to a capacity crowd of 295 people at Sundance’s Park Avenue Theatre, including a few dozen members of the press. Liman made his entire crew sign NDAs and financed the project himself in order to keep it completely under wraps.
And the film raises more questions than it answers.
It opens with Liman seated on a couch across from Christine Blasey Ford, who questions him about why he, a Hollywood director, wanted to make this film. Only the back of Ford’s head is visible, and she does not appear on-camera again, save archival footage of her powerful testimony. In a post-screening Q&A, Liman said that he chose not to include new footage of Ford in order to spare her the added scrutiny and threats. Swetnick, meanwhile, goes unmentioned.
Most of the film’s attention concerns Deborah Ramirez, who told The New Yorker’s Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer that while a freshman at Yale in 1983, “Kavanaugh had exposed himself at a drunken dormitory party, thrust his penis in her face, and caused her to touch it without her consent as she pushed him away.” She repeats those allegations during a sit-down interview in Justice. (Kavanaugh has denied all allegations of sexual misconduct.)
While the FBI spoke with Ramirez as part of their one-week “limited scope” investigation into Trump nominee Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual misconduct, ultimately concluding they found “no corroboration of the allegations [of sexual misconduct],” leading to the conservative Justice’s lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court, Bureau agents admittedly failed to so much as talk to a number of people who either corroborated her account or had other stories of Kavanaugh’s behavior at Yale.
The biggest reveal in Justice concerns Max Stier, a Yale classmate of Kavanaugh’s. According to the book The Education of Brett Kavanaugh, by New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly, Stier, who runs the Partnership for Public Service, a prominent nonprofit (and nonpartisan) organization in Washington, D.C., informed senators and the FBI that he “saw Mr. Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party, where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student,” but that the FBI did not follow up with him. Justice goes one step further, airing an audio recording of Stier’s account, which the filmmakers say was entrusted to them by an anonymous source. (Stier declined to speak to the filmmakers, as did Kavanaugh.)
“This is something that I reported to my wife years ago,” Stier says, before going into detail about how he’d heard a story “firsthand” of Kavanaugh’s friends asking a heavily inebriated young woman to “hold his penis” during a dorm party. He also recalls on the audio an alleged episode he’d heard wherein a drunken Kavanaugh attempted to insert his penis into the mouth of a young woman at a dorm party while she was nearly passed out on the floor from drinking.
Elsewhere in Justice, several Yale classmates of Ramirez’s express their frustration with the FBI over failing to interview them, and even suggest that Kavanaugh’s team was contacting Yale classmates of theirs during the inquiry to try to steer them in his direction. A series of text messages are shown in the film that appear to show Yale classmates of Kavanaugh’s discussing how members of Kavanaugh’s circle had contacted them about their recollections with regard to the Ramirez allegations. Since Kavanaugh was adamant that he did no such thing during his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the film contends that he committed perjury.
More than anything, though, Justice feels like a signal flare for future accusers and witnesses of Kavanaugh’s alleged sexual misconduct to come forward. The press was informed that the 83-minute version screened at Sundance was not a final cut, and Herdy and Liman told festivalgoers during the post-screening Q&A that they’d received new tips since announcing the documentary on Jan. 19, and that the film — and their investigation — is not yet finished.