Police in Dallas are seeking to interview a Dallas Cowboys player as part of their investigation into the fatal shooting of a man outside a bar last month, a report said.
Cornerback Kelvin Joseph, whom team officials do not believe was the shooter, had been involved in a dispute outside the OT Tavern in Old East Dallas on the same night Cameron Ray, 20, was gunned down in a drive-by in front of the location, multiple sources told The Dallas Morning News.
Joseph, a 2021 second-round pick, was potentially spotted on surveillance footage at the bar mingling with the same group of people who later got into a fight with Ray before the victim was shot dead on March 18, the report said.
The cornerback is also known by his rapper pseudonym “YKDV Bossman Fat.” Surveillance footage the night of the shooting, obtained by Fox 4, shows a man wearing an apparent YKDV necklace standing with a group inside the OT Tavern, the report said.
Team officials for the Dallas Cowboys do not believe Kelvin Joseph was the shooter when the incident unfolded outside OT Tavern in Old East Dallas.Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
The same group was spotted later that night in other surveillance footage fighting with Ray outside the establishment.
Soon after the feud, the victim walked away before he was shot by a gunman who fired from a passing car.
The Cowboys declined to comment to The Dallas Morning News. But sources told the newspaper that team officials are encouraging Joseph to speak with investigators.
Police want to speak with Dallas Cowboys cornerback Kelvin Joseph in connection with a shooting death last month in the Lower Greenville section of Dallas, sources said Thursday.
Cameron Ray, 20, was fatally shot after a March 18 altercation with a group of individuals that appeared to include Joseph, a second-round pick of the Cowboys last year. In video footage obtained by KDFW-TV in Dallas, one of those involved in the altercation was wearing a YKDV necklace. Joseph goes by the rap name “YKDV Bossman Fat.”
More footage goes on to show shots coming from an SUV as Ray and his friends walked to their vehicle after the altercation.
The Cowboys did not have a comment. However, sources said the team has talked with Joseph and is encouraging him to speak with police to discuss what he knows about the incident.
Detective Tonya McDaniel told KDFW that Ray and three friends were in Dallas for a weekend and that they were not responsible for the incident that preceded the shooting. Police have been working to identify the group seen in the surveillance video, including the man wearing the YKDV necklace.
Joseph started his college career at LSU before playing one season at Kentucky.
Jones appeared in 10 games and made two starts as a rookie, and was credited with 13 tackles and two pass deflections.
Scientists just broke the record for the coldest temperature ever measured in a lab: They achieved the bone-chilling temperature of 38 trillionths of a degree above -273.15 Celsius by dropping magnetized gas 393 feet (120 meters) down a tower.
The team of German researchers was investigating the quantum properties of a so-called fifth state of matter: Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), a derivative of gas that exists only under ultra-cold conditions.
While in the BEC phase, matter itself begins to behave like one large atom, making it an especially appealing subject for quantum physicists who are interested in the mechanics of subatomic particles.
Temperature is a measure of molecular vibration – the more a collection of molecules moves, the higher the collective temperature.
Absolute zero, then, is the point at which all molecular motion stops – minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit, or minus 273.15 degrees C. Scientists have even developed a special scale for extremely cold temperatures, called the Kelvin scale, where zero Kelvin corresponds to absolute zero.
Near absolute zero, some weird things start to happen. For example, light becomes a liquid that can literally be poured into a container, according to research published in 2017 in the journal Nature Physics. Supercooled helium stops experiencing friction at very low temperatures, according to a study published in 2017 in the journal Nature Communications. And in NASA’s Cold Atom Lab, researchers have even witnessed atoms existing in two places at once.
In this record-breaking experiment, scientists trapped a cloud of around 100,000 gaseous rubidium atoms in a magnetic field inside a vacuum chamber. Then, they cooled the chamber way down, to around 2 billionths of a degree Celsius above absolute zero, which would have been a world record in itself, according to NewAtlas.
But this wasn’t quite frigid enough for the researchers, who wanted to push the limits of physics; to get even colder, they needed to mimic deep-space conditions. So the team took their setup to the European Space Agency’s Bremen drop tower, a microgravity research center at the University of Bremen in Germany.
By dropping the vacuum chamber into a free fall while switching the magnetic field on and off rapidly, allowing the BEC to float uninhibited by gravity, they slowed the rubidium atoms’ molecular motion to almost nothing.
The resulting BEC stayed at 38 picokelvins – 38 trillionths of a Kelvin – for about 2 seconds, setting “an absolute minus record”, the team reported Aug. 30 in the journal Physical Review Letters.
The previous record of 36 millionths of a Kelvin, was achieved by scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colorado with specialized lasers.
The coldest known natural place in the universe is the Boomerang Nebula, which lies in the Centaurus constellation, about 5,000 light years from Earth. Its average temperature is -272 C (about 1 Kelvin) according to the European Space Agency.
The researchers of the new study said in a statement that, theoretically, they could sustain this temperature for as long as 17 seconds under truly weightless conditions, like in space. Ultra cold temperatures may one day help scientists build better quantum computers, according to researchers at MIT.
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Jared Cannonier has been in the UFC for six years, competing in three weight divisions. He is closer to 40 years old than 30.
Yet on Saturday night, the former Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) employee put forth perhaps his most impressive performance in the Octagon. Cannonier bested Kelvin Gastelum via unanimous decision (48-47, 48-47, 48-47) in a poised showing in the main event of UFC Fight Night in Las Vegas.
“It’s always glorious to go five rounds with a guy like Kelvin at that level,” Cannonier said in his postfight interview. “Winning is even more glorious, if you will. I’m happy.”
Cannonier made all the right adjustments after a close early portion of the fight. He dropped Gastelum with a right hook in the third and put a stamp on the outing in the late rounds. It was the first time Cannonier has ever won a five-round decision in his career and only his first winning decision since 2016.
Normally, the explosive Cannonier can end a fight with one punch or kick. But Saturday’s outing showed he (and his coach, John Crouch, of The MMA Lab) could outpoint a wily veteran like Gastelum.
ESPN has Cannonier ranked No. 5 in the world at middleweight. Gastelum, meanwhile, is the man who gave UFC middleweight champion Israel Adesanya his most difficult test yet at 185 pounds.
Afterward, Cannonier said he would love to get the next shot at Adesanya, but he might have to fight again before a chance at the belt due to a light bank account. Adesanya is very likely to defend next against former champion Robert Whittaker.
“I’m broke, so I need to fight,” Cannonier said. “Hopefully, I get that title shot. But the right name might make me say, ‘Yes.'”
Cannonier came out landing big combinations and calf kicks in a strong first round.
Gastelum rallied in the second round and seemed to take momentum, landing hard one-two combinations out of the southpaw stance, including several with straight left hands that snapped Cannonier’s head back.
The third round was pivotal in the fight. Cannonier switched to southpaw and whipped a right hook that dropped Gastelum in the opening seconds of the round. Cannonier really never gave back control after that, even though Gastelum was able to pop right back up.
Cannonier again landed the harder shots in the fourth round, before Gastelum mounted a brief comeback in the fifth with some solid combinations.
“I’m ambidextrous, so I could go both ways, and I can fight very effectively out of both stances,” Cannonier said. “After I dropped him, I was looking for [the right hook out of southpaw] like crazy, but I couldn’t find it again.”
Cannonier (14-4) would have earned a title shot with a win in his previous bout, but he fell to Whittaker via unanimous decision in October. The Texas native, who fights out of Arizona, was on a three-fight winning streak before that loss.
Cannonier, 37, is one of only two men (Conor McGregor being the other) to win via KO/TKO in three UFC divisions. Cannonier started his UFC run at heavyweight (weighing more than 300 pounds) after leaving a job doing maintenance on traffic control equipment for the FAA. He then moved to light heavyweight, and now he competes at a shredded 185 pounds.
“After a hard-fought win like that, hell yeah I want the title,” Cannonier said on the ESPN+ postfight show. “But it’s not up to me. It’s up to the matchmakers and the UFC brass. I just went out there and did the best I could to send a message.”
Gastelum (16-8, 1 NC) began his UFC career as a welterweight prospect after winning The Ultimate Fighter middleweight crown in 2013. The California native, who trained out of Arizona this camp with former UFC double champion Henry Cejudo, moved to middleweight after struggles on the scale in 2016 and emerged as a contender, facing Adesanya for the interim title in 2019.
It was a losing effort, but it was an all-action bout that was perhaps the best of that year. Gastelum, 29, has lost five of his past six fights, including that barnburner against Adesanya. Gastelum’s strength of schedule has been some of the best in any division.
So much for Kelvin Benjamin’s comeback story. Less than three months after signing the former Panthers wide receiver, who was attempting to revive his NFL career as a tight end following a three-year hiatus, the Giants have released the former first-round pick. On Wednesday, Benjamin was seen leaving practice early on the first day of New York’s training camp following what several reporters described as a lengthy and heated conversation with coach Joe Judge and general manager Dave Gettleman. Now, he’s off the depth chart before even kicking off a projected competition at tight end.
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Benjamin, 30, took the field with the Giants Wednesday morning. Reports indicate, however, that Judge and Gettleman began meeting with the one-time Florida State standout before warm-ups had even concluded. At the end of their conversation, Benjamin removed his helmet and walked alone, off the field and back into the Giants’ facilities.
Benjamin originally signed with New York in May following a workout, and was set to compete with reserves Kaden Smith and Levine Toilolo for a backup role behind Evan Engram and Kyle Rudolph. He was last seen in the NFL as a reserve wideout for the Chiefs in 2018. A first-round pick of the Panthers, he spent nearly four years in Carolina, topping 1,000 yards as a rookie before injuries and reported conditioning issues led to a decline in production. He was traded to the Bills in 2017, going on to play 18 games for Buffalo.
INDIANAPOLIS — Fifteen years to the day from when Kelvin Sampson left Oklahoma for Indiana under a cloud of controversy — for a job that would ultimately bring more controversy, by his own hand, and torpedo his career — the man made it back to the summit of the sport.
Monday marked Sampson’s 1,000th game as a college head coach.
Of all places: He did it in the state of Indiana.
And of all years, and of all games, No. 1,000 coincided with Sampson steering Houston to its first Final Four since 1984.
Cougars 67, Oregon State Beavers 61. How the Midwest was won. Few late-stage coaching revivals parallel what Sampson — in his seventh season at Houston — has just accomplished. This is the second Final Four run of his checkered career. The first came with the Sooners in 2002, when OU was a No. 2 seed. Just like what Houston is here. And in ’02 Sampson beat a No. 12 seed, just like Houston did Monday night.
Half the Final Four is set. Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander recap Monday night’s action on the latest episode of Eye on College Basketball.
Sampson’s 19-year hiatus between Final Four runs is among the longest gaps by a head coach in college basketball history. The man paid a hefty price, had a comfortable-but-unfit exile to the NBA, then took the less-than-scenic route to link back up with his own rutted road to the Final Four.
Sampson, 65, cut his teeth in his 20s and 30s at Montana Tech and Washington State in the 1980s and ’90s. He got to Oklahoma in 1994 and steadfastly built up the Sooners into a top-10 national program. As the world changed in the early 2000s, cell phones and modern technology outpaced the tortoise-tempo updates to the NCAA’s rule book. Haphazard bylaws were put in place in attempt to keep up with ever-changing tech. They lagged. But rules are rules, and Sampson broke them. He flagrantly broke them.
Nowadays there are no limits on phone calls or text messages from coaches to recruits, at least not during live periods. But it was different 15 years ago. Sampson fled Oklahoma with the NCAA on his tail and he took the Indiana job, which amounted to one of the best coaching-swerve gambits in college basketball of that era. But Sampson couldn’t get out of his own way; Indiana was no better off when he took a $750,000 buyout and resigned in February 2008. The same violations that plagued him at Oklahoma did him in at IU. A five-year show cause came later, the punishment ranking among the biggest ever at the time for a former head coach. Sampson claimed the whole way he didn’t knowingly misinform investigators.
What was done was done. And in 2008, a lot of people thought Sampson’s time in college basketball was done. Forever.
He shuffled off the NBA, where he tried to adapt but didn’t find soulful satisfaction. Three years with the Milwaukee Bucks, then three more with the Houston Rockets. At one point early on as an assistant, Sampson was working in practice with a big man and laying into the player about jumping a screen on defense. Sampson was just being Sampson: a fiery teacher trying to better a player — albeit a veteran.
The player turned to Sampson, and this is a paraphrase, but essentially said, “Coach, you’re a great guy and trying to help. But let me tell you something. I will never jump a ball screen. Everything in my contract says I have to block shots and rebound. That’s where my bonuses are. So I’m going to block shots and rebound. I won’t be jumping one ball screen for you.”
Sampson knew then and there the NBA life was never truly going to be for him.
In 2013, when the show cause was lifted, he ached to get back to college. But what school would take him? The one in the city he lived in. There was a once-proud program down the street that needed more than a rebuild. It needed an architect, an engineer, an inventor and a force of coaching nature in one. Someone great enough to turn around Houston, but also desperate enough to take the job.
No candidate was better for it than Sampson.
Houston might have had the worst facilities (decades past their expiration date) and infrastructure of any program with multiple Final Four appearances to its name at that point.
“He took the job because he wouldn’t have to move,” one source close to the Sampson family told CBS Sports. “He was with the Houston Rockets. He liked the idea you could recruit in Houston and be home for dinner. It wasn’t a blue blood, and so there wasn’t huge pressure.”
The entry point was perfect, though the team was anything but. Sampson was 57 at the time. If he was going to coach again, it would be a family affair — literally. His son, Kellen, would join the staff. His daughter, Lauren, would be the director of external operations. Running a program comes with a lot of stresses, like engaging with oft-trying boosters. Lauren Sampson is the go-between. Many consider her the glue to it all. When Hurricane Harvey devastated Houston in 2017, it was Lauren who ran the operation that brought loads of money donations and clothing that helped thousands in Houston and the surrounding region.
Sampson filled out his staff by hiring his former Sooner players — Quannas White and Hollis Price — men who are family to Sampson.
“It’s basically a team of people that he is super comfortable with that believe in him,” the source said. “After you watch how a situation like Indiana unfolds, where people are against you from the minute you get there, obviously you want people that you know are there for you.”
Sampson went from 13 wins in Year One to 22, 21 and then 27 by Year Four, which marked a long-awaited return to the NCAA Tournament — for UH and for Sampson. The family operation, college basketball’s Mom and Pop Shop, made it big. Houston made the tournament again the next year, in 2019, and returned better than ever this season. It did so even after losing arguably its best player, Caleb Mills, to transfer early in the season.
The family stays tight. This Kellen Sampson tweet from Monday night speaks to that in a powerful way.
There have been bigger job opportunities in recent years, none more than Arkansas in 2019. The Razorbacks got Eric Musselman instead, and that’s working out amazingly well to this point. (The Razorbacks fell to Baylor in the other regional final on Monday.) But Houston is home. Kellen is in line to succeed his father, whenever Kelvin decides he’s had enough.
How could he stop now? The Cougars used to represent something magnificent in college basketball. For nearly two decades this was a nationally relevant outfit with some of the greatest players in the sport. In 1984 no one could have imagined the three-decade drift into obscurity that was coming. The man to restore the luster was someone who was forced into obscurity himself. Sampson is no redemption story; he knocked himself off down the mountain.
But he’s also proof that, if you are great at your craft in college athletics — ask anyone; Sampson is great — there is almost always a way back.
And if you’re willing to jump a ball screen, you might even get there a little bit quicker.
“Welcome to ‘Hot Topics,’ Sharina Hudson — Getting out of my car … with my money!”
After sharing a clip from the documentary film “Wendy Williams: What a Mess!” — set to follow the premiere of “Wendy Williams: The Movie” this Sunday on Lifetime — Williams took a moment to go all shade by welcoming Sharina Hudson to her “Hot Topics” segment.
It was the first time she’d called out her ex-husband “Kelvin’s” mistress by name on her show, and she didn’t stop there.
“Welcome to Hot Topics, Sharina Hudson!” said Williams with as much eye shaed as she could get. Then literally sipping her coffee — or the tea as the case may be, she added, “Getting out of my car … with my money.”
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Then, in a shocking move so bold it left her audience stunned and even her producer Suzanne Bass giving face, Williams continued. “Good morning, Journey,” she continued [correct spelling unknown -ed.]. Who’s she talking about? Not Jurnee Smollett.
“She’ll be almost three– I think she’ll be three next month, don’t you know,” she said with a sly look. That’s right, Wendy just name-dropped the baby her ex-husband had with his massage therapist girlfriend of many years
Then, with a final wicked grin, she concluded, “Good morning, Kelvin,” emphasizing the legal spelling of Kevin Hunter’s name,” before adding dismissively, “It’s my truth.”
The documentary largely chronicles when Wendy found herself one of the hottest topics in entertainment as her marriage to Kevin finally came to an end. Wendy has admitted that she knew about his years of infidelity, and even that he’d been having an affair with Sharina.
For her, though, the final straw was when he impregnated his mistress. And so, after 22 years of marriage, Wendy filed for divorce in April 2019. “I’m a very forgiving person, but there’s one thing that I could never be a part of, and that one thing happened,” Wendy told New York Times Magazine at the time.
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As recently as this month, Williams has said she’s still not met Sharina’s daughter, telling Entertainment Tonight, “I don’t want to her know her.” Further, while she expects to have to see Kevin in her life, at their 20-year-old son’s college graduation, for example, she expects he won’t be bringing Sharina or their child.
“His dad will always be his dad. I haven’t seen change in that way from him,” she told ET on Tuesday. “But what I do see is my tolerance from afar to understand that he will be required to be at Kevin’s graduation from college, and he will be required to have better taste than to bring the side piece and the little girl.”
At this point, it’s unknow just how much Wendy is going to be willing to share in both the biopic of her life — which she was heavily involved in — or the documentary that will follow it. But you can be sure they’ll both be “Hot Topics” for days to come.
In the meantime, you can check out the whole episode below [Wendy gets into it at the 4:08 mark].
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