MIAMI, FLORIDA – MARCH 09: (L-R) Dustin Poirier punches Benoit St. Denis of France , Lightweight fight during the UFC 299 event at Kasia Center on March 09, 2024 in Miami, Florida. (Photo by Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images)Zuffa LLC via Getty Images Don’t bury the diamond just yet. On Saturday night, in the co-main event of UFC 299, Dustin “The Diamond” Poirier scored a dominant second-round KO victory over Benoit St-Denis. According to oddsmakers, the 35-year-old former interim UFC lightweight champion came into the fight with Saint-Denis as an underdog. After an up-and-down first round, Poirier’s superior boxing…
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Josh Brolin is in on the joke. During his opening monologue on the March 9 episode of “Saturday Night Live,” the “Dune 2” actor gushed about his “super creepy poem” about Timothée Chalamet. “I don’t think it’s scary, but you be the judge,” he told the audience before reading part of the poem that appeared in his coffee table book “Dune: Exposure.” For context, one poem reads, “The way you hold my gaze/I fear my age. Because there’s something in me that tells me/You’re going to give me something and/For now/I’m not sure/It’ll be something/Something/I want anymore.” Brolin then clarified…
Saturday’s Loyola-LaSalle game was sold out at Gentile Arena. Photo by Mike McGrath Most Chicago sports fans have probably done a Cubs-Sox, day-night, Red Line doubleheader at some point in their lives. Saturday was the occasion for an extremely rare March Madness twinbill. Loyola played at home in the afternoon, at Northwestern at night for its final game of the regular season. Both schools are hoping to make the NCAA Tournament. The two renovated their arenas with the intention of creating a more frenetic basketball atmosphere. Before Saturday, both teams were 14-2 at home this season. How unique is this…
The 2024 SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament field has been officially finalized. This year’s SEC Tournament will take place March 13-17 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee. The Tennessee Volunteers will be the No. 1 seed this year after one of the best regular seasons in program history. You have to think that Bridgestone Arena will be filled to the brim with Tennessee fans this year, giving it the home field advantage against any other team… However, we do know that the Kentucky Wildcats and Big Blue Nation will show up in full force, especially after a blowout win over the…
The 2024 Oscars will be held on Sunday, March 10 at the Dolby Theater at Ovation Hollywood in Los Angeles. Jimmy Kimmel returned as host for the fourth time, joined on stage by an all-star list of presenters. Kimmel previously said that he returned to watch the show partly because he thought a popular film could be nominated, reasoning that it was easier for viewers to joke about what they had seen. “I’m sitting in a movie theater watching barbie And thinking, ‘Okay, maybe I’ll do it again, because at least I have a point of reference with everyone else,'”…
Alexander Payne Award contenders holdover The film is facing controversy on the eve of the Oscars, where David Hemingson’s script is nominated for Best Original Screenplay. The feature stars Paul Giamatti as an eccentric boarding school teacher who is stuck caring for a teenage boy (Dominic Cessa) during the Christmas holidays. According to Luca And paddington 2 According to writer Simon Stephenson, the script is very similar to his unproduced screenplay for Frisco, about an eccentric pediatrician who cares for a teenage patient for several days. The Frisco script gained some notoriety, as in 2013 it appeared on the Black…
Despite a strong performance against the Milwaukee Bucks, the Golden State Warriors suffered a blowout loss to the Chicago Bulls at Chase Center in San Francisco on Thursday evening. To make matters worse, Steph Curry left the game in the fourth quarter with an ankle injury. On Saturday, the Warriors will welcome the San Antonio Spurs to town to conclude the final game of the homestand. Before the Warriors take on the Spurs in the Bay Area on Saturday, here’s everything you need to know about the game, including how to watch it.This post originally appeared here warriors wire, What…
The No. 7 North Carolina Tar Heels (24-6) and No. 9 Duke Blue Devils (24-6) collide on Saturday in an ACC showdown. On Monday, the Blue Devils topped NC State 79–64. Meanwhile, the Tar Heels defeated Notre Dame 84-51 on Tuesday. UNC defeated Duke 93–84 in Chapel Hill on February 3, covering that matchup as a 4.5-point favorite. A UNC win gives the Tar Heels an outright ACC regular season title, while a Duke win would give them a share of the title. Tipoff from Cameron Indoor Stadium is scheduled for 6:30 pm ET. The Blue Devils are 5-point favorites…
This Whittier College alumnus learned that it’s never too late to set new career goals and succeed at them. Emily Baeza, 33, served as second assistant director on the Oscar-nominated film “American Fiction,” which is up for five nominations, including best picture, at the 96th Academy Awards on Sunday, March 10. In high school, Baeza was encouraged by one of her teachers at Montebello High School to apply to Whittier College, a four-year liberal arts college with small class sizes and a program that seemed like a perfect fit for her. Was. She joined the Whittier Scholars Program, which allows…
96th annual academic award on Sunday will bring together candidates that include box office record breakersHollywood veterans, newcomers and one above the other epic drama Because big players and even bigger films compete for coveted recognition. 2024 oscar ballot Promises to make for an interesting night. So, before the show, entertainment industry experts shared their predictions Result Some of the top categories.Who will win the Best Picture Oscar?”Oppenheimer” Is the clear frontrunner to win the Oscar perfect picture, Christopher Nolan’s epic historical drama about the nuclear physicist known as the “Father of the Atomic Bomb” leads the nominations at this…