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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 Three huge matchups to kick off the college football season, the XFL, a new Australian Open agreement and two new “30 for 30” documentaries were announced Tuesday by ESPN as part of its presentation to advertisers in New York. The five-year agreement with the XFL concluded the presentation. It includes all 43 games (40 regular season and the playoffs) on ABC, ESPN and FX. XFL owners Dany Garcia and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson were in attendance and presented the news. The XFL is slated to kick off on Feb. 18, 2023, with eight teams playing 10 regular-season games and the playoffs. ABC has a doubleheader on Sept. 3 to kick off the college football season. Georgia will face Oregon in the Chick-fil-A Kickoff game in Atlanta at 3:30 p.m. EDT. Besides the Bulldogs opening their national title defense, it marks the first game for Ducks coach Dan Lanning, Georgia’s defensive … [Read more...] about College football, XFL, Australian Open headline ESPN slate

The Orlando Magic know as well as any other team the luck and misfortune that can come with the NBA’s draft lottery. They’re hoping luck will turn their way for the first time in over a decade during Tuesday’s 38th installment of the lottery. The lottery will start at 8 p.m. in Chicago and will be broadcast on ESPN. The Magic were on the receiving end of a lot of luck in their infancy, winning back-to-back No. 1 picks in 1992 and ‘93 — selections that led to Orlando drafting Shaquille O’Neal and acquiring Penny Hardaway, the linchpins of the Magic’s early success in the mid-90s. The Magic later won the ‘04 lottery, leading to the drafting of Dwight Howard, the backbone of six consecutive playoffs appearances, including the 2009 Finals. Since then, the Magic have either stayed at or fallen from their pre-lottery positioning. While it isn’t known if this year’s draft class will have the kind of franchise-changing prospects that could propel the Magic to similar success … [Read more...] about Magic looking for luck to turn their way in NBA’s draft lottery

Who doesn’t get a sweet tooth, at least once in awhile, for a sweet onion? That thick slice of Rockies-purple red onion on a burger at Coors Field? Sweets cooked slowly and forever into a jam-like confit, sweeter than any that regular onions could make? It’s well-nigh impossible to think of a cuisine anywhere that doesn’t use onions, but sweet onions are special. (They also are a wee percentage of the world crop.) Many sweets sell in Colorado, such as Washington’s Walla Walla, Hawaii’s Maui, that Rockies-purple Red Bermuda or even our own state’s Colorado Sweet, available here most years August through October. But close to half of all the sweet onions that cooks buy in the United States come from Vidalia, Ga., and carry that name. Discovered accidentally (and felicitously) in the 1930s during the Great Depression, a Vidalia sports a whopping 12 percent sugar content versus a normal onion’s 5 percent. Too, the low sulfur content of the soil around the town of Vidalia contributes … [Read more...] about From cucumber salad to confit, three recipes to make the most of sweet onions

Pirates of the Caribbean producer Jerry Bruckheimer has revealed star Johnny Depp’s likely fate for future episodes of the franchise, and it doesn’t sound good. Depp, of course, is caught up in a defamation case he filed against ex-wife Amber Heard for her 2018 op-ed that accused him of abuse. The Pirates of the Caribbean star is suing Aquaman star, Heard, for defamation for a 2018 Washington Post article in which she referred to herself as a “public figure representing domestic abuse.” The pair divorced in 2017. Actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp watch as the jury leaves the courtroom at the end of the day at the Fairfax County Circuit Courthouse in Fairfax, Va., Monday, May 16, 2022. (AP Photo/Steve Helber, Pool) Depp starred as pirate Jack Sparrow in six installments of the blockbuster Pirates of the Caribbean movies, but it looks like his chances of appearing in a seventh Pirates movie is not good. Speaking to the UK Times Bruckheimer said that … [Read more...] about ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ Producer Jerry Bruckheimer Says Sequel to Star a Female Lead, Margot Robbie Not Johnny Depp

With the beauty industry being one of the biggest contributors to climate change, it's time we seriously took a look at sustainable and eco-friendly beauty product and brand alternatives. Skincare is the most profitable industry with an annual revenue of £2.8 billion, meanwhile the global beauty industry is estimated to be worth a staggering $603 billion (£446 billion). So it's no surprise that with all the packaging that comes with all the purchases we make, that our beauty and skincare regimes are massively contributing to climate change. Thankfully, there are lots of beauty and skincare brands that are now using eco-friendly and sustainable products and packaging - all that's needed is for us to make that change. But in order for us to make that all important change, we need to understand exactly what eco-friendly and sustainable is, and also what to look out for when we're buying. What does eco-friendly and sustainable mean? Sustainable : Able to be maintained - Many … [Read more...] about 10 sustainable and eco-friendly beauty brands including facetheory and Nails inc

By AMY TAXIN and STEFANIE DAZIO SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The man charged with opening fire on a Taiwanese church congregation of mainly elderly people in Southern California wanted to “execute in cold blood as many people in that room as possible,” a prosecutor said Tuesday in announcing murder, attempted murder and other charges for the shooting that killed one person and wounded five. Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer referred to David Chou, 68, as a monster whose rampage was thwarted by the heroic actions of a doctor who charged at him, a pastor who hit Chou with a chair and several parishioners who tied him up until police arrived. “This monster crafted a diabolical plan to lock the church doors with his victims inside in order to lead what he thought were innocent lambs to slaughter,” Spitzer said. “But what he didn’t realize was the parishioners at the church that day weren’t lambs – they were lions and they fought back against the evil that tried to infiltrate … [Read more...] about DA: Church gunman wanted to ‘execute’ as many as possible

Swedish multinational apparel brand H&M's flagship store in Beijing on March 28. H&M announced last September that it would stop buying cotton from China's Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region due to concerns of reported forced labor in the region. [YONHAP] K-pop idols of Chinese nationality are speaking out in support of Xinjiang cotton, eliciting mixed reactions from Korean fans to the politically sensitive topic. It all began on March 22 when the United States, Britain, Canada, and the European Union imposed sanctions on four Chinese officials allegedly connected with the human rights abuses happening in China’s Xinjiang Uigur Autonomous Region. A “re-education camp" in Xinjiang. [YONHAP] Uighurs are a predominantly Muslim, Turkic-speaking ethnic minority group, and the Chinese government has been accused of detaining at least one million of them in mass internment camps since 2017. Detained Uighurs are reportedly forced to pick cotton, along with other coerced … [Read more...] about Korean K-pop fans split over celebs’ support of Xinjiang cotton