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Kyler Murray, one of the top prospects in American collegiate sport, has found himself at the center of a Twitter controversy after old tweets surfaced using homophobic slurs. Murray is the two-sport star of Oklahoma University and is predicted to be a future big name in either the NFL or Major League Baseball. The 21-year-old quarterback […]
The organizers of televised U.S. awards shows, who annually serve up a night of lectures, sermons, hypocrisy, and guilt for an increasingly small audience, should realize that the show doesn’t necessarily have to go on. It’s certainly not going on in Germany. Axel Springer, a top publishing house for numerous German media sources, including AutoBild, […]
The world’s top snowboarders decend on Vail, Colo., this week for the Burton U.S. Open. In its 36th year, the longest-running event in snowboarding has earned the reputation as the most coveted title in the sport. The field in the slopestyle event includes Canadian heavyweights Mark McMorris, Max Parrot, Tyler Nicholson, Darcy Sharpe, and Sébastien Toutant. Parrot redeemed […]
Enlarge / Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell applauded the Game Developers Conference for rescinding his own award, apologizing “if my personal actions or the actions of anyone who ever worked with me offended or caused pain to anyone at our companies.” (credit: Flickr / CampusPartyMexico) On Tuesday, the Game Developers Conference announced its prestigious Pioneer Award […]
The Maynard’s 1992 Late Bottled Vintage Port was given a gold medal at the International Wine Challenge after “delighting the judges with its fig, prunes, damsons and cinnamon notes.” Aldi describes the £19.99 wine as “smooth and velvety, a full bodied port with flavours of blackberry, blackcurrant and cherry.” Its 40-year old Maynard’s Tawny Port […]
Published time: 16 Nov, 2017 19:34 RT’s interactive large-scale historical reenactment of the Russian Revolution through real-time tweeting has been recognized as “Best in Education” at the prestigious Shorty Social Good Awards. The #1917Live effective use of the platform also brought it a Gold award in Twitter presence. Beating 25 other contenders, “#1917LIVE: What if […]
Damian Warner’s quest for both a Canadian record and personal hat-trick of titles at the Hypo Meeting in Gotzis, Austria, is off to a great start. Warner leads all competitors with 4532 points after five events, while fellow Canadian Pierce LePage is second with 4379. Oleksiy Kasyanov of Ukraine is third with 4352 points. Warner posted the fastest time in […]
The discount retailer picked up a total of 28 individual awards and accolades, with the pick of the bunch being its Exquisite Collection Cotes de Provence Rosé. It was one of six silver medals the supermarket collected at the International Wine Challenge, where judges scrutinise entries with rigorous blind taste tests in an event dubbed […]
Flickr When two Netflix titles, Boon Joon-Ho’s “Ojka” and Noah Baumbach’s “The Meyerowitz Stories,” were added to the esteemed competition lineup for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, it was another notch in the belt for the streaming giant. But it was also another moment when the movie industry felt that Netflix is hurting the theatrical movie […]
