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<b>Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern Settle Lawsuit Two Years After Hazing Scandal    </b>

Pat Fitzgerald and Northwestern Settle Lawsuit Two Years After Hazing Scandal

UncategorizedAugust 22, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Pat Fitzgerald, the long-serving head football coach at Northwestern University, has reached a confidential settlement with the school, bringing an end to a high-stakes legal…

<b>GLP-1 Drugs Raise Questions as Athletes Report Use for Weight Loss    </b>

GLP-1 Drugs Raise Questions as Athletes Report Use for Weight Loss

NewsmakersAugust 22, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

A new class of medications originally intended to help manage type 2 diabetes is increasingly finding its way into conversations about sports performance and body…

<b>Kristin Scott Thomas: Elegance, Restraint, and a Career of Enduring Power   </b>

Kristin Scott Thomas: Elegance, Restraint, and a Career of Enduring Power

Film, TVAugust 22, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Kristin Scott Thomas has always seemed to inhabit a rarefied space in cinema and theater, an actress whose elegance and restraint are as unmistakable as…

<b>Gary Oldman: The Reluctant Antihero Who Keeps Reinventing Himself   </b>

Gary Oldman: The Reluctant Antihero Who Keeps Reinventing Himself

TVAugust 22, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Gary Oldman has always been an actor defined by transformation. From his earliest days on the stage in London to his most recent turn as…

<b>Review: Slow Horses Returns Sharper Than Ever in Season Five   </b>

Review: Slow Horses Returns Sharper Than Ever in Season Five

TVAugust 22, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Season 5 of Slow Horses continues the series’ remarkable balancing act between espionage thriller and character study, but this time the canvas feels wider, the…

<b>Pat Riley Honored with Statue at Star Plaza: A Tribute to a Showtime Legend   </b>

Pat Riley Honored with Statue at Star Plaza: A Tribute to a Showtime Legend

NewsmakersAugust 21, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

The Los Angeles Lakers have announced a statue honoring Pat Riley, one of the most successful coaches in franchise history. The statue will be unveiled…

<b>Yankees Make MLB History As First Team With Two Nine-Homer Games in One Season   </b>

Yankees Make MLB History As First Team With Two Nine-Homer Games in One Season

NewsmakersAugust 21, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

The New York Yankees have made baseball history, becoming the first Major League Baseball team to hit nine home runs in a game twice in…

<b>WNBA Shatters Longstanding Single-Season Attendance Record    </b>

WNBA Shatters Longstanding Single-Season Attendance Record

NewsmakersAugust 21, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

The WNBA has reached a defining moment in its nearly three decades of history: the league has broken its single-season attendance record, and the achievement…

<b>James Dobson, Evangelical Leader and Founder of Focus on the Family, Dies at 89   </b>

James Dobson, Evangelical Leader and Founder of Focus on the Family, Dies at 89

NewsmakersAugust 21, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

James Clayton Dobson Jr., a psychologist who became one of the most influential figures in American evangelical life and founder of Focus on the Family,…

<b>Millie Bobby Brown and Husband Announce Adoption of First Child     </b>

Millie Bobby Brown and Husband Announce Adoption of First Child

NewsmakersAugust 21, 2025by Tandy Culpepper

Millie Bobby Brown, the actress who first captured global attention as Eleven on Netflix’s Stranger Things, has entered a new chapter of her life. Brown,…

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