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Pittsburgh Steelers QB Ben Roethlisberger indicates that Monday’s game vs. Browns will likely be his last

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Steelers’ QB Ben Roethlisberger gave his first public acknowledgment that he may be walking away from the game of football by electing to retire following the 2021 season. On Thursday, Roethlisberger said that Monday’s matchup against the Cleveland Browns could very well be his final game at Heinz Field.

Said Roethlisberger: “I don’t ever speak in definites or guarantees. That’s just not what I’ve ever done or who I am. But looking at the bigger picture, I would say that all signs are pointing that this could be it.”  The Steelers are set to finish out the regular season on the road in Baltimore in Week 18.   Unless the Steelers find themselves in the playoffs with a late-season rally, Monday night’s game against the Browns would likely be the final time Roethlisberger will play.

Roethlisberger said Thursday:  “I’ve always been one that has fulfilled my obligation to the team with contracts. I don’t have a contract next season, so I guess the writing was on the wall from [the front office], but kind of all of us together. I wouldn’t say that I have my mind made up by any means, but I have my mind made up that this season I was going to give it everything I have to try and win a Super Bowl.”

Roethlisberger has spent his entire career with the Steelers, leading them to two Super Bowl titles over his 18-year career. Currently, he is the Steelers’ all-time leader in passing yards and passing touchdowns.

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Warriors-Nuggets game postponed amid Denver’s COVID-19 outbreak

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The NBA postponed its 11th game this season due to health and safety protocols. The Golden State Warriors and Denver Nuggets game was cancelled on Thursday due to the Nuggets not having the league-required eight available players to proceed with the game against the Warriors.

Denver is in the midst of a COVID-19 outbreak. Head coach Michael Malone and three players — Jeff Green, Bones Hyland and Zeke Nnaji — were all placed in the NBA’s health and safety protocols Thursdy, and two assistant coaches also reportedly entered protocols.  In addition, Denver is dealing with long-term injuries to Markus Howard and Michael Porter. The team also listed Aaron Gordon as out, and three other players as day-to-day.

Until Malone comes out of the health and safety protocols, assistant coach David Adelman will act as the head coach. The first time Adelman will have the chance to act as head coach will be Saturday when the Nuggets take on the Houston Rockets.

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Take a look at Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg in the trailer for “Uncharted”

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Sony Pictures has shared a trailer for the action-adventure movie Uncharted, featuring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg.  Uncharted is based on the Naughty Dog video game series of the same name. The games follow Nathan as he travels across the world in search of treasure and historical artifacts.

The preview shows fortune hunter Nathan Drake (Holland) team up with Victor “Sully” Sullivan to find “the greatest treasure that’s never been found.” The pair go up against a villain played by Antonio Banderas. The film adaptation is written by Rafe Judkins, Art Marcum and Matt Holloway, and is directed by Ruben Fleischer. Sophia Ali and Tati Gabrielle co-star.

Uncharted opens in theaters Feb. 18, 2022.  You can check out the preview – here.

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Netflix’s ‘Bridgerton’ Season 2 to debut on March 25

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Bridgerton will kick off its second season on March 25.  Netflix tweeted:   “Dear readers, I know my absence has only made your hearts grow fonder; however, you will not have to wait much longer. Bridgerton Season 2 debuts March 25, 2022, only on Netflix The news broke exactly a year after the first season premiered on the streaming service.”

Season 2 will follow wealthy Anthony Bridgerton’s (Jonathan Bailey) search for a wife. It will co-star Phoebe Dynevor, Nicola Coughlan, Golda Rosheuvel, Julie Andrews, Charithra Chandran, Shelley Conn, Calam Lynch and Rupert Young.

Based on the Julia Quinn book series of the same name, the Shonda Rhimes-produced costume drama has already been renewed for Seasons 3 and 4.

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LL Cool J pulls out of his ‘New Year’s Rockin’ Eve’ performance after testing positive for Covid-19

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LL Cool J was forced to pull out of his appearance on Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve With Ryan Seacrest 2022 on ABC after testing positive for Covid-19.    LL Cool J said in a statement:  “I know it’s disappointing to the millions of fans but my test came back positive for COVID, which means I’ll no longer be able to perform as scheduled at New Year’s Rockin’ Eve.  We were ready and I was really looking forward to ringing in 2022 in my hometown in a special way, but for now I wish everyone a healthy and happy New Year. The best is yet to come!”

LL was scheduled to perform in New York’s Times Square before midnight.  In addition, Chlöe, who was also set to appear on the broadcast, has pulled out of the show.  Despite the performance cancellations, the ABC special, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, will still broadcast from New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Puerto Rico.

Billy Porter will host and perform in New Orleans; while Daddy Yankee host the Spanish-language countdown and perform in Puerto Rico. Ciara is set to host the Los Angeles segment, which includes performances by AJR and Daisy the Great, Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, Don Omar, French Montana, Macklemore with Ryan Lewis and Windset, Mae Muller, Maneskin, Masked Wolf, OneRepublic, Polo G and Walker Hayes.  And in Times Square, NYC, Journey and Karol G are set to take the stage.

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Eminem makes history on Spotify as “The Slim Shady LP” surpasses 1 Billion streams

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Eminem’s studio album “The Slim Shady LP” has now surpassed 1 billion streams on the music giant Spotify. The project was dropped over 2 decades back in 1999, and with this achievement Eminem now becomes the first act to have 11 studio albums with over 1 Billion Streams on Spotify.

Those 11 projects include albums “The Marshall Mathers LP”, “The Eminem Show”. “Recovery”, “Kamikaze”, the most recent “Music To Be Murdered By” and more. Recently, in the list of top-selling albums of 2021, Eminem’s 2005’s album “Curtain Call: The Hits” was among the top 50, even after 16 years of its release.

https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/eminem-breaks-record-for-most-albums-with-1-billion-streams-on-spotify-news.145432.html

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Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager announces retirement after 11 seasons in MLB

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Veteran Seattle Mariners third baseman Kyle Seager announced Wednesday on social media that he is retiring from baseball. Seager wrote in a statement posted to his wife Julie’s Instagram and Twitter accounts: “Today I’m announcing my retirement from Major League Baseball. Thank you to all of my family, friends and fans for following me throughout my career. It’s been a wonderful ride, but I am unbelievably excited for the next chapter of my life.”

Seager’s retirement comes as a bit of a surprise as he is relatively young.  Seager hit .251 with 242 home runs over his 11-year career. He joined the Mariners as a third-round pick in the 2009 MLB Draft and spent his entire career with the organization. He made his debut with the club in 2011, and is a one-time All-Star and Gold Glove Award winner, both earned in 2014. However in 2021, Seager hit a career-low .212 with a career-hight 35 home runs. He signed a seven-year, $100 million contract extension with the Mariners in 2014.

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NHL shortens isolation period to 5 days with negative COVID-19 test result

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In a memo sent to teams on Wednesday, the NHL outlined the new shortened isolation period for asymptomatic players that test positive for COVID-19 from 10 days to five days, provided they can produce a negative test result and are still following the guidelines set forth by local authorities.

The NHL’s new shortened isolation period is in line with updated CDC guidelines. The memo outlines changes to the league’s COVID-19 protocol agreed upon by the NHL and NHLPA and states that after a negative PCR test, approved medical clearance from a player’s club physician, and approval from local health authorities, a player may leave isolation after five days.

Also according to the memo, the NHL and NHLPA medical experts will reevaluate the new measures in 14 days.

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Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous’ is the best selling album of 2021

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Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous” is the best-selling album of 2021, despite the controversy surrounding the country star over his use of a racial slur. The 28-year-old’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” sold more than 3 million copies. Wallen ended up beating out the likes of Drake’s “Certified Lover Boy” that sold 1.85 million copies, Olivia Rodrigo’s “Sour” with 2.69 and Pop Smoke’s “Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon” with more than 1.4 million copies.

Shortly after the album was released in January 2021, a video surfaced in February that showed Wallen telling his friends to “take care of this p–y-ass n—a” when he had returned home from a night of partying. Wallen admitted later that he was “clearly drunk” during the exchange. A backlash ensued against the singer, with country radio banning his music and many of Wallen’s appearances cancelled. Wallen later posted a video for fans apologizing for using the N-word and explained how he didn’t want fans to defend his “wrong” behavior.

“Dangerous” remained at the top of the charts for its first 10 weeks, with Billboard noting that it became the first album since Whitney Houston’s “Whitney” in 1987 to do so. It is also the most weeks an album has spent in the top spot since Drake’s “Views” scored 13 weeks in the number one spot in 2016.

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HBO Max shares a first look teaser of Season 4 of ‘Westworld’

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HBO Max released ‘first looks’ at several of their returning series in a 2022 promotional video, notably including the long-awaited return of Westworld.  The Westworld Season 4 footage includes glimpses of Ed Harris’ Man in Black, Thandiwe Newton’s Maeve and Aaron Paul’s Caleb Nichols. The previous season of the acclaimed sci-fi series got underway at the start of the pandemic in March 2020.

The promotional video (which can be viewed here) also includes new footage from the new seasons of His Dark Materials, The Nevers, The Flight Attendant and Raised by Wolves, as well as from the debut seasons of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin, the Julia Child biopic Julia,  The Time Traveler’s Wife and the animated series Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai.  Absent from the lineup was the eagerly anticipated zombie drama The Last of Us, which has been expected to debut sometime in 2022.

As of press time, no premiere dates were announced for any of the shows.

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