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© Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images Boseman was the youngest of three children. His father worked for an agricultural conglomerate and did upholstery work on the side, and his mother was a nurse. He played basketball as a high-school student, but when a teammate was shot and killed, Boseman responded by writing a play and found that he felt called to become a storyteller. After graduating from high school in 1995, he studied directing at Howard University (B.F.A., 2000). While a student there, he too...

Westlake’s JaQuan Hardy working his way right into NFL Draft Running back overcame long odds to rise on draft boards JaQuan Hardy By Tony Zarrella | April 16, 2021 at 11:39 AM EDT - Updated April 16 at 2:03 PM CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - Imagine going through the Draft in your own backyard? That’s the deal for JaQuan Hardy, who’ll be celebrating just 20 miles away, in his parents’ home on the West Side. For a player who came out of Westlake High School with zero Division O...

Chadwick Boseman honored in Netflixs Portrait of an Artist Dailymail.com Reporter © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Chadwick Boseman is honored by his peers in Netflixs Portrait of an Artist, a documentary about the venerated actor in the wake of his death last summer from colon cancer. Denzel Washington, Viola Davis, Spike Lee and Danai Gurira are among the actors peers who appear in the doc and remember the legacy he left in his career on the silver screen. In the tr...

04/14/2021 There are going to be lots of content options around the first night of the NFL Draft on Thursday, April 29, from ESPN and NFL Network TV coverage to radio coverage to all sorts of alternative feeds. One particularly interesting alternative is what Los Angeles Chargers’ running back Austin Ekeler (seen above in a December game against the New England Patriots) is doing, though. Ekeler has become known for his individual Twitch streams and for his Gridiron Gaming Group (which he co-...

The Jim Rome Show LISTEN LIVE USA Today The word first came in the form of an NFL transaction that announced that the Patriots had terminated Julian Edelman’s contract. And for a moment, there was confusion. The hell is that?!?? Were the Pats giving up on him? Was he forcing his way out of New England to hop the train down to Tampa? And then the official announcement came from Edelman himself on social media – he is retiring. As he said, in part, in a video: "It was a hard decision, but the...

The NHL Trade Deadline is TODAY! So if you want to bone up on the latest from Hawkeytown, you’ll want to follow our coverage starting here, as well as throughout the day on Facebook and Twitter. •   Ryan Pace is a lurker. His Draft Day moves have been shrouded by clouds of secrecy. And he doesn’t do media availability enough to give you a feel for what’s up his sleeve. So, naturally, Connor Orr (SI.com) lists Pace as one of his 10 most interesting people entering the 2021 NFL Draft. Th...

Six current Saints players acquired through draft day trade up Alvin Kamara was acquired in a draft day trade-up by the Saints. (Source: Edwin Goode) By Sean Fazende | April 12, 2021 at 5:00 PM CDT - Updated April 13 at 5:51 AM NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - When it comes to draft day trades, the Saints have never been shy about wheeling and dealing. When they make a move, it’s usually up to select a player they covet. There are currently six Saints players on the roster that were acquired via d...

Rolling Stone How Lil Yachty Got His Second Act As a youth, the rapper garnered the title ‘King of the Teens’ — and a lot of criticism. Today, he’s a mentor and a mogul By Braylen Dion for Rolling Stone Until the pandemic, Lil Yachty never stopped to think about how quickly he became famous. “It was a full year from walking across the stage in high school to then I’m in this penthouse in midtown Atlanta, I got this G-wagon, put my mother in a house,” Yachty explai...

Ledyard makes a case why Broncos have to go QB in the Draft Talking with Ryan Edwards and Benjamin Allbright earlier this week, Jon Ledyard is passionate that the Broncos should take advantage of their top 10 pick by going quarterback. Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images Draft guru Jon Ledyard made it clear on Broncos Country Tonight earlier this week that he does not think Drew Lock “is horrible at all,” but he still doesn’t know how the Broncos go into the 2021 season without drafting a...

Its hard to believe that nearly two years have passed since HBOs Veep left the air. The widely acclaimed, multi-award-winning political satire created by Armando Iannucci as an American adaptation of The Thick of It became one of the televisions sharpest, most biting comedies, resulting in many Emmy wins for Julia-Louis Dreyfus and Tony Hale, while also earning praise for Anna Chlumsky, Reid Scott, Timothy Simons, Matt Walsh, Gary Cole, and Clea DuVall. Now that the show is concluded, however...