Team USA women’s hockey star Brianna Decker out of Winter Olympics after suffering serious leg injury

Team USA women’s hockey star Brianna Decker is out of the Winter Olympics after suffering a serious leg injury during the teams’s first game in Beijing. The 30-year-old Decker was taken off the ice after a collision with Finland’s Ronja Savolainen during the preliminary round women’s hockey game. Decker could be heard screaming in pain …

Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley announces 2022 solo tour

Florida Georgia Line’s Brian Kelley has announced his first-ever solo tour, the Made by the Water Tour, will launch this April, featuring special guests The Boat Boys. Said Kelley: “Y’all, I am beyond excited to announce my own tour. Releasing my first album has been nothing short of a dream come true, and I can’t wait …

Take a look at the trailer for the Randy Travis documentary ‘More Life’

A new documentary about the life of country star Randy Travis, titled ‘More Life’, will premiere on the Circle Network on Thursday, Feb. 10. More Life highlights a performance Travis gave in 2012 to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his 1986 debut album, Storms of Life.  That album went Platinum, marking the first time a …

Netflix teases Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Pinocchio’ set to debut in December

Guillermo del Toro’s upcoming stop-motion musical adaptation of Pinocchio is coming to Netflix in December, ad the streaming service shared a short teaser trailer for the animated feature. Pinocchio is based on the Carlo Collodi children’s novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, which follows a wooden puppet who comes to life. Ewan McGregor voices Sebastian J. …

John Mulaney set to host ‘Saturday Night Live’ for a fifth time on February 26

Comedian John Mulaney is set to guest host Saturday Night Live for a fifth time on Feb. 26, after the show returns from a three-week break due to NBC’s coverage of the Winter Olympics. The only other celebrities who have guest hosted SNL five times include Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, John Goodman, Tom Hanks, Drew …

CNN President Jeff Zucker announces resignation after failure to disclose relationship with colleague

Jeff Zucker has resigned as president of CNN Worldwide, effective immediately. The 56-year-old Zucker announced his resignation in a staff memo on Wednesday, explaining that the decision for him to resign was made after he failed to disclose a “consensual relationship” with a colleague. The statement read in part: “As part of the investigation into Chris …

President Biden to deploy 3,000 troops to Eastern Europe amid Russia-Ukraine crisis

President Biden has agreed to deploy 3,000 additional U.S. troops to Eastern Europe to support NATO and Ukraine to dissuade Russia from any kind of military intervention in Ukraine.  The deployment follows talks between U.S. and Russian officials and a meeting of the United Nations Security Council this week over the Ukraine crisis. The deployments …

Washington Football Team announces new name is the Washington Commanders

The Washington Football Team has revealed its new name: the Washington Commanders. Washington owner Dan Snyder said in a statement: “As an organization, we are excited to rally and rise together as one under our new identity while paying homage to our local roots and what it means to represent the nation’s capital. As we …

Hue Jackson implies Browns owner Jimmy Haslam paid him to lose during his time as Cleveland head coach

As part of the proposed class-action lawsuit Brian Flores filed against the NFL, one allegation noted was that Dolphins owner Stephen Ross offered Flores $100,000 to intentionally lose games to improve draft positioning. Now former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson is implying that Browns owner Jimmy Haslam did the same. The 56-year-old Jackson has been …

Dolly Parton among the nominees for the 2022 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominees were announced on Wednesday, February 2, and country music icon Dolly Parton is among the 17 nominees for induction into the ‘Class of 2022’.   Other artists up for consideration are Beck, Pat Benatar, Kate Bush, DEVO, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Judas Priest, Fela Kuti, MC5, New York …