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And, for the first time since 2011, a rookie has made their way to the winner’s circle at the Daytona International Speedway: Austin Cindric of Team Penske. The rookie found himself leading the field after two crashes (drawing the sixth and seventh cautions of the day, respectively) in the final six laps of the race. MORE: Watch the Daytona 500 live with fuboTV (free trial) Cindric, making just his eighth NASCAR Cup Series start, was able to hold off a savvy move from Bubba Wallace in the final stretch of the race, as the No....

Bubba Wallace claimed the rain-delayed (and then rain-shortened) YellaWood 500 for his first Cup win. He also became the second Black driver to win in NASCAR’s top series, 58 years after Hall of Fame driver Wendell Scott won in December 1963. Wallace is the only Black driver active in the Cup Series. Wallace began receiving congratulations from fellow drivers on pit road after the race was red-flagged for rain with three laps to go in Stage 2....

Fans rejoiced when Disney announced the third outing from their Sister Act franchise, a beloved duology from the early 1990s that featured Goldberg as a Vegas lounge singer going undercover as a nun. However, it took almost three decades for the announcement to be made. Disney, seeking out original content for Disney Plus and hearing fan demand for another entry, has ordered up a third helping of Nunsense. Goldberg says the script is ready to go, and she wants a Fallon cameo if she can get it....

During Tuesday’s episode of The View, Goldberg’s co-host Sunny Hostin discussed what she called constant “attacks” by GOP Representative Kevin McCarthy on Democratic Representative Ilhan Omar. At one point, Hostin said Omar has not made remarks about the U.S. and Israel in relation to Afghanistan and Hamas since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi asked her to apologize for a 2019 tweet that criticized pro-Israel lobbying. Sara Haines, another member of The View’s panel, interjected and said Omar compared the U....

It’s alive and well in 2020. “Cobra Kai” — which debuted on YouTube Red in 2018 — resurfaced last weekend on Netflix and remains the No. 1 trending show on the streaming service as of Wednesday morning. MORE: SN’s “Karate Kid” roundhouse The series revisits the “The Karate Kid” franchise and brings the rivalry between Johnny Lawrence (William Zabka) and Daniel LaRusso (Ralph Macchio) to new generations. The first two seasons are on Netflix, and a third is coming in 2021....

Inspired by Gonzalez, who is considered to be Hollywood’s first Latin and Hispanic movie star, the new illustrated Google logo is the work of Bay Area-based guest artist, Ana Ramírez González, and references the star’s status as an outdoors heroine. Who Was Myrtle Gonzalez? Born in Los Angeles, California on September 28, 1891, Gonzalez’s Mexican father worked as a retail grocer while her mother was a former opera singer with family roots that could be traced back to Ireland....

Lee is a 29-year-old Chicago native, a consulting manager by profession, and a travel enthusiast who once got hit by a lion. The incident happened in 2017 when she went to Ngorongoro National Park, Tanzania, East Africa. While she was at the wildlife safari, she spotted a lion walking past her vehicle. Lee was filming the animal through an open window when the lion wagged its tail, which hit her....

Patrick Mahomes has a brother, Jackson, who was relatively unknown. He became a trending topic on social media on Sunday night, though. Jackson Mahomes attended Sunday night’s game when the Kansas City Chiefs traveled to the Baltimore Ravens in one of the best games of the 2021 season. Jackson was seated up near the box suites and was heckled by a fan of the Baltimore Ravens from a level below him, as seen in the video below....

With the Miss Universe 2019 competition set to take place Sunday at Tyler Perry Studios in Atlanta, Drouin is considered the favorite to take home the title. Multiple betting websites have announced Drouin’s odds at +300, ahead of the second favorite Gazini Ganados, Miss Universe Philippines, who came in at +500. The contest is not without surprises, however. Current Miss Universe Catriona Gray, also from the Philippines, overcame +6600 odds to land the crown....

Addressing a live TV studio which contained Ciro Ferrara among others, the Genoa starlet was calm, humble and reserved, his focused facade broken by a smile only when the legendary Juventus defender jokingly asked if he’d have to go to school the following day. However, when Pellegri was shown in-game footage of his father Marco fighting back the tears as he sat on the bench in his role as the Grifone’s team manager, Pietro was overcome with emotion himself....

When asked about the nuptials, Joey Lawrence told the news outlet: The actor-musician opened up about the unexpected romance on set: Who is Joey Lawrence engaged to? Utah-native Samantha Cope first appeared on screen playing an underage girl on the Dateline NBC series, To Catch a Predator. The actress went on to appear in several other TV shows, including The Lake, NCIS, Insecure, Tease and Private, amongst others. Samantha Cope is known to be an animal-lover and often spends time with horses and her pet dogs, Dakota and Jax....

Fury, who won his belts in a second fight against Wilder in February 2020, is making his first defense of his titles. He is ranked as the No. 1 heavyweight by ESPN while Wilder is rated third in the division. MORE: Tyson Fury confident he will ‘smash Deontay Wilder to bits’, uncertain on next fight Fury and Wilder first fought in December 2018, which was called a draw. Wilder scored two knockdowns in the fight, including a vicious one in the 12th round that Fury recovered from, while Fury won the second bout by a seventh-round TKO....

While the Milwaukee Bucks won their first championship in 51 years, the losing finalists Phoenix Suns were looking for what would have been their first ever NBA championship. Regardless, over the years, there have been even more unlikely NBA champions and the league has even seen one NBA player win the ring before their 20th birthday. In this article, we look at the youngest NBA champion in the history of the league....

Across his career, Imada amassed an impressive record of 30-18-1. Out of his 30 wins, one victory was an incredibly impressive performance on the ground against the upcoming challenger for the UFC welterweight championship, Jorge Masvidal. Toby Imada and Jorge Masvidal locked horns back in May 2009. Fighting for the Bellator MMA promotion, they faced each other in the Semi-Finals of Bellator’s Season One Lightweight Tournament at Bellator 5....

A closer look at Tomsula, the 19th head coach in franchise history: NFL coaching background: He had been the 49ers’ defensive line coach since 2007, serving under head coaches Mike Nolan, Mike Singletary and Jim Harbaugh. He also was the interim head coach for the final game of 2010 after Singletary was fired; he won. So he has experienced the highs and lows of most of the last decade with this franchise, and survived....

With politicians throwing their hats in the ring at a torrid pace, by November 2008, one out of every two Americans is expected to be running for the nation’s highest office—an extraordinary figure by any measure. While the negative tone of recent election campaigns has turned off voters in record numbers, the appeal of being the world’s most powerful person has never been greater, causing the two trend lines to cross....

After 29 years of serving as the Board Manager of the Arconia (a position she had inherited from her mother) Bunny was stepping down and passing on the baton to her powerful and pregnant protégé, Nina Lin (Christine Ko). Ever since Season 1, audiences had been under the impression Bunny was a “grumpy old b****”, a picture painted by angsty 20-something Mabel (Selena Gomez), and her annoying neighbors, Oliver (Martin Short) and Charles (Steve Martin)....

Dr. Michael Ryan, WHO’s emergencies chief, said that if rich countries decide on administering the third doses instead of giving them to countries in need of first and second doses, “we will look back in anger and I think we will look back in shame.” “This is people who want to have their cake and eat it,” he said. “Then they make some more cake and they want to eat that as well....

“China is doing the right things, and China is responding in a massive way,” Dr. Michael Ryan, executive director of the WHO Health Emergencies Program, told reporters on Wednesday. “We’ve seen no obvious lack of transparency.” China’s secrecy during the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic in 2002 and 2003 raised concerns about the government’s ability to be transparent during a health crisis. While China’s government, and President Xi Jinping, was praised by the U....