LeBron James’ $15 million Polymarket bet divides the NBA world

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The most scrutinized athlete in professional basketball just signed a deal that is guaranteed to deepen that scrutiny. And this time the debate extends well beyond what happens on the court. The deal that started the conversation. LeBron James has entered into a partnership with Polymarket, a crypto-based prediction platform,...

"LeBron to Miami?" Windhorst Reacts After Heat Pull Off Stunning Giannis Blockbuster Deal

The Miami Heat acquire Giannis Antetokounmpo in a major trade, drawing comments on potential LeBron James moves.

The family lounge at an NBA arena exists for safety. Spouses, children, parents and siblings wait there during games, away from the crowd. Nick Young says that is where his payback landed. Ten years after the leaked video that ended his engagement to Iggy Azalea, the former Lakers guard sat...

Sophie Cunningham, the Indiana Fever guard known for her outspoken style, recently offered pointed comments about teammate Caitlin Clark that underscored both her loyalty and her frustration with how online conversation treats the team’s stars.

The Gulf Coast does not have much time left. Hurricane Isaias is now within roughly 24 hours of making landfall along the northern Gulf Coast, and officials across multiple states are urging residents to finish their preparations before conditions begin to deteriorate Friday. What is coming is not a storm to ride out casually.

He built a career on looking the part. The chiseled physique, the signature smile, the effortless screen presence. But for years, Shemar Moore was quietly concealing something beneath the surface that no camera angle could fully hide. The confession nobody expected. Moore, now 56 and still commanding attention as a...

Learn about an apple variety that is super crisp and firm that I am getting at apple orchards over Honeycrisp this month. It took a long time from when the Crimson Crisp apple was first bred until it was available to be grown commercially. It was first developed in the 1970s by the PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, and Illnois) co-operative. It wasn't until 2006 that the apple was released for growers. That is a long time in the development process. You don't get rich quick by developing a new apple variety!

Hurricane Isaias was barreling toward the U.S. Gulf Coast on Thursday as the first hurricane of the Atlantic season, putting communities across Florida, Alabama and Mississippi on high alert as officials raced to protect lives and property from potentially destructive conditions. With mandatory evacuations underway, schools closing and government offices...

Legendary R&B and soul singer Freddie Jackson has died at age 69. His passing Monday night, Oct. 5, was announced on his social media accounts this afternoon. A cause of death was not revealed. The news was shared in a heartfelt message on the singer’s Instagram page, written by his...

WTVR CBS 6 News anchor Julie Bragg married her husband, Ken, in September 2026. The wedding took place following their engagement at The Homestead in December 2024. Bragg shared details and many photos from the celebration on her Official Facebook Page, highlighting several local businesses and vendors involved in their special day. She revealed that planning the wedding was done in three months.

A fresh statewide poll offers an early read on the open race to succeed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, with ballots already being cast. Michigan voters have been handed a fresh clue about where the race for governor stands, and it arrives at a moment when ballots are already moving through the mail.

Utah has a way of surprising you. Before traveling to Snowbird, a mountain resort nestled in Little Cottonwood Canyon near Alta, Utah, approximately 27 miles southeast of downtown Salt Lake City, I had an idea of what to expect: beautiful mountains, wide-open skies and the kind of scenery that makes you appreciate the natural beauty of this country. What I experienced during my stay at The Cliff Lodge was even more impressive. The surrounding Wasatch Mountains provided some of the most breathtaking views I’ve ever witnessed, and the entire experience reminded me how important it is to step away from the everyday routine and appreciate the world around us.

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. The year a couple stops driving to somebody else's house and fires up their own oven is the year Thanksgiving gets real. The bird goes in the pan at a time they picked. The stuffing is built from scratch the way they want it. The house smells like what they cooked, and the people around the table are there because they invited them.

Two of Chicago’s most celebrated stages are marking a major milestone. Broadway In Chicago’s Cadillac Palace Theatre and James M. Nederlander Theatre are both turning 100, and the organization is throwing a birthday bash to honor a century of entertainment in the city’s Loop. The festivities take place Saturday, Oct. 17, and include birthday cake, rare behind-the-scenes tours and a free outdoor performance.

Céline Dion proved once again that nothing can keep her down. The Canadian superstar, 58, took a tumble onstage on Wednesday, Oct. 7, while performing at the Plenitude Arena in Nanterre, a western suburb of Paris. The fall came midway through her 1998 song “Dans un autre monde,” but Dion was back on her feet within seconds.

The Duke of Sussex publicly revealed that he slipped into a severe two-week depression caused by a sudden physical adrenaline crash following his historic move to Canada with Meghan Markle and their son Prince Archie. The candid admission arrived on October 8, 2026, as part of a newly released global...

Even the most decorated actors in Hollywood carry a few what-ifs. For Denzel Washington, one of them has followed him for decades and it involves one of the most iconic thrillers ever put on screen. Washington has openly acknowledged that he turned down the lead role in David Fincher’s Se7en,...

Runners hoping to cross the finish line in the Windy City have officially started their countdown. Applications for the 2027 Bank of America Chicago Marathon opened on Oct. 8, just days before this year’s race takes off on Oct. 11. The 49th running of the event is scheduled for Sunday, Oct. 10, 2027, and organizers have laid out a clear timeline for anyone eager to secure a spot.

Kaytron Allen ran for more yards than anyone in Penn State history. In Washington, he got 12 carries. The Commanders waived the rookie running back this afternoon, a move first reported by ESPN’s Adam Schefter. Allen, a sixth round pick at No. 187 overall in April, appeared in all four games this season and gained 41 yards, an average of 3.4 per carry.

The Atlanta Dream are chasing a championship on the court, but the franchise is already building something much bigger off it. This week, the Dream announced a landmark multi-year agreement that will make State Farm Arena the team’s permanent home beginning in 2027. The move will take Atlanta’s WNBA franchise from the intimate Gateway Center Arena in the nearby suburb of College Park to one of the city’s largest sports and entertainment venues.

Having visited and led tours for teens over the summer to The Legacy Museum (Montgomery, AL), the International African American Museum (Charleston, SC) and the National Museum for African American Research and Culture (Washington, DC) as part of commemorating America’s 250th Anniversary, I was eagerly anticipating my time in Boston with the Landscape of Slavery guided tour at Harvard. I was not disappointed.

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. When somebody in a neighborhood loses a person they love, the food shows up fast. Not ordered food, not catered food - someone's own pan, still warm from their own oven, left on the porch or handed through the screen door with barely a word. It happens before the family has thought about eating. It happens before anyone has had to ask. In churches, in small towns, in apartment buildings where people know each other well enough to notice when a hearse was parked outside, this is how the community speaks.

What does the protective order against J.R. Smith require, and where does his case stand? A Texas judge has ordered the former NBA champion to stay away from the woman who accused him of assault. The order was signed Sept. 29, a day after his arrest, and runs through Dec. 29.

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NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens is facing a defamation lawsuit from three friends of Nolan Wells, the Black college student who went missing from a Mississippi island during a Fourth of July celebration and was later found dead. The lawsuit. The fathers of the three friends, who are under...

Kickers rarely get much love in fantasy football, but the right streaming pickup can quietly swing a close matchup. Like running backs, wide receivers and tight ends, kickers depend heavily on game script, or how a game is expected to unfold. When a team builds a big lead and leans on the run, its pass catchers see fewer targets. When a team falls far behind, its running back loses carries as the offense chases points.

I use AI to help draft these articles. Every recipe and every fact in them is checked before publishing. Every dish on this list arrived in America inside someone's memory. Not a written recipe, just the way a mother learned it from her mother, carried across an ocean and rebuilt in a Chicago three-flat or a South Florida kitchen or a New Jersey row house where something was always on the stove. By the time the grandkids sat down to eat, nobody at the table called it Hungarian or Greek or Czech. It was just dinner.

Just two days into 2027, the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats will drive west from Daytona Beach to meet Florida A&M on the Rattlers’ home floor, and HBCU GO’s cameras will capture every possession. The Saturday, January 2 matchup launches the free streaming and television network’s 2027 men’s and women’s basketball season, and it sets the tone for a winter built on bragging rights.

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