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Joe Montana, a four-time Super Bowl winner and eight-time Pro Bowl selection, is excited about the new wave of quarterbacks in the league. Sporting News recently asked which he’s most interested in seeing this season. “I’m pretty interested in watching Dak Prescott this year and also Derek Carr — how he comes back from that injury, because I think that injury really affected the Raiders down the stretch (last season),” Montana said....

Archetypes has slipped to No. 27 in the U.S. charts, one spot behind Jordan Peterson’s show and several places behind Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard, which Prince Harry was a guest on in May 2021. Meanwhile, Joe Rogan’s show is back in the top spot in America, having briefly been dethroned not only by Meghan, but also by Kim Kardashian’s The System. Kardashian’s real crime series has slumped to No....

(Sorry, too easy.) But not so much coach John Calipari. He understands that the shift in college basketball toward calling games more closely, to allowing more freedom of movement, is good for the game in general — and maybe better for Kentucky than most teams. MORE: College basketball midseason All-Americans “People must be fouling,” Calipari said during his news conference Friday in advance of Saturday’s big SEC showdown against South Carolina....

As for Saturday, if Wildcats coach John Calipari gets his way, there will be no need for seats at Rupp Arena during crunch time. MORE: Saturday college scoreboard | Mock bracket selection | Rupp redesign "For this game, I'm talking to our fans," Calipari said Friday morning on ESPN's "SportsCenter." "The last eight minutes, no one sits down. Carry us home the last eight minutes. If you have to stand with a cane, if you have to hold someone next to you, everyone stands....

Calipari said on the SEC media teleconference that the Wildcats are “holding down the fort” with the 6-foot-10 Lyles having missed the last three games due to illness. MORE: Kentucky atop new AP poll | Calipari vs. Saban: Who’s better? | Florida’s Frazier out with sprained ankle “I don’t have any sense right now (if he will play),” Calipari said via The Courier Journal. “I’m liking the training sheet that says he can go limited today, which is the first time....

Miz then slowly began to take control and threw Cena from corner to corner, until he slammed John with a hard clothesline in the corner. He then dived from the third rope and hit Cena with an elbow. The Miz then solidified his advantage by kicking Cena as he sat helplessly in the middle of the ring. He then looks to slam Cena in the corner but the 16-time Champ evaded it just in time and was about to tag Nikki in until Maryse pulled her off the apron....

After having last weekend off, John Cena returns to the road and faces Ryback in tables matches at this weekend’s RAW live events in the Northeast. With The Miz in Germany doing promotional work, Sheamus has been added to the shows to challenge Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental Championship. Chris Jericho will not be at tonight’s live event in Glens Falls, NY, however will be facing Fandango at the rest of this weekend’s RAW live events....

Cena dropped the title to Alberto Del Rio at Survivor Series and took a long break to shoot a series. John Cena returned a few weeks back to challenge Alberto Del Rio for the US Championship but was unsuccessful. John Cena injured his right shoulder soon after and underwent a surgery. WWE had major plans for Cena for the upcoming Royal Rumble and Wrestlemania 32. Royal Rumble which is hardly a week away would have seen Cena square off with Del Rio for the US Championship which Cena was scheduled to win....

A report last week revealed that Cena will be the next guest on Broken Skull Sessions, and was to air on September 26, 2021. As per PWInsider and Wrestling Observer, John Cena will no longer take part in the interview with WWE Hall of Famer Stone Cold Steve Austin. Former WWE and Universal Champion Seth Rollins is reportedly set to take Cena’s place on the show. The Broken Skull Sessions episode with Rollins will air after the Extreme Rules pay-per-view later this month....

John Isner said Monday he will not play in Brazil in August, instead focusing his efforts on the North American hardcourt season. MORE: Fashionable athletes | Tom Brady supports Boston Marathon survivor The 30-year-old is the top-ranked U.S. player at No. 16 in the world. He reached the quarterfinals in London four years ago before falling to eventual silver medalist Roger Federer. “It’s a decision I didn’t take lightly,” Isner told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution....

During Morrison’s tenure with IMPACT Wrestling, then known as Johnny Impact, Morrison challenged then-IMPACT World Champion Austin Aries in the main event of Bound For Glory 2018 for the IMPACT World Championship. However, the feud quickly blurred the lines from a typical professional wrestling angle into a shoot on social media, with both wrestlers trading personal insults at each other. The match took place at Bound For Glory in 2018, where John Morrison defeated Austin Aries to capture the IMPACT World Championship for the first time in his career....

Turns out, he’s the fastest ever. Ross made headlines Saturday in Indianapolis, breaking Chris Johnson’s nine-year record 40-yard dash (4.24), turning in a blistering 4.22. MORE: 15 greatest NFL Combine performances ever Check it out. Ross time held up after various marks were reported while the official figures were tabulated. While no receiver will relish being assigned to cover Ross man-to-man, if his time holds, the 5-11, 190-pounder won’t be getting his own island....

Wall and Beal played together in Washington for eight seasons and on Tuesday night crossed paths for the first time since the former was traded to the Rockets in exchange for Russell Westbrook at the beginning of last month. At the end of the game, Wall approached Beal and hugged him, contravening the league’s COVID-19 protocols, which stipulate players must keep interactions to a minimum before and after the game....

According to a poll-of-polls by data website FiveThirtyEight, on Monday, Biden had an approval rating of 43.5 percent and a disapproval rating of 50.6 percent. At the beginning of his presidency, Biden’s aggregate approval rating was 53 percent and disapproval was 36 percent, according to the website. On Friday, the Democratic president’s approval rating sunk to a new low of 43.4 percent, and disapproval reached an all-time high of 50....

In audio recorded by local news channel WFMZ-TV, Biden can be heard off camera telling workers at Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations: “I used to drive an 18-wheeler, man […] I got to.” The clip was shared by the Republican National Committee (RNC) Research Twitter account, alongside the comment: “Joe Biden, a career politician who has been in politics for 48 years, claims he ‘used to drive an 18 wheeler....

Biden referred to the bureau as the “AFT” rather than the “ATF” twice in quick succession during a speech in the White House Rose Garden announcing David Chipman as his nominee for director. “Today, I’m proud to nominate David Chipman to serve as the director of the AFT,” Biden said, according to the official White House transcript, which included the error. “David knows the AFT well. He served there for 25 years....

Deep cultural and political splits continue to be evident across the nation and in Washington, with how to tackle the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic a particular flashpoint at the moment in the wake of Biden’s vaccine mandates. Amid this partisan outlook, an I&I/TIPP poll asked respondents if Biden is living up to his promise to unify the country—or stoking partisanship and division. A plurality, 40 percent, thought the latter. But nearly an equal amount, 37 percent, said Biden is living up to his unity pledge....

The most memorable moment from Chayefsky’s 1976 masterpiece “Network” is, of course, when unhinged newsman Howard Beale (a pitch-perfect Peter Finch) bellows on live television, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.” With his latest book “The Devil’s Guide to Hollywood” Eszterhas, 61, commits his “mad as hell” moment in print—he’s striking a blow for Tinseltown’s little guy, the lowly screenwriter. Ostensibly a guidebook for wannabe bards, “The Devil’s Guide,” succeeds more as a dishy, sleazy, comedic impressionist portrait of Hollywood from the studio system days through Eszterhas’s own golden years....

Joe Gibbs Racing will be entering its 30th year in the NASCAR Cup Series in 2021, and there have been only two drivers who have managed to win the Daytona 500. In just the second year of the team’s existence, Hall of Famer Dale Jarrett put JGR on the map, but unfortunately, it had to wait 23 years to see another one, or actually three. Read More: Daytona 500 Team Preview: 23XI Racing with Bubba Wallace...