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The Florida politician introduced the recent Parental Rights in Education bill, known more commonly as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill, which Disney has now come out against. Reacting to the reaction, Harding has announced he is returning Disney’s campaign donations because it has listened to the “woke mob” who opposed the bill. The bill (HB 1557) was officially signed last week and limits children in kindergarten through to Grade 3 having “classroom discussions about sexual orientation or gender identity....

ESPN’s Don Van Natta Jr. was the first to report it, and the NCAA has since confirmed the news. According to Van Natta, 112 victories will be restored to Penn State, but 111 will be restored to Paterno. One of the victories was from Tom Bradley. MORE: Penn State back in ‘800-club’ after 112 wins restored | 16 years of playoffs instead of BCS The restored wins will make Paterno the winngest college football coach with 409 victories....

“He can’t talk right anymore,” Rogan said of the president on The Joe Rogan Experience this week. In his latest podcast episode, Rogan was joined by fellow podcaster Coleman Hughes and their discussion turned toward the 2020 election. “That was one of the things that people were saying, that I was a Trump supporter during the election because I said I would vote for Trump before I would vote for Biden,” Rogan said....

Joe Root hit his sixth century and first overseas as England survived a spirited West Indies display to grab the advantage on the third day of the second Test here. The right-hander, playing his 24th Test, delighted himself on a flat track at the National Cricket Stadium to finish the day 118 not out, steering England to 373/6 at the close. He was joined by fellow rookie Gary Ballance (77), captain Alistair Cook (76), and Jonathan Trott (59), reports CMC....

Chestnut first dove into the world of competitive eating in 2005 while he was a student at San Jose State University. His first major victory came that year when he ate six-and-a-half pounds of fried asparagus in 11 1/2 minutes. That year, Chestnut qualified for his first Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest and ate 32 hot dogs. By 2011, Chestnut had become such a force on the eating circuit that he was able to quit his full-time job in construction management and focused solely on training for eating competitions....

Logano had the fastest speed in Friday’s final round of qualifying at the .75-mile, D-shaped track with a speed of 126.470 mph, which was slightly faster than Matt Kenseth, who clocked in at 126.357 mph. PHOTOS: Jeff Gordon’s final season in NASCAR | MORE: NASCAR playoff scenarios “It is nice to have a good starting spot here,” Logano told NBC Sports. “If you are up front you can take care of your tires better through the first part of the race....

Knoxville police raced to Market Square after they were alerted that a woman was assaulted by a man just after 7 a.m. on Tuesday, September 6. Police said the woman had been jogging near the subway when the unknown man attacked her. Several bystanders quickly came to help the woman and she managed to escape with minor injuries, according to police. The suspect managed to flee the scene by the time officers arrived....

Calipari told the ESPNU College Basketball podcast Tuesday that he spent his weekend on the recruiting trail trying to land seven different top-10 recruits from across the country — Harry Giles, Josh Jackson, Dennis Smith Jr., Malik Monk, Kobi Simmons and Miles Bridges. MORE: The greatest UK players of all time | Inside the life of a Wildcat walk-on The recently inducted Hall of Fame coach wasn’t shy about the talent he’s looking to bring to Lexington....

When Entertainment Weekly asked Carpenter about Green’s new movie, the director gave it a glowing review: “It’s brilliant. It’s the ultimate slasher. I mean, there’s nothing more than this one. Wow! Man.” Carpenter and Debra Hill’s script for the original 1978 Halloween movie became the template for the modern slasher. Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is believed to have originated the popular horror subgenre (and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and Black Christmas both predated Halloween), but Halloween is credited with establishing all the tropes and paving the way for such low-budget gems as Friday the 13th and A Nightmare on Elm Street....

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The legendary professional wrestler who has won 19 championships (thank you Wikipedia) has been spotted wearing a Spurs shirt at White Hart Lane. 0 votes

Sport Illustrated reported the news on its website. Evidently, Cena’s deals with Mountain Dew and his current filming for the HBO Max Series, “Peacemaker” will prevent him from appearing at WrestleMania. In recent weeks, many fans have been speculating that John Cena would have a spot on the card of “The Showcase of the Immortals.” After all, he’s one of the company’s most beloved stars. John Cena recently appeared in a Mountain Dew commercial ahead of the Super Bowl on February 7, 2021....

Madden, the legendary broadcaster who died on Dec. 28, 2021, is known to most as a decades-long color commentator of NFL telecasts on CBS, Fox Sports and ABC. He was a staple of the league’s Thanksgiving coverage and helped to establish the Turkey Leg Award, given to the best players on the field in the holiday contest. As such, it makes sense that the NFL would celebrate Madden one of the most important in-season dates on the league calendar....

Unfortunately, McCain will have to make do with Arnold riding shotgun on the trail. Yesterday on the plane ride to California, the senator broke the news to reporters that Stallone won’t be stumping for him anytime soon. After hearing of his surprise endorsement, McCain tried calling Stallone, but reached his wife instead, who told him that Rocky was in Europe promoting his new Rambo film. “I was very disappointed,” McCain said....

Despite the widespread coverage of looting and destruction some major news outlets focused on, John Oliver spent the entirety of his show Last Week Tonight unpacking America’s problematic relationship with law enforcement and the many reasons why many believe that police reform is needed. One of the solutions to the aggressive and systemic racism that Oliver advocated for was the defunding of police—an idea that many activists and peaceful protesters have also called for....

A clip from Oliver’s appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert was posted by Twitter user @Mara_Webster, who wrote: “John Oliver knew all along….#OprahMeghanHarry.” The clip has had over 224,000 views since it was first posted on Monday. The post was also shared by Molly Jong-Fast, editor at large at The Daily Beast, who tweeted: “So @iamjohnoliver really called this one.” The clip shared on the editor’s feed received more than 200,000 views....

Disclaimer - The following bloopers mentioned here may not be directly Terry’s fault. But what the hell – being an Arsenal fan, I am still going to post them. September 2001- The 9/11 party With their flight to an away match at Levski Sofia grounded in the aftermath of the terror attacks on New York and Washington, Terry and his three teammates ended up in the bar of the Posthouse Hotel at Heathrow, where stranded travellers, many of them Americans, had gathered to watch the events unfold on TV....

In a post yesterday before deleting his verified Twitter account, Tesh said he was leaving and urged his followers to “say goodbye to viciousness and censorship.” Although he did not provide examples of what he was referring to, Tesh had tweeted a link to Parler on Saturday, describing it as a “much nicer place.” Before its deletion, Tesh had 136,573 Twitter followers, according to analytics platform Social Blade. Memes and jokes spread across Twitter today, with some users seemingly unaware who Tesh is, why he was initially relevant and why it matters that he has gone....

Biden is given a 91 percent chance of winning the electoral college in the forecast as of Monday, while President Donald Trump is given a 9 percent chance. The forecast also predicts that the former vice president is all but certain to win a majority of the popular vote, having a 99 percent chance of winning the lion’s share of the national vote. With 270 electoral college votes needed to win the presidency, Biden is predicted to win an estimated 347 electoral votes, while 191 are estimated for Trump....

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders took second place in the poll with 20 percent while billionaire Tom Steyer placed third with 14 percent. Former South Bend, Indiana Mayor Pete Buttigieg received 8 percent to take fourth place while Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar rounded out the top five with 7 percent. While Biden still holds a substantial lead over his opponents with 28 percent of voter support, the numbers show his lead has declined by nine points since the last ECU survey, which was taken before the Iowa caucuses....