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PARIS — The ball bounced off the rim five times. Five! Stephen Curry came off that brick-house screen from Joel Embiid late in the fourth quarter, with Serbian guard Ognjen Dobrić running into the wall as if he were Wile E. Coyote and crumpling to the floor, and the greatest shooter of all time fired…

Leah Gallo/Disney Who’s ready for some more biodigital jazz, man? Throughout its 40-plus year existence, the “TRON” franchise has always been a little too far ahead of the curve for its own good. Steven Lisberger’s original 1982 “TRON” film was notoriously overlooked by the Academy in spite of…

Former Tottenham and Chelsea head coach Mauricio Pochettino is a top target for the U.S. men’s national team opening, according to multiple sources briefed on the coaching search. The sources said that the federation was still considering multiple candidates as of last week, but Pochettino is seen by some as the favorite in the pool,…

Sadiq Khan has said he’s ‘not safe’ as a Muslim politician in Britain and revealed how he feels ‘triggered’ by the recent far-right riots. In the wake of widespread violence after the Southport stabbing attack, the London mayor reflected on how he experienced the National Front and BNP as he grew up. He admitted it…

Lionsgate This article contains major spoilers for “Borderlands.” The “Borderlands” series of video games are a unique breed: they can be thought of as action-oriented shooters, or they can be considered as character-based RPGs. Like so many “open-world” games of the last decade or so, they’re structured in…

Follow live coverage of Day 12 of the 2024 Paris Olympics, with 21 gold medals on offer Bow-wow-wow, yippie-yo, yippie-yay, Snoop Dogg may continue on NBC’s Olympics coverage in a big way. Asked by The Athletic this week if NBC Universal plans to ask Snoop to return for on-air work at the 2026 Milano-Cortina Games…

By Greg Heffer, Political Correspondent For Mailonline Published: 05:38 EDT, 8 August 2024 | Updated: 05:38 EDT, 8 August 2024 Rachel Reeves has admitted Britain’s £306billion benefits bill is ‘out of control’ as she promised a fresh drive to get people into work. The Chancellor vowed to oversee a ‘change in mindset’ at Jobcentres and…

Lionsgate The video game movie adaptation used to be something close to an oxymoron, insofar as artists taking paper-thin material and attempting to flesh it out into a feature-length story resulted in some wildly, er, unique takes on classic video games; witness “Super Mario Bros.” and “Double Dragon,”…

Once an integral part of the towns and cities they called home, dozens of the nation’s Football League grounds have disappeared over the past 30 or so years. All took with them a wealth of memories for generations of supporters. But what happened next? The Athletic has travelled the country to find out, taking in…

Static Media 1999 is often cited as one of the best years in cinema history — if not the single greatest year. From “The Matrix” to “The Sixth Sense” and everything in between, it’s a year that birthed a number of classics that we’d be lucky to get…