Michael Owens/Getty Images (SAN DIEGO) — San Diego Padres shortstop Tucupita Marcano has been permanently banned from MLB for gambling more than $150,000 on baseball, according to the league. Marcano, 24, faced the stiffest penalty of several baseball players penalized by the league on Tuesday. He gambled on at least 25 Pittsburgh Pirates games while …
Kevin Costner says he refused to shorten his eulogy for Whitney Houston’s funeral
Costner and Houston at ‘The Bodyguard’ premiere; Kypros/Getty Images Kevin Costner was one of only eight speakers at Whitney Houston‘s 2012 funeral, and he recently revealed that he refused to cut his eulogy short, despite being asked to do so. Appearing on Dax Shepard‘s podcast Armchair Expert, Costner says he was the one who decided …
Jeremy Renner reveals another big reason he turned down ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’
Marvel Studios Jeremy Renner recently told Collider being away from his daughter, Ava, was the reason he turned down reappearing as William Brandt for Mission: Impossible – Fallout, but he just revealed there was another big reason. In short, it was self-preservation — at least for his character. “I remember they tried to bring me …
Robert Downey Jr. says he’s “surprisingly open-minded” to returning as Iron Man
Marvel Studios In the latest installment of Variety‘s Actors on Actors series, Oscar winners — and longtime friends — Jodie Foster and Robert Downey Jr. reflected on their friendship, their careers and, perhaps unexpectedly, whether or not Downey will someday put his Iron Man suit back on. Downey’s Tony Stark sacrificed himself to save humanity …
“Mr. Monopoly” Busted For Fake ID
A man who claimed his name was “Mr. Monopoly” and said he was born on 4-20-69, has been taken into custody. Ryan Howard, 33, was arrested Saturday night for spray painting a wall in St. Petersburg, Florida where officers found spray paint cans in his bag, which were in plain sight. Initially silent when asked …
Food Pantry Gives Entire School Tickets To Red Sox Game
Over the last five years, the Stop & Shop Food Pantry has donated more than $100-thousand in healthy food to see that students at Washington S.T.E.M. Elementary School in Lynn, Massachusetts, don’t come to school hungry. To celebrate this milestone, Boston Red Sox’s first baseman Triston Casas recently surprised the students and staff with 500 tickets to …
Tom Blyth talks complex characters, President Snow and ‘Billy the Kid’
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. Tom Blyth stars as the American outlaw in MGM+’s drama series Billy the Kid, which just returned for part two of its second season. The role is another tortured character for the actor, who also portrayed young President Coriolanus Snow in last year’s Hunger Games prequel film, The Ballad of Songbirds & …
In Brief: ‘American Gladiators’ reboot for Prime Video, and more
Prime Video has released the official trailer for its feature documentary chronicling the final 12 days of Roger Federer’s professional tennis career, titled Federer: Twelve Final Days. The doc takes an intimate look into the tennis star’s final days as a professional athlete, using home video never intended for public viewing, along with interviews from …
‘The Acolyte’ drops Tuesday on Disney+
Disney+ A respected Jedi Master is investigating a shocking crime spree in the new Star Wars series The Acolyte, out Tuesday on Disney+. Dafne Keen plays a young Jedi in training, and she tells ABC Audio that when it came to using The Force on the show, everyone had to develop their own way of doing …
Scoreboard roundup — 6/3/24
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL INTERLEAGUELA Angels 2, San Diego 1St Louis 4, Houston 7 AMERICAN LEAGUEToronto 2, Baltimore 7Detroit 2, Texas 1 NATIONAL LEAGUEWashington 7, NY Mets 8Milwaukee 1, Philadelphia 3Arizona 4, San Francisco 2Cincinnati 13, Colorado 3 Copyright © 2024, ABC Audio. All …