Trevor Ruszkowski/USSF/Getty Images for USSF (NEW YORK) — This year, U.S. Women’s Soccer star and Olympian Julie Ertz announced her retirement from the sport after over a decade of professional play. Ertz, 31, who was on the 2015 and 2019 championship Women’s World Cup team, said she was taking time to focus on her family, …
Mike Stobe/Getty Images, FILE (NEW YORK) — Anthony Nesty attributes his recent appointment as U.S. men’s Olympic swim team head coach to his hard work ethic, determination and family. Nesty, who is also the head coach of the University of Florida’s men’s swimming and diving team, was selected to lead the U.S. men’s swim team …
National Geographic National Geographic has tapped Oscar nominees Angela Bassett and Jeremy Renner, and Emmy nominee Awkwafina to narrate a trio of shows bound for Disney+. Bassett, who was nominated for playing Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, will produce and narrate Queens, which “features matriarchies and female leaders around the world to tell a story of sacrifice and resilience but …
L-R: Cardoni, Belden — Courtesy Adult Swim On Sunday night’s season 7 premiere of Rick and Morty, viewers noticed a pair of new names in the credits: Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden. Cardoni is the new voice of Rick Sanchez, while Belden portrays Morty Smith; both men replaced show co-creator Justin Roiland, who was let …
Mark Metcalfe/Getty Images for AFI Jurassic Park star Sam Neill is living with non-Hodgkin blood cancer — angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma — but he doesn’t give it much thought. “I know I’ve got it, but I’m not really interested in it,” Neill, 76, tells Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s Australian Story. “It’s out of my control. If you …
Hulu On Monday, FX dropped a trailer for its American Horror Stories Huluween event, a special, four-episode anthology streaming October 26 on Hulu. The four installments include “Bestie,” about a young woman mourning her mom who “seeks connection in a mysterious online friend”; “Tapeworm,” in which an up-and-coming model swallows what she thinks is the …
Mike Marsland/WireImage via Getty Images Legendary actor Michael Caine says he’s retiring from acting. In a new interview with BBC Radio 4, the two-time Academy Award winner said his new movie, The Great Escaper, may be his last. “I keep saying I’m going to retire,” Caine said. “Well, I am now because I’ve figured I’ve …
FOX/Tom Griscom Fox’s new game show, Snake Oil, takes a page from Shark Tank but with a twist: Some of the contestants looking for investors just may be plugging a fictional product. Helping to separate fact from fiction is host David Spade. The Saturday Night Live veteran explains to Emmy magazine, “It used to be, …
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Oscar winner Riz Ahmed took to social media to lament the deadly state of affairs in Israel and Gaza in the wake of “horrific and wrong” Hamas terror attacks. “We are told there are two sides to what is happening in Israel and Palestine,” says the English actor of Pakistani descent. “But …
Dan Kitwood/Getty Images Kevin Spacey‘s comeback trail hit a major pothole when the world premiere ofm a movie featuring the Oscar winning actor was canceled because of his involvement in it. Spacey, who was recently acquitted on sex assault charges in an English court, is the unseen antagonist in the low-budget thriller Control, which has …