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Dozens of fishermen end up losing body parts to wolf fish. This is because many people don't realize that even after being "dead" and without a body, it is still capable of this.

David Ortiz- Alex Rodriguez Brought His Own Food to a Boston Restaurant; (Written and translated by Master Flip) After a game, the guy would say, “Let’s go to your house for dinner.” But he’d show up with his own food. Or if we went to a restaurant, he’d bring his food there. I’d look at him like, “Yo, hold up, what is this? You’re bringing food to a restaurant now?” He’d just shrug and say, “You know my diet, bro.” Then he’d pull out his little container right there at the table. I’d tell him, “Dude, you’re crossing the line. They’re gonna flame me here in Boston for this!” But that’s the kind of next level discipline he has. And he applies that same discipline to his business. Alex is a brain, man. I’m telling you, I spent a lot of time with him. The guy is a brain. 🎥 @AbriendoSports

THE SANDLOT was released 33 years ago today. The iconic Fourth of July night game was shot with real fireworks, turning the scene into a practical, one-of-a-kind moment where the kids were actually playing under a live show.

Kevin O’Leary (est. $400M net worth) reveals his two major investments being wedding and funeral companies because people overspend on both 👀 “it’s the one time in your life where you don’t care about the gross margin on product services”

The Kanye comeback is producing the most cleanly split market response in modern entertainment history. U.S. side: Two sold-out SoFi Stadium shows. $33 million in ticket revenue across two nights. $18 million from a single Friday show, one of the highest-grossing single concerts ever. "Bully" debuts at #2 on Billboard 200 with 152,000 units. Spotify and RapCaviar feature him on top playlists. Live Nation is booking the tour through August across India, Turkey, the Netherlands, France, Spain, and Portugal. U.K. side: Wireless Festival announces him as headliner for all three nights. Within days, Pepsi pulls its sponsorship. Diageo (Guinness, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Johnnie Walker) pulls its sponsorship. The Prime Minister publicly condemns the booking. Campaign Against Antisemitism calls for a travel ban. Liberal Democrat leader calls it "extremely serious." Same artist. Same week. Same album cycle. One market is pricing in the apology. The other is pricing in the pattern. In January, he took out a full-page Wall Street Journal ad titled "To Those I've Hurt," attributed everything to bipolar disorder and a frontal lobe injury from his 2002 car crash. The ADL's response was telling: the apology is "long overdue" but "doesn't automatically undo" the years of antisemitic behavior. The financial math tells you where this is actually heading. In October 2022, he lost Adidas ($1.5B in net worth gone overnight), Gap, Balenciaga, Vogue, his talent agency, and his lawyer in the span of about 72 hours. Forbes dropped him from $2B to $400M. Three and a half years later, he's pulling $33M from two shows and selling $20 merch on Yeezy.com. He rebuilt the revenue without rebuilding the corporate infrastructure. No brand deals. No equity partnerships. Direct-to-consumer everything. The concert math and streaming numbers prove the audience never left. The sponsor math proves the institutions did. That's the actual story here. The consumer market and the corporate market have permanently forked on the same person.

“Michael was tired of taking physical abuse from the Detroit pistons & wanted to start a strength & conditioning program.” “He said he’d try it out for 30 days & 30 days turned into 15 years.” How the weight room helped Michael Jordan become the GOAT 🐐

Marvel TV Head, Brad Winderbaum, says his favorite episode in the history of Marvel Television was the prison escape scene in Daredevil Season 3 "That one-shot is unbelievable. It's one of the best ever in the history of cinema."

David Ortiz- Ohtani Asked for More Batting Cages, So the Dodgers Dropped $100 Million (Written and translated by Master Flip) In the Dodgers vs. Yankees game at Dodger Stadium, Mark, the majority owner of the Dodgers, pulled Alex Rodriguez, Derek Jeter, and me aside and said, “Come on, I’m going to give you guys a tour of what we’ve done around the stadium.” As we walked, I asked, “Mark, what’s up with this construction here?” He replied, “It’s for Ohtani. After the season, we sat down with him and asked what we could do to help him get even better. We said, ‘Shohei, is there anything you believe we should do?’ Ohtani told them, “If we had more batting cages, I think I could be a better hitter.” I was surprised and asked, “What do you mean?” He explained, “Yeah, being limited on the batting cages, I think if I had more space and more time to practice, I could become a better hitter.” The Dodgers then invested over $100 million into the clubhouse. They turned it into a Four Seasons. As we toured the new space, I looked over at Alex and Jeter and said, And you guys are over here talking about the Yankees. The Yankees what? 🎥 @AbriendoSports

Karaban throws game ball into crowd. Congrats to the fan who now has a $100,000 basketball. If we're working for Michigan, we're trying to make a deal with the fan now while you can still get provenance.

BLACK PANTHER 3 IS STACKING ONE OF THE MOST OSCAR-HEAVY TEAMS IN MCU HISTORY 🚨 Ryan Coogler returns as director and writer after finally winning his first Oscar Michael B. Jordan is expected back despite Killmonger’s death in Black Panther Denzel Washington joins the MCU in a mysterious undisclosed role Lupita Nyong’o, Letitia Wright, and Winston Duke are all set to return Oscar-winning talents like Ruth E. Carter, Hannah Beachler, and Ludwig Göransson are also coming back This is happening because Marvel is doubling down on prestige filmmaking for Phase 7 They want Black Panther 3 to lead the post-Multiverse Saga era with elite talent Black Panther 3 isn’t just another sequel it’s being built as Marvel’s most award-driven project yet

Comparing Ye to R. Kelly is such a brain dead comparison. And criticizing people for going to Ye’s show while your own best friend was in attendance is crazy.

Glad my dawg set is ok

🚨 BREAKING: Wireless Festival will keep Kanye West as its headliner Melvin Benn, the Managing Director of Festival Republic, said: "I am a deeply committed anti-fascist and have been all my adult life. I lived on a kibbutz for many months in the 1970’s that was attacked on October 7th, am pro Jew and the Jewish state, while being equally committed to a Palestinian state.  "Having had a person in my life for the last 15 years who suffers from mental illness, I have witnessed many episodes of despicable behaviour that I have had to forgive and move on from. If I wasn’t before, I have become a person of forgiveness and hope in all aspects of my life, including work. "What Ye has said in the past about Jews and Hitler is as abhorrent to me as it is to the Jewish community, the Prime Minister and others that have commented and - taking him at his word - to Ye now also.  "Ye’s music is played on commercial radio stations in this country. It is available via live streams and downloads in this country without comment or vitriol from anyone and he has a legal right to come into the country and to perform in this country. He is intended to come in and perform. We are not giving him a platform to extol opinion of whatever nature, only to perform the songs that are currently played on the radio stations in our country and the streaming platforms in our country and listened to and enjoyed by millions.  "Forgiveness and giving people a second chance are becoming a lost virtue in this ever-increasing divisive world and I would ask people to reflect on their instant comments of disgust at the likelihood of him performing (as was mine) and offer some forgiveness and hope to him as I have decided to do"

Luka Doncic hamstring after getting injected with experimental horse semen in Spain

Larry Johnson says he choked away UNLV’s perfect season 😳 34-0, defending champs… LJ still carries that Duke loss.

Jay Bilas put up a 40 piece during this discussion.

Cillian Murphy said yes to Oppenheimer before he’d read a single page of the script. Nolan flew to Dublin to hand him a copy, printed on red paper so it couldn’t be photocopied. From that point on Murphy disappeared for six months. He dropped about 28 pounds, ate so little that Emily Blunt said it was “like, one almond” most nights, and skipped every single cast dinner. Matt Damon said they invited him every night. He never came. He was in the bath learning lines. He read American Prometheus, the Pulitzer-winning biography the film was based on. He read the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu holy text that Oppenheimer quoted after watching the first nuclear bomb test. Then he found old recordings of the real Oppenheimer giving physics lectures and started walking beaches near his home in Ireland, reciting them out loud to his dog Scout. At one point he hit a scene where Oppenheimer gives a lecture in Dutch. He asked Nolan what they’d do about it. Nolan: “You mean what are YOU going to do about that.” So Murphy got the film’s cinematographer, who happens to be Dutch, to record the lines into his phone. Slowed the audio way down. Spent three weeks memorizing the whole thing. Robert Downey Jr. said the rest of the cast would plan weekend trips around Santa Fe while Murphy would just go, “I have to learn 30,000 words of Dutch. Have a nice time.” The weight loss got competitive. His own words: “You become competitive with yourself a little bit, which is not healthy. I don’t advise it.” During the 57-day shoot he pulled 18-hour days and said he hit a zone where food just stopped mattering. Nolan kept the air conditioning cranked during the interrogation scenes because the character is being humiliated, and Murphy was so hungry and so cold it actually helped the performance. The real Oppenheimer lived the same way. Ran on cigarettes and double-strength martinis. Throat cancer killed him at 62. Murphy’s wife Yvonne once described what happens when a character finally leaves him. Her words from his years playing Tommy Shelby on Peaky Blinders: “OK. Tommy’s gradually leaving. I’m getting Cillian back.” Murphy puts it his own way. “I cancel reality for a while.” Oppenheimer won 7 Oscars and pulled in $950 million at the box office. It gave Murphy his first Best Actor win after decades in the business. So when a doctor asks how he copes with playing deeply traumatized characters and he laughs and calls being a doctor “a real job,” he means every word. The job costs him six months inside someone else’s head, a body he has to starve into someone else’s shape, and a family that has to wait for him to come home.

Bloomberg reports that Ye’s two SoFi Stadium shows brought in $33 million. The Friday night show alone generated $18 million which would make it one of the highest-grossing single concerts in live music history.

t.co/sG8RiavIy5 Jamie Lee Curtis recalls how the iconic str!ptease scene in James Cameron's "True Lies" (1994) was filmed & her experience watching this scene with her dad, Tony Curtis in the theater: "The thing that nobody knows [about the scene]: There was no rehearsal, there is no choreographer. Jim [Cameron] said to me, 'What do you want to dance to?' It was when John Hiatt's Bring the Family album was out and I said, 'There's a song called 'Alone in the Dark' that has this really funky rhythm, And I said, 'I really like that song.' And that's what they played. I don't think Jim had seen me in my underwear. We were doing it over and over and over, and it got quieter and quieter. At one point, Jim walked up and he whispered in my ear, 'If I get a pad, will you let go of the pole?' I said, 'Sure.' So they just wheeled in a little thin mat, on the ground, and we did it again, and I let go." The scene of her character Helen falling during the steamy dance garnered her "the single biggest laugh [she] will ever get in [her] life." "It's because Jim knew that the dance was too sexy; it was too real, It started to actually be good, and he knew he needed to break the spell of what the husband had put his wife through. I think we did two takes where I let go of the pole. [My dad Tony Curtis] was sitting next to me, in Westwood, at the big Fox Theater there, Thousands of people — and you know, it gets really quiet during that sequence, because it's a little sexy. Then when [Helen] falls and then gets back up, oh my God! The place, it was a huge … because you're anxious. Then the laugh, and it's all Jim. To his great credit, it's all him. He knew, it's a comedy. It's a comedy." [Jamie Lee Curtis Reveals How Her Iconic Striptease in 'True Lies' Came to Be: 'No Rehearsal', Jen Juneau, People, 2021]