Chester M. Pitts, II

It’s with great sadness that I share this news, that my Uncle, Joey Browner passed away yesterday. A son, brother, Uncle, best friend and a true Legend! His impact on and off the field will truly be missed. Love you Unc, you’ll be missed. #USCTrojans #Vikings #Buccaneers

Overprotected kids become unprepared adults. Dawn Staley nailed it.🔥 You can’t shelter your child from every hard moment and then expect them to handle adversity when it counts. Hard is the lesson. Watch. Share. Bookmark.

RT @WarrenSapp: Pass rusher are Artist, they Must Paint Daily!! #SappNotFishing

Thank you to Premium Hand Carwash for honoring Deputy Melvin Foster. He was a 15-year veteran of HCSO, a former @dallascowboys player, and a Rose Bowl participant. He passed away while off duty on March 21, 2026. Deputy Foster was a champion both on the field and in life.

Titans RB Chris Johnson was 24 his second season 2009 when he became just sixth RB in NFL history to gain over 2,000 yards in a season combined with being the fastest player ever 4.24 forty he became known as CJ2K. Also set NFL record most scrimmage yardage in season 2,509 yds

More than 200 pilots and flight attendants gathered outside Air Canada’s headquarters in the rain and cold to honour fallen pilot Antoine Forest as his body was returned to his family. ❤️🕊️

NYPD argues in court they aren't legally required to protect people after woman sues officers who stood around watching and doing nothing while she was beaten by a group of men in front of them. gothamist.com/news/the-nypd-…

Sometimes sports is about more than just the score. 🥺

The 🐐. I will not be debating.

SOME PEOPLE CAN STAY HOME FOR 2 DAYS WITHOUT GOING OUT AND THEY ARE NOT EVEN BOTHERED.

On this day in 1961 the 1st. democratically elected leader of the Congo, African hero Patrice Lumumba, was murdered in a CIA backed coup.

They didn’t just k!ll him. They cut up & dissolved his body in acid. His k!llers kept his tooth as a trophy and his family only got it 61yrs later. A tooth. Thats all they have left of him. Belgium does not get enough hate imo.

Today is a very special day for me as I will be receiving my 18th championship ring tonight at Dodgers Stadium. We will celebrate our back-to-back World Series Championships at ring night - I’m so excited!!! I currently have (1) Everett High School State Championship, (1) Michigan State NCAA Championship, (11) Lakers Championships - (5) as a player, (5) as a co-owner and (1) as an executive, (1) LAFC Major League Soccer Championship , (1) LA Sparks WNBA Championship ,and (3) World Series Championships with the Dodgers! I actually have a total of (20) lol 😂 but I didn’t include my (2) E-Sports Championships as co-owner of Team Liquid!

Hey NCAA, us more about players that don’t show “loyalty,” don’t want to go through “adversity” and how player movement impacts stability. Tell us more about “tampering” and “poaching.” The Coaches Portal is ALWAYS open. Funny how silent coaches and administrators are about that.

Slavery “When Britain abolished slavery in its colonies in 1834, it made sure slave owners, NOT the enslaved, were compensated” Prof Lwazi Lushaba

Alaska GOP State Senator's Chief of Staff Indicted on Federal Child Sex Trafficking and Exploitation Charges

Noah Wyle speaks out against the Ellison family trying to buy Warner Bros. Discovery: "These consolidations are usually really great for shareholders, and not usually great for the labor force."

Denmark is investing $83,754,486 in textbooks and turning away from its digital-first approach to education. This follows research showing that screens reduce concentration, impact mental health, and hurt student performance. Yet another dynamic to the EdTech debate.

Charging a fee to pay a bill online when there isn't a way to pay in person or with cash is a scam.

George Lucas traded $350,000 in directing salary for something Fox executives thought was worthless: the right to sell Star Wars toys. It was 1976. Over 40 studios had already passed on his script, including Disney. Fox only greenlit the project because they wanted Lucas for other films. Nobody at the studio expected to make money on a space opera with no stars, so when Lucas offered to cut his directing fee from $500,000 to $150,000 in exchange for merchandising and sequel rights, Fox said yes on the spot. Movie merchandise was a dead business. Fox had lost money on Doctor Dolittle lunchboxes a decade earlier. They thought they were getting the better deal. Lucas couldn’t even find a toy company that wanted in. Kenner, a division of cereal company General Foods, finally bought the licensing for a flat $100,000. Then Star Wars opened. Between 1977 and 1978, Kenner sold $100 million worth of toys off that $100,000 investment. They couldn’t make enough for Christmas ’77, so they sold empty boxes with IOUs inside, promising to mail the action figures later. Parents paid real money for cardboard and a promise. Nobody around the production saw any of this coming. Alec Guinness, who played Obi-Wan, privately called the script “fairy-tale rubbish.” But he was shrewd enough to negotiate 2.25% of royalties instead of a flat fee. About 20 minutes of total screen time earned his estate somewhere between $50 million and $100 million. Lucas himself was so convinced the film would flop that he offered Spielberg a bet while visiting the Close Encounters set: swap 2.5% of each other’s profits. Spielberg took it. That handshake has paid him around $40 million. And then the money started compounding. Lucas poured his Star Wars profits into ILM, the effects house he’d built for the film. When its computer graphics division got too expensive to maintain, he sold it to Steve Jobs in 1986 for $10 million. Jobs renamed it Pixar. Disney bought Pixar twenty years later for $7.4 billion. Then in 2012, Disney came back for the rest, buying Lucasfilm itself for $4.05 billion. Total franchise revenue today sits around $46.7 billion, over $20 billion from merchandise alone. The filmmaker 40 studios passed on is now worth $5.3 billion according to Forbes. Fifty years ago today, cameras rolled on a desert in Tunisia. The $350,000 pay cut that made it all possible might be the best trade in business history.