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Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

I knew he revolutionized grilled cheese sandwiches, but I had no idea George Foreman was famous before he started selling his grills. Yes, Alex, Foreman was the boxing giant with a hunger for food and fighters he could pummel. Now Foreman’s life is being told in a new movie and fittingly the story about the heavyweight champ has a heavyweight titleGotta tell you, I am no match for the title of George Foreman’s new movie.It’s called, Big George Foreman: The Miraculous Story of the Once and Future Heavyweight Champion of the World.” Yeah, I’m just gonna call it the Big G movie.Anyway, Big G is about George’s journey from being poor to becoming boxing’s world heavyweight champion.To a preacher and getting back in the ring at 46 to reclaim his title.George Foreman: “Everybody thought it was all over for me. I’d gone back into the game fighting above 40, and it was considered a death sentence. I really had to prove that it was just an...

Dune by Laurent Tourondel boasts great view of Fort Lauderdale Air Show

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

Things are looking up this weekend. The skies above Broward will be filled with flying machines when the Annual Fort Lauderdale Air Show takes off. If you want the best seat on the beach to eat, drink and check out the aerial ballet, listen up.Chef John Kreidich: “Tell this to everybody wherever they are: watch the skies.”The Fort Lauderdale Air Show is one of the coolest events around.If you really want to do it up right, make it over to Dune by Laurent Tourondel.Chef John Kreidich: “With the view we have here, I mean there’s no other place you want to be.”You won’t miss any of the action here.Chef John Kreidich: “We have 180 degree views of the beach, and you’ll be able to see the jets streak across the sky.”Besides filling your eyes and ears with the sights and sounds of the air show, you’ll be giving your taste buds a big-time treat.Chef John Kreidich: “It’s just a great venue to serve really great fresh sea...

Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Stanley Tucci on Amazon Prime spy series ‘Citadel’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

If you’re suspicious of big government watching your every move, you’re gonna love “Citadel,” and we know you’re suspicious of big government, because the agents assigned with monitoring you told us.It’s lights, camera and lots of action in the Prime Video series “Citadel.”Priyanka Chopra-Jonas: “What really surprised me was the scale of it and the gravity of it, the sets that we could build and the the thoughts and the ideas that every time I read a script, I was like, ‘How are they pulling this off?'”Priyanka Chopra-Jonas and Richard Madden are spies whose memories get erased when their spy agency gets shut down.Stanley Tucci is the handler who’s helping them regain what they lost, so they can fight a crime syndicate trying to kill them.When it came to the fight scenes, Priyanka says she didn’t need a stunt double.Priyanka Chopra-Jonas: “I don’t think I’ve had resources like that ever a...

American Express presents Carbone Beach Supper Club on the Sand 2023

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

Miami Grand Prix brings all kinds of celebs to town and they need to eat. That’s how Supper Club on the Sand was born. It’s a star-studded event especially made to pair with an epic weekend.Ready, set, and let’s party 305 style!Chef Mario Carbone: “It’s a party on the sand for sure. Dinner and a show.” This is the second year of American Express presents Carbone Beach and it’s all going down during Formula 1 race week.Chef Mario Carbone: “The idea is that it’s the greatest supper club that ever existed, 4 nights, 400 guests a night.”It’s similar to Chef Mario’s restaurant on south beach but think grander.Chef Mario Carbone: “So instead of a plate of dessert, you get a tower of dessert. Instead of just a raw bar, it’s an ice sculptor castle. There’s a guy making caviar hand rolls, and passing them out. The whole thing is meant to be decadent on the highest possible level. It’s a fine dinin...

3 numbers that stand out during the Chicago White Sox’s rough start to the season: ‘We obviously have to make adjustments’

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

At the plate and on the mound, the numbers reflect the rough start to the Chicago White Sox season.Offensively, the Sox were 23rd in the majors with a .678 OPS entering Tuesday’s game against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers Centre.The pitching staff had the third-highest ERA in the big leagues at 5.44.Those are just some of the contributing factors to a 7-16 start.Manager Pedro Grifol is focused on adjustments.“I don’t see this like our season is over by any means,” Grifol said before Tuesday’s game after hearing teams had similar stretches at various points last season and went on to the postseason. “Every team goes through this. But we obviously have to make adjustments.“We can’t hide the fact we have to make adjustments at the plate, as a team and staff. We have to get better. But as far as being 7-16 and panicking … we’re not feeling it. We’re going to have our stretches where we’re really, really good and w...

Orioles outfielder Austin Hays exits game vs. Red Sox with right hand injury after failed bunt

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

Orioles left fielder Austin Hays left Tuesday night’s game against the Boston Red Sox after the third inning with a bruised right hand, which seemingly stemmed from a failed bunt attempt in the bottom half of that frame.Initial X-rays did not show any breaks, the Orioles said, and Hays will undergo further testing.With the Orioles trailing 7-0, Hays attempted to bunt on an 88 mph sinker from Boston right-hander Corey Kluber, but the pitch tailed in and hit the fingers of Hays’ right hand, which were wrapped around the bat, before the ball went foul. Hays flied out to deep right field on the next pitch before being replaced in left by Terrin Vavra for the top of the fourth.Before Tuesday, Hays had played in the outfield for all but eight of the Orioles’ defensive innings this season, including manning left field for every frame at Camden Yards. Hays has also been among Baltimore’s most impactful hitters; his flyout left him with a .301 batting average and .883...

Yankees Notebook: Nick Ramirez offers fresh, versatile bullpen arm

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

MINNESOTA — Nick Ramirez just left Minnesota with the Yankees’ Triple-A affiliate. On Tuesday, he returned to the North Star State as a member of the big league club.The Yankees added Ramirez to their roster Tuesday when they optioned Greg Weissert to Triple-A. Ramirez, who played the St. Paul Saints with Scranton/Wilkes-Barre on Sunday, learned of his promotion at midnight. At that point, he was in Boston for a minor league series against the Worcester Red Sox, but a 5:30 a.m. car service began his trip back to Minnesota.A cancelled Delta flight caused some “panic” Tuesday morning, but Ramirez ultimately made it to Target Field.“I knew I was gonna get here. We had plenty of time,” the southpaw said. “My main concern was my baseball bag was under. So I asked them if they could pull it. They said ‘Yeah, we put the submission in, but no guarantees.’”There was equipment in Ramirez’s locker when he spoke, so that worked o...

High school lacrosse: Unbeaten Notre Dame girls handle Westwood

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

WESTWOOD — In Tuesday’s much-anticipated nonleague girls lacrosse tilt at Westwood, Notre Dame Academy of Hingham coach Meredith Frank was not worried about the host Wolverines making a run.She knew that was coming.What concerned her more was how her Cougars would respond.After her team’s 16-11 win, Frank got the answer she was looking for, as Notre Dame knocked off the two-time defending Div. 1 champs with a complete performance.Notre Dame, in Div. 2 come postseason, improved to 9-0 with the victory, while Westwood drops to 6-3.“That game is never over,” Frank said. “Until the scoreboard reads zero, zero, zero, that game is never over, and we need to make sure we play that way. At any time, Westwood is going to make a run. We knew that they were going to respond. We knew that they were going to come hard. It was just a matter of us taking advantage of the possessions that we had.”The Cougars led throughout, scored the first six goals of the game,...

Taunton man, only 25, will spend next 25 years in prison for abusing toddler

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

A 25-year-old Taunton man will spend the same amount of time in federal prison as he’s been alive after sexually abusing an 18-month old toddler in his care and distributing child pornography.U.S. District Court Judge Leo T. Sorokin on Tuesday sentenced Cody Mercure, 25, of Taunton, to 25 years in prison to be followed by 15 years of supervised release on the charges of sexual exploitation of children and distribution of child pornography, to which Mercure pleaded guilty in January.The U.S. Probation Office had computed a maximum sentence of 50 years for the two charges, according to the government’s sentencing memo. The defense sentencing memo asked for 15 years.“It is challenging to find the words that capture just how abhorrent and destructive this conduct was. This man sexually exploited an innocent 18-month-old child — a defenseless toddler who, at the time, was still in diapers — and recorded the abuse to watch again and again for his own sick gratification,” said ...

Oakland A’s are relocating; Tampa Bay Rays are on deck | Commentary

Published Sat, 22 Feb 2025 11:00:08 GMT

Running off at the typewriter. …This is a word of warning to Tampa Bay civic leaders: You are on the clock and it is ticking ever so loudly on your status as a Major League Baseball area.Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred has made it crystal clear that he would like to pursue expansion, but only after the league resolves the long-standing stadium issues in Oakland and Tampa Bay.Well, guess what? The situation in Oakland was resolved just a few days ago when the A’s announced they are moving into a new stadium in Las Vegas. That means Tampa Bay is on deck and better step up to plate or the red-hot Rays will someday soon be announcing a move to Nashville, Charlotte, Montreal or some other baseball-hungry city.(We pause here to urge Orlando political, business and tourism leaders to do their due diligence and investigate bringing the Rays to Central Florida. … OK, now back to our regularly scheduled column.)The A’s announced move to Vegas means the city of Oaklan...