NBC Confirms Fallon Will Succeed Leno “The Tonight Show” will begin a new era in February when Jimmy Fallon succeeds Jay Leno as host of the most storied and successful program in late-night television. NBC plans to announce on Wednesday its plan to install Mr. Fallon as the show’s sixth host at the conclusion of the network’s coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics from Sochi, Russia. More
'Blade Runner' Oscar Pistorius weeps as he faces murder charge Olympic sprinter Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee revered in South Africa for overcoming his disability to compete in the London Games last year, wept in court Friday as he faced a murder charge in connection with the fatal shooting of his girlfriend. More
IOC drops wrestling from 2020 Olympics IOC leaders have dropped wrestling for the 2020 Games in a surprise decision to scrap one of the oldest sports on the Olympic program. More
Vonn tears ligaments in ski crash, out for season The U.S. Ski Team says Lindsey Vonn has torn ligaments in her right knee and broken a bone in a crash Tuesday at the world championships. The team says Vonn will have surgery and will miss the rest of this season but is expected to return for the 2014 Sochi Olympics. More
U.S. Olympic roster highlighted by LeBron James, Steph Curry and Kevin Durant LeBron James, Steph Curry, Kevin Durant and reigning MVP Joel Embiid will highlight Team USA, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. 04/16/2024 - 12:14 am | View Link
Olympic flame lit in Greece, beginning months-long journey to Paris The torch's 11-day journey through Greece will end with the handover in Athens to Paris 2024 organizers, who will transport it to France. 04/16/2024 - 12:08 am | View Link
High priestess hands over Olympic flame to the first torchbearer at ceremony in Ancient Olympia The Olympic torch was lit on Tuesday at the site of the ancient games in Greece, ahead of the Paris Olympics this summer. Mary Mina, playing the role of the ... 04/16/2024 - 12:04 am | View Link
The first torchbearer goes to the monument of Pierre de Coubertin at start of Olympic relay Share Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. 04/16/2024 - 12:03 am | View Link
Olympic Flame lit in Olympia, torch relay for Paris Games starts The Olympic torch relay for the Paris Games began Tuesday at the ancient Olympic site of Olympia, Greece, starting a trek for the Olympic Flame that will last through the July 26 Opening Ceremony. 04/16/2024 - 12:01 am | View Link
2020 Summer Olympics IOC. JOC. TOCOG. v. t. e. The 2020 Summer Olympics, [3] officially the Games of the XXXII Olympiad [4] and officially branded as Tokyo 2020, [5] were an international multi-sport event held from 23 July to 8 August 2021 in Tokyo, Japan, with some preliminary events that began on 21 July 2021. 04/13/2024 - 10:43 am | View Link
Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (French: Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. 04/12/2024 - 11:02 pm | View Link
Olympic Games | History, Locations, & Winners | Britannica Olympic Games, quadrennial athletic festival that is often regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition. The ancient Olympic Games included several sports that are now part of the Summer Games program, which includes events in as many as 32 different sports. Learn more about the Olympic Games in this article. 04/12/2024 - 5:18 pm | View Link
Tokyo Olympics schedule: Sport-by-sport dates and venues Tokyo Olympics schedule: Sport-by-sport dates and venues. The Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games will feature 33 sports and 339 medal events held at 42 venues across Japan. The action starts on Wednesday... 04/12/2024 - 5:04 pm | View Link
Summer Olympic Games The Summer Olympic Games (known in French as "Jeux olympiques d'été"), also known as the Games of the Olympiad, and often referred to as the Summer Olympics, is a major international multi-sport event normally held once every four years on leap years (except 1900 and 2021). 04/12/2024 - 11:13 am | View Link
In the last week, highly anticipated songs by Drake and Taylor Swift appeared to leak online, sparking enormous reactions. Massive Reddit threads spawned, dissecting musical choices. Meme videos were created simulating other rappers’ reactions to being dissed by Drake. The rapper Rick Ross even responded to the song’s bars about him with a diss track of his own.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for Under the Bridge.
On the evening of Nov. 14, 1997, 14-year-old Reena Virk was invited to a party near the Craigflower Bridge in Saanich, a suburb of Victoria, British Columbia. She never returned home, and was later discovered to have been ruthlessly beaten and killed by a group of her peers.
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Based on late author Rebecca Godfrey’s best-selling 2005 book of the same name, Hulu’s new true-crime miniseries Under the Bridge dramatizes the before and after of Reena’s brutal murder, which sent shockwaves throughout Canada.
Guitar legend Dickey Betts, who co-founded the Allman Brothers Band and wrote their biggest hit, “Ramblin’ Man,” has died. He was 80.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer died at his home in Osprey, Florida, David Spero, Betts’ manager of 20 years, confirmed. Betts had been battling cancer for more than a year and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Spero said.
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“He was surrounded by his whole family and he passed peacefully.
Bonny Barker and Emily Hunt have gained an online following making videos about Taylor Swift, turning a fun side hobby to a full-time career. They discuss the community their channel has fostered, why Swift and her music mean so much to them and their supporters, and what it was like to get noticed by Taylor herself.
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Because a week after the Golden Bachelor's inaugural couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist announced their divorce, the Bachelorette