Veteran TSN broadcaster Darren “Dutchy” Dutchyshen, long-time host of SportsCentre, has died. He was 57. “Darren Dutchyshen was a legend of Canadian sports broadcasting, a great teammate, and an essential part of TSN for the last three decades,” said Stewart Johnston, Senior Vice President, Sales & Sports, Bell Media, in …
Read More »OPINION — Going into my first listen of The Tortured Poets Department, I had no idea what to expect. And coming out the other side of a 16-track release, followed by 15 more surprise songs two hours later – titled The Anthology – I don’t really know what we just …
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Longtime NBC ad sales executive Krishan Bhatia has landed at Amazon as VP, Global Video Advertising Sales, a new position for a new team within ad sales focused on streaming TV offerings across live sports, Amazon Freevee, Twitch, Prime Video ads, and third-party publishers. He’ll be based in New York …
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Sunday was a big day for Usher, and not just because of his flashy Super Bowl halftime performance in Las Vegas. Usher, 45, and his longtime girlfriend Jennifer Goicoechea, 40, officially tied the knot on the same day, according to People magazine. The outlet confirmed Usher, whose real name is …
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View gallery Image Credit: Matt Baron/Shutterstock Gabriel Macht, 51, is a talented actor most known for playing the role of Harvey Specter in the hit TV series, Suits. The longtime Hollywood heartthrob has also starred in films including Because I Said So, Love and Other Drugs, Whiteout, and more. The now 51-year-old will be …
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Ken Fritz, was a personal manager of Tom and Dick Smothers for the better part of 60 years. In 1964 and recently out of college, Fritz started out as a sort of advance man for their tours before becoming their full-time road manager. Later, he co-managed them with Ken Kragen and eventually assumed solo management for …
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As the scale of the brutality and barbarity of the Hamas attack on Israel became apparent in recent days, U.S. correspondents have struggled at times to keep their composure. With missiles raining down overhead, the security situation for reporters is precarious, evidenced by the number of live shots where crews …
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Barry Melrose, who has served as an NHL analyst at ESPN for nearly three decades and coached Wayne Gretzky and the Los Angeles Kings to the Stanley Cup Final in 1993, has retired from the network after a Parkinson’s diagnosis. “I’ve had over 50 extraordinary years playing, coaching and analyzing …
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Alan Eisenberg, the longest-serving executive director of Actors’ Equity Association, died October 7 in Rhinebeck, New York. He was 88. His death was announced by Equity. A cause was not disclosed. Eisenberg led Equity from 1981 to 2006, a time of significant growth in membership, workweeks and member earnings, according …
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Descrease article font size Increase article font size One of Edmonton’s most high-profile couples is getting married. Hockey superstar Connor McDavid proposed to his longtime girlfriend Lauren Kyle last Thursday. “I cannot put into words how happy I am to be spending the rest of our lives together,” Kyle wrote …
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Jacklyn Zeman, who played Bobbie Spencer for 45 years on ABC’s General Hospital, has died. She was 70. Zeman died after a short battle with cancer, her family confirmed Wednesday. News of her death was first announced by the show’s executive producer, Frank Valentini. “I am heartbroken to announce the …
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CNN — Within the fall of 2020, then-New York Rep. Lee Zeldin’s marketing campaign submitted a report back to federal regulators with a sequence of bizarre bills: 21 funds on a single day of precisely $199.99 every. The outlays – every only one penny under the greenback determine above which …
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