Nadia Comaneci"s perfect 10 | Countdown to Rio 2016 Caption + FILE - In this July 21, 2016, file photo Romania-born gymnastics champion Nadia Comaneci responds to questions as she tours a exhibit marking the 40th anniversary of the Olympic Games in Montreal. Comaneci took to Twitter on August 6, 2016, to correct an internet post that described her as Russian. (Paul Chiasson/The Canadian Press via AP, File)
RIO DE JANEIRO Nadia Comaneci wants to make sure everyone knows she"s Romanian, not Russian.
Comaneci posted a screengrab to Twitter of a mention on Marie Claire"s website of her perfect 10 on the uneven bars at the 1976 Montreal Games. The post shows a gymnast in a red leotard and describes Comaneci as Russian. Comaneci says on Twitter, "No... is not me... and I am Romanian."
She was 14 when she scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history. She won five gold medals overall in the 1976 and 1980 games.
Country singer Eric Church will perform at Golden 1 Center.
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Good morning, Sacramento. It"s National Spoil Your Dog Day, and we bet Fido will love these headlines.
Calling all Eric Church fans
Country singer Eric Church will perform at Golden 1 Center.
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Country music singer Eric Church confirmed on Tuesday that he"ll perform at Golden 1 Center on March 30. He"s known for songs such as "Guys Like Me" and "Springsteen." Added bonus: Olympic legend Michael Phelps has the singer on his playlist, according to the New York Times.
Big UC Davis news
Linda P.B. Katehi has resigned as chancellor of University of California Davis, after an investigation found that she had violated university policies. Katehi will continue as a UC Davis faculty member, in accordance with her contract, according to a Tuesday announcement by the University of California Office of the President.
Trump Tower climber wanted meeting with Donald Trump
A man has been using suction cups to scale the exterior of Trump Tower in New York City Wednesday afternoon. Police have sawed out a few windows just abovethe climber and reportedly have been talking to him as he continues his ascent.
Why? Some say hes just trying to get one of those famous taco bowls, while others think hes taking Pokmon GO a little too seriously. Another theory: hes a BASE jumper with a parachute in his backpack.
No, its not him. Word is that the guys name is Steve.
Twitchy will check back with Spider-Man when something a little more interesting happens, but for now, hes just climbing, and climbing.
Update:
Is this Steve from Virginia? After revealing his plan to climb Trump Tower,he adds that hed like everyone to vote Trump this November.
Worst I Ever Bombed: Taran Killam (Late Night with Jimmy Fallon)
By Aurelie Corinthios
updated08/10/2016 AT 03:35 PM EDT
originally published08/09/2016 AT 09:20 AM EDT
Two familiar faces won"t be returning for Saturday Night Live"s upcoming season 42.
Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah are departing the long-running NBC sketch comedy show, a network spokesperson confirmed to PEOPLE on Tuesday.
Pharoah, 28, and Killam, 34, have both been with the show for six seasons and are well-known for their impression skills impersonating everyone from politicians to actors. (Pharoah, notably, is famous for his President Obama portrayal.)
Jay Pharoah (left, as President Obama) and Taran Killam (right, as Senator Mitch McConnell)
Dana Edelson / NBC / Getty
Pharoah broke his silence on the situation Wednesday with an Instagram pic of himself with Killam and cast mate Vanessa Bayer that he captioned, "My fam for life."
My fam for life
A photo posted by Jay Pharoah (@jaypharoah) on Aug 9, 2016 at 10:50pm PDT
Killam spoke out about the news Tuesday in an interview with Uproxx published Monday, claiming though he signed a seven-year deal and had assumed the upcoming season would be his last, his contract was not picked up for the new season.
"I don"t know the other side of it," he said. "I was never given a reason why, really. I can assume until the cows come home. But I do know I"m directing this movie [Why We"re Killing Gunther, with Arnold Schwarzenegger] and I"ll have two months of post-production that would have bled into the SNL production schedule, so we kind of communicated that."
"I honestly don"t know what happened on the other side, but I do know we had expressed I have work on this film and in bonding this picture, that has to get cleared with SNL," he added. "And then [another offer] came up. I wasn"t going to have to take any time off to do it, but it was a thing that they would have had to okay."
RELATED VIDEO: Does Tina Fey Miss SNL During Election Season? That being said, while he admits it"s "always hard and sad to say goodbye," Killam said it feels like "an appropriate time."
"I am so, so grateful to have been a cast member on Saturday Night Live," he said. "I set out to be on SNL and I got to do that and I did very well. And I love and adore and will forever have close ties and tight bonds with the brilliant, smartest, funniest people I"ve ever met in my life. So, I have no gripes at all. I am so, so, so lucky to have been given the time I"ve been given."
A source close to the show says that "the cast is always changing and it"s the nature of the show ... their contracts just were simply not renewed."
Another source adds that the cast is always an ongoing discussion and "they have been scouting new potential members since the summer began and that the new additions will be announced soon."
Another SNL cast member who won"t be returning is Jon Rudnitsky, reports Deadline.
Rudnitsky joined the show as a featured player at the beginning of last season and is best known for his Dirty Dancing parody skit.
Red Sox Cancel David Ortiz Bobblehead Night BOSTON (News 4 & Fox 11)
The Boston Red Sox abruptly cancelled a planned David Ortiz bobblehead giveaway Tuesday over what the team called an "unacceptable" design that was "not appropriate for distribution."
Fans with tickets to the game would receive new bobbleheads of Big Papi at a later date, the team said in a statement released Tuesday morning.
Ortiz, 40, is in his 20th and final season as a big league player. He had 25 homers and a .309 batting average entering Tuesday for Boston.
The bobblehead showed Ortiz holding a microphone and raising a fist, echoing his speech to Fenway Park in the first game played after the Boston Marathon bombings.
The lips of the bobblehead are bright pink, however, and several people have noted the similarities to blackface caricatures.
Gymnast Aly Raisman Heads To Rio For Second Olympic Games
Nicknamed the Final Five, USA"s gymnastics team put on a performance for the ages at the Rio Olympics, pulling away from the rest of the world in dominant fashion with a near perfect routine.
The 8.209 point victory by the United State (185.238) over Russia (175.279) is the largest margin of victory at a major gymnastics meet and won"t ever be eclipsed since the team event will move to four players (instead of five) at the 2020 Games in Tokyo.
Aly Raisman"s floor routine was jaw-dropping and made other athletes look out of her league:
I mean come on look at the opening to Raisman"s floor routine. Insane #olympics #USA https://t.co/SQsPGSitzx
Jashvina Shah (@icehockeystick) August 10, 2016
The team of Raisman, Simone Biles, Laurie Hernandez, Gabby Douglas and Madison Kocian helped coach Martha Karolyi go out on top in her final Olympics before retirement.
Martha and her #FinalFive pic.twitter.com/o1znMW95L0
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Resentencing hearing for former Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich
Welcome to Clout Street: Morning Spin, our weekday feature to catch you up with what"s going on in government and politics from Chicago to Springfield.
Topspin
As the resentencing hearingfor Democratic former Gov. Rod Blagojevich unfolded Tuesday, the thoughts and memories and context and perspective came rushing back.
*Compare and contrast, Part 1: Blagojevich in December 2008: "I will fight, I will fight, I will fight until I take my last breath. I have done nothing wrong."
Blagojevich on Tuesday, who talked about mistakes: I recognize it was my actions and my words that led me here.
Prosecutors noted that the former governor has never taken responsibility for the crimes he was convicted of or shown true remorse, that he thinks his actions were still in a gray area of politics.
*Compare and contrast, Part 2: Former Illinois first lady Patti Blagojevich, as recorded by federal agents in 2007 (suggesting that Tribune Co. ownership should just fire Chicago Tribune editorial writers if the company wanted the state to help it unload Wrigley Field to ease its crushing debt):
"Hold up that (expletive) Cubs (expletive)," she is quoted as saying in the background as her husband talked on the phone, authorities alleged. "(Expletive)them."
In a letter released Monday night: Please give Annie the chance for a normal,happy childhood, that has slipped away from Amy, she wrote of the couples two children. I am pleading with you, indeed begging you, to please be merciful.
*Compare and contrast, Part 3: Blagojevichs hair, December 2011: big and black. On Tuesday: big and white. Or gray, depending on your perspectiveof the closed-circuit TV screen in the courtroom.
*Hospital: A new hospital opened in McHenry Countyon Tuesday, the same day as Blagojevichs resentencing hearing. No small measure of irony there. The Centegra Hospital in Huntley opened more than a decade after a Blagojevich-era hospital siting board was engulfed in a bribery scandal that ended up with the rejection of a competitors proposed hospital in Crystal Lake.
*Ex-gov finds G*d?As a politician, Blagojevich liked to talk about love, especially the kind hed find from audiences on the campaign trail during his two statewide runs for governor. Its a preacher thing to do, and Blagojevich was nothing if not a seasoned speech-giver who could connect with a crowd. On Tuesday, he talked about having a chance to study the Bible while in prison and that it helped him leave the anger behind and embrace love.
What"s on tap
*Mayor Rahm Emanuel will make an announcement about a tech incubator for manufacturers.
*Gov. Bruce Rauner has no public schedule.
*U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk will be at a discussion on getting an immigration bill through Congress. It"s put on by the Illinois Business Immigration Coalition, a group that says it wants a bill that expands visas for high- and low-skilled workers and agricultural workers, and creates a path to citizenship for undocumented workers.
*U.S. Sen. d**k Durbin and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will talk at the Haymarket Center about the prescription opioid and heroin epidemic.
What we"re writing
*No dice for Blagojevich as Judge Zagel sticks to 14-year federal prison sentence.
*A look at what Blagojevich told his daughters (via video screen) after sentencing.
*Blagojevich resentencing photo gallery.
*CPS CEO Claypool warns (again) of classroom cuts if no CTU contract concessions.
*Second of five City Hall hearings on CPD oversight brings call for elected civilian board.
*Monday was deadliest day in Chicago in 13 years.
What we"re reading
*Top Emanuel adviser who doesn"t like to talk to press on the record gives interview, kinda.
*Is conservative Utah really up for grabsin presidential race?
*Mexicos richest man confronts new foe: state that helped make him wealthy.
From the notebook
*Lopez renews no-kill push: After the recent death of a dog at Chicagos city-run animal shelter, a Southwest Side alderman and noted animal lover is trying to get some lift for his ongoing push to make it a no-kill facility.
Ald. Raymond Lopez, 15th, said the fact the Chicago Animal Care and Control shelter is allowed to euthanize animals because there isnt enough space to house them leads employees there to be not as attentive as they should be to the humane needs of the creatures under their care.
Lopez, who owns several dogs, helped get the City Council to pass a resolution this year calling for hearings on requiring all Chicago shelters to adopt no-kill policies. By national standards, shelters are considered no-kill if no more than 10 percent of the animals brought in are euthanized. It could be costly for the cash-strapped city to put in place the rules to meet those standards.
Lopezs measure had no legislative power, and though Mayor Rahm Emanuel has expressed general support for the idea, it has not been enshrined in city law. (John Byrne)
Follow the money
*Track campaign contribution reports in real time with this Tribune Twitter account:https://twitter.com/ILCampaignCash
Beyond Chicago
*Trump back on track? Day after economic speech, suggests "Second Amendment people" could stop Clinton.
*GOP donors turning to Clinton?
*RNC tries to getBill Clinton"s schedulesreleased.
