Sie sorgten mit Sicherheit fr das meiste Getuschel auf der Premiere von "Pets" in New York: Chris Evans (35, "The First Avenger: Civil War") und Jenny Slate (34, "Obvious Child") zeigten sich erstmals zusammen bei einem ffentlichen Event, nachdem seit Mai dieses Jahres ber eine Beziehung der beiden spekuliert wird. Wie unter anderem "Mail Online" berichtet, posierten die Schauspieler gemeinsam fr die Fotografen, wobei Slate ihre Hand vertraut auf Evans Brust legte.
Der "Avengers"-Star selbst teilte auf Twitter seine Begeisterung ber den Film - und nicht nur das: "Pets war fantastisch! Jenny Slate war mein persnlicher Favorit." Ein ziemlich klares Statement. Das Paar lernte sich beim gemeinsamen Dreh zum Film "Gifted" im vergangenen Oktober kennen. Gerchte ber eine Beziehung gab es bereits wenige Tage, nachdem Slates Trennung von ihrem Ehemann, Dean Fleischer-Camp, bekannt wurde.
Beyonce and Kendrick Lamar Open 2016 BET Awards With Fiery Performance of "Freedom"
An emotional farewell to the greatest of all time. Jamie Foxx took the stage at the 2016 BET Awards on Sunday, June 26, to pay tribute to boxing legend Muhammad Ali, who died earlier this month, but it was Ali"s daughter Lailawho tugged at the heartstrings.
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"My father lived his life with conviction and purpose," the Dancing With the Stars alum and former pro boxer said. "But to me and my eight sisters and brothers, he was just Dad. As his youngest daughter, I can tell you that he was also a loving, gentle and principled man. He believed in evolving in his beliefs and his ideas."
Laila Ali speaks on stage during the 2016 BET Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty Images
Choking up, she continued, "My father always said, "The man who views the world at 50 the same way as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." As my dad grew older, he evolved in his mind, his heart and his spirit, but one thing that never changed was his love and gratitude for all people."
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"These past few weeks, my father"s generosity and love has been matched by a worldwide outpouring of love and reverence for him and our entire family," she added. "We"re all honored and grateful for the love, kindness and appreciation that"s been shown to him in return. My father also once said, "If people love each other as much as they love me, it would be a better world." If he was here today, he would humbly ask you to pray, not just for our family, but for all of mankind."
The boxing legend was 74 when he died of a respiratory issue on Friday, June 3, at a hospital in Phoenix.
Celebrities and family alike quickly took to social media to honor Ali, who was diagnosed with Parkinsons disease in 1984, just three years after his retirement from the ring.
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G*d came for his champion. So long great one, former boxer Mike Tyson tweeted.
Madonna shared a photo of Ali and herself with a nod to the loss of other legends this year, including Prince and David Bowie. What is going on??!! We are losing all of our National Treasures. Our Pillars of Humanity. He was the Greatest!
Aside from his prowess in the boxing ring, Ali was also known for his quick wit and eloquence.
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The three-time World Heavyweight champion once proclaimed, "Impossible" is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they"ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it. Impossible is not a fact. It"s an opinion. Impossible is not a declaration. It"s a dare. Impossible is potential. Impossible is temporary. Impossible is nothing.
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Pat Summitt"s Family Is Reportedly "Preparing For The Worst"
Published: Mon, June 27, 2016 @ 12:05 a.m.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn.
Pat Summitts family said Sunday that the last few days have been difficult for the former Tennessee womens basketball coach as her Alzheimers disease progresses.
Amid reports of Summitts failing health, her family issued a statement asking for prayers and saying that the 64-year-old Summitt is surrounded by the people who mean the most to her. It also asked for privacy.
The statement was posted on the Pat Summitt Foundations website and was issued by Erin Freeman, a spokeswoman for the Summitt family.
Former Tennessee player Tamika Catchings was flying to Knoxville to visit the coach instead of returning to Indiana with the WNBAs Fever. Other former players were issuing support on Twitter through the PrayForPat hashtag. Phoenix Mercury center and Tennessee alum Isabelle Harrison said former Lady Volunteers players were keeping up with Summitts situation in a group text-message chain.
There are like 30 of us in a group chat right now talking, and people are flying into Knoxville and trying to see her, Harrison said Sunday after the Mercurys victory over the New York Liberty. You just didnt expect any of this to happen. Everyones trying to fill each other in with any information they have.
Harrison said she often went to Summitts home and rehabbed with her last year while recovering from a torn anterior cruciate ligament that ended the post players senior season at Tennessee prematurely. They also occasionally went to practice together.
I was at practice one day watching some of the girls, [and a] freshman took a fast shot, Harrison said. [Summitt] looked at me and was like, What was wrong was that? I was like, She shot too quick. [She said], Yeah, thats right. [Summitt] still had it.
The update about Summitts condition brought a flood of support from throughout the sports world.
An outpouring of concern on social media came from rival coaches such as South Carolinas Dawn Staley, Notre Dames Muffet McGraw and Vanderbilts Stephanie White. Other sympathetic tweets came from sports figures as varied as Billie Jean King and Steve Spurrier.
Summitt stepped down as Tennessees coach in 2012, one year after announcing her diagnosis of early onset dementia, Alzheimers type. She went 1,098-208 with eight national titles. She has the most career wins of any Division I mens or womens basketball coach.
Since her diagnosis, Summitt has played a leading role in the fight against Alzheimers. She launched the Pat Summitt Foundation, which is dedicated to researching and educating people about the disease while also providing services to patients and caregivers. The Pat Summitt Alzheimers Clinic is scheduled to open at the University of Tennessee medical center in December.
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U.S. stocks closed Friday with huge losses in the wake ofBritains vote to quit the European Union,the biggest shock to the global financial system since the 2008 financial crisis.The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished the day with a loss of610 points, or 3 percent, having fallen as much as 655 points in the last hour of trading.
Other major stock indexes also plunged, including the broader Standard & Poors 500 index, which slumped 76 points, or 4 percent, clocking up itsbiggest one-day percentage drop since September.The Nasdaq composite, which includes many tech names, tumbled a hefty 202 points, or 4 percent, seeing one of its biggest one-day point drops since September 2008, at the start of the financial crisis. All three indexes were headed for their second weekly decline in a row.
A lot of investors and market participants were not anticipating this outcome,said David Lefkowitz, senior equity strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management Americas in New York, refering to the U.K.sshock referendum result.
Investors worried about the outlook for the world economy sought refuge in the dollar and other safe-harbor assets such as gold and U.S. Treasury bondswhile dumping riskier shares. The yield on the U.S. 10-year bond hit its lowest since 2012.
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Britains FTSE 100 stock index was down 3 percent. Asian stocks also tumbled.
Amid the turmoil, sterling hit a 31-year low in its biggest intraday percentage fall on record, and Prime Minister David Cameron said he would step down by October.
The market was already expected to be volatile as traders adjusted portfolios to account for an annual reconstitution of the widely followed Russell stock indexes.
Were getting close to the end of the month so people are looking to rebalance their accounts anyway,said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Banks were among the biggest losers.Citigroup was down 9 percent and Morgan Stanley, 10 percent, while Bank of America, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs slumped by 5 to 6 percent.U.S. banks have big London operations.
Trading in S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures was halted briefly overnight after they fell more than 5 percent, triggering limit thresholds.
U.S. short-term interest rate futures rose amid speculation the Federal Reserve could cut interest rates to help shield the economy from any global fallout.
In a statement Friday, the Fed sought to calm global financial markets by saying it was ready to provide dollar liquidity following Britains vote to exit the European Union.
Investors have been waiting for the Fed to raise borrowing costs as the economy improves.
Fed Chair Janet Yellen said earlier in the week an exit of Britain from the EU would have significant repercussionson the U.S. economic outlook.
The CBOE VIX volatility index known as Wall Street"s fear gauge was up 35.3 percent at 23.34 in afternoon trading. The index had earlier surged as much as 52.11 percent to 26.24, its highest since February.
Oil prices, which are sensitive to changes in the economic outlook, dropped more than 4 percent, the biggest fall since early February. Exxon and Chevron were down about 2.5 percent.
Shares of gold miners surged Friday. Barrick was up 6 percent, and Newmont Mining was up just more than 5 percent.
Apple, which got more than a fifth of its revenue from Europe last quarter, was down 3percent, while Facebook was also down 3 percent.
U.S. stocks had risen in recent sessions as investors bet Britain would remain part of the EU.
As of Thursdays close, the S&P 500 index had risen 3 percent since the start of the year.
Tony Stewart confronts heckler in grandstands at Chili Bowl
So Stewart gave the lost-traction-Hamlin a shove with his race car and 100 feet later Stewart crossed the finish line first.
If this was a fist fight, Stewart said of the contact he made with Hamlin, Denny would have got two black eyes. I used him up pretty hard.
Stewart did it without apology. Apology is not a word that frequents his conversation. But he did it dare I use this word with compassion. It was as if Stewart was allowed no choice. Nothing personal. Flavored, of course, with Stewarts imagination.
I didnt have time to think about wine, flowers or ponies, Stewart said. No one was quite sure what ponies meant but he was just, well, Tony being Tony. That seems to be the mantra of the day with Stewart. Tony is just being Tony. Before, that meant tolerating his combative behavior. Now, in the twilight of his career, with metal imbedded in his body, Stewart is seen different. Tony being Tony means the end of an era, when drivers werent afraid to voice opinions.
Stewart may have lost a little of his skills. oh, but wait.
I missed just three corners today out of 160, Stewart said defiantly. He didnt elaborate. Didnt feel the need. Deal with it. Tony was just being Tony. After 18 years that sentence didnt feel as harsh.
Ninety percent of the guys in the field I have a ton of respect for, Stewart said. Theres five or six percent that Id knock over the grandstands if thats what it took the win a race. I wouldnt have cared.
Those 18 years have dulled the verbal blade Stewart uses, probably because he has used it so often. What once seemed shocking and offensive is now Tony being himself. It was the same with Gordon and Earnhardt, what once was objectionable was now admirable. For they stayed the course in whom they are, as Stewart has, their independence reflective of the sports iconic nature.
I got a lot of scores to settle with people (drivers) and Ive got only six months to do it, Stewart said. Ive just got to figure out if its economically feasible to do it (NASCAR fines).
That one got another laugh. And a wish as well. For old times, at least once more, Tony, could you get into one more dust-up. Doesnt need to be a full-thrown down to the garage floor. Some veins pulsing. A few words bleeped. A grab around the neck. Something to remind of us the good ol days, when Tony Stewart was Smoke, not just a Wisp.
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Simone Biles - Vault 1 (end view) - 2016 P&G Gymnastics Championships - Sr. Women Day 2
The national titles are starting to run together for Simone Biles, a three-year blur of near flawlessly executed routines and carry-on cases full of medals.
If Biles is being honest, the fourth straight all-around championship she cruised to on Sunday night wasn"t so much a competition as an exhibition and one more thing for Biles to scratch off her checklist before the next real test, the one that in some ways will help define her legacy:
Rio de Janeiro and the Summer Olympics.
It"s a destination Biles is finally allowing herself to think after putting up a two-day total of 125.00 the highest during her historic run at the top to beat three-time Olympic medalist Aly Raisman by nearly four points. Only next week"s Olympic Trials, a mere formality, stand between the 19-year-old Texan and the global stage.
"I guess there"s really no other steps besides trials and making the team," Biles said. "We"re one step ahead again."
Technically Biles has been there for years. She hasn"t lost a meet since July, 2013 while creating a gap between herself and the rest of the planet, one that shows no signs of closing with 40 days to go before opening ceremonies in Brazil. Biles began the night with a dynamic floor exercise that combines peerless tumbling with the kind of charisma that should play in living rooms across the world in August.
She followed it up with a difficult Amanar vault one of the most challenging currently being done in competition in which she seemed to drop out of the sky before landing. Only a minuscule hop stood between Biles and perfection, just enough of a miscue for judges to deduct a tenth of a point while giving her a 9.9 for execution.
"I don"t think there"s any such thing as perfect in gymnastics anymore," Biles said. "They always find something."
Biles is as close as the sport gets at the moment as the leader of a team that will be heavily favored to dominate the podium in Brazil. The five-woman Olympic squad won"t be officially announced until July 10. Biles" place is secure, and the picture around her appears to be rapidly clearing up.
Raisman began the year struggling with her form following a disappointing by her standards performance at the 2015 world championships, when she failed to qualify for the all-around final after finishing behind Biles and Olympic champion Gabby Douglas during qualifying.
The 22-year-old spent the winter vowing to regain Karolyi"s trust and now finds herself in perhaps the finest stretch of a career that includes two golds and a bronze from the 2012 games.
Steady on beam. Powerful on floor. Efficient on uneven bars, Raisman may be the best gymnast in the world not named Biles at the moment. The current Olympic champion on floor exercise began the night with a gravity defying tumbling pass she managed to finish with a smile. She joked after the first round on Friday that staying within a couple of points of Biles would be a victory in itself. Raisman"s score of 60.650 on Sunday was just 1.5 behind her good friend.
"I think that I am better (than I was four years ago)," Raisman said. "And I feel like I"m on track to be a better gymnast than I was."
Raisman isn"t the only one surging. So is electric 16-year-old Laurie Hernandez, who looks right at home on the big stage in her first year at the senior level. Her routines are is a study in attitude and aggression, character traits Karolyi prizes as much as any cleanly executed skill.
Gabby Douglas, trying to become the first gymnast in nearly 50 years to repeat as Olympic champion, ended up fourth and admitted she needed to improve after a sloppy night on Friday. Douglas got off to a shaky start as she fought to stay on bars the event that first drew Karolyi"s admiration and posted a pedestrian 14.5. She was better on balance beam, landing her dismount with an emphatic stick that might as well have served as a reminder of what she can do when she"s on.
"Trials, I"ll be better a trials," Douglas said with a laugh.
The only real drama heading to San Jose is likely for the fifth and final spot. Madison Kocian, who won gold on uneven bars at last fall"s world championships, continued her impressive comeback from a leg injury in February. Though she was second to Ashton Locklear on bars at nationals, she also finished in the top half of the field on beam and floor, versatility that would be valuable in international competitions as Karolyi tries to put together a group for the three-up, three-count crucible that is the Olympic team finals.
Karolyi began the weekend with a team in mind and didn"t see much to change her preferences over the course of two nights. Whoever hops the plane to Rio will go as the heavy favorites to bring back copious amounts of gold led by Biles, who is head and shoulders, legs and everything else above the rest.
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Actor Jesse Williams brought the energy of a civil rights rally to the BET Awards Sunday night as he accepted the humanitarian award, demanding equal rights and calling for an end to police brutality against black people and white appropriation of black culture.
The "Grey"s Anatomy" star brought the Microsoft Theater audience to its feet with his passionate speech.
"A system built to impoverish, divide and destroy us cannot stand if we do," he said, adding, "We know that police somehow manage to deescalate, disarm and not kill white people every day."
Williams compared spending money on brand-name clothing to the days when slaves were branded with their owners" markings. He said it"s not the job of the brutalized to comfort the bystander.
"We"re done watching and waiting while this invention called whiteness uses and abuses us, burying black people out of sight and out of mind while extracting our culture, our dollars, our entertainment like oil, black gold, ghettoizing and demeaning our creations then stealing them, gentrifying our genius and then trying us on like costumes before discarding our bodies like rinds of strange fruit," he said.
Backstage, Williams said he hopes his remarks during the show remind people "just because we get to be here tonight doesn"t mean we made it.
"What I"d like to see us do is return to a space where it"s OK for folks to be proud and outwardly black in public," he said, "and not have to feel like we have to be safe to live in white spaces and to make everybody comfortable when we"ve spent centuries being uncomfortable. It"s time to shed that fear."
