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The fan favorite won Best Actor at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Movie Awards on Sunday night for his role in The Whale, beating Austin Butler, who pipped him to the Golden Globe Award earlier in January. His speech started out with a joke about his 2010 box office bomb Furry Vengeance, before praising his co-stars, and eventually offering advice, which made him well up. Different clips from Fraser’s speech have been shared thousands of times online as people share their joy for him....

Brendon McCullum has scored 4,909 runs from 83 Tests before this Test match and so he came into this test 91 runs short of the landmark. He was dismissed for 8 runs in the first innings. Thus he need 83 more runs to get to the 5000-run mark, which he did and he is still unbeaten on 114 at stumps on day 3 of the second test. He is also the fourth New Zealand player to reach the 5,000 runs in test cricket after Stephen Fleming (7172), Martin Crowe (5444) and John Wright (5334)....

Musburger gave a small plug for that venture during his final sign-off Tuesday night, then expanded on sports betting in general during an interview with Scott Van Pelt on “SportsCenter.” MORE: Musburger’s most memorable calls “I think we have brought it out of the basement and the back room,” Musburger said. Van Pelt, too, is open about the gambling side of sports, and he devotes a segment of his show to “Bad Beats....

“I’m so grateful to the people listening and wanting the same thing I want — justice,” said Palmer during an interview with nonprofit news organization The 19th and published in The Washington Post. Taylor’s case is among a series of recent killings of unarmed black Americans including George Floyd on 25 May, who was killed by police after a store worker called 911, accusing him of buying cigarettes with a fake $20 bill....

Cristiano Ronaldo was rested for this one, and Brescia had an early lead when Alfredo Donnarumma blasted the ball beyond Wojciech Szczesny in the 4th minute. However, Juve pulled level before halftime, courtesy of an own goal, as Jhon Chancellor obliviously bundled the ball over the line. Juve continued to pepper the Brescia defence, forcing a save out of Jesse Joronen and seeing Adrien Rabiot’s effort cleared off the line by Chancellor....

Never mind that the Yankees outfielder has a career-high 19 home runs as August begins or that he has the second most on the team, trailing only Aaron Judge. His .469 slugging percentage, another personal best, and 17 doubles, second best on the Yankees, are no reason to start throwing the label around either, he says. FAGAN: What can we expect on trade deadline day? Nope, if one asks Gardner about his newfound strength at the plate, he’ll just talk about setting up his teammates....

Milwaukee looks to Chase Anderson to lead the Brewers to a win in Minnesota as they hope to snap the Twins’ three-game winning streak. Heading into Monday night’s matchup, Anderson has the potential to become the only pitcher in Brewers history to start a season without allowing an earned run in three straight starts. There’s a 62 percent chance the total combined score stays UNDER 8.5 runs, a three-star (out of four) AccuScore hot trend....

After catcher Jonathan Lucroy and pitching coach Rick Kranitz got pinkeye, the team has banned its players from giving one another the staple in sports that is high-fives for the remainder of spring training. MORE: Must-see spring training photos | Gonzales works “meows” into interview | Dickey steals Daniels’ house They’re hoping to stop the spread of the highly contagious infection by keeping both Lucroy and Kranitz home for the next 48 hours and preventing players from making any sort of unwarranted contact....

The commissioner’s office issued the penalty Monday to 22-year-old Nick Delmonico. Delmonico was playing for Class A Brevard County of the Florida State League. He was hitting .262 with four home runs and 15 RBIs.

The Brewers signed the right-handed pitcher to a new minor league deal on Tuesday, just two days after releasing him. Why the quick change of heart? The Brewers avoided paying a $100,000 veteran retention bonus by cutting him on Monday. The 29-year-old is a two-time All-Star spent last season with the Dodgers after five years with the Indians. He posted a 4.27 ERA in 49 games.

The poll was conducted for Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign and found that Kemp enjoyed 51 percent support, while Abrams had the backing of 44 percent of respondents. That gives Kemp a major 7-point lead. Those figures offer a stark contrast to a Quinnipiac University poll published on Wednesday that found the governor’s race to be a dead heat. That poll showed both Abrams and Kemp with 48 percent support....

It was previously thought that Laundrie, who is refusing to speak to investigators about Petito’s disappearance, had been staying at his parents’ home in North Port, Florida, for several days while the search for his fiancée continued. However, on Friday Laundrie’s parents summoned the police to their home saying that they had not seen their son since Tuesday. A major search is underway for Laundrie in a vast wildlife reserve close to his parents’ home....

While appearing on the Dr. Phil show on Tuesday, the Petito family lawyer, Richard Stafford said, “[Laundrie] ran, he stole her credit card, he used her credit card to get home, and then ran from the police.” “He used her credit card to get home and then ran from the police,” Stafford continued. “That’s going to show a lot what he was thinking back then.” “I don’t know what story he’s going to try to tell, but it’s not going to make any sense when you put it together with his actions from that moment forward – that he’s running, that he’s hiding, that he’s trying to deceive everybody around him,” Stafford said during the interview....

Off a successful collegiate career at Stanford, the already-capped Morris had a choice — sign with relegation-threatened Bundesliga club Werder Bremen or take a large homegrown contract with the Sounders, where his father is the chief medical director. Bypassing a chance in Germany for the more familiar was questioned by many at the time. But McBride, who spoke to Goal USA courtesy of an Allstate-sponsored clinic for underfunded youth soccer, says Morris’ debut season should have answered critics after the striker scored 12 goals and won the league’s Rookie of the Year award....

In a video shared to TikTok by Texas-based wedding photography and videography business Mark and Jenna, newlyweds Chais and Adam can be seen celebrating their union in spirited fashion (alcohol spirited, to be exact). The clip begins with an officiant announcing that the couple will be partaking in a “unity ceremony as a physical representation of their union” before declaring “bring out the tequila.” Two shots of tequila are produced for the bride and groom while the officiant explains “these shots of tequila hold many similarities to a marriage....

Manchester United assumed early control of the match in the 16th minute when a Mason Greenwood strike beat Matthew Ryan at his near post. Manchester United soon doubled their lead through a deflected Bruno Fernandes shot that trickled into the net ten minutes later. After the break, the Red Devils put the game beyond all doubt with a free-flowing counter-attack ending with a perfect Fernandes volley. The win puts Manchester United just two points behind Chelsea in fourth place....

The former world number seven has seen her career stagnate in the past couple of years due to a succession of injuries, but she defeated Aryna Sabalenka, Simona Halep and double-defending champion Elina Svitolina en route to the final. And Bencic claimed another notable scalp in the form of 2013 champion and Australian Open finalist Kvitova, who will be disappointed she failed to complete a turnaround after dominating the second set....

Chasing 145 to take an unassailable 2-0 lead in the series, England needed eight runs from the last over but the 23-year-old Bumrah bowled with ice in his veins, conceding only two runs while claiming two wickets. Both Ben Stokes and Joe Root made 38 but their contributions were not enough to get England across the line. Root, though, was unlucky to be given out leg-before on the first ball of the eventful final over with replays suggesting an inside edge....

If Rackwon sounds more like a CEO than a rapper, you’ve got to consider the Staten Island-based Wu-Tang Clan’s five-year rise from obscurity to the top of hip-hop. Their 1993 debut, “Enter the 36 Chambers,” went platinum, and five spinoff solo albums all went platinum or gold. They’ve started a popular line of clothing called Wu-Wear and are making plans for Wu-World, a chain of entertainment centers, With Death Row Records in shambles and Bad Boy at a crossroads, Wu-Tang is now the creative center of hip-hop....

Within 24 hours, there were over 50,000 downloads of The Darkest Dawn, proving that gamers still dig space sims, a genre that dominated gaming PCs throughout the ’90s then practically vanished over the last two generations of consoles. Not only is this Wing Commander sequel free, and not only did the most passionate of fans put 10 years of work into crafting it, but The Darkest Dawn includes 55 missions, 70 cinematics, and 11,000 lines of dialogue....