Roundup: Liv Tyler Vents About Hollywood; Trevor Noah Makes Daily Show Debut
By Jason McIntyre
Alexis Ren … monkey busted eating mail from a neighbor’s mailbox … “Black patients fare better than whites when both get same healthcare, study finds” … “click fraud” is very real … strange list of the ’50 best people on the internet‘ and I’m barely aware of 10 of them … Whole Foods is laying off 1,500 workers over the next eight weeks … Lenin and Stalin look-alikes are getting paid in Moscow … is Damian Lewis from Homeland going to be the next James Bond? … Danny Pintauro, who played the little kid on Who’s the Boss, has been HIV-positive for over a decade … James Worthy is selling his house in Bel Air for $2.1 million … interesting take on the current state of mobile advertising … Megyn Kelly says she doesn’t want to talk about Donald Trump, then answers a few questions about him … here are some Pope shirts for sale during his visit to Philadelphia … Black Lives Matter will protest a the Twin Cities Marathon in Minnesota … positive news: “Paralyzed man walks again using brain-computer link” … George Zimmerman is a vile human being … this music festival in Georgia was a complete debacle …
Injuries don’t matter to the Packers as long as Aaron Rodgers is around. He threw five TD passes and the Packers rolled the Chiefs, 38-28. [JS Online]
I only posted the “best of” my Fox Sports radio show yesterday, but here’s the entire show, should you want to consume every segment. And why wouldn’t you want to do that? [Fox Sports Radio]
Toronto Maple Leafs radio announcers will call road games from … Toronto because they can’t afford to fly to all the games and the team kicked them off the team flight. [Star]
Sadly, the new NFL: San Diego media asking Philip Rivers if he still “had faith in” Mike McCoy, their coach. [Union Tribune]
The Bears traded DE Jared Allen to the Panthers. He’ll help the pass-rushing needs the Panthers have after losing Charles Johnson for a few weeks. [Observer]
Putting Oregon’s loss in perspective: It was their worst defeat since 2003 (at the hands of Andrew Walter!) and after 98 straight appearances in the Top 25, they’re finally gone. [LA Times]
Liv Tyler is 38, and now she said she feels like a “second-class citizen” in Hollywood. [Guardian]
Remember when David West gave up nearly $12 million to join the Spurs? Finally, we know why. [Yahoo Sports]
Somebody stepped on Josh McCown’s hand, and it’s busted up, but he’s expected to start in San Diego. [Cleveland.com]
The man who builds sports mascots. [NYT]
Ron Jaworski, who once hailed Colin Kaepernick “could be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever,” said that the 49ers QB was awful against the Cardinals, from his reads to his throws to his footwork. [Sac Bee]
“Only 20 percent of the campaign’s ‘ad impressions’—ads that appear on a computer or smartphone screen—were even seen by actual people.” [Bloomberg]
Heck of a TV news promo.
Trevor Noah made his Daily Show debut.
Andy Reid, borrowing a line from Belichick.