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close Video Fox News Flash top sports headlines for June 1 Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The NBA announced the game officials for the 2023 NBA Finals on Thursday and veteran referee Eric Lewis is not one of them. Lewis, who has worked the last four finals, was not one of the 12 referees selected for the series between the Denver Nuggets and the Miami Heat as the league investigates whether Lewis used a Twitter account that defended himself and other NBA refs from online criticism. Eric Lewis, #42, looks on during the game during round two game seven of the 2023 NBA Playoffson May 14, 2023, at the TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (David Dow/NBAE via Getty Images) "Regarding Eric Lewis and the social media posts, we are continuing to review the matter, and he will not be working the finals," NBA spokesman Mike Bass said Thursday. CELTICS PLAYERS … [Read more...] about Referee Eric Lewis won’t work NBA Finals amid investigation into social media posts

0 Crime & Safety Newport Beach residents can expect to see more police officers patrolling the streets starting Friday and ending Saturday. Miranda Ceja , Patch Staff Posted Reply NEWPORT BEACH, CA — Newport Beach police officers reminded residents not to push their luck and drive under the influence this St. Patrick's Day, as the department announced an increased police presence on the streets this holiday weekend. The increased patrol will start at 10 a.m. Friday and end on Saturday at 2 a.m. Newport Beach officers will be "looking for drivers suspected of driving under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs," the department said in a statement. "Leave your keys at home and plan ahead before you celebrate St. Patrick's Day," Lieutenant Eric Miller said in a statement. "Designate a sober driver, schedule a ride share or make other planes to get home safely if you plan to drink." St. Patrick's Day is one of the … [Read more...] about Upped Police Presence For St. Patrick’s Day In Newport Beach

In December 1978, Billy Joel headlined Madison Square Garden for the first time, playing three shows on the tour for his first No. 1 album, “52nd Street.” Dozens more performances followed there over the years, and in January 2014, Joel began a monthly residency as the Garden’s first “music franchise.” Now the monthly gig is coming to an end. On Thursday, Joel and the Garden announced his final 10 shows in the series, saying the residency will conclude in July 2024 with his 104th show in the series, which will be his 150th lifetime performance at the Garden. “I’m kind of flabbergasted that it lasted as long as it did,” Joel said at a news conference at the Garden. “My team tells me that we could continue to sell tickets, but 10 years, 150 shows — all right already!” James L. Dolan, the chief executive of MSG Entertainment, which owns the Garden and other venues, added: “Billy Joel’s franchise run has made history — not only for Madison Square Garden, but also for the music … [Read more...] about Billy Joel Will End Madison Square Garden Residency in 2024

Is popular culture like a river, flowing relentlessly forward so that no one ever steps in the same waters twice? Or is it like a coral reef — or, less organically, a landfill — formed out of the continuous accretion of new matter? If two wildly dissimilar objects have the same name, does it make any sense to compare them? If so, how? Please forgive the philosophical tenor of these questions: I’ve just seen “21 Jump Street,” and it has left me in a ruminative mood. Not that the movie, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller and based on the semi-beloved, dimly recalled Fox cop show that made Johnny Depp a star in the late 1980s, aims to be thought-provoking. It wants to be fun and, to a perhaps surprising extent, it is. Largely forsaking the sweet multiculturalism of the original for white-dude bromance, and completely abandoning earnest teenagers-in-crisis melodrama in favor of crude, aggressive comedy, this “21 Jump Street” is an example of how formula-driven entertainment … [Read more...] about Going Back to High School, Undercover With Badges and Baggage

close Video Alex Murdaugh recounts death of family's longtime housekeeper Gloria Satterfield Attorneys for the Satterfield estate released the excerpt of the interview, which contradicts Murdaugh's latest claim that the housekeeper wasn't tripped by the family's dogs. Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh pleaded not guilty Wednesday to 22 federal financial crimes – including accusations he defrauded the estate of his former housekeeper Gloria Satterfield. The allegations are not new. The former South Carolina attorney is already facing state indictments on similar counts related to the theft of $4 million in insurance payouts after Satterfield fell on the stairs of the Murdaughs' home in 2018 and later died. The federal indictments handed down last week also mirror other state financial crimes charges spanning indictments that accuse the disgraced attorney of stealing nearly $9 million from his former law firm, vulnerable clients and the IRS … [Read more...] about Alex Murdaugh pleads not guilty to swindling dead housekeeper’s family, other crimes

Disney’s new Little Mermaid shows that Hollywood “still has the need to shy away from Blackness, even in diversity efforts,” according to a University of Baltimore professor who questioned the “point of having a Black little mermaid if she’s just going to be thrown into a center of a white world,” as he fantasized over a means to “turn all of the white characters Black.” On Wednesday, award-winning author Dwight (D.) Watkins grappled with the live-action Little Mermaid film as he questioned whether its “whitewashed diversity efforts” are still considered valid efforts, in an op-ed published in Salon , where he serves as editor-at-large. The essay, titled, “The Little Mermaid’ and Disney’s dilemma: Why no Black prince?” begins with Watkins describing his decision to take his three-year-old daughter to see the Disney remake in our “racist, sexist, divided country.” “I’m old enough to remember the first ‘Little Mermaid’ from back in ’89 and to know that Disney … [Read more...] about UBalt Professor Claims New ‘Little Mermaid’ Cast Not Diverse Enough