Catholic diocese demands apology for “SNL” skit

Catholic officials are demanding an apology from “Saturday Night Live” after Pete Davidson compared the church’s sex abuse scandals to the allegations against R. Kelly. His comments were part of a “Weekend Update” skit on Saturday. “This guy is a monster and he should go to jail forever,” Davidson said about Kelly. “But, if you support the Catholic church, isn’t that,…

Fantasy Baseball Draft Prep Breakouts: A Joey Votto clone, a dark horse Cy Young candidate, and an emerging slugger

Get ready to build a winning team on Draft Day with SportsLine.com’s exclusive stats, tools, and projections. Download the Draft Kit with rankings, tiers, auction values, player breakdowns, projections, and more. We’ve given you plenty of sleeper, breakout, and bust picks for the coming season, but we know you can never get enough of them. Scott White’s latest round came…

Review: “3 Faces,” a humanist drama of female power in Iran

The captivating Iranian drama “3 Faces” opens with a shocking video that may or may not depict a young girl’s suicide in a remote mountain village. In a brief clip recorded on a smartphone and addressed to a prominent actress, an emotional teenager, Marziyeh (Marziyeh Rezaei), explains that her life is being stifled by her family who are rejecting her…

“Game of Thrones” Season 8 trailer is finally here

Winter is finally here. After months of teasers, HBO released the highly-anticipated trailer for the final season of “Game of Thrones” on Tuesday. Needless to say, fans are freaking out.It’s been more than a year since we saw the Emmy-winning drama’s Season 7 finale, but it looks like it will be worth the wait. The new trailer is the first…

Dwyane Wade shocks NBA rookie with a “surreal” gift

Kevin Huerter used to have Dwyane Wade’s sneakers. Now, he’s got his jersey. Wade has been exchanging uniform tops with opposing players all season long as part of his “One Last Dance” before he retires – swapping with close friends like LeBron James and Chris Paul, fellow longtime stars such as Dirk Nowitzki and Vince Carter, and the next wave…

Dwyane Wade shocks NBA rookie with a “surreal” gift

Kevin Huerter used to have Dwyane Wade’s sneakers. Now, he’s got his jersey. Wade has been exchanging uniform tops with opposing players all season long as part of his “One Last Dance” before he retires – swapping with close friends like LeBron James and Chris Paul, fellow longtime stars such as Dirk Nowitzki and Vince Carter, and the next wave…

UFC news, rumors: Colby Covington and Kamaru Usman scuffle in casino after UFC 235

They hype for the next welterweight championship matchup took a pretty strange turn on Saturday night in Las Vegas. In a video obtained by TMZ Sports (WARNING: Video includes graphic language), the day after UFC 235 in which Kamaru Usman captured the 170-pound title, the new champ and manager Ali Abdelaziz approached former interim welterweight champion Colby Covington inside a…

Former Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper running for president

Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper has tossed his hat into the Democratic presidential ring. He announced his 2020 candidacy early Monday with a campaign video that hits the highlights of his career as a two-term governor and two-term Denver mayor. He addresses recession, droughts and floods, and the mass shooting in Aurora in 2012. Hickenlooper just finished his second term in the…

“Saint Judy”: The story of a tireless immigration lawyer’s crusade for justice

In the new movie “Saint Judy,” the true story of a crusading immigration lawyer who used the courts to help make it easier for women to seek asylum, Golden Globe-nominated actress Michelle Monaghan – who has steamed up the screen with the likes of Tom Cruise (“Mission Impossible III”), Robert Downey Jr. (“Kiss Kiss Bang Bang”) and Matthew McConaughey (“True…

Julianne Moore on dramatizing the immensity of a life

Actress Julianne Moore should be exhausted … not because of her 75-plus film credits – the cult classics (“The Big Lebowski”), the blockbusters (“The Hunger Games: Mockingjay”), the comedies (“Crazy, Stupid Love,” “Suburbicon”), and lots of drama (“The Hours,” “The End of the Affair,” “Still Alice”). If she’s tired, it’s only because she’d had a bad night. “My little dog…

Giant spider eats opossum in Amazon rainforest

Researchers studying interactions between predators and their prey in the Amazon rainforest spotted one encounter with a giant spider that’ll leave arachnophobes trembling. Scientists stumbled upon a tarantula “the size of a dinner plate” dragging away an opossum for its own supper — and later discovered it was the first such documentation in recorded history, according to a press release….

Take a look at what will be in the new Tennessee Aquarium exhibit

CHATTANOOGA (WDEF) – The jellyfish are gone.  Instead, we’ll get an introduction to Island Life. The Tennessee Aquarium is opening their new exhibit on March 15th. Island Life will take a visitors around the world to see island habitats from the Pacific Northwest U.S. to Madagascar. “We’re excited for guests to experience these new exhibits. They’ll feel like world travelers…

What does Bryce Harper have to do to make Phillies’ $330 million megadeal successful?

Bryce Harper signed a 13-year, $330 million contract with the Phillies on Thursday after a long standoff. The deal came just a week after Manny Machado’s 10-year, $300 million deal. Harper and Machado hosted some of the biggest agent sweepstakes since arguably Alex Rodriguez, and their waiting carried into spring training, but it paid off. Now, the Padres have Machado…