Posting to his official site, Ellis described a call with Netflix where the success of Castlevania season 3 was discussed. “I can’t actually tell you all the exact numbers,” Ellis wrote. “What I can say is that season 3’s popularity was an order of magnitude over that of season 2, and season 2 was popular enough to get us season 3. It turns out season 3 did, really, shockingly well....
Basti-gol - Schweinsteiger proves a point at Man Utd The 35-year-old joined Marseille from Juventus in January, bringing an end to speculation surrounding potential moves to Crystal Palace, Valencia. He was also linked with a move back to Old Trafford, having spent eight years there, winning five Premier League titles, the Champions League and Club World Cup. Evra signed an 18-month contract with the Ligue 1 side this month, stating that he “did not hesitate for a second” in joining Marseille....
Gordon Ernst has agreed to plead guilty to charges including conspiracy to commit federal programs bribery, court documents filed Wednesday show. In the plea agreement, prosecutors will recommend a sentence of no more than four years in prison, and Ernst has promised to ask for no less than a year. Ernst’s agreement to plead guilty comes as the first trial in the nationwide college admissions scandal involving wealthy parents and athletic coaches is being held in Boston’s federal court....
Johnson was first elected in 2010 and was re-elected for a second term in 2016. Although he will finish his current term in January 2023, he wrote in a Sunday opinion piece for The Wall Street Journal that he will run again in the 2022 midterms and disregard his previous promise. He blamed Democrats for this decision. “Ron Johnson is not someone you can take seriously as a United States senator,” Nelson said during a segment of MSNBC’s The Sunday Show, responding to the news....
Schmidt made the remarks while appearing on the latest edition of Deadline: White House on MSNBC, telling host Nicolle Wallace that Trump’s negative character traits had been “magnified” during the COVID-19 pandemic. “[Trump] is someone who is clearly interested in himself, in his re-election,” said Schmidt. “The lack of discipline, the lack of focus, [its] just extraordinary to see the American president attacking political foes, to attacking the senior Democrat in the House, to attacking governors who are on the line in the states....
Nacita’s situation caused quite a stir back in February. The former homeless running back was kicked off Baylor’s football team after he accepted housing from a family friend. MORE: Teammates jump Cardale Jones | Big 12 title game coming? | Solomon stays calm It was originally reported he was ruled ineligible, but the NCAA came out and said that wasn’t the case. At the time, it was technically true. The NCAA still had to do an investigation to see if he accepted improper benefits....
So it’s no surprise that former New York cornerback Darrelle Revis, who joined New England’s roster in March on the same day he was released by Tampa Bay, feels differently about coach Bill Belichick’s squad now that he’s no longer a Jet. “They work their butts off in New England,” Revis told The Tampa Tribune at the Drew Brees Passing Academy over the weekend. “As soon as you get into the offseason program, it’s non-stop....
The study, led by Dutch researcher Dr. Arno Hazekamp in conjunction with cannabis-extract producer Constance Therapeutics and the Gridiron Cannabis Coalition, will be conducted in California, where marijuana is legal for medical use and soon could be for recreational purposes, too. Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe, who used marijuana while playing and continues to today for pain relief related to four knee surgeries and years of football wear and tear, is among some 30 former players who have volunteered for the new study....
Gilbert police say the 28-year-old Hall was arrested Friday for allegedly shoplifting from a Best Buy store in Gilbert. Officers say they searched Hall’s backpack and found several stolen items from Best Buy and a nearby Walmart along with a “personal-use quantity of cocaine.” Police say Hall was released shortly after his arrest. It was unclear Tuesday if he has a lawyer. Hall grew up in Mesa and transferred from Arizona State to BYU, where he starred from 2007-09 before being signed as an undrafted free agent by the Arizona Cardinals....
But there are others who see it as a free trip to Hawaii to spend some time with the NFL’s best. And those guys like to take full advantage of the festivities, including having some alcoholic beverages before the game. MORE: NFL players and their Star Wars counterparts “I went to (my first Pro Bowl in 2010) and some people were like, ‘Look, man. I’m playing dead serious. I’m finna win this,’" former NFL safety Brandon Meriweather said Wednesday on Toucher & Rich....
Blair, who was in power from 1997 to 2007, wanted to strengthen the bonds of the United Kingdom in the wake of the Scottish devolution referendum, leading to the creation of the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. In an attempt to create a feeling of unity in the UK, Blair became “obsessed” with the idea of combining the two divisions. “I know it sounds a bit strange but I was for a time quite obsessed with the idea that, for example, for football we should be opening up the English league and the Scottish league and having them together,” he told BBC Scotland....
The Washington Post reported on Wednesday that Giuliani held “talks” to set up a possible deal where his company would represent former Ukraine prosecutor general Yuriy Lutsenko to recover assets supposedly stolen from Kiev. In return, Giuliani’s company would receive at least $200,000 as payment. The negotiations reportedly occurred the same months that Giuliani was probing for dirt on the Bidens. Unnamed sources familiar with the negotiations told the newspaper of the existence of a February draft retainer agreement....
Many players support Kaepernick’s right to express his feelings about race in America by not standing during the national anthem, but a former teammate says it’s “shameful” and he would have confronted the 49ers quarterback. MORE: It’s Kaepernick’s flag, too, and he used it to be heard “… We probably would have had a problem on the sideline,” said Vikings guard Alex Boone, who played with Kaepernick for five seasons....
“It got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there,” Herschmann said in a videotaped interview with the January 6 committee. “What they were proposing, I thought was nuts.” On Tuesday, the House panel revealed new details about the December 18 meeting where some participants allegedly discussed having the military or Justice Department seize voting machines. Former White House staff secretary Derek Lyons told the committee it was “not a casual meeting,” describing a scene where top Trump officials were screaming and hurling insults at each other....
De Beers, which has a history that some have said is at least as controversial if not more so than Rhodes himself, was the company through which the 19th-century imperialist consolidated his monopoly on the diamond industry. By the time of Rhodes’s death in 1902, his De Beers company controlled around 90% of the production of the world’s rough diamonds and their distribution. The company profited from apartheid in South Africa and been accused of historically being involved in the trade of “blood diamonds”, diamonds which are mined in a war-zone, the sales of which are used to finance an insurgency....
Never mind that Henry Kissinger, James Baker and Bill Clinton, among others, failed to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. President Donald Trump told Kushner to get it done, so that’s what Kushner set out to do. He spoke to experts and negotiators from previous administrations. One was Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. When Kushner told him what he was up to, a dumbfounded Miller spoke for sons-in-law everywhere: “Wow, I wish my father-in-law had the kind of faith in me that yours has in you!...
As the 20th anniversary of 9/11 passed Saturday, the lingering blowback of the unprecedented attacks remains with the United States in a myriad of ongoing measures adopted in tandem with the still-raging “war on terror.” Among them is the Terrorist Exclusion List, which was established as part of the Patriot Act to impose travel restrictions on those suspected or accused of being or having ties to transnational militants. Over the past two decades, only three groups have been removed from this list....
Asked whether they would consider the U.S. government to be “more of an ally or more of a threat to Hong Kong and its interests,” 38 percent of respondents felt it was more of a threat, 29 percent chose it being more of an ally and 21 percent said it was neither. At 37 percent, slightly fewer chose the Chinese government as a threat and 34 percent called Beijing an ally, while 16 percent thought it was neither....
“The President of Ukraine has been warned Russia will highly likely begin an invasion within 48 hours based on U.S. intelligence,” a U.S. official with direct knowledge told Newsweek. “Additionally,” the U.S. official added, “reporting from aircraft observers indicates Russia violated Ukrainian airspace earlier today, flying possible reconnaissance aircraft for a short period over Ukraine.” A source close to Zelenskyy’s government also confirmed to Newsweek that such a warning was received, but noted that this was the third time in a month Kyiv was told to prepare for imminent large-scale military action by Russian President Vladimir Putin....
The authors of the study, published in the American Journal of Transplantation, identified 71 Chinese medical journal publications dated between 1980 and 2015 describing cases in which the removal of the heart appeared to be the cause of the prisoner’s death. In these cases, the prisoners were supposedly braindead before surgeons removed their hearts. “Braindead” is a classification referring to someone who will never regain consciousness or start breathing on their own again without a ventilator....
