Last night at Busch Stadium, the St. Louis Cardinals bested the Texas Rangers 3-2 in the opening game of the 2011 World Series. The biggest baseball event of the year kicked off with the usual pomp and circumstance, featuring a cameo appearance by First Lady Michelle Obama and a national anthem performance by American Idol winner and Billboard chart-topper Scotty McCreery. Luckily, McCreery’s performance of “The Star-Spangled Banner” was sharper than his unfortunately-tinted World Series jacket, and he also managed to overcome a bit of a technical snafu at the beginning (the first step to a great performance is to turn on the microphone). Read More...
Happy National Scrabble Game Day! The classic word game is celebrating its own holiday and the brand’s 70th anniversary with brand new additions to Merriam-Webster’s The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. The update will mark the sixth edition of the game book; the last Scrabble dictionary update happened in 2014. Over 300 new words are being added to the new Scrabble dictionary, which will be published in the fall. That includes tasty new morsels like “Macaron” (Noun, a cookie with filling in the middle) and “Sriracha” (Noun, a spicy pepper sauce). Read More...
Update: This story has been updated with details of a third lawsuit. Sean "Diddy" Combs has been hit with two more lawsuits accusing him of sexual assault. On Thursday, a woman who alleged he drugged and sexually assaulted her when she was a college student in 1991. That same day a third woman accused Combs of sexual assault, according to a lawsuit obtained by PEOPLE.
In the first reported complaint, reviewed by EW, the woman, Joi Dickerson-Neal, also alleges Combs videotaped the alleged assault and distributed the tape to others in the music industry. Read More...
