Author: Dorcas Onasa

Louisville basketball confirmed Wednesday morning that freshman point guard Mikel Brown Jr. will not play in the Cardinals’ NCAA Tournament first-round game against South Florida on Thursday, and will also be unavailable if the team advances to the Round of 32 this weekend. The announcement ends any remaining hope that the projected NBA lottery pick could return in time to make his postseason debut. The sixth-seeded Cardinals and the No. 11 seed South Florida Bulls tip off Thursday at 1:30 p.m. EST on TNT in Buffalo, New York. A season long battle with a back injury Brown’s absence is the…

X, formerly known as Twitter, is experiencing a widespread outage on March 18, 2026, with users across multiple regions reporting that they are unable to log in, load their timelines or access core platform features on both the mobile app and the browser version of the site. According to outage tracking platform Downdetector, complaints began surging around 8:37 a.m. Pacific Time and have continued climbing through the morning and into the afternoon. As of the time of writing, nearly 15,000 users have filed reports, indicating a disruption that is affecting a significant portion of the platform’s active user base rather…

If you own a Ford, service at a Ford dealership and generally spend money within the Ford ecosystem on a regular basis, there is now a credit card designed around exactly that behavior. The Ford Rewards Visa Signature Credit Card, announced March 10 through a new long-term partnership with Bread Financial, replaces the previous FordPass Rewards Visa that Ford discontinued with First National Bank of Omaha approximately one year ago. The new card carries no annual fee, is issued by Comenity Capital Bank under a Visa license and allows applicants to prequalify without triggering a hard inquiry on their credit report.…

Damson Idris’s introduction to Formula 1 followed the kind of path that will feel familiar to a generation of fans who discovered the sport through a screen rather than a grandstand. He played the F1 video game with his brothers, accumulated a casual interest and might have stayed there if a Hungarian Grand Prix in 2018 had not done what live motorsport tends to do to people who experience it for the first time. He went to the race, watched Lewis Hamilton win and left, by his own description, hooked for life. Four years later, he was cast in F1…

USA Network has officially unveiled USA Sports as its new unified sports division, and the centerpiece of the rebrand is something that has never existed before in the WNBA’s 30-year history: a major cable television home. The 11-year media rights agreement between the league and Versant  the newly independent media company that completed its spin off from Comcast in January 2026  runs through 2036 and establishes the WNBA as the anchor of USA Sports’ primetime programming from the first tip of the 2026 season. The WNBA’s cable debut begins May 8, with Wednesday night doubleheaders serving as the signature programming…

When footage of Oprah Winfrey and Gayle King making their careful, tentative entrance at the Chloé Fall/Winter 2026 runway show in Paris surfaced on TikTok earlier this month, the internet had opinions. Online commenters were quick to mock the two women for walking like they were 90 years old a critique that made the rounds with the particular enthusiasm social media reserves for celebrity moments taken entirely out of context. Winfrey, 72, has now provided the context, and the explanation is both completely reasonable and genuinely funny. The sunglasses that started everything The sequence of events, as Winfrey described it…

When Michael B. Jordan’s name was announced as a Best Actor Oscar nominee for his dual performance in Sinners, the people who taught him, coached him and grew up alongside him in Newark, New Jersey felt something closer to confirmation than surprise. For those who watched him come up at Newark Arts High School, the trajectory that led to Hollywood’s most celebrated stage was visible long before the cameras and credits caught up to it. Jordan, 39, plays twin brothers Elijah Smoke Moore and Elias Stack Moore in Ryan Coogler’s  Sinners,  a performance that earned him his first Academy Award…

Denzel Washington is joining the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The two-time Academy Award winner has officially been cast in Black Panther 3: Shadows of Wakanda, director Ryan Coogler confirmed in June 2025, ending months of speculation that began when Washington casually mentioned the offer during a November 2024 interview while promoting Gladiator II. The announcement sent immediate shockwaves through the Marvel community. Washington had never previously appeared in the MCU, and his decision to enter the franchise now, at this stage of his career, signals that something significant is being built in Wakanda for Phase 7. Coogler wrote the role specifically…

Floyd Schofield Sr. is not staying quiet about a matchup that has never materialized. The trainer and father of lightweight contender Floyd Schofield went on record with MillCity Boxing to lay out exactly why he believes a professional fight between his son and WBO lightweight champion Abdullah Mason has never been seriously pursued, and why he thinks it never will be on Mason’s team’s terms. His argument rests on two pillars: shared history inside the ring and what he describes as deliberate manipulation of the sanctioning body rankings. Sparring and amateur experience tell the story, Schofield Sr. says The elder…

The New York Giants have signed wide receiver Calvin Austin III, the team announced Saturday, adding a versatile and explosive playmaker who spent his first four NFL seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers. The signing comes just hours after the Giants also agreed to terms with Darnell Mooney, signaling a deliberate effort by New York to overhaul its receiving corps heading into the 2026 season. Austin, who stands 5 feet 9 inches and weighs 162 pounds, brings a combination of receiving production, rushing versatility and proven special teams ability that gives the Giants options in multiple phases of the game. What…