(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Dallas 130, Orlando 124 Philadelphia 130, Indiana 114 Denver 118, Chicago 112 New Orleans 129, Utah 124 Brooklyn 124, San Antonio 113 (OT) Cleveland 101, Houston 90 Portland 123, Charlotte 111
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Ottawa 5, Calgary 1 Carolina 3, Florida 2 (OT) Vancouver 4, Winnipeg 0 Vegas 5, Minnesota 4 (OT) St. Louis 5, Anaheim 4 Toronto 3, Edmonton 0 San Jose 6, Colorado 2 TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Oklahoma St. 79, Oklahoma 75 Virginia 62, Miami 51
Arista NashvilleIf you’re anxiously awaiting the third album from Maren Morris, the hitmaker behind “The Bones” and “My Church” promises it’s well on its way.
“I am still writing,” Maren explains. “I’ve recorded a bulk of the songs, but I’m kind of giving myself this time to just see if I get any other songs in the mix.”
“I feel like I have a really strong batch of songs that I’ve already recorded with Greg Kurstin, my producer, and I love the sound direction that it’s heading in,” she adds, mentioning the Grammy-winner who also worked on 2019’s Girl.
You’ll have to admit Maren certainly hasn’t wasted much time, especially since she gave birth to her first child with Ryan Hurd, their son Hayes, just a year ago.
“It’s imminent, but there’s no date on it yet,” she clarifies. “But I’m really enjoying just kind of finding the footing of where it’s going.”
“This is like the best part before anyone hears it,” she reflects. “You just get to, like, figure it out yourself. Like, what is the sound like? What’s the theme? What am I saying? And I’m in the thick of that right now, so I’ll probably have a better answer in a couple months.”
Sonically, Maren says the record “feels very back to my roots,” while adding she wrote a “handful” of the songs with Ryan during quarantine.
“It’s really awesome!” he interjects, as Maren laughs. “From the non-objective husband sitting right here, it’s a really cool next step.”
Meanwhile, Ryan and Maren have released their duet, “Chasing After You,” as we wait for more new music.
Tonight, she performs her collaboration with JP Saxe, “Line by Line,” on The Late Late Show with James Corden on CBS.
YANN COATSALIOU/AFP via Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Paris Hilton used Monday’s episode of her podcast This Is Paris to speak out about a 2007 interview she did with David Letterman, then host of CBS’ The Late Show, in which she felt he intentionally set out to humiliate her.
Hilton claims Letterman’s public relations team had been after her to appear on the show, but she “kept saying no.” She finally agreed in order to promote a new fragrance she had coming out — providing he promised not to bring up her time in jail for violating probation in an alcohol-related reckless driving case.
“There was not supposed to be one question [about the sentence], and then he just kept pushing me and pushing me and I was just getting so uncomfortable, and I was so upset,” she continued. “It was like he was just purposely trying to humiliate me.”
“It was just very cruel and very mean,” she said. “After it ended, I just looked at him, and I said, ‘I am never coming on this show again. You’ve crossed the line.’ I didn’t tell him off because I’m not that type of person, but I got angry.”
Hilton insisted Letterman would have a harder time getting away with that interview if it happened today.
“It’s such a different world now,” she says.
Hilton she eventually did return to Letterman’s show after he profusely apologized. She said their next interview was “so much better.”
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(MINNEAPOLIS) — The Minnesota Court of Appeals is deciding whether to reinstate a third-degree murder charge against Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer set to go on trial next week in the death of George Floyd.
During a virtual hearing on Monday, a prosecutor from Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison’s office argued that the district court judge presiding over Chauvin’s case “abused his discretion” by dropping the charge.
Chauvin, who did not attend Monday’s hearing, is currently facing charges of second-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the May 25 death of Floyd, a 46-year-old Black man.
“We will … issue an expedited decision as soon as possible, appreciating that the trial in this matter is supposed to start one week from today,” Appellate Judge Michelle A. Larkin said at the close of the hearing.
Chauvin, 44, is being tried separately from three other former officers involved in Floyd’s death. J. Alexander Kueng, Thomas Lane and Tou Thao are charged with aiding and abetting second-degree murder and manslaughter and are scheduled to go on trial in August.
Cellphone video showed Chauvin digging his knee into the back of Floyd’s neck for a prolonged period as Kueng and Lane held the handcuffed man down in a prone position as he repeatedly cried out, “I can’t breathe.”
Thao is accused of standing by and keeping witnesses at bay.
Floyd went unconscious during the incident and was later pronounced dead at a hospital.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Peter Cahill, who is presiding over Chauvin’s case, dismissed the third-degree murder charge in October last year, ruling that it required evidence that Chauvin’s alleged actions put multiple people at risk and resulted in a death. Cahill ruled that since Chauvin is accused of only targeting Floyd, the count did not apply to his case.
During Monday’s hearing, prosecutor Neal Katyal cited a Feb. 1 ruling by the Minnesota Court of Appeals upholding a third-degree murder conviction against former Minneapolis police officer Mohamed Noor in the 2017 fatal shooting of Justine Ruszczyk Damond after she called 911 to report an assault in progress near her home.
Following the Court of Appeals ruling in Noor’s case, prosecutors asked Cahill to reconsider the third-degree charge against Chauvin. Cahill denied the request.
Chauvin’s lawyer Eric Nelson argued on Monday that Cahill’s ruling should stand because the Appeals Court decision in Noor’s case should not be considered a legally binding precedent because Noor has 60 to 90 days to appeal to the state Supreme Court.
Nelson argued that if Chauvin were convicted of third-degree murder and the Noor case was overturned, he could appeal, “but he would have to do it from the confines of a prison cell.”
Larkin responded, “When the Supreme Court does grant review of our cases, it typically does not vacate our decision or issue any order limiting that decision.”
“All of these rules and the lack of any statement that a precedential opinion is anything but immediately effective in terms of precedential authority are causing me to question your assertion that the rules support ignoring precedential decisions of this court until such time as to seek review has expired, the Supreme Court denies review or the Supreme Court takes review and issues a different decision,” Larkin told Nelson.
Katyal said that it could take the Supreme Court up to a year to review a case. He noted that there are three other former officers charged in the death of Floyd and their trial could occur “very possibly when Noor is over and left intact.”
“That would mean third-degree murder charges could be brought against those three officers just because of timing,” Katyal said. “Everything about our legal system rebels against that notion … in Minnesota and any jurisdiction with which we’re familiar.”
NBCUniversal(NEW YORK) — Since it could be argued that some of the cringey technical glitches from Sunday night’s Golden Globes belonged on America’s Funniest Home Videos, it’s ironic the telecast apparently got beat in the ratings by the family-friendly show on ABC.
The bug-filled NBC awards show hosted by Tina Fey in New York, and Amy Poehler in Los Angeles, and co-starring a host of technical issues, attracted 5.42 million viewers, according to early numbers quoted byThe Hollywood Reporter.
By comparison, 2020’s Golden Globes telecast attracted more than 18 million viewers, the trade says.
According to the trade, it’s the lowest audience for the Globes since 2008, when a writer’s strike left it little more than a press conference where the winners’ names were read.
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