(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events: NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION L.A. Clippers 129, New York 115 Denver 128, Utah 117 Toronto 115, Orlando 102 Philadelphia 119, Indiana 110 Washington 149, Brooklyn 146 Minnesota 109, Cleveland 104 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE New Jersey 5, Buffalo 3 Florida 3, Detroit 2 Carolina 4, Dallas 3 (SO) Final Chicago 3, Columbus 1 Philadelphia 4, NY Islanders 3 (OT) St. Louis 4, Anaheim 1 Minnesota 4, Colorado 3 (OT) Edmonton 8, Ottawa 5 TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Houston 70, SMU 48 Ohio St. 79, Michigan St. 62
Gravitas VenturesYou can check out Jake Owen‘s long-awaited feature film debut in the new movie Our Friend, which just opened in select theaters and on demand.
Based on the book The Friend: Love Is Not a Big Enough Word, it tells the true story of a man who steps in to help a married couple after the wife is diagnosed with terminal cancer.
“It stars Casey Affleck, Dakota Johnson, Jason Segel,” Jake tells ABC Audio. “It was fun, and I enjoyed being challenged in a way that I’ve never been challenged before.”
Jake plays Aaron, a mutual friend of the main characters. Shot in Fairhope, Alabama where the events actually took place, it was an opportunity the country hitmaker was eager to embrace.
“I just like always stepping outside the box a little bit,” Jake explains. “I get bored really easy, and I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. But I always like to try to challenge myself to do something that I’m not sure that I can accomplish, outside of the fact that I have confidence that I could possibly make it work.”
“And there’s been many times that I’ve failed,” he reflects, “and there’s been many times that I’ve been successful. And I kind of like to ride that line of the feeling of doing something right and making it happen.”
“And I think that’s what happened with the film thing,” he says. “I was nervous, but I was like, ‘If I can pull this off, this will be something that’s very fulfilling for me.’ And I pulled it off and it worked out.”
You can check out one of Jake’s scenes from Our Friend on YouTube now. Meanwhile, “Made for You,” from his Greetings from… Jake album is a top 25 hit.
Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Saturday Night Live came out swinging against the nation’s state of affairs, leaving no stone unturned when premiering its first episode of 2021.
Kate McKinnon opened the show by hosting the spoof talk show “What Still Works?” that tackled the controversy of freshman Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, the highly criticized vaccine rollout, social media outlets, the stock market and the Super Bowl.
First off, McKinnon grilled Cecily Strong’s Greene about her beliefs, with Strong quipping, “How much time you got?”
“For you? Very little,” McKinnon shoots back and smiles emotionlessly as Strong touts her conspiracy theories, such as the Parkland shooting being a hoax and “the California wildfires were caused by Jewish space lasers.”
When McKinnon asks how Congress reacted to her controversial beliefs, Strong replied, “I was promoted to the Education Committee!”
Pete Davidson, spoofing a GameStop investor that is enjoying the mayhem on Wall Street, was up next — causing McKinnon to lose faith in the stock market.
Mikey Day and Alex Moffat join McKinnon as Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, respectively, to confirm if banning former President Donald Trump and alt-right conspiracists was the right move.
“It seems to have forced those people onto darker, scarier apps where their delusion and bloodlust can run wild,” says Day’s ultra-quarantined bearded Dorsey.
Moffat’s zany Zuckerberg cracks that Facebook still works because it allowed friends to meet in real life, like at the U.S. Capitol.
Kenan Thompson joins as O.J. Simpson to parody the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, with McKinnon deadpanning that the former NFL star was “Among the first 3 percent of all Americans given the vaccine.”
The only thing that still works, according to McKinnon? Tom Brady, as played by John Krasinski.
Saturday’s episode was hosted by Krasinski, with Machine Gun Kelly as musical guest.
(CHICAGO) — A man alleged to have lived in plain sight at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport for three months was wearing a bright-yellow safety vest and striped sweatpants when he was arrested, according to newly released video of his capture.
Security footage showing the Jan. 16 arrest of 36-year-old Aditya Singh, released by the Chicago Department of Aviation, has raised new questions about how Singh managed to go undetected for so long at the nation’s busiest airport.
The soundless video shows uniformed airport police officers questioning Singh outside a men’s restroom at the airport before apparently instructing him to hold out his arms to be searched.
Singh was allegedly posing as an airport worker when he was taken into custody. He was found in possession of an airport operations manager’s security credential that was reported misplaced around the time Singh began living at the airport, authorities said.
Singh reportedly told authorities he became so frightened to fly back to his home in Orange County, California, due to the COVID-19 pandemic that he decided to hunker down in the airport. It remains unclear how long Singh intended to stay at the facility, where he lived off food provided by strangers, authorities said.
The man’s airport-squatting stint ended when two United Airlines employees became suspicious and confronted Singh, who allegedly showed them the misplaced airport identification badge, according to the Chicago Tribune. Singh told officials that he had been living at the airport since Oct. 19.
“While this incident remains under investigation, we have been able to determine that this gentleman did not pose a security risk to the airport or to the traveling public,” the Chicago Department of Aviation said in a statement. “We will continue to work with our law enforcement partners on a thorough investigation of this matter.”
Singh was charged with impersonating an airport employee in a restricted area of the airport and theft of less than $500, according to police.
He remained locked up at the Cook County Jail on Sunday without bond, according to online jail records.
(NEW YORK) — A police chief and an officer in Hamilton, Georgia, are out from their positions after video surfaced of comments both are seen making at a Black Lives Matter protest, ABC News affiliate WTVM-TV reported.
Hamilton Police Department Chief Gene Allmond is reported to have resigned and Patrolman John Brooks was terminated according to the assistant to the Hamilton mayor, Julie Brown, WTVM-TV reported.
Both officers were wearing bodycams at a BLM protest in Hamilton in June 2020. The video has since been made public.
In the video, a man speaking off-camera and a man on-camera make several comments with racial slurs and explicit language.
The off-camera speaker presumably makes reference to the June 2020 fatal police shooting of 27-year-old Rayshard Brooks, who was shot after allegedly grabbing a police officer’s Taser, following a struggle during a field sobriety test. The incident led to BLM protests, the resignation of Atlanta Police Chief Erika Shields and the firing of Officer Garrett Rolfe.
Brown told WTVM that “the mayor and city council acted quickly to remove the Chief and patrolman after viewing the video for the first time,” on Monday.
“It was disgusting,” Hamilton Mayor Pro-Tem Ransom Farley told ABC News. “The fact they were on duty … when we found out they were terminated in an hour-and-a-half time,” he said.
“I thank God, we caught it,” Farley said. “When you’re a police officer and you have that type of frame of mind …. how can you protect and serve?”
Attempts to reach the Hamilton Police Department, Allmond and Brooks were unsuccessful.
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