(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION Dallas 104, Charlotte 93 Milwaukee 110, Detroit 101 Brooklyn 116, New York 109 LA Lakers 128, Oklahoma City 99 Memphis 118, Minnesota 107 LA Clippers 111, New Orleans 106 Portland 132, Sacramento 126 Utah at Washington (Postponed) Orlando at Boston (Postponed) Atlanta at Phoenix (Postponed)
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE Philadelphia 6, Pittsburgh 3 Vancouver 5, Edmonton 3 Toronto 5, Montreal 4 (OT) Tampa Bay 5, Chicago 1 St. Louis 4, Colorado 1
TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL Texas Tech 79, Texas 77 Louisville 77, Wake Forest 65 Virginia 80, Notre Dame 68 Ohio St. 81, Northwestern 71 Villanova at Xavier (Postponed) Illinois at Nebraska (Postponed)
In Jordan Davis‘ current top-25 hit, the Louisiana native considers the “Almost Maybes” that paved the way to finding true love.
So exactly how many “Almost Maybes” did the “Singles You Up” hitmaker have?
“I go to, like, three serious ones,” Jordan tells ABC Audio. “Three ones that were, like, legit, you know, like, when it ended, it was kind of tough.”
“I was like, ‘Man, that wasn’t any fun,’ you know?” he adds. “But yeah, I would say three, like, serious girlfriends before I met Kristen.”
Jordan and Kristen tied the knot in 2017, after he and his brother Jacob both graduated with degrees in environmental science from LSU.
With two good-looking aspiring musicians in the Davis household, Jordan admits there was rarely a shortage of female attention.
“Yeah, me and Jacob, we definitely had our fair share of girlfriends, both in high school, and in school in Baton Rouge,” Jordan laughs. “But yeah, we had to go through some breakups and heartbreaks, but we found the right ones for us.”
“And now we’ve got four little Davis girls between the two of us now,” he smiles.
Jordan’s daughter, Eloise, celebrated her first birthday this past November. His brother Jacob also co-wrote his second of three number ones so far, “Take It from Me.”
Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images(NEW YORK) — Ever since it was announced that Sex and the City would be getting a revival, there’s been one question on fans minds: How will they handle Kim Cattrall’s absence?
Some wondered if the upcoming reboot, titled And Just Like That, would find a character to replace Cattrall’s iconic character Samantha Jones, but it appears that won’t be the case.
When asked by a TMZ cameraman, Sarah Jessica Parker, who portrayed the lead role of Carrie Bradshaw in the original series and its two films, she replied, “It’s not quite as black and white as that.”
“We’re not looking to create a fourth character,” she explained. “We have New York City as a fourth character. There’ll be lots of interesting new characters that we’re excited about.”
Parker added that she’s also excited about getting back to work with her fellow women co-stars which would include Kristin Davis and Cynthia Nixon, who are set to reprise their roles as Charlotte York Goldenblatt and Miranda Hobbes.
On Sunday, the trio announced the exciting news that the HBO sitcom, which ran for six seasons from 1998 to 2004, would be making a comeback by sharing a short video clip to social media. Cattrall noticeably did not post which led fans to speculate what happened.
On Parker’s Instagram post one fan alleged, “They dislike each other,” to which Parker commented, “No. I don’t dislike her. I’ve never said that. Never would. Samantha isn’t part of this story,” she wrote. “But she will always be part of us. No matter where we are or what we do.”
The ten-episode, half-hour series And Just Like That is scheduled to begin production in New York in late spring, HBO Max says.
(RICHMOND, Va.) — Virginia state lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday that would abolish the state’s death penalty.
Virginia House of Delegates member Mike Mullin and state Sen. Scott Surovell introduced bills to their respective houses that would abolish the death penalty and convert existing capital sentences to sentences of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Mullin said in a statement that the use of capital punishment “is flawed with wrongful convictions, inadequate representation, geographic disparity, and racial bias.”
“It is not a crime deterrent, but instead perpetuates a culture of violence that does not belong in the Commonwealth,” he said in a statement.
As of October 2020, Virginia had executed 113 people since 1973, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit that tracks death row inmates. Only Texas has had more executions during that period, with 570, according to the DPIC.
Eleven out of the 14 executions carried out by the federal government up to October 2020 have taken place in the last two years, the DPIC said. At least four other federal executions have taken place since October, including the first woman executed since 1953.
Virginia prisoners on death row are executed by lethal injection, however, the prisoner can choose electrocution, according to state law.
Virginia hasn’t executed anyone since 2017 and most Virginia counties haven’t had an execution in 50 years, according to data from the DPIC. There are currently two people on death row in the state, the DPIC said.
The House of Delegates and state Senate bills are each likely to have strong support after gaining a Democratic majority last year. The legislature has pushed progressive bills forward since Democrats took control.
House Delegate Minority Leader Todd Gilbert did not immediately respond to a request from ABC News for comment. However, at least one Republican state senator, Bill Stanley, told The Associated Press in December he would support a new bill.
Gov. Ralph Northam said he supports the bill and will sign it if passed in the state legislature.
“I’m committed to abolishing the death penalty in Virginia,” he said in a statement.
Robert Dunham, the executive director of the DPIC, told ABC News a death penalty abolishment would be a significant move, as most of the country’s executions take place in Deep South states.
“There hasn’t been [a state] execution west of Texas in more than five years. There has been a national erosion,” Dunham told ABC News. “The last area so far that has evaded that erosion is the South.”
Dunham credited the changing public opinion and election of progressive prosecutors and leaders for the change in Virginia. The state hasn’t issued a death sentence in five years, he said.
“It’s become a less partisan issue and people have been able to reach across the aisle to bring reform,” he said. “We now have a situation where eliminating the death penalty can be a vehicle of healing. Now is the time for that.”
Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia have abolished the death penalty, according to the DPIC. Three others — California, Oregon and Pennsylvania — have issued a moratorium on capital punishment.
Williams captioned the shot, “turn, back, reach, head, follow through.”
The post was flooded with comments from Williams’ supporters mentioning how her little one is destined for greatness. Billie Jean King wrote, “Look out, world! Keep going for it!”
The official Australian Open account added, “AO 2017 champions back at it again,” referencing when Williams won the tournament that year while pregnant.
Serena’s victory over her sister, Venus Williams, at the Australian Open in 2017 gave her a 23rd grand slam singles title — one shy of tying Margaret Court’s all-time record.
The tennis star often shares snaps of fun moments with her daughter, Olympia. The young girl appears to love tennis as much as her mother.
During a recent interview with “Good Morning America,” she said that Olympia is “always so happy.”
“You can learn this from kids, it’s like they don’t have a care,” she said. “Sometimes we put too much emphasis on things and on stuff that we really just have to rely on us and just being happy.”
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