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In Sunday night special, MTV honors the "Greatest of All Time" in movies and TV

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MTV(NEW YORK) — (NOTE LANGUAGE) In a 90-minute special Sunday night, MTV crowned the GOATs in its special MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time.

Vanessa Hudgens hosted the special, which used video interviews and remotely recorded musical performances and celebrity presenters to maintain social distancing protocols. 

With a heartfelt video tribute from his former fellow Avengers Robert Downey Jr. and Don Cheadle, Chadwick Boseman was honored with the Hero for the Ages award. Downey said the “selfless” Boseman, who died of cancer in August, “truly embodied what it meant to be a superhero,” and that his life and work “will be celebrated for years to come…” Downey added that his former co-star “was most heroic when he was just being Chad.”

“He had an incredible power to unify people,” Cheadle said of Boseman.  “[T]he way he lived his life united people behind a higher purpose, and that will be his legacy.

The show also named the GOATs in various other categories, including movies and TV shows from the ’80s to today:

GOAT — Dance Your A** Off – Kevin Bacon – Footloose
GOAT — Comedy Giant – Kevin Hart
GOAT — Scream Queen – Jamie Lee Curtis – Halloween
GOAT — Heartbreaking Break-Up – Jason Segel and Kristen Bell – Forgetting Sarah Marshall
GOAT — Legendary Lip Lock – Sarah Michelle Gellar & Selma Blair – Cruel Intentions
GOAT — Hero For the Ages – Chadwick Boseman
GOAT — Zero to Hero – William Zabka – The Karate Kid and Cobra Kai
GOAT — Dynamic Duo – Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore – 50 First Dates, others
GOAT — She-Ro – Gal Gadot – Wonder Woman

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By Stephen Iervolino
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Scoreboard roundup — 12/6/20

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iStockBy ABC News

(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Cleveland 41, Tennessee 35
Detroit 34, Chicago 30
Indianapolis 26, Houston 20
Las Vegas 31, NY Jets 28
Miami 19, Cincinnati 7
Minnesota 27, Jacksonville 24 (OT)
New Orleans 21, Atlanta 16
LA Rams 38, Arizona 28
NY Giants 17, Seattle 12
Green Bay 30, Philadelphia 16
New England 45, LA Chargers 0
Kansas City 22, Denver 16

TOP-25 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Southern Cal 38, Washington St. 13

TOP-25 COLLEGE BASKETBALL
West Virginia 80, Georgetown 71
Villanova 68, Texas 64
Texas Tech 81, Grambling St. 40
Georgia Tech 79, Kentucky 62
Michigan St. 79, W. Michigan 61
Elon at Duke (Postponed)

MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Columbus 1, New England 0

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'SNL' spoofs Rudy Giuliani and his witnesses Michigan hearing

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Will Heath/NBC(NEW YORK) — Kate McKinnon returned as President Donald Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani and Cecily Strong played his key witness Melissa Carone in Saturday Night Live‘s cold open, which parodied the recent Michigan hearings that debated allegations of election fraud.

McKinnon’s frequently flatulent Giuliani opened the sketch by declaring that he’d brought before the panel “A dozen highly intelligent, barely intoxicated individuals” who were eyewitnesses to the alleged fraud.

The first was Strong, playing key witness Carone, whose rambling testimony has since gone viral.

“I personally saw hundreds if not thousands of dead people vote,” said Strong’s Carone, attempting to prove her credibility by insisting that she “signed an after David.”

“David signed, and I signed right after David.” she explained.

Next up was SNL‘s Heidi Gardner as a witness who claimed she “ate ballots.”

The bizarre parade of witnesses continued with Alex Moffet, who claimed he was abducted by aliens filling out absentee ballots, all for President-elect Joe Biden, and Chloe Fineman as Nicole Kidman’s character from The Undoing.  Beck Bennett also showed up as My Pillow inventor Mike Lindell, whose only purpose was seemingly to hawk his product.

Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney also appeared in the bit as the men who were caught plotting to kidnap the governor of Michigan.

McKinnon’s Giuliani closed by vowing that he “will never rest…until this election is overturned, or I get a full pardon and $10 million in cash.”

Ozark star Jason Bateman hosted the episode, with musical guest Morgan Wallen, who was originally scheduled for the this season’s second episode, but replaced by Jack White after Wallen broke SNL‘s COVID-19 safety protocols.

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By George Costantino
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Runaway June go all out for the holidays with their “insta-classic” original, “Christmas on the Radio”

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Ford FairchildThe first track on Runaway June’s new holiday EP, When I Think About Christmas, is the exuberant original number, “Christmas on the Radio.”

While the country trio may not have written that song — Sam Hollander and Martin Johnson did the honors — band mate Naomi Cooke says that as soon as the three singers heard “Christmas on the Radio,” they knew they wanted to record it.

“It just felt like ‘All I Want for Christmas is You.’ It felt like an insta-classic,” Naomi tells ABC Audio. “And I’d never quite heard a Christmas song like this either. First of all, to have that come across our desk was really special. So we just immediately put it on hold.”

They felt especially lucky to be able to record the song, Naomi continues, because of the pop idols who were initially considering cutting it.

“It’s funny, because that song was originally for Kelly Clarkson and Adam Levine,” the singer reveals.

But when they got into the studio, Runaway June dialed down some of the pop elements of “Christmas on the Radio” and dialed up the pure, unadulterated holiday cheer.

“It was a lot more poppy, but now it’s got this, like, ‘Turn on the tunes! Turn on the Christmas stuff’,” Naomi continues. “We want to hear it. We want to get in the mood. It’s just really fun.”

The six-song When I Think About Christmas EP, released in October, includes a handful of classics, as well as an original title track co-penned by the band’s Jennifer Wayne.

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By Carena Liptak and Stephen Hubbard
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Nor'easter brings over a foot of snow to parts of New England

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ABC NewsBY: DANIEL MANZO, ABC NEWS

(NEW YORK) — A nor’easter brought heavy rain, strong winds and snow to parts of New England on Saturday.

The impacts from the storm caused hundreds of thousands of power outages and accidents across the region.

A wide swath of heavy snow was reported in parts of eastern New England from the storm with many locations from eastern Connecticut to Maine seeing 8 to 10 inches of snow.

Some of the more extreme snowfall totals include, locally, over a foot of snow in Worcester County, Massachusetts, and 10 inches of snow Union, Connecticut.

Wind gusts across the region were peaking at 40 to 50 mph but along the coast line the gusts where even higher, especially around Cape Cod where winds gusted up to 68 mph.

Precipitation fell mainly as rain from Delaware to New York City with widespread rain totals of 1 to 2 inches.

Attention now turns to the new critical fire threat that is on the way to Southern California on Monday and Tuesday.

Winds on both days could reach locally 70 mph in the mountains in southern California where low relative humidity is expected.

This combination could lead to rapid fire spread and there are critical fire conditions expected both days.

Meanwhile in the rest of the country, there will be a brief break in truly widespread impactful weather.

A few different systems will rapidly move through the southeast in the next 30 hours with the most noteworthy impact being some strong to severe storms across parts of Florida late Sunday into Monday.

There could be some snow showers across parts of the Central Appalachians and into parts of Virginia early Monday morning as well.

Accumulations are expected to be light as these systems race off into the open Atlantic Ocean.

In the Central U.S., a notable mild trend is occurring with temperatures expected to run about 10 to 15 degrees above average in the next few days.

Denver and Cheyenne are both expected to see temperatures into the 50s for the beginning of this week.

Minneapolis and Chicago will be making a run at the upper 40s by Tuesday and Wednesday.

The next widespread weather event looks possible by the second half of the upcoming week when, perhaps, ingredients for a large storm will come together over parts of the central U.S. tracking eastward by next weekend.

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