(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE Cincinnati 7, Chi White Sox 3 Milwaukee 5, Kansas City 3 Houston 3, Arizona 2 Toronto 6, Philadelphia 3 San Francisco 14, Oakland 2 San Diego 7, Seattle 4 Minnesota 4, Chi Cubs 0 AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 2, Tampa Bay 1 Cleveland 7, Detroit 4 Boston 10, NY Yankees 2 Texas 7, LA Angels 2
NATIONAL LEAGUE Miami 2, Washington 1 Washington 15, Miami 0 Atlanta 7, NY Mets 0 Colorado 6, LA Dodgers 3 St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1
NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS LA Lakers 105, Denver 103 (LA leads 2-0) NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE Tennessee 33, Jacksonville 30 Chicago 17, NY Giants 13 Green Bay 42, Detroit 21 Tampa Bay 31, Carolina 17 Buffalo 31, Miami 28 San Francisco 31, NY Jets 13 LA Rams 37, Philadelphia 19 Dallas 40, Atlanta 39 Pittsburgh 26, Denver 21 Indianapolis 28, Minnesota 11 Arizona 30, Washington 15 Baltimore 33, Houston 16 Kansas City 23, LA Chargers 20 (OT) Seattle 35, New England 30
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS Connecticut 87, Las Vegas 62 Minnesota at Seattle (Postponed)
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER Philadelphia 4, Montreal 1 Seattle at FC Dallas (Canceled) D.C. United at Los Angeles FC (Canceled)
ABC/Image Group LA These are sweet days in the life of Russell Dickerson: he and his wife Kailey welcomed their first child — a son they named Remington Edward — on September 10, as Russell’s hit, “Love You Like I Used To,” nears the top ten.
Like so many of his songs, it was inspired by his bride.
“She’s an absolute angel,” Russell tells ABC Audio. “Yeah, this song was written probably five years into our marriage, where “Yours” was written like six months into our marriage.”
“And so we’ve grown, we’ve, you know, experienced a little life together,” he smiles.
In fact, Russell sees the lead single from his forthcoming sophomore album as an update on his breakthrough hit.
“It’s basically ‘Yours,’ part two,” he explains. “Like, I still love you just as much, but every single kiss, every single day, it gets better and better and better.”
In fact, Russell loves his wife and son so much, Kailey recently shared she’s “so spoiled by” her husband, she “didn’t change a single diaper the first week of Rem’s life.”
Earlier this month, Russell tweeted that his second album is finished. Stay tuned to find out when it’ll be released.
Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Like everything else in 2020, the Emmy Awards was like no other year.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jimmy Kimmel hosted to an empty audience at the Staples Center in Los Angeles while nominees watched from home.
The Emmys started off with a bang with an unprecedented sweep by Schitt’s Creek. The show, which ended its six-season run this year, made history by becoming the first comedy series to sweep all the major comedy categories.
And the Emmys made history again when, toward the end of the show, 24-year-old Zendaya became the youngest person to win outstanding actress in a drama series for her role in Euphoria.
In between those historical moments, many stars took a moment to use their platform to deliver impassioned messages to viewers.
Among those was Mark Ruffalo, who gave a powerful speech during his win for outstanding lead actor in a limited series or movie, urging viewers to fight for diversity and get out and vote.
“If you have privilege, you have to fight for those who are less fortunate and more vulnerable. And that’s what’s great about America — our diversity,” he said.
Regina King, who won for lead actress in a limited series or movie and wore a shirt honoring slain Black woman Breonna Taylor, ended her speech with a similar message.
“Have a voting plan,”she said. “Go to Ballotpedia.com, vote up the ballot.”
Anthony Anderson, who was nominated for lead actor in Black-ish, appeared in-person from the Staples Center and told Kimmel, “I’m still rooting for everybody Black because Black stories, Black performances and Black lives matter.”
He then led the Emmys host in a chant of “Black lives matter,” telling him to say it loud enough so Vice President “Mike Pence can hear it.”
Jennifer Aniston, up for lead actress in a drama for The Morning Show, had some old Friends over on her big night — her Friends co-stars Courteney Cox and Lisa Kudrow. Cox and Aniston joked about being roommates since 1994.
And, movie and TV mogul Tyler Perry, the recipient of this year’s Governors Award, accepted his Emmy with a story-turned-metaphor about a homemade quilt his grandmother once gave him.
Perry later saw a similar quilt in an antique store. The salesman told him the quilt was made by a former slave who added each patch of the quilt to represent a part of her life. Perry said the story made him so “embarrassed” that he had initially brushed off the significance of his grandmother’s gift.
“Here I was a person who prides myself on celebrating our heritage, our culture, and I didn’t even recognize the value in my grandmother’s quilt,” Perry said. “I dismissed her work and her story because it didn’t look like what I thought it should.”
“We are all sewing our own quilts with our thoughts, our behavior, our experiences and our memories,” he said.
Perry noted how he now owns land that once was a Confederate Army base. Now, “on that very land, Black people, white people, gay, straight, lesbian, transgender, ex-cons, Latin, Asian, all of us come together working,” he said, “to add patches to a quilt that is as diverse as it can be.”
You can find the complete list of winners at Emmys.com.
ABC/Image Group LA(LOS ANGELES) — Here’s the complete list of winners from the 72nd Primetime Emmy Awards, hosted live byJimmy Kimmelfrom the Staples Center in Los Angeles, as nominees appeared virtually from their homes:
Lead actress in a comedy series Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Lead actor in a comedy series Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Writing for a comedy series Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Directing for a comedy series Andrew Cividino and Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Supporting actor in a comedy series Daniel Levy, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Supporting actress in a comedy series Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Outstanding Comedy series Schitt’s Creek (Netflix)
Outstanding Variety talk series Last Week Tonight With John Oliver (HBO)
Lead actress in a limited series or movie Regina King, Watchmen (HBO)
Lead actor in limited series or movie Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True (HBO)
Writing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special Damon Lindelof and Cord Jefferson, Watchmen (HBO)
Directing for a limited series, movie or dramatic special Maria Schrader, Unorthodox (Netflix)
Supporting actor in limited series or movie Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Watchmen (HBO)
Supporting actress in limited series or movie Uzo Aduba, Mrs. America (FX)
Limited series Watchmen (HBO)
Competition program RuPaul’s Drag Race (VH1)
Lead actor in a drama series Jeremy Strong, Succession (HBO)
Lead actress in a drama series Zendaya, Euphoria (HBO)
Writing for a drama series Jesse Armstrong, Succession (HBO)
Directing for a drama series Andrij Parekh, Succession (HBO)
Supporting actor in a drama series Billy Crudup, The Morning Show (Apple TV+)
Supporting actress in a drama series Julia Garner, Ozark (Netflix)
(NEW YORK) — The United States experienced historic natural disasters last week, with unprecedented wildfires torching the West and the Atlantic hurricane season setting a record for the number of named storms at this point of the year.
Officials in California and the Pacific Northwest, as well as scientists, pointed to these natural disasters as hard evidence that climate change is a global threat and scientific reality impacting American communities.
Last Monday, President Trump pointed to forest mismanagement as one reason behind the fires and expressed skepticism about climate change at a press briefing after Wade Crawfoot, California’s state secretary for natural resources, said people need to follow the science.
“It’ll start getting cooler, you just watch,” said the President
“I wish science agreed with you,” Crawfoot replied.
“I don’t think science knows actually,” responded President Trump.
ABC meterologist Melissa Griffin tells ABC’s Perspective Podcast that the President is correct in saying that the weather will start getting cooler, but only because of the changing season’s.
“Winter will cool down and fire season 2020 comes to an end, and that’s it. But then what about fire season 2021? When it does cool down, we seem to forget that [the next] fire season will be around the corner again and what’s to say that the next fire season isn’t going to be worse? That’s the weather aspect, but when it comes to climate, nothing is cooling down. All of the scientific research, when it comes to our warming climate, just has these graphs going up,” said Griffin.
Climate change is warming the surface of the Earth at a faster rate then ever before and it is leading to fire friendly conditions, but how forests are managed also impacts fires.
Forest management, according to Griffin, is the administration of forests and it includes “the scientific and technical aspects of managing a forest” and it does play a role in wild fires.
“It’s pretty much forest regulation. For example, if you have a dead tree that falls in one of the forests out West forest management is the one that are in charge of removing it so it’s not a danger to anything else. And if it does fall and it is dead, it is going to dry up even rapidly. And that’s going to be an issue when it comes to these wildfires,” said Griffin.
She says the combination of forest management and climate change are leading to bigger fires.
“Management policies have created tinderboxes and that’s because they’re not removing these dead trees and dead brush fast enough in a forest. Climate change has only made it more likely that these tinder boxes, that forest management is creating, will explode into massive fires and they will spread, and grow faster and bigger than what we’ve ever seen before,” Griffin said.
Wildfires are not just burning in forests far from populated regions. They are also happening around cities like Los Angeles or San Francisco, which Griffin says is a sign that climate change, and not just forest management, is having an impact on fires.
“We’re talking about neighborhoods. We’re talking about building areas. It’s more populated regions and that does have to do with climate change. Anywhere can see these massive fires grow, especially out west. The entire world is warming at an alarming rate, but the Pacific Coast they’ve seen some of the most dramatic temperature increases,” said Griffin.
The worst case for scenario for Griffin is humans don’t do anything to stop or slow climate change.
“If we don’t do anything this just continues to exasperated itself each and every year. We keep seeing the climate, the global temperatures and the global ocean waters continue to rise. That is what we’re really trying to avoid here, because the more that happens, the more we’re going to see glaciers melting. We’re going to see things that we have never seen in our lifetime before. It’s almost a question mark. Who knows what’s going to happen if this continues,” said Griffin.
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