During Thursday"s episode of "The View," hostRaven-Symon announced she will leave theABCdaytime talker later this year to develop a Disney Channel spinoff of her onetime popular series Thats So Raven.
The 30-year-old actress will relocate to Los Angeles to develop the untitled sitcom. She will be an executive producer and reprise her role as Raven Baxter in the offshoot of her hit comedy.
The original series, which ran from 2003 to 2007, told the story of a teen whose ability to glimpse flashes of the future provided for amusing situations. In the pilot for the spinoff, viewers catch up with Raven, who is now a divorced mother to two preteen kids, one of whom has inherited her psychic powers.
Kealia Ohai Vs Portland Thorns FC // NWSL ⊕ 2016 By Graham Hays | Oct 18, 2016espnW.com
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Kealia Ohai is hoping to turn a call-up cameo with the U.S. women"s national team into a recurring role en route to the 2019 World Cup.
HOUSTON -- If limitations set the terms of living for Kealia Ohai, she wouldn"t be in her home state of Utah this week wearing a United States women"s national team uniform.
Nearly blind in her right eye since childhood, she would be among the countless many left to wonder if they might have succeeded if not for some obstacle that proved impassable. Instead, the 24-year-old is among a very few, one of the new faces on the U.S. roster for a pair of games against Switzerland.
The limitations of her vision never obscured the limitlessness of what she envisioned possible.
Those are the terms she set. So if there are people who wonder if Ohai scores enough goals or if her skills are enough to reach the international level, fair enough. Such questions are reasonable.
h**l, even the coach who named her to this roster did so with a cautious endorsement.
It"s just that Ohai wouldn"t be here if she looked at the world that way.
"I can feel they didn"t think I would ever get called in, or it"s probably not going to happen for me," Ohai said of well-meaning observers, let alone the outright skeptics. "That [the window of opportunity] has passed. But it has never really bothered me. I knew from my whole career that I would get a chance with the national team if I just kept going.
"Now it"s up to me to make the team."
Ohai was a prized recruit for the University of North Carolina, one of the most prolific dynasties in college sports. She not only won an NCAA title with the Tar Heels, but did so in the same year in which she scored the winning goal for the United States in the 2012 FIFA Under-20 World Cup. She was the second pick in the 2014 NWSL draft, the first ever by the expansion Houston Dash.
Yet that rapid ascent made it all the more noticeable when the momentum appeared to halt the past few years.
The Dash played 64 games in their first three seasons and won just 17. While far from an abject organizational failure, mediocrity is mediocrity even when it is also the normal growing pain of expansion. It cast a long shadow Ohai couldn"t escape with modest numbers: eight goals and six assists in 42 appearances during the first two of those seasons.
Morgan Brian and Julie Johnston, Ohai"s teammates on that U.S. U-20 team, were starters on the senior team that won a World Cup three years later. Crystal Dunn, who set up Ohai"s goal in the U-20 final, missed out on the 2015 glory but answered that omission with an MVP season in the NWSL and a place on the U.S. Olympic roster (as did U-20 alum Samantha Mewis).
Yet each time a training camp neared for the senior team in recent years, Ohai waited for the phone call that would signal her inclusion. That call didn"t come.
"She would get really, really down about it," said Megan Cushing, Ohai"s older sister who also lives in Houston and won an NCAA championship as a player at Southern California. "We just felt like when is this going to come? But the coolest part about all of it is now I feel like she"s at a point where she"s really ready for it. It could have happened earlier and she might not have been ready. And sometimes if you get called in and don"t perform, that was your one shot. Now I feel like she is really at a point in her career where she is peaking."
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In this past NWSL season, Kealia Ohai tied for the league lead with 11 goals and added four assists. Ohai and the U.S. women play Switzerland at 9 p.m. ET Wednesday (ESPN2).
In the 2016 NWSL season, Ohai tied for the league lead with 11 goals and added four assists, playing a direct role in almost half of the total goals accumulated by a team that for the first time didn"t concede more than it allowed in a season. Statistical production has often been the crux of the debate about Ohai, at least since scoring more than 120 goals in high school. She scored 40 in 86 games at UNC, tied for 19th in program history. She scored twice while averaging more than 80 minutes per game in the 2012 U-20 World Cup.
While the NWSL goals this season were evidence of her development, they were also the bells and whistles necessary to get people to notice the talent.
"If you want to play or if you want someone to notice you or you want to get called in, you have to score goals," Ohai said. "Whereas for a defensive player, there"s not really a benchmark. It"s very based on whether they think you"re good or not.
"It is difficult when you"re not scoring and you"re playing great. But at the same time, it provides something, kind of a standard where you score all these goals and you deserve a chance."
It could have happened earlier and she might not have been ready. ... Now I feel like she is really at a point in her career where she is peaking.
Megan Cushing on sister Kealia Ohai getting called into USWNT camp
Indeed, it was enough to earn a fresh look from U.S. coach Jill Ellis, by her own admission less than wowed when Ohai, at the time with the U-23 team, trained with the senior team in 2014.
"I saw her in there and she didn"t perform very well," Ellis said. "So I kind of had an early look at her and I think the message was, "You"ve got to stand out in [the NWSL] environment." ... I think she has completely benefitted from having the league, having these opportunities to go against good players and prove her worth. She"s very deserving of a look."
While Ohai acknowledges the lack of vision in her right eye has on-field ramifications -- it is difficult to track a ball over that shoulder and the diminished depth perception affects the precision of her finishing -- it is also almost an afterthought. Friends sometimes tease her for squinting. She gets headaches in settings that strain her eyes, like long travel days or watching a game from afar in a stadium. But she insists it wasn"t fear, conscious or otherwise in hindsight, that kept her from talking publicly about her vision until an interview with the student paper late in her time at North Carolina.
Limitations just weren"t something she thought much about.
"My depth perception is pretty off," Ohai said. "A lot of people would say they don"t like to drive with me at nighttime because at night it"s pretty bad. But it"s nothing like I"m tripping over things. I think because I was so young when it happened, I kind of figured out how to live with it."
Therein lies the difference between an experience that shaped her rather than defined her.
No more when kids teased her in elementary school about the patch she had to wear over her good eye than when the phone didn"t ring the past few years.
Let others talk about what you can"t do. Let them worry about limits.
"She knows that she is special and she"s been blessed," Cushing said. "So we just kind of roll with it."
Cleveland Cavaliers Championship Ring Presentation Ceremony | October 25, 2016 | 2016-17 NBA Season
The Cleveland Cavaliers " rotation has changed more than you probably would think since winning the NBA title last summer. Yes, LeBron James , Kyrie Irving , Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson are locked in, James Jones is still a veteran presence and Richard Jefferson is still Snapchatting away. But the bench unit went through an overhaul, with Matthew Dellavedova and Timofey Mozgov leaving in free agency and Mo Williams retiring.
There could be even more changes. The one player who has never quite fit is wing Iman Shumpert . He"s not nearly the shooter J.R. Smith is, and Smith has caught up to him on defensively. Shumpert"s still long, athletic and versatile, so he has value, which means he could be ripe for a deal if the Cavaliers want to address another roster need, like backup point guard.
From Cleveland.com:
It is true, a few teams such as the Minnesota Timberwolves have inquired about Iman Shumpert, who has three years and $30 million left on his contract at age 26. The Cavs are answering the phone, as ESPN"s Zach Lowe reported. But they are not actively looking to deal him, a team source told cleveland.com.
Source: Are the Cavs interested in Ricky Rubio? Hey, Joe! | cleveland.com.
The Cavs shouldn"t be "actively" looking to deal anyone. Coming off that championship, they looked terrific on opening night vs. the New York Knicks . There"s zero reason to think that barring injury, if they just keep this roster intact, they won"t return to the Finals.
Iman Shumpert is available but not being shopped, reportedly. USATSI
However, teams are always looking to stay a step ahead, and the Cavaliers have exemplified that idea. It"s why they went out and got Channing Frye last trade deadline, who helped them immensely in the playoffs.
While Shumpert has value, a team would have to be pretty desperate to want to go get him. The Cavaliers gave up a first-round pick for him, along with Smith. Ironically, Smith was the "throw-in" but has been invaluable while Shumpert has struggled with fit and injury. Still, he did start for the team often over the past two seasons and if he hangs around, that"s not a bad thing. If the Cavs deal Shumpert, it"ll be because they see a ripe opportunity or because of injury.
CHICAGO Nervous time showed up late to the Wrigleyville party Friday night. It arrived unexpectedly and under the cover of darkness.
All day, starting at daybreak, the denizens of Chicago Cubs baseball poured into this neighborhood with great expectations. They were drinking beer at 5 a.m. They crowded the streets. They sang. They chanted.
For those who didnt have a ticket to the game, bars were charging upwards of $200 cover charges to come in and watch on television. In the two hours leading up to first pitch, other bars and restaurants were charging $20 to $25 just for the privilege of entering the establishment to buy a drink, or dinner.
One person flew in from Asia without a ticket simply to be in Chicago to soak in the atmosphere. Another flew in from Belfast, Ireland. And those are two we know of without canvassing the block.
For those who did have a ticket to the game, the Wrigley Field gates, scheduled to open at 5 p.m., were opened some 40 minutes early, simply to relieve congestion on the streets.
Then, with the wind blowing out and conditions perfect for one of those high-scoring slugfests that Wrigley is famous for, Clevelands Josh Tomlin and the Cubs Kyle Hendricks went to work. And in the seventh inning, a man with a breakfast-cereal name took a one-out hack that had the same effect as clicking mute on your television remote control.
Yes, nervous time showed up well before Coco Crisp swung and Clevelands ace bullpen delivered the gutsy 1-0 victory that catapulted the Indians to a two-games-to-one World Series lead with ace Corey Kluber ready to start Game 4 on short rest Saturday night.
Though Hendricks did a nice job of moving the ball around and avoiding damage, the Indians put nearly as much traffic on the bases as there was outside on Clark and Addison Streets. In each of the first five innings, Cleveland put at least one runner on base.
Then Crisp broke the ice, and down to their final nine outs at that point, Wrigley Field seemed to sway and writhe with each at-bat.
It should have been doable for Chicago. Cleveland manager Terry Francona went with relief ace Andrew Miller early, in the fifth, and Crisps hero moment came as he was pinch-hitting for Miller.
So Miller was gone for those final nine outs. But setup man Bryan Shaw and closer Cody Allen, as they were against Boston and Toronto, were enough.
I knew during batting practice we just needed to get our hits, said Ben Zobrist, one of the few Cubs who has been doing that with consistency this postseason. Sometimes when you see the wind blowing out, you try to do too much.
I didnt see one particular guy doing it, but when you see the wind blowing out before a game, you start licking your chops more than you should. Hopefully that wasnt the case tonight.
Wrigleyville was licking its chops all day.
The Cubs? This was the fourth time this postseason theyve been shut out.
Remember last year when they ran into the buzzsaw that was the New York Mets" pitching? That was no small part of the reason for this years remodel, signing Zobrist and Jason Heyward.
Yet, the Cubs now become the first team since the 1905 Philadelphia Athletics to suffer four shutouts in a single postseason.
Ironic, isnt it, that you have to go all the way back before the Cubs last World Series title in 1908 for that?
It was our first time seeing [Tomlin], but hes a fly-ball pitcher and the wind was blowing out, Anthony Rizzo said. Its crazy how we dont hit a fly ball.
Tomlin is a nice pitcher who works the outer edges of the strike zone and is baffling when hes on. He also surrendered 36 home runs this summer, third-most in the major leagues.
And zilch from the Cubs.
Now, here comes Kluber, which is why Friday nights loss could become dangerously pivotal for the Cubs. They didnt even dent him in Game 1 in Cleveland. If they dont figure something out, theyre in real danger of falling behind three games to one.
I know its hard to come back from 2-1, Chicago catcher Miguel Montero said. But weve been there before and come back.
I know its different in the World Series, but it shouldnt be different because weve got a good team.
The Cubs are hanging their blue caps on the fact that since they just saw Kluber, h**l be easier to hit this time. As far as Zobrist is concerned, Were going to have to beat Kluber, anyway if the Cubs are to win the World Series.
So why not Saturday?
We know what to expect now, outfielder Jason Heyward said. Just try to keep it simple. Not do too much. Youve got to take what he gives you. Hes probably not going to give you a lot.
But, the Cubs figured out Clayton Kershaw with repeated viewings. So...
Hes on three days" rest, Rizzo said. Just throwing it out there, he isnt going to be as sharp as he was in the first game.
Rizzo paused, then wryly added, Even if he is, Im going to convince myself that hes not.
It isnt just Kluber. The Indians now are 23-0 this season in games in which Miller and Cody Allen both pitch.
And while the Cubs have been shut out four times this postseason, Clevelands pitching has been off the charts: The Indians have racked up five shutouts against Boston, Toronto and now Chicago.
Maybe the Cubs could have avoided this one, maybe, had Jorge Soler run hard out of the box in the seventh inning when he skied a ball down the right-field line that Lonnie Chisenhall couldnt catch against the wall. Thinking it was a fly out at first, Soler jogged partway down the first-base line. When the ball ricocheted away from Chisenhall, Soler turned on the afterburners and wound up with a standup triple.
Zobrist didnt think Soler could have made it all the way around to score.
No, he said. Chisenhall got back to it quick enough that [Soler] wouldnt have been able to make it even if he was sprinting out of the box.
Even explaining it that way, you wonder how in the world any player can Cadillac it partway down the line in a World Series game. It was bad form, especially in such a close, tense game.
As it is, the Cubs margin for error is getting smaller by the day. On a historic night in Wrigleyville, it wasnt the way things were supposed to turn out.
Scott Miller covers Major League Baseball as a national columnist for Bleacher Report.
Montgomery County police are searching for a 25-year-old Bethesda man who hasn"t been heard from in two days.
Daniel McNeil Hogan was last seen at his Westridge Road home at 6 p.m. Monday, but a friend spoke with him by text message early Wednesday morning.
Police say his family is concerned for his emotional and physical welfare.
Hogan is 5 feet 7 inches tall and weighs 158 pounds. He has brown hair, green eyes and may be driving a black, 2005 Infiniti G35 with Maryland tags 7CK4081.
Anyone with information that can help police is asked to call 301-279-8000.
Twitter Announces Plan to Shut Down Vine Updated Oct. 27, 2016 11:13 p.m. ET
Just six months ago, Twitter Inc. called the looping-video app Vine one of its foundational acquisitions. On Thursday, the social-media company said it was shutting it down.
Vines demise shows how difficult it is for an internet sensation to have staying power and turn a profit.
The app rocketed to the top of the rankings in Apples app store in early 2013 within weeks of its debut, resonating with young people who were drawn to the short, snappy format. The best of the sites six-second looping videos helped popularize new cultural memes such as d**n Daniel and on fleek.
Vine quickly carved a path to fame for a group of artists and creators, some of whom have gone on to launch larger careers as digital influencers. They include King Bach, also known as Andrew Bachelor, who recently signed on for a sitcom in development by 21st Century Fox Inc. Others used their Vine popularity to land product placement and branded content deals.
But Twitter was never able to fully capitalize on Vines popularity, and over time the site lost out to competitors like Snap Inc.s Snapchat, Facebook Inc., Instagram and Alphabet Inc.s YouTube, The Wall Street Journal reported in May.
Many top Viners, marketers and ad buyers abandoned the site, frustrated that it never implemented a sustainable advertising model. Dominant creators, such as Viral Nation clients Joey Purpdrank and Max Jr., shifted to making longer videos for YouTube, Facebook and other platforms that drew larger audiences and a chance to make money through advertising. The app was recently ranked 284 among free U.S. apps in the App Store, according to data tracker App Annie.
If Vine was housed inside a company that was growing at 30% a yearit would have survived, said Scott Galloway, founder of consumer-brand research firm L2 Inc. and a marketing professor at New York University. For Twitter, not growing its user base, a part-time CEO and disgruntled investorsall of that adds up to forced focus.
A Twitter spokesman wasnt immediately available for comment. Twitter announced the news on Thursday separate from its third-quarter earnings report, which included shrinking revenue growth and job cuts.
Vines co-founders instantly expressed remorse on Thursday. Dont sell your company! co-founder Rus Yusupov wrote on Twitter. Another co-founder, Dom Hofmann, wrote: busting out the bourbon. Mr. Yusupov left Twitter last year as part of a wave of layoffs. Mr. Hofmann left earlier.
Some users took to Vine to spin the grim news into gags, with lip-sync tributes and comedic acts. There was also some resentment among users who built large followings, directing their anger at Twitter for failing to capitalize on Vines former zeitgeist status.
Vine messed upthey let their top creators leave the app, said Jason Nash, a comedian who got his start on Vine three years ago and has 2.7 million followers on the site. Still, Mr. Nash said he was grateful to Vine, which inspired him to create independent film FML about two social media celebrities trying to drum up more followers. Weird how fast technology changes, Mr. Nash said Thursday. I guess I have my sequel.
You dont have to tell me that director Ron Howards sinfully entertaining screen adaptations of author Dan Browns Robert Langdon pulpy novels are not exactly bait for critical adoration. It seems the first two,The Da Vinci Code andAngels & Demons,were used as target practice by some of my colleagues, and I have no doubt the latest chapter,Inferno which Sony Pictures releases today will also have its detractors. But as I say in my video review above,these movies are comfort food on the highest order and the latest is also perhaps the greatest in terms of viewer satisfaction.
Tom Hanks, star of all three, has settled nicely into his role as Professor Robert Langdon, the art history expert and cryptologist who constantly finds himself in Italy battling evil forces out to threaten the world in one way or another. This usually results in a movie, like the Jason Bourne series, in which our hero would be well-suited to train as an Olympic-class runner before getting on aplane to Rome. It is no different this time as Langdon and his latest obligatory female cohort (Felicity Jones) are being chased all over Italy and other locales by baddies, and even some goodies, who have their own agenda.
The film opens with a billionaire environmental zealot Bertrand Zobrist (Ben Foster) being pursued by an agent (Omar Sy) before he jumps to his death out of a tower in Florence. Cut to a hospital where a battered and bloodied Langdon is recovering from an attack he has no memory of except brief flashes of apocalyptic images such as red waves of water gushing toward him. He is befriended by pretty physician Sienna Brooks (Jones) who helps him escape when the hospital becomes a crime zone and another doctor is gunned down. This starts a series of chases by every means imaginable, including through the canals of Venice, where clues based on Dantes chilling poem Inferno lead them down some blind alleys before the revelation that Zobrist, in an effort to curb the worlds overpopulation, had planted a deadly virus designed to kill off most of the human race. In 24 hours everyone could be dead unless Langdon can cut to the chase, as it were, and figure out who is going to set off this catastrophic event, andwhere.
With his short-term memory loss coming back into Hitchcock-like focus, Langdon also comes upon others who are mysteriously into all of this including Harry Sims (Irrfan Khan), who works for a private security consortium; and the World Health Organizations Elizabeth Sinskey (Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen), who also happens to be an old flame of Langdons. As clues are revealed through Dantes writings and several works of art, there are plenty of twists and turns to keep us on the edge of our seats.
No one should plan on getting the tux out for the Oscars for this one, but what is wrong with some good old fashioned fun and a gorgeous swing through beautiful European locations? On top of that, the supporting cast is world-class with a group of terrific international stars like Khan, Knudsen and Sy lifting the material. Foster makes an effective villain, and Jones, who was Oscar nominated forThe Theory Of Everything,proves she can be just as fetching in major studio popcorn stuff. David Koepp cherry-picked the best stuff out of Browns book for his screenplay, even if liberties taken might disappoint some avid readers. Bottom line is it all works on screen.
As usual Brian Grazer produced with Howard for their company, Imagine. Do you plan on seeingInferno?Let us know what you think.
