Prince Rocks Out during the Super Bowl XLI Halftime Show | NFL
Want to feel like you actually have something in common with Prince? He, like you, is a big fan of Steph Curry.
[Walt Frazier is the latest NBA legend to say hed defend Steph Curry better]
At a recent concert atOaklands Paramount Theatre, the musician/extraterrestrial said,What can you truly count on besides Steph Curry? And you can count on Steph Curry.
With Prince set to perform in Oakland again on Friday, this time at Oracle Arena, perhaps it should have been no surprise that he turned up at the venue a day early to check out the Warriors-Thunder game. Then again, its always a surprise to see Prince doing things that humans do.
Okay, most humans dont stroll onto an NBA court with a supermodel (in this case, Damaris Lewis) anda sparkly cane, but its close enough. Naturally, the crowd at Oracle Arena gave his Purpleness a standing ovation when he entered (also something most humans, even NBA players, dont experience).
Is that him in the bottom left of the Vine below, enjoying Curry putting a clown suit on Kevin Durant? The big hair says yes!
Of course, no discussion of Prince and basketball would be complete without a Chappelles Show reference or two.
Prince really does have game, enough to have played for his Minneapolis high school basketball team. Nice to see that the decades may have passed, but the fro remains.
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Kirby: Planet Robobot - Reveal Trailer (Nintendo Direct High Quality)
The demo for Nintendos upcoming sequel to Bravely Default , titled Bravely Second: End Layer, will be available on the 3DS eShop next week. Watch the video below for Bravely Seconds portion of the March 3 Nintendo Direct:
In their Bravely Second announcements, Nintendo released a few facts about the demo:
The demo releases in the Nintendo eShop on March 10. Playing the demo will provide in-game bonuses that can be transferred into the full version of Bravely Second on its April 15 release date.
The demo has its own story, surrounding the antics of three Cavaliers dispatched by Queen Agns to investigate a disturbance.
Members of Best Buy Gamers Club Unlocked will receive a special 16-digit code that allows them to access the Bravely Second: End Layer demo early. The early access date for the demo is March 7.
They also teased two classes new to Bravely Second: the Wizard, who customizes spells with added effects like hammer and mist and combines them with elemental or healing spells, and the Catmancer, who learns the moves of monsters you encounter and trains cats to perform them in exchange for treats.
Finally, Nintendo also announced that the Bravely Second: End Layer Collectors Edition is available for pre-order now and includes the game, its official artbook and its soundtracks. Nintendo will be releasing a video series on its YouTube channel in the weeks leading up to Bravely Seconds April 15 release date.
Golden State Warriors vs Orlando Magic - Full Game Highlights | Feb 25, 2016 | NBA 2015-16 Season
OAKLAND The question was whether the Golden State Warriors can become the first team to finish a regular season undefeated at home, but Draymond Green, being Draymond Green, breezed past possibility and went straight for bold certainty.
He didn"t wait to be asked for a prediction. Green is 230 pounds of kinetic energy, a force helping to reshape the pro game by occasionally playing center with great success at 6-foot-7, with a matching All-Star personality that slows for no man.
Can the Warriors go 41-0?
"I think so," he told NBA.com. "We"ve been phenomenal at home. We"ve protected our home court. I think it"s possible for us to do it."
Most home wins, single season in NBA history Team Season Wins Boston Celtics * 1985-86 40 Golden State Warriors * 2014-15 39 Cleveland Cavaliers 2008-09 39 Chicago Bulls * 1996-97 39 Chicago Bulls * 1995-96 39 Orlando Magic 1994-95 39 Boston Celtics 1986-87 39
And then, without prompting:
"I think we will."
He thinks they will go an entire regular season without losing at Oracle Arena.
"I do," Green said.
The Warriors love being in hot pursuit of history -- embracing the chase of the single-season record of 72 wins set by the 1995-96 Bulls, as Stephen Curry runs down amazing individual marks, amid the chance to tie Chicago with a 44th consecutive home victory, set over two seasons, when the Oklahoma City Thunder come to crackling Oracle Arena on Thursday (TNT, 10:30 p.m. ET). But this is going for perfection.
This is going for 41-0 when no team has done better than the 40-1 by the 1985-86 Celtics with five future Hall of Famers, losing only to the Portland Trail Blazers in December, and then going 10-0 in the playoffs at Boston Garden as part of cementing a place among the all-time great squads. Others also had one loss, but in the days before an 82-game schedule.
I think because we have 17 of the last 24 at home everybody"s looking at it like, "Ah, can they do that?" That"s a goal of ours, for sure.
--Warriors forward Draymond Green on the prospect of going 41-0 at home.
The Warriors of 2015-16 are 25-0 after escaping the Atlanta Hawks in overtime Tuesday with Curry and Andre Iguodala sitting with minor injuries. The best home start in franchise history, as part of a 54-5 mark and pace to win 75 games, has become a renewed focus with Golden State back home after a road-heavy February. The Warriors are one game into a closing schedule that features 17 of the final 24 contests at Oracle.
The interest in 41-0 will increase with the Warriors will barely leaving Northern California the next seven weeks, an aid to playoff preparations as the first round draws closer and the race continues with the San Antonio Spurs -- who are also undefeated at home (29-0) -- for No. 1 in the Western Conference. Interest in everything Golden State will be increasing, of course, but to have a chance at an undefeated Oracle slate is no longer far in the distance.
It"s in front of them all the time. And it"s possible.
"Sure," said coach Steve Kerr, a guard on the Chicago team that went 39-2 twice in a row as part of setting the record with 44 in a row. "It"s pretty hard to do. A lot of things have to go right. We"ve had a couple games this year that we probably should have lost at home. But it"s not anything we think about or talk about."
Maybe not the 44 consecutive, the mark the Warriors can tie against the Thunder. But Green said the shot at 41-0 has "absolutely" come up.
"I think because we have 17 of the last 24 at home," he said, "everybody"s looking at it like, "Ah, can they do that?" That"s a goal of ours, for sure."
Best single-season home win percentage, NBA history Team Season Record Win pct. Boston Celtics 1985-86 40-1 .976 Rochester Royals 1949-50 33-1 .971 Syracuse Nationals 1949-50 31-1 .969 Minneapolis Lakers 1949-50 30-1 .968 Washington Capitols 1946-47 29-1 .967
The Thunder, Magic, Jazz, Trail Blazers (twice), Suns, Pelicans, Knicks, Clippers, Mavericks, 76ers, Wizards, Celtics, Timberwolves, Spurs and Grizzlies stand between Golden State and regular-season home perfection. Sixteen games against 15 opponents with a combined .492 winning percentage entering Wednesday night.
"It would be crazy," guard Leandro Barbosa said. "It would be amazing. How tough it is to do that type of thing. I"ve been in the league for 13 years and this is my first time in that kind of situation. I"m very surprised (with) what we"re doing. But at the same time I"m very happy. We"re just letting go. We"re just playing the game and having fun."
The Warriors lost twice at home in the 2014-15 regular season, to the Bulls in overtime and to the Spurs, and twice more in the playoffs, to the Grizzlies in the Western Conference semifinals and the Cavaliers in The Finals. Golden State"s last Oracle defeat was June 7, 2015, nearly nine months ago, and the last in the regular season was to Chicago on Jan. 27, 2015.
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The war of words or at least the tussle of tweets between Kanye West and Deadmau5 shows no signs of abating.
In the latest online exchange of words between the rapper and DJ, West compared Deadmau5 to Mickey Mouse, while the dance musician hit back, saying West was trying to deflect the story away from accusations of piracy. Isnt it great that our popstars can be so grown up?
It all started when West posted a screenshot of him listening to Sufjan Stevenss latest album Carrie and Lowell on YouTube an image that also contained open windows to Pirate Bay, where he seemed to be in the process of illegally downloading music software. His excuse was that it was all a joke regarding the piracy of his own album The Life of Pablo, and besides, he would never stoop so low as to actually own a PC himself (Kanye only uses Macs, obvs). But Deadmau5 was unconvinced, calling him a d**k.
Never one to let things lie, West responded with a string of admittedly quite amusing tweets, inquiring into the practicality of Deadmau5s mouse head, questioning the pronunciation of his name, mocking his Tidal figures and asking if he would mind appearing as Minnie Mouse at his daughters birthday party.
Now the DJ producer is firing back, saying: Imma let you finish ... But you should probably be saving the money for a 4th grade education.
He added: I can out idiot an idiot. Its what I do.
When a user suggested that Kanyes insults were simply an attempt to deflect the conversation away from the illegal downloading allegations, Deadmau5 concurred, saying that all he was seeing was an attempt to derail it.
As to whether he will take up Kanyes offer to perform as Minnie Mouse at his daughters birthday party, we will keep you posted.
Bill Clinton Illegally Wanders Into Polling Station, Blocking Voters
Former President Bill Clinton campaigns for his wife, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, at the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus in downtown Fort Worth. (Andy Jacobsohn/The Dallas Morning News)
The people of Reddit are concerned the former leader of the free world violated election rules in Massachusetts on Tuesday.
Former President Bill Clinton made several stops at polling stations in the state, including in New Bedford and the West Roxbury neighborhood of Boston. He spoke with workers, bought a cup of coffee and posed for photos, according to press pool reports.
Sera Congi, of WCVB-TV (ABC-5) in Needham, Mass., tweeted this video of Clinton shaking hands with election workers at the Holy Name Parish Schools gymnasium in West Roxbury. He was accompanied by Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh.
Thats when the trouble started.
Arent there rules about electioneering at the polling location? replied many to the initial Twitter video.
How is this legal? asked another.
A woman in Chicago was so outraged she wrote a petition on Change.org calling for Clintons arrest and prosecution on charges of violating Massachusetts election laws.
The outrage spread from Twitter to Reddit. Users posted that Clinton was creating a scene that blocked the entrance to polling places. The original poster speculates that they were being blocked from entering a polling place in New Bedford by the crowd because the poster was a Bernie Sanders supporter.
This may have taken place because everybody I know is voting for Sanders, the poster wrote. Who knows, just speculating.
Many are concerned that Clinton was purposefully blocking Sanders voters from getting the polls, which allowed Hillary Clinton to edge out a victory over Sanders in Massachusetts. Clinton beat Sanders by more than 17,000 votes in the state, though.
The New York Times reports that Bill Clinton has always loved Election Day and was stopping at polling places in different parts of the state.
Clinton spoke about the importance of voting rights to a crowd in Fort Worth on Monday.
If we are all going to rise together, we have to be able to vote together, Clinton said Monday.
We had to remind some of our poll workers that even a president cant go inside and work a polling place, William F. Galvin, the Massachusetts secretary of state, told The Times.
Massachusetts law prohibits campaigning within 150 feet of voting booths. People are entitled to their privacy, Galvin told The Times.
In Texas, laws are similar. A person is considered to be electioneering if he or she is within 100 feet of an outside door of a polling place during the voting period and is loitering, openly campaigning for or against a candidate or distributing political signs or literature.
It is worth noting that almost any time candidates go to a polling place, they are followed by a pack of reporters and cameras waiting to talk to them about casting a ballot, presumably for themselves.
See Ted Cruz voting yesterday in Houston:
And here is an ABC News video of Sanders himself in Burlington, Vt.:
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So did Bill Clinton break Massachusetts election laws? Only if he was actively campaigning when he went inside the polling stations, which doesnt seem to be the case.
Did the pack of people traveling with him make things a little inconvenient for voters? Probably. Did it rise to the level of a crime? Probably not.
President Clinton joined Mayor Walsh to thank poll workers in West Roxbury this morning, Bonnie Gilpin, a spokeswoman for Boston Mayor Walsh told The Boston Globe.
Sports Authority Is Bankrupt; How Did The Sports Retail Giant Fall? - Newsy
People enter a Sports Authority store, in New York, Wednesday, March 2, 2016. Sports Authority is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.(Photo: Richard Drew, AP)
Sports Authority plans to begin liquidation sales as soon as Friday at about 140stores that are set to close as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The Englewood, Colo.-based chain ownedby Los Angeles-basedprivate equity firmLeonard Green & Partners filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, citing $1.1 billion in debt and saying that its sales had slumped after it failed to keep up with consumer trends.
Nearly one-third of the retailer"s locations will begin liquidation sales within days.
The list includes25 stores in Texas, 19 in California, 18 in Florida and11 in Illinois.
The rest could be sold to other retailers or liquidators asthe company is currently negotiating with prospective suitors.
A U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge in Delaware was expected to approve the store-closure plan at a hearing Thursday.
"Sales are expected to last for several weeks the duration will most likely vary at different stores," Sports Authority spokesman Steven Goldberg said in an email.
Below is the list of store-closures set to begin as soon as Friday, according to a court document filed late Wednesday.
Follow USA TODAY reporter Nathan Bomey on Twitter @NathanBomey.
Arizona
Casa Grande store in Case Grande
Mesa store in Mesa
Ahwatukee store in Phoenix
Arrowhead store in Glendale
Tuscon Broadway store on Broadway Boulevard in Tuscon
Tuscon Calle store on South Calley Santa Cruz in Tuscon
Tuscon Oracle store on North Oracle Road in Tuscon
California
Bakersfield store in Bakersfield
Redding store in Redding
Riverside store in Riverside
Camarillo store in Camarillo
Cerritos store in Cerritos
Santa Ana store in Santa Ana
Corte Madera S.A. Elite store in Corte Madera
Topanga Mall S.A. Elite store in Los Angeles
Stockton store in Stockton
West L.A. store on South Sepulveda Boulevard in Los Angeles
Ventura store in Ventura
Canoga Park store in Canoga Park
Midtown Crossing store on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles
Per ESPN.com, the release of White saves the Falcons $2,362,500 against their salary cap in 2016, but the departure of the 34-year-old wideout leaves a large void in the team"s pass-catching corps. The 2005 first-rounder, who caught 43 passes for 506 yards and a TD in 2015, will thus look to catch on elsewhere, with White"s 2016 fantasy prospects difficult to peg until his landing spot/role with his new team gain a degree of clarity.
