Nick Kyrgios andFeliciano Lopez will resume their entertaining No 1 Court battle afterSloane Stephens and Svetlana Kuznetsov finish fighting it out for a place in the fourth round.
Daniel Schofieldwas in attendance as Kyrgios raced into a one-set lead before Lopez got the better of him in a second set tiebreak, and filed this report:
Andy Murray must wait to discover who he will face in the fourth round as NickKyrgiosand Feliciano Lopez were locked at a set apiece (6-3, 6-7) in a combustible but compelling encounter before bad light stopped play.
If the resumption is any bit as good as the first leg of their match then spectators on No 1 court are in for a treat. Between themKyrgios, the No 15 seed, and Lopez, who is ranked seven players lower, hit 99 winners from which you could easily draw a shot of the tournament compilation.
The shots were only part of the attraction. Despite their different backgrounds, the two men are clearly kindred spirits particularly in regard to publicly expressing their emotions.Kyrgios, the 21-year-old from Australia, began the match in a state of near fury and his disposition only darkened with his players box earning his scorn for a perceived lack of support.
The Australian also directed his fury at the British weather when he needed a medical timeout in the first set for what appeared to be a blocked nose. On-court microphones caught him telling the medical trainer, You know why? It is the stupid weather, its my nose.
Lopez matched if not better that vocal output. Halfway through the first set, the Spaniard appeared to be incandescent. With what no one really knew, although like withKyrgiosmost of his ire seemed to be aimed towards his players box Given that both men came through five-set marathons in their previous round, Murray can afford to kick back and relish watching another war to decide who he will face next week.
The BBC as well as those lucky enough to be in possession of Centre Court tickets must be hoping it isKyrgios. For all his histrionics and hissy fits such a match would be pure box office.
Rihanna & Drake Party Together For 2nd Night In A Row & Get SUPER Close On Stage
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) - The world changed for Jay Z on June 25, 1996.
That"s the day his debut album "Reasonable Doubt" was released, dropping the needle on the start of what has been one of the most epic careers in the music industry.
But he didn"t stop there.
In the past 20 years the man who was born Shawn Corey Carter and who grew up in Brooklyn"s Marcy Projects at a time when they were plagued by crime and drugs has gone from slinging drugs to taking over corporations. In May, Forbes estimated his net worth at $610 million, placing him at number three behind Sean"Diddy" Combs ($750 million) and Andre "Dr. Dre" Young ($710 million) on the list of Hip Hop"s Wealthiest Artists 2016. And now there are reports that Apple is in talks to buy his streaming service Tidal.
He"s a hustler, baby, we just want you to know.
Here are just some of the many hats the man who once famously rapped "I"m not a businessman, I"m a business... man" has worn, all the while building on what he learned in the hood.
Drug dealer
The Jigga man has been very open about his past as an illegal pharmaceutical entrepreneur, both rapping about it and discussing it in interviews.
"I know about budgets. I was a drug dealer," he told Vanity Fair in 2013. "To be in a drug deal, you need to know what you can spend, what you need to re-up. Or if you want to start some sort of barbershop or car washthose were the businesses back then. Things you can get in easily to get out of [that] life."
It helped prepare him for the cutthroat music industry, he has said. Though if you think it"s tough out here on the charts, it"s nothing compared to what Jay saw on the streets.
"At some point, you have to have an exit strategy, because your window is very small," he said about drug dealing. "You"re going to get locked up or you"re going to die."
Rapper
Start a debate about the best rap artists in history and three names will always appear on the list: Tupac Shakur, the Notorious B.I.G. and Jay Z. (Sorry, Nas.)
Jay has sold millions upon millions of records and was one of the pioneers who helped to define urban music in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
He"s won multiple awards including 21 Grammys and a Sports Emmy for outstanding music composition/direction/lyrics in recognition of his Super Bowl XLIV opener of his song "Run This Town" featuring singer Rihanna.
In 2013 he broke a Spotify record whern his "Magna Carta Holy Grail" album was streamed 14 million times.
This from a man who once famously "retired" from rap.
Music executive
Every successful dealer knows the key is controlling your product.
In 1996 Jay Z formed Roc-A-Fella Records with friends Damon "Dame" Dash and Kareem "Biggs" Burke specifically to market the rapper"s music.
Over the years their artist roster grew to include such names as Kanye West, Memphis Bleek and Beanie Sigel.
Jay Z and his partners sold Roc-A-Fella to Island Def Jam and he was appointed to a new role as president and CEO of Def Jam Recordings in 2004.
In 2008 the rapper founded an entertainment company, Roc Nation, which includes a record label that is home to artists like Drake, and Rihanna.
A strong crew is everything in the game.
Partner
Before there was ever any talk of a potential deal between Apple and Tidal, Jay was all about streaming music.
In 2013 he strategically partnered with Samsung to make his "Magna Carta Holy Grail" album available first via download on specific Samsung phones over the July 4th weekend.
It was consistent with other high profile partnerships he"s made throughout his career: His Roc Nation label came about in part thanks to a $150 million profit sharing deal with entertainment giant Live Nation.
In 2015 Roc Nation announced it would be teaming with Philymack, the management firm that oversees pop stars Nick Jonas and Demi Lovato.
"We sat down and dreamt about what the future could hold if we partnered," the rapper said at the time. "Our views aligned on nurturing, growth and allowing creatives to stay true to their voice. That dream we are living today and it"s been amazing for all parties. We look forward to what tomorrow brings."
Investor
Who could ever forget that the rapper once owned a small part of the New Jersey Nets, and helped make them the Brooklyn Nets?
He is credited with -- or blamed for -- the creation of last year"s "Jay Z rule" which said teams can only have 25 or fewer individual owners with each owning at least a one percent stake. According to Grantland, Jay Z only owned 0.15 percent of the team before he sold his stake to Jason Kidd and an unidentified investor in 2013.
That same year Jay Z formed Roc Nation Sports, which manages professional athletes.
He"s also been savvy enough to get pieces of various businesses over the years including the 40/40 Club sports-bar chain. And he"s an investor in several other restaurants, starting with New York hotspot The Spotted Pig.
Trendsetter
"I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can" he rapped in his 2009 hit "Empire State of Mind" -- and he"s not wrong.
His early understanding that the street style of hip hop was one fans wanted to emulate led him and Dash to establish the urban apparel line Rocawear early on. He cashed in on it when he reportedly sold the rights to Iconix Brand Group in 2007 for $204 million.
Author
What is success if you don"t have anyone to share it with?
Jay Z blessed us all with his lessons learned and reflections in his 2010 memoir "Decoded."
Of course, since it"s Jay, the biography debuted in the top five of the New York Times bestseller list.
The Blazers reportedly intend to sign both Chandler Parsons and Dwight Howard. Parsons was a major part of the recruiting process when Howard initially signed in Houston.
Early Friday morning, Jason Quick of CSNNW tweeted that the Trail Blazers plan is to target both forward Chandler Parsons and center Dwight Howard.
On ESPN"s Mike & Mike this morning, ESPN NBA Insider Amin El-Hassan said that Howard is looking for a deal around $24 million annually. This is slightly above what Hassan Whiteside received and would require the Blazers to make a lot of concessions and/or moves to free up the necessary space.
As noted earlier when discussing the Blazers making a max offer to Whiteside, the Blazers will need to make a few moves in order to be under the cap and have enough space to offer Howard the reported $24 million he"s looking for.
There are also rumors out there that Howard may only be getting deals hovering around $15 million annually.Howard Beck of Bleacher Report stated on Wednesday that that was what he was being told by NBA team executives.
Team executives who spoke to B/R predicted Howard might command $10-15 million in a starting salaryfar short of the $23.3 million he just opted out of in Houston, and less than half the $31 million max salary he is said to be seeking. He might also have to settle for a short deal.
If that"s the case, then things with Portland"s restricted free agents change a bit and Blazer"s Edge contributor Eric Griffith puts it more simply.
You can keep two of the following 4: Aminu, Davis, Crabbe, and Leonard and give Dwight Howard up to $17 million
We will update this article as more information becomes available.
GarageCam highlights NASCAR Salutes in the XFINITY Series
Dominant Brad Keselowski outruns competition at Daytona.
From beginning to end Brad Keselowski left no doubt he was the driver to beat Saturday night, dominantly winning the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Two restarts over the final 11 laps -- including a two-lap shootout -- provided the competition an opening, but each time Keselowski repelled charges by brothers Kurt and Kyle Busch and Team Penske teammate Joey Logano to maintain his advantage. Overall, Keselowski led 115 of 161 laps in winning his third race of 2016.
"Restarts are so critical, and I got a great push from my teammate Joey Logano that helped put me in position to kind of establish the lead and be able to make the moves you need to make to hold off the lanes," Keselowski said."Kurt had a couple really good runs, I thought he might have had me one time and I was able to get up in front of him at the last second."
The win carried significance for Keselowski, who has four victories at NASCAR"s other restrictor-plate track, Talladega Superspeedway, but was winless in 14 previous Daytona starts. Keselowski"s five combined wins at Daytona and Talladega since 2009 are the most by any driver on ovals where NASCAR limits airflow to the engine to reduce speeds.
"The wins are never easy to come by, and I think this one means a lot to me for sure because looking at our past here, it hasn"t been all that rosy," Keselowski said. "I"ve had very, very little success here.It"s been one of our worst tracks."
Kyle Busch finished second, with Trevor Bayne third, Logano fourth and Ricky Stenhouse Jr. fifth. Busch, the defending Sprint Cup champion, thought he had could get by Keselowski had someone pushed him, but that helped never materialized.
Completing the top 10 were Kyle Larson, Austin Dillon, Greg Biffle, Clint Bowyer and Michael McDowell.
"At the end of the race the 2 (Keselowski) car was really, really fast; really, really strong," Busch said. "It"s really hard to get by him. I tried just about everything. The only thing I didn"t quite have was a big enough push one time to just try to make a move. He was really good at making that thing pretty wide."
Five cautions, including a 22-pileup in Turn 1, slowed the annual Fourth of July weekend event for 28 laps. The "Big One" initiated when Jamie McMurray appeared to cut a left rear tire following contact with Kyle Larson causing McMurray to spin.
With no avenue to escape McMurray"s prone car, a pileup commenced that collected several notables. When the smoke cleared, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kevin Harvick, Jimmie Johnson and Matt Kenseth were among those sustaining damage.
A strong run by Tony Stewart that saw him running in the top 10 with 20 laps left, fizzled when he lost control and crashed in Turn 1. He finished 26th, but still earned enough points to climb to 30th in the standings and provisionally qualify for the Chase for the Sprint Cup playoff.
"We knew we might be able to gain points here, but you know it"s a coin toss that you might get in a wreck here," Stewart toldNBC Sports. "For us it was more trying to take care of us, and when that big wreck happened, that really opened the door for us to really take care of us. Two of the three guys around us in points got caught up in it."
Coke Zero 400 Results
Finish
Start
Driver
Make
Laps
Status
Led
1
5
Brad Keselowski
Ford
161
running
115
2
3
Kyle Busch
Toyota
161
running
16
3
13
Trevor Bayne
Ford
161
running
0
4
11
Joey Logano
Ford
161
running
6
5
4
Ricky Stenhouse, Jr.
Ford
161
running
0
6
17
Kyle Larson
Chevrolet
161
running
0
7
6
Austin Dillon
Chevrolet
161
running
0
8
1
Greg Biffle
Ford
161
running
1
9
31
Clint Bowyer
Chevrolet
161
running
1
10
37
Michael McDowell
Chevrolet
161
running
0
11
35
Cole Whitt
Toyota
161
running
0
12
20
Casey Mears
Chevrolet
161
running
2
13
26
A.J. Allmendinger
Chevrolet
161
running
0
14
12
Ryan Blaney
Ford
161
running
0
15
14
Aric Almirola
Ford
161
running
0
16
38
David Ragan
Toyota
161
running
1
17
9
Denny Hamlin
Toyota
161
running
7
18
23
Ryan Newman
Chevrolet
161
running
0
19
28
David Gilliland
Ford
161
running
0
20
33
Michael Annett
Chevrolet
161
running
0
21
16
Dale Earnhardt, Jr.
Chevrolet
161
running
0
22
39
Reed Sorenson
Toyota
161
running
0
23
10
Kurt Busch
Chevrolet
161
running
0
24
32
Bobby Labonte
Ford
160
running
0
25
2
Carl Edwards
Toyota
155
crash
8
26
19
Tony Stewart
Chevrolet
148
crash
1
27
22
Danica Patrick
Chevrolet
130
running
0
28
7
Matt Kenseth
Toyota
127
running
0
29
15
Martin Truex, Jr.
Toyota
127
running
1
30
18
Kasey Kahne
Chevrolet
122
running
0
31
34
Landon Cassill
Ford
119
running
0
32
24
Chase Elliott
Chevrolet
113
running
0
33
36
Matt DiBenedetto
Toyota
108
running
0
34
29
Jamie McMurray
Chevrolet
91
crash
0
35
8
Jimmie Johnson
Chevrolet
89
crash
0
36
27
Paul Menard
Chevrolet
89
crash
0
37
30
Brian Scott
Ford
89
crash
0
38
40
Regan Smith
Chevrolet
89
crash
1
39
21
Kevin Harvick
Chevrolet
89
crash
1
40
25
Chris Buescher
Ford
89
crash
0
The Secret Life Of Pets - Trailer #3 (HD) - Illumination
For their fifth fully-animated feature-film collaboration, Illumination Entertainment and Universal Pictures present THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS, a comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day.
Comedy superstars Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet and Kevin Hart make their animated feature-film debuts in The Secret Life of Pets, which co-stars Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Bobby Moynihan, Steve Coogan and Albert Brooks. Illumination founder and CEO Chris Meledandri and his longtime collaborator Janet Healy produce the film directed by Chris Renaud (Despicable Me, Despicable Me 2), co-directed by Yarrow Cheney and written by Cinco Paul & Ken Daurio and Brian Lynch.
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Bobby Bonilla makes more than a million dollars a year to be Bobby Bonilla.
The retired 16-year veteran receives a cool $1,193,248.20 every July 1st from the New York Mets, who spread the five-time All-Star"s then-$5.9 million deal over 25 years starting in 2011. Except the cost blossomed.
When the Mets management made that deal, it thought it was benefitting from a smart investment with Bernard Madoff. Yes, that Bernie Madoff. So once Madoff"s Ponzi scheme came to light, the Mets were put on the hook for a whole lot more than planned.
In fact, for a while in 2013, Bonilla was earning more than any Mets outfielders then on the roster -- as a 50-year-old.
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Blink-182 without Tom DeLonge: Its a tempting proposition. When considering DeLonges role in Blink, your mind instantly goes to 2004 smash I Miss You, when a perfectly nice mid-tempo love song about nightmare angels and Halloween on Christmas is positively wrecking-balled by his eardrum-piercing introduction on the second verse: WHERE ARE YEWWWWWWWW?!?!? With DeLonges all-consuming megalomania reaching new heights through press stories of his recording-studio demands and efforts to take the band ingasp-worthy new directions and yeah, the whole UFOs thing its easy to conflate his presence in the trio with all of their most obnoxious instincts, and envision a much more digestible outfit built solely around the gonzo energy of drummer Travis Barker and McGrathian affability of co-frontman Mark Hoppus.
If anything is to be learned from California, the groups seventh album and first with Alkaline Trio yowler Matt Skiba in place of DeLonge, its that we might have taken Blinks co-founder for granted. Perhaps this shouldve been more obvious from the underwhelming returns of 2006s When Your Heart Stops Beating, an album recorded by Hoppus and Barkersans third-wheel as part of the +44 supergroup, which now stands as the most obvious precedent for this new album: fine, fun, and overall kinda meh. Turns out, as in just about every great songwriting partnership in music history Lennon and McCartney, 3000 and Boi, Buckner and Garcia (probably) the oft-insufferable ambition of one is just as important as the shrugging humanity of the other, and the push/pull tension between the two is the most essential ingredient in the groups success. Without that, its much easier for Blink-182 to be likable, but almost impossible for them to be great.
To their credit, some of the advance tracks came pretty close. Bored to Death is the albums first single and most successful song, with a compressed drum intro and dolorous three-note repeating riff that hits you like a tornado of Classic Blink Memories, and a chorus (Life is too short to last long) that reads empty but feels profound. Rabbit Hole is one of Californias few songs so light on its feet you can actually imagine a trio of n***d late-90s dudesrunning down the street to it, and its anxieties (Dear head / Shut up) are quippy and low-stakes enough that they dont feel weighed down by 20 years of band history, like much of the album. And speaking of n***d dudes, the 16 seconds of sunny harmonies and homoerotic absurdism that is Built This Pool might be the LPs finest moment, not to mention the most efficient rock song since Napalm Deaths You Suffer (But Why?)from nearly 20 years ago.
But the main problem with California isnt that the songs are bad its just that there are too many (16 for some reason), and not enough ideas to fill them. One chorus on the albums first side prominently mentions Bauhaus, one on the second references the Cure. A song called Kings of the Weekend is followed by a song with the lyric, Then you hit me like a Friday night. Separate tracks are titled Los Angeles, San Diego, and (natch) California, without the thematic specificity or musical diversity that would justify such a trilogys existence. Not helping matters is that DeLonge seems to have taken all of the bands riffs with him; even the Bored to Death lickis essentially ripped off from the bands 2000 hit,Adams Song, and then further recycled on San Diego 11 tracks later. The unexciting presence of Skiba fails to break up the monotony, as his voice fails to contrast enough to Hoppus to serve any purpose but adding further layering. Barkers famously frenetic stick-work attempts to cut through, but he largely comes off as a child of divorce trying desperately to capture his parents attention.
It feels unfair to be too harsh to California, because its not clear what the better path to success wouldve been for Blink-182. They couldve followed their followers lead and hooked up with a Jake Sinclair-type to reinvent themselves as 21st-century turbo-poppers, but the band sounds too old for that s**t, and based on the Centuries-like groaning bombast of the Los Angeles chorus, it might notve been advisable anyway. They couldve made like their longtime heroes the Descendents (with their excellent upcoming LP,Hypercaffium Spazzinate) and made an album as speedy and snotty as their early work, only with middle-agedlyrics about fearing for their kids and being unable to eat fast food. But even the Descendents need a decade-long nap between albums to get up that kind of energy. Ultimately, fortysomething Blink may be cursed by their early success and their genre of choice: For pop-punk bands, life is just too short to last long.
