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The AV Club Meet Lodge Kerrigan, the best filmmaker you’ve never heard of In 1994, Lodge Kerrigan won the Independent Spirit Awards’ Someone To Watch award for his debut feature Clean, Shaven, which starred Peter Greene (Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects) as a schizophrenic trying to regain custody of his daughter. Ten years later, Kerrigan’s third film, Keane, explored similar themes, following the title character—played with restless magnetism by Damian Lewis (Band Of Brothers,… Source link

Cincinnati Reds outfielder Aristides Aquino entered MLB with a historic torrent of home runs, but his calling card these days can be located in his throwing arm. [It’s fantasy football season: Create or join a league now!] During the Reds’ game against the Philadelphia Phillies on Wednesday, Aquino unleashed one of the most impressive throws in MLB this year on what should have been an RBI double for Phillies catcher J.T. Realmuto. With Rhys Hoskins at first base, Realmuto hit a long fly ball… Source link

A federal jury awarded $16 million to Vanessa Bryant, widow of Kobe Bryant, in a lawsuit against Los Angeles County over the alleged distribution of photos from the Los Angeles Lakers legend’s crash site, according to Alene Tchekmedyian of the Los Angeles Times. Another plaintiff, Chris Chester, was awarded $15 million in the same lawsuit. The payouts reportedly have the L.A. Sheriff’s Department paying Bryant $2.5 million for emotional distress and $7.5 million for future suffering, while the… Source link

Top trending after-hours tickers on Yahoo Finance: Salesforce (CRM): Shares fell after the company beat on second-quarter results but cut its full-year revenue forecast to between $30.9 billion and $31 billion. For the second quarter, Salesforce posted adjusted earnings-per-share of $1.19 on revenue of $7.7 billion. RBC Capital Markets Software Equity Analyst Rishi Jaluria told Yahoo Finance that if investors are “willing to weather choppiness over the next couple of quarters as we deal… Source link

We can confidently speculate on its reasons, but the NFL really wants Jon Gruden to shut up and go away. Which puts me in the supremely uncomfortable position of … having to root for Gruden to dig in and keep fighting the league? Ugh. What a downright icky realization. Let me explain: In court filings recently reviewed by reporter David Charns of KLAS, the NFL alleges that Gruden didn’t just send racist, sexist, xenophobic and/or anti-gay emails while he was with ESPN and writing to… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Golf series. TOUR Championship Atlanta, GeorgiaEast Lake Golf Club – Par 70 – 7,346 yardsField – 29 entrantsPurse – $75M The Preview The stage is set for the grand finale of the PGA Tour’s 2021-22 season as East Lake Golf Club once again plays host to the TOUR Championship, inviting those among the top 30 in the eligibility points list after advancing through the first two legs of the FedExCup Playoffs. The field in Atlanta is limited to just 29… Source link

Iranian state-sponsored hackers have discovered ways to infiltrate the Gmail, Yahoo, and Outlook inboxes of at least two dozen high-profile users and download their content, according to a report from the Google Threat Analysis Group (TAG). The government-backed group known as Charming Kitten originally developed a hacking tool called Hyperscape in 2020 and has used it to orchestrate the recent cyberattacks. TAG was able to get a hold of a version of this tool for analysis, TechRadar… Source link

Power Rankings are silly. Power Rankings are fun. I like silly and fun things. And you probably do, too. Today’s assignment is to rank how fantasy-useful the 32 NFL clubs are. I considered ADP and market behavior, then added in some scouting takes and a little special sauce (probably Thousand Island dressing). It’s my list and sure, it’s subjective. I welcome your reasonable disagreement at any time: @scott_pianowski on Twitter. Here’s the 1.0 version of Fantasy Power Rankings,… Source link

In the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Edwin Porras break down their outlook for Carolina Panthers RB Christian McCaffrey from an injury perspective. Video Transcript MATT HARMON: I want to be really sensitive in how I talk about Christian McCaffrey because I know that some fantasy analysts are out there just, he’s the number one player on the board because the role is so uniquely rare. We throw a unicorn and stuff all the time. But McCaffrey really does have a unicorn role… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Wednesday brings another packed slate with 14 games set to be played across baseball. Six games have early start times, one of which will feature Kyle Wright trying to earn his 16th win of the season for the Braves in a matchup against the Pirates. Logan Webb is also in a favorable spot to earn his 12th victory when the Giants take on the Tigers. As far as the night portion of the schedule is concerned, one of the more underrated… Source link