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Adley Rutschman entering spring training ‘pissed off’ after Orioles’ playoff disappointment

Last season was another impressive one for the Baltimore Orioles, who have emerged as one of the best teams in the MLB. Thanks to youngsters like catcher Adley Rutschman, the Orioles have pulled off an incredible turnaround in recent years. However, they are still looking for big success in the postseason. Last year, Baltimore finished […]

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Syracuse vs. Pitt prediction, pick, college basketball odds

The college basketball season continues on Tuesday with a matchup between Syracuse and Pitt. It’s time to continue our College Basketball odds series with a Syracuse-Pitt prediction and pick. Tuesday’s matchup between Syracuse and Pittsburgh promises to be an intriguing ACC battle. The Orange (11-15, 5-10 ACC) are looking to bounce back after a narrow […]

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Andrew Nembhard’s net worth in 2025

Andrew Nembhard’s net worth in 2025 is $2 million. Nembhard is a starting shooting guard who recently signed a big contract extension with the Indiana Pacers. Here is a closer look at Andrew Nembhard’s net worth in 2025. What is Andrew Nembhard’s net worth in 2025?: $2 million (estimate) Andrew Nembhard’s net worth in 2025 […]

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Yankees star Aaron Judge fires back at Juan Soto’s Mets take

The New York Yankees lost Juan Soto this winter to their crosstown rivals in the New York Mets and the superstar made it clear he believes his new ball club is in a better position to compete for a title in 2025. However, Aaron Judge had some rebuttal to those comments. Judge firmly believes the […]

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Orioles owner drops eye-opening take on future spending

The silver lining to the Baltimore Orioles getting swept in the American League Wild Card Series last October was supposed to be a motivated owner who was willing to open up his checkbook in the offseason. Instead, David Rubenstein watched former Cy Young Corbin Burnes and All-Star outfielder Anthony Santander go elsewhere in free agency. […]

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First ever goal at new Everton stadium is scored by LIVERPOOL FAN as Toffees are forced to endure brutal celebration

A LIVERPOOL fan stole Everton’s thunder with the first ever goal at their new stadium as his celebrations went viral.

An incredible 10,000 Toffees’ fans turned up for the test event, with Everton Under-18s taking on their Wigan counterparts.

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Everton’s new Bramley-Moore Dock has cost £760m and holds 53,000[/caption]
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Harrison Rimmer quickly became an online hit over his goal celebration
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Aerial view of Bramley Moore Dock stadium at night.
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The dazzling venue attracted 10,000 for its first ever game[/caption]

And no matter how high Harrison Rimmer climbs in the rest of his career, he might always be remembered for the way he arrived on ‘the big stage’ – of Bramley-Moore Dock stadium.

The Latics’ website describes their teenage hopeful as a “tough-tackling” midfielder.

And the Reds’ supporter certainly showed he knows how to give it out… to Everton fans.

Rimmer took just 11 minutes to notch his historic strike at the £760million venue.

The goal itself was pretty simple.

But he chose the moment to troll Toffees’ supporters.

The grinning starlet turned to the crowd and raised six fingers.

The raising of half a dozen digits is a cutting reference to the combined total of European Cups and Champions League crowns lifted by the Reds.

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And it’s a time-honoured way for brave players who support Liverpool to mark a goal scored at the club’s two fiercest rivals, Everton and Manchester United.

Even as team-mates congratulated Rimmer for his goal, he seemed more interest in teasing the home faithful.

One Wigan player hugged him, another kissed him on the head.

But Rimmer’s focus was on his moment with the crowd.

And as he ran off after the embrace from fellow Latics, he turned back to deliver one final six-finger salute.

Many observers loved Rimmer’s sheer cheek.

One joked: “Nothing will ever happen at Bramley-Moore that will top that moment!”

Another posted: “Harrison Rimmer scoring the first goal at Everton’s new stadium giving it the ‘6 Times’ gesture! Couldn’t get more Everton.”

“What a man,”  said a third fan, while a fourth wrote: “Gonna have a few people rattled.”

But another viewer teased that Rimmer’s antics were just “bitter jealousy” over the impressive new stadium.

And one fan ditched the banter in favour of some sound advice for trival lovers.

He posted: “Harrison Rimmer of Wigan U18s scores the first goal at the new Everton stadium. Remember it for your pub quizzes!”

Everton expect to move into 53,000-capacity Bramley-Dock next season, having been at Goodison Park since 1892.

Harrison Rimmer of Wigan Athletic playing soccer.
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Rimmer will hope his surprise big night is the first of many[/caption]

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Govt squander £8BILLION fund on projects like TikTok dancing, ‘queer animals’ & pro-trans robots in latest waste outrage

TAXPAYERS are funding a university study of TikTok dance videos in the latest government waste outrage.

More than £8billion of public cash was set aside for research.

Hip hop circle at Coventry University symposium.
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Coventry University spent £199,922 on a study into how Covid lockdowns changed online dance, focusing on TikTok and new digital format[/caption]
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The University of Exeter received £247,132 for a project on ‘Queer Natures’, exploring animals and homosexuality[/caption]

But millions have been splurged on woke projects looking at   “queer animals” and pro-trans robots.

We told yesterday how ­£15billion in public cash went on foreign aid projects such as shrimp farms in Bangladesh and electric Porsches for Albanian jails.

The revelations follow pressure to raise defence spending and cut NHS waits, and has led to calls for a US-style efficiency department like Elon Musk’s.

Another £8billion a year is earmarked for UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) grants — but The Sun can reveal ­millions was frittered on woke projects.

 The TaxPayers’ Alliance blasted: “Brits know government waste is rampant — but this takes the cake.”

Projects included £199,922 for the Coventry University study into “Ontology and Ownership of Internet Dance”.

It states Covid lockdowns “resulted in new forms of dance, which have raised questions about how online dances are understood, described and exchanged”.

 It claims to produce expertise on dance that “occurs online more than ever before, in new and experimental formats” including TikTok.

Questions it seeks to answer include:

  •  WHAT kind of thing is an online dance?
  • IS dance online a different thing to dance offline?
  • DO the aesthetic and cultural ­histories of dance forms mean each produces a different kind of thing or are all online dances one kind of entity?
  • HOW does dance’s ontology shape social practices around ownership online?
  • HOW can ontological understanding support artists when sharing work online?

Last month dancers and students were offered a £150 bursary from the project to attend and perform at a symposium on campus.

Videos shared publicly online show the man’s hip-hop routine to cheers from students. Coventry University declined to comment.

Other grants included £1.1million for the University of Sheffield to probe “Intersectional Inclusion”.

Another £1.1million went to Royal Holloway, University of London, to study “Inclusive Histories”.

The University of Exeter was awarded £247,132 for a project on “Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production” including attitudes in pre-1930s Germany.

UKRI also funds private-sector research. Software firm Clusivity received £214,330 into using AI robots to help make companies more accessible to non-binary and LGBTQ+ minorities.

 TaxPayers’ Alliance investigation campaign manager Joanna Marchong added: “Officials are milking expenses. That reckless attitude is spreading to other public ­sector spending like university grants.

“Ministers need to wake up, crack down on waste, and start treating taxpayers’ money with the care it deserves.”

A Government spokesperson said: “We are determined to ensure that taxpayer’s money is supporting our priorities.”

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Software firm Clusivity received £214,330 into using AI robots to help make companies more accessible to non-binary and LGBTQ+ minorities[/caption]
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Coventry University, where almost £200,000 was awarded to academics exploring online dancing trends[/caption]
Hip hop circle at a symposium.
Videos shared publicly online show the man’s hip-hop routine to cheers from students
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10 oddball schemes tax funds

PROJECTS your money is paying for...

1. Moving Online: Ontology and Ownership of Internet Dance — £199,922

2. Storying Life Courses for Intersectional Inclusion: Ethnicity and Wellbeing Across Time and Place — £1.1million

3. Using AI to Connect the LGBTQ and Arts Communities — £50,000

4. Queer Natures: Animals, Environment and Modern Sexual Knowledge Production — £247,000

5. Critical Dance Pedagogy through Discourse and Practice — £78,000

6. South Asian Dance Equity: The Arts British South Asian Dance Ignores — £83,000

7. The Europe Gay Porn Built, 1945-2000 — £841,000

8. Policy Recommendations to Regain Feminist Losers as Mainstream Voters — £260,000

9. Platform that uses AI to create effective corporate DEI strategies — £214,000

 10. Digital Black Dance Ecologies Network — £82,000.

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More Woke schemes being funded by British taxpayers

Streeting shrimps stonewall

By Jack Elsom

THE Health Secretary yesterday refused to back the shocking examples of foreign aid spending, as revealed by The Sun.

Wes Streeting was challenged on initiatives such as a £133,000 taxpayer-funded study of shrimp health in Bangladesh.

He told Times Radio: “I’m not defending those individual examples, far from it. The Government has been in for several months and in that time has chosen to undertake a thorough review of government spending.”

Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesman said, while foreign aid was important for our own national interest, he was ordering a line by line review of all government spending.

He said: “It will ensure taxpayer money is spent with public priorities at the heart of it.”

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Floyd Mayweather to host £4million 48th birthday party on Miami Beach lasting a WEEK – with ATV tour and roller skates

FLOYD MAYWEATHER is hosting a WEEK’S worth of birthday celebrations in Miami – costing £4million.

The boxing legend turns 48 on Monday, February 24 and it will mark the end of seven days worth of partying.

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Floyd Mayweather is hosting a week’s worth of birthday celebrations in Miami
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Floyd Mayweather Jr. roller skating at a party.
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Mayweather is an avid skater[/caption]

According to TMZ, Mayweather is spending $5m (£4m) on a series of bashes in Miami starting on Monday, February 17.

The American and 400 of his closest family and friends travelled to South Beach to celebrate his 48th.

He is said to have put up his pals in fancy hotels throughout Miami Beach.

Beach parties, an ATV tour, roller-skating – one of Mayweather’s favourite hobbies – and bowling fill up the itinerary.

Mayweather is an avid skater and even owns his own Las Vegas rink – Skate Rock City.

The 50-0 legend will also throw an event at a local mansion as well as on a yacht.

And he appeared to confirm the wild plans by posting online: “Come party with me for my birthday Miami!”

Mayweather officially retired in 2017 after victory over UFC superstar Conor McGregor, 36.

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But he has continued to return for exhibitions since against names from the MMA, boxing and social media world.

His last came against John Gotti III – grandson to America’s most notorious mob boss – last August.

And Mayweather – who made close to £1BILLIION in his boxing career – has teased more upcoming exhibition bouts.

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Doctor Who facing axe as lead star Ncuti Gatwa ‘quits’ amid woeful rating and fans’ fury at woke storylines

DOCTOR Who is facing the axe, with lead star Ncuti Gatwa poised to quit and crew claiming to be laid off.

The recent series suffered abysmal ratings with fans outraged by the BBC shoehorning wokery into storylines.

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Doctor Who is facing the axe, with lead star Ncuti Gatwa poised to quit and crew claiming to be laid off[/caption]
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The recent series suffered abysmal ratings with fans outraged by the BBC shoehorning wokery into storylines[/caption] Illustration of Doctor Who actors and their years.

Bosses have postponed any decision until Ncuti’s second season has aired later this year.

But the Scot, 32, is already believed to have filmed his regeneration “exit scene”, and crew fear the BBC will shelve the show after 62 years.

An insider said: “Ncuti doesn’t want to be tied to the series beyond this and plans to relocate to Los Angeles with several Hollywood projects standing by for him.

“His team also see a lot of fan backlash from the series, and don’t want the perception of him still being The Doctor to get in the way of any future work.

“The show has been poorly managed in recent years, and there’s a lot of people who’ve been working on this show for years and now being cast aside due to poor leadership.

“People warned some episodes were getting too caught up on an agenda rather than telling a story, and those people got shouted down, ignored.”

The first series under Ncuti which began last May attracted viewing figures between 2.25m and 3.18m – a fraction of what it used to pull in.

Controversy over the storylines has ramped up since 2023, when Russell T Davies returned as showrunner.

A trio of 60th anniversary specials kicked off with a plot involving a character who was able to save London because they were trans.

Another saw The Doctor — played by the returning David Tennant — realise he was gay after developing a crush on Sir Isaac Newton.

However viewing figures were still around two million up on the episodes to come under Ncuti, accompanied by new companion Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson.

The first full series had plots slamming everything from capitalism to Christianity — and introduced a new enemy played by a drag queen.

A huge question mark also hangs over whether Disney will renew their deal with the BBC, which is said to be worth £100m.

Crew working on the show in Cardiff are said to be furious at being left in limbo after filming wrapped last week.

The insider said: “Word on set is that the BBC will shelve the series for at least five years. The crew were told not to hold their breath for work on the series for at least 10 years.

“As we scramble to find work, those responsible get to ride off onto other well-paid projects without any repercussions. Filming wrapped on Friday afternoon, with no fanfare or celebration.”

Ncuti’s exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest since Christopher Eccleston, who left after just one series in 2005.

Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker all did at least three seasons before handing over the Tardis key.

Ncuti was brought in by Russell T Davies, who rebooted the franchise in 2005 before leaving in 2009, only to return two years ago.

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Ncuti’s exit as the Time Lord would be the earliest since Christopher Eccleston, who left after just one series in 2005, pictured iconic alien monster, the Dalek[/caption]

The actor has appeared in Barbie and has just been making another film, The Roses, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman.

It is understood he also has a string of other projects on both sides of the Atlantic.

Fans had feared the show — which first aired in 1963 — could be scrapped after Ncuti’s appearance on The Graham Norton Show last year.

He revealed he would be filming a third series, but his comment was mysteriously edited out.

The BBC and Disney+ declined to comment. 

BEEB’S TO BLAME

By ROD McPHEE

FOR over 60 years he defeated daleks and saw off cybermen — but now The Doctor looks like he’s been beaten by wokery.

It’s another example of the BBC wrecking a TV institution with a politically correct agenda.

Russell T Davies was brought back in by the BBC to revive the show — but he tried to change too much, too quickly.

Ncuti Gatwa was also a problem for fans. 

Not because he was the first non-white actor in the role but because he blurred the doctor’s eccentric image by wearing latex tops and skirts in mags.

The BBC look like they’ve managed to kill off a character who, in theory, was supposed to live forever.

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Watch moment Star Wars legend Mark Hamill’s trousers fall down on Baftas stage as horrified A-Listers get flashed

LUKE Skywalker actor Mark Hamill faced the dark slide when his trousers dropped as he revealed the Best Film gong at the EE Baftas.

A clip unearthed by The Sun shows the Star Wars favourite scrambling to hold up the pants while focusing on the autocue.

Mark Hamill presenting at the BAFTAs.
Star Wars star fumbles behind the lectern at the Baftas as his trousers start to drop
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Mark Hamill presenting at the BAFTAs.
Hamill looks panicked as he feels the trousers slipping while he tells the audience of his love for film
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Mark Hamill presenting at the BAFTA Awards.
An insider said that stars such as Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Adrien Brody would have seen his trousers fail from their angle in the audience
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Stage-side A-listers watched in horror. But Mark’s blushes were spared by a lectern at London’s Royal Festival Hall which meant from 3.8million TV viewers missed the drama.

An insider sat at the front told us: “Mark started speaking then his suit trousers just dropped to his knees. It was like they were too big for him.

“All the big stars such as Timothée Chalamet, Ariana Grande, Adrien Brody would have seen it from their angle.

“Most guests looked horrified but said nothing. It was a moment that you wouldn’t have believed unless you saw it.

“They were turning to each other wide-eyed as if to say, ‘Did that just happen?’”

As seen in our pictures, the moment Mark, 73, feels the trousers Force slipping comes as he tells the audience about his love of cinema, saying: “For me, films create worlds so vivid.”

Without losing his place on the autocue, he continues speaking to the stars as he hurriedly does up his trousers and tucks his shirt back in.

After handing over the Best Film award to the team behind Conclave, telling of the secretive task of picking a new Pope, Mark manages to walk off stage with his trousers intact.

Our insider added: “Mark and his disappearing trousers were the talk of the awards dinner later on.

“People couldn’t work out how they just fell down when they had been perfectly fine earlier when he walked out on to the stage.

“It’s a scenario which is every big star’s worst nightmare but Mark styled it out like a pro.

“He might need to get a better belt for next year though.”

Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker wielding a lightsaber in Star Wars: A New Hope.
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The star as most will remember him as Luke Skywalker[/caption]
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The audience was left baffled as Hamill’s trousers suddenly dropped – despite appearing fine as he walked on[/caption]
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The star managed to keep his trousers up as he exited the stage after presenting the Best Film award to Conclave[/caption]

Gen Z’s chill zone

BOSSES created a “quiet room” for Gen Z stars.

The spot, next to the VIP pre-show drinks area, offered comfy chairs and chilled water for anyone struggling with the noise.

An insider said: “The awards can be hectic. Not everyone wants to hob-nob and swig champagne.

“Bafta wanted to be in tune with the younger stars’ needs.”


FRIDAY’S eight-hour blaze at The Chiltern Firehouse, which had been due to host Sunday’s post-Baftas party, was caused by wood falling from a pizza oven, London fire chiefs revealed yesterday.


Wicked’s stars split

WICKED stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were kept apart by security — fearing the film pair would be mobbed.

They only managed a quick hello and a photo in the VIP reception before being whisked away from each other.

Our insider said: “It’s a nightmare having two stars of a film together. Everyone rushes to speak to them.”

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