(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Monday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 3, NY Yankees 2
Baltimore 14, Boston 8
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Pittsburgh 8, Cincinatti 3
Atlanta 8, Washington 0
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON
Florida 4, Nashville 3 (OT)
Nashville 4, Florida 0
NY Rangers 4, NY Islanders 1
New Jersey 2, Montreal 1
St. Louis 4, Dallas 0
Seattle 3, Edmonton 0
Los Angeles 2, Vegas 1 (OT)
(NEW YORK) — Rihanna will take the stage for the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in February.
The National Football League posted an image to social media on Sunday of Rihanna’s hand holding a football and wrote, “Let’s GO.” The singer shared the same image.
The game will be held Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
The news comes after the NFL announced Apple Music as the new partner for the Super Bowl halftime show, replacing longtime sponsor Pepsi, via a press release dropped at midnight on Sept. 23.
In October 2019, Rihanna confirmed that she had turned down an offer from the NFL to headline the Super Bowl LIII halftime show, citing Colin Kaepernick.
“Absolutely. I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people,” Rihanna told Vogue magazine at the time when asked if she turned down the offer in solidarity with the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback.
Recent Super Bowl halftime show performers include Shakira and Jennifer Lopez in 2020, The Weeknd in 2021 and Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar in 2022.
Prior halftime shows under Pepsi include Prince in 2007, Beyoncé in 2013, Bruno Mars in 2014, Katy Perry in 2015, Coldplay in 2016, Lady Gaga in 2017, Justin Timberlake in 2018 and Maroon 5 in 2019.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
NY Mets 13, Oakland 4
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Toronto 7, Tampa Bay 1
Houston 6, Baltimore 3
Detroit 4, Chi White Sox 1
Cleveland 10, Texas 4
Kansas City 13, Seattle 12
LA Angels 10, Minnesota 3
NY Yankees 2, Boston 0
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Atlanta 8, Philadelphia 7
Cincinnati 2, Milwaukee 1
Chi Cubs 8, Pittsburgh 3
Washington 6, Miami 1
San Diego 13, Colorado 6
LA Dodgers 4, St. Louis 1
San Francisco 3, Arizona 2
NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON
Pittsburgh 3, Columbus 2 (OT)
Buffalo 4, Washington 3 (OT)
Minnesota 3, Colorado 2 (OT)
Anaheim 3, Arizona 2
Winnipeg 4, Edmonton 0
Calgary 3, Vancouver 2 (OT)
San Jose 3, Los Angeles 2 (OT)
Columbus 5, Pittsburgh 1
Vegas a3, Colorado 1
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Baltimore 37, New England 26
Carolina 22, New Orleans 14
Chicago 23, Houston 20
Cincinnati 27, NY Jets 12
Indianapolis 20, Kansas City 17
Miami 21, Buffalo 19
Minnesota 28, Detroit 24
Philadelphia 24, Washington 8
Tennessee 24, Las Vegas 22
Jacksonville 38, LA Chargers 10
Atlanta 27, Seattle 23
Green Bay 14, Tampa Bay 12
LA Rams 20, Arizona 12
Denver 11, San Francisco 10
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Cincinnati 5, Boston 1
NY Yankees 14, Pittsburgh 2
Philadelphia 4, Toronto 3
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Houston 5, Tampa Bay 2
Baltimore 8, Detroit 1
Texas 7, LA Angels 2
Cleveland 8, Chi White Sox 2
Kansas City 5, Minnesota 2
Oakland 2, Seattle 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Washington 3, Atlanta 2
Milwaukee 6, NY Mets 0
Chi Cubs 4, Miami 3
San Francisco 6, Colorado 1
San Diego 1, St. Louis 0
Arizona 6, LA Dodgers 1
(NEW YORK) — A Little League World Series player who was seriously injured after falling from a bunk bed while staying at the Little League World Series Complex in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, is back home in Utah after getting discharged from the hospital.
Easton Oliverson’s parents say they’re thankful to have their 12-year-old home after over a month of uncertainty.
“There were many moments this past few weeks where we didn’t think that he was ever going to be able to come home. We thought our son wasn’t going to make it,” Easton’s father Jace Oliverson told ABC News’ Good Morning America.
Easton, a baseball pitcher and left fielder, had traveled with his Snow Canyon Little League team, which hails from Santa Clara, Utah, to Pennsylvania in August to play in the Little League World Series. On the night of Aug. 15, however, he fell from a bunk bed in one of the league’s dormitories while sleeping and suffered a serious head injury, leading to a fractured skull, broken artery and epidural hematoma, a condition where bleeding occurs between the brain’s dura and the skull.
Little League players, coaches and managers are typically required to stay at the league’s complex. The dormitory where Easton was staying included bunk beds for the players to sleep on, which did not have guard railings. Since the incident, Little League Baseball officials announced they would remove all bunk beds in their dormitories.
“Since 1992, Little League has used institutional-style bunk beds to offer the most space for the players to enjoy their time in the dorms,” the league said in a statement last month. “While these beds do not have guardrails, Little League is unaware of any serious injuries ever occurring during that period of time. Out of an abundance of caution, Little League has made the decision to remove all bunks from within the dorms and have each bed frame individually on the floor.”
A photo of the beds from a parents guide of the facility shows no railings on any of the top bunks.
After the fall, Easton was airlifted to Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville, Pennsylvania, according to Little League Baseball, and had to receive surgery and treatment in an intensive care unit.
“I was told after the surgery that he was easily 30 to 45 minutes away from passing away,” Jace Oliverson told GMA in August.
While in the hospital, Easton, whose nickname is “Tank,” made big strides toward recovery. His dad told GMA that “doctors were stunned by his progression in a short amount of time.”
At the end of August, Easton was transferred to another hospital in his home state of Utah where he recovered enough to be discharged.
Now that Easton is out of the hospital, his parents remain by his side as he continues to heal.
“We’re so proud of how far he’s come and how hard he has worked. But he definitely has a lot more work to do,” Nancy Oliverson said.
“He’s home and we’re just so blessed and so grateful that he’s still with us and that he’s able to have a road of recovery with everything that this kid has had to go through since Aug. 15,” Jace Oliverson added.
The Oliversons have since filed a lawsuit against Little League Baseball and Savoy Contract Furniture, the company that made the bunk beds.
The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the family by Duffy + Fulginiti, a Philadelphia-based law firm, claims Little League Baseball “allow[ed] the bed to exist in a dangerous condition” and failed to “inspect the bed,” “have rails on the bed,” and failed to “properly secure the bed,” allowing Easton to fall. It accuses Savoy Contract Furniture of selling “dangerous and defective” furniture that caused Easton “significant and permanent injuries, including internal bleeding among other injuries, some or all of which are permanent in nature.”
The 12-year-old “has suffered in the past and will continue to suffer in the future, aches, pains, trauma, contusions, humiliation, embarrassment, suffering, disfigurement, and/or inconvenience” as a result of the incident, the lawsuit claims.
The suit is seeking “in excess of $50,000” plus “costs, interest, compensatory and punitive damages, and all other damages allowed by law.”
Kevin Fountain, senior director of communications at Little League International, said in a statement to Good Morning America that “it is Little League International’s policy not to comment on pending litigation.”
Savoy Contract Furniture has not issued any public statements on the lawsuit and did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the matter.
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Tuesday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
Boston 5, Cincinnati 3
Toronto 18, Philadelphia 11
NY Yankees 9, Pittsburgh 8
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Houston 5, Tampa Bay 0
Detroit 3, Baltimore 2
LA Angels 5, Texas 2
Kansas City 5, Minnesota 4
Oakland 4, Seattle 1
Cleveland 10, Chi White Sox 7
NATIONAL LEAGUE
LA Dodgers 6, Arizona 5
Arizona 5, LA Dodgers 2
Chi Cubs 2, Miami 1
Atlanta 3, Washington 2
NY Mets 7, Milwaukee 5
San Francisco 6, Colorado 3
San Diego 5, St. Louis 0
(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Sunday’s sports events:
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
INTERLEAGUE
NY Yankees 12, Milwaukee 8
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago White Sox 11, Detroit 5
Tampa Bay 5, Texas 3
Minnesota 3, Cleveland 0
Baltimore 5, Toronto 4
Boston 13, Kansas City 3
Houston 11, Oakland 2
LA Angels 5 Seattle 1
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Miami 3, Washington 1
Atlanta 5, Philadelphia 2
Cincinnati 3, St. Louis 0
NY Mets 7, Pittsburgh 3
Colorado 4, Chicago Cubs 3
San Diego 6, Arizona 1
LA Dodgers 4, San Francisco 3
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Detroit 36, Washington 27
Jacksonville 24, Indianapolis 0
Miami 42, Baltimore 38
NY Giants 19, Carolina 16
NY Jets 31, Cleveland 30
New England 17, Pittsburgh 14
Tampa Bay 20, New Orleans 10
LA Rams 31, Atlanta 27
San Francisco 27, Seattle 7
Arizona 29, Las Vegas 23 (OT)
Dallas 20, Cincinnati 17
Denver 16, Houston 9
Green Bay 27, Chicago 10
WOMEN’S NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION PLAYOFFS
Las Vegas 78, Connecticut 71
MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER
Portland 1, Columbus 1 (TIE)
Miami 3, DC United 2
Los Angeles FC 3, Houston 1
(LONDON) — David Beckham joined the miles-long queue Friday to pay respects to Queen Elizabeth II.
The soccer legend joined the hundred of thousands of people waiting in line for hours to pay respects to the monarch, who is currently lying in state at Westminster Hall ahead of her state funeral on Monday.
“I grew up in a household of royalists and I was brought up that way,” Beckham told ITV News from the queue. “If my grandparents would have been here today I know that they would have wanted to be here, so I am here on their behalf and on behalf of my family.”
The former Manchester United star is married to former Spice Girl Victoria Beckham, with whom he shares four children, sons Brooklyn, 23; Romeo, 20; and Cruz, 17; as well as daughter Harper, 11.
“It’s a sad day, but it’s a day for us to remember the incredible legacy that she left,” he said of the queen, adding that “Her Majesty meant so much in so many different ways.”
Beckham said he was “lucky to have a few moments” with the queen throughout his life and career, noting that the “most special moment” for him was receiving his Officer of the Order of the British Empire distinction, or OBE, which was bestowed on him by Elizabeth herself in 2003.
Elizabeth died Sept. 8 at age 96 and is the longest-reigning British monarch, having held the throne for 70 years.
The late queen’s eldest son King Charles III has since inherited the throne.
