The Contender

The host isn’t who you might think. It’s Iyanla Vanzant, a motivational guru who’s being groomed as the next Oprah Winfrey. For years the now 48-year-old best-selling author, with playful eyes and a 150-watt smile, was a regular guest on “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” helping audience members solve problems with girlfriend humor and inspirational advice. Then Barbara Walters spotted her and persuaded her to go solo. Disney’s Buena Vista Productions signed her up and made a pilot....

January 19, 2023 · 2 min · 283 words · Rodney Geise

The Covert Agent Wanderers Meet With Paul Okon To Discuss Vacant Manager Role

The Covert Agent can reveal the meeting occurred a few days ago, with Okon now a leading candidate for the job alongside Australian under 23 coach Josep Gombau. Argentina 8/1 to win World Cup Lederer is believed to be a big fan of Okon, who hails from western Sydney, and sees him as a future coach of the club. An offer of $200,000-a-year might be enough to tempt Okon, who is paid less than that amount in Gosford....

January 19, 2023 · 1 min · 113 words · Tonya Schultz

The Best Shows To Watch If You Like The Sandman

RELATED: The Sandman: Every Family Member That Has Appeared In The Show (& Others We Want To See) While waiting for Season 2, viewers will likely be wanting to find series that are similar to The Sandman in order to fill the void. Luckily there are plenty of shows like The Sandman, most of which are available either on Netflix or one of its rival streaming platforms. 6 Constantine The Sandman actually has a character called Constantine, so viewers may be wondering if the show Constantine is connected to it in any way....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 831 words · Amanda Sampson

The Best Vacuum Sealers To Preserve Your Food For Longer

Vacuum sealers are easy and practical—whether you’re interested in sealing bulk foods for your family days in advance, preserving dried foods, sealing foods to cook in water, or locking in the freshness of your food. Here are the best vacuum sealers available today. Q: Is Vacuum Sealing Worth It? A vacuum sealer is worth it if you have a large family or are cooking in bulk as you can preserve food for longer in separate bags....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 731 words · Samantha Rodgers

The Best Video Game Villains Of All Time Ranked

RELATED: Video Game Franchises with the Best Villains With narrative-driven experiences becoming increasingly popular, many now feel that a game is only as good as its characters, which is perhaps why so much time and effort goes into crafting the perfect villains these days. Not every developer has what it takes to create a truly iconic antagonist though, making the best video game villains all the more impressive as a result....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 943 words · James Spruill

The Biggest Games And Pre Orders Are Buy 2 Get 1 Free At Target Right Now

The best part about Target’s current promotion is that it includes some of 2019’s biggest games such as Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, which recently broke records for the Star Wars franchise and its publisher EA. Other notable games included in Target’s sale are Death Stranding, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, The Outer Worlds, and many others. RELATED: 2019’s Biggest Games Are On Sale at the Xbox Store Apart from games that are already released, Target is also offering a handful of upcoming games that are eligible for pre-order in the sale....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 338 words · Edith Constable

The Biggest Prize Of All

Why such faint praise? Because we could be doing so much better. Men have never lived as long as women, but the male-female longevity gap has expanded from just one year in the 1920s to five years today. With the exception of Alzheimer’s disease, all 15 of America’s leading killers now take a greater toll on men than on women. We’re twice as likely to die in accidents or homicides, three times more likely to be diagnosed with AIDS and four times more likely to take our own lives....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 384 words · Marvin Mcginty

The Biggest Winners And Losers Of Last Night S Raw February 25

Who got the most and least out of last night’s show? Winner: Roman Reigns It seemed incredulous to think that Roman Reigns would be announced for the show unless he had good news to share. His news was better than expected. To a raucous ovation, he announced that his cancer is not only in remission, but that he’s been cleared to return to action. Later in the night, the Shield reunited once again in favor of Dean Ambrose....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 756 words · Seth Smith

The Biggest Winners And Losers Of Last Night S Smackdown January 10

Winners: The Miz and John Morrison Despite his long absence from WWE, it didn’t look like this partnership missed a beat as John Morrison ragged on the fans for turning on The Miz after one bad day, while the latter boasted about his former tag team ally’s accomplishments to remind viewers who he was. This ultimately led to a match between The Miz and Kofi Kingston, which the former won....

January 18, 2023 · 3 min · 600 words · Jo Jefferis

The Birth Of Modernity

It was called a ““total war’’–the first industrialized war between great powers. It was marked by mechanized armies and technological warfare, but also by the elimination of age-old distinctions of battle between civilians and soldiers, cities and battlefields and day and night. Most of all, it exploded the idea of limits. Seventy million men served in the war; 9 million died in it. To put this in perspective: Americans are rightly anguished over losing 58,000 servicemen during the seven years of the Vietnam War....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 378 words · Jerry Josephs

The Bittersweet Tale Of Ms Dhoni

“Dhoni finishes off in style. A magnificent strike into the crowd! India lift the World Cup after 28 years. The party has started in the dressing room. And it’s an Indian captain, who has been absolutely magnificent on the night of the final!" Make no mistake, it was a perfect tale, almost as if it was scripted in heaven by the Cricketing Gods themselves. India won the World Cup. The nation deserved it, and above all Sachin deserved it....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 1034 words · Norris Leak

The Black Shark 4 Is Official And Big Changes Are Coming

In fact, we’d go as far as to say that it looks like your standard 2021 flagship smartphone, but without compromising on key features that make the Black Shark series stand out from a sea of gaming phones. Let’s start by discussing the similarities between the Black Shark 4 and Black Shark 4 Pro because, on the surface, it doesn’t appear that there are huge differences between the two. For example, both sport the same 6....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 782 words · Peggy Oneal

The Blitz Read Streaking Chiefs Seahawks Stay Hot In Playoff Push

The Chiefs won their seventh straight game on Sunday with a 10-3 victory over the Chargers while the Seahawks rolled over the Ravens for their fourth straight win. MORE: Ripple effects from Steelers-Bengals | Are Panthers an NFC dynasty? | Week 14’s best photos Both teams are 8-5 and would be the fifth seeds in their respective conferences, but they still have a chance to win their West divisions. After the Raiders upset the Broncos, the Chiefs are two games back of the Broncos in the AFC West and have their next two games against the inept Ravens and Browns before a season-ending home game against the Raiders....

January 18, 2023 · 6 min · 1070 words · Rory Mcinnis

The Boom In Gloom

The boom in gloom is not exclusively–or even mainly–the creation of congressional Democrats trying to embarrass the White House on the eve of an election year. A few weeks ago, The Wall Street Journal interviewed a sample of corporate chief executive officers. This is what Bernard Marcus, the head of Home Depot Inc., a chain of hardware and home-repair stores, had to say: “You’ve heard the thing about Nero fiddling while Rome burned....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 904 words · Nina Carter

The Borderlands Franchise Will Never Be Able To Forget About Handsome Jack

Handsome Jack became iconic for a number of reasons. While he was hilarious, quipping about pretzels and Butt Stallion as the story progressed, he was also ruthless and terrifying when he wanted to be. His motivations were understandable, even if his methods of achieving them were flawed. Most importantly, Handsome Jack was a tragic character that gamers were able to learn about across a number of Borderlands games, with the character having a key role in most of the games where he is featured....

January 18, 2023 · 3 min · 569 words · Mike Oshea

The Borowitz Report Cia Using Mariah Carey Movie In Al Qaeda Interrogations

The film usually induces prisoners to talk after 10 or 12 minutes. “They usually crack during the scenes in which Mariah Carey plays herself as a teenager,” says one source familiar with the CIA interrogations. A spokesman for Amnesty International, the human-rights group, blasted the CIA for forcing captured Al Qaeda fighters to watch the excruciating film. “If a nation condones the institutionalized use of Mariah Carey films during interrogations, it comes perilously close to condoning torture,” says the spokesman....

January 18, 2023 · 1 min · 172 words · Eugene Kahrs

The Borowitz Report The Condit Condit Ion

THE STUDY appears in the scholarly journal formerly called English Usage. It was retitled Condit Weekly as of this week. “We knew that people were saying ‘Condit’ a lot, but we had no idea how much they were saying ‘Condit,’” says Prof. Irvin Harburg, one of the language experts who was consulted for the study. “What we are finding is that they are saying ‘Condit’ a lot, and saying ‘Condit’ more often than they are not saying ‘Condit’....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 232 words · Hans Rich

The Case Against Winnie

During nine days of testimony, three dozen witnesses described the woman once known as the ““mother of the nation” directing a gang of young toughs who abducted, beat and killed suspected police informers and others who aroused her formidable anger . The goons were called the Mandela United Football Club, and last week its ““coach,” Jerry Richardson, said Winnie ordered the abduction of Stompie Seipei, a 14-year-old boy suspected of informing, and then supervised his torture....

January 18, 2023 · 2 min · 368 words · Terrell Clauson

The Case For A New Better Avatar The Last Airbender Game

Looking at the era in which the first games were released could answer the question of why this happened. At the time, publishers would grab externally licensed content like TV shows and movies and hastily slap it together in a video game, which would typically yield half-hearted results. Some older superhero titles and the Harry Potter series were victims of this effect that ultimately could’ve turned out to be exceptional open-world or action-adventure RPGs....

January 18, 2023 · 4 min · 657 words · Timothy Spencer

The Case For A Sonic Frontiers Sequel

Sonic Frontiers brings back many facets of the Sonic franchise that fans have wanted to see for years, and while fans are in agreement that it isn’t perfect, what Frontiers brings to the table is fun and worth improving. Frontiers can been considered a return to form for 3D Sonic, and there are three things that help with that. Not only is the open-zone formula expansive and freeing, but the bosses with Super Sonic are also electric and exciting....

January 18, 2023 · 5 min · 874 words · Willie Oquinn