After 20 seasons in San Diego & New Orleans, winning one Super Bowl (with the Saints), Drew Brees retired Sunday, and was promptly hired by NBC, meaning either they're expanding the desk for Football Night in America next fall, or someone's being reassigned.
Brees was drafted by the then-San Diego Chargers out of Purdue in 2001, and signed with New Orleans in 2008. The Saints as of now will go into the 2021 season with Taysom Hill and Jameis Winston dueling for the starting QB job. In addition, Brees' retirement makes the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers a prohibitive favorite to win the NFC South, if not a 2nd NFC title, at least from this desk.
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Big headline coming out of last night's Grammy Awards was Beyonce winning her 28th award, an all-time record. That's more than Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Mariah Carey, etc.. The record breaker was for a duet with daughter Blue Ivy.
Tabloid magnet Kanye West, newly estranged from Kim Kardashian, won a Grammy for Best Christian Album for "Jesus is King". We'll see if he adds any Dove Awards.
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A couple of CW stars are soon to make their debuts as comic book writers.
Camrus Johnson (Batwoman) is writing a story for one of DC's Batman anthology titles, due in June. Supergirl co-star Nicole Maines is scripting a story marking the DCU debut of her character, Nia Nal, aka Dreamer, for DC's Pride anthology special showcasing LGBTQ+ characters, also due in June. With Supergirl being rushed onto the schedule at the end of the month while Superman & Lois goes on hiatus from production due to COVID, Maines is making sure Dreamer won't be forgotten, as she has poured so much emotional investment into the role since joining the show two seasons back. Supergirl begins its final season March 30.
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Just when you thought LaVar Ball was the worst possible stage parent, along comes a Pennsylvania mom who's taken some extreme measures to ensure her daughter's spot on a high school cheerleading team.
Raffaela Spone, 50, used deepfake technology to create phony videos purportedly showing three other girls drinking alcohol, smoking---presumably marijuana----, and, supposedly, walking around naked.
Photo courtesy of Yahoo!
Spone allegedly also sent abusive messages to other team members and their families, as well as the owners of a gym from false phone numbers. Spone's been charged with three counts of cyber harassment, among other things. Apparently, in Mrs. Greasy Spone's warped mind, her daughter was being bullied herself, and took it upon herself, supposedly without her daughter's knowledge, to pull this scam, which makes her a easy pick for Weasel of The Week. I get that she was obsessed with getting her daughter on the team, living vicariously through her child, but this does more harm than good.
Update, 3/16/21, 10:38 pm: We've added a video from Monday's Good Morning America:
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