JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – The Jaguars are filling their defensive coordinator position with Atlanta’s Ryan Nielsen, leaning on an up-and-coming coach to revitalize a defense that imploded down the stretch as Jacksonville missed the playoffs. This comes as the team fired defense coordinator Mike Caldwell after a plummeting season collapse. Nielsen, 44, spent last year as…
Scott Stuber, who brought Oscar-winning filmmakers like Martin Scorsese, Spike Lee, Jane Campion and Alfonso Cuarón to Netflix and in doing so helped to usher the entertainment industry into the streaming era, is leaving as the service’s film chairman, the company said on Monday. News of Mr. Stuber’s departure came on the eve of the…
Paramount Global is sharpening the ax for a massive wave of staff reductions that could whack as many as 800 jobs, according to a new report. The debt-laden entertainment giant, which has been put up for sale, will begin slashing hundreds of jobs in February, Deadline reported late Sunday. The news follows a Wall Street…
SAN DIEGO – Alabama sophomore Nick Dunlap has withdrawn from the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines to contemplate his options as the first amateur in 33 years to win on the PGA Tour. Dunlap, the reigning U.S. Amateur champion, won The American Express on Sunday by making a 6-foot par putt on the final…
At BK, having it you’re way now comes with a crown. Burger King employees have been ordered to tell customers “You rule” and to offer them a cardboard crown as a gesture of thanks for ordering a whopper or anything else on the menu. The Florida-based fast food chain is planning to send monitors to…
The NFL is down to its final four teams, and the San Francisco 49ers (+145) remain favorites to win Super Bowl 58 in Las Vegas. After narrowly escaping with a win against the Green Bay Packers in the divisional round, the 49ers host the Detroit Lions in the NFC Championship game next week. The 49ers…
Former Harvard President Larry Summers slammed the university over its appointment of a Jewish professor who has called Israel “an apartheid state” to co-chair its antisemitism task force. Summers took issue with the appointment of Prof. Derek Penslar, a scholar of Jewish history, as co-chair of a task force that was named by the school’s…
Raw oysters from certain parts of Mexico could be a source of norovirus, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is warning. The agency has advised restaurants and retailers to stop selling and to dispose of oysters harvested from Bahia Salina, Sonora, Mexico — which were shipped by freight carrier Sociedad Acuicola GolPac on Dec….
Every August, after the NBA releases its schedule for the upcoming season, Michael McCullough, the Miami Heat’s chief marketing officer, thinks about the next 82 games. He not only considers ticket sales and promotions but also sets a meeting with the team’s equipment manager and focuses on an essential part of his job: uniforms. Laying…
Three of the NFL’s heavyweights have made it to the sport’s championship weekend. Then there are the Detroit Lions — who are one win away from their first Super Bowl appearance. The Lions continued their feel-good run with Sunday’s hard-fought win over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, advancing to the NFC championship game. They’ll travel to…
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