From 'The Blind Side' bombshell to an NBA star standoff, here's what's happening in entertainment.
Blind(ed) Side
Michael Oher, former NFL tackle and the focus of the hit 2009 film The Blind Side, has alleged the couple that took him in during his teenage years lied about adopting him. In a Tennessee court filing, Oher said the couple, Sean and Leigh Anne Tuohy, did not tell the truth about his adoption status and instead tricked him into signing papers that made them his conservators.
He asked a judge to terminate the conservatorship and to require the couple to turn over a full account of money they made off of his name. Oher also requested the Tuohys face some sort of sanctions and be required to pay compensatory and punitive damages, according to the Associated Press. The filing also revealed that Oher only learned of the status of his adoption this year.
ESPN x NBA
ESPN analyst and color commentator Doris Burke will be making history come the NBA finals. She will become the first woman to serve as TV analyst during a championship final for any of the four major U.S. sports.
The network announced she'll be calling the game along with former Philadelphia 76ers coach Doc Rivers and long-time commentator Mike Breen. The news comes just weeks after the network cleared the house of some of its most tenured analysts, like Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson.
Rivers joins the analyst team after losing his coaching job when the 76ers failed to reach the NBA finals this year.
Harden Drama
Also, in NBA news: what's beef? 76ers star James Harden is in a standoff with the team that he clearly wants to leave. Harden, who headed to Philly in 2022 after his 1-year stint on the Brooklyn Nets, wanted to head to the L.A. Clippers, but talks between the teams didn't pan out.
This weekend, during a promotional even in China, Harden called 76ers owner Daryl Morey a liar. The declaration comes after the 76ers announced that they stopped entertaining trade offers for Harden and would retain him for the upcoming season. It's unclear what happens next with training camps scheduled to start in October.
Michael Jenkins, host of 'The Daily Tip' provides his best plays for Week 13 of the NFL season, Amanda Casey Vance of Bookies.com breaks down this weekend's conference championship slate and makes her pick for which teams will make the Playoff, and VSIN's Amal Shah makes sense of what has been a very unpredictable NFL season thus far.
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Amal Shah, host of VSin's 'Odds On', joins Cheddar Bets to break down his favorite dark horse teams in each conference and how to be successful when live betting.
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Amanda Casey Vance, Sports Betting Analyst for Bookies.com, joins Cheddar Bets to break down a massive College Football Championship Game week, and what the final CFP Ranking will look like.
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Major League Baseball entered its first owner implemented lockout in nearly 30 years after the league and the player's association were unable to come to an agreement on a new labor deal.
Jill and Carlo discuss what appears to be the beginning of the end of Roe v. Wade, another victim dies following the school shooting in Michigan, Omicron in the U.S., Trump's Covid chronology and more.
Jill and Carlo cover the latest on Omicron, another school shooting in America and more. Plus, bidding farewell to 'transitory' inflation, and the controversy surrounding 'Lovely Bones' author Alice Sebold.
Major League Baseball and its players' union remain at odds over a new collective bargaining agreement, and if a deal isn't reached by 11:59 P.M. eastern time Wednesday, the league will experience its first work stoppage in more than two decades. Ryan Fagan, Senior MLB Writer at The Sporting News, joins Cheddar News' Closing Bell, where he discusses the impact of such an event on both teams and players across baseball.
After a nearly 30-year saga, the New York Islanders have officially found a new home. The NHL team kicked off their very first game at the state of the art UBS arena earlier this month, bringing fans together in Belmont Park, NY.
The over $1 billion dollar project comes as the city attempts to return to normalcy. Tom Naratil, President of the Americas at UBS and Jon Ledecky Co-Owner of the New York Islanders joined Cheddar's Opening Bell to discuss the new beginning.
