Raccoon spotted running through the stands at Mets-Pirates game
Raccoon spotted running through the stands at Mets-Pirates game
A raccoon was spotted in the stands during the seventh inning stretch at the Mets-Pirates game at Citi Field in NYC.
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The Province
30 minutes ago
- The Province
Vancouver's wrestling scene is booming. Here's why
City's wrestling mainstream includes spot prawn body slams — and staple guns Matt Brannigan applies the purple nurple to Shreddz at Destroy Wrestling, May 30 at the Rickshaw Theatre. Patrick Powers photo Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are independently selected. Postmedia may earn an affiliate commission from purchases made through links on this page. Tara Zep is in trouble. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. SUBSCRIBE TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Exclusive articles by top sports columnists Patrick Johnston, Ben Kuzma, J.J. Abrams and others. Plus, Canucks Report, Sports and Headline News newsletters and events. Unlimited online access to The Province and 15 news sites with one account. The Province ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition to view on any device, share and comment on. Daily puzzles and comics, including the New York Times Crossword. Support local journalism. REGISTER / SIGN IN TO UNLOCK MORE ARTICLES Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account. Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments. Enjoy additional articles per month. Get email updates from your favourite authors. THIS ARTICLE IS FREE TO READ REGISTER TO UNLOCK. Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Among other macro-aggressions, her opponent Drexl has used a staple gun to staple flyers from the evening's sponsors to various parts of the much smaller wrestler's anatomy. He has also positioned the seemingly stunned Zep over a large tin garbage can. Now the man-mountain nicknamed The Homicidal Artist has climbed the ropes and is about to body slam the petite, self-proclaimed Vile Villain into the metal cannister. Both wrestlers wear whiteface, though the addition of black eye makeup gives Zep a J-horror movie monster look. But wait! Just when it looks like it's all over for the underdog, Zep musters the strength to roll out of range just as Drexl jumps, landing on the garbage can in what looks like a very uncomfortable manner. As he recovers, his opponent reaches for her not-so-secret weapon – a folding chair with 'Zep' Sharpie'd on the back. Leaning the chair against the pained-looking, hunched over Drexl, she drives shoulder-first into chair and wrestler, knocking the Homicidal Artist down. The full house cheers. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. We're only halfway through another sold-out WrestleCore at the Rickshaw Theatre. Along with a seven-match card featuring some of the local circuit's most popular good guys and bad guys, the event boasts live music from punk band Wait//less, a 50/50 draw and, in keeping with the evening's Destroy Wrestling theme, images of a dumpster on fire projected onto the venue's screens. Kobra Kai, a.k.a. Stevan Cvjetkovich, is the former pro wrestler behind WrestleCore. Along with his partner, Calamity Kate, he's organized 38 events since he began the promotion in Vancouver seven years ago. Thirty-seven have sold out. Today, there are at least eight independent wrestling clubs, or promotions, in the Lower Mainland, including WrestleCore, Canadian Apex Wrestling, Nation Extreme, Boom! Pro, No Fate, INvoke, Dusk, 365, and All Star. Essential reading for hockey fans who eat, sleep, Canucks, repeat. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'Wrestling has definitely gone a lot more mainstream in the last 10 years,' Cvjetkovich said. 'When I first started, the audience was very minimal. I would be shocked if there were 100 people in the audience.' He credits Wise Pro Wrestling, a local company started by Kenny Lush and brothers Tom and Franjo Pavlovic in 2016 for 'setting a new standard of how it should be done' and inspiring other companies to form. Wait//less's Rebecca White shares the spotlight with wrestler Tara Zep at WrestleCore's Destroy Wrestling, May 30 at the Rickshaw Theatre. Patrick Powers photo This has led to innovation and a wide range of wrestling product. For example, the night after Zep pounded her trademark folding chair into her opponent, Prawn Cena was body slamming Taryn from Accounting at the Legion on Commercial. While everyone at the Rickshaw was of, or well over, drinking age, the Legion audience was made up of several young families, including kids. And no one was using a staple gun unless it was to hold together the spot prawn costume worn by wrestler Izzy McQueen. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'One of the challenges is that every event has to be unique and original,' said Max Mitchell, principal owner/operator of Boom! Pro. 'That means the branding, the title, all the graphic design. Once you do a lot of these you begin to get creative with your titles.' The Saturday night event at the Legion was Boom! Pro's third annual Spot Prawn Season card. 'Spot Prawn Season felt like a uniquely Vancouver name for a show. It's really just marked by a couple of things. We hand out a ceremonial wreath, and there's an appearance by Prawn Cena.' Before starting Boom! Pro three years ago, Mitchell produced comedy at Little Mountain Gallery on Main. After he fell in love with wrestling — which, admittedly, took him years and repeated exposure to WrestleMania courtesy of friend/Boom! Pro co-creative Travis Woloshyn — he organized a private match for family and friends on his 40th birthday. Six months later, he bought a ring. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. His mission: to help bring people around to the joys of wrestling. 'During the time that I was falling in love with wrestling, I would show clips of matches to people around me, trying to help them understand that there was this incredible thing taking place, and to convince them that it was worth their time and energy. And failing. I did this for eight years.' Finally, Mitchell says, he looked to his wife for inspiration. 'Because she doesn't like wrestling, or even action films. And I thought, 'If I can create a wrestling show that my wife will enjoy, we'll have something to draw in this huge group of people who don't even know that they would like wrestling.' So it would have to be funny. But wrestling is inherently funny. It is so strange and ridiculous that you have to laugh, especially if you're experiencing it for the first time.' This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. But wrestling contains multitudes. Just ask Zep, she of the fearsome appearance and staple punctures. The wrestler has formed her own promotion, No Fate, to bring a more extreme version of the art to Vancouver. 'I have a vision for this company,' Zep said. 'There are hundreds like it in the U.S. Canada seems to be a little more hoity-toity in its rules and regulations. Especially in the B.C. area, people are afraid to push boundaries. That's one of my main goals, to push boundaries and give fans something they've never seen before.' Although her Destroy Wrestling bout with Drexl was the stuff of playground nightmares, Zep is no stranger to the more comedic aspects of Boom! Pro. 'I do all kinds of wrestling,' said Zep, who takes on All Elite Wrestling star Leyla Hirsch at Vancouver Island Wrestlefest II on June 27 in Nanaimo. Tickets here. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. 'I love doing comedy matches. I've pretty much only done comedy matches for Nation Extreme Wrestling, because that's the character and story I've been telling with that company. But I think a lot of B.C. promotions are maybe a little intimidated by me and my look.' If you need any more convincing that there might be a wrestling event for you, we'll give Chris Parry the last word. 'I think wrestling is the greatest form of live entertainment in the world,' said Parry, a former Postmedia journalist who owns and operates Nation Extreme Wrestling (next event: June 14 at the WISE Hall. Tickets here. 'I just got through watching Tom Cruise spending a few hundred million bucks on stunts that he gets to plan for months and then do and redo and redo, while my guys are in the ring on a Saturday night, writing storylines on the fly, doing stunts they've had maybe a few minutes to go through, that they have to pull off first time every time — without fail — or someone gets really hurt, while folks are yelling at them and cameras follow their every move.' Curious? Events coming up include Dusk's Butterfly Suplex on June 22 at Performance Works on Granville Island. Tickets here. And the Aug. 31 No Fate pro-wrestling show at The Pearl. Read More Vancouver Canucks Sports Vancouver Canucks Soccer Local News
CTV News
30 minutes ago
- CTV News
Ex-NFL star wide receiver Antonio Brown facing attempted murder charges in Miami shooting
Tampa Bay Buccaneers wide receiver Antonio Brown (81) walks on the field during an NFL football game against the New York Jets, Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Adam Hunger, File) Former NFL player Antonio Brown is facing an attempted murder charge stemming from a shooting that took place during an altercation outside an amateur boxing event in Miami, according to an arrest warrant. Brown, 36, is accused of grabbing a handgun from a security staffer and firing two shots at a man he had gotten into a fistfight with earlier. The victim, Zul-Qarnain Kwame Nantambu, told investigators one of the bullets grazed his neck. The warrant does not list an attorney for Brown, an All-Pro wide receiver who last played in the NFL in 2021 for Tampa Bay but spent most of his 12-year career with Pittsburgh. Brown did not respond to messages sent to his social media accounts. The second-degree attempted murder charge carries a maximum 15-year prison sentence and up to a $10,000 fine. It is the latest in a series of legal problems for Brown, who has previously been accused of battery of a moving truck driver, several domestic violence charges, failure to pay child support and other incidents. During a 2021 game with Tampa Bay against the New York Jets, Brown took off his jersey, shoulder pads and gloves and ran off the field, leading to his release by the Buccaneers. After that incident, Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady said people should show some compassion for Brown, who lived at Brady's home during his time in Tampa Bay. 'It's a difficult situation,' Brady said then. 'Everybody should do what they can to help him in ways that he really needs it. We all love him. We care about him deeply. We want to see him be at his best. Unfortunately, it won't be with our team.' According to the arrest warrant, Brown attended a celebrity boxing event in Miami on May 16. Police were called to the location after other patrons reported hearing shots fired. Several of them told officers Brown was the shooter, but when he was detained in the parking lot no weapon was found, but two bullet casings were located. Brown was released then because the victim was not found immediately, according to the warrant. Later, investigators learned Nantambu was the victim. Based on surveillance video, the altercation outside the boxing event involving Brown, Nantambu and others was broken up by security staff, one of whom got into a struggle with Brown, the warrant says. 'Mr. Brown appears to retrieve a black firearm from the right hip area' of the security official, the warrant says. 'Cellphone video obtained from social media showed Mr. Brown with the firearm in his hand advancing toward Mr. Nantambu on the outside sidewalk. The video captures two shots which occur as Mr. Brown is within several feet of Mr. Nantambu.' Nantambu identified Brown as the shooter and told investigators he had known Brown since 2022. In a social media post after the altercation, Brown said he was 'jumped by multiple individuals who tried to steal my jewelry and cause physical harm to me.' During his playing career, Brown caught 928 passes for 12,291 yards and 88 touchdowns. He played for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Oakland Raiders, New England Patriots and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, winning the 2021 Super Bowl along with Brady. Brown was a seven-time Pro Bowl selection. Curt Anderson, The Associated Press
National Post
40 minutes ago
- National Post
She's back: Fever say Caitlin Clark will be ready to play on Saturday
Article content INDIANAPOLIS — Caitlin Clark ended practice Friday by making a halfcourt shot and winning a little bit of lunch money in the process. Article content And with that, the Indiana Fever star is ready to play again. Article content Article content Clark — barring any unforeseen setbacks — is expected to be in the lineup when the Fever play host to the reigning WNBA champion New York Liberty on Saturday afternoon. She missed the last five Indiana games with a quadriceps injury. Article content 'As long as we don't have any regressions, she's going to be ready to roll,' Fever coach Stephanie White said. Article content Clark returned to practice this week, and her comeback game just happens to be a nationally televised one against the Liberty _ the defending champs and, at 9-0, the last unbeaten team left in the league this season. New York is winning its games by an average of 19 points. Article content 'I'm really excited,' Clark said. 'I think it's definitely been a process. I think the hardest part is when you like begin to feel really good and then it's just a process of working yourself back into actually getting up and down and getting out there with my teammates.' Article content The halfcourt shot at the end of practice was the kicker of a friendly competition, and Clark (who says she rarely wins the halfcourt contests) did wave a few dollars that she won around afterward — in case anyone needed a reminder of her shooting range. Article content The Fever (4-5) went 2-3 in Clark's absence. She was averaging 19 points, 9.3 assists, six rebounds and 1.3 steals per game when she got hurt. There's still a long way to go this season, but no player in WNBA history has ever finished a season averaging that many points, assists, rebounds and steals per game. Article content Article content Clark freely acknowledges that she's not a patient person, but she understood the process and why it was important to not skip any steps in her recovery. Among the treatments: 'anything under the sun,' she said, including everything from massage to weights to hyperbaric therapy. Article content 'It was certainly a learning opportunity, and I think it's going to benefit me a lot throughout my career, just falling back and understanding certain moments like this,' Clark said. 'But I'm super, super excited. I'm antsy to get out there and probably shake off a little bit of rust and then play.' Article content Clark's return is the latest bit of big basketball news in Indianapolis, along with the Indiana Pacers going into Friday's Game 4 of the NBA Finals leading the Oklahoma City Thunder 2-1. Clark and many other Fever players were at Game 3 on Wednesday night at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, the same court where they'll be taking on the Liberty on Saturday.
