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Yahoo
4 hours ago
- General
- Yahoo
Taron Johnson participating in Bills OTAs after shoulder surgery
Bills cornerback Taron Johnson closed out the 2024 season with a torn labrum in his shoulder and his recovery from surgery to repair appears to be progressing well. Johnson is taking part in the team's OTA practices this month and said that he feels like he's on track to be ready to go once the team gets to training camp this summer. Advertisement "Feels good, pretty much feels close to normal," Johnson said, via Katherine Fitzgerald of the Buffalo News. "So, that's all I can really ask for, being healthy before training camp, so I can fully train and get ready for the season." Johnson started 12 regular season games last year and had 65 tackles, two interceptions, an interception return for a touchdown, a sack, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. He also had 11 tackles in the playoffs.
NBC Sports
5 hours ago
- General
- NBC Sports
Taron Johnson participating in Bills OTAs after shoulder surgery
Bills cornerback Taron Johnson closed out the 2024 season with a torn labrum in his shoulder and his recovery from surgery to repair appears to be progressing well. Johnson is taking part in the team's OTA practices this month and said that he feels like he's on track to be ready to go once the team gets to training camp this summer. 'Feels good, pretty much feels close to normal,' Johnson said, via Katherine Fitzgerald of the Buffalo News. 'So, that's all I can really ask for, being healthy before training camp, so I can fully train and get ready for the season.' Johnson started 12 regular season games last year and had 65 tackles, two interceptions, an interception return for a touchdown, a sack, a forced fumble, and a fumble recovery. He also had 11 tackles in the playoffs.
NBC Sports
27-05-2025
- Business
- NBC Sports
Bills sell 25,000 PSLs for new stadium
The Bills will open their new stadium next year. They're currently in the process of filling it up. Via Ryan O'Halloran of the Buffalo News, the Bills have sold more than 25,000 Personal Seat Licenses for the new venue. Bills COO Pete Guelli told O'Halloran that the Bills are 'on pace to sell out the building.' The Bills are using a 'stadium experience' to allow fans to gather information before committing to a PSL. Per the team, 80 percent of the season-ticket holders have signed up for PSLs. The new stadium is expected to hold 62,000 fans, 9,000 fewer than the team's current home.
Metro
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Metro
Netflix viewers have just hours to binge ‘steamy' 00s British TV drama
A 'flawless' British drama series about the double life of a high-end call girl is leaving Netflix in just a few hours. Based on the blog and books by the pseudonymous Belle de Jour, Secret Diary of a Call Girl ran for four seasons between 2007 and 2011. It starred Billie Piper, then best known for her music career and for playing companion Rose Tyler in Doctor Who two years earlier. Written by Lucy Prebble, the series was set in London and followed Hannah Baxter (played by Billie), a young woman who lives a secret life as a call girl, under the pseudonym Belle. It charted her professional and private lives and the complications that arose when these separate parts of her life collided. Wake up to find news on your TV shows in your inbox every morning with Metro's TV Newsletter. Sign up to our newsletter and then select your show in the link we'll send you so we can get TV news tailored to you. Although the show found itself under fire by some who claimed it glamorised and was a misrepresentation of sex work, Billie fired back. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video 'We've only been exposed to the drug-fuelled, sex traffic side – but the fact is, there are middle-class, cultured, well-read women who take part in this job,' she said at the time. The first season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl divided critics. 'It's close to perfect raunchy summer television,' Buffalo News wrote in its review. 'It's eye-opening stuff, at least some of it, and yet not nearly as titillating as you might suppose. Considering the subject matter, there's surprisingly little nudity and practically nothing graphic,' The Hollywood Reporter explained. 'It would help if an actual woman stopped miming fellatio and did something interesting for a minute or two,' The Los Angeles Times brutally shared. Meanwhile, others said it 'didn't reveal many secrets'. Despite this, reviews from fans were glowing. 'I managed to watch the entire show, all three seasons, in the space of one weekend. Billie Piper was flawless. I loved this show, definitely one of my favourite series' out there, and probably will be for a long time. It's down to earth, gritty and real,' ciara0404 posted on IMDB. 'The show is a full-blown intimate and sexcapade that is quite honestly, brilliant. Forget your 50 Shades of Grey… this British programme will open your eyes into lives that you had heard about, never fully believed, but will blow your mind with every episode,' stampsfightclub shared. 'This series is very provocative, but overall, it's interesting and engrossing, making it a good call to watch,' blanbrn added. Although the full series is currently available on Netflix, it will be taken down very soon, with fans and new viewers only able to binge it until May 28. The first season of Secret Diary of a Call Girl attracted an average of 1,242,125 viewers in the UK. Meanwhile, when premiering in the United States on Showtime, it debuted to the highest ratings the cable channel had seen in four years for a television premiere. More Trending After working together on this series, Billie and Lucy went on to team up again on I Hate Suzie, which ran for two seasons from 2020. That series, which followed the life of actress Suzie Pickles, whose life is thrown into turmoil when her phone is hacked and compromising photographs of her are leaked, was praised by critics and nominated for four Baftas and an International Emmy. Secret Diary of a Call Girl leaves Netflix on May 28. An earlier version of this story was published on May 5, 2025 . Got a story? If you've got a celebrity story, video or pictures get in touch with the entertainment team by emailing us celebtips@ calling 020 3615 2145 or by visiting our Submit Stuff page – we'd love to hear from you. View More » MORE: Netflix star calls 'dark' show 'very different to what I was used to' MORE: Netflix viewers think WWE star is 'lucky to be alive' as move goes horribly wrong MORE: Legendary 00s EastEnders couple engaged after romantic proposal
Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Restaino: Talk of costly KeyBank Center upgrades not a concern for Falls arena plan
Mayor Robert Restaino does not believe recent conversations about the possible need to pump tens of millions of dollars into renovation work at KeyBank Center in Buffalo will have any impact on ongoing efforts to secure state funding to develop an arena that could accommodate a minor league hockey franchise in Niagara Falls. During an interview with local media members earlier this week, Restaino said he's not at all concerned that the state might consider putting money into fixing up the long-time home of the NHL's Buffalo Sabres before it gives the Falls funds to build Centennial Park, a proposed arena and events campus that is expected to cost at least $150 million. 'The City of Niagara Falls exists independent of the City of Buffalo and the City of Niagara Falls is a regional destination and, at some point, I think it's just obvious to everyone, that investment in this community returns itself with a great return on investment,' Restaino said. Multiple Western New York media outlets, including the Buffalo News, have reported in recent weeks that Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz intends to walk away from the KeyBank Center lease when it expires on Oct. 1, 2026. The arena, which opened as Marine Midland Arena in 1996, has been home to the NHL's Buffalo Sabres for nearly three decades. The Buffalo News reported last month that the facility is facing a 'host of pressing renovation needs,' which the newspaper said could 'supersede its original construction cost of $127.5 million. Accounting for inflation, the News reported that the cost would be equivalent to $247 million today. WGRZ Channel 2 in Buffalo reported it is believed the facility needs between $75 million and $200 million in renovations. Restaino's administration, in documents filed in 2022 with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, estimated $122 million in state funding would be needed to build Centennial Park. The paperwork listed the total project cost at $165 million. Restaino noted that Sabres owner Terry Pegula has already benefited from substantial public support through the development of a new football stadium in Orchard Park for his other team, the Buffalo Bills. The $2.1 billion football stadium included $600 million from the state and $250 million from Erie County. 'The Sabres have a wonderful ownership,' Restaino said. 'He has already seen $600 million of state investment in the football stadium, so I'm not at all concerned about it.' Restaino revealed in response to questions earlier this week that he has a draft version of a feasibility study for the Centennial Park project, but said it is not yet finalized. The study, which was financed with support from New York State's lead economic development agency, Empire State Development Corp., and National Grid, was conducted by the Florida-based firm, Sports Facilities Advisory LLC. It was done to flesh out the concept and to assess whether the project makes sense in the city. Restaino has said that he envisions the facility, which would include a 6,000- to 7,000-seat arena, as a future site for an Ontario Hockey League team. The minor league OHL is considering expansion by up to three teams and Restaino met with the league's commissioner, whom he said told him would consider placing a team in Niagara Falls, New York, if the city had an arena in place.
