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USA Today
5 days ago
- Sport
- USA Today
Cowboys 2nd-year LB doing well in holding off free agent, trade additions early in camp
Cowboys LB Marist Liufau has bulked up this offseason. Has added a lot of muscle to his frame, very noticeable. The first week of training camp is always a difficult one to assess. The players are in shells, contact is limited and inferences must be made. Sometimes these determinations prove correct, other times they are nothing but Fool's Gold. In the case of second year linebacker Marist Liufau, it looks like the real deal. Liufau has been a regular name on the daily 'standouts' list in training camp this year. The 24-year-old sophomore has hit the ground running and appears to be attacking each play at a different speed than anyone else. His rookie season saw flashes of brilliance such as this. The former Notre Dame star lived up to the draft reports that he played with his hair on fire, running harder and faster than others and generally operating at a different speed. While he might have outperformed his athletic profile in his rookie season, he fell short in the mental portion. Liufau didn't always execute his run fits correctly and at times he misdiagnosed plays. Thus far in camp, it appears he's cleaned up all of those mental hiccups and now stands to become a difference maker at LB in 2025. Liufau plays with a special level of explosiveness on the field. His brand of high-effort, no-hesitation football gives him an edge over the competition. Coupled with his improved reads and added discipline, Liufau could be the Cowboys most impactful LB this coming year. a few things that jumped out at me from the first #Cowboys practice of 2025 #trainingcamp:this isn't all-inclusive, but rather standouts.🔑 add-on: Jake Ferguson looks ready for all manner of smoke, and Marist Liufau is diagnosing plays a lot points below: With DeMarvion Overshown likely to miss the majority of the season rehabbing a late season knee injury, Liufau could slot in multiple places on the Cowboys defense. The Mike and Will spots will give him the best opportunity to make plays so Dallas is likely to move the young playmaker between the two. some observations from Day 2 of #Cowboys #trainingcamp:note: not all-inclusive, simply standouts.🔑 add-on: Cooper Beebe's anchor is stellar, but now it looks like his punch/strength "hurts", and Marist Liufau looks as if he knows plays before the offense below: Those at camp see a player who completely honed into the game, playing like he knows the plays before the snap, beating offensive players to their spots and blowing up plays before they even develop. Since Liufau answered the athletic questions last season, the only thing to prove in Year 2 is the mental side of the game. So far, he's done that to a significant degree, opening the door to a massive breakout season in 2025. You can follow Reid on X @ReidDHanson and be sure to follow Cowboys Wire on Facebook to join in on the conversation with fellow fans!
Pink Villa
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Pink Villa
Malcolm-Jamal Warner's 10 Best Roles: The Cosby Show to The Resident and Beyond
Trigger Warning: This article contains references to an individual's death. Malcolm-Jamal Warner, best known for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show, has died at the age of 54. The Emmy-nominated actor reportedly passed away on Sunday, July 20, after drowning off the coast of Costa Rica. Warner's career spanned decades, with memorable performances in sitcoms, dramas, and films. As fans mourn the loss, here's a look back at 10 of his most iconic roles. The Cosby Show Warner became a household name as Theo Huxtable, the lovable teen son of Cliff and Clair Huxtable. The sitcom followed an upper-middle-class Black family living in Brooklyn, New York. His chemistry with Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad played a significant role in defining the show's success. Warner earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for this role. The Resident Warner took on a serious medical role as Dr. AJ Austin in The Resident, a drama set in Chastain Park Memorial Hospital. He played a skilled and confident surgeon, quickly becoming a fan favorite. Warner appeared in nearly 100 episodes of the FOX series. Malcolm & Eddie In this buddy sitcom, Warner starred as Malcolm McGee alongside Eddie Griffin's Eddie Sherman. The show focused on two very different roommates living and working in Kansas City. Warner played the calm, by-the-book type, which contrasted with Griffin's energetic personality. Fool's Gold Warner appeared in the 2008 romantic adventure Fool's Gold, sharing the screen with Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson. The film centered on a couple searching for lost treasure while trying to rekindle their relationship. Warner had a supporting role in this light-hearted film. Jeremiah Warner co-starred with Luke Perry in this post-apocalyptic Showtime series. He played Kurdy Malloy, a loyal companion to Perry's Jeremiah, in a world ravaged by a virus that killed most adults. The series ran for two seasons and gained a cult following. The Magic School Bus Warner lent his voice to the animated educational show The Magic School Bus, where he voiced the Producer. The series was a staple for children in the 1990s, known for turning science lessons into exciting adventures. Restaurant In this 1998 indie film, Warner appeared alongside Adrien Brody and Elise Neal. The story followed a group of struggling artists working at a restaurant while chasing their dreams. The film gave Warner a chance to flex his dramatic acting chops. Tyson Warner played Rory Holloway in Tyson, a 1995 biopic about boxing legend Mike Tyson. The film was nominated for an NAACP Image Award and featured Warner in a pivotal supporting role. Suits In the hit legal drama Suits, Warner appeared as Julius Rowe, a recurring character on the show. His role added depth to the series, which focused on a college dropout navigating life at a top law firm. American Crime Story Warner portrayed Al Cowlings in The People v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story. Cowlings was O.J. Simpson's longtime friend who famously drove the white Ford Bronco during the televised police chase. The FX series received widespread acclaim, and Warner's role was part of a powerful ensemble cast.
Scroll.in
22-07-2025
- Politics
- Scroll.in
Quads, triads and India's South Asia paranoia
Let us not be coy. The limited war between Pakistan and India this past May, not long after the end-April terror attack near Pahalgam in Kashmir, has unlimited consequences for South Asia. As we know, avionics, strike and defensive systems got a massive workout. Vulnerabilities and strengths were duly exploited. And, duly noted – including artfully minimised losses in aircraft, equipment, facilities, and personnel – by both countries, their defense suppliers and strategic partners, and the world at large. Drone warfare truly joined the destructive drone of warfare by 'social' media, manned by keyboard warriors of South Asia. Ceasefire has now lapsed into uneasy détente. Leaders of India and Pakistan have moved on from claiming victory for their domestic audiences – while the leader of the United States as typically claimed the victory as his. We in South Asia are urged to take a deep breath and carry on. That is where the consequences enter, now brought to sharp relief by this on-again off-again conflict seemingly without end. If we were to telescope to India's security perspective – the perspective of a country that, significantly, shares borders with both China and all South Asian countries except Sri Lanka and the Maldives – the steady-state tandem enmity of Pakistan and China is joined by Bangladesh. This is being disseminated as an unholy triad, if you will, that carries both potential and demonstrable ill-will towards India. Indeed, India's newly voluble Chief of Defense Staff General Anil Chauhan indicated as much on July 8 at an event at a major establishment-oriented New Delhi think-tank. 'There is a possible convergence of interest we can talk about between China, Pakistan and Bangladesh,' said Gen Chauhan during an address at Observer Research Foundation, 'that may have implications for India's stability and security dynamics'. There are reasons for this and all of them, to India's mind, are collectively a clear and present – and future – danger. A dominant narrative in India is predicated on the South Asian ring of fire that its neighbours would be naïve to discount. Equally, India needs to accept that, while its regional strategic flex remains, its presumptuous South Asian zamindari, driven by sheer size and the geographic reality that no other South Asian country shares a land border with any other South Asian country but India, is over. Let us pan this out. Repeated calls for 'destroying' Pakistan – mainly by India's establishment-fed media and ruling party bots – is akin to Fool's Gold. This goes beyond the silliness of Indian government officials claiming that turning off the tap of the Indus will bring Pakistan to its knees. A fractured Pakistan will be a nightmare for India even though there are those among establishment hawks who see in such an eventuality the reclamation of all Kashmir. Add nuclear capability to that fracture and the future becomes a full-blown catastrophe that India's ultra-Right ecosystem nurtured with disinformation, delusion, and social media strategy masquerading as security imperatives can scarcely comprehend. Visualise generals as warlords. Visualise any number of fractious ethnic and religious groups in Pakistan which would sooner see any attack against India as a mark of faith and fulfilment. Visualise a future post-Pakistan's poverty-stricken millions sloshing about in a fractured land; and consider if any border security in the world is robust enough to withstand a flight of such dismantled people. The upshot: India will have to get its governance and hearts-and-minds act together in Kashmir, the same as Pakistan in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, if either is to withstand the other's rhetorical and actual onslaughts. (Besides, Pakistan needs to get its act together in its massively restive and deliberately under-developed Balochistan province, among other regions.) Over at the eastern arc, India's goodwill had already begun to take a hit in Bangladesh, as public opinion saw India as standing with an increasingly corrupt, electorally wayward, and essentially dictatorial Awami League government led by former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, especially during the past decade. India massively depleted its goodwill in a post-Hasina Bangladesh by standing with a belligerent Sheikh Hasina throughout the political upheaval over July and August 2024. And then, by presenting to outraged Bangladeshi citizenry the diplomatic horror of having India's national security advisor welcome an ejected Hasina at Hindon air force base near Delhi on August 5 – on live television. It was an optics disaster of epic proportion in both the mind's eye of Bangladeshi citizenry and to the emotionally charged and mission-oriented housecleaners of Bangladesh's interim government. It's a disaster from which India is yet to fully recover. It has made India's strategic and economic interests in Bangladesh, transhipment to its entire northeastern region, and India's strategic Siliguri Corridor deeply vulnerable to Bangladeshi policy squeeze. The risk of a squeeze by proxy makes matters worse for India: that slim corridor, the so-called Chicken's Neck, is a short hop for a China nestled in the hotly contested Doklam region just to the north. And for all of Bangladesh's justified moral lament for the democratic dislocation of the Hasina years and the atrocities perpetrated against students and innocent citizens over July-August 2024 – which this columnist observed first-hand – its interim government isn't blameless in adding to the tension. For his part, the head of the interim government of Bangladesh, no slouch when it comes to a networking opportunity polished by a lifetime of limelight, put several words out of place during an official visit to China this past March. Among other things, he publicly marketed Bangladesh to Chinese officials and businesses as being China's entrepôt for a 'landlocked' northeastern India. That too was an optics disaster – an observation which several senior South Asian diplomats have shared with me. With India's ongoing border spat with China, and repeated announcements by various Bangladesh entities to offer Chinese interests a deal to develop the Teesta River basin in northern Bangladesh – close to the strategic hotspot of the Siliguri Corridor – it was akin to waving a red flag to a bull in a China shop. This came in addition to the visible thaw in Bangladesh-Pakistan relations in the post-Hasina era, another huge red flag for India, among several other factors, including the release from jail of several people India views as inimical to its security. Bangladesh's interim government walked back the China-in-Northeastern India talk, but the damage was done. I've heard career-officials gripe about how the interim government should realise its interim nature, scale back knee-jerk pronouncements and Goebbelsian spin, and permit regime-agnostic professionals to go about their business in Bangladesh's national interest. In a tit-for-tat response that one could term Pakistanesque – or Indiaesque, depending on the lens – India has begun to squeeze Bangladesh by withdrawing some trading and transhipment benefits. Citing quite legitimate security reasons India has also refrained from expanding visa issuance for Bangladeshi visitors to the peak-Hasina level of a staggering 1.6 million visas a year – the figure for 2023. There are other indications of this avoidable freeze. With its heightened threat perception and what it perceives as necessary maritime deterrence, enhanced Indian naval and security activity in both the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea has become the new constant. There is the west-to-east arc of Pakistan, China, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Myanmar – where China has displayed deft management to secure its energy, mineral, and territorial interests. From a regional-and-maritime perspective, Sri Lanka is of course another competitive geography for India and China and which, much like its southern co-location with neighbouring Maldives, completes the ring of encirclement for India. There are several instances of the China and India's push-and-shove in Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Myanmar, and, increasingly, Bangladesh, that this column has variously discussed over the past three years. But just how acute regional threat perception has become is indicated by a churlish incident from early this year – predating the India-Pakistan fracas in May. A Bangladeshi naval vessel was to visit Colombo port for a courtesy call, en route Karachi for a naval exercise – Bangladeshi navy ships had earlier participated in previous editions of the exercise. From available indications, India pressured Sri Lanka to deny the vessel entry. It was touch and go for a while, but the Bangladesh-Sri Lanka 'bilateral' prevailed. Or, from India's freshly jaundiced eye, the Pakistan-Bangladesh-Sri Lanka 'trilateral'. Or to be a bit more provocative, perhaps the China-Pakistan-Bangladesh-Sri Lanka 'quadrilateral' – that would, ironically, run counter to the Quad or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue between India, Japan, Australia, and the United States that is commonly perceived as a strategy to contain China in the Asia-Pacific and Indian Ocean Region. But for all that, there is monumental work to be done to mend the India-Bangladesh bilateral, a rent in which could – with or without China – ruin Eastern South Asia.
Global News
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Global News
Okanagan creators release Dungeons & Dragons graphic novel
Imagination has Dungeons & Dragons (D&D) leaping off the gaming table and into the real world for a group of artists, players and YouTubers in the Okanagan. Their passion for the famous role-playing game is taking the team behind Fool's Gold to places they could have never predicted, including a popular YouTube podcast, and now, a graphic novel book deal. 'In 2017, we were just playing this game in my basement with my friends and then suddenly now we are getting product out there,' said Felix Irnich, producer and game master. 'People love watching (Fool's Gold) on YouTube. We are getting invited to San Diego ComicCon.' Get daily National news Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day. Sign up for daily National newsletter Sign Up By providing your email address, you have read and agree to Global News' Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy The D&D-inspired role-playing show has been a smash success on YouTube. Viewers helped the team raise nearly $2.5 million on Kickstarter to launch their Fool's Gold campaign set called 'Into the Bellowing Wilds' so fans can interact and play in the world themselves. Story continues below advertisement 'Everything in the (campaign) book, you can expand and create your own story, and that's really what we wanted,' said Jenna Woldenga, creator of Fool's Gold. Now, they've inked a graphic novel book deal with the publishing company Simon & Schuster to bring a whole new audience into the Bellowing Wilds world with 'Fool's Gold: Death by Karaoke.' 'The funny story that comes from all of this, my character sings karaoke and sings it so bad he casts a spell that releases an apocalyptic creature, the Tarrasque,' said Woldenga. The humongous D&D monster was reimagined by team artist Avery Howett and then by Hit Point Press into a equally large miniature figure players can use in their games. 'It won the 2025 Origins Award for the Tarrasque [miniature],' Howett said. 'We beat out Star Wars, Warhammer, and I think even D&D in order to take home that prize, so it was a huge honour.' Their ingenuity is taking them on a mad dash to the top of their industry as 'Fool's Gold: Death by Karaoke' hits the shelves Tuesday.
The Irish Sun
04-07-2025
- Sport
- The Irish Sun
‘I prefer the Stone Roses' – Stephen Kenny jokes about Bohemians' Oasis collaboration ahead of derby clash
STEPHEN Kenny would take a Stone Roses reunion over an Oasis one. But the St Pat's supremo knows This is the One where his St Pat's side must turn things around. 2 Kenny's Pat's currently sit six points behind rivals Bohs having played two more games 2 Bohemians released the Oasis collaboration jersey on Tuesday and it has split opinions Credit: Kenny's Saints host Bohemians at Richmond Park tonight with their rivals set to play for the first time in their 'But Stones Roses are better. I'm much more influenced by the Stone Roses than Oasis. But Oasis are good, they're OK, but I prefer the Stone Roses.' The former Ireland manager, 53, understands his side need to stop producing the Fool's Gold of good performances with mixed results. Read more on League of Ireland And he hopes tonight can be the springboard for a Resurrection of their league form. Kenny's band of brothers went into the summer break fourth and a point off second but they are now sixth, six points off second, and having played two games more. It leaves their season on a Tightrope. And it is a case of Ste Bangs the Drums on the need to change that. Kenny reasoned: 'We just had a hugely, hugely disappointing two-week period. Most read in Football 'We ended up taking two points from five games, which was inconceivable at that time. So it's been a bad two weeks for us, the minimum we probably deserved was eight points. 'It's one of those intense periods in the season — five games in two weeks, I've always looked at those as opportunities. Watch Roy Keane break character in hilarious blooper reel for League of Ireland ad 'But it's had the opposite effect on us. We've found ourselves dropping down the table. We definitely know we could do with three points, for sure.' And crucial to that is their front men getting back among the goals as the Saints have netted just once in five games. Defender Seán Hoare added: 'When you are not scoring goals it only takes one to beat you. I feel like we do play the most exciting football in the league. "We play attacking football and at times we're open defensively but so be it, you want to excite people. 'But before the last four games, we were probably top scorers in the league. You feel like that has to flip around again soon. 'I just feel like it will click for us going forward. Somebody is going to get a high-scoring game off us when it does click for us.' Kenny added: 'We've actually scored the same number of goals as Bohemians, scored the same as 'It's just this little barren period that cost us, over the course of the season we've let in more goals than we would have wanted. 'I understand there has been a formula, low blocks, five-man defences . . . stifle our dribblers. That's something that we've had to adjust to and we haven't adjusted well enough. 'We're not making excuses, I'm just explaining that other teams have found ways of stifling us and we have to be more adaptable.'
