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New York Post
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- New York Post
Dak Prescott, fiancée welcome second baby daughter in touching post
Dak Prescott added another little cowgirl to his family. Prescott, the 31-year-old Cowboys quarterback, and his fiance Sarah Jane Ramos announced Saturday the birth of their second daughter. .Aurora Rayne Prescott was born May 22 and weighed 7 pounds, 10 ounces. Advertisement 'Thank You God!' Prescott wrote on Instagram. 'Welcome, Aurora Rayne! May 22, 2025. God is Great. I love you @sarahjane and the Family we've created.' Dak Prescott, Sarah Jane Ramos and their baby daughter Aurora. @sarahjane/Instagram Advertisement Prescott and Ramos have an older daughter who is a Leap Year baby, born Feb. 29, 2024. In the time between having his two daughters, Prescott became the highest-paid player in NFL history when he signed a four-year, $240 million extension. Prescott and his daughters. @sarahjane/Instagram He and Ramos also got engaged when the quarterback dropped to his knee and proposed on a golf course. Advertisement But not everything has come up roses for Prescott in the last 16 months. Prescott suffered a season-ending hamstring injury that required surgery last November. He was only 3-5 as a starter before missing the final games of a season in which the Cowboys took a major step back as two of their rivals (Eagles and Commanders) met in the NFC Championship Game. Advertisement Prescott has been participating in the Cowboys voluntary offseason program and impressed onlookers with his post-surgery mobility during an OTA practice Thursday. It wasn't known at the time, but Prescott had a one-week-old daughter at home at the time of completing 14-of-18 passes as he furthered his recovery. 'Our sweet Aurora Rayne Prescott arrived on her due date 9 days ago, 5.22.25 ,' mother Sarah wrote on her Instagram. 'We've been soaking it all in so beyond grateful and in love with our family of 4 @_4dak' It just so happens that Prescott's jersey number is now equal to the size of his family. The new father of two and the Cowboys open the season against the Eagles on 'Thursday Night Football.'
Yahoo
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Buffalo Bills preseason game to air nationally on FOX in primetime
Add another nationally televised game to the Buffalo Bills' 2025 schedule. The NFL announced its preseason broadcast slate Wednesday, and the Bills' Week 2 road game against the Chicago Bears will air in primetime on FOX. Kickoff is set for 8 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 17 at Soldier Field. Advertisement It marks the third straight year with a preseason meeting between the two teams, and second consecutive with HBO's Hard Knocks cameras rolling. Chicago, the 2024 Hard Knocks feature team, defeated Buffalo 33–6 last year in the preseason opener. This year, the spotlight shifts to Orchard Park. The Bills are set to be the featured franchise on Hard Knocks in 2025. Buffalo has five primetime games on its regular season schedule: one Thursday Night Football matchup, plus two each on Sunday Night Football and Monday Night Football. Four of Buffalo's five primetime regular season games are in the first six weeks, so including the preseason game, the Bills will be on primetime five times in an eight-game span. Buffalo Bills 2025 schedule Week 1: Saturday, Aug. 9 at New York Giants, 1 p.m. Week 2: Sunday, Aug. 17 at Chicago Bears, 8 p.m., FOX Week 3: Saturday, Aug. 23 at Tampa Bay Buccaneers, 7:30 p.m Advertisement Regular season: Playoffs Wild-Card Round: Jan. 10-12 Divisional Round: Jan. 17-18 Conference Championships: Jan. 25 Super Bowl: Feb. 8, Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, California This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bills vs. Bears Week 2 preseason game set for national TV on FOX
USA Today
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Q&A: Blake Griffin feels like a 'rookie' again in his new career
Q&A: Blake Griffin feels like a 'rookie' again in his new career NEW YORK — While wearing a velvet suit in the middle of Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, it was hard not to notice six-time NBA All-Star forward Blake Griffin. As the co-founder of the film and production company Mortal Media, the 6-foot-9 former NBA Rookie of the Year is still in the beginning phases of his new career as an executive producer. The former Oklahoma Sooners star retired in April 2024 after more than a dozen seasons in the NBA playing for the Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn Nets, and Boston Celtics. Considering his unmistakably distinct purple suiting, we had an easy conversation starter: Why are you dressed like this on a hot day in New York City? More: What's in your cart? Shop Blake Griffin's favorite furniture, shoes and more 'I'm here on behalf of Wayfair,' said Griffin, who was promoting Wayfair's Chair-Aides Challenge at a pop-up activation. 'We did a commercial where I am the Master of Chair-emonies and game show host.' Griffin discussed whether his new job felt similar to what is portrayed by Seth Rogen (whose wardrobe he admires) in Apple TV's The Studio, his upcoming gig as an NBA studio analyst for Amazon, advice for future No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg and plenty more. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. More: Blake Griffin is a perfect choice for Amazon's studio coverage of the NBA next season What does your day-to-day look like now that you're not in the NBA? Griffin: I still try to work out. It's not quite as much as I used to but I still try to stay active. I have a production company that I started years ago. I go into the office there. I'm all over the place. I am looking forward to doing the Amazon stuff and have a set routine. We'll start out on Fridays and then go to Thursdays when Thursday Night Football ends. I'm excited to have that structure and be around basketball and be able to talk about the one thing I truly love. More: Ranking Blake Griffin's 7 most vicious dunks of his NBA career as he retires How do you imagine that show is going to look once it actually begins? Griffin: I like building this show with Dirk Nowitzki, Candace Parker and Taylor Rooks. The former players are all relatively new to retirement. We all played in the last few years. Dirk has a great sense of humor. He'll be great. The whole crew is great. We have a group chat that we text all of the time. We're trying to start that chemistry and get it going. I'm looking forward to being up there with everybody. We want to give insight. We want to give actual analysis for pre-game, halftime and post-game. But we also want to keep it really light. We want to highlight some of the lesser-known storylines around the NBA. When you turn on ESPN, you just see the Lakers and the Celtics and the Warriors and the Knicks. We want to highlight someone like Donovan Mitchell, who had an unbelievable year in Cleveland. Of course, true NBA fans know about those storylines, but the average fan isn't getting introduced to the amount of good players that there are in this league. There are so many young defensive guards. Dyson Daniels was super impressive for me to follow. How much basketball are you consuming to develop your insights? Griffin: I watch a lot of basketball. I've always watched a lot of basketball. During the playoffs, I'm so locked in. Beyond that, I'm following on social media. I'm consuming as much information as possible. I'm well-informed and I think that's super important for this show. The TNT guys are great. It's one of the best sports shows on TV. Part of the humor of that show is that they don't know who some of these guys are. That show is untouchable, but for us, we're making sure we're informed. We're making sure we keep it light. We are making sure people are actually learning something. There are an infinite amount of storylines aside from the major ones that we will cover. As a former No. 1 overall pick, what advice would you give to Cooper Flagg? Griffin: Just enjoy it. It sounds sort of cliché, but it all goes by so quickly. You'll only experience this draft process one time. Soak it in and don't get too weighed down with all the other stuff. All the people around you will take care of all that. Just enjoy every single moment. Remember, this is just the beginning. As a young guy, you want everything right away. You want to get to everything. But your career is a marathon. Enjoy it. Appreciate all the hard work you've done to get to this point. Know that it continues. I think that it was good for me. I didn't really view it as pressure. It just made me stay focused. I knew that I wasn't just playing for me. It was for a whole franchise. It just makes you lock in a bit more. I embraced it for sure. While at Amazon, I want to highlight the journey that rookies have from beginning to end. They're coming in and have no idea what to expect. They're trying to figure out their way. How are you learning all of these new skills in this career? Griffin: I'm just jumping into it. We hired someone who has done this for a long time. We're learning as we go. We're asking a bunch of questions. It was fun to start over. You feel like a rookie again, trying to learn as much as possible. It's like going into any job where you don't know exactly what you're doing. It's challenging. For me, I've learned it's all about relationships. It's about connecting the dots. I'm always meeting this writer or that director, and I'm piecing it all together. I look at producing like being a general manager of a team. You are not the coach, that's the director. The actors are the players. But the producer is fitting all these pieces together. I love that. You feel like it is your project and your baby. I focus mostly on comedy stuff. We sold two scripted shows, an unscripted show, and a movie in the past four or five months. Those are in the can for what's next for us to develop. It's a good amount of my time. I love the creative process and coming up with an idea, pitching it, developing it and seeing it come to life. It's fun for me. Who are some of your biggest comedy influences as you move forward? Griffin: When I was younger, Judd Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogen. I love Danny McBride. I'll watch Danny McBride play any character. I think he's awesome. You have Shane Gillis. His stand-up is phenomenal. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shoot shows and then sell it because then they can make exactly what they want and they don't have to adhere to a bunch of are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. What are your reflections about working as an actor on Broad City? Griffin: It's one of my favorite things when somebody comes up to me and says, 'Hey! I loved you on Broad City.' It's one of my favorite compliments people give me. I don't know why. But it just makes me feel like you have a certain type of sense of humor, and I appreciate that. Who are some of the funniest guys you met while playing in the NBA? Griffin: Man, so many! DeAndre Jordan was always keeping everything loose and light. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. Marcus Smart. Ish Smith. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Teague. He is hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.
USA Today
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Q&A: Blake Griffin feels like a 'rookie' again in his new career
Q&A: Blake Griffin feels like a 'rookie' again in his new career NEW YORK — While wearing a velvet suit in the middle of Grand Central Terminal's Vanderbilt Hall, it was hard not to notice six-time NBA All-Star forward Blake Griffin. As the co-founder of the film and production company Mortal Media, the 6-foot-9 former NBA Rookie of the Year is still in the beginning phases of his new career as an executive producer. The former Oklahoma Sooners star retired in April 2024 after more than a dozen seasons in the NBA playing for the Los Angeles Clippers, Detroit Pistons, Brooklyn Nets, and Boston Celtics. Considering his unmistakably distinct purple suiting, we had an easy conversation starter: Why are you dressed like this on a hot day in New York City? More: What's in your cart? Shop Blake Griffin's favorite furniture, shoes and more 'I'm here on behalf of Wayfair,' said Griffin, who was promoting Wayfair's Chair-Aides Challenge at a pop-up activation. 'We did a commercial where I am the Master of Chair-emonies and game show host.' Griffin discussed whether his new job felt similar to what is portrayed by Seth Rogen (whose wardrobe he admires) in Apple TV's The Studio, his upcoming gig as an NBA studio analyst for Amazon, advice for future No. 1 overall pick Cooper Flagg and plenty more. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity. More: Blake Griffin is a perfect choice for Amazon's studio coverage of the NBA next season What does your day-to-day look like now that you're not in the NBA? Griffin: I still try to work out. It's not quite as much as I used to but I still try to stay active. I have a production company that I started years ago. I go into the office there. I'm all over the place. I am looking forward to doing the Amazon stuff and have a set routine. We'll start out on Fridays and then go to Thursdays when Thursday Night Football ends. I'm excited to have that structure and be around basketball and be able to talk about the one thing I truly love. More: Ranking Blake Griffin's 7 most vicious dunks of his NBA career as he retires How do you imagine that show is going to look once it actually begins? Griffin: I like building this show with Dirk Nowitzki, Candace Parker and Taylor Rooks. The former players are all relatively new to retirement. We all played in the last few years. Dirk has a great sense of humor. He'll be great. The whole crew is great. We have a group chat that we text all of the time. We're trying to start that chemistry and get it going. I'm looking forward to being up there with everybody. We want to give insight. We want to give actual analysis for pre-game, halftime and post-game. But we also want to keep it really light. We want to highlight some of the lesser-known storylines around the NBA. When you turn on ESPN, you just see the Lakers and the Celtics and the Warriors and the Knicks. We want to highlight someone like Donovan Mitchell, who had an unbelievable year in Cleveland. Of course, true NBA fans know about those storylines, but the average fan isn't getting introduced to the amount of good players that there are in this league. There are so many young defensive guards. Dyson Daniels was super impressive for me to follow. How much basketball are you consuming to develop your insights? Griffin: I watch a lot of basketball. I've always watched a lot of basketball. During the playoffs, I'm so locked in. Beyond that, I'm following on social media. I'm consuming as much information as possible. I'm well-informed and I think that's super important for this show. The TNT guys are great. It's one of the best sports shows on TV. Part of the humor of that show is that they don't know who some of these guys are. That show is untouchable, but for us, we're making sure we're informed. We're making sure we keep it light. We are making sure people are actually learning something. There are an infinite amount of storylines aside from the major ones that we will cover. As a former No. 1 overall pick, what advice would you give to Cooper Flagg? Griffin: Just enjoy it. It sounds sort of cliché, but it all goes by so quickly. You'll only experience this draft process one time. Soak it in and don't get too weighed down with all the other stuff. All the people around you will take care of all that. Just enjoy every single moment. Remember, this is just the beginning. As a young guy, you want everything right away. You want to get to everything. But your career is a marathon. Enjoy it. Appreciate all the hard work you've done to get to this point. Know that it continues. I think that it was good for me. I didn't really view it as pressure. It just made me stay focused. I knew that I wasn't just playing for me. It was for a whole franchise. It just makes you lock in a bit more. I embraced it for sure. While at Amazon, I want to highlight the journey that rookies have from beginning to end. They're coming in and have no idea what to expect. They're trying to figure out their way. How are you learning all of these new skills in this career? Griffin: I'm just jumping into it. We hired someone who has done this for a long time. We're learning as we go. We're asking a bunch of questions. It was fun to start over. You feel like a rookie again, trying to learn as much as possible. It's like going into any job where you don't know exactly what you're doing. It's challenging. For me, I've learned it's all about relationships. It's about connecting the dots. I'm always meeting this writer or that director, and I'm piecing it all together. I look at producing like being a general manager of a team. You are not the coach, that's the director. The actors are the players. But the producer is fitting all these pieces together. I love that. You feel like it is your project and your baby. I focus mostly on comedy stuff. We sold two scripted shows, an unscripted show, and a movie in the past four or five months. Those are in the can for what's next for us to develop. It's a good amount of my time. I love the creative process and coming up with an idea, pitching it, developing it and seeing it come to life. It's fun for me. Who are some of your biggest comedy influences as you move forward? Griffin: When I was younger, Judd Apatow comedies were right in my wheelhouse. I was in high school when those were coming out. I love Seth Rogen. I love Danny McBride. I'll watch Danny McBride play any character. I think he's awesome. You have Shane Gillis. His stand-up is phenomenal. I like how guys are just starting to get funding and shoot shows and then sell it because then they can make exactly what they want and they don't have to adhere to a bunch of are some of the people who are doing the best in comedy right now. What are your reflections about working as an actor on Broad City? Griffin: It's one of my favorite things when somebody comes up to me and says, 'Hey! I loved you on Broad City.' It's one of my favorite compliments people give me. I don't know why. But it just makes me feel like you have a certain type of sense of humor, and I appreciate that. Who are some of the funniest guys you met while playing in the NBA? Griffin: Man, so many! DeAndre Jordan was always keeping everything loose and light. Jamal Crawford is hilarious. Marcus Smart. Ish Smith. I think one of the funniest guys is Jeff Teague. He is hilarious. I could listen to him tell stories all day.
San Francisco Chronicle
23-05-2025
- Automotive
- San Francisco Chronicle
Carl Edwards hoping NASCAR fans make the move to Prime Video for the next 5 races
Even signing with Prime Video to be one of their analysts, Carl Edwards admitted he was wondering if NASCAR fans would know about the sport's shift to streaming for five races on Prime Video or if they would know how to access the races. That was, until he talked to one of his neighbors. 'We're talking about other things and he said, 'Hey, you're doing some sort of TV thing.' And I was thinking, you know, this guy's 85 years old, and I'm gonna have to explain this to him,' Edwards said. 'And I started and he's like, 'Oh, yeah. I've got Prime. I'll be watching.'' Prime Video's first race on Sunday is the Coca-Cola 600. Not only is it NASCAR's longest race, it comes on motorsports' biggest day with Formula One's Monaco Grand Prix and the Indianapolis 500 taking place before the green flag drops at Charlotte Motor Speedway. Prime Video has a seven-year deal with NASCAR. 'We couldn't be more excited to be starting with a crown jewel (race). It's a huge responsibility and we're excited to bring it to fans,' said Alex Strand, Prime Video's senior coordinating producer for live sports. 'What we saw when we brought 'Thursday Night Football' to Prime is we spent a lot of time making sure that we're delivering on expectations. There's trust the viewers are putting in you to bring them the sport that they love.' Prime Video is hoping to do that by getting some production help from NBC Sports, which has had NASCAR since 2015. Prime's relationship with NBC goes back to 2022 when it launched 'Sunday Night Football.' Analysts Steve Letarte and Dale Earnhardt Jr. are reunited. Earnhardt Jr. was with NBC for six seasons (2018 through '23) while Letarte has been with NBC since 2015. Alexander said his approach to calling the races has been the same, no matter the network. 'Just be a setup guy for two analysts that obviously know it inside and out, and be able to relay the message to the fans of what's happening on track,' he said. 'I think it would be easy for someone when you look at new partners coming into the sport, that everything is going to be changed. It jumped off the board with me right away that Prime has the balance of new, but also the respect to traditions that we're used to in the TV world and how that matches up with NASCAR.' The only new faces are Edwards and Corey LaJoie, who will be on pre- and post-race coverage. Many thought Edwards would become an analyst after retiring in 2017, but he resisted overtures from various networks until Prime Video approached him earlier this year. 'The timing just feels right. I'm shocked at the way the sport has welcomed me back personally,' said Edwards, a 28-time winner in the Cup series. 'I wasn't sure about this, but Prime came to visit me in Missouri and we sat around at my kitchen table talking with my family. I'm glad they came out. It's going to be an adventure.' Prime Video will be bringing its own touches to the races. Green flag racing will include a double-box commercial format, ensuring viewers won't miss any action. There will also be highlights of key moments allowing viewers to catch up to action. As far as in-race strategy innovations, Prime is still testing some things as they try to continue what they have done during NFL coverage, which is explain complex matters in a simple way. 'I believe people are going to find it. They're going to enjoy it. And, you know, hopefully it just becomes, something that that all the fans feel good about and don't have any hiccups,' Edwards said.
