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National Post
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- National Post
Up Close: Meet Roughriders defensive tackle Micah Johnson
Article content 'Then I believe it was after I got cut from the Packers the next year, my agent was like, 'Hey, man, this team in Canada has your rights, you want to go? I was like, 'Nah.' Article content 'But then for the next couple years, I wasn't doing nothing but getting cut. I had my first son, so I was ready to start making some money.' Article content Article content 'Hell no, bro. I didn't think so. Especially (since) my first year, I tore my ACL in my first year in the CFL. I tore it again the second year. Article content 'My first three years in the CFL, people don't understand it was pretty much a wash. And I know you see the career numbers (now), but them first three years, like I was coming off of double ACLs and meniscus and stuff, so my first full season, I'll be telling everybody was 2016.' Article content Article content 'Scoring a touchdown at running back in the bowl game (for the University of Kentucky). We were playing against Clemson, and they put me in at running back, and I scored.' Article content Article content Article content 'Probably producing music. I've always liked making music, making beats. I sold a lot of beats … I lived in Atlanta for two or three years, and just selling beats, making beats. Article content 'This was my first few years in the CFL. So, this was like 2012-15. My first few years, that's really when I wasn't getting paid that much, that's how I was making my most of my money selling beats in the off-season. Article content 'It's become more of a hobby for me (now) though, but I always say I got to get back into it, even if it's not just the production of music. I enjoy sound engineering, master and mixing and stuff like that. So I've always wanted to kind of do something in that field. Article content 'I bought a studio when I was in college … I've always enjoyed recording people. I had people all over the city coming to record. It was actual studio equipment, Pro Tools (music software), like all that stuff. And it was self-taught.' Article content Article content
NBC News
15-07-2025
- NBC News
Suspected Los Angeles arsonist run down by former college football player
A former college football player ran down a suspected arsonist, and Los Angeles firefighters tackled hillside flames before the burning brush could get out of control, officials said Tuesday. One-time University of Kentucky wide receiver Scott Mitchell and girlfriend Davanah DiMarco were out on their regular 7-mile hike on Sunday when they came upon a burning tree and a suspicious, disheveled man leaving the scene. "'Oh wait, that tree's on fire,'" Mitchell recalled DiMarco telling him. "'Hey, that guy lit that tree on fire. He started that fire. Get him!' " By this point, that man was about 150 yards down the road. And then all of a sudden, Mitchell found himself back on an SEC gridiron in the fall of 2004 or 2005. "Even without digging, I was able to chase that guy down," Mitchell told NBC News. "I didn't know I still had it, I'm not going to lie." The man told the couple he was a fire marshal and started the blaze as part of a controlled burn — a tale they didn't believe given his disheveled state. "So I asked him, 'Where's your badge, fire marshal?'" said Mitchell, a talent manager. "And there was nobody else over there, so you can reasonably deduct that he set the fire." Other hikers on the trail helped keep the man at bay and called 911. Andrew Wistic O'Calliham, a 43-year-old homeless man, was booked on suspicion of arson upon a structure or forest land, jail records showed. He was being held in lieu of $75,000 bail on Tuesday. Aerial personnel and about 53 firefighters on the ground 'fully extinguished all active flames' along Runyon Canyon Road in the Hollywood Hills on Sunday afternoon, according to an LAFD statement. Mitchell and DiMarco were evacuated during the devastating Eaton Fire earlier this year, so they're hyper-sensitive to smell or sight of any flames.
Yahoo
15-07-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
World No. 1s Aryna Sabalenka, Jannik Sinner headline 2025 Cincinnati Open player field
The player fields for the 2025 Cincinnati Open were announced on Tuesday, July 8, with the top 65 players from the women's and men's tennis tours set to compete at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason (Aug. 5-18). Headlining the preliminary fields are the world's No. 1 players, Aryna Sabalenka and Jannik Sinner. Both of the top-ranked players will defend their titles in Mason. Advertisement Last summer, Sabalenka, then-ranked No. 3, beat No. 6 Jessica Pegula in the first Cincinnati Open women's singles final featuring two top 10 opponents since 2017. Sabalenka and Pegula are tied for the most WTA titles this season with three each. Aryna Sabalenka won the Rookwood Cup in 2024 after defeating Jessica Pegula in the finals at the Lindner Family Tennis Center in Mason, Ohio. Sinner beat Frances Tiafoe for his second ATP Masters 1000 title of the year last August in Mason. Six other previous Cincinnati Open champions are in the field, including three-time champion Novak Djokovic (2018, 2020, 2023), Coco Gauff (2023), Madison Keys (2019), Alexander Zverev (2021), Daniil Medvedev (2019) and Grigor Dimitrov (2017). "We look forward to welcoming the world's best tennis stars to compete for the Cincinnati Open title in August," Tournament Director Bob Moran said in a statement. "We have received a lot of excitement from the players about coming back to see our transformed campus and experiencing the new player amenities. Players and fans alike will enjoy the re-imagined venue and world-class atmosphere as the sport's best compete for the title." Advertisement Every player who has won a title this season is in the Cincinnati Open field, including Carlos Alcaraz, who has five wins on the year and fell to Djokovic in the 2023 Cincinnati Open finals in the longest match in the tournament's history (3 hours, 49 minutes). World No. 1 Jannik Sinner won the 2024 Cincinnati Open. Cincinnati Open singles field increases to 96 There are 96 players in each singles field this year, compared to 56 in 2024. There are a total of 119 players who have won a title during their career. The initial entrants include players from 37 nations. The United States leads the way with 24 players, including six in the top 10 of their tour's rankings in Gauff (No. 2), Pegula (No. 3), Keys (No. 8), Emma Navarro (No. 10), Taylor Fritz (No. 5) and Ben Shelton (No. 10). Advertisement There are 16 players with college experience, including a few of local interest in University of Kentucky product Gabriel Diallo and Mason native Peyton Stearns, who won NCAA singles and team titles for the University of Texas. Twelve players will be added to each field through a two-round qualifying event that take place Aug. 5-6, and additional players will earn wild cards to the tournament. This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: 2025 Cincinnati Open: Aryna Sabalenka, Jannik Sinner headline field
CBS News
15-07-2025
- CBS News
Runyon Canyon hikers stop suspected arsonist during brush fire
Some alert hikers helped stop a man suspected of starting a brush fire in Runyon Canyon Sunday morning. Fashion designer Davanh DiMarco was hiking with her partner Scott Mitchell, a former University of Kentucky wide receiver, when she spotted a man coming out of the bushes seconds after the fire started. "I'm like that's odd, but maybe he was just trying to go to the rugged terrain," DiMarco said. "Then, like 15 seconds later, the tree was on fire." After connecting the dots, DiMarco shouted for people to stop the man as he tried to get away. "Guy's about 150 yards away. I had to track him down, run him down," Mitchell said. Mitchell and another hiker stopped the man from running away until park rangers arrived and arrested the suspected arsonist. "We feel the magnitude more now because we understand what it could have been," Mitchell said. The flames burned near the Sunset Fire scar, one of the several wildfires that threatened Los Angeles County homes in early January. Firefighters doused the fire with water drops and held it to less than an acre. Law enforcement has not identified the suspect. Prosecutors have not charged him as of Monday.
Time Magazine
14-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Time Magazine
Michelle Khare: TIME100 Creators 2025
Early on, YouTuber Michelle Khare was forced to accept one of life's common challenges: not getting the job. 'When I was a kid, my dream job was to be a Disney Imagineer,' she wrote on Instagram in June. 'I applied after college but didn't get the job. I had no idea that rejection would take me on my own creative path to start my YouTube channel.' That channel has since amassed more than 5 million subscribers, who tune in to see Khare attempt some of the most stressful jobs and stunts in the world—from training to master Harry Houdini's underwater box escape to attending the FBI academy to auditioning for the University of Kentucky's top-ranked cheer team. Khare has become so deft at accepting physical and mental challenges that she began issuing a few of her own—namely, successfully petitioning for her YouTube series, Challenge Accepted , to join the Primetime Emmy ballot for hosted nonfiction series this year. Data and insights powered by #paid
