Maker of the lost Titanic sub once told a reporter that ‘at some point, safety is just pure waste’ – LINK
Some person set up a projector on a plane, so that they could watch the 2000 movie “The Patriot” on the overhead bins – LINK
Getting Tickets to a Concert Now Requires a Coordinated “Military Operation” – LINK
Josh Kiszka of Greta Van Fleet revealed in an Instagram post on Tuesday that he’s gay. The singer posted a photo of himself singing with a rainbow of colors behind him and wrote, “ I’ve been in a loving, same-sex relationship with my partner for the past eight years. Those close to me are well aware, but it’s important to me to share publicly.” Josh used his truth and platform to bring awareness to the rights of the LGBTQ+ community fighting for rights in Tennessee and across the country as well, stating, “The greatest mortal gift of all is our capacity to love and as we travel through time, may our greater understanding of the matter around and within us teach us to love ever deeper.” Read his full announcement here – LINK
311 will release a 30th anniversary edition of their 1993 debut album Music on September 29th. The two-record set adds for demos the band recorded in 1992 – LINK
David Lee Roth has posted another of his dancing at home videos – this one to Savoy Brown’s “Made Up My Mind,” which he recorded for his 2003 album Diamond Dave. Copy Dave’s moves by watching here
Whitney Cummings just announced she is pregnant with her first child! She made the announcement on Instagram saying, “Human pup coming December. All your dates in 2023 still happening I just may fall over a couple times.” Whitney revealed earlier this year that she had frozen her eggs – LINK
Denise Richards and her daughter Sami Sheen are raking in some serious OnlyFans cash. A source says, quote, “Sami doesn’t even show any skin on OnlyFans . . . she’s making $80,000 a month doing almost nothing and barely showing anything. She’s just teasing the audience.” Whereas her mom, “[Denise] doesn’t do anything that risqué either, but she has 100,000 followers and makes $2 million a month doing it” – LINK
Joe Exotic is running for president. The Tiger King star filed paperwork to appear on the 2024 Democratic presidential primary ballot in Colorado. He is still serving a 21-year sentence in prison over the murder-for-hire plot to kill Carole Baskin, his arch nemesis in the Netflix series. Nothing in the law prevents a prisoner from running for the Oval Office – LINK
The Cardinals won 9-3 in a series-clinching game over the Washington Nationals last night. The Cardinals can sweep the series with a win in today’s 3:05pm game.
Dylan Carlson went 2-for-4 with his first multi-homer game of the season and the third of his major-league career. Carlson’s second home run of the night got him to 300 career hits. His second-inning blast went 445 feet, the third-longest by a Cardinals player this season behind Tyler O’Neill (461 feet) and Nolan Gorman (446 feet). Rookie outfielder Jordan Walker’s hitting streak extended to a career-high 13 games with his second inning single up the middle. He was on base for Carlson’s first home run. Walker’s hitting streak is now the longest for a Cardinals rookie since Albert Pujols hit in 17 consecutive games in 2001. Jordan Montgomery and Dylan Carlson set tone as Cardinals win fourth in a row, 9-3 over Nationals – LINK
The injury report for St louis CITY SC isn’t good.
Striker Joao Klauss has now been out for two months, and will be out another four weeks with his quad injury. And midfielder Eduard Lowen, who missed his first game of the season on Saturday because of a quad injury, will miss four to six weeks. The team could look to the transfer market for help, but that window doesn’t open until July 5. So any player picked up there would be available for at the most three league games before the break, and when the break is over, Lowen and Klauss are expected to be back. St. Louis City SC updates Eduard Lowen, Klauss injury status – LINK
Wake Forest relief pitcher Cole Roland looked to be on something while he was pitching against LSU in the College World Series on Monday. While he was on the mound during the seventh inning, Roland kept making all of these unusual body movements that you don’t normally see from a pitcher. He wasn’t standing still at all. Somebody even tweeted… “Wake Forest’s Cole Roland drank an original recipe Four Loko before coming on in relief last night to pitch the 7th inning against LSU. You can’t convince me otherwise.” Great video – Ben Stevens on Twitter: “Wake Forest’s Cole Roland drank an original recipe Four Loko before coming on in relief last night to pitch the 7th inning against LSU. You can’t convince me otherwise. Twitter – LINK
There’s a great article on this on stltoday.com How much do you think the XFL made this last year under the new owners? Well, we know that the Battlehawks led the XFL in attendance and television ratings, but that didn’t keep the league from reportedly losing about $60 million this year. But Forbes said that the XFL projects it will have $100 million in revenue next season.
“This is not just an endeavor that’s going to fill up a portfolio and one day we flip it and we’re out,” Johnson told Forbes. “This is legacy. This is the long game.” In addition to St. Louis, this year’s version of the XFL had teams in Washington, D.C., Seattle, Las Vegas, Houston, San Antonio, Orlando and Arlington, Texas. Average attendance ranged from 35,104 in St. Louis to 6,028 in Vegas. Orlando also averaged less than 10,000 fans (6,028).
The Battlehawks’ five games accounted for the five most-attended contests across the league and more than doubled the 14,983 that runner-up Seattle attracted. So a logical next move for the XFL would seem to be to try to enter other markets such as St. Louis that the NFL has abandoned in recent years (San Diego and Oakland). XFL lost about $60 million in first year under new ownership, according to reports: Media Views (stltoday.com) – LINK