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CALABASAS, Calif. – Former NBA superstar Kobe Bryant has died in a helicopter crash in California, Local 10 has confirmed. Five people were on board when the helicopter went down near Calabasas this morning. There were no survivors. Bryant’s 13-year-old daughter was also on board, Local 10 News has learned. Bryant’s wife Vanessa was reportedly not on the helicopter, according to TMZ . Bryant was 41 years old. He played his entire 20-year NBA career with the Los Angeles Lakers and finished his career as one of the best to ever play the game. Kobe Bryant and his daughter Gianna watch the first half of an college basketball game between Connecticut and Houston, (Associated Press) Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was drafted into the NBA straight out of high school at the age of 17. He retired in 2016 a five-time NBA champion, two-time NBA Finals MVP and the all-time leading scorer in Lakers franchise history. Bryant was selected to an NBA record 18 con...

JUST NOW: Antonio Brown, wearing an anti-suicide smock, made his first court appearance. His bond was set at $100,000 for the burglary with battery charge. The judge ordered Brown to wear a GPS monitor, surrender his passport, and undergo a mental health evaluation. Brown was granted bail on a $100,000 bond for the first two charges. In all it amounts to $110,000 for three charges. He is also required to get GPS monitoring and surrender his passport and guns, per Wolfe and Fox Sports’ Andy Slater. Brown was in an anti-suicide smock for his first court appearance. Brown allegedly threw rock at driver The receiver and his personal trainer, Glenn Holt, allegedly refused to pay the moving company $4,000 on Tuesday for delivering his “large number of designer clothes and shoes” from California. He allegedly threw a rock at the moving truck and physically attacked the driver. The driver called 911 and told the operator he believed Brown was “high” at the ti...

Westside Gunn , Conway The Machine , Benny The Butcher and Daringer have released WWCD, their debut album for Shady Records. The LP is the Griselda Records crew’s first official group project following years of collaborations. The collective’s 13-track album is produced entirely by Daringer and Beat Butcha. Guests include Eminem, Raekwon, 50 Cent, Keisha Plum, NOVEL and Tiona Deniece. The Griselda Records crew has shared the cover art and tracklist for WWCD (What Would Chine Gunn Do) , which is scheduled to drop on Black Friday (November 29). Westside Gunn, Conway The Machine, Benny The Butcher and Daringer’s debut album for Shady Records will feature collaborations with Eminem , 50 Cent and Raekwon , among others. The 13-track LP is named after the late Machine Gunn Black a.k.a. Chine Gunn, Benny’s half-brother and Westside’s first cousin who was murdered in Buffalo. Production is handled entirely by Daringer and Beat Butcha. “It’s actually like a real, authe...

Cellphone video shows Antonio Brown making a profanity-laced rant after police were called to a domestic incident at his Hollywood home.

Eminem has dropped a surprise album — and it’s politically charged. The rapper’s eleventh studio album, Music To Be Murdered By , was released Friday as well as the video for the track “Darkness,” which calls for an overhaul of U.S. gun laws. The six-minute video eerily shows a concert shooting playing out with both the dramatization and lyrics referencing the 2017 Las Vegas shooting, when Stephen Paddock opened fire into a crowd of concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest music festival . It was the deadliest mass shooting in recent U.S. history, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds. The video for the song, which samples Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence,” also included footage of news broadcasts from several other recent mass shootings across the country. The end of the video sees Eminem (real name: Marshall Mathers) staring at a wall of TV screens as the news reports play, one after another. Each screen then turns to an image of the American flag...

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My favorite sports story so far in this turbulent new decade? That’s easy. It’s the Tennessee Titans—football anarchists, lobbing stink bombs into all the expected story lines of these NFL playoffs. How delightfully disruptive it’s been, watching this underestimated road dog of a team, once widely considered lucky just to be here, mow through the dreaded Patriots in Foxborough, and now the top-seeded Ravens on a warm and gloomy night in Baltimore. What is going on here? Didn’t the Titans finish 9-7? Aren’t they playing with a promoted backup quarterback? Aren’t they, you know, the Tennessee Titans ? This is like watching a random wedding guest show up, give a 20-minute toast to the bride and groom and sing 10 songs with the band. And then march off with the entire cake. Now the Titans get the Chiefs in Kansas City next Sunday for a shot at the Super Bowl. Are the Chiefs scared? I know they can score four million points in, like, 45 seconds, like they proved Sund...