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| Health concerns for Kurupt. |
Dogg Pound co-founder and longtime Death Row representative Kurupt (aka Young Gotti) was hospitalized for an undisclosed illness. Big Snoop, Daz and his family are calling for a speedy recovery and prayers.
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| Health concerns for Kurupt. |
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| Breaking up happy homes is so Sinema. |
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| Sinema's bodyguard was also her boyfriend. He was married and his wife is exposing their asses. |
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| Wicked chemistry. |
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| A bird brain gives a booby the hand me down. |
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| This is why Trump doesn't deserve any awards for peace. |
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| He gave them a Super Bowl win and they still "forced" him out. |
It was a blowout.
Aaron Rodgers, 41 was handed another defeat. His antics may soon come to an end. He has not hinted retirement yet but the writing is on the wall.
Mike Tomlin, on the other hand was given two options: Retire or face cannon fire.
After 19 seasons, Tomlin has put the whistle down.
Over the next 19 seasons, Tomlin wrote his own chapter with one of the NFL’s marquee franchises, winning a Super Bowl and going to another while becoming one of the most respected voices — if idiosyncratic — voices in the game.
Asked repeatedly what separated Tomlin from his peers, his players pointed to his consistency. Tomlin was the same coach day after day, season after season.
That consistency, far too often of late, also bled into the results. And after yet another quick playoff exit, Tomlin used his voice one last time to tell team president Art Rooney II that it was time to try something else.
The longest-tenured head coach in major American professional sports stepped down from his job leading the Steelers on Tuesday, a seismic shift that will have ripple effects throughout the league.
“I am deeply grateful to Art Rooney II and the late Ambassador (Dan) Rooney for their trust and support,” Tomlin said in a statement released by the team. “I am also thankful to the players who gave everything they had every day, and to the coaches and staff whose commitment and dedication made this journey so meaningful.”
Tomlin’s early success, however, leveled off into a pattern of solid if not always spectacular play, followed by a playoff cameo that ended with the Steelers looking outclassed at every turn.
The 53-year-old Tomlin won 193 regular-season games in Pittsburgh, tied with Hall of Famer Chuck Noll for the most victories in franchise history. But their resumes diverged when it comes to the playoffs. While Noll won four Super Bowls in the 1970s, Tomlin went 8-12 in the postseason, losing each of his last seven playoff games, all by double-digit margins.
The final came Monday night, when the AFC North champions squandered some early momentum before getting drilled 30-6 by Houston, the most lopsided home playoff loss in team history.
There were chants of “Fire Tomlin!” as the clock kicked toward zero, though they weren’t nearly as impassioned as they were in November while the Steelers were getting pushed around by Buffalo in a loss that dropped their record to 6-6.
Tomlin did his best to tune out the noise and his team responded, the way it seemingly always did during his tenure. Pittsburgh won four of its final five games, including a sweep of Baltimore that gave the club its first AFC North title since 2020.
The optimism, however, dimmed once the Texans asserted themselves. The NFL’s top-ranked defense suffocated Aaron Rodgers and Pittsburgh’s offense while the league’s highest-paid defense wilted late.
It was a familiar and frustrating pattern for a place where, as Tomlin noted not long after his introduction, “the standard is the standard.”
And while that remains the case for a team whose members walk by six Lombardi Trophies every day on the way to work, the results had plateaued. The Steelers finished with 9 or 10 wins in each of Tomlin’s final five seasons, often doing just enough to squeak into the playoffs before being exposed by a more talented opponent.
Tomlin had two years left on the contract extension he signed in 2024, with the club holding the option for 2027. Should Tomlin want to return to coaching in the NFL before his contract with the Steelers expired, the club could seek compensation.
Either way, his departure leaves the Steelers looking for a head coach for just the third time since they hired Noll in 1969.
Pittsburgh likely won’t lack for attractive candidates. The club’s stability combined with its ability to remain competitive even without a franchise quarterback for the last half-decade means whoever gets the job will be given substantial leeway to get the team back to the top.
The announcement came as somewhat of a shock. In the final question he fielded as head coach, Tomlin painted an upbeat picture about the team’s future.
“I’m always feel optimistic about what we’re capable of doing in terms of putting together a group, certainly,” he said Monday night.
And with that, he stepped off the dais and into a future that will not lack for options. Long one of the most confident and imminently quotable people in football — his weekly news conferences were peppered with what became known as “Tomlin-isms” — he could step into television if he wants, as Cowher did after retiring.
Yet it seems just as likely that he will have his choice of jobs if or when he wants to coach again. Players defended Tomlin — almost uniformly popular within the locker room — to the end.
Tight end Pat Freiermuth called Tomlin “one of the best coaches I’ll ever play for, probably the best. In my opinion his message hasn’t got stale. I believe in him.”
Freiermuth added that his belief extended to general manager Omar Khan, who will be in charge of finding the right person for one of the most attractive coaching gigs in any league.
Tomlin’s two predecessors are in the Hall of Fame. Tomlin could very well find himself getting fitted for a gold jacket of his own. Yet rather than try to come back next year and break Noll’s record for regular-season wins, he opted to, as Noll once famously put it, “get on with his life’s work.”
And the Steelers will try to find the right person to help them return to the standard that the franchise lives by, one it clutched at but never quite grasped during Tomlin’s final years.
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| Betar crossed the line. Letitia James erased it. Betar cannot operate in New York. |
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| Tish James took on the NRA, Trump Organization and Betar. They ended up dissolving or being forced to pay hefty fines for fraud. |
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| Elon Musk's baby mama spills the tea. |
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| This iconic image shows the callous actions of a killer. Lo-letha Hall did not deserve this. |
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| A fighter never gives into pressure. |
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| A 15 year old girl can change the world. |
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| John Forté died in Massachusetts. |
John Forté, the Grammy-nominated musician known for his work with the Fugees and the Refugee Camp All-Stars among others, has died at age 50. He was found dead Monday afternoon in his home in Chilmark, Massachusetts, according to police.
Chilmark Police Chief Sean Slavin said in a statement that there were no signs of foul play or “readily apparent cause of death.” The case is being investigated by the state medical examiner’s office, according to Slavin.
A native of New York City, Forté was a musical prodigy who broke through in his early 20s as a contributor to the Fugees’ Grammy-winning “The Score” and to Wyclef Jean’s Grammy-nominated “The Carnival.” A multi-instrumentalist and rapper, he also released such solo albums as “Poly Sci” and “I John,” with contributors including Carly Simon, whose son, Ben Taylor, was a close friend of Forté’s.
In 2000, he was arrested at Newark International Airport and charged with possession of liquid cocaine and drug trafficking. Forté was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but the sentence was commuted after seven years by President George W. Bush. Simon was among many public figures who advocated for his release.
Survivors include his wife, the photographer Lara Fuller, and two children.
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| ICE killed Keith Porter a week before Renee Good. |
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| This is America. |
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| Police often warn people to not shoot in the air on New Year's Day. |
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