Liam Hemsworth for Men's Health Australia - May 2020!
Liam Hemsworth focused on fitness following his divorce from Miley Cyrus.
The 30-year-old Australian actor told Men’s Health Magazine Australia that getting himself into tip-top physical shape for his new thriller, “Most Dangerous Game,” kept him distracted from his personal turmoil.
“This last six months, honestly, for keeping my head level and just staying balanced, I’d say exercise has been big for me,” he told the publication.
Hemsworth employed Rise Movement’s Jason Walsh to help rebuild his muscle through intense training sessions. Walsh, however, attributes Hemsworth’s newfound happiness to be a huge factor in his physical fitness.
“I can’t believe how well his body responds when he’s not going through stuff,” Walsh told the magazine. “I haven’t seen him this happy for a long time. We took advantage of that.”
The former “Hunger Games” star, who split from Cyrus in August 2019 and has since moved on with model Gabriella Brooks, also revealed that he dropped his vegan diet.
“The first two years, I felt great,” Hemsworth explained. “I felt my energy was high. I felt like my body was strong, cardio was high, everything felt really good.”
But in early 2019, Hemsworth felt a drastic change.
“February last year I was feeling really low and lethargic and wasn’t feeling good generally,” he said. “And then I got a kidney stone.”
The health scare caused him to “reassess” what he was putting into his body, which also included a near six-month stretch of sobriety.
“I want to have optimal health at all times,” he told the magazine. “I want my mental health to be strong and I want my body to feel good.”
BREAKING! Bernie Sanders Drops Out Of The 2020 Race!
Sen. Bernie Sanders ended his presidential campaign on Wednesday, clearing Joe Biden's path to the Democratic nomination and a showdown with President Donald Trump in November.
Sanders made the announcement in a call with his campaign staff, his campaign said.
Sanders' exit caps a stunning reversal of fortune following a strong performance in the first three states that voted in February. The nomination appeared his for the taking until, on the last day of February, Biden surged to a blowout victory in South Carolina that set off a consolidation of moderate voters around the former vice president. The contest ends now as the country continues to grapple with the coronavirus pandemic, which halted in-person campaigning for both Sanders and Biden and has led many states to delay their primary elections.
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Sanders' departure from the race is a sharp blow to progressives, who rose up during and after the 2016 campaign and commanded the Democratic Party's Trump era debates over issues like health care, climate change and the effects of growing economic inequality.
But even as his policies grew more popular over the years and into the primary season, the Vermont senator struggled to broaden his own support and galvanize a winning coalition. Now, as he did after leaving the 2016 primary, Sanders will seek to influence the presumptive nominee through the means he knows best -- from the outside.
Biden has already made gestures toward Sanders' populist base, which formed a movement over the past five years that could be critical to defeating Trump in the fall. Whether the former vice president will take the necessary steps to win over the holdouts, and the extent to which Sanders goes to make the case, will be a running subplot until Election Day.
The Sanders campaign held its final live public event on March 9, transitioning from packed, raucous rallies to an entirely digital operation. He communicated almost exclusively through virtual town halls and livestreams focused on the coronavirus crisis -- and how his progressive agenda, headlined by "Medicare for All," might have prevented it or helped cushion the blow.
In February, Sanders appeared poised to run away with the nomination after a strong performance in Iowa and victories in New Hampshire and Nevada, the latter by more than 25 percentage points, on the strength of his popularity with Latino voters, which had been courted relentlessly by his campaign.
But Sanders' momentum was dashed in South Carolina. Biden routed the field and then cleared it. The anti-Sanders vote rallied around him and, even with Sanders' win in California, put Biden in the driver's seat on Super Tuesday.
The wind at his back, the former vice president duplicated the feat a week later, delivering the hammer blow in Michigan, a state Sanders won in 2016 and viewed as crucial to his prospects in 2020. A day earlier, public safety measures in response to the coronavirus effectively ended the campaign roadshow.
Sanders would return to Vermont, where he has spent most of his time since, while Biden set up headquarters at home in Delaware. The Sanders fundraising machine, the most successful grassroots donor effort in American political history, was over the last month repurposed into a feeder for public health groups
#RHOA: Check out Riley Burruss Gorgeous New Short Afro!
Riley Burruss is using her time at home to start a new hair journey. After debuting a waist-length braided hairstyle in March after a brief social media hiatus, The Real Housewives of Atlanta teen decided to make a drastic hair change.
On April 6, Riley debuted her fresh look in a Tik Tok video with mom Kandi Burruss and the family's trainer, Kight Patrick Dallas. In the clip, Riley rocked her new short hair in a gorgeous natural afro. Riley, who sported a pair of pink leggings with a matching 'Honey" tie-dye sweater, looked positively radiant with her new 'do, which perfectly complements her face shape. (Clearly, the ATL teen can rock any hairstyle.) Her big chop comes at the hands of a familiar Bravoleb, hairstylist Derek Jae, who you may recognize from RHOA and Fashion Queens.
So, what does Kandi think about her daughter's hair switch-up? "2 weeks ago my baby girl @rileyburruss decided to cut all her hair off. Her hair was damaged & she wanted to cut it short & start all over. I like her Afro!" Kandi shared in an Instagram post.
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We are loving this new look, Riley.
#MusicNews: JoJo Hailey Brings Snoop Dogg Aboard For The Remix To His Latest Single “Special”!
Legendary Jodeci member JoJo Hailey returns with an extra special remix to his latest solo single. The singer adds rapper Snoop Dogg to his single “Special” which he originally released earlier this year.
The offering is JoJo’s foray into the solo realm as he works towards the release of his upcoming solo album. His partner and brother K-Ci Hailey had also announced he’d be working on a solo album last year.
In case you missed it, we spoke with JoJo for an interview earlier this year. He discussed with us his decision to go solo:
Things happened and it got to happen where I told my wife that I wanted to do something. Jodeci was off and K-Ci & JoJo was off for a minute, so we started out our company called JT Entertainment. It involves my kids and one of my nephews. I wanted to do something different. I want the world to see me for me and as me, so I just said “What the hell? Let me put this out there”. I never had any intentions of doing a solo project, but then when I got started doing the project, I was really writing songs for K-Ci and myself. I started getting into it more and I started becoming me and I felt that. I love that feeling and I said “You know what? I’m going to keep going”. I never thought I would go solo, but I just thank God that I’m in the position that I am in now.
Stay tuned for more on the upcoming album!
#HipHopNews: Future Announces New Album ‘Life Is Good’!
Future is keeping the positive vibes coming. The Atlanta rapper has announced that his upcoming album will be titled Life Is Good, inspired by his 2x platinum single featuring Drake. He made the revelation in an interview for the cover of XXL.
“It’s about life and being good and just enjoying life,” he told the magazine. “So many tragedies and catastrophes and everything is going on in the world. And you want to enjoy life, as long as you have it. Waking up, breathing, well, you want to be able to soak it all up and be appreciative for every moment on this earth, every moment that you’re living.”
Life Is Good represents his current mindstate. “Life Is Good is where I am at. Mentally, life is good, it’s just a state of mind. It’s just about being, whatever is going on good or bad, life is good, but life is precious,” he said. “You only get one life, so you want to just make the most of it. Instead of complaining about certain things that you want to be, you know, you want everything to be perfect, but that’s not the situation so I want to make good for what I have going on. With me, I want to send a positive message through hard times for me or anyone else.”
The project will remain true to himself while exploring new themes. “This album right here defines me at a creative level. Going to the next level where you just going to the next level and always going outside the box, but still remaining true to my core fans and my core audience.”
Added Future, “It’s me trying new things. I want to remain true to self, but also true to my fans and just giving them a good project, a great project to be able to listen to, but also for different artists to be able to feed off of, create off of, come up with different ideas and just being at the forefront of just making a solid album, a solid, complete album. It’s just very important to me.”
During the interview, Hndrxx also discussed his work with Drake. The two have teased a sequel to 2015’s What a Time to Be Alive, but it’s unclear if and when their joint project will see the light of day. “We always working on music and creating with each other and we create, building off each other’s ideas, feeding each other different ideas,” he said.
Meanwhile, his love life remains in the spotlight. He and girlfriend Lori Harvey went public with their relationship in January, but Future remained tight-lipped about their romance. “You get the people in the world who want to know, so you open up a little bit, but you got to save majority for yourself and your partner,” he said.
Life Is Good serves as the follow-up to last year’s The WIZRD, which opened at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. The Drake-assisted title track peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spawned a remix with Lil Baby and DaBaby.
R Kelly Must Remain Locked Up Amid Coronavirus Crisis!
A federal judge in New York on Tuesday denied R&B singer R. Kelly’s request for release from jail in Chicago because he was concerned he could contract the coronavirus while behind bars.
“The defendant is currently in custody because of the risks that he will flee or attempt to obstruct, threaten or intimidate prospective witnesses,” U.S. District Judge Ann Donnelly of Brooklyn wrote in her denial. “The defendant has not explained how those risks have changed.”
The 53-year-old Kelly has been in custody in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago since he was indicted on federal child pornography, obstruction of justice and racketeering charges.
Three staff members at the federal lockup have tested positive for the virus, but no inmates have been reported with infections. Cases have been reported at Cook County Jail in Chicago and other jails and prisons around the country. Kelly’s attorneys filed a motion in late March arguing that people in such facilities are at particular risk of contracting the virus.
Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn said the Chicago lockup and other federal facilities have taken steps to prevent the virus from spreading. Further, they wrote that a “generalized risk” that an inmate could contract the virus doesn’t justify their release.
Kelly has denied ever abusing anyone and has pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him. He faces several dozen counts of state and federal sexual misconduct charges in Illinois, Minnesota and New York, from sexual assault to heading a racketeering scheme aimed at supplying Kelly with girls.
YIKES! Ellen DeGeneres Faces Backlash for Joke Comparing Quarantine to Jail!
Uh Oh? Ellen DeGeneres is facing some criticism amid her return to television.
She kicked off the at-home edition of her talk show this week in her living room, beginning on Monday (April 6).
While discussing her experience with self-isolation, she joked: “This is like being in jail, is what it is…mostly because I’ve been wearing the same clothes for ten days and everyone in here is gay.”
The quote went viral on social media, with many voicing their disdain for the joke.
“Petition to stick her in an actual jail after quarantine is lifted. Just for a month or so, so maybe she can learn something,” one popular tweet read.
“And you can access the heated pool whenever you want!” David Cross sarcastically wrote.
“ellen is probably the worst person on television,” wrote music critic Dan Ozzi.
The backlash comes just after a viral tweet from Kevin T. Porter recently, where Twitter users chimed in with every story they’ve heard about Ellen being mean.
“Right now we all need a little kindness. You know, like Ellen Degeneres always talks about! 😊❤️ She’s also notoriously one of the meanest people alive. Respond to this with the most insane stories you’ve heard about Ellen being mean & I’ll match every one w/ $2 to @LAFoodBank,” he wrote.
The headline-generating tweet has over 2,000 replies with stories and reactions.
Cardi B blames Bronx Zoo tiger's coronavirus on 'Carole F***in Baskin'!
Cardi B has been an enormous fan of Netflix show Tiger King ever since it premiered, live tweeting it and even (jokingly) suggesting that she should open up a GoFundMe to free main character Joe Exotic from prison, where he is currently serving 22 years.
Everyone seems to have an opinion on the show's colorful cast of characters, including Carole Baskin, or as Joe Exotic regularly calls her "Carole F***ing Baskin."
And now, Cardi B is blaming Carole for more than just 'ruining' Joe Exotic's life
She's 'blaming' Carole for infecting a tiger with coronavirus.
After a tiger at the Bronx Zoo tested positive for coronavirus, Cardi said, "I'll tell you how... Carol F***in Baskin."
This wasn't Cardi's only Tiger King joke. She previously posted a meme about the cold case Carole is involved in that has now been reopened.
Carole has vehemently denied being involved in her former husband's disappearance.
On her website, Carole wrote that the show has "a segment devoted to suggesting, with lies and innuendos from people who are not credible, that I had a role in the disappearance of my husband Don in 1997. The series presents this without any regard for the truth or in most cases even giving me an opportunity before publication to rebut the absurd claims. They did not care about truth. The unsavory lies are better for getting viewers.”
Despite tweeting about her plans to help free Joe Exotic from prison, the rapper followed up and said she was "just playing."
She added, "I do love him tho and he deff needed better representation" and cited his famous song 'Here Kitty Kitty,' which featured a Carole lookalike in the music video.
She also spent time live-tweeting the show while in self-quarantine, weighing in on who was the bad guy - Joe or Carole. In the end, she decided, "They did Joe so dirty over and over again.
Earl Graves Sr., Founder Of Black Enterprise Magazine, Dies at 85!
Earl Graves Sr., who championed black businesses as the founder of the first African American-owned magazine focusing on black entrepreneurs, has died. He was 85.
Graves died Monday after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease, his son, Earl “Butch” Graves Jr, said in a post on Twitter.
Graves launched his magazine, Black Enterprise, in 1970. He later said his aim was to educate, inspire and uplift his readers.
“My goal was to show them how to thrive professionally, economically and as proactive, empowered citizens,” Graves wrote in his 1997 book “How To Succeed In Business Without Being White.”
According to an obituary published by Black Enterprise, Graves grew up in Brooklyn and gained an economics degree from Morgan State University. He held jobs in law enforcement and real estate before working on Sen. Robert F. Kennedy’s staff.
After Kennedy's assassination in 1968, he moved to found the magazine, which is now headed by his son.
He served on the boards of several major corporations, including American Airlines, Daimler Chrysler and Rohm & Hass and backed the presidential bids of Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama, Black Enterprise wrote.
In addition to Black Enterprise, Graves also ran Pepsi-Cola of Washington, D.C., one of the nation’s largest soft-drink distributors owned by African Americans. He sold his stake in the bottler to PepsiCo in 1998.
“As a little boy, I saw a magazine with something I’d never seen—a picture of a Black man as the owner: Black Enterprise Founder & Publisher Earl G. Graves,” tweeted Rev. Cornell William Brooks, a professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School and former president and CEO of the NAACP. “Graves has died — after inspiring MILLIONS to succeed in business & beyond. Inspired kids & so many others mourn his passing.”
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden was among others eulogizing Graves.
“As the founder of Black Enterprise, Earl Graves Sr. was a trailblazer in his own right, a leader in the American business community, and paved the way for many Black entrepreneurs to realize their dreams,” the former vice president wrote on Twitter.
AMC Theaters may never reopen due to credit score decline during #COVID19!
S&P Global on Thursday downgraded its credit rating for AMC Entertainment to CCC- from B, which takes the company from “Highly speculative” to “Default imminent, with little prospect for recovery.”
The nation’s largest theater chain had been forced to close as part of a response to the coronavirus pandemic. The company, was already facing a deficit of more than $5 billion at the end of 2019 and losses of $149 million.
“We expect AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc.’s (AMC) theaters will remain closed beyond June due to the impact of the global coronavirus pandemic. We do not believe AMC has sufficient sources of liquidity to cover its expected negative cash flows past mid-summer, and we believe the company will likely breach its 6x net senior secured leverage covenant when tested on Sept. 30, 2020, absent a waiver from its lenders," analysts said regarding the struggling theater group.
According to The Wrap, AMC furloughed about 600 employees last week, including its CEO. This is something that many corporations are having to do in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"Even after significantly lowering its fixed costs and capital spending requirements, we only expect the company's liquidity sources to last through mid-summer and are revising our assessment of AMC's liquidity to weak" analysts wrote.
Amazon Sued For Allegedly Stealing The Concept For Their Series ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’!
Amazon Prime is in hot water for allegedly stealing ideas for their series ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’ from a book.
According to TMZ, Jodi Parmley is suing Amazon Studios, claiming several creative concepts from her book ‘F.I.F.I. Financial Infidelity F**k It: The Mistress of the New Millennium,” were used in their series.
Parmley claims the company stole ‘creative elements’ from her book, which was released in 2014, and used them in their hit series.
According to documents acquired by TMZ, following the release of her book, Parmley wrote a screenplay based on it that was sent around to many studios with several execs showing interest.
While Parmley didn’t personally meet with Amazon, she believes that they eventually came across her script, and thus created a “carbon copy” with their award-winning series.
Parmley insists that Amazing “ripped off the plight, stand-up routine, general plot points and character traits the Amazon’s Miriam Maisel lives out,” TMZ reports. Aspects of the main character Miriam and her life on the show that Parmley alleges Amazon stole include seeking financial independence and leaving her not-so-good of a husband.
Parmley is suing to earn profits made from the series since it’s aired due to the streaming service allegedly stealing her creative ideas, the outlet reports.
Legendary Singer-Songwriter John Prine Dead At 73 Due To Coronavirus Complications!
John Prine, widely celebrated as one of the most influential songwriters of all time, has died due to complications from the coronavirus, roughly two months after he received a Lifetime Achievement honor at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. He was 73 years old.
The tragic news comes nine days after Prine’s family announced that he had been hospitalized in critical condition. “After a sudden onset of COVID-19 symptoms, John was hospitalized on Thursday (3/26),” March 29’s Twitter statement read. “He was intubated Saturday evening, and continues to receive care, but his situation is critical. This is hard news for us to share. But so many of you have loved and supported John over the years, we wanted to let you know, and give you the chance to send on more of that love and support now. And know that we love you, and John loves you.”
Prine was born Oct. 10, 1946, in Maywood, Ill., and began playing guitar at age 14. After cutting his chops at open-mic nights hosted by Chicago’s Fifth Peg club in the late ‘60s, and being discovered by Chicago Sun-Times film critic Roger Ebert (who wrote the first review Prine ever received), he became a regular in Chicago’s folk-revival scene. Another high-profile figure that helped introduce Prine to the public was Kris Kristofferson, who joked that Prine was such a superb songwriter that “we'll have to break his thumbs.” Kristofferson was instrumental in helping Prine secure a deal with Atlantic Records; Prine eventually released his self-titled debut album in 1971, quickly earning widespread critical acclaim for his compelling storytelling and unique, wry humor.
While Prine never charted a major hit on his own, his compositions were recorded by the likes of Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, the Everly Brothers, George Strait, Bette Midler, the Replacements’ Paul Westerberg, Dwight Yoakam, and the Highwaymen (a country supergroup comprised of Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Cash, and Kristofferson). Prine’s signature song alone, “Angel From Montgomery,” has been covered by John Denver, Ben Harper, the Dave Matthews Band, John Mayer, Maren Morris, Maggie Rogers, Carly Simon, and most notably Bonnie Raitt.
Prine was beloved among his songwriting peers. In 2009, Bob Dylan told Huffington Post, "Prine's stuff is pure Proustian existentialism. Midwestern mind-trips to the Nth degree. And he writes beautiful songs.” In his autobiography, Johnny Cash revealed that he listened to Prine when in “songwriting mode and looking for inspiration.” In 2008, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters told Word magazine, “[Prine’s work] is just extraordinarily eloquent music — and he lives on that plane with Neil Young and [John] Lennon." Prine had many younger admirers as well: His final album during his lifetime, 2018’s The Tree of Forgiveness on his own Oh Boy Records label, featured guest artists Brandi Carlile, Jason Isbell, the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, and Amanda Shires.
Among the many illustrious honors Prine received during his five-decade recording career, besides this year’s Lifetime Achievement Grammy, were three Grammys, six Americana Music Awards (including three wins for Artist of the Year), and a 2019 induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2019, he was on the shortlist of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominees.
Prine overcame cancer twice in his life, first in 1998 when he was diagnosed with squamous cell cancer on the right side of his neck; his subsequent surgery permanently altered his vocal tone, and he required a year of recuperation and speech therapy before he could perform live again. In 2013, he underwent an operation to remove cancer in his left lung, but he returned to touring just six months later.
Prine is survived by his third wife, Fiona Whelan, and their three children.
Jake Gyllenhaal Reveals Heath Ledger 'Refused' to Present at Oscars Over Brokeback Mountain Joke!
Heath Ledger was dedicated to the message behind the groundbreaking film Brokeback Mountain — so much so that he refused to make jokes about the film’s homosexual love story.
In a recent interview with Another Man magazine, Jake Gyllenhaal, who starred opposite Ledger in Ang Lee’s film, said that the late actor refused to present at the 2007 Academy Awards over a joke involving their characters’ romantic relationship.
“I mean, I remember they wanted to do an opening for the Academy Awards that year that was sort of joking about it, Gyllenhaal, 39, recalled.
“And Heath refused,” he explained. “I was sort of at the time, ‘Oh, okay… whatever.’ I’m always like, ‘It’s all in good fun.’ And Heath said, ‘It’s not a joke to me – I don’t want to make any jokes about it.’ ”
The actor added, “That’s the thing I loved about Heath. He would never joke. Someone wanted to make a joke about the story or whatever, he was like, ‘No. This is about love. Like, that’s it, man. Like, no.’ ”
Gyllenhaal and Ledger starred as Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, respectively, in the film, which explores their unexpected love story in the American West across two decades. Michelle Williams and Anne Hathaway also star.
The classic romance received eight Academy Award nominations at the 2007 ceremony, including acting nominations for both Gyllenhaal and Ledger. In a surprise to many, the film ultimately lost in the Best Picture category to Crash.
In an interview on Sunday Today in July, Gyllenhaal spoke about how the film impacted his career, sharing that it had been unlike any other film he’d done before.
“When we did Brokeback Mountain, I was like, ‘Whoa, what’s going on?’ This is a level of focus and attention that hits a certain nerve and you’re like, ‘This is bigger than me,’ ” he explained. “I understand what it is but this little movie we made that meant so much to us has now become not ours anymore. It’s the world’s.”
Gyllenhaal has also been open up the deep impact Ledger’s death in 2008 has had on him.
“Personally, it affected me in ways I can’t necessarily put in words or even would want to talk about publicly,” Gyllenhaal told PEOPLE in 2016. “In terms of professionally, I think I was at an age where mortality was not always clear to me.”
Having turned 27 at the time of Ledger’s death, Gyllenhaal said that he had not lost many friends at that point in his life.
“It [gave me] the experience of, ‘This is fleeting.’ And none of the attention or synthesized love that comes from the success of a film really matters at all,” he shared. “What matters is the relationships you make when you make a film, and the people you learn from when you’re preparing for a film. That changed a lot for me.”
Joel Osteen Recruits Kanye West, Mariah Carey For Virtual Easter Service!
Easter is going to be a little different this year, as most of us will be spending it at home rather than at church and/or with family and friends. Joel Osteen was planning on going all out for his Easter service, and he's not going to let the coronavirus pandemic stop him. As TMZ reports, the famed pastor will be conducting a virtual service for his Lakewood Church in Houston, and he recruited Kanye West, Mariah Carey, and Tyler Perry to join him — remotely, of course.
Sources tell TMZ that "Mariah will be part of a special tribute to medical professionals and first responders putting their lives on the line in the battle against COVID-19" and will be performing her song "Hero" via webcam, while Perry plans to speak words of encouragement to the massive audience. Kanye and his Sunday Service choir plan to provide the service's music from Los Angeles. Though it's unclear if the performances will be pre-recorded or performed live, it's bound to be an Easter service for the ages.
Mississippi State Player Fabien Lovett Decides To Transfer After Mike Leach's Controversial Tweet!
A tweet sent out by Mississippi State coach Mike Leach caused one of his players to transfer.
Leach, entering his first season at MSU, apologized last week after sending out a tweet with an image that depicted a woman knitting a noose for her husband with the caption, “After 2 weeks of quarantine with her husband, Gertrude decided to knit him a scarf.”
Several MSU players reacted negatively to the tweet, which was sent out Wednesday night and deleted by Leach on Thursday morning. One of those players was sophomore defensive tackle Fabien Lovett. Lovett responded simply by saying, “wtf.” He also retweeted Fox analyst Shannon Sharpe, who sent out a video with commentary very critical of Leach.
Lovett shared Leach’s tweet with his father and also spoke with a few MSU coaches. By Friday, Lovett and his father decided it was best for Lovett to leave Mississippi State. Lovett’s father, Abdual Lovett, explained the decision making to the Clarion Ledger:
The father said he questioned Leach's ability to lead because he says "whatever whenever."
"I didn't feel comfortable with my son being down there with a guy like that from a leadership standpoint — that you can just throw anything out there," Abdual told the Clarion Ledger on Saturday. "I feel if he can do it, the kids are going to feel like they can do it."
Leach, who has run into issues based on his Twitter activity in the past, said in his apology that he regretted if his “choice of images were found offensive” and that he had “no intention of offending anyone.”
Abdual Lovett questioned the sincerity of Leach’s apology and said the coach has not addressed the team about his tweet. Per the Clarion Ledger, he also said a noose “carries a negative connotation” for many black people in America.
One of the Mississippi State coaches sent Leach's number to Abdual Lovett so the two could talk, but the father didn't want to reach out to Leach.
"If he was sincere about it, he should at least call me instead of it being the other way around," he said of Leach. "At least text my number if you can't call me. He hasn't called, unlike these other coaches who are trying to recruit [Fabien]."
Leach (currently quarantined in Key West) was hired by Mississippi State in January after the school fired Joe Moorhead. Before getting his SEC opportunity, Leach spent 10 seasons as head coach at Texas Tech and another eight at Washington State.
Lovett totaled 19 tackles in 11 games in 2019. He appeared in two games and took a redshirt in 2018, his first season on campus.
AND FINALLY FROM “THE CRAZY PEOPLE SHOPPING AT WALMART” FILES
‘HOLY DIVER’
Heading to the only place left on Earth that’s safe. Down where it’s better, down where it’s wetter, under the sea
HAVE A GREAT DAY ALL!!!
EFREM
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