September 16, 2025 — and everything that came after On the morning of September 16, 2025, millions of First Take viewers tuned in expecting to see Molly Qerim at the desk she had occupied for a decade. Instead, Stephen A. Smith opened the show with a sentence that landed like a door slamming: “Normally, our…
Born July 30, 1941, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada There are pop stars. There are songwriters. There are entertainers. And then, very rarely, there is someone who is all three simultaneously — someone whose name appears not just on their own greatest hits but on the greatest hits of Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Michael Jackson, Buddy Holly,…
February 14 — the most romantic day of the year Valentine’s Day. Two words that can make a person feel three things at once: warmth, pressure, and the nagging suspicion they have forgotten to make a reservation. Whether you are deeply in love, newly dating, comfortably long-term, celebrating with a best friend, honoring a parent,…
Born July 22, 1996, St. Gallen, Switzerland There are hockey players who are good. There are hockey players who are electric. And then there is Kevin Fiala — a left winger built like a sports car, programmed for offense, raised in the Swiss Alps by a Czech father who handed him a stick before he…
February 10, 2026 — Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, Canada Tumbler Ridge Shooting: On Tuesday, February 10, 2026, a mass shooting took place in the small Canadian mining town of Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia. An 18-year-old resident killed two family members at a private residence before traveling to Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, where she killed five…
Born December 3, 1960, Chicago, Illinois There are actresses who are famous for what they play. There are activists who are famous for what they fight. And then there is Daryl Hannah — a woman who has spent 45 years being both simultaneously, and who has never quite let Hollywood, the tabloids, or anyone else…
Born January 7, 1966, White Plains, New York — Died July 16, 1999, Atlantic Ocean She never gave a single interview. She declined every magazine cover offer. She asked photographers to leave her alone and they didn’t. She walked through Manhattan alongside the most famous bachelor in America and tried, with everything she had, to…
Born April 20, 1974, Tucson, Arizona In American politics, there are people who seek power quietly, accumulate it slowly, and exercise it cautiously. And then there are people like Randy Fine — a Harvard-educated, casino-industry-hardened, self-described “Hebrew Hammer” who spent nearly a decade methodically building a platform in the Florida state legislature before arriving in…
Born January 16, 1992, Rockford, Illinois There are athletes who win medals. There are athletes who inspire. And then, very rarely, there are athletes who do both — not because winning and inspiring exist in the same space, but because the path they walked to the podium was so honest, so hard, and so full…
Born December 24, 1971, San Juan, Puerto Rico There is a moment that every music fan of a certain age remembers. It was February 24, 1999 — the night of the 41st Annual Grammy Awards. A Puerto Rican singer walked onto that stage and performed “La Copa de la Vida” with so much unbridled energy,…
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