Daniel Trainor

University of Nebraska Omaha basketball player Deng Mayar has died in a drowning incident. He was 22 years old. According to reports, Mayar was swimming in the Blackridge Reservoir in Herriman, Utah around 5:45 p.m. on Saturday, August 16, when he began to struggle. Herriman City Police said the basketball player’s friend, 21-year-old Sa Mafutaga, […]

Tennis star Frances Tiafoe was one win away from a legendary U.S. Open moment — and Travis Kelce and Patrick Mahomes weren’t going to let him forget about it. Tiafoe, 27, lost to fellow American Taylor Fritz in the semifinals of last year’s tournament.  Two days later, Kelce, 35, and Mahomes, 29, attended the men’s […]

Brittany Mahomes passionately celebrated the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory over the Bills in the AFC Championship Game earlier this year amid drama with Buffalo fans. In episode 5 of ESPN’s six-part docuseries The Kingdom, premiering Wednesday, August 20, Mahomes, 29, can be seen screaming throughout the nail-biting game from her suite at Kansas City’s Arrowhead […]

Taylor Swift had a cathartic moment with Brittany Mahomes and Donna Kelce after a stressful stretch ahead of last season’s AFC Championship Game.  Moments after the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Buffalo Bills 32-29 in the January showdown, Swift, 35, found Brittany, the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes, and Donna, the mother of Swift’s […]

Taylor Swift’s relationship with Travis Kelce caused a seismic shift within the Kansas City Chiefs organization. ESPN’s six-part docuseries The Kingdom, which premiered its first two episodes on Thursday, August 14, detailed the early days of the pop star’s romance with the Chiefs tight end. Swift, 35, made her first appearance at Kansas City’s Arrowhead […]

Patrick Mahomes defended the Kansas City Chiefs’ decision to re-sign running back Kareem Hunt years after he was caught on camera assaulting a woman.  Hunt, 30, signed with the Chiefs in September 2024 after an injury to running back Isiah Pacheco.  The decision came nearly six years after Kansas City released Hunt after TMZ posted […]

As the Philadelphia Eagles were gearing up for the season in the summer of 2012, tragedy struck the team’s then-head coach, Andy Reid, and his family.  “We were getting ready to play a preseason game that week,” former Eagles director of pro personnel, Lewis Riddick, recalled in episode 2 of The Kingdom, premiering Thursday, August […]

Patrick Mahomes acknowledged that Taylor Swift becoming a member of Chiefs Kingdom helped take the team’s fan base into the next stratosphere. Mahomes, 29, discussed Swift’s impact on the franchise during the first episode of The Kingdom, premiering Thursday, August 14, at 9 p.m. ET on ESPN. “I’m interested to see what camp looks like […]

Minnesota Vikings cheerleader Blaize Shiek made his NFL debut while his critics were left to watch from the sidelines.  A rookie member of the Vikings’ squad, Shiek hit the field for the first time earlier this month when the Vikings opened their preseason schedule against the Houston Texans at Minneapolis’ U.S. Bank Stadium.  “SEE YOU […]

Brooke Hogan’s husband, Steven Oleksy, had some choice words for a photographer after unconsenting pictures of the couple were taken and shared online.  “Dear driver of the creepy white Honda with limo-tinted windows,” Oleksy, 39, wrote via his Instagram Story on Wednesday, August 13. “I waved to be nice. Had I known you were paparazzi, […]

Detroit Tigers pitcher Jack Flaherty and his girlfriend, soccer star Katie Johnson, gave a glimpse into their red-hot romance. Flaherty, 29, shared two photo booth reels via his Instagram Story on Wednesday, August 13, showing the couple in various stages of a makeout session.  The baseball star’s tongue featured heavily in the images, with Flaherty […]

Even the best golfers in the world can sometimes allow a string of bad days on the course to follow them home — just ask Collin Morikawa.  In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Morikawa, 28, admitted it can be “very hard” to focus on anything other than the sport when things aren’t working out.  […]

Karrueche Tran gave a sly hint that her private romance with Deion Sanders is showing no signs of slowing down.  Tran, 37, liked an Instagram post made by Sanders, 58, on Tuesday, August 12, as the University of Colorado head football coach continues his recovery from bladder cancer surgery earlier this year.  “Lord I thank […]

University of South Carolina head football coach Shane Beamer had some very serious business to address during a preseason press conference with reporters.  “I do have a statement to make,” Beamer, 48, said on Tuesday, August 12. “I think my wife is getting some undue criticism on the cookies that she makes.” Beamer was referencing […]

One of Travis Kelce’s former Kansas City Chiefs teammates gave him major kudos for his relationship with his girlfriend, Taylor Swift. Derrick Johnson, who played with Kelce, 35, for five seasons in Kansas City from 2013 to 2017, watched along with the rest of the world when the football superstar started dating Swift, 35, in […]

Dallas Cowboys diehards have grown increasingly impatient with team owner Jerry Jones, including superfan Denzel Washington. Washington, 70, appeared on ESPN’s First Take on Tuesday, August 12, where he laid into Jones, 82, over the ongoing contract dispute with Cowboys star linebacker Micah Parsons. “He’s making it hard,” Washington said of Jones. “Not to be […]

Oklahoma quarterback John Mateer has attempted to explain suspicious payments from his Venmo account allegedly linked to sports gambling. “The allegations that I once participated in sports gambling are false,” Mateer, 21, posted via X on Tuesday, August 12. “My previous Venmo descriptions did not accurately portray the transactions in question but were instead inside […]

Meredith Gaudreau emotionally reflected on her final moments with her late husband, Johnny Gaudreau, before his tragic death last year. “He kissed all of us goodbye, just in the driveway of his parents’ house,” Meredith said in an interview clip shared by Good Morning America on Tuesday, August 12. “That was the last time I […]

Travis Kelce acknowledged his off-the-field pursuits impacted his performance for the Kansas City Chiefs last season. “I think it might have slipped a little bit because I did have a little bit more focus in trying to set myself up,” Kelce, 35, said in his GQ cover story, which was published on Tuesday, August 12. […]

Travis Kelce opened up about the erosion of his parents’ marriage and the impact it had on his childhood and adolescence.  The Kansas City Chiefs star’s parents, Donna and Ed, got divorced after 28 years of marriage while he was a student-athlete at the University of Cincinnati. Travis played for the Bearcats from 2008 to […]

Hulk Hogan and his son, Nick, shared an indelible memory just months before the iconic pro wrestler’s death. When Nick, 35, got married to his wife, Tana Lea, in January, Hulk played a pivotal role in the proceedings.  “My dad was actually my best man at my wedding,” Nick exclusively told Us Weekly at SLAM […]