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☆ Graham Sutherland’s study for the portrait Winston Churchill hated goes up for auction
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-19 | by ( Caitlin Chatterton | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

Churchill is talking about his own portrait, commissioned to celebrate his 80th birthday, as it is unveiled in London’s Westminster Hall in November 1954. This painted study of Churchill by Sutherland, made in preparation of the portrait, is up for auction for the first time. Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby'sWhile “The Crown” is not a documentary, it is true that the 80th birthday portrait —described by Churchill as “filthy and malignant” in a letter to his personal doctor — was burned. “(Sutherland) caught him in a much more relaxed, intimate way,” Zlattinger said of the study, a small canvas painted in oils. Graham Sutherland, seen with his-then unfinished but eventually much-maligned portrait of Churchill.

Persons: it’s, ” Winston Churchill, John Lithgow, Graham Sutherland, Stephen Dillane, ”, Churchill, ” Sutherland, “, Judas, Churchill’s, Clementine, Harriet Walter, Sutherland, Tristan Fewings, —, ” Andre Zlattinger, “ He’d, He’d, Churchill —, Alfred Hecht, ” Zlattinger, Hatshepsut of, Baron, Queen Elizabeth I, Robert Blyth ,, Elizabeth “, Queen Victoria, Elizabeth, Ira B, Nadel, ” Blyth, Elizabeth I, Blyth, ” Dr Caroline Rae, Stalin, ” Bryn Sayles, Jacob Epstein, Alexis Schwarzenbach, Queen Elizabeth, King George VI, Queen Elizabeth II, Cecil Beaton, Sayles, Gary Oldman’s Organizations: CNN, Hall, Modern, Irish, Sotheby’s New, Royal Museums Greenwich, Art, University College London, Conservative Party Locations: Sotheby’s, Sotheby’s New York, London, Sutherland, Queen, Downing, Suez, Blenheim, Oxford, New York, British, Swiss

☆ The Stunning Collapse of the Philadelphia Eagles
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-16 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It wasn’t terribly long ago that the Philadelphia Eagles were the toast of the NFL. Coming off an appearance in last year’s Super Bowl, which they nearly won, the Eagles had the best record in the league 12 weeks into this season. They had a star-studded roster, a charismatic young coach, and an unstoppable quarterback sneak play that drove the rest of the league nuts. The Eagles that took the field Monday night in the playoffs bore little resemblance to that.

Organizations: Philadelphia Eagles, NFL, Eagles

☆ The Dallas Cowboys Fall on Their Faces in the Playoffs. Again.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-15 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The Cowboys lost on their home turf where they had been undefeated all season. Photo: tim heitman/ReutersThe Dallas Cowboys strutted into the playoff this year with the NFL’s top offense and a prime opportunity to end the team’s 28-year Super Bowl drought. The seventh-seeded Green Bay Packers routed the No. 2 Cowboys 48-32 at AT&T Stadium, and what was even more stunning than the Packers knocking off Dallas in the opening round is how easily they did it. Green Bay shredded the vaunted Dallas defense, bottled up its potent offense—and did it all on the Cowboys’ home turf, where the Cowboys were undefeated all season.

Persons: tim heitman Organizations: Cowboys, Dallas Cowboys strutted, Green Bay Packers, T, Packers, Dallas

☆ The Coach Who Has Five Teams in the NFL Playoffs
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-13 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It was a head-spinning week that saw football coaching greats Bill Belichick, Nick Saban and Pete Carroll all exit their jobs after decades roaming the sidelines. But there’s one venerable NFL head coach in his early 70s who still has a team in the playoffs. Actually, he has five of them.

Persons: Bill Belichick, Nick Saban, Pete Carroll Organizations: NFL

☆ The Bombshell Rumor Gripping Professional Golf
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Jordan Spieth is a three-time major champion, a newly minted member of the PGA Tour’s board and just spent his weekend on the course with many of the world’s top players. But even he seemed to be totally in the dark about the potential bombshell gripping the world of golf. Is Jon Rahm about to bolt from the PGA Tour for the Saudi-backed LIV Golf?

Persons: Jordan Spieth, Jon Rahm, LIV Organizations: PGA, PGA Tour Locations: Saudi

☆ He Plays the NFL’s Least Valued Position. He’s Never Been More Valuable.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

By every shred of modern football thinking, San Francisco 49ers running back Christian McCaffrey should be a gigantic waste of a team’s budget. He’s the highest-paid player at a position that is no longer highly prized by the league. That’s also what makes him an extraordinarily rare outlier these days. San Francisco has emerged as the Super Bowl favorite in large part because McCaffrey completely defies NFL logic.

Persons: Christian McCaffrey, That’s, McCaffrey Organizations: San Francisco 49ers, Super Bowl Locations: San Francisco

☆ The NBA Tournament’s Burning Question: Is It Worth a Parade?
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-03 | by ( Joshua Robinson | Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

In the first year of the NBA’s In-Season Tournament, basketball fans have become used to a few new things: purple courts, weird scheduling, the concept of a group stage. But they’re still wrapping their minds around how much they should really care about this whole competition. Now, as the inaugural event moves into the quarterfinals and gets ready for this week’s Final Four in Las Vegas, officials at eight city halls across the country are beginning to wonder the same thing. The question that at least one of them will have to answer: Is winning the in-season tournament worth a parade?

Locations: Las Vegas

☆ Is This the Richest Tournament in Golf?
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

It’s no secret that the Masters is golf’s most prestigious tournament and that the British Open is the most historic. But the title of the world’s most lucrative golf tournament may soon belong to a three-day event at the Abu Dhabi Golf Club next week, featuring a cast of mostly unknowns that even ardent fans of the sport have never heard of.

Organizations: Abu, Golf Club Locations: British

☆ Tiger Woods Is Back—and Teeing Off on the PGA Tour’s Secretive Saudi Deal
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-29 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When Tiger Woods addressed his long-anticipated comeback from ankle surgery that has sidelined him since April, he delivered something even juicier than updates about his own future: his insight into the uncertain future of professional golf. Woods, who’s set to tee off Thursday at the Hero World Challenge that he hosts in the Bahamas, said his ankle is now pain free and that he hopes to play as much as once a month next year. But from his powerful perch inside the negotiations, the 1,328th ranked golfer in the world also provided some of the most revelatory remarks about the status of the stunning pact between the PGA Tour and its Saudi-backed rival.

Persons: Tiger Woods, who’s Organizations: PGA Tour Locations: Bahamas, Saudi

☆ Bill Belichick Is on the Verge of Becoming the NFL’s Biggest Loser
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-27 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When the New England Patriots routinely churned out double-digit win seasons, Bill Belichick ’s march toward becoming the NFL’s winningest coach ever seemed like an inevitability. But the team’s recent nosedive has put him on the verge of a less desirable record: most all-time losses. The Patriots’ loss to the Giants on Sunday marked a new low for the franchise under Belichick. Their offense remained helpless, even against one of the NFL’s worst teams, and it dropped them to 2-9 on the season. It also added the 161st regular-season loss to his ledger, putting him four shy of the historic mark.

Persons: Bill Belichick ’, Belichick Organizations: New England Patriots, Patriots, Giants

☆ The Lions Are No Longer the NFL’s Turkeys
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Brad Holmes had been the Detroit Lions general manager for just a couple of weeks when he made the move that determined whether he would succeed at his new job—or set a woebegone franchise back even further. Holmes’s counterintuitive idea to turn around the team began with trading away the team’s most valuable player. But the deal in 2021 that gave up quarterback Matthew Stafford didn’t send the Lions into the type of painstaking rebuild that can take years, if it ever works at all. It actually allowed them to short-circuit that process and become a Super Bowl contender faster than anyone imagined.

Persons: Brad Holmes, Matthew Stafford didn’t Organizations: Detroit Lions, Lions

☆ The NFL’s Billion Dollars’ Worth of Injured Quarterbacks
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-20 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

After quarterback Joe Burrow suffered a wrist injury last Thursday that will likely end his season, Cincinnati Bengals coach Zac Taylor tried to sound optimistic. “I’m excited to see this team respond,” he said. “This season is far from over.”

Persons: Joe Burrow, Zac Taylor, ” Organizations: Cincinnati Bengals

Michigan’s football sign-stealing scandal expanded in a troubling new direction on Friday, as the university fired an assistant coach who had been connected to the staff member at the center of the controversy involving an impermissible off-campus scouting scheme. The dismissal of Chris Partridge, a recruiting guru who served as the team’s linebackers coach, came less than a day after Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh made a shocking pivot by agreeing to accept his three-game suspension from the Big Ten.

Persons: Chris Partridge, Jim Harbaugh Organizations: Michigan, Big

☆ Jim Harbaugh Accepts the Big Ten’s Sign-Stealing Suspension
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh agreed to accept the three-game suspension issued by the Big Ten Conference over sign-stealing allegations against the Wolverines football program, a stunning twist less than a day before the sides were set to appear in court over the ban. The agreement resolves a legal war that erupted last week when the Big Ten levied the unusual mid-season penalty against Harbaugh, whose team is undefeated and chasing a national title even as it fended off accusations of cheating.

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Harbaugh Organizations: Big Ten Conference, Wolverines, Big Locations: Michigan

☆ The Wild Legal Theory to Save Jim Harbaugh
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-15 | by ( Louise Radnofsky | Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan Law professor Daniel Crane was speaking at the Federalist Society’s national lawyers convention last week when the assembled legal wonks kept stopping him to discuss something that wasn’t on the originalism agenda: the explosive sign-stealing scandal engulfing his school’s football team. After Crane’s beloved Wolverines drew the wrath of the college sports world, Crane cooked up a novel theory in their defense. In perhaps the spiciest piece ever to hit the Yale Journal on Regulation, Crane argued that the NCAA bylaw Michigan is accused of violating may be unenforceable—because it violates antitrust law.

Persons: Daniel Crane, wonks, Crane’s, Crane Organizations: Michigan, Federalist Society’s, football, Wolverines, Yale

☆ After a Key Win, Michigan Girds for Its Next Battle: Freeing Jim Harbaugh
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-12 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The emotional aftermath of Michigan’s key win over Penn State on Saturday turned into a celebration of the one person notably absent: Jim Harbaugh, the Wolverines’ coach who had been suspended by the Big Ten over alleged sign-stealing. Offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore, who filled in as acting head coach, gave a profanity-laced postgame interview thanking both God and his suspended boss. A player held up a white board with “FREE JIM” scrawled on it. Quarterback J.J. McCarthy pointed at a television camera and proclaimed: “Love you, coach.”

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Sherrone Moore, JIM ” scrawled, J.J, McCarthy, ” Organizations: Penn State, Wolverines, Big

☆ Michigan Rushes to Court to Fend Off Jim Harbaugh’s Suspension
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended by the Big Ten over alleged sign-stealing violations. Photo: Al Goldis/Associated PressWhen the Big Ten suspended Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh over alleged sign-stealing violations late Friday afternoon, the school rushed to court with an urgent message: It needs Harbaugh to finish off a dream season. Michigan wasn’t shy about framing the stakes. Its lawyers argued that barring Harbaugh from doing the most important part of his job would damage him, his players, and even the public, based on what it called a flimsy initial investigation by the Big Ten.

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Al Goldis, Harbaugh Organizations: Big, Big Ten, Michigan Locations: Michigan

☆ Michigan Will Play Penn State Without Jim Harbaugh While Legal Battle Ramps Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended by the Big Ten over alleged sign-stealing violations. Photo: Al Goldis/Associated PressWhen the Big Ten suspended Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh over alleged sign-stealing violations late Friday afternoon, the school rushed to court with an urgent message: It needs Harbaugh to finish off a dream season. 2 in the College Football Playoff rankings, were forced to kick off their marquee game against No. 9 Penn State without their boss when a judge didn’t issue a ruling in the hours before the game. With the small window between the Big Ten’s decision and Saturday’s noon kickoff, Michigan missed its limited chance to get Harbaugh back on the sidelines.

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Al Goldis, Harbaugh Organizations: Big, Big Ten, Michigan, Wolverines, College Football, Penn State Locations: Michigan

☆ Michigan Beats Penn State Without Jim Harbaugh While Legal Battle Ramps Up
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-11 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh was suspended by the Big Ten over alleged sign-stealing violations. Photo: Al Goldis/Associated PressWhen the Big Ten suspended Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh over alleged sign-stealing violations late Friday afternoon, the school rushed to court with an urgent message: It needs Harbaugh to finish off a dream season. 3 in the College Football Playoff rankings, were forced to play their marquee game against No. 9 Penn State without their boss when a judge didn’t issue a ruling in the hours before the game. And it was no Harbaugh, no problem: Michigan prevailed 24-15 for its best win of the season with offensive coordinator Sherrone Moore filling in as acting head coach.

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Al Goldis, Harbaugh, Sherrone Moore Organizations: Big, Big Ten, Michigan, Wolverines, College Football, Penn State Locations: Michigan

☆ The Rocket Scientist Quarterbacking an Unlikely NFL Playoff Contender
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

When quarterback Joshua Dobbs subbed in for the Minnesota Vikings last week and led them to a dramatic victory just days after they traded for him, it amazed his teammates whose names he barely knew when he stepped onto the field. It also left his former colleagues dumbfounded—which isn’t exactly easy to do considering they’re rocket scientists.

Persons: Joshua Dobbs subbed, dumbfounded Organizations: Minnesota Vikings

☆ Aaron Rodgers Wants to Come Back This Season. It Isn’t Crazy.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Louise Radnofsky | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Soon after Aaron Rodgers suffered what’s typically a season-ending Achilles injury on his first drive with the New York Jets, he suggested something that sounded radical even for Aaron Rodgers. He wanted to try to return this season. The idea of returning from his Achilles tear within just a handful of months seemed impossible. It’s an injury that has historically required up to a year for recovery—if recovery is even possible. Even Rodgers acknowledges there’s a long way to go before achieving his stated goal.

Persons: Aaron Rodgers, what’s, Rodgers, there’s Organizations: New York Jets

☆ Houston, We Have a Solution. It’s a Quarterback.
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-06 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Stroud got the ball back with less than a minute left Sunday, it looked like his magical game had just gone to waste. The rookie quarterback for the Houston Texans had just watched from the sidelines as his defense let the Tampa Bay Buccaneers march down the field for a late touchdown to rip the lead away. Stroud had just 46 seconds and would have to make history to put the Texans back on top.

Persons: Stroud Organizations: Houston Texans, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Texans Locations: C.J, Stroud

Here's how Kurtz built up Mike's Hot Honey from just a hobby into a company poised to bring in more than $40 million over the next year. This might be the life for me'A college-aged Kurtz in Brazil, where he found the inspiration for Mike's Hot Honey. Some like it hotKurtz working at Paulie Gee's in August 2010 with bottle of Mike's Hot Honey in hand. "I'd be in there from midnight till six in the morning just bottling, capping and labeling bottles of Mike's Hot Honey." Over three funding rounds, Mike's Hot Honey raised $12 million.

Persons: Mike Kurtz doesn't, Franzen, Quentin Tarantino's, Kurtz, Raffi Paul, Mickey Todiwala, Larry Raymond, Larry, Mike Kurtz, Paulie Gee's, Paulie Gee, Matt Beaton, Beaton, Beaton's Organizations: CNBC, Foods, UMass Amherst Locations: Brazil, Greenpoint , Brooklyn, New York City, New York, what's, U.S

☆ The Team That Stole the Kansas City Chiefs’ Lightning
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-03 | by ( Andrew Beaton | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The rise of the Patrick Mahomes-era Chiefs was defined by a play called “Wasp.”Trailing late in the Super Bowl against the 49ers four years ago, Mahomes faced third-and-long and drifted farther and farther behind the line of scrimmage after taking the snap. He was waiting for wide receiver Tyreek Hill to break free, and, once he did, Mahomes heaved a pass that traveled 57 yards in the air and landed in Hill’s waiting hands.

Persons: Patrick Mahomes, Mahomes Organizations: Chiefs, Super, 49ers Locations: Hill’s

☆ Michigan Rescinded Contract Offer to Jim Harbaugh After Sign-Stealing Allegations
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-30 | by ( Andrew Beaton | Rachel Bachman | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The University of Michigan has rescinded a new contract offer for head football coach Jim Harbaugh in the wake of a sign-stealing scandal that has rocked one of the favorites to play for college football’s national championship, according to a person familiar with the matter. The move is the first sign that the school may be hesitant about its future relationship with the famed coach who revived its football program and is frequently cited as a candidate for jobs in the National Football League. Harbaugh’s pay had been cut during the pandemic, but he was given a new contract just last year after bringing the team back to national prominence.

Persons: Jim Harbaugh, Harbaugh’s Organizations: University of Michigan, football’s, National Football League

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