Author: Jack Crane

Major League Baseball is backing away from a Pride Night firestorm after San Francisco Giants players were warned for putting Bible citations on rainbow-logo caps. The dispute traces back to San Francisco’s June 12 Pride Night, when Landen Roupp, JT Brubaker and Ryan Walker marked the special caps with Bible references. Roupp wrote “Gen 9:12-16,” referring to the Genesis passage describing the rainbow as a sign of God’s covenant after the flood. The league initially treated the handwritten references as a uniform issue, saying players are not allowed to alter apparel or equipment with personal messages. https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/2069180415668326784 In Manfred’s June…

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Idris Elba is done playing along with the fantasy that he was ever seriously in line to become the next James Bond. In GQ, Elba finally dealt head-on with the Bond chatter that has followed him for more than a decade. The rumor followed him for so long that it became part of the modern Bond-casting circus. Had the casting ever happened, the “Luther” star would have become the first black actor to play Ian Fleming’s famous spy. But Elba said there was never a real deal behind the chatter. “It was never legit. It was always just a rumor,”…

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