From strategy, skill, to downright fist fighting, ice hockey has it all. Skating across the ice while dribbling a puck, changing pace at the drop of a dime, last-moment tackles, and more, makes each ice hockey game a roller coaster ride of emotions for players as well as fans. While every move a player makes on the ice is deliberate, sometimes freak accidents happen that lead to severe injuries. On Friday, one such incident occurred in the Kontinental Hockey League game between Nizhny Novgorod Torpedo and Dynamo Moskva.

It’s very sincerely beginning to look like Scott Cooper’s directorial follow-up to Crazy Heart will just cast and cast and cast until all the actors are taken, then maybe film something. Now Woody Harrelson is considering joining Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, and Sam Shepard in the Christian Bale–starring revenge tale. Harrelson’s role would be Curtis DeGroat, the villain who kills a newly unjailed Christian Bale’s brother (Affleck). P.S.: Leonardo DiCaprio and Ridley and Tony Scott are all producers on this thing, and Forrest Whittaker, Viggo Mortensen, Billy Bob Thornton, and Robert Duvall have all been rumored as potential players.

Here's Draya Michele setting the Miami pool scene on fire at Shore Club ... with a bikini that looks like it was made from the things the Ultimate Warrior used to tie to his arms. Don't get it twisted, we're not complaining ... not even a little bit. CAN YOU FEEL THE POWER?! Of course, Draya is a swimsuit tycoon, who runs the Mint Swim bikini company ... and also happens to be dating Washington Redskins star Orlando Scandrick.

TMZ Sports A ball Patrick Mahomes signed back in high school is hitting the auction block ... and check out the signature -- the NFL superstar had a John Hancock like a pro even as a teenager!! TMZ Sports has learned the K.C. Chiefs QB put pen to ball back in 2013 ... and now, it's the earliest Mahomes auto EVER to go up for auction. We're told the story behind the ball is pretty special .

The ObserverFictionReviewThe Booker-winner’s dark and brilliant tale of a gardening collective’s clash with a billionaire explodes the notion of caring capitalism In his great critical work The Sense of an Ending, Frank Kermode wrote about the end-directedness of fiction, the way that novels rehearse and forestall their endings – a process he called peripeteia. One thing he doesn’t discuss in that book is what happens when an ending entirely alters your understanding of the text.

Pope Benedict XVI This article is more than 3 years oldEx-pope Benedict XVI accuses opponents of wanting to silence himThis article is more than 3 years oldComments in authorised biography also associate gay marriage with the Antichrist The former pope Benedict XVI has accused opponents of wanting to silence him, while associating gay marriage with the Antichrist and attacking humanist ideologies in an authorised biography published in Germany. The 93-year-old, whose original name is Joseph Ratzinger, said in Benedict XVI – A Life he had fallen victim to a “malignant distortion of reality” in reactions to his interventions in theological debates.

Halle Bailey and DDG's baby boy is already a music video star. Four hours before the couple announced the first of their first child, son Halo, DDG dropped a new rap, "Darryl Freestyle," which includes a verse about the Little Mermaid actress and their baby, as well as a YouTube clip for the track, which shows the rapper cradling the tot in a white blanket toward the end. In addition, the song's SoundCloud audio file includes a cover photo of an infant's face.

My family valuesFamilyInterviewMicky Dolenz: my family valuesInterview by Juliet RixThe musician, best known as one of the Monkees, talks about living on a chicken ranch with his Hollywood actor parents and making furniture with his daughterMy mother was a typical “go west young lady” who came from Texas to Hollywood to become a movie star. My father was born in Italy and left when Mussolini was recruiting men to fight in the war.

Redeem now Time magazine reported that Playgirl asked DC police officer Michael Fanone to pose nude. But the erotic feminist magazine told Insider it never asked Fanone to pose. The Time reporter declined to comment and Fanone was unreachable. DC Metropolitan Police officer Michael Fanone has been inundated with letters, calls, messages, and requests since he responded to the attack at the Capitol on January 6 — some of them thankful, others threatening.

Brock Lesnar has earned the name “The Beast Incarnate” for a reason. Lesnar is a world-class athlete, his physique throughout the years is unparalleled. Furthermore, Brock is a multi-time world champion in WWE, and he is a former UFC Heavyweight Champion. Lesnar’s raw power plays a huge role in every sport he enters. From amateur to collegiate wrestling, all the way to WWE and MMA, Lesnar has given several stellar performances.