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Arielle Prepetit has a key role on CBS’s highly anticipated soap opera, Beyond the Gates, which debuts in 2025. She plays Dani Dupree and Bill Hamilton’s oldest daughter, Naomi Hamilton Hawthorne. By day, she’s a high-powered attorney. However, she’s also the one person in the family who inherited her grandmother Anita Dupree’s gift for singing. Prepetit is highly prepared for this facet of her character. She’s an actor who sings and dances and once had Broadway aspirations. Here’s what else you need to know about the entertainer.

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Arielle Prepetit is a first-generation Haitian-American who was born and raised in Orlando, Florida. She discovered her love of dance when she was five years old. Over the years, she added singing and acting to her repertoire. Now, she considers herself an actor who can sing and dance.

Living in Orlando, she was able...

Timothée Chalamet has the internet’s approval to add “football analyst” to his résumé now.

The Oscar-nominated actor served as a guest picker on ESPN’s College GameDay on Saturday ahead of the SEC championship game in Atlanta, where he came prepared and fully researched to speak. He held his own among host Rece Davis and analysts Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, Nick Saban, Desmond Howard and Pat McAfee.

The A Complete Unknown star picked his guesses for winners during his appearance, starting with Jackson State University competing against Southern University for the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship. “Eight wins in a row, 11 all-conference players,” Chalamet said of Jackson State, which ended up winning. “This should be a comfortable, easy win for them.”

Up next, he correctly predicted the Ohio University Bobcats would beat the Miami University Redhawks, also from Ohio, and that Arizona State would beat Iowa State. He’s also guessing that on Saturday night,...

Timothée Chalamet joined ESPN’s “College GameDay” as a Guest Picker ahead of the Conference Championship Week and immediately impressed fans, viewers and his co-hosts, all of whom were surprised with the wealth of his college football knowledge.

“I’ve been doing my research all night,” Chalamet announced when it came time to share his picks toward the end of the program. “I’m going to come with the sharpest picks anyone has ever seen on ‘College GameDay.'”

Timothée Chalamet on ESPN’s College GameDay.

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In a series of picks shared on social media, Chalamet deftly predicted wins for the Ohio Bobcats, Louisana, Arizona State, and Oregon. The actor said he believes Louisana’s Tyrone Lewis Jr, Cody Jackson, and Tyree Skipper will “step that defense up,” and that Smu quarterback Kevin Jennings is “a legit Heisman contender” next year.

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Blake Shelton participated in a new television gig involving college sports, but not all fans favored his appearance on the program.

Shelton, a former judge on The Voice, appeared on the set of the popular show College GameDay.

The show features a panel of regulars and usually one guest star who drops by to give their thoughts and picks for the upcoming college games.

This edition occurred in Shelton’s home state of Oklahoma, where a big matchup was looming between the Tennessee Volunteers and Oklahoma Sooners.

Due to the show’s location, the crowd featured many Sooners fans anxiously anticipating the panel’s picks. As one might guess, Shelton took the home team.

“There is no way in hell I am picking against Ou. We got it! Whoo!” Shelton told a fired-up crowd as he donned a cowboy hat with Ou on the front.

Shelton appeared as a College...

Recent conference realignment has thrown a wrench into broadcast negotiations as playoff structure must be determined before TV contracts.

In the words of iconic ESPN college football analyst Lee Corso, “Not so fast, my friend.” Despite reports earlier this month that Disney and the College Football Playoff Committee had reached a six-year to ESPN’s exclusive broadcast agreement for the Cfp playoffs, Yahoo! Sports is reporting that this is not the case. According to documents secured by the outlet, the appropriate playoff executives have not even reviewed a draft of the new proposal and any reporting that suggests that a deal is done was not accurate.

Key Points: Despite reporting last week that an extension has been reached a Cfp rep says that is “incorrect.” Previous reports indicated that ESPN had secured the playoff rights through the 2031-32 season. Recent conference realignment has made finalizing broadcast deals difficult. Sign Up Now $10.99+ / month espnplus.

ESPN acknowledged it was “clearly wrong in submitting certain names going back to 2007” in light of a shocking report that reveals how the network skirted Emmy rules to help on-air talent rack up trophies.

Much of the report involved the stars of College GameDay, who picked up multiple Sports Emmys for Outstanding Weekly Studio Show between 2008 and 2018. Up until 2023, talent could not be included in a credit list for Outstanding Weekly Show; hosts, analysts and reporters on could win individual awards, but they couldn’t earn an Emmy if the show triumphed.

According to a report in The Athletic, ESPN got around the rule by creating fake names for the credit list it submitted for College GameDay. All were listed as associate producers. Once the show won for Outstanding Weekly Show, ESPN took the awards earned by those fake folks and had them re-engraved with the names of on-air personalities.

A stunning new report details more than a decade of fraudulent Sports Emmy submissions by ESPN that resulted in wrongfully obtained awards for the network’s on-air personalities.

In an exposé published Thursday by The Athletic, a sports-centric subdivision of The New York Times, it’s reported that since at least 2007 — but possibly dating as far back as 1997 — ESPN circumvented an Emmys rule that prohibited on-air talent from being awarded in the Outstanding Weekly Studio Show category.

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ESPN has disciplined members of its staff who worked for years to secure Emmys for on-air personnel who were not normally eligible for the awards by using fake names and entering them in various categories, according to an investigation by The Athletic.

The probe found that ESPN has for more than a decade inserted fake personnel names in entries to win more than 30 Emmys, then took the awards, removed the fraudulent nameplates and had the statues engraved anew so they could be given to on-air staff. Among those who were given the ill-gotten awards are Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso, Chris Fowler, Desmond Howard and Samantha Ponder. Much of the activity seems to center around “College GameDay,” the Disney-backed sports-media outlet’s very popular college-football program.

“Some members of our team were clearly wrong in submitting certain names that may go back to 1997 in Emmy categories where they were not eligible for recognition or statuettes.

Vince Vaughn told us in his 1996 film, Swingers, to always double down on 11 when playing blackjack.

Now he’s advanced to sports betting advice, appearing as the celebrity guest Saturday on ESPN’s College Game Day.

Vaughn wore a Notre Dame letterman jacket as he sat on stage alongside Pat McAfee, Lee Corso, and Desmond Howard

He explained that he was wearing the jacket because of his role in the 1993 sports film classic, Rudy, the story of an undersized lineman who made a play for the ages in Notre Dame football. Vaughn played quarterback Jamie O’Hara in the film, and cited that as his reason when he picked Notre Dame to win over the Ohio State Buckeyes

“The Buckeyes are for real, always. You can never doubt them. That being said, I played for Notre Dame — I threw a pass. If I had half the heart of Rudy, I would...

The College Football Playoff National Championship pitting No. 1 Alabama and No. 3 Georgia is set to kick off Monday at 8 p.m. Et/5 p.m. Pt on ESPN, the hub of the network’s “MegaCast” coverage across 13 brands and platforms including Spanish-language ESPN Deportes, the ESPN app, the SEC Network and ESPN Radio.

The game, from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, pits Alabama, looking to repeat as champions after winning in three of their past five appearances in the title game, against rival Georgia, this after the Crimson Tide beat the Bulldogs in the SEC championship game December 4 — Alabama’s seventh consecutive win against their conference rivals (that win streak includes a 26-23 victory in the 2018 title game).

Pre-game coverage begins with Championship Drive followed by the network’s flagship College GameDay led by host Rece Davis and analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, David Pollack and Lee Corso.

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Hey, "Station 19" fans. Unfortunately, we have some very bad news for you guys in this report. If you were hoping to catch the new episode 15 tonight, you are going to have to rethink that plan. In fact, anyone who was hoping to catch a new episode of any show on the ABC primetime line up tonight, will have to find something else to watch because none of the regularly scheduled ABC shows will be airing tonight, April 25, 2019. Instead, the next, new Station 19 episode 15 is scheduled to air next Thursday night, May 2, 2019. So, be sure to mark down that very important date on your TV show calendars. So, what is ABC airing instead of Station 19 tonight? Well, according to the TV Guide listings, they are airing a full three and a half whopping hours of Live coverage for the first round of the 2019 NFL (National Football League) draft.

Hey, Grey's Anatomy fans. Well, unfortunately it is that time again where he have to give you a bit of bad news. Your favorite show is about to take a break from airing new episodes next week. That means that the next, new episode 23 will not air next Thursday night, April 25, 2019. No,no, no. Instead, it is officially scheduled to air on Thursday night, May 2, 2019. So, be sure to mark down that very important date on your TV show calendars. We also want to make note that episode 23 will be the third to last episode of this very long season. There's 25 total episodes this season. So, the season finale will be coming up very soon, sometime in May 2019. So, what will ABC air instead of Grey's Anatomy next Thursday night,April 25, 2019? Well, according to the TV Guide listings, ABC will be providing live coverage of the NFL Draft. ABC's description of it reads like this,...

My earliest memory of Burt was at football practice in 1954. I was a sophomore, and he was a freshman. It was tackling practice. I had to tackle him, and he ran right over my ass. Boom. I said, “Who the hell was that?” and some guy said, “That’s Buddy Reynolds from West Palm Beach.” We all called him Buddy. He was a hell of a runner. I couldn’t handle him.

We roomed together on the road, and that’s how we got to know each other. He was so good-looking, I used to set him up as bait. He would go over to the student union and pick up two girls. Our secret was his looks and my car — a 1952 green Chevrolet. He was a great guy to hang around with. He had a great sense of humor. He was always happy, never a grouchy kind of guy.

Did you know ... ESPN's Lee Corso was Burt Reynolds' college roommate back in the day?  It's true -- the two lived together at Florida State when Burt was a member of the Seminoles football team. And, according to Lee, Burt would often help him out with the ladies!  Lee used to tell the story when talking to college athletes back in the day -- and recounted it at a football event back in...

Film and television fans alike took to social media to remember Burt Reynolds, who died Thursday in Jupiter, Fla. The “Deliverance” and “Smoky the Bandit” star was 82.

Former governor and actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was one of the first to tweet his remembrance of the star. “Burt Reynolds was one of my heroes. He was a trailblazer. He showed the way to transition from being an athlete to being the highest paid actor, and he always inspired me. He also had a great sense of humor – check out his Tonight Show clips. My thoughts are with his family,” he said.

Burt Reynolds was one of my heroes. He was a trailblazer. He showed the way to transition from being an athlete to being the highest paid actor, and he always inspired me. He also had a great sense of humor – check out his Tonight Show clips. My thoughts are with his family.

[[tmz:video id="0_cen1b4ya"]] Lil Wayne fell victim to the quick hands of Lee Corso Saturday ... and it almost cost him some serious bling. Weezy was a guest on Espn's College GameDay and had a prime seat right beside Corso. However -- in the middle of making picks -- Lee snatched Weezy's pinky ring and put it on himself. The whole thing was obviously done in good fun -- and Weezy laughed it off -- but you gotta imagine...

[[tmz:video id="0_w2l62tnq"]] Pay attention you participation trophy-loving, "winning isn't everything"-type parents ... Gary Payton is about to give you a lesson in tough love ... by giving you a Super Real scouting report on his son. And it's kinda prophetic. We got Payton out in L.A. Sunday night at Dew NBA 3X ... only hours before his kid, Gary II -- an undrafted rookie -- was released by the Houston Rockets. We wanted to know, are we looking...

The worst people on the internet were featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live! once again. The ABC late-night program aired its popular "Mean Tweets" segment Monday, but this time, there were no actors or musicians involved. Instead, Jimmy Kimmel delivered a "College Football Playoff Edition." The latest group of Twitter victims included Florida State University head coach Jimbo Fisher, University of Oregon head coach Mark Helfrich, Former Michigan Wolverines head coach Brady Hoke and University of Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly, plus Espn's Lee Corso, Heather Cox, Rece Davis, Chris Fowler, Lou Holtz, Desmond Howard, Mark May, Jesse Palmer, Tim Tebow and Scott Van Pelt. So, just how does Jimmy Kimmel...

Katy Perry popped up on Espn’s College GameDay this weekend, hung out with hosts Lee Corso and Chris Fowler, made some sports predictions ("by their colors"), and sorta denied, sorta confirmed Super Bowl rumors: "I have let them know that I’m not the type of girl that would pay to play the Super Bowl, so the ball is in their field." She's referring to The Wall Street Journal's report that this year would be the first the NFL would ask for artists to pay to play the Halftime Show — a request that they've put out to Coldplay, Rihanna, and Perry. Are we being thrown for a loop here? Perry is the perfect Super Bowl candidate: She's got the recent tour choreography, a new album, the big hits (cues medley), and, clearly, a love of sports. Also, like she said: It's up to them. This could still happen.

Katy Perry drinks and cheerleads with Ole Miss.

It all started yesterday when Katy Perry went on Espn's GameDay and shared her college football picks. 

She was definitely not an Alabama fan as she threw football analyst Lee Corso's elephant mask to the ground. In spite of her hilarious antics on the show yesterday, it turns out that the pop star accurately predicted the game

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Look at the pride she has when she tweets about the Ole Miss Rebels after their 23-17 win yesterday.

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Katy Perry is ready for some football! The "Firework" singer added some sparks to Espn's College GameDay Saturday morning. Broadcast live from the University of Mississippi campus, Perry joined host Chris Fowler and analysts Kirk Herbstreit, Lee Corso and Desmond Howard for plenty of sports talk. "Oxford Mississippi I'm Here With Rebel Red Hair Today!" Perry tweeted on-set. "Are You Ready?! @CollegeGameDay #GetUp4GameDay" By no surprise, Perry wasn't exactly up to par on college football. That didn't, however, stop her from making some predictions for Saturday's games. When asked if Oklahoma would defeat Texas Christian University, Perry had no...

For those of you who don't know, Espn's College Game Day is a morning show for college football fans to get primed for a full day of games. Since the show is filmed on campus of one of the schools playing that day, College Game Day isn't just for commentary, but for the unique parade of hype and zeal that arises when you marry sports fandom with school spirit. How much entertainment you get out of College Game Day is normally proportionate to how much you care about college and game days, but sometimes really strange things happen on the show.

Which college team does Katy Perry support?

Katy Perry is talking football with the guys.

It all started out with a couple of tweets.

Hell Yeah! Damn Right! @KirkHerbstreit @CollegeGameDay #Hottytoddy

— Katy Perry (@katyperry) October 2, 2014

The popstar showed off her football knowledge when she came on Espn's College GameDay as a guest picker this morning, but it was not the stats she had with her.

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With an array of props, she made her Lsu-Auburn pick with a corndog in her hand. The corndog is a reference to "Lsu fans smelling like corndogs," a long-running internet joke.

She even says, "Did you say Lsu or LSPew?" implying the smell.

She also picks Ohio State and Rutgers for wins but has a particular crush on Oklahoma's quarterback saying with a heart-shaped sign with his picture on it, "Trevor Knight, call me."

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If Bill Murray is on your show, there's no guessing what he might do. This weekend he was on Espn's College Gameday to just talk college football. That was until one of the show's anchors, Lee Corso, dressed up as a Native American in honor of the team he thought would win the day's big matchup, the Florida State Seminoles. Murray, however, picked the Clemson Tigers, so he body-slammed Corso. Florida State ended up winning the game, but we're the real winners, as we live in the time of Bill Murray.

On Monday, June 17th, 2013 Wamg attended the the World Premiere of Disney•Pixar’s frighteningly fun “Monsters Univerity,” featuring the voices of Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Steve Buscemi and Helen Mirren. The event was held at the El Capitan on Hollywood Blvd. and featured the Espn College Scareday hosted by Lee Corso and Desmond Howard as they provided play-by-play commentary on the blue carpet, a photo ID station where guests could create their own student ID, the Mu pep squad drum corps and cheerleaders, as well as the Disneyland All-American college band, appearances by Mike & Sulley, a monster obstacle course, games like Eye Ball, Sulley’s Shuffle Air Hockey and Eek ball, temporary tattoos, opportunities to design a monster head piece, Build and Growl replica race cars from Lowe’s Build and Grow, and Mu team spirit accessories.

Attending the event were Billy Crystal, Sean P. Hayes, Charlie Day, Bobby Moynihan,...

Do you have an opinion about sports? Then Skip Bayless disagrees with you. Whether it’s his rabid Tebowmania or his manufacturing controversies out of nothing, the bloviating Bayless is like that idiot in the bar who needs to be put in a headlock. Most Annoying Espn Anchor — Skip Bayless Skip Bayless 24% Chris Berman 21% Colin Cowherd 17% Kenny Mayne 16% Stephen A. Smith 12% Lee Corso 10% Percentages may not total 100 due to rounding. For a complete list of 2012 Viewers Voice Award winners see final ballot, visit us on Nov. 1! Channel Guide Magazine, the only [...]...

He's been to dozens of stadiums ... covered hundreds of games ... and this weekend, Espn college football guru Lee Corso used his expertise to determine the Rowdiest fans in the country. Here's a hint ... you still have a chance to see Corso's pick in action this season. Read more...

Espn college football analyst Lee Corso got a little excited this morning when picking the winner of the Smu/Houston game today ... and screamed out "F**k it!" in the middle of his pick. Corso later apologized for the profanity. Read more...

When Cam Newton accepted college football's top trophy, his father was conspicuously absent. Buzz Bissinger, our new sports columnist, salutes a man who dared to take on the system that enriches college sports but screws the players.

During Espn's interminable presentation Saturday of the Heisman Trophy to college football's best player, in which über-sycophant analyst Lee Corso pretty much interviewed anyone who had ever touched a football, the one person who should have been there was not there at all.

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That was Cecil Newton. His son is Cam Newton, the spectacular quarterback of Auburn University, who won college football's most esteemed honor in a landslide vote. Newton's path to Auburn is rife with stench, but when you throw for 2,589 yards and 28 touchdowns and run for 1,409 yards and 20 more, does it really matter?

Like the Mafia, the National Collegiate Athletic Association,...

If you’re like me, the word “football” conjures images of Peyton Manning throwing a Td pass to Dallas Clark, controversy over the Bcs, and Jim Mora talking about playoffs. But as Lee Corso would say, “Not so fast!” Apparently, to the rest of the world, football is what we Americans call soccer. Now, isn’t that just confusing. Couldn’t you guys also call it soccer? And how about switching to the customary system of measurement as well?

Anyway, I digress. The reason I mention soccer/football is because EA has officially announced a new addition to its wildly popular FIFA franchise–FIFA Online! If you own a PC (as all cool people do), beginning February 3rd you soccer/football fans can head over to the FIFA Online website and register for the closed beta, which looks to go through June when the open beta will start. And even...

Chicago – I didn’t think that I could possibly be more amped up for the start of the college football season. And then I played “Ncaa Football 10,” a fantastic sports game that comes closer than any title before at recreating the excitement of any given Saturday and serves as the perfect build-up to the actual season to come.

Video Game Rating: 4.5/5.0 The real-life college football of the last few years has been as dramatically rich and full of twists and turns as any Hollywood sports movie production (only with decidedly less Dennis Quaid). Last season produced more upsets and new #1 teams than anyone could have predicted. How do you bring that kind of excitement to a video game? Is it possible to take a medium that uses a controller and make it feel uncontrolled, spontaneous, and enjoyable? “Ncaa Football 10” proves that the answer is yes.

Ncaa Football 10

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