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Green and Gold warms your soul with an inspirational true story of Midwestern fellowship, unbreakable family bonds, and die-hard fans of the Green Bay Packers. The venerable Craig T. Nelson stars as Buck Strom, an old-school Wisconsin dairy farmer struggling to make ends meet in the early '90s. He's up to his eyeballs in debt with greedy bankers circling like vultures. This hard luck tale isn't a fantasy or uncommon occurrence. The working poor who fill our fridges and dinner tables are often the first casualties of economic insecurity. But Buck and his community are resilient people. They're not easily pushed around with a steadfast faith in God, each other, and of course, football.

Green and Gold is seen from the perspective of Jenny (Madison Lawlor), Buck's beautiful and talented granddaughter. She's up early every morning with Buck and Grandma Margaret (Annabel Armour) tending to their cows. Buck has...

The National Basketball Association continued to dig deeper into a public relations hole today, as an executive shut down a question from a CNN anchor on the league’s China problem.

CNN’s Christina Macfarlane was cut off at a Japan press conference after an exhibition game between the Houston Rockets and Toronto Raptors. The Rockets have been at the center of a dispute that started when one of its executives, general manager Daryl Morey, tweeted support for the pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong.

Macfarlane attempted to ask Rockets stars James Harden and Russell Westbrook whether they would feel comfortable speaking out on political and social issues in the future after the uproar from China in reaction to Morey and the events of this week. The unidentified Rockets media relations person stopped them from answering – even though Harden appeared ready to respond – saying that “basketball questions only” were the only permissible path.