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Billie Jean is from the album Thriller (1982), the best-selling album in history, but the moment that eternalized the track was the solo performance in the special Motown 25 recorded on March 25, 1983. Michael Jackson, only 24, hardly wanted to participate in the show. Berry Gordy had to insist a lot. He chose "Billie Jean" because he thought the other tracks from when he was younger didn't match his new style. Michael performed the song with impeccable choreography and, in the middle of the track, debuted the moonwalk for the first time on world television, a step he had learned from street dancers years earlier. This performance changed the history of music: it was the moment when Michael stopped being "the boy of the Jackson 5" and became the King of Pop. The special was shown in May 1983 and seen by more than 47 million people, to this day it is considered one of the greatest live performances of all time.
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After nearly five hours of truly special tennis, 19-year old and uber-talented João Fonseca gets the win everyone's been waiting for, beating Novak Djokovic 4-6, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 7-5 at Roland Garros. Someone is guaranteed to win their first Grand Slam in Paris.
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Great job BigTen and SC. I guess I’ll just light my tickets on fire and GFM
8 pm kickoff vs. Louisiana is exactly how you draw it up
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Best Duke basketball team ever not to win it all. Finished 37-2, 19-0 versus the ACC (including ACC Tournament), and had a 32-game winning streak before losing to UConn in the national championship game. Incredible squad to watch. One of my all-time favorite covers.😈🏀🦾⬇️
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Today's "Random Duke Basketball Lore" takes us back to Feb. 28, 1998, Wojo's Senior Day and Coach K's 500th win as a head coach, as the No. 1 Blue Devils rallied back from a 64-47 deficit at the under-12 timeout in the second half to defeat No. 3 UNC, 77-75. Back from injury after sitting out the Blue Devils' 97-73 road loss to the Tar Heels a few weeks earlier, freshman Elton Brand erupted to ignite what remains one of the all-time most memorable comebacks in Cameron Indoor Stadium, capping off that squad's 15-0 record at home. Check out the last few minutes of action. Clutch buckets and staredowns by senior Roshown McLeod. The game-tying score by junior Chris Carrawell. Patented floor slaps galore courtesy of Steve Wojciechowski. An epic collapse by the Tar Heels. Yes, this Duke basketball masterpiece had everything!😈🏀🎥⬇️
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Turning brook lopez into a screener on his own man - a level of experience and execution that no one does better than Steph and dray

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Survivor and The Amazing Race will both officially return this fall on CBS with 90-minute episodes. #Survivor #AmazingRace
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FULL TRAILER: MAYHEM Requiem, coming soon to Apple Music. apple.co/LG-AML

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NBA, just do the right thing. Give Kon Knueppel and Cooper Flagg Co-Rookie of the Year.
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Say what you want about The Masters... But there is nowhere else on planet earth where you will see a photo of humans like this where not a single one of them is looking at a phone. Truly one of the most beautiful things.
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1991, pick ONE
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Tim Lincecum’s postseason debut was insane. Complete-game shutout with 14 strikeouts.

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Hacks season 5 episode 5 will have a crossover with The Amazing Race, seeing Jean Smart and Kaitlyn Olson’s characters compete in a fictional celebrity episode of the show which will feature host Phil Keoghan, the show's crew and actual props, according to Deadline.
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We will play college basketball all season with normal balls and rims, but during the NCAA tournament we will make both extremely bouncy so nobody can make a shot. But why, sir? Nobody knows.
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I feel this. Deeply. #Duke
The National Championship is between a team Duke beat at full strength 5 weeks ago and a team they led for 39 minutes last week. Just pain.
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Cool idea would've been: 3 groups of 5 3 separate votes. All 15 people vote each tribal. BUT 1st tribal is only voting out one of the 5 people from Group 1, then from Group 2, then from group 3. Let them strategize on beach all day together. Would've been chaos #Survivor50
Well this is a letdown. They're all just completely normal tribal councils? It's just one more group going to tribal than last week! I was expecting so much crazier and "never before seen" #Survivor50
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March 30, 1991 —📍RCA Dome Duke 79, UNLV 77 • Christian Laettner: 28 pts, 7 reb • Bobby Hurley: 12 pts, 7 ast • Brian Davis: 15 pts Duke took down the defending champion and previously unbeaten UNLV in one of the biggest upsets in tournament history #Duke
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It's rare that sports fans agree on anything. But everyone seems to be in agreement today: Duke got robbed this weekend. Dan Hurley and UConn have been flagrantly ignoring the rules for the entirety of the NCAA Tournament. Sunday was no exception. There were still 0.4 seconds on the clock. The game was live. Dan Hurley walked toward a referee on the sideline. He got in the official’s face. Then he pressed his forehead directly into the ref’s forehead. SI called it a “menacing forehead tap.” No technical foul was called. If it had been, Duke shoots two free throws. Down one. With an 86% free throw shooter at the line. Here's what actually happened and why this should be a much bigger story than it is. Braylon Mullins hit a 35-foot three to give UConn a 73-72 lead with 0.4 seconds left. It was the shot of the tournament. Nobody is disputing that. But in the seconds after the shot, Hurley walked toward a referee, got in his face, and pressed his forehead directly into the official's forehead. Sports Illustrated described it as a "menacing forehead tap." The clock still showed 0.4 seconds. The game was not over. A technical foul on a head coach for making contact with an official during a live ball is one of the easiest calls in basketball. There is no gray area. Contact with a game official is a technical. If it's called, Duke's Isaiah Evans steps to the free throw line, trailing 73-72. He shot 86% from the stripe this season. Makes both? Duke wins 74-73. Makes one? Overtime. That wasn't the only violation. When Mullins' shot went in, UConn bench players ran onto the court to celebrate before the game was over. They caught themselves and ran back, but they had already entered the playing area during a live ball. Duke's radio announcers immediately called for a technical. That wasn't called either. Two separate technical foul violations. Zero calls. In the span of 0.4 seconds. And here's what makes the Hurley part impossible to ignore. Three weeks ago, on March 7, Hurley was ejected from UConn's game at Marquette in the final second for getting in a referee's face. He was chest-to-shoulder with the official. Double technical. Ejected. The Big East fined him $25,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct. In the Sweet 16 against Michigan State on March 27, Hurley challenged an out-of-bounds call, got it overturned, and then sarcastically offered his glasses to the ref who got it wrong. Lip readers caught him asking about Lasik. Nothing was called. Two days later against Duke, Hurley was officially "warned" during the game for leaving his coach's box. Told to stay put. Then after the buzzer beater, he went forehead-to-forehead with a ref. Ejected and fined $25,000 at Marquette. Taunted a ref to his face at Michigan State with no consequences. Warned during the Duke game for leaving his coach's box. Then physical contact with a referee in the biggest moment of the tournament. The full breakdown of every missed call and what would have happened if any of them were made is here: itsgame7.com/news/duke-got-r… UConn came back from 19 down. Mullins hit one of the greatest shots in tournament history. That part was earned. But two technical foul violations in 0.4 seconds, and neither one called, on a coach who was ejected for the same thing three weeks ago? That's not intensity. That's a pattern. And last night, it changed the outcome of a game.
DAN HURLEY AND THE REF 😭 Hurley's reaction to UCONN's game-winner (via @MarchMadnessMBB)
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From a rules perspective you can't even explain how baffling Duke's decision to throw the ball away was... 1.) Shot Clock off 2.) Exactly 10 Seconds left - a 10 second violation is meaningless 3.) 5 Seconds doesn't apply in the BC ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS HOLD THE BALL
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Connecticut vs Duke is the only NCAA Tourney matchup to produce three one-point games (1990, 2004, 2026). All three came in the Elite 8 or later and have come in five meetings since 1990. One of the other meetings was UConn's 3-point win in the 1999 Championship Game. #Drama
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