I support free speech, and free religious exercise, both in spirit and in the letter of the law. I’ve spent years railing against leftist censorship in all areas of society, especially on college campuses and social media. All but the most libertarian of thinkers, however, agree that there are legitimate legal limits to expression. Some things are so objectionable—even downright evil—that they don’t merit society’s protection. The Supreme Court spent decades figuring out where to draw the line....

Or maybe not fired — maybe they were relieved of their duties, or maybe the teams parted ways with them. Whatever happened, they’re out of work. REPLACEMENT CANDIDATES: 49ers | Jets | Bears | Falcons | Raiders To make it easier for any organization planning to make a coaching or management change, Sporting News has prepared a press release that can fit any team’s needs. Just make the applicable changes, and, voila, you’re on your way to hiring the next guy you’ll eventually fire....

The rest of the world got its first glimpse of “Under the Moonlight” earlier this month at the Cannes film festival, which has been a major supporter of Iranian cinema. Indeed, the film is merely the latest in a steady stream of Iranian movies that have won attention–and admirers–around the world over the past decade. What the French new wave was to film fans in the ’60s, Iranian cinema was to art-house regulars in the ’90s....

It may not be, though. ESPN's Adam Schefter first reported Freeman's release Thursday afternoon, saying that the Bucs "tried to trade him but couldn't.'' However, less than two hours before that, Erik Burkhardt, Freeman's agent, tweeted that the Sports Illustrated report the night before, of the Bucs fining the quarterback in the last month for "conduct detrimental to the team," was another case of the team breaching the confidentiality of his records....

Two French legends took it up to their highly ranked opponents in an absolute brilliant swan song driven by the raucous Paris crowds. A potential contender to hot favourite Iga Swiatek also looked in tip top shape after blitzing her first round match. Ruud given scare by legend Tsonga, Simon winds back the clock against Carreno-Busta It was supposed to be Jo Wilfried-Tsonga’s career swansong on centre court at the French Open - a first round match against Roland-Garros contender Casper Ruud - with the former world no....

To nobody’s surprise, George Bush finally clipped the wings of his high-flying chief of staff last week. From now on, John Sununu will have strictly limited privileges on VIP military aircraft, and he’ll have to clear all such flights with the White House counsel. But the flap over Air Sununu has metastasized, threatening new embarrassments in the Bush cabinet. “Newsweek’ has learned that Veterans Affairs Secretary Edward J. Derwinski and his deputy, Anthony J....

McConnell is once again receiving backlash in the wake of another mass shooting in the country after he blocked a Senate vote passed by the House in February which would require full background checks on all people trying to purchase a firearm. At least two gunmen are accused of killing four men and injuring six others during an attack against mostly ethnic Hmong people at a family gathering attended by dozens on Sunday, November 17....

In a post shared on Mumsnet’s Am I Being Unreasonable (AIBU) subforum under the username Confuseddotcom2022, the friend said they were initially invited to the wedding abroad back in 2020. The nuptials were planned for 2021 before being “bumped to 2023” due to the couple having a baby and restrictions in place amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “Given that they’ve made no effort with us over the past 3 years, other than for us to go to their 2 parties, is it unreasonable to now decline the invite?...

Though this particular python didn’t survive, pythons have been known to eat rather large animals, including cattle, deer and in some cases, humans. The incident occurred in Thailand on August 21. Newsflare reported that a farmer was searching for his missing cow when he encountered the snake. He noticed immediately that its stomach had been stretched beyond its capacity, and perhaps in disbelief, took a video of the injured python....

While the NBA sleeps, Master P, 29, is pursuing his hoop dreams. A high-school basketball star, he blew out his knee at the University of Houston before his freshman season. Thirteen years later, Miller has built a little Bay Area record store called No Limit into a $200 million empire of hip-hop music, film, video and fashion, and a growing sports-management agency. But in his heart, he’d rather be balling....

Fox News reported that in a song for the KROQ deejays Kevin and Bean’s A Family Christmas in Your A** album, Kimmel impersonated Snoop Dogg for a song called “Christmastime in the LBC.” In the track, Kimmel raps lines such as “fat [n-word] in a slay, giving sts away” and “Me and my [n-word] down in LBC, we’ll smoke that m*******n’ Christmas tree.” According to Fox, Kimmel is listed as a co-producer on the album as “Jim Kimmel” and credited with “comedy material” on the album save for a few tracks....

I was just an earthbound tourist, visiting Baikonur, the Russian spaceport, when I met Eric in 2004. I was amazed by the openness of the Russian space program—we could practically touch the fully fueled rocket on the launchpad as we saw the cosmonauts off to space. I was even more amazed when Eric, ever so gently, suggested that one day I might want to be on the departure platform where the cosmonauts were standing....

The newsletter faded away, but Lisa Ben’s early yearning for the mainstream–chronicled in Eric Marcus’s new book “Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights”–has emerged 45 years later in an outpouring of gay-oriented publications. The new magazines Out and Genre, the refurbished national biweekly The Advocate and the New York weekly QW, and the new catalog Shocking Gray are beginning to draw unprecedented attention in what has been a back-of-the-shelf fringe of the publishing world....

Hundreds of artists have been nominated for their work over the last year in multiple categories but the two comedians stand out due to recent headlines. Louis C.K. is nominated in the Best Comedy Album category while Dave Chappelle is up for the Best Spoken Word Album, though there are more comedians and musicians nominated who also share checkered histories too. Best Comedy Album nominees Louis C.K. stepped out of the spotlight after a number of sexual misconduct allegations were made against him in 2017....

Cassidy visited Patriots training camp Monday morning, according to ESPN. When asked which New England player he’d want to add to the Bruins roster, Cassidy, who will soon begin his first season as the Bruins permanent head coach, quickly replied with the 6-foot-6, 265 pound Gronkowski. It wouldn’t be Gronkowski’s first foray on the ice; the Bruins invited the Pro Bowl tight end and some of his Patriots teammates to TD Garden in 2015 to drop the ceremonial puck following the Patriots victory in Super Bowl XLIX....

The Kuders launched VirtualIntern.com earlier this year with Jim Hackbarth, a recruiter the two cornered in a conference room during Net-Vendor’s goodbye party for its intern staff in Atlanta. After a few minutes of listening to their pitch, Hackbarth agreed to mentor the brothers on their start-up idea to help students find internships on the Web. “We knew as students how hard it was to truck down to the career center between 9 and 5,” Nathan Kuder explains....

It was a menial task, implied Eric Cantona – in his own unique and poetic lexicon – a role reserved for those who didn’t have the talent to do much else. Men like Deschamps were merely workers, cadets charged with ferrying the cargo to the admirals upstream; admirals like Cantona, who would take the wheel and sail off into the sunset. But that young cadet would see a fair few sunsets of his own, time and again finding himself lying on deck after another gruelling day’s work beneath his own lucky star....

With Days of Obligation (230 pages. Viking. $21), his second book, Rodriguez seems determined to be nobody’s pet. It is not so much a recantation of its predecessor as it is a more personal, less didactic rethinking of the same issues. Rodriguez still believes in the “dreadful metaphor” of the melting pot, but he has become more sensitive to the loss of cultural identity that comes with assimilation. “For the child of immigrant parents the knowledge comes like a slap: America exists,” he writes....

MORE: NBA Draft grades 2022 - Ranking all 30 teams on draft night According to The Athletic’s Shams Charania, Pippen Jr. will sign a two-way deal with the Lakers. Pippen Jr., the son of six-time NBA champion Scottie Pippen was a two-time All-SEC player for the Commodores and in joining the Lakers he will have one familiar face in his corner. Pippen Jr. played his high school basketball at Sierra Canyon and was a senior when LeBron’s eldest son Bronny was in eighth grade....