Growing up as a girl who could talk football with the best of them, it’s really not too big of a surprise that gorgeous Pac-12 reporter Jill Savage made her way into the sportscaster lime light and has easily earned herself a quick spot as one of the hottest female sportscasters of all time! An Iowa native with a blatant love for all things sports related, Pac-12 Network’s Jill Savage is simply too hot to resist.

Football, basketball, you name it; Jill Savage grew up not only loving all things sports related, but also possessing a desire to hit the big time! Supposedly, as a kid Jill was already certain that one day she would go into sports broadcasting. After graduating high school, this gorgeous future-sportscaster went on to attend the University of Iowa where she received a B.A. in Communications. From there, she landed her first sports broadcasting job as a weekly segment host for The Fan on Comcast SportsNet. Long story short, Jill has skyrocketed her way to success snagging herself positions on numerous sports network’s like Fox Sports, NHL Network, Oregon IMG Sports Network, and can currently be seen as a reporter on the Pac-12 Network.

Did we mention that she’s also SUPER hot? Alright, we’ll shut up and let you see for yourself! Check out Pac-12 Network reporter Jill Savage in her hottest photos on the internet in the gallery below!

Alex Lagowitz, a native of Livingston, NJ, fell to his death on Sunday after ingesting magic mushrooms and somehow falling 26 flights out of his window. Alex’s roommate, Max Kaplan, was arrested and charged with criminal possession of narcotics.

Before his tragic death, Alex had worked as a credit trading analyst for Merrill Lynch since the summer of 2015. He was a graduate of Colgate University, and a four-year athlete and golfer. He will be missed by his friends, family, and schoolmates.

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Alex’s body was found on the patio of another third floor apartment, around 10 AM on Sunday morning. Sources indicated to the New York Post that Alex had ingested four grams of mushrooms.

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Bridget Malcolm may be known as one of Australia’s most notable (and hottest) up-and-coming models, but considering her past work, we think she’s already exceeded that modest title.

You may remember Malcolm from her time on the pages of Victoria’s Secret catalogues (don’t pretend you haven’t been keeping them under your mattress for the past several years) or when she walked down the prominent Victoria’s Secret runway in 2015 alongside Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid. Or the time she modeled for Oscar de la Renta and other high-profile designers during Fashion Week. Or from the time you stumbled upon her Instagram and immediately fell in love with her girl-next-door looks.

We could go on, but wouldn’t you rather get to the photos instead? However you were introduced, one thing is for certain: Bridget Malcolm is drop dead gorgeous and the rest of the world needs to know about her.

Sadly Malcolm is on her way to being taken off the market. Her wedding to musician Nathaniel Hoho is set for this summer. On the bright side, her Instagram account will never be taken off the market.

Check out her hottest photos below.

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Fox News got wind of the fact that there’s a movement within Portland State University to remove themselves from investing in Israeli companies. The purpose of which is to act as a campaign against the Israeli occupation and treatment of the Palestinian territories. The idea of divestment is not an idea that’s isolated to Portland, there are plenty of students at NYU, Harvard, MIT, and other schools who feel the same. It’s not even something that was specific to Israel–divestment was one of the major reasons that apartheid in South Africa came to an end.

But don’t tell Fox News, always looking to put liberal students on blast, any of that. They sent correspondent Ami Horowitz to Portland State to not only gather support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement, but to gather support of Hamas–a known terrorist organization. So how’d he do?

Actually, surprisingly well. He raised a solid amount of money. Read what Ami had to say:

In about one hour I raised hundreds of dollars for Hamas.  No, not the tasty chickpea spread, but rather the terrorist organization responsible for the death of thousands of Israeli civilians. When explained that donations would help fund targeted attacks on Israeli schools, hospitals and cafes, some of Portland State University’s students were ‘feelin’ the burn’ drop some coin.

Credit where credit’s due, Ami doesn’t shirk from what he wants the money to go. “Hitting soft targets, cafes, hospitals, make them feel you.” “Suicide bombers really all we got, a poor man’s F-15.”

We reached out to Portland State University for comment. Here’s what they wrote back:

I’ll give you a chance to guess, and I’ll even include a hint: last time we heard, Snapchat’s valuation was at about $5 billion.

Okay, do you have your number? Cause it’s probably wrong.

Snapchat is currently valued at … $20 BILLION.

First, Snapchat turned down a buyout offer from Facebook for $3 billion. Then, a few years later, it came out that Snapchat was worth a cool $5 billion. Now, only a mere couple years after that, Snapchat has quadrupled it’s valuation.  Experts in the industry are speculating that Snapchat’s new valuation could be $22.7 billion. Snapchat, which launched five years ago, now has over 100 million daily active users of its photo and messaging service.

According Business Insider, there are a couple of reasons for Snapchat’s new valuation:

Snapchat has been making moves, most recently purchasing the custom emoji creation tool Bitstrips back in March, and improving its core functionality. Coupling those with the fact that Snapchat is more popular than ever, it’s no surprise why investors both new and old are trying to get a bigger piece of the action.

While there are risks involved with such a high valuation being placed on such a young company — i.e. inability to meet expectations — it is relatively clear there is nothing that is going to stop Snapchat, as it has clearly taken hold of the most crucial demographic: millenials.

Myself for example, Snapchat was the last social media app I downloaded. I started with Facebook freshman year of high school, then a Twitter sometime as an upperclassmen, downloaded Instagram when I got to college, and Snapchat most recently a couple of years ago. However, I use Snapchat the most now, by FAR.

There ain’t no stopping Snapchat now. You really whiffed on that one, Zuckeberg.

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Every year at the University of Texas at Austin, the graduating class gathers at the base of the UT Tower to watch the annual fireworks ceremony. It’s a beloved tradition, one that allows the graduates to end their time at the university with a bang. However, for one unfortunate student, this “bang” was a little too literal.

During the ceremony, Meagan was just one of many students recording the moment on her phone. As is traditional, students began to throw their graduation caps into the air. Suddenly, just a few seconds into the video, a graduation cap comes careening out of nowhere, striking Meagan in the face.

Check it out and try to keep from laughing hysterically:

According to Meagan, the video is, “My entire time at UT summed up in 5 seconds.”

Since it was posted to Twitter Saturday, the video has been retweeted over 15,000 times and liked over 21,000 times. “I’m okay with this being my Twitter peak,” writes Meagan. “I’ve made an indelible mark.”

We can only hope that cap didn’t leave an indelible mark on her face.

Brad Holmes and his girlfriend Jenny Davies have engaged in a prank war for a couple of years now, but judging from the escalating severity of the pranks they pull on each other, I’m not so sure their relationship is all that amazing. The amount of revenge and paranoia that must exist between a couple like this is probably much lower than the amount of times they’ve had sex.

And it’s not like these pranks are all that innocent, either. Take, for example, Brad’s most recent prank where he rubbed chili peppers all over Jenny’s tampon before she used it.

Needless to say, Jenny was both confused and in pain soon after the prank started. Brad filmed her asking her grandmother for assistance and help, which was declined.

Cut to Jenny posted up next to the bathroom sink, trying to relieve herself of the pain. Once Brad told her what the cause of her problem was, Jenny got pissed off immediately.

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The official Indy 500 lineup has been formally announced, with none other than James Hinchcliffe winning the pole position. You might remember that the Canadian James had a near-death experience at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway last year, so it’s fitting that he’ll start the race this year in first place. That’s how you bounce back for the 100th running of the biggest race in America.

James won the pole position, his first-ever at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, by running a four-lap average of 230.760 MPH. Close behind was Josef Newgarden, who averaged just .060 MPH slower than James.

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2016 Indy 500 Lineup (listed by Position, Car Number, Driver Name, Aero/Engine Kit, Time, Speed)

1. (5) James Hinchcliffe | Honda | 02:36.0063 (230.760)
2. (21) Josef Newgarden | Chevrolet | 02:36.0470 (230.700)
3. (28) Ryan Hunter-Reay | Honda | 02:36.0821 (230.648)
4. (29) Townsend Bell | Honda | 02:36.1950 (230.481)
5. (26) Carlos Munoz | Honda | 02:36.3264 (230.287)
6. (12) Will Power | Chevrolet | 02:36.7471 (229.669)
7. (7) Mikhail Aleshin | Honda | 02:36.8205 (229.562)
8. (22) Simon Pagenaud | Chevrolet | 02:37.1096 (229.139)
9. (3) Helio Castroneves | Chevrolet | 02:37.1265 (229.115)
10. (77) Oriol Servia | Honda | 02:37.1638 (229.060)
11. (98) Alexander Rossi | Honda | 02:37.5679 (228.473)
12. (14) Takuma Sato | Honda | 02:37.8747 (228.029)
13. (9) Scott Dixon | Chevrolet | 02:37.9007 (227.991)
14. (27) Marco Andretti | Honda | 02:37.9161 (227.969)
15. (6) JR Hildebrand | Chevrolet | 02:37.9809 (227.876)
16. (42) Charlie Kimball | Chevrolet | 02:38.0180 (227.822)
17. (2) Juan Pablo Montoya | Chevrolet | 02:38.1141 (227.684)
18. (10) Tony Kanaan | Chevrolet | 02:38.2906 (227.430)
19. (11) Sebastien Bourdais | Chevrolet | 02:38.2919 (227.428)
20. (20) Ed Carpenter | Chevrolet | 02:38.4325 (227.226)
21. (19) Gabby Chaves | Honda | 02:38.4566 (227.192)
22. (8) Max Chilton | Chevrolet | 02:38.8100 (226.686)
23. (24) Sage Karam | Chevrolet | 02:38.9851 (226.436)
24. (18) Conor Daly | Honda | 02:39.0721 (226.312)
25. (63) Pippa Mann | Honda | 02:39.2877 (226.006)
26. (15) Graham Rahal | Honda | 02:39.4002 (225.847)
27. (61) Matt Brabham | Chevrolet | 02:39.4846 (225.727)
28. (88) Bryan Clauson | Honda | 02:39.8111 (225.266)
29. (16) Spencer Pigot | Honda | 02:40.1087 (224.847)
30. (25) Stefan Wilson | Chevrolet | 02:40.2833 (224.602)
31. (41) Jack Hawksworth | Honda | 02:40.2878 (224.596)
32. (4) Buddy Lazier | Chevrolet | 02:42.0498 (222.154)
33. (35) Alex Tagliani | Honda | No time (No speed)

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In all likelihood, UCLA QB Josh Rosen had already felt some kind of way about ideas like “pay for play” versus the fact that the NCAA is making billions of dollars off student-athletes’ backs. So when Josh learned today that his school signed a shoe and apparel deal with Under Armor worth $280 million dollars–the largest apparel deal in college sports–he couldn’t help himself from chiming in on Instagram.

Josh quickly posted the Los Angeles Times headline, plus the caption “We’re still amateurs though … Gotta love non-profits #NCAA.”

Of course, the administration being a bunch of fun police, made him delete the post immediately. But those of us who knew what was going to happen were able to save the photo and caption.

We’re still amateurs though … Gotta love non-profits #NCAA

Whether the pressure came from Under Armour or UCLA (or both) is unknown, but when you have people questioning the legitimacy of $280 million deals, responses tend to happen quickly.

Josh is no rookie when it comes to posting things on Instagram. Earlier this year, we learned that Josh had installed an amazing hot tub in his freshman room.

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Overwatch released yesterday, and if you haven’t yet played the Beta or bought the game, you don’t know what your missing. The new stylized first-person shooter game is tons of fun to play, thanks in part to the fact that there are currently 21 different heroes/characters available to play with. Each hero has their own benefits, but we’re particularly partial to playing with Pharah–the attack character with rockets and ability to get high with her jet pack (or jump jets).

What we can appreciate about Pharah is that her character can spend almost the entire game on a completely different vertical level than the rest of the players in the game. When you’re playing a FPS where people are constantly worrying opponents on the ground or in windows, having a player flying in the sky gives you an enormous advantage. She’s just like the Spanish Inquisition; no one expects her.

Strengths: Aggressive attacker, can soften up large numbers of enemies easily, able to distract multiple enemies.
Weaknesses: Low health, slow while in the air, rockets are slow
Perfect to use against: Reinhardt, Reaper, Winston, turrets
Weak against: Agent 76, Hanzo, Widowmaker, turrets

So without further ado, let’s get into the best ways to use Pharah:

Primary Fire: Rockets

Damage: 120 per shot
Ammo: 6 rockets

At first glance, Pharah’s rockets don’t seem like the best primary fire in the game. Her rockets are slower than bullets, they don’t do an insanely high amount of damage, and they can actually hurt Pharah if she winds up in the explosion.

That being said, her rockets actually work out perfectly with her jump jet abilities–if you’re using her right.

• We prefer to use Pharah to ambush opponents who might not be ready for an attack from the air. In both Escort and Assault, often times the defense will set up, ready to attack at a couple of entrances or gates. As Pharah, you don’t need doors or gates. You can simply fly over the walls and attack the snipers from the side or behind.

• Pro tip: shoot the snipers and turrets (especially Bastion) first, they pose the biggest threat to you. Often times, enemy heroes playing closer to the ground won’t even know you’re there until it’s too late.

• If you get the drop on an opponent (which should happen more often than not), remember two things. First, that you should be shooting where you think they’ll be, not where they are. And second, that often you’ll be able to fire off two or three rockets before the first one even hits, giving you a serious element of surprise.

• As lame as it sounds, it’s smarter to aim for the ground or nearby walls to ensure splash damage from the rockets rather than a direct hit.

Secondary Fire: Concussive Blast

• You won’t be using her secondary fire all that often, but don’t forget it’s there!

• The best time to use a concussive blast is when you have opponents with shields or barriers up. The concussive blast does a considerable amount of damage to energy shields.

• The second best time to use a concussive blast is when your opponent is near a cliff or hole. Although it doesn’t do a ton of damage, the blast does send the opponent a significant distance. A kill is a kill, is a kill, is a kill.

• If you’ve exhausted all of your rockets and have seriously damaged the opponent, you can try getting that list bit of hurt with the concussive blast. You never know!

Update: It’s recently come to our attention that Pharah can use the concussion blast to actually move her around the map very quickly. Check out the video below:

Jump Jets / Hover Jets

These two abilities are what makes Pharah so special. She’s the only character in the game who can fly, and although she doesn’t move with amazing horizontal speed while she’s in the air, most of the time the enemies won’t be expecting you to be hovering above them.

• Save your jump jets until you really them. You won’t travel very quickly while flying, but getting into the air at the right time is the difference between death and a kill streak. For example…

• …if you get pulled by Roadhog’s chain, wait until the “get over here” animation is complete and immediately jet out of there for an easy escape. Then go and find yourself some health and get back into the fight.

• If you hear Hanzo’s special, it’s usually a good idea activate your jump jets to avoid getting killed.

• Once the firefight starts, get to high ground immediately. Once you activate the jump jets, try and land on a balcony or ledge. Pharah is not well suited to fighting it out on the ground.

• By simply tapping the hover jets (and not holding them down) you can really maintain your vertical height while waiting for the jump jets to cool down.

• One strategy we’ve started to like using is the concept of roof surfing. You might have noticed that Overwatch doesn’t let you run around rooftops, so instead if you tap on hover and move around the rooftops you’ll be able to skirt that restriction.

Ultimate: Barrage

In our opinion, Barrage is one of the most devastating ultimates (next to Reaper and D.Va). She unleashes 30 rockets (each of which have about 30 damage each) over a period of three seconds. Of course, during those three seconds she’s unable to move–rendering her completely vulnerable.

Obviously you’ll have to figure out when a gamble is worthwhile or not, but we highly recommend waiting until any snipers or turrets are down before you activate Barrage.

It also goes without saying that you should only activate Barrage once you’re high in the sky. What’s the point of using all that gorgeous splash damage if you’re not going to hit something?

Anna Nystrom is not the first or last person to take advantage of the perks of social media. Instagram, as well as other platforms, have established themselves as breeding grounds for amateur models and fitness freaks. Today, beautiful women of all shapes and sizes are creating names for themselves by racking up followers in extremely large numbers. Luckily I stumbled across this beaut while surfing the discovery section on my Instagram account.  It goes without saying; I hit that follow button.

Anna is a fitness model who resides in Sweden. There, she maintains a fitness/fashion blog and a newly activated Youtube channel. Anna is also studying to become a personal trainer at Sports Club Education in Stockholm. It is definitely worth taking a look at her Insta and Facebook, since she has over 2 million followers. Her accounts are filled with videos of her squatting, pre-workout mirror selfies and full body images from photo shoots.

Check out some of her best photos below. I’ll allow them to do most of the talking.

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Oklahoma City Thunder’s Steven Adams has a lot of fans around the world right now, but none are as big as Lil’ Stache Bro–the little girl with a matching tattoo sleeve and moustache. She’s got the whole look down pat–the long curly hair, the thick moustache, and even the tribal tats.

Lil’ Stache Bro was just chilling outside the Chesapeake Arena pre-game, snapping some photos with some other OKC fans, seemingly pretty chill about all the attention. But you know what was the icing on the cake? The fact that none other than Steven Adams himself saw a photo of her and Tweeted it out.

The only problem is that he wrote this way past her bedtime. Great hair like that needs sleep.

Check out the rest of Lil Stache Bros’ photos below.

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Peter Thiel is an extremely succesful Silicon Valley billionaire, hedge fund manager, and co-founder of PayPal. That’s what the public knew about him back in 2007. But then Gawker wrote an article titled “Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People.” As you might have guessed from the catchy title, the author outed Thiel, who until that moment had been a closeted homosexual.The article is still live today and has been viewed 117K+ times.

Although author Owen Thomas didn’t include any evidence, direct quotes, sources, or even a little sentence about how it was speculation, the article caused Peter Thiel to come out of the closet.

So why are we talking about this article almost ten years later? Because today the New York Times published an article revealing that Peter Thiel is allegedly the investor who backed Hulk Hogan’s lawsuit against Gawker Media and their founder Nick Denton.

Today’s NY Times article comes just one day after Nick Denton told the NY Times that he believed someone in Silicon Valley had footed the bill for the lawsuit.

“My own personal hunch is that it’s linked to Silicon Valley, but that’s nothing really more than a hunch. If you’re a billionaire and you don’t like the coverage of you, and you don’t particularly want to embroil yourself any further in a public scandal, it’s a pretty smart, rational thing to fund other legal cases.”

The story is becoming more and more juicy. But before we can look ahead, let’s take a look at the connections between Peter Thiel, Gawker, and Hulk Hogan.

Peter Thiel

Peter Thiel is a German-American entrepreneur worth a ton of money right now. He graduated from Stanford in 1989 and then graduated from Stanford Laws School in 1992. He now lives in San Francisco.

PayPal

Peter’s first brilliant business move was co-founding PayPal with Max Levchin. At the time, PayPal was a somewhat succesful online payment service. But it was only once they merged with X.com, an online financial services and email payment company owned by Elon Musk, that it really started taking off.

PayPal was so successful that it went public in 2002 and then sold to eBay for $1.2 billion. Thiel’s stake in the company was worth over $3 million.

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He was also the first outside investor in Facebook, buying in as an angel investor for $500K at 10% of the company. But if you’ve seen The Social Network, you actually kind of already knew that.

Facebook is now valued as $190 billion, so while we can’t really do that math, we know that if he wanted to fund a lawsuit he probably could.

Gawker Media

Gawker Media is a network of websites that cover a variety of topics and subjects. Although it now has over eight different larger sites, it owns many more smaller sites that fit within the larger sites’ umbrellas.

Their tag line is “Today’s gossip is tomorrow’s news.” And to a point, they’re not too far off. Gawker has broken tons of stories that many other websites and news outlets wouldn’t have touched. Famously, they were responsible for the shuttering of many of Reddit’s more notorious (and illegal) subreddits that published illegally obtained photos of underage women, upskirts, and more.

They’ve done a lot more, but the point is that along the way they’ve also made a ton of enemies. But that was what made Gawker so awesome–they didn’t give a you know what. Their brash approach and unfiltered content meant that they would publish today and worry about the consequences tomorrow.

For Gawker, Silicon Valley has always been a treasure trove of content for them. Its concentration of riches, technology, power, and the sometimes foolish people who had all three meant that there was always some juicy story to write.

From Nick Denton,

“We write stories about powerful people in New York, but there are plenty of outlets writing stories about powerful people in New York. We write stories about powerful people in LA, but there are plenty of outlets writing stories about powerful people in LA. What’s unique about Gawker is that we’re an internet publication and the tech industry is of particular interest to us. There are powerful people in Silicon Valley and the power of Silicon Valley is a relatively new phenomenon.”

“Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People”

One of those Gawker articles was written by Owen Thomas, now employed by SFGate, and is titled “Peter Thiel Is Totally Gay, People.” As we mentioned above, the story is still live. Here’s the intro:

By now, you’ve likely heard how Peter Thiel parlayed a $500,000 investment in Facebook to a stake now worth $750 million. There’s been a crush of coverage on his $220 million Founders Fund, which may well change the way entrepreneurs get paid in the Valley. We know about his mansion (he rents it — clever!), his butler, his early-morning jogs. But what no one ever says out loud: Thiel is gay.

The story outs Peter Thiel as being gay, even though his private life was something that Peter had tried very hard to keep private. Yes, Peter came out afterwards as gay, but it probably wasn’t something that he wanted to do. Although Gawker always hid behind expensive lawyers, their reliance on what was legal and what wasn’t eventually came back to bite them in the butt.

In 2009, Peter would be quoted as saying that Gawker was “the Silicon Valley equivalent of Al Qaeda” with the “psychology of a terrorist.”

Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker Media

Without a doubt, the Bollea vs Gawker lawsuit is the biggest story for online publishers like ourselves. Even though we’re not uploading and hosting illegally obtained sex tapes like Gawker, the outcome of cases like this are very important moving forward in what is and isn’t illegal.

So for those of you who don’t know the full story, we’ll lay it out for you nice and quick.

Hulk Hogan’s Sex Tape

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Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan) had a friend, Bubba the Love Sponge, who was married to model Heather Clem. Bubba and Heather had an open relationship, which sometimes meant that Heather would sleep with some of Bubba’s more famous friends. During one of those times, Heather and Terry had sex in 2006.

It’s unknown whether or not Hulk Hogan knew their tryst was being filmed (Bubba says Hulk knew, Hulk testified under oath that he didn’t), but the important thing is that there was a tape. That tape was then shopped to various publications for sale. Gawker.com then published an excerpt of the tape for everyone to see in 2012.

A circuit court ordered Gawker to remove the video, but the website refused because they believed that order was “risible and contemptuous of centuries of First Amendment jurisprudence.” Eventually they did pull the video, but kept the story and linked to another website that still had the video.

Bollea vs Gawker

Cut to 2016, when Terry Gene Bollea sued Gawker Media for invasion of privacy, infringement of personality rights, and intentional infliction of emotional distress. After a very-public trial, the jury decided to deliver a verdict in favor of Hulk, awarding him $115 million in damages.

And it’s here that things begin to get interesting.

By all accounts, Hulk’s finances weren’t all that great. So the fact that he was able to put together enough cash to take this case to court meant that he could have had a third-party financier. Gawker estimates that they’ve spent almost $10 million on the case, so Hulk himself must have had to dig deep.

So if Hulk was so poor, why would his lawyers look to remove Gawker’s insurance from the lawsuit? It stand to reason that Gawker’s insurance would have deeper pockets than Gawker. From the NY Times article today:

Mr. Hogan’s legal team… abruptly dropped one of the claims — for “negligent infliction of emotional distress” — from its case. That claim had a particularly special meaning: It was the one claim that required Gawker’s insurance company to pay for its defense as well as potential payouts in the case of a settlement. (That provision of Gawker’s insurance policy became public after the insurance company, Nautilus, sued Gawker to try to limit payment for defense.)

Several legal experts said that it was particularly unusual for a plaintiff using a lawyer being paid on a contingency basis not only to turn down settlement offers (several sizable settlements were proffered by Gawker) but also to pursue a strategy that prevented an insurance company from being able to contribute to a settlement.

Strange, indeed.

Peter Thiel vs. Gawker

So today we learned from Forbes, and then the New York Times, that “According to people familiar with the situation who agreed to speak on condition of anonymity, Thiel, a cofounder and partner at Founders Fund, has played a lead role in bankrolling the cases Terry Bollea, a.k.a. Hogan, brought against New York-based Gawker.”

It’s unknown how the two men met, or even how much money Thiel stands to gain from winning the lawsuit, but “third-party litigation” is both legal and a growing trend in the American court system.

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Kelly Osbourne came for Michelle Pugh on Twitter yesterday and things got reaaalllyyy ugly. The 31-year-old (um… what does she do again?) did not hold back when it came to her parents’ split and how Pugh was the cause.

Naturally the phone has since been disconnected, but not before Kelly retweeted this gem of a response:

Obviously she’s pissed, which makes sense. After all, her dad did f*ck his hairdresser, despite being married to the only woman who could ever handle him for more than 30 years. Frankly I’m more disturbed that Michelle wanted any part of this situation. But then again, even though he’s a 70-year-old man with wrinkly junk and an ever-present shake, dude was still a rockstar and has a ton of money. And there’s a lot of people who find that attractive.

Plus there’s the fact that he clearly wanted it. While Kelly didn’t place any of the blame on her father, several Twitter followers dropped some truth bombs:

Clearly Kelly won’t let her dad take the fall. She even went as far as saying the affair was a form of abuse:

Are you f*cking kidding me? Elder abuse? I know the guy was a serious drug addict and probably thought he was looking at a giraffe when she started trimming his bangs, but come on! That’s a real BS excuse Kelly. We expected more from you.

It takes two people to have an affair. If you’re going to drag Michelle’s name through the mud, at least make sure Ozzy gets something too.

Draymond Green hasn’t played his best series against the Oklahoma City Thunder. When the Golden State Warriors‘ glue guy and (arguably most important player) goes 2/16 from the field, with 10 turnovers and only five assists in two games, good things aren’t going to happen.

We know it, Draymond knows it, and Kobe Bryant definitely knows it. That’s why the Black Mamba reached out to Draymond Green via text message after their third loss. The Laker great texted Draymond after Game 4, “If making history was easy, why bother?”

That’s about the most typical Kobe text ever. Like even if Draymond didn’t already have Kobe’s number, he would have known right away who was texting him.

The text message is a reference to the fact that only nine teams have come back from 3-1 deficit. Yes, the Rockets came back from 3-1 to beat the Clippers last year, but it’s extremely difficult to do when you’re up against the ropes. But if any team is going to come back, it’s the Warriors and their normally knock down shooters.

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X-Men: Apocalypse, the ninth installment in the X-Men film series, comes out this weekend, and it appears to be the biggest and most epic X-Men film yet. I mean, just look how stacked this cast is:

James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac, Nicholas Hoult, Rose Byrne, Olivia Munn, Tye Sheridan, Sophie Turner, Lucas Till

Ever since the original X-Men way back in 2000, the X-Men movie franchise, other than a few hiccups, has been a well-oiled machine. With 9 movies in 16 years, they have released a new film once every 1.7 years. All of which, except for 1, have above a 55% Rotten Tomatoes score, and 5 of which have above an 80%. There have been highs and lows throughout these 16 years, but all of these movies, no matter how bad some of them may be, are truly entertaining.

So, with the latest, and hopefully best, installment on it’s way, I spent the weekend watching all of the X-Men movies in an attempt to rank them. I’m not going to lie to you … it was awesome.

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Usually when you’re in the middle of a bad date, you get your friend to call you out with a dire emergency and leave before your date processes WTF is going on. It’s the most polite way to go about things. Wouldn’t you rather have that happen instead of the “I never want to see you again because you’re boring as f*ck and your face reminds me of my aunt’s” conversation? I know I would.

Anyway, everyone deals with things differently. When this guy got bored with his date, he decided to take things up a notch by soliciting dares from his friends via text message. Naturally they had a ton of suggestions and this kid had zero shame.

Here’s how it went down:

You’d think she would have caught on that something weird was going on since he was taping her… but whatever. We’re surprised it didn’t end worse for him, but at least there’s a valuable lesson to this story: blind dates are awful and you should avoid them at all costs.

Milo Yiannopoulos, a man who calls himself the “most fabulous supervillain on the internet,” has been embarking on “The Dangerous Fagg** Tour,” a series of speaking engagements for the past few months. He talks about how feminism is cancer, how homosexuality is a choice, the idea that safe spaces are absurd, and a ton of other controversial topics.

Most of Milos messages and opinions are intentionally vitriolic and un-PC (I mean, look at the name of his speaking tour for God’s sakes) and he’s been met with equally verbal opponents at most of his engagements. He’s a provocateur who makes his money stirring up controversy and then taking that show on the road. We’re not saying there aren’t people who believe in him, we’re just saying that he’s a showman.

But this week, Milo’s speech at DePaul University was met with considerably more than just protests.

Black Lives Matter protestors and other DePaul students interrupted his speech, threatened him with violence, and generally acted like a bunch of idiots. Milo uploaded a video of some of the incident below.

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Milo Yiannopoulos, an openly gay British journalist, took over a lecture hall at Rutgers University

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When Donald Trump is typically in the news, it’s due to one of three things: 1. He says something batsh*t crazy 2. One of his rallies broke out into a full-on brawl or 3. The man is blowing up Twitter about Lyin’ Ted, Crooked Hillary, or Crazy Bernie. Luckily this time he’s in the news for something completely different (repetition is boring, isn’t it?). And while nothing will be as exciting as when someone announces this election cycle is finally over, this hilarious Twitter story will hold us over until that dream becomes a reality.

Late night CNN watchers were graced with a bit of comedy last night during a segment that aired at 1:30am. While commentators were discussing a protest that took over a Donald Trump rally in New Mexico, a tweet lit up the TV screen behind them. Somehow they managed to get through the entire segment without realizing WTF the tweet behind them said.

LOL. Isn’t that just amazing?

While none of the station workers had a clue about @Parker9_’s tweet, Gawker was nice enough to share the blip with the world. Will they also be able to solve this anatomical mystery? Hopefully not. I’m nauseous just thinking about it.

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As you might know, we had professional gamer OpTic Scump in the office last week. The visit was awesome, he was awesome, and our conversation was awesome (nbd). Scumpy and I talked about a lot of things within the eSports world and even convinced him to break down some footage/team strategy from OpTic’s epic win over Splyce at the 2016 Electronic Sports World Cup.

WATCH: OpTic Scump Gives Us CoD Black Ops 3 Tips & Tricks

A couple of weeks ago, OpTic Gaming won the Electronic Sports World Cup (ESWC 2016) Grand

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You can watch the game film review in the link above, but before he let us peek behind the curtain, Seth talked about how he became the Scump we know today–his rise through the ranks, how he started playing competitively, and how his professional athlete father handled the news that he’d be gaming for stacks of cash.

These guys are doing some exciting things with Turtle Wax this summer, so if you’re into fast cars and eSports, definitely give this video a watch.