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“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” Winston Churchill’s infamous saying goes, a lesson quickly gleaned by esports’ practitioners in the past two years. More important than dwelling on the past is how the difficult learnings of the pandemic are wielded in 2022 to help grow the esports industry. In order to provide a comprehensive round-up of 2021, Esports Insider obtained the perspectives of a broad selection of industry leaders to recap the themes, lessons and opportunities presented this past year. While Part 1 of the year-end round-up looked back on 2021, Part 2 looks forward into 2022. I… Continue reading “ESI 2021 round-up: Looking forward”

Vanessa Hudgens is “not focusing on marriage” although she is “committed” to her boyfriend Cole Tucker. The 33-year-old actress marked her one-year anniversary with the baseball star this week, and sources have now said the couple have “gotten serious” with their romance over the past 12 months. An insider said: “They are very in love. They have gotten to the point of their relationship where they have gotten serious and are committed to each other. But the ‘Princess Switch’ star is also said to be “committed to her career” and isn’t ready to start thinking about marriage just yet. The source … Continue reading “Vanessa Hudgens isn’t looking at marriage with Cole Tucker just yet – but they are ‘serious’”

Tiffini Hale, the “All-New Mickey Mouse Club” member who later turned down stardom, died on Christmas Day. She was 46. Hale suffered cardiac arrest and fell into a coma earlier in December, and died Christmas morning, her fellow Mouseketeers said Thursday in a Facebook post. When Disney relaunched the Mickey Mouse Club in 1989 as “The All-New Mickey Mouse Club,” Hale was one of the original members. She was eventually included in pop band The Party alongside four other Mouseketeers: Albert Fields, Chase Hampton, Deedee Magno Hall and Damon Pampolina. Her bandmates shared the news of her death…. Continue reading “Tiffini Hale, ‘Mickey Mouse Club’ member and singer, dead at 46”

Remember when we stood on the precipice of a new year, convinced that 2021 would be the year that 2020 wasn’t, and everything would go back to normal? How’d that work out for us? Some things got back on track in 2021. Politicians kept politicking, and celebrities kept celebriting, but much happened that we probably wouldn’t have predicted. Here’s a list of things that we know now that we didn’t when the year was launched, fresh and new and full of promise. We didn’t know that … A bare-chested man wearing a buffalo headdress would be photographed inside the Capitol — and that wouldn’t be the st… Continue reading “Things we know now that we didn’t know last January”

MINNEAPOLIS — Karl-Anthony Towns’ peers are quick to criticize. That’s a respect issue. The Timberwolves star, who missed the Thibodeau reunion game Tuesday while in COVID-19 protocols, was blasted on social media — where else would that happen nowadays? — by Golden State’s Draymond Green, who couldn’t resist posting the following to Towns: “I once watched from the bench due to us beating the Twolves ass and he was in the game down 20 with 2 mins to go.” Green wrote. “Come on man. Stop talking to people about the “bros” and yelling this is a “brotherhood”. SMH.” First, we’ll see how long Green… Continue reading “Stefan Bondy: Draymond Green is just latest NBA player to disrespect Karl-Anthony Towns”

Daniel Radcliffe’s entire life is connected to the ‘Harry Potter’ film franchise. The 32-year-old actor starred as Harry in the money-spinning film series, and he admits that his entire life is linked to the movies. Daniel – who has reminisced about his experiences in ‘Harry Potter 20th Anniversary: Return to Hogwarts’ – shared: “I’ll always be happy to talk about it. I think people expect me not to want to talk about it. But that’s like somebody never talking about their childhood or teenage years.” The actor explained that various landmarks in his life are linked to the film franchise. He sa… Continue reading “Daniel Radcliffe: I’ll never tire of talking about Harry Potter”