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Tom Brady takes awkward first steps in transition from football field to TV booth Fox Sports is spending $375 million to put Tom Brady in the broadcast booth, and the network wants to make sure everyone knows hes there.

The seven-time Super Bowl champion made his debut as an NFL analyst during the Fox broadcast of the regular-season opener between the Dallas Cowboys and the Cleveland Browns on Sunday.

But first came a Brady hype video leading into the pregame show.

The studio team admitted they couldnt help but fanboy over their new co-worker.

DirecTV files complaint against Disney with FCC as impasse enters 2nd week The impasse between DirecTV and Disney over a new carriage agreement has become more heated as it entered its second week.

DirecTV filed a complaint with the Federal Communications Commission on Saturday night accusing Disney of negotiating in bad faith.

Disney channels, including ESPN and ABC-owned stations in nine markets, have been off DirecTV since the evening of Sept.

1.

That meant DirecTV customers were blacked out from viewing most college football games and the final week of the U.S.

Open tennis tournament, including the womens and mens finals.

DirecTV has 11.3 million subscribers, according to Leichtman Research Group, making it the nations third-largest pay TV provider.

AP Top 25: SEC grabs six of the first seven spots in rankings as Notre Dame tumbles to No.

18 After the first shake-up of the college football season, the Southeastern Conference grabbed six of the top seven spots in the AP Top 25, a first in the 88-year history of the rankings.

Georgia received 54 out of a possible 63 first-place votes to keep a firm hold on No.

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2 Texas jumped a spot after dominating defending national champion Michigan on the road and received four first-place votes.

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3 Ohio State slipped a spot.

Then came No.

4 Alabama, No.

5 Mississippi, No.

6 Missouri and No.

7 Tennessee from the SEC.

Notre Dame tumbled to 18th after being upset by Northern Illinois.

Rap megastar Kendrick Lamar will headline the 2025 Super Bowl halftime show LOS ANGELES (AP) Kendrick Lamar will pop out on the NFLs biggest stage next year: The Grammy winner will headline the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show in New Orleans.

The NFL, Apple Music and Roc Nation announced Sunday that Lamar would lead the halftime festivities from the Caesars Superdome on Feb.

9.

The rap megastar, who has won 17 Grammys, said hes looking forward to bringing hip-hop to the NFLs championship game, where he performed as a guest artist with Dr.

Dre and Snoop Dogg in 2022.

Roc Nation founder Jay-Z called Lamar a once-in-a-generation artist and performer.

Dak Prescott and the Cowboys agree on $240 million deal that is the first at $60 million per year Dak Prescott has a new contract with the Dallas Cowboys hours before their season opener at Cleveland.

A person with knowledge of the deal says the star quarterback and the Cowboys agreed on a $240 million, four-year contract.

It's the first in NFL history to average $60 million per season.

The runner-up in NFL MVP voting was entering the final year of a $160 million, four-year contract that was a franchise record before this deal.

It includes $231 million guaranteed.

That's $1 million more than the previous record from the fully guaranteed deal Deshaun Watson signed with the Browns two years ago.

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce attend the US Open men's final Taylor Swift is at the U.S.

Open to watch another Taylor perform.

Swift is at the mens final along with Travis Kelce, four days after watching her boyfriends Kansas City Chiefs open their NFL season with a victory.

The singing superstar was wearing a red-and-white checkered dress when she arrived for the match between American Taylor Fritz and Jannik Sinner of Italy.

Kelce was dressed in a white shirt and sweater, looking dressed more appropriately for Wimbledon.

The couple sat in a box at Arthur Ashe Stadium along with Patrick Mahomes, Kelces teammate with the defending Super Bowl champion Chiefs, and his wife, Brittany.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice jolts box office with $110 million opening weekend Beetlejuice Beetlejuice drummed up $110 million in its premiere weekend, becoming the second biggest September opening of all time.

The sequel to the 1988 classic reunites Michael Keaton, Catherine OHara and Winona Ryder as they reprise their roles and welcomes newcomers Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux to the cast.

The electric opening weekend kicks off the fall movie season with a bang after a sleepy Labor Day weekend and a relatively slow August that saw newcomer movies struggle as holdovers ruled the box office.

Huge payout expected for a rare coin bought by Ohio farm family and hidden for decades TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) Three sisters from Ohio who inherited a dime kept in a bank vault for more than 40 years knew it had some value.

But now they cant believe just how much.

A company specializing in currency expects the rare coin struck by the U.S.

Mint in 1975 to bring more than $500,000 when an online auction ends in October.

What makes the dime depicting President Franklin D.

Roosevelt so valuable is a missing S mint mark.

Its one of only two known to exist.

The other one sold at a 2019 auction for more than $450,000.

Paralympic Games end with a Parisian electro-dance party after 2 world records on final day PARIS (AP) The Paralympic Games have ended with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic music.

Jean-Michel Jarre has gotten the party underway at the Stade de France, coaxing dance moves from athletes, volunteers and spectators.

It comes on a day when Moroccos Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the womens marathon for runners with visual impairments and Nigerias Folashade Oluwafemiayo of Nigeria broke her own world record in womens para powerlifting.

The Netherlands womens team defended its gold medal in wheelchair basketball with a 63-49 win over the United States in the final.

Maya Rudolph gets career Emmy No.

6, Angela Basset wins her first at Creative Arts Emmys LOS ANGELES (AP) Maya Rudolph and Angela Bassett are among the winners at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards.

Saturday was the first of the two-night Creative Arts ceremony that are a precursor to the main Emmys ceremony on Sept.

15.

Rudolph has won her sixth career Emmy for her voiceover work on the Netflix animated series Big Mouth." Bassett has won her first Emmy for her work as narrator on the National Geographic wildlife documentary series Queens.

Both showed up to claim their trophies and teared up on stage during their acceptance speeches.

Rudolph's former show, Saturday Night Live, won six times, including Emmys for its makeup and production design..

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