Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler says he and his family have received threats from Red Sox fans

NEW YORK (AP) — New York Yankees right-hander Cam Schlittler says he's looking forward to his Fenway Park debut on Thursday against Boston even after revealing his family has received threats from Red Sox fans.

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Schlittler has overcome similar threats to experience success against the Red Sox in the postseason spotlight, so he has reason to carry confidence into his first game at Fenway.

Schlittler grew up a Red Sox fan in Walpole, Massachusetts. Despite his background with the Red Sox, Schlittler told the New York Post that he and his family have received death threats leading up to Thursday night's game. He compared the threats to normal trolling from fans and said he hasn't felt the need to get police involved.

“Most normal fans could care less, right?” Schlittler told the newspaper. "It’s just those diehards that just have nothing else in their lives other than baseball or sports that really care about this, and the fact that I play for the Yankees makes it worse for them.”

After his family was targeted with hurtful comments on social media during last season's AL Wild Card Series against the Red Sox, Schlittler responded with a dominant performance. Hebecame the first postseason pitcherwith at least eight scoreless innings and 12 strikeouts without allowing a walk, pitching New York to a4-0 clinching winover Boston in New York.

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This season, the 6-foot-6 Schlittler has enjoyed more success. The 25-year-old is 2-1 with a 1.95 ERA in five games. He has 36 strikeouts in 27 2/3 innings.

He says his strong start will only encourage more venom from Red Sox fans.

“It’s gonna be bad, it’s gonna be bad," Schlittler told the Post. "I’m not nervous about it, but it’s gonna be loud. ... They’re gonna probably have dudes that are my age or a little bit younger, sitting right outside the bullpen, yelling whatever, probably throwing stuff at me, trying to grab me.

“That’s kind of what I expect. So I know the guys are excited for it and I’m excited for it.”

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Former NBC News anchor finds new home at Netflix after controversy

Former "NBC Nightly News" and MSNBC anchor Brian Williams is returning to TV screens since leaving NBC, where he became amainstay for 28 years.

Williams, 66, will host abrand-new podcast on Netflix, "where viewers will see a side of him they’ve never seen before — unscripted, unhurried, and utterly himself."

The podcast, titled "We’re Back! With Brian Williams," will consist of the longtime news anchor conversing with the "most interesting figures shaping popular culture," including actors, writers, musicians, athletes, journalists and unexpected newsmakers, according to the streaming service.

"With scientists predicting that every American will have a podcast by 2030, I thought it was time to get in the game," Williams said in a statement. "After 40 years in the news business, where an in-depth interview gets 4 minutes of airtime at best, I just want to have interesting conversations with creative, funny, smart, talented, and consequential people — like the shows we all grew up watching and listening to. Netflix is the perfect home.”

This is the first time viewers will regularly see Williams since he announced his departure from NBC on the final episode of "The 11th Hour with Brian Williams," which aired on Dec. 9, 2021.

"I have been truly blessed," Williams wrote in a memo to NBC staffers in 2021. "I have been allowed to spend almost half of my life with one company. NBC is a part of me and always will be."

Here's what to know about Williams' new gig.

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When will Brian Williams' podcast premiere?

As of April 17, Netflix has not announced a release date for Williams' podcast.

Netflix said four-time Emmy winner Jonathan Wald, who previously worked with Williams at NBC News and went on to oversee "Election Night Live with Brian Williams," will executive produce the podcast. At Will Media will be producing the podcast, with At Will's Will Malnati and Ashley Taylor serving as executive producers alongside Wald.

Brian Williams apologizes for story embellishments

The move to Netflix comes afterNBC conducted a six-month internal investigationin 2015 that found Williams made several false and embellished statements about his previous reporting experiences. One notable distortion that led to Williams' eventual reassignment as a breaking news anchor for MSNBC was his recounting of time covering the 2003 Iraq War, where he said a helicopter was hit by an RPG when it was not,PBSand theWashington Postreported.

In a statement at the time, NBC said an "extensive review found that Williams made a number of inaccurate statements about his own role and experiences covering events in the field. The statements in question did not, for the most part, occur on NBC News platforms or in the immediate aftermath of the news events, but rather on late-night programs and during public appearances, usually years after the news events in question."

Following the investigation and Williams' subsequent demotion, he apologized for his falsifications.

"I am sorry," Williams told former NBC "Today" host Matt Lauer during an interview in 2015. "I am sorry for what happened. I am different as a result, and I expect to be held to a different standard."

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Jacob Tierney teases 'Heated Rivalry' Season 2 with this Rachel Reid romance

NEW YORK – Much to the disappointment of fans, “Heated Rivalry” starsHudson WilliamsandConnor Storriedid not join the show’s panel at BookCon. But they did get a few Season 2 insights.

At the first in-person BookCon in seven years, approximately 3,000 fans of the steamy hockey romance greeted author Rachel Reid and show creatorJacob Tierneywith ear-splitting screams on April 18. Many sported shirts that read “I’m comingto the cottage” and “Ask me about our lord and savior Ilya Rozanov.”

The two extra chairs on the stage caused a stir on social media and in-person ahead of the talk. Would Williams and Storrie make a surprise appearance? They did not, though the show's stars did send in questions for Reid and Tierney. Storrie’s was a voice memo recording played for the crowd, a consolation prize. The extra chairs were simply the default setup for the weekend, BookCon organizers told USA TODAY.

Rachel Reid, Jacob Tierney tease ‘Heated Rivalry’ Season 2

“Heated Rivalry” sSeason 2 will largely be based on “The Long Game,” set 10 years later. But, like Scott and Kip’s “Game Changer” storyline in Season 1, another couple will also get airtime. Reid and Tierney teased that the second season will also include“Role Model,”a grumpy-sunshine romance between Troy Barrett, a recently traded player, and Harris Drover, the team’s chipper social media manager.

“Troy's a really damaged guy, and Troy is quite damaged on the show. I would say we're digging into that harder, because that's what's interesting and that's all there in those books,” Tierney said. “That's why it's such a fertile playground for me as a creator to have fun.”

He added, “But Ilya and Shane are the heartbeat of this series, of my show. It's always going to be about Ilya and Shane.”

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Though he told Deadline in a recent interview that he was weighing splitting “The Long Game” into two seasons, he kept mum when asked about it on the panel.

“It really is different. The challenge of it is from an adaptation point of view is that you're in much more serious territory. There's still lots of flirting and there's lots of sex. (But) it’s like this kind of danger, this kind of hotel room, adolescent sex stuff is largely gone. And so it presents really new challenges.” Tierney said. “‘The Long Game’ is an emotionally sophisticated book that takes this couple seriously.”

The 'whole world seems to care' about Ilya and Shane

While fans await a release date and casting decisions for Season 2 (evenJill Biden threw her hat in the ring), they at least know Reid’s new novel, “Unrivaled,”will be out June 1, 2027.Shane and Ilya’s third story was initially set for aSeptember publication date, but Reid pushed it back because of how overwhelming the last few months have been.

“I have a little bit of regret deciding to write a book at the same time, but I am excited,” Reid said on the panel. “I'm in a place where the whole world seems to care about what happens next to these characters or has thoughts about them. … But I'm still determined to try to just stick to what I have always done when I was writing, just kind of pretend that I'm just writing for me and I hope other people like it.”

Clare Mulroy is USA TODAY’s Books Reporter, where she covers buzzy releases, chats with authors and dives into the culture of reading. Find heron Instagram, subscribe to our weeklyBooks newsletteror tell her what you’re reading atcmulroy@usatoday.com.

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NCAA tourney star Braylon Mullins decides to chase national title at UConn instead of heading to NBA

STORRS, Conn. (AP) —NCAA Tournament star Braylon Mullinswill stick around one more season at UConn in hopes of winning a national championship instead of heading straight to the NBA.

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The 6-foot-6 shooting guard made his announcement Saturday onhis Instagram accountwith highlight clips of his biggest shots and the words “unfinished business.”

Mullins was projected to be a first-round pick.

The 2025 IndyStarIndiana Mr. Basketball Award winnerbecame a national sensation when he made a 35-footer with 0.4 seconds left to cap UConn's incredible comeback to beat top-seeded Duke 73-72 to win the East Region title, sending the Huskies to their third Final Four in four years.

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But he had been a key player for the Huskies once he returned from an ankle injury that kept him out of UConn's first six games. He was fourth on the team in scoring at 12.0 points per game and also averaged 3.5 rebounds, 1.4 assists and 1.0 steals. He finished third on the team with 72 3-pointers, five behind Alex Karaban who played in all 40 games and Solo Ball who played in 39.

Mullins scored 15 points in a victory over Illinois before finishing with 11 in the national championship game loss to Michigan — with both games being played about a 30-minute drive from his alma mater, Greenfield-Central High School.

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Mic catches Steve Kerr telling Stephen Curry and Draymond Green, 'I don't know what's going to happen next,' as Warriors head into uncertain future

The Golden State Warriors’ season is officially over. Now begins an offseason in which the most successful NBA team of the past decade has some hard questions to answer.

Stephen Curry is 38 years old. Draymond Green is 36 years old. Steve Kerr’s contract just expired. The Warriors could look very different once the 2026-27 campaign begins, and Kerr looked well aware of that as the clock ticked down ontheir season-ending loss to the Phoenix Suns in the NBA play-in tournament.

After Green fouled out of the game, Kerr simultaneously embraced him and Curry and shared some words with two players he’s been coaching since 2014.

Prime Video’s mics caught some of those words, which were:

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"I don't what's going to happen next, but I love you guys to death. Thank you. Appreciate you."

Those words had a visible impact on Prime’s Dirk Nowitzki, who got choked up while saying, “The bond you form over all these years, they know you as a family. … It was a cool moment.”

It was a tender moment between one of the most successful triumvirates in NBA history. Green then immediately followed that moment bygetting into it with Suns star Devin Booker from the bench and earning a double ejection from official Scott Foster.

Curry likely isn’t going anywhere, but Green has a player option for next year and is seen as a trade candidate if he exercises it. Meanwhile, Kerr openly acknowledged the possibility the Warriors opt to make a change at head coach:

“I'll take a week or two and then eventually sit down and talk with [Warriors owner Joe Lacob and general manager Mike Dunleavy]. We've always had a great partnership and collaboration and just see where they are, and I'll tell them where I am. We'll talk about what's next for the Warriors, what the plan is and we'll come to a collaborative decision on what's next. I don't know what's going to happen.

“I still love coaching, but I get it. These jobs all have an expiration date. There's a run that happens and sometimes it's time for new blood and new ideas and all that. If that's the case, then I will be nothing but grateful for the most amazing opportunity any person could have to coach in front of our fans in the Bay, to coach Steph Curry, to coach Dray, the whole group. It may still go on, it may not. I don't know at this point."

Green also discussed the possibility of an exit, saying, “I hope I’ve done enough to still be here.”

Since the Warriors hired Kerr in 2014, they have gone 708-401 in the regular season and playoffs combined, reaching the playoffs eight times, reaching the NBA Finals six times and winning the NBA title four times.

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Wings shut down question on Azzi Fudd relationship with Paige Bueckers

For now,Azzi Fuddwill not talk about her relationship withPaige Bueckers.

On Thursday, the Dallas Wings introduced Fudd to the community and welcomed her with an introductory press conference. The No. 1 overall pick sat next to head coach Jose Fernandez and general manager Curt Miller as she was asked several questions related to her time at UConn, her journey to the WNBA, joining the Wings and more. She was also asked a pointed question about whether she was still in a relationship with Bueckers.

“Paige (Bueckers) announcedlast year on TikTok that ya’ll were a couple," the person said. "And I’m wondering if that’s still the case, and if so, have ya’ll talked to any other couples in the league about how they negotiate that dynamic as pro teammates?”

Before Fudd could respond, Wings public relations stepped in to decline the question.

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“I understand why you have to ask that question. But we are going to respectfully decline on commenting on a player’s personal life," a Wings PR person said before moving on to the next question.

WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert (left) poses for photos with Azzi Fudd who was selected first overall by the Dallas Wings during the 2026 WNBA Draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards.

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WNBACommissioner Cathy Engelbert (left) poses for photos with Azzi Fudd who was selected first overall by the Dallas Wings during the 2026 WNBA Draft at The Shed at Hudson Yards.

In recent months, Fudd and Bueckers have kept a low profile with their relationship, leading many to inquire about how they would feel aboutplaying together again after their UConn daysand if they were still dating.

However, for now, Fudd and the Wings appear to be prepared to keep things focused on basketball.

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