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HEADLINER
‘Nova wins!!! Its called March madness for a reason and last night the NCAA Men’s championship game came down to the last few seconds and a buzzer beating three pointer by Villanova’s Kris Jenkins. Tied at 74-74 with 4.7 seconds left in the game, ‘Nova’s Ryan Arcidiacono passed to an open Jenkins who sunk it in. Freshman Jalen Brunson, the only IL player on the roster and former Stevenson HS standout is now an NCAA national champion. Social media being savage, flooded timelines with the crying Jordan meme, which let’s be honest was apropos for that loss because MJ was in attendance. Speaking of wins, the Cubs and Whitesox had opening night wins. Cubs beat LA Angels 9-0; Sox beat the Oakland A’s 4-3. Read more
MORE NEWS
• A 45 ton beam that fell during construction on the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway bridge in suburban Des Plaines early this AM has killed one worker and left three others injured.
• In corporate America, sometimes the successor in line to takeover at a storied company is mapped out and sometimes said successor quits, in the case of Thomas Staggs, chairman of Walt Disney Parks and Resorts and heir apparent Disney CEO Robert Iger who succeeded Michael Eisner. Staggs will leave the company next month and it seems Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, a Disney Board member, is now one of the names being floated as replacement. Mind you, though he had set a plan to step down as CEO in April 2015, Bob Iger’s contract with Disney was extended through June 30, 2018.
• Retired U.S. tax judge Diane Kroupa and her husband Robert Fackler of Minnesota, get this, have been charged with tax evasion, obstruction of a tax audit, conspiracy and making and subscribing false tax returns to the tune of $400,000 in a scheme that treated personal spending such as jewelry, pilates classes and overseas vacations as business expenses; cue Alanis Morissette’s.
•An estimated $20 billion settlement over the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, has been given final approval by a federal judge in New Orleans.
ENTERTAINMENT
• The Jon Favreau directed “The Jungle Book” had its world premiere yesterday at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles. The film’s stars Neel Sethi(Mowgli), Ben Kingsley (Bagheera), Lupita Nyong’o (Raksha the wolf), and Ritesh Rajan were in attendance.
• Variety magazine named Julianne Moore, Megan Kelly, Lupita Nyong’o, Vera Wang and Misty Copeland as Lifetime Impact honorees for their special Power of Women issue.
FASHION
• Gucci announced it will present its men’s and women’s collections in one fashion show starting in 2017. Gucci’s hot hot hot at the moment creative director Alessandro Michele said “It seems only natural to me to present my men’s and women’s collections together. It’s the way I see the world today,” signaling reluctance to give into the show now buy now trend but still disrupting the fashion calendar. WWD reports the news was revealed at the New York Times International Luxury Conference.
• Rumor no more, Anthony Vaccarello has been officially named YSL Creative Director, it was announced yesterday. He departed his role at Versace’s Versus and succeeds Hedi Slimane at the Kering brand fashion house.
“You can observe a lot by just watching.” ― Yogi Berra
About 3k millionaires have decamped Chicago
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