Why the NFL cares about Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

Eager as the National Football League has been to cater to the recent public fixation with Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, it’s certainly not taking any credit for creating the outsized storyline that has emerged around the pop superstar and the Kansas City Chiefs tight end. “Not orchestrated by the NFL,” league spokesman Brian McCarthy … Read more

Chiefs’ Kelce: ‘Just got to keep living’ as relationship with Taylor Swift consumes spotlight

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Travis Kelce has long prided himself on his ability to compartmentalize his personal life and his professional life. That ability has been put to the test the past few weeks. Ever since the All-Pro tight end’s budding relationship with pop superstar Taylor Swift surfaced shortly before the Kansas City Chiefs’ game … Read more

On ‘Carolyn’s Boy,’ Darius Rucker pays loving tribute to his greatest inspiration: his late mother

LOS ANGELES – In 1992, country star Darius Rucker ’s mom died of a heart attack. That was two years before his band, Hootie and the Blowfish, would release their debut record “Cracked Rear View.” It went No. 1 and eventually become diamond certified, twice. Carolyn Rucker didn’t get to experience her son’s incredible success … Read more

A nurse is named as the prime suspect in the mysterious death of the Nigerian Afrobeat star Mohbad

ABUJA – A nurse was identified on Friday as the “principal suspect” in the mysterious death of a Nigerian Afrobeat star, which triggered dayslong protests by thousands demanding justice. Investigations into the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, better known as MohBad, in the commercial hub of Lagos have pointed to the nurse who treated the late … Read more