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“I really started getting serious when I was 7,” Venus Williams told Today at age 10

A young @Venuseswilliams shares how she first fell in love with tennis on TODAY in 1991. #TODAYFlashback pic.twitter.com/KFZGqUu8pk

— TODAY (@TODAYshow) August 29, 2018

Venus and Serena Williams were seasoned tennis pros before they even finished middle school.

In a resurfaced 1991 interview with Today, shared by the morning show on Wednesday, the young phenoms hit the court in matching outfits.

Venus, then 10, told the Today interviewer of her passion for the sport, explaining, “I think when I was 5 years old, that’s when I think I started liking it a lot.”

“I really started getting serious when I was 7,” continued the preteen athlete. “I think first it was my dad and my mom and my family, going out there to help me and push me.”

The clip noted that Venus’ 9-year-old sister Serena — using a neon racket — was following in her sisters’ footsteps.

Heard offscreen, the athletes’ mother, Oracene Price, said, “Sometimes I feel just like it was destiny, you know, for the both of them. Because my first three girls, they went out, they didn’t take to it. But the last two, they liked it a great deal.”

Venus, now 38, and Serena, now 36, are competing in the U.S. Open this week. Serena has won the grand slam 6 times, and Venus twice.

On Monday night, Serena dominated the court in her women’s singles match against Magda Linette from Poland, advancing to the second round of the tournament. Venus also advanced, defeating Svetlana Kuznetsova, in her first-round match.

The start of the open hasn’t been all smooth sailing, however. On Saturday, Serena responded after French Tennis Federation President Bernard Giudicelli said the catsuit the athlete wore in May to compete in the French Open would “no longer be accepted,” drawing backlash.

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Williams told reporters at the press conference in video shared by ESPN that “everything’s fine” with the situation, and noted, “Obviously the grand slams have a right to do what they want to do, but I feel like if and when or if they know that some things are for health reasons then there’s no way that they wouldn’t be okay with it.”

In fact, the mom of one joked, she wouldn’t be wearing the catsuit anytime soon, anyhow. Explained Serena, “When it comes to fashion you don’t want to be repeat offender. It’ll be a while before this even has to come up again.”

And on Monday, she did just that, wearing a chic one shoulder dress, a pleated tulle skirt, fishnet stockings and custom sparkly Off-White sneakers to compete.

 

Step back in time to ancient China, where a massive tomb complex was built for the first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. As you wander through the underground chambers, you stumble upon something unexpected: an army of life-size terracotta warriors, each one unique in its own way.

 

These figures, meticulously crafted over 2,000 years ago, stand in formation, ready for battle. You’re standing in the midst of the Terracotta Army, one of the greatest archaeological discoveries of our time.

But despite decades of research, the mysteries surrounding this incredible find continue to baffle and intrigue experts.

 

In this article, we delve into the enduring mystery of the Terracotta Warriors and the First Emperor’s Tomb, exploring the fascinating history, art, and culture of ancient China.

What was the Terracotta Army?

The Terracotta Army is one of the most famous archaeological discoveries in history.

 

Located near Xi’an in China, this collection of thousands of life-size terracotta figures represents the army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, over 2,000 years ago.

 

The discovery of the Terracotta Army has provided invaluable insight into the art, culture, and history of ancient China.

 

However, despite decades of research, there are still many unanswered questions about this enduring mystery.

Their discovery

The Terracotta Army was discovered by a group of farmers who were digging a well in 1974.

 

They unearthed several clay fragments, which turned out to be parts of a terracotta warrior.

 

The news of this discovery quickly spread, and archaeologists were soon excavating the site.

 

They found a massive underground tomb complex, covering an area of 20 square miles, which was believed to be the final resting place of Emperor Qin Shi Huang.

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Who was Qin Shi Huang?

Shi Huangdi, also known as Qin Shi Huang, was the first emperor of China. He ruled from 221 BC to 210 BC, during a period known as the Qin dynasty.

 

Shi Huangdi was a powerful and ambitious ruler who conquered and unified the various warring states of China, thereby creating a unified Chinese empire for the first time in history.

 

He is also credited with implementing major administrative, economic, and social reforms, such as standardizing weights and measures, building roads and canals, and establishing a centralized government system.

 

However, his legacy is also controversial, as he was known for his harsh rule and brutal treatment of his enemies, as well as his suppression of intellectual and cultural expression.

The strange burial of the warriors

The Terracotta Army was found in three large pits, each containing thousands of terracotta figures, arranged in battle formation.

 

The figures were highly detailed, with individualized facial features and hairstyles, and were equipped with weapons and armor.

 

It is estimated that there are over 8,000 figures in total, including soldiers, chariots, and horses.

The discovery of the Terracotta Army has shed light on the incredible artistic and engineering skills of the ancient Chinese.

 

The figures were made using a complex production process that involved molding, firing, and painting.

 

It is believed that over 700,000 laborers worked on the tomb complex over a period of 37 years, from 246 BC until the emperor’s death in 210 BC.

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Unanswered questions…

Despite the wealth of information provided by the Terracotta Army, there are still many unanswered questions about the tomb complex and the emperor’s burial.

 

One of the most pressing questions is why the emperor chose to be buried with such a vast army of terracotta figures.

 

Some experts believe that the Terracotta Army was meant to protect the emperor in the afterlife, while others speculate that it was meant to showcase the emperor’s military might and power.

Another mystery surrounding the tomb complex is the identity of the people who created the Terracotta Army.

 

Although the workers who built the tomb complex were likely slaves or prisoners of war, the artisans who created the figures were likely skilled craftsmen.

 

However, no records of the artisans who created the Terracotta Army have been found, and their identities remain a mystery.

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The lethal dangers of the tomb

One of the most intriguing mysteries surrounding the Terracotta Army is the emperor’s tomb itself.

 

Although the tomb complex has been extensively excavated, the emperor’s tomb has yet to be fully explored.

 

Experts believe that the tomb may contain a vast array of treasures and artifacts, as well as important historical records.

 

However, the Chinese government has been hesitant to excavate the tomb, citing concerns over the preservation of the site and the potential damage that could be caused by excavation.

In 2012, Chinese archaeologists conducted extensive tests on the tomb complex, including scanning it with advanced imaging technology.

 

They discovered elevated levels of mercury in the soil surrounding the tomb, leading some to believe that the emperor’s tomb may indeed contain rivers of liquid mercury.

 

However, there is currently no direct evidence of this, as the tomb has not been fully excavated due to concerns over preservation and potential damage.

While the potential use of mercury in the tomb is fascinating, it also raises concerns about the environmental and health impacts of such a discovery.

 

Liquid mercury is a highly toxic substance that can have serious health effects if not handled properly, and any excavation of the tomb would need to be conducted with extreme caution and care.

 

Until the tomb is fully explored, the potential use of mercury in the Terracotta Army and the First Emperor’s tomb remains a tantalizing mystery.

The ongoing mystery

Despite the many mysteries surrounding the Terracotta Army and the emperor’s tomb, the discovery remains one of the most significant archaeological finds in history.

 

The Terracotta Army has provided us with valuable insights into the art, culture, and history of ancient China, and has inspired countless researchers and scholars around the world.

 

As we continue to explore this enduring mystery, we may one day uncover the secrets of the first emperor’s tomb and the incredible civilization that created it.

It took more than 11 billion years for the light from galaxy 9io9 to reach Earth.

The orientation of the magnetic field in the distant 9io9 galaxy, seen here when the universe was only 20 percent of its current age and the furthest ever detection of a galaxy’s magnetic field. ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)/J. Geach et al.

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope have detected the magnetic field of a galaxy that is so far away from Earth, that its light has taken more than 11 billion years to get here. With the telescope, we are seeing this galaxy just as it was when our universe was only 2.5 billion years old.

The findings are detailed in a study published September 6 in the journal Nature. Finally seeing this cosmic artifact could give astronomers some vital clues to how the magnetic fields of galaxies like the Milky Way came to be. Magnetic fields are present in many of the universe’s astronomical bodies from stars to planets and up to galaxies.

“Many people might not be aware that our entire galaxy and other galaxies are laced with magnetic fields, spanning tens of thousands of light-years,” study co-author and University of Hertfordshire astrophysicist James Geach said in a statement.

It is not yet fully clear both how early in our universe’s lifetime and how quickly the magnetic fields in galaxies form. To date, astronomers have only mapped magnetic fields in galaxies close to us.

“We actually know very little about how these fields form, despite their being quite fundamental to how galaxies evolve,” study co-author and Stanford University extragalactic astronomer Enrique Lopez Rodriguez said in a statement.

In this new study, the team used data from ALMA and the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and discovered a fully formed magnetic field in a distant galaxy. It’s similar in structure to what is observed in nearby galaxies, and while the magnetic field is about 1,000 times weaker than our planet’s magnetic field, it extends over more than 16,000 light-years.

Observing a fully developed magnetic field this early in the history of the universe is an indication that magnetic fields spanning entire galaxies can form pretty quickly, even while younger galaxies are still growing.

According to the team, intense star formation in the universe’s early days may have played a role in accelerating the development of the magnetic fields and that the fields can influence how later generations of stars will eventually form.

These new findings show off the inner workings of galaxies, according to study co-author and ESO astronomer Rob Ivison. “The magnetic fields are linked to the material that is forming new stars,” Ivison said in a statement.

To detect this light, the team searched for light emitted by dust grains in a distant galaxy named 9io9. When a magnetic field is present, galaxies are full of dust trains that tend to align and the light that they emit becomes polarized. When this happens, the light waves oscillate along a preferred direction instead of randomly. When ALMA detected and mapped the more polarized signal coming from galaxy 9io9, it confirmed the presence of a magnetic field in a very distant galaxy for potentially the first time.

“No other telescope could have achieved this,” said Geach.

The team hopes that with this new discovery and future observations of distant magnetic fields, astronomers will get closer to how fundamental components of galaxies form.

Serena sang her older sister’s praises during their recent trip to the Bahamas

Sisterly love!

While on vacation together in the Bahamas, Serena Williams shared an affectionate tribute to her sister, and “soulmate,” Venus Williams.

Reflecting on the bond she shares with the 39-year-old athlete, Serena called Venus her “doubles partner sister soulmate,” as well as “one of my fav sisters.” Alongside the message, Serena, 38, posted a beautiful photo of Venus wearing a green polka dot dress while standing on the beach.

As the two sisters soaked up the sun together earlier this week, they also spent some quality time on a yacht — and making puns!

“Yacht got time?” Venus wrote alongside one video of the pair showing off some of their best moves onboard the vessel. “Yasssssssss,” Serena commented, before going on to post her own dancing video with the same caption over the weekend.

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During their sisterly getaway, Serena also posted multiple photos showcasing her stylish new hairstyle: a butt-length ponytail.

“I ain’t got Yacht type,” she wrote alongside one set of images, days before revealing that she’s actually decided to name her mane.

“Morning warmups with Trixie (this ponytail is so EXTRA I had to name her),” Williams captioned another snap, which saw the star showing off her flexibility by standing on one foot while raising the other toward the sky.

Over the summer, Serena reminisced about living with her older sister.

“So I’m at Venus’ house, we lived together our whole lives, we’re not living together now which kinda sucks but it’s life,” Serena said in an Instagram Story video, before cracking a joke about the lack of contents inside her sister’s fridge.

“Nothing’s changed for her,” Serena quipped. “This was our refrigerator for like 20 years … we lived together our whole lives, but as adults for 20 years.”

The famous siblings most recently shared a Florida mansion in Palm Beach Gardens, on land they bought back in 1998 according to Variety.

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Speaking with Architectural Digest in August, Serena revealed that when they shared a home, Venus — who has her own interior design company — was always mixing things up design-wise.

“It’s so fun because we used to live together, and it was great because I would come home and the house would look different. I would love it, and it was perfect,” Serena said.

Trading compliments, Venus added that her younger sister is “really good at space planning.”

“Before I was doing any of this sort of design, I couldn’t do that,” Venus said. “So, it’s interesting how she has a knack for it and creating spaces and connections. It’s pretty cool.”

 

A dimple in the Atlantic seafloor could be the sign of another impact.

An asteroid splits apart while traveling in space, in an artist’s illustration. NASA/JPL-Caltech

When Africa and South America split apart during the Jurassic, birthing the Atlantic Ocean, the separation left a plateau of shallow ocean off the west coast of Guinea. “All the sediments are very flat, almost like a layer cake,” says Uisdean Nicholson, a marine geologist at Heriot-Watt University in Scotland who studies the region to learn about the birth of the Atlantic.

So in 2017, when Nicholson was examining seismic scans of the region taken by oil and gas exploration vessels, an unexpected feature jumped out: a 5-mile-wide dimple buried deep in the cake.

A closer analysis of the site, led by Nicholson and published today in the journal Science Advances, argues that it’s the crater from a meteor as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall. If it’s confirmed as a crater, it would have crashed into Earth within a million years of the Chicxulub meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs.

Nicholson hunted for other ways to explain the dimple—escaping methane bubbles, tectonic activity, or a volcano. But none of them quite explained the crater’s size, location, and shape.  So he turned to cosmic impact experts for help. “Probably every week, somebody sends me circles they spotted on Google Earth, or in seismic data,” says Sean Gulick, an expert in meteor strikes at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, and a coauthor on the research. But the dimple, which the team calls the Nadir Crater, passed the tests they threw at it. “Shapes, sizes, even modeling, it’s all fitting,” says Gulick.

To further confirm the explanation, Veronica Bray, a planetary scientist at the Lunar and Planetary Laboratory in Tucson and a member of the team, simulated multiple meteor strikes in different ocean depths. A rock longer than 1,000 feet across, striking the half-mile-deep ocean, created a close approximation to the actual crater. According to the simulation, in the first few seconds after the impact, the rock would have plunged nearly a mile into the ocean floor, vaporizing rocks and water, and sending a tsunami in all directions.

The vibrations from the impact would be so intense that “the rocks or sediment below the seabed become a fluid,” Nicholson says. The rock around the crater would shatter, and “you get this massive vertical column, like you dropped something into a puddle,” he says. “That happens with the water, but it also happens with the rocks below”—leaving a crater with an uplifted mound of solid rock in the middle, like what’s buried under the Guinean seafloor.

Courtesy Veronica Bray.
“The energies involved in this are enormous,” says Gulick. “This is 1000 times the energy of the Tonga eruption. It would generate earthquakes that are magnitude 7.5 or 8.”

Ludovic Ferrière, an impact crater expert from the Natural History Museum Vienna who was not involved in the work, agrees that the shape of the feature is interesting and warrants further investigation—but he’s skeptical of the decision to publish on the basis of seismic images alone. “It’s a very nice proposal,” he says. “”But it’s too preliminary. At the end they may be right, but they may be completely wrong.”

Ferrière—who says that he discussed the crater with Gulick at a bar days before the publication—says that he has found similarly compelling craters.  But, without physical evidence, he doesn’t think they pass scientific scrutiny to publish. “To find the killer in a murder, you need DNA or blood,” he says. The same is true for an impact crater: The only hard evidence of a meteor are the presence of “shocked” minerals that form only under the hammer blow of a cosmic strike, or actual spray from the extraterrestrial object.

Drilling from a ship hundreds of feet into the seafloor itself is the only way to be sure. Yet this creates a chicken-egg problem. The International Ocean Discovery Program, the academic institution best equipped to take a sample—“at a cost of several million dollars,” Nicholson writes over email–would do so only after a peer-reviewed paper confirms that it is a good candidate.

The International Ocean Discovery Program’s ship, which can collect core samples under thousands of feet of water and hundreds more feet of rock, will visit the region in 2023. The team has submitted an application for time with the drill, and hopes to analyze samples from the crater in the next few years.

That drilling will also clarify the age of the proposed crater. Based on cores drilled a little over 100 miles from the proposed crater, the site sits right around the K-PG boundary, the line that marks the mass extinction of dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and giant marine reptiles, 65 million years ago. That die-off was caused when the miles-wide Chicxulub meteor smashed into what’s now the Yucatan Peninsula.

But the sound waves the team is relying on in Guinea produce a slightly fuzzy image, which can’t firmly pin down the date. “To the best of our knowledge, we’re at the boundary, but it could be, could be a million years older or younger,” says Nicholson.

If the crater sits right at the boundary, it’s possible that it was caused by a fragment of the Chixculub meteor that broke off on a previous fly-by past Earth, though Gulick thinks this is unlikely. Alternatively, it could have been  part of an asteroid swarm that intercepted our planet over the course of thousands of years. Ferrière, for his part, calls these hypotheses “speculation upon speculation”—without confirmation that the Nadir Crater is actually a crater, he says, “it’s like constructing a big castle of stone on something that is not stable.”

A similarly sized meteor hits Earth roughly every 700,000 years, so even if it’s a crater, it’s  not necessarily connected to the Chicxulub impact. But Gulick says that documented craters are so rare–there are just over 200 confirmed or likely craters on Earth—that to find one within a million years of Chicxulub would be a surprise.

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Fact and fiction are blended seamlessly in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers (2001), which can sometimes make it hard to determine what really happened and what was embellished. While the majority of the story is accurate to the actions of Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the Second World War, there was one scene, in particular, that we were curious about: Richard Winters’ court-martial in the first episode.

We always wondered if the real Maj. Winters stuck it to his captain by requesting the court-martial. As it turns out, he really did.

Court-martial scene in Band of Brothers

Band of Brothers, 2021. (Photo Credit: jeffw616 / HBO / Dreamworks Pictures / MovieStillsDB)

In the premiere episode of Band of Brothers, Capt. Herbert Sobel (David Schwimmer) takes disciplinary action against then-1st Lt. Richard Winters (Damian Lewis) for failing to show up on time to inspect the soldiers cleaning the latrines. However, Sobel had switched the time of inspection at the last moment, which Winters was unaware of.

Despite claiming that he’d tried to call him and even had a runner sent to deliver the message, Winters never caught wind of the time change. It’s important to note the home where Winters was staying at the time didn’t have a phone and that a runner never arrived.

Sobel proceeds to punish Winters for the minor infraction, giving him a choice and saying, “So, your options are quite simple, lieutenant. Punishment for your offenses will be denial of a 48-hour pass for 60 days. Or, you may initiate a letter of appeal and request a trial by court-martial.”

Sobel even tries to offer Winters some kind of understanding, telling him to take the punishment, as “you spend your weekends on base anyway.” Instead, the first lieutenant replies, “I request trial by court-martial,” before saluting his captain and leaving him in a stunned silence.

Is there any truth behind the scene?

Maj. Richard Winters. (Photo Credit: Unknown / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0)

In the miniseries, Herbert Sobel serves as an early antagonist who’s determined to keep Richard Winters down. His character is portrayed as one who cares more for how his men served as a reflection of himself, rather than his leadership and their wellbeing, and Band of Brothers suggests he was extremely strict and malicious during their training.

It seems it got most of Sobel’s character correct, as well as the court-martial scene. In a book by Erik Dorr about Winters, a copy of Sobel’s reprimand and Winters’ signature for requesting a trial by court-martial proves the petty interaction did, in fact, occur in real life.

As the book upon which the series is based includes the memories of surviving members of the Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division, Sobel really was as petty and harsh as Band of Brothers makes him out to be. Most of the real Easy Company disliked him, which is why what happened next, while shocking, isn’t entirely unbelievable.

Easy Company turned against Herbert Sobel

Capt. Herbert Sobel. (Photo Credit: US Army / Wikimedia Commons / Public Domain)
After Richard Winters’ court-martial, the men of Easy Company began to turn on Herbert Sobel. Soon after, their faith in him disappeared completely. Without Winters, who was performing administrative duties outside of the company during his court-martial, the paratroopers took matters into their own hands.

“A band of sergeants mutinied against Sobel, writing a letter to Col. Sink indicating their unwillingness [to] serve under the captain,” Erik Dorr wrote. “Risking their own futures, the men unleashed a verbal volley undermining Sobel’s authority and abilities. Several of the sergeants were accordingly punished for insubordination.

“Realizing how sour the situation was, Sink at last transferred the captain from Easy Company that February.”

Dorr quoted one of the paratroopers, Tech. Sgt. Donald Malarkey, as having said, “Winters quietly orchestrated the deal to force Sobel out. Not for his selfish gain, mind you; that wasn’t Winters’s style. He was among the most selfless men I’ve ever had the privilege of serving with. No, he did it for the good of the men. He did it to save their lives.”

The Chiefs tight end was captured tossing the Ravens kicker’s equipment out of the way for Patrick Mahomes

Travis Kelce, Patrick Mahomes; Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker. PHOTO: HARRY HOW/GETTY IMAGES; SCOTT TAETSCH/GETTY IMAGES

Travis Kelce is addressing the headline-making pregame squabble he and Patrick Mahomes had with Baltimore Ravens kicker Justin Tucker.

On Wednesday’s episode of New Heights with Jason and Travis Kelce, the Chiefs tight end, 34, shared his side of the story about the what happened before Sunday’s AFC Championship game when he tossed some of Tucker’s equipment off the field.

“Everybody talked about it, everybody had videos on it, it was all over Twitter,” Jason, 36, said as he introduced the topic before admitting that people were texting him throughout the game about it.

“I love how I’m getting painted as the bad guy for this,” Travis said of how the moment was interpreted. “Oh you’re definitely getting painted as the bad guy,” Jason agreed.

According to Travis, Tucker, 34, broke the “unwritten rule” that you “don’t interfere” with what the opposing team is doing during warmups before a game.

“For those of you that don’t know what happens in pregames, the Ravens have their side of the field and the Chiefs have our side of the field,” he explained. “It’s always — if you’re trying to go onto the other team’s designated area, you kinda stay out of their way.”

Travis continued, “If you wanna be a f—— d— about it, you keep your helmet and your football and your f—— kicking tee right where the quarterbacks are warming up.”

Jason said that where Tucker had left his equipment was “actually kinda dangerous” for Mahomes, 28, before Travis added, “If you’re not gonna pick that up, I’ll happily move that for you.”

Travis Kelce talks to Patrick Mahomes before their game against the Philadelphia Eagles at GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium on November 20, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.DAVID EULITT/GETTY IMAGES

The Philadelphia Eagles center said that the Ravens kicker “knew what he was doing,” and Travis then addressed Tucker’s comments on the incident – he told reporters on Monday that he thought it was “all just some gamesmanship, all in good fun.”

“Justin came out and he said it was more of a joking gesture … and I get it, he was kinda winking at me, being a d— about it, trying to get under the skin,” Travis said. “I get it, but me and Pat… We’ve been having the same mentality for this game all week long, man. And it was a, ‘You gotta go in there and have the right mind frame. Have the right mindset.’ And we just weren’t in a joking mood. We were ready to get after it.”

Travis concluded, “So Justin, sorry if we took it to a level that you didn’t think it’d get to. But if you’re gonna be a d—, I promise you, I can one-up you every time.”

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After breaking down the pre-game moment, the brothers both took the time to give credit where credit’s due for Tucker, who Jason called a “legendary kicker.”

“Arguably the best we’ve ever seen in the NFL, man,” Travis said.

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The Chiefs victory on Sunday finalized the matchup for Feb. 11’s Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas, which will see the Chiefs take on the San Francisco 49ers.

On New Heights, Travis said that heading to the big game this year feels “a bit sweeter” than last year.

“This road to where we are now has been more of a challenge which means you have to overcome more which means it kinda means a little bit more,” he told his brother. “This one meant a lot, man.”

Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid is weighing in on the Taylor Swift romance with tight end Travis Kelce.

As the NFL boosted coverage of the romance every Sunday the “Anti-Hero” singer attended a game, Reid said that the extra attention has not affected the game.

“She’s been great,” Reid said in an interview while making an appearance on the Let’s Go! podcast hosted by Tom Brady, Larry Fitzgerald and Jim Gray. “Listen, she’s a good girl and I’m happy for Trav, and there has been no distraction that way at all. Trav’s handled it right, she’s handled it right, and we just move forward, so it hasn’t been a problem at all.”

There has been backlash from die-hard NFL fans over the coverage that Swift gets every time she attends a Chiefs game to support Kelce. Early on in the 2023 football season, the league addressed the situation releasing a statement amid fan uproar.

“The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce news has been a pop cultural moment we’ve leaned into in real-time, as it’s an intersection of sport and entertainment, and we’ve seen an incredible amount of positivity around the sport,” the football organization said at the time. “The vast majority of our content has remained focused on the game, our players and variety of other initiatives, including our Toy Story Funday Football alt-cast, the international games and more.”

as the Chiefs made it through the playoffs, more appearances by Swift have been made at each game. During a recent broadcast, one of the announcers called Swift the “most valuable princess of the Chiefs Kingdom.”

With the Chiefs heading to the Super Bowl in Las Vegas to face the San Francisco 49ers, all eyes will certainly continue to be on Swift for the big game.

Kylie Kelce was candid about her husband, Jason Kelce, 36, during a recent interview with Glamour on January 29.

The proud mother-of-three opened up to the magazine about raising three daughters with the Philadelphia Eagles center and shared his secret talent less than two weeks ahead of the Super Bowl. “I do hope they become athletes, probably selfishly, but also because there are so many things involved in sport that translate into real life,” she said of her hopes for her daughters.

Jason and his wife of nearly six years share three girls including Wyatt Elizabeth Kelce, 4, Elliotte Ray Kelce, 2, and Bennett Llewellyn Kelce, who will be 1 next month. “I tell my high school field hockey girls now that whether they go on to play in college, whether they play just for fun or whether they don’t pick up a stick after high school ever again, the tools that they’re learning, being on a team, working toward a common goal, and doing it together is something that will translate into the workplace,” Kylie shared with the outlet. “It will translate into life as a whole.”

When the former college field hockey star revealed that she wouldn’t mind if their kids pursued a career in the arts, Kylie also revealed that Jason has a hidden musical talent. “But that being said, my husband and I are both advocates for the arts and would enjoy it if they get involved in that as well,” she continued. “He was a competition jazz band member, so he was a well-rounded guy. Not a lot of people know that, but he played the baritone saxophone, so if they want to get into music, art, we will fully encourage that as well. We’ll try everything just to see what sticks.”

Elsewhere, Kylie opened up about her experience with being married to someone who is in the spotlight. “The thing we try our best to maintain is a sense of authenticity. We don’t ever want to be people that we are not, mostly because our girls are watching,” she said. “We want to make sure that we treat people kindly, that we continue to stay grounded, that we continue to act the way that we’ve always acted so that our girls understand that that’s how you should be conducting yourself.”

Earlier in the interview, Kylie even joked about Jason and his brother, Travis Kelce, 34, who often “rat themselves out” on their podcast. “I have no filter, and people think they’re getting the inside scoop when I appear on the podcast,” Travis’ sister-in-law said. “But the boys rat themselves out every single week. They’re very self-aware individuals. It’s kind of entertaining.” Most recently, Kylie has seemingly bonded with Travis’ girlfriend Taylor Swift, as they both have attended games to support the NFL brothers. Travis is set to play in the Super Bowl on February 11, however, it’s unclear if the Grammy winner will attend.

In the AFC championship game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Baltimore Ravens, the result wasn’t the only storyline sticking around after. A brewing feud between star quarterback Patrick Mahomes and Ravens kicker Justin Tucker unfolded, injecting unexpected drama into the clash of titans.

The controversy unfurled in the moments leading up to the highly anticipated matchup at M&T Bank Stadium when Mahomes, accompanied by tight end Travis Kelce, found himself entangled in a peculiar incident with Tucker during their warm-up routine. Mahomes, with calculated intent, repeatedly kicked Tucker’s ball holder out of the way, and Kelce took it a step further by clearing a path for the Chiefs quarterback.

Tucker, known for his poise and professionalism, initially downplayed the incident, attributing it to harmless banter. According to him, kickers routinely warm up in both end zones to familiarize themselves with the stadium and prevailing conditions. However, Mahomes perceived Tucker’s actions as intentional, aiming to disrupt the Chiefs’ preparation.

Mahomes opened up about the incident

“He does that to get under our skin,” Mahomes stated, shedding light on the underlying tension. He recounted asking Tucker to move his equipment, claiming that while Tucker complied, the adjustment wasn’t enough. Kelce then intervened, physically removing Tucker’s gear. Despite the confrontation, Mahomes acknowledged Tucker’s status as one of the greatest kickers of all time, expressing respect for his prowess on the field.

“I have a lot of respect for him as a player and as a kicker. He’s one of the best kickers of all time, probably the best kicker of all time. At the same time, you’ve got to have respect for each team. We all share the field and we try to do that in a respectful way,” Mahomes added, emphasizing the importance of mutual respect amidst fierce competition.

As the Chiefs secured a hard-fought 17-10 victory over the Ravens, their passage to the Super Bowl against the San Francisco 49ers was secured. The stage is set for the Big Game in Las Vegas as the Chiefs will be turning the page on the AFC Championship and start their prep to secure yet another championship.