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USA Basketball executive director Jerry Colangelo claimed second team All-NBA forward Julius Randle was “ right there ” for an Olympic roster spot, but was edged out by Jerami Grant, Kevin Love and Draymond Green for the power forwards slots. Someone is always going to get snubbed with a subjective process and a finite spots to fill, but from a numbers standpoint this past season, Kevin Love should have been awarded the job of washing Randle’s Olympic jersey and fetching him snacks from vending machine in Tokyo. That’s to say nothing of the injuries Love’s been grappling with over the past two seasons. Jalen Rose made waves last week for claiming Love, who averaged 12 points per game in just 25 games last season, solely made the team due to “tokenism,” and USA Basketball was afraid to send an all-black team to Tokyo. Rose later apologized when he was made aware that USA Basketball sent an all-black team in 2016. In any event, on Tuesday Colangelo fielded questions as to the decision-m

Chadwick Boseman, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer in 2016, died in August without a will. Now his wife Taylor Simone Ledward has filed a probate case in Los Angeles, where she requested to be named administrator of his estate with limited authority, Page Six reports.Boseman’s estate is estimated to be valued at $938,500. The court docs say Boseman is survived by Ledward and his parents, Leroy and Carolyn Boseman. No other family is listed.Even without a will—and without children—as Boseman’s wife Ledward is set to inherit all the actor’s assets from his probate estate. It’s also likely that Boseman has more assets held in separate private trusts.The pair reportedly became engaged in October 2019 and married sometime in 2020. They were first seen together in 2015 after she graduated from Cal Polytechnic University Pomona in 2014. Boseman died on Aug. 28 of colon cancer. He was 43.Earlier this month, Boseman’s brother Derrick Boseman—a pastor from Murfreesboro, Tennessee—told the

                                     On the football field, the Duke Blue Devils could use the otherworldly senses of Marvel's Daredevil.             It's hard to improve on the classic Pittsburgh Panthers helmet. But we did. Pittsburgh Black Panthers, forever.  WITIN RADIO · Interview: Heather Antos: Assistant Editor: Marvel Entertainment In the spirit of Marvel Comics' What If, what if Homer wrote Hercules into The Iliad, and had the strongman single-handedly defeat the Trojan warriors? Well, clearly, what would happen is modern-day college football fans would be rooting for -- or against -- the USC Hercules instead of the USC Trojans . Clearly.(And, yes, Hercules is a Marvel character. The figure of Greek mythology was first appropriated for Marvel's purposes via the Thor-fronted title, Journey into Mystery .) The Iowa State Cyclones aim play up a storm, so why not just adopt a powerful X-Men character -- and become the Iowa State Storm? The Marvel hero Moon K

                             Texas Governor Greg Abbott is facing two voting rights lawsuits over an order allowing Texas counties to provide no more than one drop-off location for voters with absentee ballots. The last-minute law is part of an enormous controversy in the U.S. about the security of mail-in voting, the reliability of the U.S. Postal Service and safely voting during a pandemic. Abbott’s order forced Harris County — home to 2.4 million voters covering a swath of the land larger than Rhode Island — to shutter eleven of its twelve ballot drop-off sites, resulting in potentially enormous lines. But if you live in Harris County, want to vote but don’t know how to get to your county’s only ballot box, never fear. Lebron’s got you. WITIN RADIO · Interview: Sonny Weems

Ahead of the upcoming Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales , Titan Books will release a new fiction and non-fiction book, serving as companions for the game. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury, written by acclaimed bestselling author of SLAY, Brittney Morris, will be published on November 10 2020, followed by a full-color coffee table hardback, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – The Art of the Game by Matt Ralphs in February 2021. WITIN RADIO · Interview: Heather Antos: Assistant Editor: Marvel Entertainment With an exclusive adventure leading directly into the game itself, Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Wings of Fury features Miles Morales coming to terms with what it means to be Spider-Man. A mix-up with the law leaves Miles questioning everything and when Vulture and his accomplice Starling unleash experimental tech on Marvel’s New York, Miles must decide what kind of hero he wants to be. Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – The Art of the Game is the ulti

  Rock and roll legends Guns N’ Roses have teamed with Jersey Jack Pinball--the American-made, #1 industry leader in pinball--to design their very own groundbreaking Guns ‘N’ Roses ‘Not In This Lifetime’ pinball game. The new Guns N’ Roses pinball game elevates the beloved American pastime--which is going through a resurgence worldwide--with innovative new technology, design and sound. The new Guns N’ Roses 'Not In This Lifetime' pinball game is made for players, collectors, and newcomers to pinball and is available now. An avid pinball collector and longtime player, SLASH worked hands-on with Jersey Jack Pinball designer Eric Meunier for over two years, to develop the Guns N’ Roses ‘Not In This Lifetime’ game. As co-designer, SLASH crafted specific game plays and actions, recorded guitar riffs, music, voice, and video for the new game as well as, four unique guitar features for four playable modes in the game. Pinball designer Eric Meunier is widely known as the designer of on

            Ta-Nehisi Coates paid tribute to Chadwick Boseman in Wednesday's Marvel Comics . Coates began his eulogy with a quote from T'Challa from 2015's Secret Wars #7. "Death is just a different kind of journey…to the land that I am king of," the quote reads. WITIN RADIO · Interview: Heather Antos: Assistant Editor: Marvel Entertainment "In the Black Panther mythos, T'Challa often retreats to his City of the Dead, where all the previous kings and queens of Wakanda have been buried. There, T'Challa finds wisdom and counsel from his ancestors who have gone before," Coates continued, before explaining how he and Boseman's paths crossed when they were students at Howard University in Washington, DC.                                   "I got to watch him through the years — advancing out of student theater, on to TV and film, and then finally cast as T'Challa. He was perfect. He had T'Challa's royal spirit, the sense that he