Patrick Mahomes did not waste any time switching up his hairstyle after the Kansas City Chiefs got blown out in the Super Bowl.
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Mahomes’ barber, DeJuan Bonds, said the quarterback’s polarizing haircut happened on February 11, less than 48 hours after the Chiefs’ drubbing at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX on February 9.
Bonds conceded that Mahomes, 29, was eager to make a change after the defeat, which brought a shocking end to the Chiefs’ quest to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls.
“There might be a little bit of truth to that,” Bonds told Us. “Most of it came from the fact that he’s always been wanting to do it. But the Super Bowl loss might have ramped it up by a couple of days or weeks, sure.”
Bonds, who has been working with Mahomes for years, revealed he and Mahomes actually talked about performing the haircut “before the season,” but didn’t want to hinder the Chiefs’ success.
“We said we weren’t going to mess with past superstitions,” Bonds explained. “He wasn’t trying to mess with it and cut his hair before the football season. It was one of those things he had been wanting to do for a while. But he wanted to wait until after the Super Bowl. He was like, ‘Hey, it’s time to give me a new look.’”
“The whole time that I’ve been cutting his hair, he just lets me do what I do,” said Bonds, who owns Purple Label Barbershop in Overland Park, Kansas. “But when he asked for a change, he basically was like, ‘Just cut me all off.’”
Bonds continued, “I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off.’ We’re actually going to collab on this and go a little bit at a time, take it a little bit down. We kind of came to a common ground like, ‘OK, this is the cut, this is the cut, this is the length.’ It was a collaboration on this last one.”
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Michelle Trachtenberg was not interested in wading into the legal waters surrounding her Gossip Girl costar Blake Lively in the weeks before her death.
Us Weekly confirmed on Wednesday, February 26, that Trachtenberg was found dead inside her Midtown West Side apartment. She was 39 years old.
On January 16, Trachtenberg posted a picture of herself via Instagram wearing sunglasses and posing with her arms crossed. “It takes a lot of strength to see through all the b*llshit. And some dark sunglasses. #newyork,” the actress captioned the photo.
In the comments, an Instagram account called xoxoposhipgirl — a celebrity fashion and style source run by a woman named Audrey Long — posed a request to Trachtenberg.
“Would love to see you release a statement on the Blake drama Or idk if this is a direct statement? Hahaha you’re so fabulous,” the comment read.
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Trachtenberg responded, “@xoxoposhipgirl gosh. Im busy worrying about real world news and families who have no home anymore from the LA fires. But you do you. .”
Long was attempting to coax a statement from Trachtenberg about the ongoing legal feud between Lively, 37, and Justin Baldoni. Lively and Baldoni, 41, have exchanged a myriad of lawsuits back-and-forth, all stemming from their work together on the 2024 film It Ends With Us.
Trachtenberg’s post came on the same day Baldoni sued Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, for defamation. Lively’s lawyers called the lawsuit “desperate,” which came weeks after Lively filed her own lawsuit against Baldoni on December 20, 2024, accusing him of “disturbing” and “unprofessional” behavior on the set of It Ends With Us. Baldoni denied the allegations.
Lively and Trachtenberg starred as Serena van der Woodsen and Georgina Sparks, respectively, on Gossip Girl, which ran on The CW for 6 seasons from 2007 to 2012.
Trachtenberg’s death was confirmed on Wednesday by a representative of the late actress.
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Tractenberg has passed away,” the statement read, which was obtained by Us. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.”
Police sources told Us that Trachtenberg’s cause of death is “not yet apparent,” but the incident is not believed to be suspicious.
Trachtenberg’s former Gossip Girl costar Ed Westwick, who played Chuck Bass, posted about the actress’ passing via his Instagram Story.
“So sad to hear of the passing of @michelletrachtenberg,” Westwick, 37, wrote on Wednesday alongside a photo of Trachtenberg from the series. “Sending prayers.”
In addition to her work on Gossip Girl, Trachtenberg was known for her roles on TV’s Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and in movies like 1996’s Harriet the Spy, 2004’s Eurotrip and 2005’s Ice Princess.
Michelle Trachtenberg was a beloved member of her New York City neighborhood in the months leading up to her death.
Us Weekly confirmed on Wednesday, February 26, that Trachtenberg was found dead inside her Midtown West Side apartment. She was 39 years old.
“Michelle always seemed happy, I never noticed anything off about her at all,” Rafael Williams, who lived above Trachtenberg, exclusively told Us. “I didn’t know her personally, but she always made a point to say ‘Hi’ in the elevator. It’s shocking to me because she didn’t seem to have a problem in the world.”
“Michelle was a great neighbor,” Rodriguez told Us. “She wasn’t loud, smiled at everyone in the hallways. I saw her with her boyfriend a few times and they were always walking either hand-in-hand or with his arm around her.”
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Rodriguez said she noticed Trachtenberg had become “svelte” and said she looked “less and less like herself in the last few months.”
She added, “I’m so sad that I won’t be seeing her anymore in the building. She always said ‘Hi’ to me.”
“It is with great sadness to confirm that Michelle Tractenberg has passed away,” the statement read, which was obtained by Us. “The family requests privacy for their loss. There are no further details at this time.”
Trachtenberg — best known for her roles on TV shows Buffy, the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl and the 1996 movie, Harriet the Spy — had a liver transplant before her death.
Tributes to the late actress began pouring in after news of her death was reported.
“Heartbreaking,” Trachtenberg’s Harriet the Spy costar Rosie O’Donnell said in a statement to Us Weekly. “I loved her very much. She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
Trachtenberg’s former Gossip Girl costar Ed Westwickexpressed his condolences via his Instagram Story.
“So sad to hear of the passing of @michelletrachtenberg,” Westwick, 37, wrote on Wednesday alongside a throwback photo of Trachtenberg from the series. “Sending prayers.”
Before he became one of the best tight ends in NFL history, Travis Kelce was just a baby-faced graduate of the University of Cincinnati.
To celebrate the 2025 NFL Draft Combine, which kicks off Thursday, February 27, in Indianapolis, the Kansas City Chiefs shared a throwback photo via Instagram of Kelce, now 35, from his combine event in 2013. Kelce was 23 years old at the time, eager to impress NFL scouts before the draft.
“Grown up and glowed up! #NFLCombine,” the Chiefs captioned the post, which also shared side-by-side photos of Patrick Mahomes, Chris Jones, Drue Tranquill and more team members from their respective combines.
Coming off three seasons with the Cincinnati Bearcats — Kelce was suspended from playing in the 2010 season after testing positive for marijuana — the Chiefs selected him in the third round of the 2013 NFL Draft, 63rd overall.
Before Kelce’s rookie year, the Chiefs hired Andy Reid as the team’s new head coach. Reid, 66, detailed Travis’ draft process during a May 2023 appearance on the “New Heights” podcast, which the football star cohosts with his older brother, Jason Kelce.
“I saw [Travis] play against Temple and my son kept telling me, ‘This tight end is unbelievable. [Jason] Kelce’s brother is incredible. He’s 265 pounds. He’s a beast,” Reid said. “Then I get him and he’s 240, but that’s OK.”
Reid, who has coached Kelce every season of his 12-year NFL career, recalled meeting his soon-to-be-superstar for the first time.
“Game’s over, they just destroyed Temple,” Reid said. “I come over to the locker room. He comes be-boppin’ out and just giving me the business like we’re long lost friends. Deep down I’m going, ‘If I get my hands on that son of a buck, I am going to rip his heart out.’”
Reid continued, “But I played along with it. Cocky, cocky. Dammit, he was cocky.’”
The coach explained he was confident in Travis’ “roots” after having drafted Jason in 2011 when Reid was the head coach of the Philadelphia Eagles.
“The first five years, it was a war,” Reid said of coaching Travis. “The last five years have been unbelievable.”
“I know everybody wants to know whether or not I’m playing next year and right now I’m just kicking everything down the road,” Travis said on the February 12 episode of “New Heights,” days after the Chiefs’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX. “I’m not making any crazy decisions but right now the biggest thing is just being there for my teammates and being there for my coaches, understanding that a lot that goes into this thing.”
He continued, “You know, I’ve been fortunate over the past five, six years — I’ve played more football than anybody. And it’s because the people that are in that building and the fact that we keep going to these AFC Championships and these Super Bowls, that means I’m playing an extra three games more than everybody else in the entire league. That’s a lot of wear and tear on your body and it’s a lot of time spent in the building focusing on your craft, focusing on the task at hand … and that process can be grueling. It can weigh on you.”
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Rosie O’Donnell has reacted to the death of her Harriet the Spy costar Michelle Trachtenberg, who died at the age of 39.
“Heartbreaking,” O’Donnell, 62, said in a statement to Us Weekly. “I loved her very much. She struggled the last few years. I wish I could have helped.”
Us Weeklyconfirmed Trachtenberg’s death on Wednesday, February 26. Police sources told Us that Trachtenberg was found unconscious inside her Midtown West Side apartment in New York City. The incident is not believed to be suspicious. No cause of death has been reported.
O’Donnell and Trachtenberg starred as Ole Golly and Harriet, respectively, in the film adaptation of Louise Fitzhugh’s 1964 novel of the same name. The movie marked Trachtenberg’s film debut, which began filming on her 10th birthday.
“I probably bonded with Rosie [O’Donnell] the most,” Trachtenberg told Uproxx in 2016. “She was very caring, and so funny. When we had to be serious for a scene we would, but we always went back to giggling and playing games when that scene was done. She was a very giving actor, even off camera.”
She added, “Any scene with Rosie was so special for me. She was amazing to work with, and we genuinely had a great time together. She respected me as an actress and I learned a lot from her. The hardest scene was saying goodbye to Golly.”
Trachtenberg said she had “several rounds of auditions in front of everyone involved in the movie” before earning the coveted role.
“I wore the same thing every time, a striped Gap T-shirt and overalls, which I keep in storage to this day,” she remembered.
“I had a very outgoing personality and my mom and I worked hard on rehearsing the scenes round the clock — my passion for the role won the producers’ hearts,” Trachtenberg added. “I loved everything about Harriet, particularly that she was a writer because I had been writing stories from the second I learned how to write.”
Trachtenberg went on to star in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl, among other roles on TV and film.
“She’s a good girl,” Reid told Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio and Chris Simms at the NFL Scouting Combine on Tuesday, February 25. “She handles that whole thing the right way. That’s a tough deal. She does a great job of handling it.”
Reid also gave a shout out to Kelce, 35, saying he does a similarly “great job” of dealing with all the noise.
“She’s part of the team,” Reid said of Swift, 35. “Like the other girlfriends and wives, they’re part of it. That’s all part of the process.”
Swift appeared confused when she was booed at the game, which took place at New Orleans’ Caesars Superdome. Cameras caught the pop star turning to pal Ice Spice, who was sitting next to her in a suite, and asking, “What’s going on?”
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Stars including Serena Williams, Livvy Dunne and Eagles running back Saquon Barkley also came to Swift’s defense in the aftermath.
“I remember that they showed her on the Jumbotron and she got booed,” Barkley, 28, said during a February 12 appearance on The Howard Stern Show. “I don’t get it. I don’t get why she was getting hate there.”
Barkley continued, “She’s there supporting her significant other and she’s made the game bigger,” Barkley continued. “In football, we’re all about, how can we expand the game and make it more international? We’re traveling to Brazil and we’re traveling to Mexico, and apparently, we’re traveling to Australia soon, so we’re trying to expand the game. Her being a part of it’s only helping that, so I don’t get the slack that she’s getting.”
The Eagles defeated the Chiefs 40-22 in Super Bowl LIX, ending Kansas City’s quest to become the first team in NFL history to win three consecutive Super Bowls.
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Since Swift started dating Kelce in September 2023, she has been a mainstay at Chiefs games and ingrained herself into the fabric of the franchise. According to Reid, it’s benefited both her and Kelce equally.
“When [Kelce] goes to her concerts, she’s a star,” Reid told The Athletic’s “Scoop City” podcast in July 2024 before joking, “And he can be hanging out there and be the support or the waterboy, so he can do that. … He can handle it. I think there’s a great escape for him.”
Jason Kelce took to the podium at a local Pennsylvania board meeting to discuss a new home he and his wife, Kylie Kelce, are planning on building for their growing family.
Last week, Jason, 37, appeared at a Haverford Township zoning hearing dressed in an olive green cardigan, white dress shirt and gray pants. Jason and Kylie, 32, moved into a home in Haverford 2018 and purchased the adjoining property in 2020.
Jason and Kylie share three daughters — Wyatt, 5, Ellie, 3 and Bennett, 2 — and the couple announced in November 2024 that they are expecting their fourth daughter.
As Jason rose to stand next to his representative at the meeting, zoning hearing board member Robert Kane told him, “I need to swear you in, Jason. Please raise your right hand.”
Jason joked he couldn’t find anything to “put my hand on,” but eventually answered “absolutely” when asked if he swore to “tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, so help you God?”
“Do I start this, or do you guys ask questions?” a noticeably nervous Jason asked the board members. “I don’t know the process.”
After being instructed to explain the background of his appearance at the meeting, he said, “I didn’t know where I was going to move to when I married Kylie.”
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Jason and Kylie got married in April 2018 when he was still a member of the NFL’s Philadelphia Eagles. He retired in March 2024 after 13 years with the franchise.
“We wanted to be in this area,” Jason said. “We like this area a lot.”
Jason explained he and Kylie moved into their home in 2018 “with the idea that eventually we would upsize into a bigger house.”
“The lot next door became available,” Jason added, “so we thought it would be awesome to build a home there and make this our permanent address.”
After “three architects” and “many years” of back-and-forth, Jason said, “We are trying to build a home.”
With that construction, however, comes concerns about privacy as Jason, Kylie and Jason’s extended family — including, of course, his younger brother, Travis Kelce — continue to rise in fame and notoriety.
“Obviously, things for my family are quite unique with the security purposes,” Jason told the board. “We’d like to deter, a little bit, the foot traffic coming in and out of the home. We are trying to put a fence that sufficiently does that while also appeals to the aesthetic of the area and that people would appreciate.”
In closing, the board members asked Jason to make a couple of hyper-specific zoning clarifications, but one member couldn’t help but profess his fandom of the former football star and “New Heights” cohost.
“I have so many questions,” he told Jason. “Maybe a future podcast episode.”
David Beckham‘s latest underwear campaign led to quite the uncomfortable conversation with his mother-in-law.
Beckham, 49, stripped down to his skivvies for a series of Hugo Boss ads that launched in January, which drew the “embarrassing” attention of Jackie Adams, the mother of Beckham’s wife of 25 years, Victoria Beckham.
“She was like, ‘I was sat with my friends and we were zooming in and do you know if you zoom in you can see everything?’” David told Netflix content chief Bela Bajaria at the inaugural MIP London content and networking market on Tuesday, February 25.
David recalled responding, “Well just don’t zoom in.”
The former Manchester United star married Victoria, 50, in July 1999 and the couple share four children: sons Brooklyn, 25, Romeo, 22, and Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 13.
As for Victoria’s mom, Jackie, she has been married to Victoria’s father, Anthony, since 1970.
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The Hugo Boss campaign effectively brought David out of underwear modeling retirement, which is not something he imagined was in the cards.
“Getting back into my underwear at 50 years old in front of the world was quite a thing that I actually wasn’t looking forward to,” David admitted. “I hung my pants up when I did my last commercial 10 years ago and never thought I’d do it again.”
He added, “I told my team I’m not going back in my underwear but then we signed the Boss deal and they said they had an underwear campaign and I was under quite a bit of pressure at that point so I agreed and trained for it.”
As David explained, the training and preparation for the campaign were no joke.
“I trained for it for 14 weeks and as someone that loves food and wine, I cut that out for 14 weeks and just went for it,” he explained.
Elsewhere during his conversation on Tuesday, David gushed about what to expect from his wife’s upcoming Netflix docuseries, which is expected to debut later this year.
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“It’s gonna see her in a different light,” David said. “It’s gonna see the work that she puts into her business, her life, her family. There’s so many different elements of this documentary that people are going to be surprised by, the juggling that she does.”
He added with a smile, “I think with Victoria, I suppose some people probably think, ‘Oh, she started a brand and it’s come very easy,’ but she’s been building this for a long time. I just think this is going to showcase that. She’s got a very witty personality — she’s very funny. Not as funny as me.”
After Patrick Mahomes’ new haircut proved more divisive than Keri Russell’s on Felicity, the barber of the Kansas City Chiefs quarterback revealed it was supposed to be even more extreme.
DeJuan Bonds, who has been working with Mahomes for years, exclusively told Us Weekly that the NFL superstar originally had a different request when he hit his chair earlier this month.
“The whole time that I’ve been cutting his hair, he just lets me do what I do,” Bonds said. “But when he asked for a change, he basically was like, ‘Just cut me all off.’”’
In the aftermath of Chiefs’ loss to the Philadelphia Eagles in Super Bowl LIX, Bonds wasn’t about to let his client make any brash decisions.
“I was like, ‘No, no, no. We’re not just going to cut it all off,” Bonds continued. “We’re actually going to collab on this and go a little bit at a time, take it a little bit down. We kind of came to a common ground like, ‘OK, this is the cut, this is the cut, this is the length.’ It was a collaboration on this last one.”
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Mahomes was first seen with his new haircut outside a funeral service for his grandfather, Randy, on February 17. He officially debuted the look in public on a Monday, February 24, date night with his wife, Brittany Mahomes, when the couple attended a college basketball game between Patrick’s alma mater, Texas Tech, and Houston in Lubbock, Texas.
The haircut has proven incredibly divisive on social media, but Bonds said he was “not surprised” by the reactions.
“A lot of people have mixed reviews about his hair and how they wanted him to cut it off or how they wanted him to keep it,” Bond explained.
Public outcry aside, Bonds — who owns and operates Purple Label Barbershop in Overland Park Kansas and has worked with numerous professional athletes over the years, including Patrick’s teammates George Karlaftis, Trent McDuffie and Skyy Moore — lauded the Chiefs quarterback for his continued loyalty.
“He is definitely one of the most humble athletes I’ve run across,” Bonds said. “I’ve been dealing with athletes for probably 20 years. I don’t know why he’s so humble, I really don’t. He’s special. That’s just who he is.”
Bonds added, “I’ve run across the entitled ones and the arrogant ones. And then I run across Patrick.”
The mother of late golfer Grayson Murray, who died by suicide in May 2024 at the age of 30, found a hopeful note her son had written in his journal before his death.
According to Terry Murray, in July 2021, Grayson laid out a proposal for the Grayson Murray Foundation, which would aim to help others struggling with alcohol abuse, anxiety and depression.
“I found all those notes,” Grayson’s mother said Monday, February 24 on the Today show. “He actually wrote a plan.”
The note, handwritten in bullet point form, was shown during the segment and included ideas like “Establish my story and mission and journey,” “Build awareness by creating a website” and “Reach out to players.”
The mission statement for Grayson’s foundation read: “Help the ones that want to be helped but might not have the money they need financially.”
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Grayson was a beloved member of the PGA Tour, where he had two tournament victories under his belt. After his death, his parents were flooded by supportive letters from many of his friends and peers.
“Some of the comments were, ‘Grayson was fiercely loyal, yet tremendously kind,” Terry said. “And then from some of the players, ‘He did some things for me that most other golfers on the Tour would not even consider.”
Terry revealed that Grayson even “bought a car” for a young pediatric cancer patient and his family who were struggling.
“He used to tell me, ‘If I can just help one person, it was worth it,’” Grayson’s father, Eric, recalled.
Grayson was found dead in his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida home in May 2024, the day after withdrawing from a tournament in Texas citing illness.
In the time leading up to his death, Grayson’s parents remembered how the family home became a place for him to get away from his “tough” life on the PGA Tour.
“He would put on a happy face out on the road,” Terry explained. “Our house became a safe haven. If he was depressed, he would go in his room and he wouldn’t come out for two or three days.”
On one of Grayson’s final trips home, Eric recalled, “We sat on the sofa and we both sat there and cried.”
“I was holding him like a baby,” he added. “He was talking about how hard it was physically and emotionally to keep doing what he’s doing.”
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UFC legend Chuck Liddell is engaged to his girlfriend, Heidi Rae, after a well-orchestrated proposal on the ice at Anaheim’s Honda Center.
Liddell, 55, pulled off the epic surprise on Wednesday, February 19, at the home of the NHL’s Anaheim Ducks — but first, he had to get her to the arena.
The former UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, who has been dating Rae since 2021, said the couple had been asked to participate in a photo shoot by their beloved Ducks.
“I truly thought we were there to do a shoot and everything was completely normal,” Rae exclusively told Us Weekly. “I’ve been to countless of these with him throughout the years.”
Once the couple made it on the ice – in custom Ducks jerseys, of course – the arena Jumbotron, which had been lowered to the ground, read “Heidi, will you marry me?” Liddell then dropped to one knee and pulled out a ring with Ducks’ mascot, Wild Wing, watching on intently.
“Surprised is an understatement,” Rae said. “I just cried because I was so overcome with emotions. We’ve both wanted this for so long and it’s been a long road. Having your happily ever finally come was surreal. Getting to spend your life with your best friend and the person you trust most in the world is an indescribable happiness.”
Liddell said logistical hangups meant he had to “cancel and change” the proposal a couple of times, but he was confident about the plan when the big day finally arrived.
“I wasn’t really worried about her finding out,” Liddell told Us. “We had done pretty well. She didn’t ask a lot of questions. She’s done this with me in the past. It was probably a little different, but I don’t think she thought that much about it.”
When it came to the ring, the UFC Hall of Famer sought the advice of two very important people in his soon-to-be fiancée’s life.
“I had help from her daughters,” Liddell said. “I know when to ask for help. She had a very particular style.”
Rae’s daughters – Ashtyn, 25, and Halle, 21 – picked out a pear-shaped canary yellow diamond surrounded with pavé diamonds on a diamond pavé eternity band.
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“It was just so beautiful,” Rae said of the ring. “It was quite enormous.”
As for their eventual wedding, Liddell and Rae are actually third in line in their blended family when it comes to making their way to the altar.
The normally calm, cool and collected Scottie Scheffler admits to being thrown into emotional turmoil after his shocking arrest at the 2024 PGA Championship.
“I was freaking out because I somehow went from driving into the golf course to a jail cell and I still don’t really know how that happened exactly,” Scheffler said in the clip, which was released on Monday, February 24. “I don’t think it ever really felt real.”
Scheffler was charged with felony assault of a police officer, third-degree criminal mischief, reckless driving and disregarding traffic signals from an officer directing traffic.
According to a police report, Detective Bryan Gillis “stopped” Scheffler and “attempted to give instructions,” noting that the golfer “refused to comply and accelerated forward, dragging Detective Gillis to the ground.”
Scheffler spent just over an hour in a jail cell before all charges against him were dropped and he made it back to Valhalla for his second round tee time.
Body cam footage from the arrest, featured in the Full Swing clip, shows Scheffler befuddled in the immediate aftermath of being handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car.
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“I’ll be honest, I didn’t think this was ever a position I’d be in,” Scheffler told an officer, who deadpanned back, “Usually people never do.”
Much of the confusion surrounding Scheffler’s arrest stemmed from the authorities on site not being aware of Scheffler’s status as one of the greatest golfers of a generation.
“I assume you’re pretty good if you’re playing in the PGA,” an officer said to Scheffler in the clip. “Is Tiger [Woods] as good as they say he is? Or is that…”
“He’s pretty good,” Scheffler responded.
Throughout the ordeal, Scheffler managed to maintain his sense of humor about the bizarre circumstances — especially after an officer asked Scheffler if he had been drinking.
“Mouthwash,” Scheffler said. “I try not to drink too much before I go play golf at 8 am.”
Scheffler’s arrest sent shockwaves throughout the golf community, including the assembled players at Valhalla preparing to start their rounds.
“I’m warming up and all I see is my friend, handcuffed, walking to a police car,” PGA Tour star Tom Kim said in the clip.
Meanwhile, PGA Tour golfer Joel Dahmen said he was doing his best to make sense of the entire thing.
“I understand how it happens,” Dahmen, 37, said in the sneak peek. “I completely understand how it happens. I have driven past security. I have flashed my badge. It’s chaos, especially when it’s dark.”
Dahmen added, “At some point, cooler heads prevailed. But I think I was just shocked at how long it carried on.”
Season 3 of Full Swing hits Netflix on Tuesday, February 25.
The bus carrying the Indiana University Indianapolis men’s basketball team burst into flames on Sunday, February 23, with the players and team personnel on board left scrambling for safety.
Shocking photos obtained by WISHNews8, a local CW affiliate, showed the aftermath, with the IU Indy team’s bus largely incinerated on the side of the highway.
“On the return drive from today’s game against Northern Kentucky, the bus carrying the IU Indianapolis men’s basketball team experienced a mechanical issue that caused a fire around Kent, Indiana,” the school’s athletic department said in a statement. “All members of the team and staff evacuated the bus without injury. Another bus is en route to pick up the team and deliver them back to Indianapolis.”
#BREAKING: A bus carrying the IU Indy men’s basketball team caught fire earlier tonight near Kent, Indiana.
The team says everyone evacuated and there were no injuries.
According to ABC affiliate WRTV-Indianapolis, the team was eventually picked up by another bus which transported them safely back to campus on Sunday night.
WLWT-Cincinnati (a local NBC affiliate) obtained video of the fire, which showed the front end of the bus completely engulfed in flames.
The school’s associate athletic director, Ed Holdaway, told Yahoo Sports that the fire “quickly spread, engulfing the entire bus.”
Most players and staff members “were only able to get out with what was on their person,” according to Holdaway, which meant there was a “considerable loss of personal items.” Holdaway said some individuals lost cell phones, wallets and team gear.
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IU Indy was returning home from a 71-67 road loss to Northern Kentucky. A member of the Horizon League conference the IU Indy Jaguars fell to 9-20 with two games remaining on their regular season schedule.
In the moments after the harrowing bus incident, members of the team who were able to save their phones pulled them out to document the ordeal via social media.
IU Indy senior guard Alec Millender jokingly took the blame for the blaze. The Chicago native shared a video of the charred bus via his Instagram Story on Sunday, writing, “My bad I started rapping g .”
Sophomore guard Nathan Duke shared a story about the fire via his Instagram Story, writing, “Crazy.” Paul Zilinskas, a graduate student guard, shared his own video from outside the bus, panning from a shot of his teammates on the side of the road to the burned bus. “Woe,” he wrote.
IU Indy returns to the court for home games against Robert Morris and Wright State on Thursday, February 27, and Saturday, March 1, respectively, before the Horizon League Tournament tips off on Tuesday, March 4.
“It’s a nightmare, and it doesn’t stop,” Eric told Today’s Carson Daly in a segment that aired on Monday, February 24.
Grayson, a two-time winner on the PGA Tour who had been candid about his mental health journey, was found dead in his Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, home the day after withdrawing from a tournament in Texas citing illness.
“He tried to get better,” Eric said. “He did everything he could.”
Grayson entered rehab for alcoholism in 2021 and also sought treatment for social anxiety and depression, but his mother explained how his lifestyle didn’t make things easy on her son.
“He would go and drink and gamble,” Terry said. “That was tough for him out on the road.”
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According to Golf Digest, Grayson admitted to losing more than $400,000 from gambling in 2017.
When things became excessively difficult, Terry said the family home became a sanctuary for Grayson.
“He would put on a happy face out on the road,” she explained. “Our house became a safe haven. If he was depressed, he would go in his room and he wouldn’t come out for two or three days.”
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Eric defined these periods of time for his son as “deep tunnels or dark holes” while recalling one of Grayson’s final trips to the house.
“We sat on the sofa and we both sat there and cried,” he said. “I was holding him like a baby. He was talking about how hard it was physically and emotionally to keep doing what he’s doing.”
Seeing the toll it was taking on him, Eric even tried getting Grayson to give up golf to focus on himself.
“I actually asked him to do that,” he said. “But Grayson loved golf. There’s no place on Earth that he was happier than on the golf course. But at the same time, it was very difficult.”
The month before his death, Grayson accomplished a lifelong goal by competing in his first Masters tournament. It’s a memory that’s been forever enshrined in the Murray family home.
“We have a picture of him at the Masters hanging up above the sofa,” Terry said. “I look up there every day.”
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Justin Bieber dropped the gloves with an NHL Hall of Famer at a charity hockey game benefiting victims of the California wildfires.
Bieber, 30, tussled with Jeremy Roenick during the Skate For LA Strong game at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 23. The Canadian pop star playfully pulled the jersey over the head of the 55-year-old Roenick — who played 20 seasons for five different NHL teams before retiring in 2009 — during the second period of the game, which served as a fundraising effort to benefit the LA Fire Relief Fund.
The fight drew an enthusiastic reaction from the crowd and Bieber’s opposing Team Red coach, Vince Vaughn. “This is starting to get chippy out here!” said Vaughn, 54, as Bieber made his way back to the bench.
Bieber’s Team Black was coached by Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg, and the fight earned the praise of the legendary rapper. “We didn’t win the game, but we won the fight,” Snoop, 53, said on the bench. “That’s what I’m talking about.”
Team Red, which was coached by Vaughn, 54, and actress Cobie Smulders — who lost the home she shared with her husband, Taran Killam, in the Pacific Palisades fire — defeated Team Black 4-0.
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“I can say I got beat up by Justin Bieber,” Roenick told The Athletic after the game. “That’s a great day.”
During an in-game interview, Bieber was asked by reporter Jackie Redmond what it meant to lace up the skates for the charity event.
“This is everything,” Bieber said. “We’re just looking to have a good time and show that when we come together, good things can happen.”
Bieber was also asked by Redmond when he wants to get his son Jack, who was born in August 2024, on hockey skates.
“As soon as possible,” he said enthusiastically. “It’s never too early.”
The Skate For LA Strong featured star-studded lineups, including celebrities like Steve Carell, Taylor Kitsch, Kevin Zegers, Skylar Astin, Ross Lynch and David Boreanaz taking the ice with an impressive list of NHL alumni including Jarret Stoll, Nate Thompson, Dany Heatley and Dion Phaneuf.
“I know a lot of people that have lost their homes,” Bones alum Boreanaz, 55, told The Athletic. “In speaking with them, it doesn’t stop. The grief doesn’t stop, and it stays with them. And this is an opportunity to shed some grief for them, give some healing for them.”
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Kelly Stafford has become very used to dealing with social media criticism over the years — even from the friends of her 7-year-old twin daughters.
In an exclusive interview with Us Weekly, Kelly explained she’s currently at a tipping point when it comes to social media and her girls. Kelly and her husband, Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford, share four daughters: twins Sawyer and Chander, 7, Hunter, 6, and Tyler, 4.
“When it comes to social media, I always told myself the minute they know what Instagram is, is the minute I have to figure something out. And my older ones know what it is,” Kelly said. “They have come home and been like, ‘Mom, how do people know we were sick?’”
“In the near future, there is going to be a discussion about whether or not sharing them on social media is going to be happening,” Kelly noted. “At the end of the day, we want them to be able to control what’s out there. They’re getting to an age now where their friends have Instagrams and they’re following me. That is something I really have to consider moving forward.”
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Kelly said she and Matthew, who got married in April 2015, have considered giving their daughters “the phones that we had that have cell phone numbers and that’s it.”
“Our generation grew up in the weird time where we started to have [social media],” Kelly added. “But the generation before us, social media was new and their kids have it. But they don’t really know the pros and cons of it. But our generation knows what can happen and the dangers of it.”
“Social media can obviously be used as a tool, right? In the work that I’m doing, unfortunately I need it,” Kelly, who hosts “The Morning After” podcast, told Us. “But I am human. Comments that are mean hurt my feelings. I have feelings and I’m not going to sit here and act like I don’t.”
She added, “I have tried to develop some kind of thick skin to understand what my values are and sticking to those regardless of what people can say about me. The ones that are close to me, I care about their opinions. I just try to remind myself of that.”
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Ultimately, Kelly said she can’t help but “fear for my kids with social media.”
“That is a whole different ballgame,” she explained. “I pray that something happens to social media before they get to that point, even though I know it probably won’t.”
Kelly continued, “Honestly, it’s really scary. Even as an adult, my self-confidence is intertwined with people who are commenting that don’t even know me. I can only imagine a teenage girl trying to figure out that and still remaining confident. I worry about my daughters.”
Team USA hockey stars Matthew and Brady Tkachuk are modern-day Bash Brothers who have helped turn the perception of American hockey on its head.
Matthew, a forward with the Stanley Cup champion Florida Panthers, and younger sibling Brady, the captain of the Ottawa Senators, had never played together on the same team — outside of the 2023 NHL All-Star Game — before representing their home country in the inaugural 4 Nations Face-Off in February 2025.
“We talked about this moment, playing together, forever,” Matthew told NHL.com before the tournament, a best-on-best event between the USA, Canada, Sweden and Finland. “And now that it’s finally happening, it’s just been amazing and we’re super grateful for it. We’re just having so much fun.”
Matthew and Brady come from a hockey family, in the truest sense of the phrase. The duo were both born in Scottsdale, Arizona, while their father, Keith, played for the NHL’s Phoenix Coyotes.
The brothers cut their hockey teeth in St. Louis after their dad was traded to the Blues in 2001, with Matthew and Brady taking unique journeys to the NHL.
Keep scrolling for a deep dive into the lore of the Tkachuk family — including their mother, Chantal Tkachuk, and their field hockey star sister, Taryn:
Matthew Tkachuk
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Matthew was only 3 years old when his father, Keith, was traded to the St. Louis Blues. As such, he spent many of his most formative childhood years in hockey arenas.
“When you say you grew up in a rink people think, ‘Oh, yeah, your dad played but you didn’t really grow up there,’” Matthew told The Athletic in 2019. “No, I literally grew up in the rink. Even in St. Louis, I think my dad pulled me out of school certain days so I could go to the rink.”
He added, “Looking back, I’m so grateful I got to do that. There is a reason I have wanted to play in the NHL since a young age. I was there so much and I loved the lifestyle, the passion, everything these guys showed me and the relationships I built.”
Matthew completed 6th through 9th grades at Chaminade Preparatory School — where he was classmates with Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum — before joining the USA Hockey National Development Program.
After one season with the London Knights of the Ontario Hockey League, Matthew was drafted 6th overall in the 2016 NHL Draft by the Calgary Flames.
Matthew played six seasons with the Flames before being traded to the Florida Panthers in July 2022, where he would win a Stanley Cup in 2024 when Florida defeated the Edmonton Oilers in Game 7 of the Finals.
His parents — Keith and Chantal — were both on hand for the moment, with Keith shown on TV crying at his son’s accomplishment. Despite a legendary 18-year career in the NHL, Keith never won a Stanley Cup.
Matthew got engaged to his fiancée, Ellie Connell, in April 2024. The couple prefers to keep their relationship mostly private.
Brady Tkachuk
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Similar to his older brother, Brady spent most of his childhood around the game of hockey.
Brady also followed in the footsteps of Matthew and played two seasons with the USA Hockey National Development Program, but their paths diverted when Brady decided to explore collegiate hockey.
In 2017-2018, Brady spent one season with Boston University, appearing in 40 games and scoring 31 points. He was drafted 4th overall by the Ottawa Senators in the 2018 NHL Draft. Brady was named the 10th captain in franchise history in November 2021.
Brady also captained Team USA in the 2024 IIHF World Championship, where they were eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Off the ice, Brady married his wife, Emma Farinacci, in July 2023. In September 2024, the couple welcomed their son, Ryder.
“Our whole world ,” Farinacci wrote via Instagram announcing their son’s birth.
Matthew left two enthusiastic comments on the post, writing, “Ryder!! Little legend!!!” and “Love him!!!!”
Keith Tkachuk
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One of the greatest American hockey players of all-time, Matthew and Brady’s father, Keith, grew up in Medford, Massachusetts and completed one season of collegiate hockey at Boston University, where Brady would later play.
Keith was drafted 19th overall in 1990 by the Winnipeg Jets and had an 18-year career in the NHL with the Jets, Phoenix Coyotes, St. Louis Blues and Atlanta Thrashers.
When his sons were little, Keith recalled relying on Coyotes equipment manager, Stan Wilson, for help when Matthew and Brady got dropped off at the arena.
“They terrorized the place when they were able to,” Keith told The Athletic in 2019. “And they made more of a mess for Stan and the other guys, but you know Stan. You really have to work hard to piss him off.”
After Matthew won the Stanley Cup with the Panthers in 2024, Keith had no problem admitting he was overcome with emotions in the crowd.
“I was up in the stands crying,” Keith told NHL.com. “Who wouldn’t? That’s my son down there. He just won the Stanley Cup.”
Keith added, “I’m so proud of that kid.”
Chantal Tkachuk
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Keith married his wife — and Matthew and Brady’s mom — Chantal in February 1997 when he was playing for the St. Louis Blues. During that time, he credited Chantal for much of his success.
“I wouldn’t be the player that I am if it hadn’t been for her, I’ll tell you that much,” Keith told The Hockey News shortly after their wedding. “You focus more on hockey when you have someone at home, when you’re taking care of yourself and she’s taking care of you.”
After Matthew and Brady were born, Chantal recalled using her husband’s ice rink workplace as a means of child care.
“Right from the get-go, I would drop them off in their pumpkin seats when they were little babies,” she told The Athletic in 2019. “I remember sending Matthew along with Brady in a pumpkin seat. I remember Matthew going in as a baby, too. I would go to the side door of the rink, knock on the door, somebody would open the door, I dumped off the diaper bag, dropped off the package and I would run — fast.”
While Keith was in the spotlight, it was Chantal running the show back home that her kids have grown to appreciate even more in retrospect.
“It’s easy to credit him because he had a great career, but I think behind the scenes, it’s my mom,” Brady told The Athletic in 2018. “She was there when my dad was on the road trips. She was always there and so dedicated.”
Taryn Tkachuk
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Matthew and Brady’s younger sister, Taryn, is an accomplished athlete in her own right.
Taryn recently completed her senior season as a field hockey star at the University of Virginia. Her parents, Keith and Chantal, were both on hand to celebrate senior weekend in October 2024, which Taryn showed off via Instagram.
She was, of course, on hand to help celebrate her brother Matthew winning the Stanley Cup in June 2024, watching Game 7 from the crowd with her parents.
In July 2024, Taryn posted a carousel of photos via Instagram from Matthew’s time with the Cup, which included a poolside gathering and a trip to the Anheuser-Busch Brewery in St. Louis. ‘
Actor Eric Mabius has been arrested for battery and resisting arrest without violence in Florida.
Mabius, 53, best known for his role as Daniel Meade on ABC’s Ugly Betty, was arrested on the morning of Thursday, February 20, and booked into the Nassau County Jail and Detention Center at 5:45 a.m., according to an arrest report obtained by Us Weekly.
In his mugshot, Mabius can be seen with a laceration next to his right eye.
Mabius is listed at 5’10” and 220 pounds in the report, with a residence in Fernandina Beach, Florida. No bond amount was set.
The actor was married to wife Ivy Sherman from 2006 to 2018 and the couple share two sons: Maxfield, 18, and Rylan, 16.
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In October 2024, he posted a photo via Instagram with an unnamed woman on a trip to the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument in Saint Augustine, Florida. The same woman appears in photos on Mabius’ Instagram dating back to December 2023.
Mabius last posted via Instagram in January, sharing a simple photo of the moon.
The actor appeared on all four seasons of Ugly Betty as Daniel Meade, the editor-in-chief of Mode magazine. Mabius’ television credits also include Party of Five, The L Word and Popular.
Most recently, Mabius appeared in a number of Hallmark Channel originals, including playing Oliver O’Toole in the Signed, Sealed & Delivered franchise. He also appeared in 2019’s It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, 2022’s Haul Out the Holly and 2023’s Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up, all Hallmark original films.
Mabius’ movie credits include 2002’s Resident Evil, 2004’s Resident Evil: Apocalypse and 2019’s Inside Game, where he played disgraced former NBA referee, Tim Donaghy.
“Oliver is a wordsmith and he’s anachronistic and, you know, he’s a stickler for rules,” he said. “He’s also evolving in such a wonderful way.”
Mabius also explained how his character getting married to Shane, played by Kristin Booth, signaled a shift.
“The real work begins when you get married, right? The honeymoon period is over. What do we do when you share not just a roof with someone, but a life with someone?” he asked. “We find ourselves acting in ways we could never have imagined. That’s what we see.”
Mabius added, “I think we spend a lot of time creating our own misery and I think that’s what we see each, Shane and Oliver coming to terms with. We create our own obstacles being unbending or having our set of rules and then we spend all this time trying to dig ourselves out of the hole that we create for ourselves, rather than just trusting the [that] thing that brought Shane and Oliver together [is] the thing that’s gonna get them through this.”
“We have a third coming in July, so it’s busy,” Spieth, 31, announced.
He added, “My son turned 3 in November, so we had his birthday and stuff. He loves monster trucks, we were at the monster truck rally. My daughter turned 1 in September, so we had her birthday right after we got home from Colorado after I had my surgery.”
Spieth underwent left wrist surgery in August 2024, which largely kept him away from the game of golf for an extended period of time. He made his first start of the PGA Tour season at the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am on January 30, 2025.
“I wasn’t searching for things to do,” Spieth said of his recovery from surgery. “There were certain days during nap [time] where I was like, ‘I wish I could do something, the weather is great,’ or whatever. You’re kind of chipping or putting one-handed.”
Spieth, who lives in Dallas, said he “went to a lot of football games” during his time off and was “home mostly until Christmas.”
“Then we got out of the house a lot,” he continued. “We went to Austin, we went to Mexico. We’ve been out of town a lot since Christmas, which I think was a good thing. Everywhere we went I played a lot of golf, too.”
Spieth added, “It was a fun fall. It reminded me that maybe I need to take some falls a little less seriously. Take some time away from the game. Maybe not as much as I did, but it sometimes doesn’t hurt to take a few weeks.”
In September 2024, shortly after Spieth’s surgery, he gushed about the chance he had been given to slow down with his family.
“I’m loving being a dad,” he told Golfweek. “It’s cool to have this time during the day with my kids, too. I can do half of what I can normally do. I’ve gotta pawn off the diaper changing and some of the stuff that obviously requires two hands. But it’s a unique opportunity right now, and I’m kind of embracing being home.”
Spieth added, “I like to think of myself as a very active dad. I’ve always been very involved and my family has traveled with me almost every single week on the road. I don’t get home and take a break. I go play. I just like it. But I have a massively increased respect for moms and single parents and stuff. Because it is tough work, raising these two kids. You see it a little more firsthand when it’s day in and day out. But it is the most rewarding work that there is.”
Jordon Hudson, the 24-year-old girlfriend of Bill Belichick, professed her love of seagulls during a seaside feeding session.
Hudson, the first runner-up in the 2024 Miss Maine USA pageant, posted a video via Instagram of her and a companion providing food for a flock of birds near the water in her home state.
“Never in my life did I think I would come across somebody who loved sky rats and the Great State of Maine as much as I did, but alas, here we are,” Hudson wrote. “I officially bestow Sir Spinner with the title of ‘King of the Gulls.’”
Hudson added, “Thanks for sharing your wisdom and daily seagull ritual with me, Spin.”
In the video, Hudson and Spin — whose specific identity is unknown — excitedly feed the seagulls what appear to be cheese balls from a variety of bags and containers. At one point, a seagull lands on Hudson’s head, which doesn’t cause her to bat an eye.
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While sometimes controversial, it is not illegal to feed seagulls in the state of Maine, according to WCYY. However, the outlet cites a story from 2012 in which a woman came under fire for constantly feeding seagulls in Rockland, Maine, which led to the area being covered in seagull poop. Officials eventually ordered the woman to stop feeding the birds, leading to an official town ordinance.
Hudson began dating Belichick, the 72-year-old former head coach of the New England Patriots, last year after the duo met on an airplane in 2021 when Hudson was still in college. Belichick was announced as the new head football coach at the University of North Carolina in December 2024.
“The evening was saturated with all of my favourite things: friendship, education, philanthropy, glamour, beet salad, Billy, dance-worthy music, ornithological & oceanic exhibits,” she wrote. “We created so many great memories together while supporting a great cause; my heart is filled to the brim!!!”
Hudson added, “The wide-spread importance and applicability of natural history education is far more relevant than many people understand; it reinforces a sense of biocentrism, promotes better policy creation, preserves culture and heritage, and teaches us about the world we interact with on a daily basis.”
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