If you haven’t heard, someone in our area had the winning Powerball ticket from Wednesday’s drawing and is splitting the more than $143 million jackpot with a winner in Indiana. What’s even crazier is that there were a lot of other winners, too. 89 people won the second prize of $1 million dollars. Why so many? It has everything to do with the layout of the playslips, which is designed in a way that inadvertently encourages players to pick numbers in a pattern.
Three days ago, I said it was not going to go well for the Cleveland Guardians baseball fan who was caught on camera stealing a home run ball from a little girl and was promptly called out by the announcers. Update: the grown man, Max Quinn, publicly apologized for his actions, saying, “I’m so utterly sorry for everything that’s transpired…It was a heat-of-the-moment thing. I made a bad decision; a lot of bad decisions. I’m paying for it online.”
From baseball to the NBA playoffs, where the Knicks-Hawks game provided a historic blowout. For only the 8th time in the history of the league, an NBA playoff game was decided by more than 50 points. The Knicks won, 140-89. At one point, the Hawks were down 60-19, which is around the same score the Monstars were leading the Tune Squad when the scoreboard read “Kinda One Sided Isn’t It?”



