Joey Chestnut mustered the power to down a world file 83 sizzling canines on Monday, relishing one other victory towards rival Takeru Kobayashi, who struggled to catch as much as the world’s finest aggressive eater in Netflix’s “Unfinished Beef” Labor Day showdown.

Following the identical format because the Nathan’s Well-known Worldwide Sizzling Canine Consuming Contest held in Coney Island, New York, Chestnut and Kobayashi had 10 minutes to eat as many sizzling canines as they might. In response to host Rob Riggle, the manufacturing had ready 300 sizzling canines in anticipation of the occasion, streamed dwell on Netflix from the Hyper X Area in Las Vegas.

Opponents weren’t allowed to dunk or pour water on the recent canines, or separate the meat franks from their buns, with penalties levied for extra crumbs and regurgitation. Whereas Kobayashi was solely in a position to eat 67 sizzling canines, Chestnut put again 83, beating his personal world file of 76 set on the 2021 Nathan’s contest.

“I have been attempting to hit 80 sizzling canines for years. With out Kobayashi, I used to be by no means in a position to do it. He drives me. We weren’t all the time good to one another, however I like what he can do. We push one another to be our greatest,” Chestnut stated on stage after the win.

“I really feel like I did the whole lot I might,” Kobayashi responded through an interpreter. The Nagano, Japan, native had introduced his retirement from aggressive consuming earlier this 12 months on the Netflix documentary “Hack Your Well being: Secrets and techniques of Your Intestine,” the place he additionally revealed he can not really feel starvation.

Kobayashi held the Nathan’s title from 2001-2006 earlier than Chestnut took the throne, munching his method to 16 wins in 17 years. Chestnut was banned from the competitors this 12 months over his partnership take care of Unattainable Meals, forfeiting the “Mustard Belt” to Patrick Bertoletti.

Netflix’s subsequent scheduled dwell occasion is Jake Paul’s boxing showdown towards Mike Tyson in AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.

LONDON (AP) — Ian McKellen is listening to his interior critic.

It’s beating him up for not ending out his newest theater function after he fell off the stage throughout a June efficiency of “Participant Kings” and spent three nights within the hospital.

“Emotionally, I really feel responsible and ashamed, you understand, fairly irrational as a result of it was an accident. And it might have occurred to anyone,” he says.

The actor, 85, says it might have been a “nice deal worse” if he hadn’t been sporting padding to painting the rotund Sir John Falstaff in the course of the adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Henry IV” performs at London’s Noel Coward Theatre. Whereas his fractures and chipped vertebrae are therapeutic properly, although, McKellen can’t shake the negativity of leaving the manufacturing early.

“You all of the sudden abandon all of your mates who’re placing on the present and you’re feeling one thing’s come to an finish prematurely,” he says.

However, he says, rumors of his imminent demise had been positively untimely.

“I bought the impression that dozens of mates wished to return and say howdy that, really, they wished to say goodbye. They thought I used to be on the best way out,” McKellen tells The Related Press, including with amusing: “So I very determinedly all the time open the entrance door and run up the steps and present that I’m not going wherever!”

Though he’s not onstage, McKellen might be noticed on the theater in “The Critic,” a thriller set within the West Finish of Thirties London that’s in cinemas Sept. 13. This time, he’s within the viewers, as homosexual newspaper author James Erskine, who could make or break a profession with a depraved flip of phrase in an period when homosexuality is illegitimate. Written by Patrick Marber and primarily based on Anthony Quinn’s novel “Curtain Name,” it co-stars a number of British expertise like Gemma Arterton, Mark Sturdy, Romola Garai, Ben Barnes and Lesley Manville.

McKellen spoke to the AP not too long ago about his love of the theater, relationship with critics, the way forward for Gandalf and going again to work. The dialog has been edited for brevity and readability.

AP: Do you miss being on the stage?

McKELLEN: I miss the routine. Once I first began out, it was an important pleasure to me that when everyone else was taking day off on the finish of a busy day, the actors had been gearing up, prepared to start out theirs — that there was one thing about being an actor that was separate from the remainder of the inhabitants. However that was most likely as a result of I used to be hiding the truth that I used to be homosexual or not speaking about the truth that I used to be homosexual. It felt good to be totally different.

Performing, notably within the theater, is completely satisfying. And if I’m not doing it, like for the time being. I believe, “Nicely, what’s life all about?” 85 is a bit late to be asking that query, as a result of I settled with the truth that life for me was appearing an extended, very long time in the past. And so the concept of retiring or not with the ability to work fills me with dread actually.

AP: Have you ever been capable of go and see different productions?

McKELLEN: I haven’t. I’ve been nervous about going out. However I believe this subsequent month or two I shall get again to what I get pleasure from doing: going to the theater and see every little thing that’s on within the West Finish that I hear folks speaking about.

AP: This movie, “The Critic,” celebrates theater however you’re offstage for a change, within the viewers.

McKELLEN: It’s the murky aspect of theater. A corrupt senior drama critic was ready to offer somebody a sequence of fine critiques if she’s going to agree to assist him out with the issue he’s bought. I don’t assume today any critic has that kind of energy however within the Thirties, earlier than social media and when newspapers had been everybody’s supply of the reality, theater critics might be extraordinarily highly effective.

AP: What did you consider his ruthlessness?

McKELLEN: I believe the supply of it is perhaps: How do you survive as a bon vivant and social individual, who likes the limelight, while you’re having to be discreet, if not secret, about what you actually are? That’s almost definitely to curdle the mind considerably, isn’t it?

AP: What has your relationship been like with critics through the years?

McKELLEN: They started very properly after I was at Cambridge College in a play. It was “Henry IV, Half 2,” which is a part of the play that I’ve been doing after I performed Falstaff. However this was 70 years in the past, almost. The Marlowe Society, that had been placing this play on, didn’t put the names of the actors in this system — everybody was nameless. And the critic from the now-defunct Information Chronicle stated he needs that he’d recognized my identify as a result of it would properly turn out to be a reputation to be remembered.

Now, while you learn that within the nationwide newspaper, and also you’re 18 and also you’re simply an novice actor, having fun with himself, it does pull you up quick. That day I made a decision I’d turn out to be an actor. I wrote to him 20, 30 years later and stated, look, I’ve all the time been that means to thanks for this. Mentioned he couldn’t, alas, keep in mind the efficiency (laughs).

AP: Do you continue to learn all of your critiques?

McKELLEN: I do, however with a cautious eye. I prefer to know what the phrase within the streets is and in case you’ve had a whole lot of unhealthy critiques, or good ones. However the entire enterprise of appearing within the theater is, at 7:30, curtain goes up. All of the lights activate and also you get on with the job for that evening’s viewers. And what occurred on the primary evening? Irrelevant. And it ought to be no secret that actors get higher or can get higher. And in case you do 100 performances of one thing, you’re prone to be higher on the one centesimal efficiency than you had been on the primary evening.

AP: I wished to examine in on “The Lord of the Rings,” since you stated that you’re nonetheless Gandalf’s bodily consultant on Earth. So with the upcoming movie “The Hunt for Gollum”…

McKELLEN: I’m instructed Gandalf is in it and I haven’t learn a script and there are not any plans but simply to filming dates. But when all of it labored out, I’d be very completely happy. It means I might go again to New Zealand for a spell, notably in the summertime. That might be beautiful. However there’s different work happening and I’m not going to get too upset if these are false hopes.

AP: So that you’ll be again at work subsequent 12 months? Are you already lining stuff up?

McKELLEN: Sure, I’ve agreed to do a movie in January after which I hope, one other one slightly afterward. After which, be good, wouldn’t it? Return and play Falstaff once more and end that job off? It’s partly why I’m a bit emotionally unsettled. It didn’t finish correctly. So if we went again and did it once more, did a bit extra touring, maybe went to the States…

Florida State soccer dropped its second consecutive recreation on Monday night time, and the loss isn’t sitting effectively with Chad Johnson, who thinks FAMU could be higher proper now.

The previous NFL star turned podcaster aired his frustrations with FSU on Monday night time after it misplaced 28-13 in primetime on Labor Day.

“As a resident of the state of Florida, I’m embarrassed. I’m embarrassed,” Johnson stated with a touch of disgust on Nightcap, which he hosts with Shannon Sharpe. “The very best workforce in Tallahassee is FAMU.”

In fact, each Florida State and FAMU are situated in Tallahassee, FL.

“FAMU would possibly beat Florida State, primarily based on what I noticed tonight,” Johnson stated. “That’s how I’m feeling.”

Florida State soccer opened the season with a last-second loss to ACC foe Georgia Tech in Week Zero, earlier than following it up with the loss at dwelling at BC.

Florida A&M, in the meantime, is 2-0 after having survived scares to Norfolk State and South Carolina State. 

Chad Johnson, the previous NFL star identified for his vibrant persona, has at all times maintained a detailed reference to HBCUs, significantly Florida A&M College (FAMU). Johnson, who grew up in Miami, has ceaselessly expressed his admiration for FAMU’s wealthy cultural legacy. His relationship with FAMU goes past fandom; he’s usually seen at their occasions, selling the college on social media, and displaying up within the college’s gear. Johnson’s assist for FAMU displays his broader dedication to uplifting HBCUs, recognizing their important function in training and cultural preservation. His affect brings consideration to those establishments, serving to to raise their profile on a nationwide stage.

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It was every little thing that NASCAR is.

Sunday (Sept. 1) night time’s Southern 500 at Darlington Raceway may need been the ultimate race earlier than the playoffs, with every little thing on the road that that suggests, nevertheless it was additionally what it has at all times been: the one each driver desires to win.

Subsequent to the Daytona 500, the Southern 500, NASCAR’s oldest race, has been the one circled on each driver’s want listing. Profitable it meant one thing greater than profitable anyplace else.

In case you want proof, hearken to race winner Chase Briscoe’s radio after he crossed the end line. Briscoe, by way of tears, shouts to his group not that he has made the playoffs in a shocking, completely executed go, however that he had gained the Southern 500.

And he gained it in basic trend. Kyle Larson may need dominated, however Briscoe and his group performed their alternative precisely proper. When Ross Chastain gambled on older tires on a late warning, Larson was challenged on the entrance for the primary time, and Briscoe took full benefit, sweeping by each Larson and Chastain to take the lead. He held on by way of yet another restart, dispatching Larson.

However then got here Kyle Busch. Busch, hungry, bored with falling brief, roared from eighth to second after which set out after Briscoe. He acquired shut a few occasions. Briscoe acquired unfastened a few occasions, however regardless of Busch, one of many best drivers of his era, couldn’t fairly get shut sufficient to make a transfer. The night time was Briscoe’s.

Maybe it wasn’t on the extent of the door-to-door, knockdown drag-out race to the end that Ricky Craven and Kurt Busch placed on in Darlington’s spring race in 2003, nor was it the 14-lap drubbing that Ned Jarrett placed on the sphere within the 1965 Southern 500.

Nevertheless it was a basic Darlington present nonetheless. 

Nicknamed the Girl in Black and the Monitor Too Robust to Tame, drivers should race Darlington first and one another second. Overlook that for a single lap and the Girl will attain out and gut-punch you. However dance with the Girl and do it proper and she is going to reward you properly. 

As a result of it was the Southern 500, the ultimate race earlier than the payoffs and it was a incredible race, Sunday’s race will go down as one to recollect for years to come back.

There have been just a few nice races this 12 months, with finishes that ought to resonate on any fan’s scale. There have been nearer finishes…however this was Darlington, and it was particular. All of the ghosts of what NASCAR has been and nonetheless will be gathered at Darlington in droves, forcing not only a look into the game’s storied previous, but additionally into its future,

NASCAR as soon as tried to decrease Darlington, shifting the Southern 500’s conventional date to California after which Atlanta Motor Speedway. However no one, not the followers, not the drivers and crews, not the ghosts, ever let NASCAR overlook the one race that belonged on that weekend. The Southern 500.

The race is again the place it belongs on the schedule now, and she or he nonetheless makes the drivers take note of her all race lengthy. 

The race owes the Olympics a debt of gratitude as a result of the pressured two-week break allowed the Southern 500, NASCAR’s oldest custom, to set the sphere for its playoffs, its new period of crowning a champion. There’s one thing poetic about that; if NASCAR has to have a playoff system (the common season got here right down to a single level on the ultimate lap of the ultimate race, so whether or not the rest is critical is open to interpretation) then it’s solely proper that to make the sphere, drivers should tame Darlington one final time every year.

However the very best factor about Sunday’s race was that it wasn’t simply in regards to the playoffs. Briscoe’s group is closing its doorways in ten weeks. Briscoe will transfer on, however there was greater than a playoff berth at stake for the driving force who Tony Stewart handpicked to drive his personal No. 14 automobile. There was proving that there was no give up in his group or himself. There have been questions on whether or not he may very well be a NASCAR Cup Collection contender. It was in regards to the playoffs as a result of every little thing needs to be nowadays, nevertheless it was a couple of driver and his group and one thing to show.

Kyle Busch, too, had extra on the road than a title run. A two-time champion, Busch has struggled this season, typically with unhealthy luck moderately than something tangible, but additionally with a group that was a step behind the elite this 12 months, and his position in bringing it again to glory. Busch additionally had, and nonetheless has, a 19-year profitable streak to battle for. Twenty years is a very long time to be on the high in racing. Automobiles change, tracks change and the foundations change. To maintain profitable regardless of that’s, in some methods, as a lot a testomony to Busch’s tenacity and expertise as his two titles. He confirmed Sunday that he gained’t go down with no battle, playoffs be damned.

The race outshone the earlier week’s typical Daytona Worldwide Speedway mayhem by a county mile. The 2025 schedule is already set, however going ahead, the Southern 500, run on Labor Day weekend when summer time unofficially involves its shut, simply appears proper because the race that units the sphere and determines the common season champion, the champion who nonetheless will get topped primarily based on a full season of excellence as an alternative of a stick-and-ball format that was by no means meant for racing.

Tyler Reddick completed tenth Sunday night time, not contending for the win and the common season title doesn’t get the eye it ought to, however the truth that he ran 500 miles at Darlington, one of many hardest tracks within the sport, whereas miserably sick with a abdomen bug, to win that honor by one level can be the stuff of legend, a narrative that individuals needs to be telling a decade from now. His race was as gritty and hard a run as any driver has run.

The bonus of ending the common season with the Girl in Black is that it permits for a couple of week off for the whole season. NASCAR might preserve the normal Easter break and add per week in late summer time. Groups deserve that point to reset and gird for a playoff run.

Maybe the distinction is greatest summed up by the final two finishes.

Harrison Burton’s first profession win at Daytona was thrilling, with all of the crashes and mayhem that followers have come to count on from the speedway on the seaside. It was wild and loopy and can make the spotlight reels for some time.

However Briscoe’s Darlington grit will probably be remembered for years. It was a basic race with technique gambles, gritty drivers, and the need of the Girl in Black. It’ll be remembered as a result of it was every little thing that NASCAR is, was, and needs to be. 

That’s what ought to arrange the making of a champion.

A bronze statue from the Titanic — not seen in many years and feared to be misplaced for good — is among the many discoveries made by the corporate with salvage rights to the wreck web site on its first expedition there in a few years.

RMS Titanic Inc., a Georgia-based firm that holds the authorized rights to the 112-year-old wreck, has accomplished its first journey since 2010 and launched photos from the expedition on Monday. The photographs present a web site that continues to vary greater than a century later.

The journey to the distant nook of the North Atlantic Ocean the place the Titanic sank occurred because the U.S. Coast Guard investigates the June 2023 implosion of the Titan, an experimental submersible owned by a unique firm. The Titan submersible catastrophe killed all 5 individuals on board, together with Paul-Henri Nargeolet, who was director of underwater analysis for RMS Titanic.

The findings from this summer time’s journey “showcase a bittersweet mixture of preservation and loss,” RMS Titanic mentioned in a press release. A spotlight was the rediscovery of the statue “Diana of Versaille,” final seen in 1986, and the statue now has a transparent and up to date picture, the corporate mentioned.

On a sadder observe, a big part of the railing that surrounds the ship bow’s forecastle deck has fallen, RMS Titanic mentioned. The railing nonetheless stood as lately as 2022, the corporate mentioned.

“The invention of the statue of Diana was an thrilling second. However we’re saddened by the lack of the long-lasting Bow railing and different proof of decay which has solely strengthened our dedication to preserving Titanic’s legacy,” mentioned Tomasina Ray, director of collections for RMS Titanic.

The crew spent 20 days on the web site and returned to Windfall, Rhode Island, on Aug. 9. They captured greater than 2 million of the best decision photos of the positioning ever to exist, the corporate mentioned.

The workforce additionally totally mapped the wreck and its particles subject with gear that ought to enhance understanding of the positioning, RMS Titanic mentioned. The subsequent step is to course of the info so it may be shared with the scientific group, and so “traditionally important and at-risk artifacts might be recognized for secure restoration in future expeditions,” the corporate mentioned in a press release.

The corporate mentioned previous to the expedition that it had an particularly essential mission within the wake of Nargeolet’s dying.

The Coast Guard’s investigation would be the topic of a public listening to later in September.

Nargeolet’s household filed a wrongful dying lawsuit towards the Titan sub’s operator OceanGate, which suspended operations after the implosion. OceanGate has not commented publicly on the lawsuit, which was filed in a Washington state courtroom.