The first\u00a0FORTNITE\u00a0World Cup happened in New York this weekend.\u00a0 And eight gamers\u00a0became\u00a0instant MILLIONAIRES.<\/p>\n
The total prize pool was THIRTY MILLION BUCKS.\u00a0 A 16-year-old from Pennsylvania named Kyle Giersdorf\u00a0won\u00a0the grand prize of $3 million.\u00a0 And seven other gamers won at least one million. \u00a0Most of them were teenagers . . .<\/p>\n
A 16-year-old\u00a0from\u00a0California named Shane Cotton took home $1.2 million.\u00a0 And a 15-year-old from England named Jaden Ashman won just over a million bucks.<\/p>\n
Even gamers who DIDN’T do well took home a nice chunk of change.\u00a0 200 people made it into the tournament by qualifying online.\u00a0 And even last place got\u00a050 GRAND.<\/p>\n
The mother of the 15-year-old from England\u00a0said\u00a0she actually tried to get him to stop playing video games so his grades wouldn’t slip . . . and she even threw out his Xbox at one point.\u00a0 But now he’s using some of his winnings to buy her a new HOUSE.<\/p>\n
(After Kyle won the grand prize, his parents also\u00a0talked\u00a0about his education and why it’s important.\u00a0 They said they know there’s a 12-year-old out there who could beat him next year.\u00a0 So it can’t be his ONLY option for the future.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n A woman in Tennessee\u00a0was\u00a0staying at a Hampton Inn on Friday, and woke up to a snake in her bed.\u00a0 It was just a garden snake and wasn’t dangerous, but it freaked her out.\u00a0 She says employees were very helpful, and refunded her room.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n ENTERTAINMENT<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Hulu has renewed \u201cThe Handmaid\u2019s Tale\u201d for a fourth outing. The news comes with three episodes of the third season still to air. \u201cHandmaid\u2019s\u201d has become a signature original series for Hulu, which says that it is the most-watched show on the streaming service.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ________________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY IS\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026\u2026.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 2012 [07] US swimmer Michael Phelps breaks the record for \u2018Greatest Number of Medals Won at the Olympics\u2019 by increasing his total to 22. (Retired from competition with 28)<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n JULY 31st<\/sup>, 1992\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong>Garth Brooks scored his ninth #1 Country single with \u201cThe River\u201d, the fifth and final single from his album\u00a0Ropin’ the Wind.<\/p>\n _____________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n RANDOM REPORT <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0_________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S GOOD NEWS<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n An 87-year-old guy in Maryland was out walking through the woods with his two dogs on Monday.\u00a0 And he tried to grab a stick for them to play with, but got stuck in knee-deep mud.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When he tried to free himself, he just kept sinking deeper.\u00a0 But luckily his dogs realized he needed help and went to find some.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They left him in the woods . . . ran to a nearby trail . . . and started barking at people riding by<\/p>\n on bikes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n One of the bikers realized something was wrong and stopped to check it out.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n They eventually found the guy in the woods.\u00a0 And firefighters managed to free him from the mud, so he’s okay.\u00a0 In the end, he was only stuck for about an hour.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [70] Susan Bennett, Burlington VT, voice actress (best known as the original voice of Apple\u2019s virtual assistant \u201cSiri\u201d)<\/p>\n [61] Mark Cuban, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas Mavericks owner\/reality TV star (\u201cShark Tank\u201d 2010-present)\/chairman of AXS TV\/entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Billion in 1999<\/p>\n [57] Wesley Snipes, actor<\/p>\n [41] Zac Brown, Cumming country singer<\/p>\n [21] Rico Rodriguez, actor (\u2018Manny Delgado\u2019 on \u201cModern Family\u201d since 2009)<\/p>\n \u00a0______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n NEWS OF THE WEIRD:<\/u><\/strong> <\/p>\n \u27a2 The police in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania were hunting for a woman who went to a Walmart last Wednesday night . . . and PEED on top of the POTATOES.\u00a0 They were at the floor level, so she just squatted, peed, and walked away.<\/p>\n An employee spotted her, so the store got rid of all the potatoes and sanitized the area.<\/p>\n But the woman got out of the store . . . so the police released the surveillance footage of her to try to track her down.\u00a0 It’s surveillance footage of her walking out of the store . . . not, you know, watering the produce.<\/p>\n Anyway, after the story blew up yesterday, the woman turned herself in.\u00a0 It turns out she’s a 20-year-old woman named Grace Brown, and she’s facing charges of indecent exposure and public drunkenness.<\/p>\n So why’d she do it?\u00a0 She said she was, quote, “not thinking” . . . and she doesn’t remember doing it.\u00a0 The West Mifflin police chief says, quote, “Honestly I think she thought it was a toilet.”<\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n HOW MANY HOURS DO YOU SPEND ONLINE EACH WEEK?\u00a0(TellWut) <\/p>\n 39% five to ten hours<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 34% 20 hours or more<\/p>\n <\/p>\n 27% 10 to 20 hours<\/p>\n __________________________________________________________________________________________<\/u><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n A Couple Who Don’t Sleep on the Same Sides of the Bed Every Night Are Confusing the Internet<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n There’s a\u00a0Twitter thread\u00a0going viral right now from a\u00a0“Washington Post”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0reporter who revealed that a couple he’s friends with don’t sleep on the same sides of the bed every night.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Like, when they get into bed every night, they don’t know who will sleep on which side.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sometimes the guy is on the left and the woman is on the right, sometimes vice versa.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n If you’re curious, they only have one nightstand, and they both put their phones on it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And . . . the responses to this concept are mostly from people CONFUSED and FREAKED OUT that any couple could do something so insane.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n On a semi-related note, a new survey found that 9% of people say their ideal sleeping situation with their partner is separate beds in separate rooms . . . and 5% want separate beds in the same room.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n ______________________________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n WEDNESDAY JULY 31ST<\/sup> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n TODAY\u2019S BIRTHDAYS <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n [70] Susan Bennett, Burlington VT, voice actress (best known as the original voice of Apple\u2019s virtual assistant \u201cSiri\u201d)<\/p>\n [61] Mark Cuban, Pittsburgh PA, Dallas Mavericks owner\/reality TV star (\u201cShark Tank\u201d 2010-present)\/chairman of AXS TV\/entrepreneur who sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo for $5.9 Billion in 1999<\/p>\n [57] Wesley Snipes, actor<\/p>\n [41] Zac Brown, Cumming country singer<\/p>\n [21] Rico Rodriguez, actor (\u2018Manny Delgado\u2019 on \u201cModern Family\u201d since 2009)<\/p>\n ——————————————————————————————————————————-<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Toronto\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 9\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Kansas City\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 2<\/p>\n LA Angels\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 6\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Detroit\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 1<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He puts it in the pet carrier when he travels . . . but it gets him in trouble because people think there’s a baby inside.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n _______________________________________________________________________________<\/p>\n <\/p>\n KANE BROWN SELLS OUT STAPLES CENTER IN UNDER TWO HOURS – (07\/31\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Kane Brown\u00a0<\/strong>sold out the Los Angeles Staples Center in less than two hours on Friday (July 26th) for his headlining concert there on October 18th. The event marks the kick off of the venue\u2019s 20th anniversary celebration and is the first major milestone event in what will be a year long celebration of the arena\u2019s history since opening the doors on October 17, 1999.<\/p>\n Kane’s fans are among the most loyal and enthusiastic about their favorite artist, so when he hits the stage, he tells us he turns off the chill vibe and gives it all he’s got.\u00a0[“Well I’m laid back, so for me it’s like five minutes before I go on, that’s when I just kind of kick everything on, but I just go out there and my fans that are here let me hear it so I perform for them and just try and give them the best show that I can.”]<\/p>\n FAST FACTS<\/p>\n Kane is the first artist in\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0history to Top all 5\u00a0Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Country charts simultaneously.<\/p>\n With the 4X Platinum certification of \u201cHeaven,\u201d he became one of only five country acts with multiple 4X Platinum hits joining Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt and Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n DUSTIN LYNCH IS ‘WRITIN’ (ON THE) ROADS’ – (07\/29\/2019)<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Dustin Lynch\u00a0is enjoying his time out on the\u00a0Very Hot Summer Tour\u00a0<\/em>with headliner\u00a0Thomas Rhett. For one, he’s surrounded by hit songwriters on the trek, including Thomas’ dad,\u00a0Rhett Akins,\u00a0Russell Dickerson\u00a0and, of course, Thomas. That said, Dustin tells us he’s making good use of his downtime.\u00a0[“Off stage I look forward to writing a lot. We have Rhett Akins opening. We got Russell out there. We got myself and TR, and that leaves a lot of open bunks for songwriters to jump out and join us, and you never know what can happen so I’m gonna be writing with the intention of we could be going in the studio next week if we get a good one, you know, and so I’m writing a lot off stage.”]<\/p>\n The\u00a0Very Hot Summer Tour<\/em>\u00a0rolls on to Camden, NJ on Thursday (August 1st). The tour wraps up on October 12th in Nashville.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n RASCAL FLATTS’ SUMMER FUN <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n Everyone loves Summer and that includes the guys in\u00a0Rascal Flatts<\/strong>. In between dates on their\u00a0Summer Playlist Tour<\/em>,\u00a0Gary LeVox, Jay DeMarcus\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Joe Don Rooney<\/strong>\u00a0all have their own plans for enjoying the sun and fun. Gary tells us:\u00a0[\u201cYou\u2019ll find me, I\u2019ll be on my farm planting food plots for the upcoming deer season, so I\u2019ll be out there working the dirt and taking soil samples and getting ready to plant beans and corn and clover.\u00a0(Jay)\u00a0You\u2019ll find me by my pool grilling burgers and dogs and swimming with my kids and my wife.\u00a0(Joe Don)\u00a0I\u2019ll be over at Jay\u2019s house with his kids and his wife. I might go out to Gary\u2019s farm and get those feed plots ready. You know what, summertime for me, it\u2019s all about golf. 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\n<\/u><\/strong>\u27a2 A piece of street art in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg was covered with asphalt just a few days after it was completed. The artwork \u2013 a giant black and red cross incorporating calligraphy quotes by an avantgarde artist, was painted by a small army of 20 volunteers, and took three days to complete. The last thing local residents expected was for a roadworks team to turn up unannounced with heavy machinery and, oblivious to its artistic value, proceed to pour asphalt on it until they were stopped when the local authorities were alerted. One Facebook user wrote after the \u201cfantastically beautiful work\u201d was \u201csmeared with tar\u201d: \u201cWhat is happening now is a crime against art, culture, and the city.\u201d Authorities blamed the incident on \u201cmiscommunication\u201d.<\/p>\n
\n<\/u><\/strong>An online poll of over 2,500 people reveals how many hours people say they spend surfin’ the net each week:<\/p>\n\n
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