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Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Batman was always trying to keep his real identity as Bruce Wayne a secret. Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow , who told teammates on HBO's "Hard Knocks" he bought a $3 million replica Batmobile, is being similarly secretive. On Thursday, Burrow was asked if he really purchased the Batmobile from Wayne Enterprises Experiences, a $2.99 million replica known as "The Tumbler," from Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight films. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Joe Burrow and Batman (Getty Images) "Can you talk us through how you decided you wanted to buy the Batmobile?" a reporter asked Burrow. "I don’t know what you’re talking about," Burrow replied, smiling. JOE BURROW TELLS BENGALS TEAMMATES HE BOUGHT $3 MILLION BATMOBILE DURING ‘HARD KNOCKS’ There was a lengthy pause as Burrow scanned the room. "That's the answer you get," Burrow said. Everyone, including the signal-caller, started to laugh. Burrow knows the clip of him talking to receivers Ja'Marr Chase and Tee Higgins about the purchase has gone viral since the debut episode of the HBO series, which is following the AFC North division teams through the final weeks of the regular season. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow pauses during a news conference after a game against the Baltimore Ravens Nov. 8, 2024, in Baltimore. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough) Much like Wayne, he'll deny until proven otherwise, even if he revealed the news himself. Burrow told Chase and Higgins he has to wait a year before he can get into the driver’s seat of the replica vehicle, which is only one of 10 in existence. It’s a fully functional Batmobile, which comes equipped with a 525-horsepower engine from General Motors, a smokescreen delivery system, imitation gun turrets and a jet engine simulation, though Burrow won't be like Bruce Wayne with the flames coming out of the exhaust. Burrow even noted that, since he went all-in with this purchase, he should probably get "the expensive Batsuit" to go with it. Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow looks to pass against the Philadelphia Eagles during the first half Oct. 27, 2024, in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Burrow has the money to splurge on a $3 million replica Batmobile after signing his $275 million extension before the 2023 season. He received a $40 million signing bonus with $219 million guaranteed to remain Cincinnati's franchise quarterback. Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X , and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter . Scott Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.Democrats look to governors to lead them to promised land
1 2 Ludhiana: In a dramatic twist to the kidnapping of Gujarat-based trader Sujeet Dinkar Patil , his business partner Rajender Bhai Dibre is now not a suspect but a fellow victim. Police claim to have found out that a group subjected both men to extortion, violence, and captivity over a ₹21 lakh financial dispute. The Gujarati trader, who runs Patil Textiles in Ludhiana, was bundled into a car on Nov 21 while visiting his tax advocate’s office with his accountant, Jagdeep Singh. IPL 2025 mega auction IPL Auction 2025: Who got whom IPL 2025 Auction: Updated Full Team Squads Police investigation suggest that the kidnappers took Patil to a Ghaziabad hotel, assaulted him to extort money, coerced him into signing blank cheques, and then brought him back to Ludhiana for collecting cash. Rajender, Patil’s business associate, was also lured to Delhi earlier under the pretence of resolving the dispute. He was held captive and used for forcing Patil into paying the ₹21 lakh owed. Police said that Rajender was untraceable. Police arrested two suspects, Maganjit Singh and Jasin Sheikh, near Sahnewal’s elevated road and rescued Patil from them. However, four accomplices, including the alleged mastermind Shubham Dikshit, remain at large. Investigators recovered one of their getaway cars used in the abduction but are still searching for the i20 involved in the initial kidnapping. Failed transaction behind crime Additional deputy commissioner of police (investigation) Amandeep Singh Brar stated that the dispute had stemmed from a failed financial transaction. Dikshit allegedly gave ₹21 lakh in cash to Patil and Rajender for a bank entry, which they did not complete. Frustrated, Dikshit and his group kidnapped both men to recover the money. Police are investigating whether the suspects are involved in money laundering activities, which may be linked to the ₹21 lakh transaction. Brar said: “Further details will emerge once we catch the mastermind and locate the missing car.” This case underscores the complexities of financial disputes escalating into criminal acts, with authorities now pursuing leads to bring all culprits to justice. We also published the following articles recently 'Will not accept such allegations': BJP's Chandrakant Patil over cash distribution allegations Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Vinod Tawde has been accused of distributing money at a Nalasopara hotel by the Bahujan Vikas Aghadi (BVA). BJP leader Chandrakant Patil defended Tawde, vouching for his character and calling the allegations baseless. Man alleges threat to life over financial dispute A man in Vijayawada, Angirekula Rambabu, has accused YSRCP leader Prasanthi's husband, Ramesh, of attempted murder over a land dispute. Rambabu claims Ramesh sold him land six years ago but never transferred ownership despite receiving payment. Campaign dust settles with rallies by Nadda, Jayant Patil Political heavyweights rallied across Kolhapur on the final day of campaigning. BJP's Nadda, NCP's Jayant Patil, and Telangana CM Reddy drew large crowds for their respective parties. Intrigue arose as an independent candidate in Mohol threw his support behind the NCP, while BJP faced criticism over alleged threats related to a social welfare program.
Lonzo Ball believes the Big Baller Brand shoes he wore as a rookie could have contributed to the first meniscus injury he suffered in July 2018. Ball said the shoes were like "kickball shoes." "I think it's a possibility for sure, to be honest with you," Ball said. "I wasn't really getting hurt like that until I started wearing them." Ball chose the surgery with the quickest recovery time in order to try to help the Los Angeles Lakers make a playoff run. By the time he was cleared after 15 games missed, the Lakers were eight games back of eighth place. "I was an Adidas kid since high school, so I was thinking that was going to be the route," Ball said. "But what was told to me, I guess, wasn't what really happened. I was told that nobody wanted to partner with me, so my dad was like, 'Just rock the brand.' And I was like, 'All right.'" Ball said he wonders whether there were already cartilage issues deep within his knee before he even reached the NBA. Ball spent years playing on concrete and running springs in Chino Hills State Park. "My uncle used to always tell me, 'Y'all play too much outside,' because we were playing super hard in the backyard. That's on concrete," Ball said. "That was at least 15 years. So I mean, all that, over time, it can't be good for your knees."For “Hysteria!” actresses Anna Camp and Julie Bowen, horror is harder than comedy. “Horror is really hard actually because there is a fine line you have to walk; you have to make it feel grounded and you’re put in these extreme circumstances: You’re being possessed or pulled through the air, there’s nothing you can do to relate to that,” explained Camp of “Pitch Perfect” fame. “With comedy, you can have a relatable situation and go, ‘I’ve been in situations like that.’ There’s nothing you can compare (horror) to, so you have to use your imagination. I find it harder. Your imagination goes home with you at the end of the day. You’re still thinking crazy thoughts.” Bowen, best known for playing Claire Dunphy on “Modern Family,” agreed. “Comedy’s pretty binary because it’s like either you can make people laugh or you don’t. I can’t watch horror. I’m terrified, terrified! I am the easiest scare in the world, so as far as doing (horror), I want to make it as real as possible. It was hard because I had to be really, really crazy. There were times when I’d get back to my hotel room at 3 a.m., I didn’t want to be alone in my head,” said Bowen, laughing. Camp, Bowen, Royal Oak native Bruce Campbell (“Evil Dead”), showrunner David A. Goodman (“Futurama”), and Ypsilanti native/creator Matthew Scott Kane (“American Horror Story”) were promoting “Hysteria!” at the New York Comic Con in October. The horror series is streaming on Peacock. Set in the fictional Michigan town of Happy Hollow, the first episode of “Hysteria” begins with a popular quarterback’s disappearance and a pentagram is discovered on a garage door. As a result, rumors of the occult and satanic influence run rampant through the town. A trio of outcasts in a heavy metal band called Dethkrunch exploit this by rebranding themselves as a satanic metal band, which leads to them becoming the targets of the town’s witch hunt. “Something on my mind a lot in 2019 was we’re living in this post-factual age with social media. It seemed like decades and decades ago, you could trust the news. Now everything is in question. When lies end up getting disseminated as truth, that starts to warp people’s version of reality. Suddenly, they’re living in a world other people are not. That was going on in the world I was living in and I very quickly connected it to the 1980s satanic panic. It’s not really that different because people were saying Ozzy Osbourne, Jason Voorhees (of ‘Friday the 13th’), and the Smurfs were going to turn your kids into satanists and kill you in your sleep. That didn’t happen. It wasn’t true, but so many people got worked up into such a fervor over it, bad things happened. ... It was smoke without fire,” Kane said. “Disinformation is not new,” Campbell said. “Disinformation will tear a town apart.” Campbell portrays Happy Hollow Police Chief Ben Dandridge. “This guy’s a reasonable cop; he’s a rational person who doesn’t treat the teenagers like they’re idiots. It’s all very refreshing,” he said. “I want to play that guy again. I want cops to be that guy. I’m playing the cop (that) cops need to be. That’s my whole motivation for playing this guy: How would you like cops to be, especially the guy in charge, the chief of police? They’re lucky to have Chief Dandridge.” “It was truly an exciting moment when Bruce signed on,” Goodman said. By the end of the first episode, a supernatural phenomenon happens to Linda Campbell, played by Bowen. “Linda seems like one thing, then you realize she’s bananas. She’s either bananas or she’s possessed. Either way, it’s a complicated thing to play,” Bowen said. “With Julie, you can have your cake and eat it too,” Kane said. “She’s this fun, quirky mom. ... As the episode goes on, she’s pulled deeper into this thing and crazy stuff starts happening. That final act of the first episode was my favorite moment with her because this announced that this is not Claire Dunphy. We’re not doing that again; we’re pushing her as a performer. “Julie was so excited about doing stunts. She told us on many occasions she’s very sturdy and can take it. The same goes for Bruce and for Anna. We didn’t ask anyone to give us a flavor of the thing they did before. We cast people we loved so much (in their famous projects) that we wanted to give them the opportunity to do the exact opposite.” Added Bowen: “I got this script and was like, ‘Oh great. She’s a mom. How fun.’ I love moms. I’m a mom, but I felt this was not worth flying out of town to Georgia and being away from my kids. Then I got to the end of the pilot and was like, ‘She’s crazy!’ Is she possessed? There’s a lot more questions. It’s fun to just stretch again and do things I haven’t done in a while, which I found really exciting.” Kane said he felt lucky Bowen signed on at the beginning. “She was the first adult actor to sign on. That gave us such credibility to have a two-time Emmy-winning actor leading this show. Suddenly, it goes from this script from a relatively unknown writer into the new Julie Bowen show,” he said. It was the quality of the writing that attracted Camp, Bowen and Campbell to “Hysteria!” “I loved the script; it was incredibly well-written. It was immersed in the time period. It was such a good coming-of-age story, too — the feeling of being in high school again, being in the 1980s,” Camp said. “I talked to Matt who said my character (Tracy) was incredibly pivotal to the series and we’ll learn about why she is the way she is. So I was like, ‘I’d love to do this!’” For Campbell, the writing is everything. “A lot of times, I’ll get a script that could make the words interchangeable with every other character because the writing is very bland and just doesn’t have the detail you need. This was different. Every character was pretty distinct and pretty well-drawn,” he said. “It’s quality. It’s not a (expletive) show. It’s a real show that’s playing around with interesting themes. A lot of it is still relevant to this day.” “Hysteria!” has other Michigan connections, including University of Michigan alumnus Jonathan Goldstein (“Spider-Man: Homecoming”) and Dondero High School alumnus Jordan Vogt-Roberts (“Kong: Skull Island”), who both serve as executive producers. Kane explained why he set “Hysteria!” in Michigan. “You write what you know. I grew up in Ypsilanti, so that had a lot to do with it. More importantly, when you’re in a small town in the Midwest — somewhere like Michigan — these things don’t ever happen and word spreads fast and paranoia spreads quickly and (everything’s) blown out of proportion and takes up a lot of people’s minds,” he said. “Whether or not something is real doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter if there are people willing to believe it does and willing it into the world. What does it matter if it’s objectively real or living rent-free in someone’s head?”
Duke rallies from 14 down, beats Wake Forest 23-17 on final-play passTrump offers support for dockworkers union by saying ports shouldn’t install more automated systemsBy JOSH BOAK WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday voiced his support for the dockworkers union before their contract expires next month at Eastern and Gulf Coast ports, saying that any further “automation” of the ports would harm workers. Related Articles National Politics | Will Kamala Harris run for California governor in 2026? The question is already swirling National Politics | Trump taps immigration hard-liner Kari Lake as head of Voice of America National Politics | Trump extends unprecedented invites to China’s Xi and other world leaders for his inauguration National Politics | Pressure on a veteran and senator shows what’s next for those who oppose Trump National Politics | What Americans think about Hegseth, Gabbard and key Trump Cabinet picks AP-NORC poll The incoming president posted on social media that he met Harold Daggett, the president of the International Longshoreman’s Association, and Dennis Daggett, the union’s executive vice president. “I’ve studied automation, and know just about everything there is to know about it,” Trump posted. “The amount of money saved is nowhere near the distress, hurt, and harm it causes for American Workers, in this case, our Longshoremen. Foreign companies have made a fortune in the U.S. by giving them access to our markets. They shouldn’t be looking for every last penny knowing how many families are hurt.” The International Longshoremen’s Association has until Jan. 15 to negotiate a new contract with the U.S. Maritime Alliance, which represents ports and shipping companies. At the heart of the dispute is whether ports can install automated gates, cranes and container-moving trucks that could make it faster to unload and load ships. The union argues that automation would lead to fewer jobs, even though higher levels of productivity could do more to boost the salaries of remaining workers. The Maritime Alliance said in a statement that the contract goes beyond ports to “supporting American consumers and giving American businesses access to the global marketplace – from farmers, to manufacturers, to small businesses, and innovative start-ups looking for new markets to sell their products.” “To achieve this, we need modern technology that is proven to improve worker safety, boost port efficiency, increase port capacity, and strengthen our supply chains,” said the alliance, adding that it looks forward to working with Trump. In October, the union representing 45,000 dockworkers went on strike for three days, raising the risk that a prolonged shutdown could push up inflation by making it difficult to unload container ships and export American products overseas. The issue pits an incoming president who won November’s election on the promise of bringing down prices against commitments to support blue-collar workers along with the kinds of advanced technology that drew him support from Silicon Valley elite such as billionaire Elon Musk. Trump sought to portray the dispute as being between U.S. workers and foreign companies, but advanced ports are also key for staying globally competitive. China is opening a $1.3 billion port in Peru that could accommodate ships too large for the Panama Canal. There is a risk that shippers could move to other ports, which could also lead to job losses. Mexico is constructing a port that is highly automated, while Dubai, Singapore and Rotterdam already have more advanced ports. Instead, Trump said that ports and shipping companies should eschew “machinery, which is expensive, and which will constantly have to be replaced.” “For the great privilege of accessing our markets, these foreign companies should hire our incredible American Workers, instead of laying them off, and sending those profits back to foreign countries,” Trump posted. “It is time to put AMERICA FIRST!”
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The Washington Wizards were not expected to be competitive this season, but their 3-19 start is not something anyone on the team could have predicted. "I try to come into seasons with not too much of an expectation, because you just never know how things can go," veteran forward Kyle Kuzma told The Athletic's David Aldridge and Josh Robbins . "I probably thought we could struggle, but never to the extent that we are in the present." The Wizards rank last in the NBA in defense with an average of 123.8 points allowed per game. Washington went winless in the entire month of November and snapped a 16-game losing streak with a surprising 122-113 win over the Denver Nuggets on Saturday. However, the team suffered a 140-112 loss to the Memphis Grizzlies the very next day. Shooting guard Jordan Poole is the only Wizards player who averages 20 points per game at 20.4, and he's shooting a career-high 40.6 percent from three-point range. No other player has made much of an impact this year, and all signs point to Washington missing the playoffs for a fourth straight year. Perhaps a lottery pick near the top of the 2025 NBA draft could be enough to turn things around for the Wizards, but that would be a small consolation for fans who have to endure another lost season.