The biggest thing that the Kansas City Chiefs will find out this offseason is if Travis Kelce played his last game in the Super Bowl against the Philadelphia Eagles. There has been a lot of talk surrounding Kelce’s decision to continue playing or not, and his brother, Jason Kelce, already knows what the process will […]
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JIMMY WHITE has opened up on the medical diagnosis that changed his life – and wishes he’d known sooner.
The charismatic snooker legend, 62, was diagnosed with ADHD two years ago.
White – known affectionately as The Whirlwind – found fame in the 1980s and became a firm fan favourite on the baize.
A two-time Major winner, the Tooting native has revealed he is now being medically treated for the condition.
White told Stephen Hendry’s Cue Tips podcast: “I’m gonna give you an exclusive.
“I got diagnosed with ADHD about two years ago.
“I’ve had to work. With ADHD you think about fifteen things at once.
“So I’m now down to sort of like normal.
“I have to be medicated and all that and it’s completely changed my life.”
White was known for his rapid breaks and no-nonsense style at the table.
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But he admits he wishes he’d known about his ADHD sooner.
The condition – attention deficit hyperactivity disorder – causes sufferers to be impulsive and have a short attention span, according to the NHS.
White continued: “When you’re under pressure, looking back all these things were going through my mind and all of a sudden I’m starting to miss everything.
“The pockets are closing up as I’m hitting them and the balls are getting like footballs.
“That for me now, looking back, if I’d known what I had I’d have been able to refocus better. That was a big thing.”
White has also been open about his battles with drink and drugs.
The Whirlwind struggled with an addiction to crack when he was a young star.
And he admits the habit “drained” his bank account of over £35,000.
BELOW is a list of snooker World Champions by year.
The record is for the modern era, widely considered as dating from the 1968-69 season, when the World Professional Billiards and Snooker Association (WPBSA) took control of the sport.
The first World Championships ran from 1927 – with a break from 1941-45 because of World War II and 1958-63 because of a dispute in the sport.
Joe Davis (15), Fred Davis and John Pulman (both 8) were the most successful players during that period.
Stephen Hendry and Ronnie O’Sullivan share the record for the most titles in the modern era, with seven each.
Most World Titles (modern era)
White told Louis Theroux‘s documentary Gods of Snooker: “Cocaine was absolutely everywhere.
“It was like the devil’s dandruff, but crack – it’s evil. I tried smoking it and got completely addicted.
“I remember I had £35,000 in an account and I drained that on crack.”
Jimmy added to The Sun on Sunday: “It’s impossible to say how much I used to drink in my wild days.
“It was drink after drink and line after line and I’d go missing for days.
“It took 15 years to get sober and I don’t miss that life at all.”
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The Anaheim Ducks returned to action on Saturday night and picked up a 3-2 overtime victory over the Boston Bruins. However, they lost goalie John Gibson along the way due to an upper-body injury, making his status with Anaheim worth keeping tabs on over the next few days. Gibson saved 19 of the 20 shots […]
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TYSON FURY has been backed to come out of retirement to fight Anthony Joshua.
The two British brawlers have a long-standing rivalry and fans have been desperate to see them go toe-to-toe in the ring.
However, a ‘Battle of Britain’ has always evaded the ring and appeared to be a hopeless case.
This was after Fury retired from boxing, for the FOURTH time, following his second defeat to Oleksandr Uysk.
In January, Team Joshua were exploring his next options and were confident Fury could be coaxed out of his latest “retirement”.
There has now been another twist as Turki Alalshikh has insisted he is keen to see the in-demand fan.
The Saudi boxing chief has spoken to the Gypsy King and is not convinced that he has fully turned his back on the ring.
He told The Stomping Ground: “I want Joshua vs Tyson.
“I spoke with Fury but not about boxing. I just checked about his health and his family.
“I think he maybe will return. I hope so.”
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AJ, 35, has reacted to the fight being proposed yet again as he calculated the potential financial windfall.
While appearing in a video from the same outlet, he worked out that in pay-per-view purchases, a potential £60MILLION could be banked.
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He then added in potential gate receipts for the fight, which raised the figure to £90m and then to £110m with sponsorship.
AJ then claimed that Fury can have “30 out of that, and I’ll take the rest”.
When asked if the fight could ever happen, he said: “I’ll be honest, I don’t want to talk about that.
“It has been going on for a long time.
“So that’ll be a great fight.”
He appeared to be getting tips from Uysk on how to beat Fury while ringside at Beterbiev vs Bivol 2.
Tyson’s promoter, Frank Warren, has insisted that his client is “happily retired”.
AN NHL announcer turned the air blue after taking a puck to the face – during a live broadcast.
Buffalo broadcaster Rob Ray was struck during the Sabres’ 8-2 win over the New York Rangers on Saturday.
The Sabres turned on the style, scoring five goals in the first period at KeyBank Center.
But it was an incident involving Ray – with Buffalo leading 4-0 – that really got social media talking.
A former NHL player, Ray is no stranger to taking tough hits having spent most of his career with the Sabres.
However, he wasn’t ready for the puck to leave the ice as New York battled to get back into the contest.
Rangers defensemen Will Borgen hit the puck over the boards and straight into the broadcast booth.
“Aaaah! F**k!” came the anguished cry from Ray after being hit in the face.
The impact opened a gash above Ray’s eye and nose while breaking his glasses, per WIVB.
He also later reveled a “golf-ball” size lump on his forehead.
“I got a couple little stitches,” Ray told play-by-play partner Dan Dunleavy.
“Right where the golf ball is right here – that’s not normal.”
During his playing days, Ray was renowned for his fighting spirit on the ice.
He is the Sabres’ all-time leader in penalty minutes and has racked up the sixth-most in NHL history.
It’s not the first time Ray has proved a magnet for pucks in the broadcast booth.
Last season he was struck in a similar incident and continued to broadcast despite a bloodied face.
“No surprise, the guy is tough,” wrote one fan on X.
“Rayzor is a legend,” said another.
“Solid skull, not even a dent. Glad he’s alright,” laughed a third.
“Easiest live broadcast F-bomb pass ever,” added a fourth.
BEING killed off is a hazard of appearing on a soap, and the best you can hope for is a memorable exit.
Corrie fans were left baffled and bemused after Monday’s episode, with Rob’s life on the line when he bounced off a wall and somersaulted over a balcony after his sister Carla pushed him down some stairs.
Though we have since found out Rob survived the fall, fans took to social media straight away in disbelief: “It’s like a Harry Hilly TV burp sketch,” one person wrote, while others called it a “farce”.
EastEnders has been rocked this week by an explosion at the Queen Vic, leaving fans fearing who might have died.
And Emmerdale is showing a limo crash storyline that has left at least one person dead and more characters lives hanging in the balance.
While they are both plausible ways for someone to be killed off, not every soap death is.
From being killed by garden tools to landing in a bin, The Sun looks at soap land’s strangest deaths over the years.
Families are known for having secrets, and Ronnie Mitchell (Samantha Womack) spent time hiding that she killed sister Roxy’s ex-boyfriend Carl White (Daniel Coonan).
EastEnders’ bosses decided against a classic murder with a knife or a gun.
Instead, they had Ronnie slam Carl’s head with a car boot which, somehow, killed him.
The killer blow came after Carl attacked Ronnie on New Year’s Eve.
She then put his body into the car boot before taking it to be crushed.
It’s certainly a memorable way to go.
Hollyoaks has been lauded for dealing with serious issues like eating disorders and abusive relationships.
But when it came to their serial killer storyline in 2011 with Silas Blissett (Jeff Rawle) things took a turn for the absurd.
During his killing spree, he accidentally strangled his daughter Heidi Costello (Kim Tiddy) to death while she was dressed as cat woman after mistaking her for Lynsey Nolan (Karen Hassan).
Silas grabbed Heidi as she was walking in the skintight catsuit, high heels and mask to The Loft club.
She took her final breath just under the balcony to the venue as friends were unaware of what was happening just below them.
In another ridiculous death, EastEnders’ bosses decided to kill off Trina Johnson (Sharon Duncan Brewster) using a gardening tool.
During an argument with ex-husband Lucas Johnson (Don Gilet), he shoves her off him when she tried to kiss him – behind the back of his current partner Denise Fox (Diane Parish).
The shove saw her forced onto the prongs of a rake, which punctured her throat, and she collapsed to the floor before dying.
To cover up his murder, Lucas used her drug addiction and set it up to look like an overdose.
Unbelievably, it worked and police later ruled her death as accidental due to her use of recreational drugs.
The most you can hope for on Coronation Street is a dignified death if you’re chosen to be killed off.
But Leo Thompkins (Joe Frost) got one of the most undignified murders possible, as it saw him land directly into a large bin.
The civil engineer placed himself in Stephen Reid’s sites after realising he was telling lies and planning to steal a large sum of cash from Audrey (Sue Nicholls).
During a heated argument outside Underworld, Stephen (Todd Boyce) whacked Leo in the head causing the civil engineer to plummet to his death and land in an industrial waste bin.
To add to the indignity of being bumped off, Leo’s body was then hauled out of the trash and moved to another location while Stephen attempted to cover up his crime.
What’s the best way to take out resentment on your nearest and dearest? According to Chris Tate (Peter Amory) it’s to commit suicide and then frame them for it.
In one of the strangest plots in the dale, partially paralysed Chris decided to get back at his cheating wife Charity Dingle (Emma Atkins) by framing her for murder.
First, he spent all of his money to make sure the scheming spouse would be left with nothing.
Then, he invited his estranged wife over, having poisoned his glass of champagne. In an odd exchange, he toasts to the death of their marriage before collapsing and dying in the same spot as his dad six years earlier.
His final words to Charity were “whore”. Charity is arrested and eventually sent down for his murder – although in an even more bizarre twist she gives birth to Chris’s baby in jail and is then released in return for handing the newborn to his younger sister Zoe (Leah Bracknell).
Chris will likely have turned in his grave after seeing Charity get off the charges.
Before Ken (William Roache) and Deirdre Barlow (Anne Kirkbride), there was Ken and Valerie Barlow (Anne Reid) who were happily married.
In 1971, the couple were planning to relocate to Jamaica with their children, Peter and Susan, but tragedy struck.
After attempting to fix her hairdryer’s dodgy plug by tightening it with a screwdriver, she plugged it in and was electrocuted.
As she fell to the floor, she knocked over an electric heater into a packing crate causing a fire – which was a full blaze by the time help arrived.
Thankfully, she was the only family member killed in the blaze, but after her death Ken sent their children away to live with their grandparents as they couldn’t cope.
While it’s a pretty odd way to die, it did allow one of soaps longest marriages to happen with Deidre and Ken.
EastEnders has produced yet another ridiculous death, this time with the help of an ashtray.
In 1998 villainous Saskia Duncan (Brooke Harman) attempts to kill her ex-boyfriend Steve Owen (Martin Kemp) in a fit of range after stalking him.
While the former couple are fighting, the young club DJ Matthew Rose (Joe Absolom) walks in and is also embroiled in the fight.
During the physical fight in the back of a nightclub, Saskia attempted to strangle her former lover with his own tie.
As Steve chokes, he manages to grab a stone ashtray and then smack Saskia in the temple with the ashtray, killing her instantly.
Steve then forced Matthew to help bury the body in order to cover up the killing.
Incredibly, Steve gets away scot-free as Matthew is found guilty of manslaughter.
It’s not just British soaps that have a flare for the ridiculous when it comes to character deaths.
US soap Falcon Crest, which ran from 1981 until 1990, managed to make having a large engagement ring look like a bad idea.
After suffering a brain tumour, alcoholism and amnesia, Maggie Gioberti Channing’s final end was drowning in a pool after her massive diamond ring got stuck in a grate.
She became trapped after swimming to the bottom of the pool to collect toys that had been left behind by the children.
Between flashes to other characters, Maggie (Susan Sullivan) is shown struggling to free herself before her body goes limp, and she is shown floating in the water, in the 1989 scene.
Yet another bizarre death from EastEnders for sisters Ronnie and Roxy Mitchell (Rita Simons) in 2017’s New Year’s Day episode.
Fans had tuned in to see Ronnie have her happy ending by marrying Jack Branning (Scott Maslen), but things took a much darker turn.
The sisters separated off from the wedding party to booze and reminisce together, leading them to the pool, where a drunk Roxy decides to take a swim.
After she jumps into the water, she failed to resurface, leading Ronnie to hurl herself into the pool still in her wedding dress to save her younger sister.
The weight of the wedding dress, thanks to the water, caused Ronnie to drown. It was later revealed that Ronnie had suffered a heart attack after jumping into the pool.
Fans were devastated at the sisters leaving, and many hoped the deaths had been faked to allow them to return in the future.
NICOLA Sturgeon let her hair down behind the decks of a DJ booth with two showbiz pals.
The former First Minister, 54, partied the night away at Pitlochry Festival Theatre, Perthshire with US Traitors host Alan Cumming, 60, and telly fave Kirsty Wark, 70.
Fist pumping the air, the Nats politician pulled on a pair of headphones as she entertained the masses.
Cumming announced: “Nicola Sturgeon is in the house. Legend.”
The newly single MSP was all smiles in a white top with brown sleeveless jumper just weeks after splitting with hubby and former SNP chief Peter Murrell, 60.
An onlooker said: “She was absolutely loving life, the crowd went wild for her.”
Scores of revellers whipped out their phones to capture the politician’s lively music set.
Pitlochry Festival Theatre was launched in 1951 and is Scotland’s only major, rurally located arts organisation.
Ms Sturgeon said she was left with a “heavy heart” after confirming her shock split from her husband.
The former First Minister sent shockwaves through the political world in January after announcing that her marriage was over.
In a post on her Instagram story, Ms Sturgeon revealed that the pair have secretly been separated “for some time”.
She wrote: “With a heavy heart I am confirming that Peter and I have decided to end our marriage.
“To all intents and purposes we have been separated for some time now and I feel it is time to bring others up to speed with where we are.
“It goes without saying that we still care deeply for each other, and always will. We will be making no further comment.”
The announcement came just 15 months after she made a bold and defiant claim about her marriage amid a police probe.
Both Ms Sturgeon and Mr Murrell were arrested earlier in 2023 as part of Operation Branchform – an investigation into SNP finances.