Entertainment

MMA company rebrands to Combate Global, stays with Univision

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LOS ANGELES — The Combate Americas mixed martial arts promotion has rebranded itself as Combate Global and made a new five-year media rights deal...

MMA company rebrands to Combate Global, stays with Univision

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<p>LOS ANGELES &mdash; The Combate Americas mixed martial arts promotion has rebranded itself as Combate Global and made a new five-year media rights deal...

Detectives find cause of Tiger Woods crash but won’t reveal

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LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles County sheriff says detectives have determined what caused Tiger Woods to crash his SUV last month in Southern...

Oscars add UK hub for broadcast after concerns about travel

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<p>With less than a month until showtime, the 93rd Oscars are taking another pass at the script. </p> ...

‘Lovecraft Country’ part of virtual festival celebrating TV

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LOS ANGELES — "Lovecraft Country,” “The Queen’s Gambit” and “What We Do in the Shadows” are among the series featured in a virtual edition...

Dapper Labs, creators of NBA Top Shot, get $305M in funding

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SILVER SPRING, Md. — Canadian blockchain technology company Dapper Labs has secured $305 million in private funding — some of it from current and...

Bend’s last Blockbuster even more popular after Netflix show

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<p>BEND, Ore. &mdash; The Blockbuster video rental store in Bend, Oregon soared to international fame when it became the last such franchise on Earth...

‘Concrete Cowboy’ shows Philadelphia’s Black cowboy culture

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NEW YORK — Historians estimate that 1 in 4 American cowboys were Black but you would be hard pressed to find a movie genre...

Writers from 4 continents up for International Booker Prize

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<p>LONDON &mdash; Chinese writer Can Xue and Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both long-favored contenders for the Nobel Prize for literature, are among nominees...

Birds as revelations: Atwood writes foreword for Gibson book

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NEW YORK — When Margaret Atwood would receive invitations over the years to literary events around the world, literature wasn't the only factor shaping...