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LITTLE ROCK, ARK. (AP) — A Republican candidate running for Arkansas State Senate said he made “mistakes" as a teenager after repeatedly denying his dismissal from a Mississippi high school for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume for Halloween. Charles Edward Beckham III initially denied reports from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and Arkansas Times that he was suspended and dismissed from Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science for wearing a racist Ku Klux Klan costume at a school-sponsored Halloween event. The Arkansas Times first reported Beckham's dismissal on Tuesday. Beckham also told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette in a email Tuesday that...

Odell Beckham Jr. is honoring George Floyd with a special T-shirt. The Cleveland Browns player, 27, has designed a T-shirt and 100 percent of the proceeds will be donated to Black Lives Matter. Beckham’s T-shirt is available to purchase for $25 and features the words “I Still Can’t Breathe” on the front and “No Justice, No Peace” on the back, in memory of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and all those who have suffered from police brutality. LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Kendall Jenner and Diplo are among those who have already purchased the shirt from his website, endthistogether.com. “Like...

Odell Beckham Jr., fresh off signing a five-year, $95 million contract extension with the New York Giants, joined LeBron James' HBO show "The Shop" on Tuesday and explained that he has felt like a "zoo animal" at times during his young career. Beckham, who is known for his exuberant celebrations and cockiness on the field, was made the highest-paid wide receiver in football Monday. He told James about how he thinks he's perceived. “To me, I be feeling like, I tell people this all the time -- I really feel like a zoo animal. Like that’s where life’s gone for...

Still, previous research found that, in theory, diamond should be able to flex a bit. The key was to create pure crystals of diamond without any microscopic flaws or variations that would make them brittle. “The hardest natural material, diamond, which is commonly believed to be undeformable, can be bent and stretched significantly,”The researchers suggested that further experiments flexing diamond might discover new behaviors for novel applications, “such as a more powerful or colorful laser or maser,”

Giants receiver Odell Beckham’s crude celebration last weekend cost him $12,154 in the form of a fine from the NFL, according to multiple reports. That’s the standard fine amount for a celebration that the NFL deems to have crossed the line. Beckham’s teammate Evan Engram was docked the same amount for his Week 2 crotch-grab, as was Steelers linebacker Bud Dupree for an overzealous Key & Peele-inspired hip thrust. Beckham’s celebration—mimicking a urinating dog—drew a flag for unsportsmanlike conduct. He said later it was intended as a dig at Donald Trump’s comments about “son of a b----” NFL players.

John Mara and Steve Tisch better give it a lot of thought before they p--- away $100 million on Odell Beckham Jr. I hate to be so crass, but after Beckham's disgraceful walking and peeing-like-a-dog, end-zone act Sunday in Philly, exactly what will he do next, and what are the Giants buying if they give Beckham a five-year, $100 million contract with $50 million guaranteed? --SNIP-- After Beckham announced days before the opening of training camp in July that he wants to be the NFL's highest-paid player — which won't happen after Detroit signed quarterback Matthew Stafford to a record...

The former England ace was filming a jungle expedition for the BBC which will be aired before the World Cup finals in Brazil this summer. Becks, 38, will be seen camping out in the rainforest, fishing for food, cooking and also coming face to face with some of the native wildlife. But he was ordered not to go swimming. Along with piranhas, a nasty eel-like creature called a Candiru, nicknamed the “vampire fish”, lurks in the waters of the River Amazon. They are hard to spot as they are transparent and if they target a male swimmer, they can enter...

Supermodel Naomi Campbell called out her friend Victoria Beckham for only having one model of color in her presentation during February’s New York Fashion Week. But Campbell revealed to the UK’s Daily Mirror that she phoned the Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer personally about the matter. Campbell, along with fellow supermodel Iman and model advocate Bethann Hardison, are spearheading advocate group Diversity Coalition, which calls for more faces of color to be used in fashion shows. The Coalition in September wrote an open letter to governing bodies of Fashion Weeks around the globe, calling out an number of designers and brands including...

LONDON (AP) — David Beckham is retiring from soccer, ending a career in which he became a global superstar who transcended the sport. The 38-year-old Beckham, who recently won a league title in a fourth country with Paris Saint-Germain, said Thursday he will retire after the season. ‘‘I'm thankful to PSG for giving me the opportunity to continue but I feel now is the right time to finish my career, playing at the highest level,’’ the former England captain said in a statement. Beckham, whose forays into fashion and marriage to a pop-star wife have made him a riveting international...

David Beckham's move to Los Angeles was supposed to transform the status of American soccer. He and his wife Victoria arrived as the UK's biggest celebrities. Now he has played his last US game, did Americans really fall for the allure of Brand Beckham? As he sat on the tarmac at Los Angeles International Airport one evening in July 2007, David Beckham knew what was expected of him. His new employers, the LA Galaxy, had committed a huge sum - reportedly $32.5m (£20m) over the next five years - for the benefits of his footballing services. But it wasn't just...

The former England captain his LA Galaxy team mates were lauded at the White House after winning the Major League Soccer Cup, America's equivalent of the Premiership. Turning to the 37-year-old Beckham, Mr Obama described him as "young up-and-comer". To laughter from his team mates, the President said: "I have to say I gave David Beckham a hard time, and told him half the team could be his kids. We're getting old, David.'' But he conceded that the footballer was "holding up better than me" and said it was a " a rare man who can be that tough on...

Roland Martin’s call to attack men that liked a David Beckham ad has prompted the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation to demand that CNN fire the commentator. It all started with a tweet Martin sent after Beckham’s commercial aired during the Super Bowl : “If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him!”

Environazis are at it again. This time they are the elites in England denouncing the Beckhams as a bad role model for families. Their crime? Having another baby….gasp!!UK Green MP, Caroline Lucas, has joined other leading environmentalists in calling for the smashing of what TV zoologist Sir David Attenborough has called the "absurd taboo" in discussing family size in the UK. Lucas said: "We need to have a far greater public debate about population, whether it focuses on improving family planning or reducing global inequality – and looking again at how we address the strain on our natural resources.The absence...

Visiting Afghanistan is something David Beckham has always wanted to but until today was unable to fit the visit around his demanding football schedule. With more time on his hands since an injury that has put him out of play, Beckham, 35-years-old, took a flight to Helmand where about 8,000 British troops are based. "I have nothing but admiration for these young men and women, and it makes me very proud to be British," he said in a statement released by BFBS. "I've wanted to visit Afghanistan for a long time, and I hope that in some small way it...

DAVID BECKHAM will have an emergency op on the heartbreak injury which crushed his World Cup dream. The England superstar, 34, flies out to Finland today to see specialist Sakari Orava and goes under the knife inside the next 24 hours. Becks was in tears as he left the AC Milan dressing room after rupturing his left Achilles tendon in the 1-0 win over Chievo. Club doctor Jean-Pierre Meerseman, who is booked on the flight to Scandinavia with Becks, confirmed: "The World Cup is finished for David Beckham." Milan boss Leonardo added: "David felt the muscle move up which is...

The Los Angeles Galaxy star came in the top ten of what one U.S. magazine called the biggest 'busts, choke artists'. U.S. based Maxim magazine said Beckham's move to the Los Angeles team was nothing short of a 'catastrophe'. After all the publicity about his £125m move, it said the former Manchester United star has failed miserably to make football - or soccer as it is called in the US - more attractive to fans.

David Beckham received a rude welcome from disgruntled Galaxy fans in his return to Los Angeles, confronting one who leapt out of the stands at halftime of Galaxy's friendly against AC Milan. The English star, who missed the first half of the Major League Soccer season while on loan to AC Milan, was booed roundly during introductions, and again on his first several touches of the ball. Some of those who were angered by Beckham's stated desire to remain in Italy, and his belated return to his US club, made their feelings felt with banners and gestures such as holding...

The new advertising campaign for Emporio Armani underwear features an austere black-and-white image of soccer player David Beckham posing spread-eagle in an open shirt and his designer briefs. He's leaning back on a bed covered with rumpled sheets, and like so many models, he looks profoundly grumpy. Over at Calvin Klein Underwear, the company celebrated its 25th anniversary this fall with an advertising campaign for its new Steel line. The name, our G-rated mind assumes, refers to the steel-colored waistbands on the briefs. The ads feature the actor Djimon Hounsou in a variety of poses, all of which feature his...

David Beckham and Justin Timberlake are the targets of an alleged Al-Qaeda murder plot. An internet video, which has been posted on YouTube, brands Becks, 32, and JT, 26, as criminal influences on young Muslims. Fellow footballers Wayne Rooney and Thierry Henry, as well as rapper P Diddy are also mentioned. The warning footage was posted by a Glasgow-based website named after Al-Qaeda that encourages attacks on Westerners. In the clip, an image of David is shown under the caption: 'What made u among the losers?' reports the News Of The World. A caption across the screen threatens: 'Every soul...

Beckham's first goal in a Los Angeles Galaxy uniform came Wednesday night, and it couldn't have come at a better time or in a more impressive fashion. His curling 30-yard free kick past D.C. United goalkeeper Troy Perkins helped remind fans from New York to Los Angeles why Beckham is worth watching. Now, instead of ditching their tickets to Saturday's Los Angeles Galaxy-New York Red Bulls game at Giants Stadium (7:30 p.m. ET) faster than lead paint-covered toys, New York area soccer fans are looking for as many tickets as they can get. What can we expect this weekend at...