John Fanta, the ebullient rising Fox Sports college basketball personality, spent the summer between his junior and senior years at Seton Hall sharing a room in a hostel in Los Angeles with a 60-year-old immigrant from Africa. The Cleveland native had dreamed of being the soundtrack to sports since listening to — and mimicking — … Read more
It’s an accepted spring break axiom that you can retake a class but you can’t relive a party. Until now, that’s been true of Freaknik, the annual bass-rattling spring break street party that drew hundreds of thousands of Black college students to Atlanta throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Traffic crawled. Music blared. Booties were shaken. … Read more
At least she’s got a sense of humor about it. Lori Loughlin, who was caught up in the 2019 “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal, poked fun at her reputation on Sunday night’s episode of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” in a guest-starring role opposite series star Larry David. In the episode, Ted Danson asks Larry to help … Read more
Faith Snapp has never let her blindness get in the way of pursuing her dreams. A 22-year-old Texas native who is legally blind, Snapp was accepted into the Texas Tech University School of Veterinary Medicine, FOX 26 Houston reported. “My entire life, my family has raised horses and goats for as long as I can … Read more
When it came to raising their kids, Chad and Laura Mitchell didn’t miss a beat. And when flutist daughter Kahley got ready to fly the family coop in Northern Virginia to pursue a Bachelor of Arts in Music Performance at Penn State in 2020, the pair realized they’d miss more than just the sweet sounds … Read more
ESPN reporter Holly Rowe believes “College Football 25,” the forthcoming EA Sports college football video game, is missing some key personalities. Taking to her X account, Rowe called out the lack of female sportscasters in the upcoming release after Chris Fowler, Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Rece Davis, David Pollack, Kevin Connors and Jesse Palmer were confirmed to … Read more
He is putting the “commute” in commuter school. Tim Chen, an economics student in his final year at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, flies nearly 2 hours from his home in Calgary to school and back because the off-campus housing prices were too much for him. “I thought, why don’t I just … Read more
DEAR ABBY: I was recently diagnosed with a progressive disease for which there is no cure. It will affect me physically and mentally as I age. For now, I’m treating the symptoms and trying to minimize their effect on my day-to-day life. But this is certainly not how I expected to live out my “golden … Read more
The deal seemed too good to be true — Central London for $55 a night including breakfast at a well-reviewed hotel, and all I had to do was share a bathroom. No big thing, right? Except the hotel wasn’t a hotel at all. Look — I thought I understood the deal when I booked, that I’d … Read more
One man’s trash is another man’s ticket to financial freedom. Clever college grad Kelsey Mikula, 26, found a genius way to pay off a whopping $80,000 in student loans in just three years — by buying and reselling old clothes using sites like eBay. Prowling the aisles at the Salvation Army, Goodwill and other local … Read more
Felicity Huffman, who served 11 days in jail for her involvement in the nationwide 2019 Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, said, “It’s been hard” ever since — and she’s finding it tough to land acting roles. “I walk into the room with it. I did it. It’s black and white,” the former “Desperate Housewives” star … Read more
Milo Klotzkin decided to skip college and make some real dough. Last spring, he was a senior at Jackson Memorial High in Jackson Township, New Jersey, making solid As and Bs. He was accepted at Monmouth University and planned to attend the private college to study finance with a minor in pre-law. But then, over … Read more
These Americans may be college-educated, but it looks like they’d score an “F” on a general knowledge test. A British man studying at an unidentified US university has revealed the three stupidest things he’s heard his classmates say, prompting disbelief about the seemingly poor state of education in America. The English student, who has not … Read more
Welcome to the real world! A disappointed college graduate was left baffled after claiming she was hired then fired after just six days at her first full-time job out of school. Tennessee content creator Sierra Desiray Frederick, 22, said she had “been there for five days” before being let go — arguing her new co-workers “didn’t … Read more
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She’s desperate, all right. In an attempt to bolster her own charitable bona fides through a bizarre mea culpa, “Desperate Housewives” star Felicity Huffman dished out a fresh round of embarrassment for her daughter, Sophia. And the actress exposed not only the dangers of coddled parenting — but also the sneering contempt the rich and … Read more
These mama bears aren’t giving up their cubs that easily. Leaving home and heading off to college can be a scary time of transition for some teens — and even more frightening for some of their mothers. That’s why many well-meaning maternal figures are choosing to meddle in their children’s lives from afar, flocking to parent … Read more
Employers don’t value college degrees as much as originally thought, recent survey data shows, and the disdain is behind a restored appreciation for blue-collar job-seekers that bring skill and experience over education. The study, known as the Freedom Economy Index (FEI), a joint project of job recruiting service RedBalloon and PublicSquare, surveyed opinions from 70,000 small businesses between … Read more
HBO host and comedian Bill Maher clashed with popular astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Maher’s “Club Random” podcast on Sunday over how to address “woke” college campuses and transgender athletes. Tyson brought up how Maher no longer performs stand-up on college campuses, and asked if the comedian was writing off “an entire generation” by refusing to … Read more
Stephanie Land chronicled her struggles as a single mother scrubbing toilets for minimal pay in “Maid,” her bestselling memoir from 2019 that was adapted into a hit Netflix series starring Margaret Qualley. At the end of that book, Land took her 3-year-old daughter, Emilia, and moved away from an abusive partner in Washington State to … Read more