Welcome to the weekly bonus episode of Hot off the Wire, where we look back at some of the week’s biggest headlines from the world of sports and entertainment.
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Top headlines of the week include:
The NBA fined the Nets $100,000 for violating the league’s attendance policy by resting four players. A look at Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s deal with the Dodgers and the Braves reworking Chris Sale’s contract. Recent celebrity deaths include Glynis Johns of “Mary Poppins” and comedian Tom Smothers. And an early version of Mickey Mouse, now in the public domain, will be featured in two upcoming horror films.
These stories and more from the Associated Press.
—Compiled and narrated by Terry Lipshetz from Associated Press reporting
Host Terry Lipshetz is a national newsroom editor at Lee Enterprises. In addition to producing the daily Hot Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the broadcast and screened films and television shows and is the former producer of Across the sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.
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