Sports & Entertainment Spotlight

Welcome back to the Spotlight! With it being a holiday for me, I will keep things brief, but if you know one thing about me, it’s that I could not pass-over an opportunity to get in some wordplay while sharing sports and entertainment industry happenings with you. To do otherwise wouldn’t be phar-aoh to you—it would be the ultimate de-nile. I guess I couldn’t bear to let my people go a week without the Spotlight. Well, I’m here to lead you to the promised land.

• • Having had earlier stints playing professional basketball in Africa and Canada, rapper J.Cole is now looking east, signing with the Chinese Basketball Association’s Nanjing Monkey Kings. Talk about a world tour.
  • Kim Kardashian is teaming up with Paramount+ to produce “Team Moms,” an unscripted show following youth baseball players and their families. Undoubtedly the biggest draw to the project was that it involved large diamonds.
  • Taylor Swift is sued by a Las Vegas showgirl for Swift’s use of “The Life of a Showgirl” as her latest album title, allegedly infringing on the latter’s trademark, “Confessions of a Showgirl.” So while she may have been saved from the fate of Ophelia, Swift may not be saved from the Central District Court of California.