It appears like Pat Sajak is able to depart “Wheel of Fortune” ahead of anticipated — or so it appeared.

The April 1 episode of the favored recreation present opened with Oscar-winning actor Jared Leto coming onto the set with Vanna White as a part of an April Fools’ Day joke.

“Girls and gents, listed here are the celebrities of our present — Jared Leto and Vanna White,” the announcer mentioned because the pair walked out arm in arm, as they waved to the viewers.

The duo then thanked all people.

“Thanks and have an amazing present. See you quickly,” Leto advised White earlier than she walked to the puzzle board and he sauntered over to the spot the place Sajak typically stands by the contestants.

“Alright all people, seize these units. It’s time to present away some cash,” he advised the three contestants. “A thousand {dollars} in our first toss-up. The class is on the map,” he mentioned, with nobody acknowledging the prank.

The present then resumed with Sajak taking on with no point out of what occurred. Nonetheless, beneath the “Wheel of Fortune” clip shared on their YouTube, the outline reads, “Did you discover something completely different in tonight’s present?! #AprilFools”

Leto is a fairly busy man. Along with a stellar performing profession, he additionally fronts the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars, which has expertise with “Wheel of Fortune.” Final fall, he and his brother, bandmate Shannon Leto, appeared in a cheeky video wherein they had been contestants on the present — with Sajak and White participating — to announce the band’s 2024 world tour.

Leto, in fact, won’t be taking on for Sajak on “Wheel of Fortune.” Sajak, who introduced his departure final June from the present, will likely be changed by Ryan Seacrest, starting this September.

“My model would be the model that’s,” Seacrest advised Willie Geist throughout their “Sunday Sitdown” episode final September. “The sport works. All you wish to do is stroll in and say, ‘Good night, seize your units and this is the primary puzzle.’”

Seacrest additionally made certain to acknowledge the job his predecessor has completed.

“Pat Sajak is an icon on this enterprise, and he’s made (Wheel of Fortune) so snug for everyone to observe,” he mentioned. “I’m like a child so enthusiastic about simply seeing the set, you recognize, to stroll out on that set.”

TORONTO – After the toughest stretch of his life, RJ Barrett lastly returned to his “sanctuary.”

Barrett, from close by Mississauga, Ont., led all scorers with 28 factors as his Toronto Raptors misplaced to the Los Angeles Lakers 128-111 on Tuesday. It was Barrett’s first time taking part in in an NBA sport for the reason that loss of life of his youthful brother Nathan Barrett.

“It simply felt good to be again on the market with the blokes,” stated Barrett, who stated after follow on Friday that basketball is his sanctuary. “Taking part in undoubtedly helped me really feel higher.”

Barrett added six assists and 6 rebounds as Toronto (23-52) misplaced its 14th sport in a row. The Raptors’ report for longest dropping skid is 17 consecutive video games, set throughout the 1997-98 season.

Immanuel Quickley additionally returned to Toronto’s lineup on Tuesday, scoring 20 factors with six assists. Quickley took a depart after his uncle Shawn Hamilton died of most cancers on March 20, lacking six video games. Barrett, whose 19-year-old brother died on March 14, missed 9 video games.

Barrett and Quickley performed collectively on the New York Knicks after which have been traded to Toronto on Dec. 30. Attending to return to the Raptors’ lineup following their private losses meant loads to Barrett.

“Throughout the entire course of, we have been continually checking on one another,” stated Barrett. “I’ve identified him for a very long time, we’ve been collectively for the previous 4 years, so it was undoubtedly laborious to undergo that however having any person like that to speak to positive helps.”

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D’Angelo Russell scored 25 factors and added seven assists as Los Angeles (43-33) received back-to-back video games.

All eyes have been on future Corridor of Famer LeBron James and all-star centre Anthony Davis, nonetheless. James had 23 factors and 9 assists whereas Davis earned a double-double with 21 factors and 12 rebounds.

“There’s all the time been mutual respect and love respect each time I come right here and play right here,” stated James, who obtained cheers each time he made an enormous play. “These followers are all the time appreciative of myself and I simply attempt to all the time give it again to them once I step out on the ground.”

Bruce Brown (proper knee soreness) left the sport within the fourth quarter and didn’t return. His damage was simply the newest in a sequence of well being setbacks for Toronto.

All-star ahead Scottie Barnes (left hand fracture), centre Jakob Poeltl (left hand torn ligament), guard Ochai Agbaji (proper hip contusion), ahead Chris Boucher (partial MCL tear), guard D.J. Carton (proper ankle sprain) and Jontay Porter (private causes) are already out.

Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic stated that Barrett and Quickley’s return to the lineup did extra than simply enhance the on-court product.

“Basketball is an escape for all of us,” stated Rajakovic. “It’s one thing that gamers love, coaches love, you guys love, everyone loves.

“That is our escape, and that is our protected place and we’re blessed to do basketball for a residing.”

Toronto is mathematically eradicated from the post-season however the remaining seven video games within the season nonetheless matter.

The Raptors’ first-round choose on this summer season’s NBA Draft is conditional, following a commerce with the San Antonio Spurs final season for Poeltl. Toronto has the sixth-worst report within the NBA but when the draft lottery on Might 12 shuffles them to seventh or greater that choose goes to San Antonio.

The Raptors have a 37.2 per cent likelihood within the lottery of transferring up into one of many high 4 draft spots and a 9 per cent likelihood of drafting first general.

Davis and James had 9 factors apiece within the third because the Lakers blew the sport vast open, with a 17-5 run within the last 4 minutes of the quarter lifting the guests to a 100-79 lead. Barrett introduced the sold-out crowd of 19,800 to their toes with a thunderous dunk with 2.1 seconds left within the interval.

Los Angeles, making an attempt to realize floor within the aggressive Western Convention playoff chase, didn’t let up within the fourth quarter, main by as many as 32 factors. Lakers head coach Darvin Ham put all his starters on the bench with six minutes left to play.

“It completely helps. Each minute counts,” stated the 39-year-old James about taking part in lower than 29 minutes within the sport. “I used to be capable of get again right here and get occurring the remedy and my prep, and begin making ready my physique, hopefully, for tomorrow night time.”

UP NEXT — Toronto visits the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday.

The Lakers proceed their East Coast swing on Wednesday with a cease in Washington, D.C.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed April 2, 2024.

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Jared Leto hosted a portion of “Wheel of Fortune” on Monday as an April Fools Day prank. Originally of the present, Leto walked out with the present’s letter-turner, Vanna White. The announcer of the present then stated, “Listed below are the celebs of our present, Jared Leto and Vanna White.” They then parted methods as White does each evening with the standard host Pat Sajack, with White going to the board and Leto going to the wheel with out explaining why he was there. Leto then hosted the opening puzzle, with the friends being barely confused as to why he was there.After the primary puzzle was accomplished, Pat Sajack returned to the wheel and Leto left, with none rationalization.Later, Wheel of Fortune posted on Instagram in regards to the host switcheroo saying, “Did you discover something completely different in tonight’s present?! #AprilFools.”

I wouldn’t understand how to decide on the music, however my luxurious merchandise for Desert Island Discs can be simple: binoculars. My one objection is asking them a luxurious. I’ve had a pair round my neck for what looks like many of the final 50 years.

It’s not solely you can see issues extra clearly: binoculars allow you to expertise the dwelling world as people seldom do. A feminine adder, for instance, went from the solely formal form in a random scatter of vegetation to a exact triple coil of black zigzags on brown.

With my “bins” I may see her blood-red eyes like polished garnets – and dorsal scales all through her 50cm size, each one marked with a raised keel just like the central vane that runs by means of a feather. As she rotated slowly, these keels – in addition to the dimensions edges when the solar caught her twisting physique – offered as momentary splinters of sunshine.

Each person of binoculars is aware of that, if I’d been capable of get nearer, I may have turned the lenses the other way up and seen her magnified to the form of beautiful element her mate should know. For she was joined by a male. They had been virtually definitely of breeding age, and it was unusual to assume that they’ve lain hereabouts for 4 years and, since they possess neither eardrum nor tympanum cavity, have by no means as soon as heard this skylark music rolling overhead. Actually, rattled cans and blown bugles have been proven to elicit nothing from resting adders.

But if I took a single step nearer they might immediately really feel my vibrations by means of the bottom. Think about what info flows by means of a snake’s underside, every one of many ventral scales a heightened nerve-ended receptor attuned to the world because it strikes about them. How they need to really feel the earth.

I inferred a bit of this as I watch him sidewind throughout her, his stomach pressed down in order that the underside scales scraped slowly over her in curving ritual, till I couldn’t inform one snake’s coils from the opposite’s, and his head, shunting ahead in awkward, excited, jerky actions, appeared at odds with the candy circulation of his complete physique.

Tous les décès se sont produits dans la région de Hualien, près de l’épicentre du séisme dans l’est de l’île, a annoncé l’agence nationale de lutte anti-incendie. Trois des victimes ont péri sur un sentier de randonnée, et la quatrième dans un tunnel routier.

Le centre des opérations de secours de Taipei a confirmé ce bilan et fait état de près de soixante blessés.

La magnitude du séisme sous-marin a été estimée à 7,5 par l’Agence météorologique japonaise (JMA), à 7,4 par l’Institut américain d’études géologiques (USGS) et à 7,2 par l’Agence météorologique taïwanaise (CWA).

Il s’est produit peu avant 20 h (HAE), selon ces agences, et a été suivi de plusieurs répliques. Son épicentre a été détecté en mer à faible profondeur au giant des côtes est de Taïwan.

J’ai voulu m’enfuir, mais je n’étais pas habillé. C’était tellement fort, a raconté Kelvin Hwang, un shopper d’un hôtel de la capitale Taipei, qui s’est réfugié dans le corridor de l’ascenseur au neuvième étage.

Des règles de development strictes et une bonne préparation aux catastrophes naturelles semblent avoir permis d’éviter une disaster majeure pour l’île, régulièrement frappée par des séismes.

À Hualien, deux bâtiments se sont effondrés et ont pris au piège des personnes, a indiqué un responsable des pompiers de ce port de près de 100 000 habitants, situé au pied d’une chaîne de montagnes et de gorges.

Des bulldozers ont été mobilisés pour dégager des rochers qui bloquaient des routes vers Hualien, selon des photographs diffusées par les chaînes de télévision locales.

Le tremblement de terre a initialement déclenché des alertes au tsunami à Taïwan, dans les îles du sud-ouest du Japon et dans plusieurs provinces des Philippines, où la inhabitants des zones côtières a été priée de gagner les hauteurs.

Les autorités japonaises et philippines ont finalement annulé leurs alertes, et le Centre d’alertes au tsunami du Pacifique, un observatoire régional basé à Hawaï, a annoncé vers 22 h que la menace de tsunami était maintenant largement passée, tout en appelant les habitants des régions littorales à rester prudents.

L’aéroport de Naha, le plus necessary de l’île japonaise d’Okinawa, a suspendu le trafic aérien et les vols prévus vers cette vacation spot ont été déroutés. Les enregistrements des vols au départ ont cependant repris après la levée de l’alerte.

Aucune victime n’a été signalée dans la région d’Okinawa, a dit le porte-parole du gouvernement nippon, Yoshimasa Hayashi. Selon la JMA, des vagues de 30 cm ont été signalées dans les îles de Yonaguni et de Miyako, et de 20 cm dans celle d’Ishigaki, toutes situées à l’extrême sud-ouest de l’archipel.

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À Taïwan, des pictures publiées par l’Agence centrale d’informations (CNA) ont montré un bâtiment rouge de sept étages à Hualien partiellement effondré et incliné à environ 60 degrés.

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Un séisme de magnitude 7,6 avait alors fait 2400 morts, la pire disaster de l’histoire moderne de Taïwan.

Dans la capitale taïwanaise, le métro a brièvement cessé de fonctionner, mais le trafic a repris au bout d’une heure. Les habitants ont été priés de vérifier d’éventuelles fuites de gaz provoquées par la secousse.

Normes de development

Situés à la frontière de plusieurs plaques tectoniques, Taïwan et le Japon sont fréquemment touchés par des séismes. Pour limiter les risques autant que attainable, les deux pays appliquent des normes de development parmi les plus strictes dans le monde.

Au Japon, la disaster de Fukushima en mars 2011, qui a fait environ 20 000 morts et disparus, est encore dans toutes les mémoires.

Un séisme sous-marin de magnitude 9,0 avait entraîné un gigantesque tsunami sur la côte nord-est du pays, lequel avait aussi provoqué l’accident nucléaire de Fukushima Daiichi, le pire depuis celui de Tchernobyl en 1986.

La péninsule de Noto, dans le centre du Japon, a par ailleurs subi un séisme de magnitude 7,5 le 1er janvier, qui a fait plus de 240 morts, notamment à trigger de l’effondrement de nombreuses maisons anciennes en bois.

Dans une publication sur X, Emergency Information BC a indiqué qu’il n’y avait pas de menace de tsunami pour la Colombie-Britannique.

De plus, le Centre d’alerte au tsunami pour la région du Pacifique a avisé qu’aucune menace ne visait Hawaï et le territoire américain de Guam.

LeBron James’ son Bronny has actually had a novel first yr as a university scholar at USC being the kid of among the best basketball gamers of all time.

Nonetheless, the youthful James will reportedly be taking a step that has turn into fairly widespread amongst school athletes.

On Tuesday, veteran basketball reporter Dick Weiss first reported that Bronny James is coming into the switch portal.

The transfer would come after USC’s coach, Andy Enfield, left for a similar place at SMU after the Trojans went simply 15-18 within the 2023-24 season.

Listed by USC at 6-foot-4 and 210 kilos, Bronny James appeared in 25 video games as a freshman with six begins and averaged 4.8 factors and a couple of.8 rebounds in 19.6 minutes per sport.

He missed the primary eight video games of the season after struggling cardiac arrest final summer season.

The 19 year-old has had a substantial amount of hype surrounding him for a few years and there was vast debate relating to his readiness and skill to play within the NBA, one thing his father has mentioned he wish to do along with his son.

It’s unclear whether or not or not Bronny James will switch to a faculty sponsored by Nike, which was a think about his resolution to go to USC out of highschool, as LeBron James has a lifetime contract with the corporate.

The strongest earthquake in a quarter-century rocked Taiwan through the morning rush hour Wednesday, killing 9 individuals, stranding dozens of employees at quarries and sending some residents scrambling out the home windows of broken buildings.

The quake, which additionally injured greater than 1,000, was centered off the coast of rural, mountainous Hualien County, the place some buildings leaned at extreme angles, their floor flooring crushed. Simply over 150 kilometres away within the capital of Taipei, tiles fell from older buildings, and colleges evacuated their college students to sports activities fields, equipping them with yellow security helmets.

Rescuers fanned out in Hualien, which comprises a metropolis of the identical identify, searching for individuals who could also be trapped and utilizing excavators to stabilize broken buildings. The numbers of individuals lacking, trapped or stranded fluctuated incessantly as authorities discovered of extra in hassle and labored to find or free them.

Taiwan’s earthquake monitoring company mentioned the quake was 7.2 magnitude whereas the U.S. Geological Survey put it at 7.4. It struck about 18 kilometres off of Hualien, on Taiwan’s east coast, and was about 35 kilometres deep.

“It was very sturdy. It felt as if the home was going to topple,” mentioned Chang Yu-lin, 60, a employee in a hospital in Taipei, the capital.

A girl who runs bed-and-breakfast lodging in Hualien metropolis mentioned she scrambled to calm her visitors who have been frightened by the quake.

“That is the most important earthquake I’ve ever skilled,” mentioned the girl, who requested to be recognized solely by her household identify, Chan.

Video confirmed rescuers utilizing ladders to assist trapped individuals out of home windows, whereas elsewhere there have been huge landslides, as sturdy tremors in Taipei compelled the subway system to shut briefly, though most traces resumed service.

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Crews working to rescue individuals trapped after Taiwan quake

Rescue crews are attempting to get to individuals left trapped after a robust earthquake rattled Taiwan, mentioned Philippe Leblanc, a Radio-Canada reporter based mostly in Taipei.

Taiwan’s nationwide fireplace company mentioned 9 individuals died within the quake.The native United Day by day Information reported three hikers died in rockslides in Taroko Nationwide Park and a van driver died in the identical space after boulders hit the car.

Collection of aftershocks

Some 70 employees who have been stranded at two rock quarries have been secure, based on the hearth company, however the roads to succeed in them had been broken by falling rocks. Six employees have been going to be airlifted on Thursday.

One other 1,011 individuals have been injured. Authorities additionally initially misplaced contact with 50 lodge workers in minibuses within the nationwide park after the quake downed telephone networks. Three of the staff managed to stroll to the lodge, whereas the others remained stranded.

The quake and aftershocks additionally precipitated 24 landslides and harm to roads, bridges and tunnels.

Hualien Mayor Hsu Chen-wei mentioned 48 residential buildings have been broken within the metropolis.

Taiwan’s air pressure mentioned six F-16 fighter jets had been barely broken at a significant base within the metropolis from which jets are sometimes scrambled to see off incursions by China’s air pressure, however the plane are anticipated to return to service very quickly.

Different Asian international locations really feel results

Most energy has been restored after the quake, electrical energy utility Taipower mentioned, with the island’s two nuclear energy stations unaffected.

Taiwan’s high-speed rail operator mentioned no harm or accidents have been reported on its trains, though companies can be delayed because it made inspections.

A significant provider of chips to Apple and Nvidia, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co, mentioned it had evacuated some fabrication vegetation, including later that the staff had begun to return to work.

The official central information company mentioned the quake was the most important since one among magnitude 7.6 in 1999 that killed about 2,400 individuals and broken or destroyed 50,000 buildings.

Taiwan climate officers ranked Wednesday’s quake in Hualien as “Higher 6,” or the second-highest stage of depth on a scale starting from 1 to 7.

Such quakes collapse partitions except they’re manufactured from bolstered concrete blocks, whereas individuals can’t stand upright and should crawl in an effort to transfer, specialists say.

The quake set off a tsunami warning for southern Japan and the Philippines that was later lifted.

In Japan, the climate company mentioned a number of small tsunami waves reached elements of the southern prefecture of Okinawa, whereas downgrading its tsunami warning to an advisory.

Within the Philippines, seismology officers warned coastal residents in a number of provinces to maneuver to greater floor.

Chinese language state media mentioned the quake was felt within the southeastern province of Fujian, whereas a Reuters witness mentioned it was additionally felt within the industrial hub of Shanghai.

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Rescue crews are looking for survivors in Taiwan after the island was hit with a 7.2 magnitude earthquake — probably the most highly effective to strike there in 25 years.

The South Carolina ladies’s basketball crew is 2 wins away from perfection.

Daybreak Staley’s Gamecocks are coming into their fourth consecutive Ultimate 4 having not misplaced a single recreation all season.

That is truly the second straight NCAA Event the place South Carolina carried an ideal file within the Ultimate 4. Final yr, the then-36-0 Gamecocks had been shocked by Caitlin Clark and the Iowa Hawkeyes within the nationwide semifinals.

Whereas South Carolina might nonetheless run into Clark and Co. once more, it will not be within the Ultimate 4. This time round, the 36-0 Gamecocks are up in opposition to No. 3 NC State, which is making simply its second Ultimate 4 look and first since 1998.

Earlier than the Gamecocks and Wolfpack sq. off, here is a have a look at the historical past South Carolina is closing in on:

What number of undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champions have there been?

There was an undefeated champion 9 occasions in ladies’s NCAA Event historical past. The uncommon feat has been completed by 4 completely different packages: Baylor, Tennessee, Texas and UConn.

The 1985-86 Longhorns had been the primary to drag it off.

When was the final undefeated NCAA ladies’s basketball champion?

UConn is the one program with a number of unblemished championship seasons. Geno Auriemma’s Huskies went unbeaten a staggering six occasions, with two coming in consecutive seasons.

This is a full have a look at every undefeated ladies’s champion:

Texas, 1985-86: 34-0

UConn, 1994-95: 35-0

Tennessee, 1997-98: 39-0

UConn, 2001-02: 39-0

UConn, 2008-09: 39-0

UConn, 2009-10: 39-0

Baylor, 2011-12: 40-0

UConn, 2013-14: 40-0

UConn, 2015-16: 38-0

What number of undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champions have there been?

There have been even fewer good championship seasons on the boys’s aspect. It has been performed a mixed seven occasions by 4 completely different packages: Indiana, North Carolina, San Francisco and UCLA.

San Francisco grew to become the primary undefeated males’s champ in 1955-56.

When was the final undefeated NCAA males’s basketball champion?

It has been practically 50 years for the reason that final unbeaten males’s champ, which was the 1975-76 Hoosiers. Gonzaga was on the point of ending the drought in 2020-21, however the Bulldogs fell to Baylor within the nationwide title recreation.

This is a full have a look at every time it has been performed:

San Francisco, 1955-56: 29-0

North Carolina, 1956-57: 32-0

UCLA, 1963-64: 30-0

UCLA, 1966-67: 30-0

UCLA, 1971-72: 30-0

UCLA, 1972-73: 30-0

Indiana, 1975-76: 32-0

There’s a lot on the road within the 2024 males’s Ultimate 4. UConn is seeking to go back-to-back as champions whereas the opposite groups are searching for their first win, or first win in over 4 a long time.