Amon-Ra St. Brown is heading into the final year of his rookie contract, and I believe the Detroit Lions will do whatever it takes to ensure that the All-Pro receiver remains in the Motor City for a very long time, even if it means making him one of the highest-paid receivers in the NFL. However, during a recent conversation, a different perspective was suggested.
The Trade Proposition
It was proposed that the Lions trade Amon-Ra St. Brown rather than make him one of the top-paid receivers in the game. The argument centered around the belief that receivers are one of the least valuable positions on a football field, advocating for their replacement before offering a mega contract.
The suggestion compared a potential trade of St. Brown to the package the Kansas City Chiefs received from the Miami Dolphins for Tyreek Hill, which included multiple draft picks over two years. This strategy worked well for the Chiefs, allowing them to rebuild effectively and even secure another Super Bowl victory despite losing a top offensive threat.
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2022 1st-round pick
2022 2nd-round pick
2022 4th-round pick
2023 4th-round pick
2023 6th-round pick
The Case Against Trading St. Brown
Despite the logic in trading for valuable draft picks, I firmly believe the Lions should not consider trading St. Brown. His reliability and leadership make him far more valuable than just his on-field production. Trading St. Brown could significantly harm the team’s morale and set a concerning precedent for the franchise.
TL;DR (too long didn’t read)
Impact on Team Morale: Trading St. Brown risks damaging the team’s spirit and cohesion, considering his integral role within the squad.
Value of Elite Receivers: The debate continues over the financial wisdom of investing heavily in elite receivers, but St. Brown‘s exceptional contribution to the Lions may justify such a decision.
Lessons from the Chiefs: The Chiefs’ success post-Tyreek Hill trade doesn’t guarantee a similar outcome for the Lions, highlighting the risks of such a major roster change.
Bottom Line: Amon-Ra St. Brown Will Be a Detroit Lions for a Very Long Time
The deliberation over whether to trade Amon-Ra St. Brown underscores the complex balance between financial management and maintaining team identity and morale. While draft picks offer a path to bolster the roster broadly, losing a player of St. Brown‘s caliber could undermine the Lions’ cultural and competitive fabric. Keeping him, despite the cost, signals a commitment to stability and excellence that could define the Lions’ trajectory in the coming years.
Prosecutors said Monday they have arrested six members of a drug gang in the Mexican resort of Cancun that allegedly killed and hacked up five people with a machete, and dumped three other victims in a shallow grave.
Authorities said that five dismembered bodies were found inside a taxi on January 29 and three bodies were later found in a grave, one of which has been identified.
The gang, which prosecutors say also engaged in extortion, was protected by a network of motorcycle taxis and minors who acted as lookouts. Authorities said two minors were arrested in addition to the six alleged gang members.
Authorities also announced the arrest of 23 people on charges they operated a fake tour agency that served as a cover for drug sales in Cancun.
The suspects operated a call center in which they offered sports equipment and tour packages to tourists, but then failed to deliver them. On the second floor they had a complex operation in which drug deals were allegedly made over the phone and delivered by motorcycle. Authorities conducting a search of the property allegedly found marijuana, methamphetamines, cell phones, bank cards, laptops and seven motorcycles.
Another suspect was arrested in Cancun who allegedly both ordered drugs on social media sites – which were delivered to him by express package service – and sold them also on social media, with home delivery included.
The revelations Monday came one day after prosecutors confirmed an American woman and a man from Belize were shot to death late last week in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the resort city of Tulum, south of Cancun.
Prosecutors in Quintana Roo stressed the American woman had no connection to an alleged drug dealer also killed in the shooting Friday night. The woman appeared to have simply been caught in the crossfire.
Prosecutors said the dead man had cocaine and pills in his possession when he was killed, and was believed to be a dealer. They said the suspects in the shootings had been identified and were being sought.
Violence persists on Caribbean coast
The degree to which drugs are available in Mexico’s Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo is sometimes startling.
Last year, authorities shuttered 23 pharmacies at Caribbean coast resorts, six months after a research report warned that drug stores in Mexico were offering foreigners pills they passed off as Oxycodone, Percocet and Adderall without prescriptions.
Foreign tourists have been killed in the past after getting caught in drug gang shootouts in the once-tranquil beach resort.
In 2021 in Tulum, two tourists – one German and a California travel blogger born in India – were killed while eating at a restaurant. They apparently were caught in the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug dealers.
Last April, eight bodies were found dumped in Cancun. Just days before that, four men in Cancun were killed in a dispute related to drug gang rivalries. The dead men were found in the city’s hotel zone near the beach.
Last year, the U.S. State Department issued a travel alert warning travelers to “exercise increased situational awareness” especially after dark, at Mexico’s Caribbean beach resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.
Tourists, however, continue to stream into Mexico’s Caribbean coast, the country’s leading tourist destination. Mexico’s tourism department released figures Monday showing foreign tourists spent almost $31 billion in all of Mexico in 2023, up 10% from 2022. About half of all foreigners visiting Mexico go to Cancun.
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New Detroit Pistons guard Evan Fournier thrilled after being traded from New York, where he had been wanting to leave for some time.
Among the myriad moves that Detroit Pistons GM Troy Weaver orchestrated before the NBA Trade Deadline was the exchange of Bojan Bogdanović and Alec Burks to the New York Knicks in return for guard Evan Fournier. Fournier had openly expressed his desire for a change in scenery, making the trade a mutually beneficial one.
Fournier had wanted a change of scenery for some time
While speaking with reporters on Monday, Fournier expressed his happiness that he had finally gotten his wish for a trade from the Knicks.
“I’m really excited to finally be out of New York, so looking forward to a new opportunity,” he explained on Monday.
“They haven’t said anything,” Fournier responded when asked about his potential role with Detroit. “As soon as I got traded, [Pistons general manager Troy Weaver] called me and said I was wanted here. That they tried to have me for the last couple of seasons now. I don’t know what’s going to happen. We’ll see.”
He had already stated this past September that he wanted to change teams.
“I’m still in New York at the moment,” he said prior to this season. “I want to leave. But beyond leaving, I want to have the opportunity to get some playing time back. That’s all. That’s mostly it. Because in New York, I feel extremely good. I love living there, I love the franchise, I love playing at Madison [Square Garden], I love the guys on the team. So I just want to play, that’s all. It’s true that finding another club, changing franchises, if that’s what you have to do to play again, that’s what I would like to do.”
TL;DR (too long didn’t read)
Among the trades from Detroit Pistons GM Troy Weaver last week was swapping Bojan Bogdanovic and Alec Burks to the New York Knicks for Evan Fournier
Now with the Detroit Pistons, Fournier expressed his excitement over having finally been dealt from the Knicks
Fournier had been hoping for a change in scenery for some time after falling out of the Knicks’ rotation
Bottom Line: A fresh start
Sometimes in just about any profession, a change of scenery is beneficial to all parties involved, and the fact that Fournier is expressing excitement to be in a new situation will only serve to benefit his new team.
Fournier and the Pistons will be taking on the Los Angeles Lakers tomorrow night at Crypto.com Arena, with tip-off scheduled for just after 10:30 PM.
Life after Miguel Cabrera officially begins for the Detroit Tigers, who gather for Spring Training this week.
As mid-February quickly approaches, Spring Training beckons for the Detroit Tigers. This week marks the arrival of team pitchers and catchers in Lakeland, Florida, with the first full-squad workout scheduled just one week from today. This upcoming Spring Training holds particular significance as it will be the first without Miguel Cabrera since the 2008 season, leaving behind sizable shoes to fill. However, current team members remain unfazed about navigating life in the wake of Cabrera’s retirement.
Life after Miguel Cabrera officially starts for the Detroit Tigers
There’s simply no replacing Cabrera in the eyes of starting pitcher Tarik Skubal.
“First off, you can’t replace that,” Skubal said. “Miguel Cabrera was arguably one of the best hitters of all-time, and he played for the Tigers it felt like forever. But I do like the culture that we have. I like the guys we have coming back.
“I loved our team last year. I thought it was a ton of fun and we’re all rowing the boat in the same direction, which is what you want. Yeah, we’re young, but we all kind of came up from the minor leagues together, so it feels like we have more experience than what our date of birth says.”
For Riley Greene, he’s not worried about a change in team chemistry in Cabrera’s absence.
“Miggy is gone, which sucks,” he said. “He was a big part of that team (last season). But we still have pretty much the same group. I thought our team chemistry really took a jump last season and it’s just gotten better and better.
“Team chemistry is hard to find and once you have it, you want to keep it and keep building off it. A lot of winning teams have that team chemistry. And we’ve got it.”
Both Skubal and Greene stand as integral components of the Tigers roster, poised to undertake significant roles in the team’s success throughout 2024.
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Detroit Tigers players are set to report to Lakeland, Florida to begin Spring Training
This marks the first Spring Training since 2008 that will not feature Miguel Cabrera, who retired following the 2023 season, as a member of the team
Detroit Tigers players reflect on the absence of Cabrera and their prospects of success in 2024.
Bottom Line: A new era of Tigers baseball in 2024
The transformative impact of successful sports teams on Detroit has been evident, notably with the Detroit Lions clinching their first division win in thirty years and the Detroit Red Wings’ progress under the famed “Yzerplan”.
Anticipate the Tigers joining this resurgence in the 2024 season under the direction of A.J. Hinch, solidifying Detroit’s narrative of sports renaissance
The shooter who opened fire at celebrity pastor Joel Osteen’s Lakewood Church in Houston before being killed by security officers had two rifles at the Texas megachurch but only used one, police said Monday. The shooter was identified as 36-year-old Genesse Ivonne Moreno, who had a history of mental health issues, police said during a news conference.
A motive for the attack that sent worshippers rushing for safety in between busy services on Sunday remains unclear, officials said. The shooter used an AR-15 rifle in the shooting.
“There was a sticker on the buttstock of the rifle that stated Palestine,” Houston Police Commander Christopher Hassig told reporters. He later said investigators believe the shooter acted alone.
Police recovered antisemitic writings in their investigation and believe there was a dispute between the shooter’s ex-husband and the ex-husband’s family, some of whom are Jewish, Hassig said.
The shooter also had a .22-caliber rifle in a bag that wasn’t used in the shooting, Hassig said.
Authorities said a 7-year-old boy who entered the church with the shooter and a man in his 50s were injured in the shooting. Authorities said the boy was in critical condition and is the shooter’s son.
A livestream from the church captured the moment gunshots could be heard just ahead of a Spanish-language service.
The shooter entered the church in a trenchcoat and started to fire before two off-duty officers working church security fired back, police said.
Officials said it wasn’t clear who fired the shot that hit the child.
The shooter threatened having an explosive, but the bomb squad didn’t find anything, police said.
“It could’ve been a lot worse,” Osteen told reporters during a news conference after the shooting.
An affidavit seeking a search warrant for a home in Conroe, about 40 miles north of Houston requested FBI assistance in retrieving any data from electronic devices found in the home.
Emergency vehicles line the feeder road outside Lakewood Church during a shooting on Feb. 11, 2024, in Houston.
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Joey Velazquez Leaves Michigan Football for Ohio State
Joey Velazquez has made a notable transition from the Michigan Wolverines to the Ohio State Buckeyes, joining as a walk-on for the football team. After spending five seasons at Michigan, primarily contributing on special teams, Velazquez entered the NCAA transfer portal in December and has now reportedly begun participating in winter strength and conditioning workouts with the Buckeyes.
Why it Matters
His move is significant not only because of the direct transfer between fierce rivals but also due to his athletic background, having been involved in both football and baseball during his tenure at Michigan. Interestingly, Velazquez had initially committed to play baseball for Ohio State before switching allegiance to Michigan, a decision he has now reversed in his athletic career by choosing to focus solely on football at Ohio State.
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Joey Velazquez transfers from Michigan to Ohio State as a walk-on.
His primary contributions at Michigan were on special teams, with eight career tackles.
Velazquez will focus solely on football at Ohio State, despite a previous commitment to play baseball there.
The Bottom Line – Crossing Rival Lines
Joey Velazquez’s switch from Michigan to Ohio State is more than just a transfer; it’s a narrative-rich development that feeds into the lore of one of college football’s most storied rivalries. As Velazquez embarks on this next chapter of his athletic career, his move will be watched with interest by fans and analysts alike. As a walk-on, Velazquez will have his work cut out for him to earn playing time, but we wish him the best (unless he is playing against Michigan or Michigan State)
André 3000 came out of retirement to tour his surprise new ambient jazz album.
“I just made all that shit up,” a beanie- and overalls-clad André 3000 says after delivering a powerful speech of gibberish that sounds like he’s speaking in tongues.
He explains to the crowd gathered at the Masonic Cathedral Theatre for his New Blue Sun performance in Detroit that it’s a combination of every language you’ve ever heard and that sometimes it feels good to just make noise. In fact, weird noises are encouraged at this show.
André 3000 and his ensemble played three gigs in Detroit on his New Blue Sun tour, one at Cliff Bells on Thursday and two at the Masonic Temple on Friday. He and his backing band — comprised of Carlos Nino, Nate Mercereau, and Surya Botofasina — riffed off songs from the reclusive rapper’s surprise new instrumental album, released in November, playing some of the main melodies and freestyling the rest. New Blue Sun is an improvisational album anyway, so it made sense. Throughout the tour the band will end up playing new music every night.
The smoke machine works overtime to billow hazy streams across the stage in the dimly lit cathedral. A blue laser beams down onto André’s flute from the balcony as a chorus of ring lights glow like luminescent all-seeing eyes cutting through the darkness.
André changes flutes several times throughout the show, sometimes playing distorted notes that sound more like they’re coming from a keyboard. The most interesting thing happening onstage isn’t André himself, however; it’s the percussion coming from Carlos Nino, who uses mallets to play the cymbals like a gong. Gentle wind chimes and thunderous beats like a war drum fill the cathedral like a sound bath meditation.
The best way to enjoy the show is to close your eyes. The music allows you to settle into stillness and as the night progresses I notice the tension in my shoulders and legs before allowing the music to melt it away.
André 3000 performed in Detroit’s Masonic Cathedral Theatre.
André invites the audience to join him in releasing whatever noises they feel like as he growls and purrs like a panther before playing “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh¥t Was Wild.” While there’s a bit of hesitation and no one quite lets themselves go completely, the crowd obliges with the occasional yell or “whoooo.” He tells us to take deep breaths, stand up, and stretch like an internal voice embodied.
In between songs, André gives short speeches, telling us how he began playing his flute in Los Angeles parks and met Nino in a grocery store, leading them to record New Blue Sun in his garage. He says that when he plays his flute in public, people from all cultures come up to him, because every culture has their own version of the ancient instrument.
“Whaddup doe,” he says. “I learned that yesterday.”
The Detroit crowd loves it.
The audience seems to be waiting for a climax but there isn’t one. Just four guys making it up as they go along like we’re all ultimately doing in this life. As the end of the night draws near underneath the crucifix hanging from the venue’s ceiling, frantic notes and screeching melodies start to feel like a horror movie soundtrack with the cathedral’s stained glass windows as a backdrop.
Appearing humble, he shouts out all the great music coming from Detroit, including the late new age jazz player Yusef Lateef.
“Tell Jack White we want to make some music with him,” André 3000 says before thanking the audience for allowing him to explore and leaving the stage.
The sobering analysis highlights a range of driving-related metrics, including fatal car crashes, speeding, drunk driving, and distracted drivers.
Out of the 50 most populated cities in the nation, Detroit ranks second in the rate of fatal car crashes, with 19.76 per 100,000 residents. Only Memphis, Tennessee, had a higher rate at 24.18 per 100,000 residents.
Detroit also ranks second in the rate of fatal car crashes involving a drunk driver (6.54 per 100,000 residents), second in the rate of fatal crashes involving speeding (6.8 per 100,000 residents), and second in the rate of people killed in fatal crashes (21.47 per 100,000 residents).
According to the study, Albuquerque, New Mexico, has the worst drivers in the U.S., followed by Memphis. Tucson, Arizona, ranked fourth, and Kansas City, Missouri, ranked fifth.
Auto insurance rates in Michigan were supposed to dramatically decline after state lawmakers and Gov. Gretchen Whitmer approved legislation in 2019 to combat the sky-high premiums. But the rates have remained high, and between 2023 and 2024, the average premiums in Detroit jumped 85%, from $3,067 to $5,687.
“More dangerous driving leads to increased risk and higher insurance rates,” Forbes Advisor reported. “Getting speeding tickets, running red lights, texting while driving and other reckless behaviors all raise your chances of accidents and damage claims. This makes you a greater liability in the eyes of insurers.”
Laylit, a collective that celebrates music from the Arab region and its diaspora, will be hosting a party in Detroit at Spot Lite this weekend. The night’s lineup of DJs will include Tammy Lakkis, a rising voice in Detroit’s electronic music scene, alongside fellow Detroiter aa3ع, plus MNSA from Montreal, and Laylit founder Saphe from New York City. Over the last five years, Laylit’s dance parties, which have been mainly held in NYC and Montreal, have become highly anticipated events offering a unique experience to North American nightlife. Each Laylit party gives DJs the freedom to uniquely showcase the musical diversity in the Arab region, blending traditional sounds of shaabi, dabke, and mahraganat with Arabic pop, hip-hop, and electronic dance music. The collective hopes to create unity through these events by valuing inclusivity across cultures, languages, and identities. Tickets will be available at the door or can be purchased online before the event at Resident Advisor.
Home prices may fall in 2024 but many experts aren’t sure at what point they’ll actually drop.
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As spring brings warmer weather and longer days, home buyers and sellers tend to come out of the woodwork. Those who’ve been thinking about buying all winter long, begin to shop around with lenders, lock in interest rates and hunt for their next dream houses. Meanwhile, sellers look for listing agents and begin to put their homes on the market.
Interest rates are currently on the higher end. The Fed has been holding its rate at 5.33%, putting the average mortgage rate at close to 7% — a high not seen in years but a decrease from the near 8% it was in 2023. While Fed rate decreases are expected this year, many don’t think they’ll come until at least summer.
As for inflation and home prices, both have come down but are still elevated. The inflation rate has been fluctuating between 3% and 4%, while the median price of houses sold is sitting at $417,700 — down from $479,500 at the end 2022, according to the St. Louis Fed.
If you’re thinking of entering the housing market this spring but wondering what home prices will do, it helps to know what some experts predict. Below, we’ll break down what some are expecting for home prices this spring.
Home prices may drop in 2024, but the experts we spoke don’t think it’s going to happen by spring.
Home prices may stay the same
“In my opinion, we’re not going to see significantly lower prices by spring or for 2024 in general, but I also don’t think that prices will significantly increase either,” says Tate Kelly, a real estate broker at Coldwell Banker Warburg.
Kelly explains that the real estate market is going through a rebalancing phase: “Not many homes were up for grabs at the end of 2023, and sellers, as well as buyers, were hesitant mainly due to the high-interest rates creating a situation of low supply and low demand.”
He does, however, think we may see more inventory in 2024 if interest rates drop and sellers get tired of waiting.
“I think buyers and sellers are going to realize that mortgage rates are not going back to the 2019-2022 levels, and after waiting on the sidelines for the past year, they’ll jump back into the market once rates get to 6-6.5%,” said Kelly, “That theoretically should boost housing prices, but I don’t think that will be the case for 2024 simply because buyers don’t have the assets to go on a spending frenzy.”
On the other hand, some experts are predicting price increases.
“Due to the combination of continued low inventory and improved consumer confidence from the anticipated decrease in rates, we are expecting, and already seeing, continued increase in prices,” says Greg Menell, the owner and managing broker of Pendulum Property Group.
“In terms of pricing, this week we had a home come to market for $2.5M that sold for $2.0M 16 months ago. It already has an accepted offer two days later,” Menell adds.
Dan Green, the CEO of Homebuyer.com, says spring’s housing market is the textbook economic concept of supply and demand.
“On one side, there’s loads of buyer demand jumping into the market with mortgage rates down and the economy going strong. On the other hand, you have homeowners who are reluctant to list their homes for sale. There’s an imbalance, and it’s leading home sale prices higher,” Green says.
“Home prices will continue to climb so long as buyers outweigh sellers, and there are millions of home buyers who’ve been waiting on the sidelines these last three years,” he adds.
Local real estate pricing trends can vary
While the predictions vary from home prices holding steady to increasing, none of the experts foresee them dropping by spring. However, keep in mind that trends in local markets can vary from the market at large. Prices may rise significantly in some locations and fall in others, depending on the local economic conditions.
“The pace at which home values rise this spring may slow in certain areas, but it’s like taking your foot off the gas in a car. You’re still moving forward and going fast,” Green says.
MIAMI — Authorities were investigating what led to a crash between two boats Sunday afternoon that led to over a dozen people being hurt near PortMiami.
A crash sent several people to the hospital after two boats collided Sunday afternoon.
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Around 3:15 p.m., over 30 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel, including two fireboats and an air rescue unit — alongside the City of Miami Fire, the Florida Wildlife Commission and the U.S. Coast Guard — responded to reports of a boat collision in Fisherman’s Channel near Dodge Island.
According to the Coast Guard, the two watercraft involved were a tour boat and a recreation vessel.
According to MDFR, the response was upgraded due to the number of people involved and the need for additional manpower.
MDFR told CBS News Miami that a total of 13 people were transported by responding agencies to a local hospital, while other patients on the scene were evaluated and released.
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Kansas City Chiefs outlast San Francisco 49ers in overtime to repeat as Super Bowl champs!
Once again, theKansas City Chiefsand the San Francisco 49ers were the final two National Football League teams standing, as both advanced to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas at Allegiant Stadium. It marked their second matchup in the championship game in five years, as they previously met in Super Bowl LIV in Miami. For just the second time in Super Bowl history, overtime was required, and it would be the Chiefs ultimately emerging victorious.
First Half
In the opening quarter, offensive action was scant. The 49ers squandered an opportunity to score as Christian McCaffrey‘s turnover halted their drive to the end zone. Similarly, the Chiefs struggled to generate momentum, mustering a mere 16 yards of offense—marking the lowest tally in a Super Bowl since the Denver Broncos managed only 11 against the Seattle Seahawks in 2014.
Following a scoreless first quarter, the 49ers broke the deadlock by notching the initial points of the game with a 55-yard field goal from Jake Moody, thereby establishing a new NFL record for the longest field goal in a championship game.
After an incredible 53-yard pass from Patrick Mahomes to Mecole Hardman, the Chiefs fumbled the ball, blowing another prime chance. Their frustration was palpable, especially after tight end Travis Kelce was seen screaming in the face of head coach Andy Reid:
The game’s first touchdown came from a crafty trick play. Quarterback Brock Purdy executed a lateral pass to receiver Jauan Jennings, who then launched a pass to McCaffrey for the score.
The Chiefs would manage to cut into the lead thanks to a 28-yard field goal from Harrison Butker with time ticking away in the 1st half.
Second Half
Butker would then break the record that Moody had set earlier in the game by nailing a 57-yard field goal, bringing the Chiefs closer:
Soon, Kansas City would be rolling, taking advantage of a costly turnover by the 49ers following a Chiefs punt:
Moments later, Mahomes would throw his first touchdown pass of the game, finding Marquez Valdes-Scantling and giving Kansas City their 1st lead:
Following suit with Detroit Lions head coach Dan Campbell‘s bold approach, the 49ers opted to go for it on 4th down, a decision that paid off as George Kittle successfully converted the crucial play.
Soon, the 49ers would take advantage of the 4th down conversion with a touchdown from Jennings:
Nevertheless, a pivotal defensive effort by the Chiefs resulted in a blocked extra point attempt by the 49ers. Shortly thereafter, the Chiefs leveled the score with another successful field goal from Butker.
San Francisco would re-seize the lead thanks to a 53-yard field goal from Moody:
As the seconds dwindled in the 4th quarter, Mahomes orchestrated a decisive drive for the Chiefs, advancing them into field goal range. With just three seconds left on the clock, Butker had no problem with the kick, knotting the score.
For just the second time in Super Bowl history, overtime was required.
Overtime
The 49ers won the coin toss and elected to receive, giving them the first possession opportunity of overtime. A San Francisco drive down the field would result in Moody successfully converting once again, giving his team the three point lead.
But in classic fashion, Mahomes would author a game-winning drive, leading the Chiefs down the field and finding Mecole Hardman Jr. in the end zone to become the first team since the 2003 and 2004 New England Patriots to repeat as Super Bowl champions.
TL;DR (too long didn’t read)
The San Francisco 49ers and Kansas City Chiefs advanced to Super Bowl LVIII in Las Vegas
The 49ers took the lead into halftime after a rather uneventful first two quarters
The two teams would eventually require overtime to decide the winner, with Patrick Mahomes and the Chiefs emerging victorious to repeat as champions
Bottom Line: The Chiefs are a dynasty
There’s no getting around it, the Kansas City Chiefs are a new NFL dynasty with three Super Bowl wins in five years.
Here’s hoping that eventually, the Lions will be able to experience the thrill of reaching the NFL mountaintop sometime in the near future. Until then, congratulations to the back-to-back champs.
Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show: Usher Draws Strong Fan Reaction for Performance
The Super Bowl Halftime Show is upon us as Usher, who is now 45 years old, is currently doing his thing on the biggest stage in the world. During and following the conclusion of the show, fans stormed to social media to give their reaction to the performance they just witnessed.
Fans React to Halftime Performance
As you are about to see in the sample of reactions on X (formerly Twitter), some people loved the performance and some would rather watch paint dry.
Note: We will begin adding reactions as soon as the show begins
Christian McCaffrey #23 of the San Francisco 49ers rushes during the NFC Championship game against the Detroit Lions at Levi’s Stadium on Jan. 28, 2024 in Santa Clara, CA. The 49ers defeated the Lions 34-31.
If you want to catch today’s game, there are a few ways to do it, with or without a cable TV subscription. To help you make sense of all your Super Bowl LVIII live streaming options, we’ve put together this guide with all the ways you can watch today’s game. Best of all, with some of these streamers, you can watch today’s Super Bowl for free.
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When is the 2024 Super Bowl? Who’s playing?
Super Bowl LVIII will be played between the Kansas City Chiefs and the San Francisco 49ers on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024 at 6:30 p.m ET (3:30 p.m. PT).
How to watch the 2024 Super Bowl without cable for free
If you’ve cut the cord with your cable company, or your cable subscription doesn’t include CBS or Nickelodeon, you can still watch the 2024 Super Bowl via a streaming platform’s free trial.
You can stream Super Bowl LVIII and the Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show today through a subscription to Paramount+. The streamer offers access to all NFL games locally and nationally televised on CBS on all its subscription tiers. You can watch top-tier soccer like the Champions League live and SEC college football games (with a Paramount+ with Showtime subscription) as well. All tiers of Paramount+ offer shows such as “1923,” “Survivor” and “NCIS” on demand.
The streamer offers a one-week free trial and allows you to cancel anytime. Sign up today, watch the 2024 Super Bowl and you’ll still have a few days left to watch Paramount+ content and decide if you want to keep your subscription or cancel. You won’t be charged until your seven-day free trial ends.
After the free trial period ends, a subscription to Paramount+ Essential is $5.99 per month. Bundle Paramount+ with Showtime for just $11.99 per month.
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The Super Bowl is is available to stream on Amazon Prime via a Paramount+ on Prime Video add-on subscription. Prime Video also carries some of the best sports docs, including “Kelce,” which documents Philadelphia Eagles star Jason Kelce’s (assumed) last season in the league.
Amazon is offering a seven-day free trial of Paramount+. Tap the button below to start your trial and watch today’s game for free. After the free trial period ends, a subscription to Paramount+ Essential is $5.99 per month, while the Paramount+ with Showtime tier is $11.99 per month.
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What is the Nickelodeon 2024 Super Bowl broadcast?
For the first time in history, the Super Bowl will be broadcast in two different formats. In addition to the CBS 2024 Super Bowl broadcast, the game will be simulcast on Nickelodeon. Nickelodeon’s family-friendly version of Super Bowl LVIII will feature virtual-reality graphics and Nick characters in the game broadcast. The kid-themed Super Bowl LVIII broadcast comes on the heels of “Nickmas”, the NFL’s Christmas Day broadcast on Nickelodeon during the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Las Vegas Raiders game.
You may not see Taylor Swift on the Nickelodeon Super Bowl 2024 broadcast, but fans can expect to see SpongeBob SquarePants at the game. You’ll be able to watch the Nickelodeon Super Bowl LVIII live feed with either Paramount+ or Fubo.
Super Bowl Sunday timeline
Whether you watch the game on Paramount+ or Fubo or your local cable TV provider, you’ll be able to catch all the Super Bowl 2024 coverage, not just the big game. Keep reading to learn how and when to see Usher, Reba McEntire and Post Malone perform.
Super Bowl 2024 pregame coverage: CBS Sports will host seven hours of pre-game coverage on CBS and Paramount+ beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
11:30 a.m. ET, “NFL Slimetime”: hosts Nate Burelson and Young Dylan preview the game with NFL highlights, picks and interviews.
12:00 p.m. ET, “Road to the Super Bowl”: NFL Films’ annual sports doc takes a look back at the 2023-2024 NFL season. The one-hour film features more than 125 NFL players’ and coaches’ mic’d up moments leading up to Super Bowl LVIII.
1:00 p.m. ET, “You are Looking Live!”: The story of “The NFL Today” takes a look back on 50 years of NFL studio coverage, including interviews with surviving original cast members Brent Musburger and Jayne Kennedy, as well as current TV personalities.
2:00 p.m. ET, “The NFL Today”: Live from the Bellagio Hotel and Allegiant Stadium, fans will be treated to four hours of pregame coverage leading up to kickoff. Host James Brown will be joined by analysts Phil Simms, Bill Cowher, Nate Burleson, Boomer Esiason and JJ Watt, and lead NFL insider Jonathan Jones. Ian Eagle, Charles Davis, Matt Ryan and Jason McCourty will provide additional commentary, along with Kyle Brandt and more.
Super Bowl 2024 kickoff and game schedule: Starting at 6:30 p.m., the San Francisco 49ers face the Kansas City Chiefs, with musical performances by Reba McEntire, Post Malone and Andra Day just before kickoff.
6:10 p.m. ET (approximately): Live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, NV, Post Malone will sing “America the Beautiful”, followed by the national anthem sung by Reba McEntire. Singer Andra Day will also perform hymn “Lift Every Voice and Sing.” Actor Shaheem Sanchez will sign Day’s song as well as perform the ASL version of Usher’s halftime performance.
6:30 p.m. ET, Super Bowl LVIII begins: Jim Nantz and Tony Romo are scheduled to call the game, with reporters Tracy Wolfson, Evan Washburn and Jay Feely and rules analyst Gene Steratore. Armando Quintero and Benny Ricardo call the Network’s SAP coverage in Spanish.
2024 Super Bowl postgame coverage: When the game is over, the action continues with CBS’ postgame coverage, including the presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners.
9:30 p.m -10:00 p.m. ET (approximately), postgame coverage begins: “The NFL Today” team will recap the Super Bowl and Jim Nantz will present the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the winners of Super Bowl LVIII.
Should Detroit Lions trade for All-Pro EDGE Haason Reddick?
The recent buzz around Philadelphia Eagles‘ All-Pro edge rusher Haason Reddick and his search for a new home has caught the attention of Detroit Lionsfans far and wide. After NFL Insider Ian Rapoport reported Reddick has received permission to seek a trade, speculation about the Lions‘ potential interest in him has skyrocketed among fans and analysts alike. I am here to tell you to pump the brakes on the Lions trading for Reddick.
Sources: #Eagles All-Pro edge rusher Haason Reddick has received permission to seek a trade following another disruptive season featuring double digit sacks. The 29-year old with 27 sacks over two seasons in Philly could land elsewhere. pic.twitter.com/WxIGTac24M
Acquiring Haason Reddick would undoubtedly mean a hefty financial commitment. At 29, following two standout seasons, he’s at the peak of his market value. A deal with the Lions would likely make him one of the highest-paid players, if not THE highest-paid player at his position. For a team under GM Brad Holmes that values strategic financial management and balanced team growth, such a contract could pose significant challenges.
The Cost in Draft Capital
Beyond the dollar signs, there’s the matter of what the Lions would need to give up to bring Reddick to Detroit. The Eagles would not let a player of his caliber go without a substantial return in draft picks. Given Holmes’ emphasis on building through the draft, the question becomes whether the price in potential future stars is worth the immediate impact Reddick could bring.
A Smart Approach to Team Building
Holmes has shown a preference for a calculated approach to assembling the team, focusing on the draft and judiciously using free agency. This strategy has begun to pay dividends, as evidenced by the Lions’ deep playoff run. Diverging from this approach by pursuing Reddick could represent a significant shift in team-building philosophy.
TL;DR (too long didn’t read)
Financial Burden: Reddick would command a top-tier salary, impacting the Lions’ salary cap and ability to sign other players.
Draft Capital: Acquiring Reddick would cost valuable draft picks, potentially hindering the team’s ability to build depth and address other needs.
Team Philosophy: GM Brad Holmes has prioritized long-term, sustainable team building through the draft over splashy free-agent signings or trades.
The Bottom Line
While the prospect of adding Haason Reddick to the Lions’ roster is enticing, considering his ability to transform a defense overnight, the overall cost—in both financial terms and draft capital—makes such a move questionable. Holmes and the Lions’ front office have shown a commitment to a strategic, disciplined approach to roster construction that favors the draft over high-cost acquisitions. Expect them to continue on this path, likely addressing the edge rusher need in the upcoming 2024 NFL Draft. The pursuit of sustainable success, it seems, will trump the allure of an immediate fix.
When Usher performs in the halftime show of Super Bowl 2024, arguably one of the globe’s biggest stages, the eight-time Grammy winner won’t be taking home one of the world’s biggest paychecks. In fact, he’ll follow other major performers in earning less than the price of admission — if anything at all.
How much do Super Bowl halftime show performers get paid?
Sunday’s matchup between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs will have multiple entities raking in money, but the same can not be said for Usher, who will not be getting paid other than union scale, a minimum guaranteed in a union contract, according to published reports.
Assuming the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists union’s most recent contract applies, that would translate to about $1,000 a day, People Magazine reported.
Why doesn’t the NFL pay Super Bowl halftime performers?
The NFL has a long-standing policy of only paying union scale for halftime performers that in the past have included Beyoncé, Rihanna, Prince, Whitney Houston, Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney. The NFL not only has a solid track record of never paying performers, it has gone as far as to try to charge artists for the chance to bask in the limelight of a Super Bowl audience. The NFL in 2015 solicited fees to perform from Rihanna, Cold Play and Katy Perry, who in the end rejected the notion.
Perry agreed to perform but not to pay for the opportunity, telling Forbes: “I want to be able to say I played the Super Bowl based on my talents and my merit, thank you very much.”
Why do Super Bowl halftime performers do the show for free?
Why would musicians accustomed to earning six or seven figures a show agree to perform for nothing or a pittance of their usual take home? For one thing, they are essentially getting to showcase their music to more than 100 million people without having to pay any of the costs, as the NFL does cover travel and production expenses. And that can be pricey. The NFL reportedly spent about $13 million to cover the costs of Jennifer Lopez and Shakira’s 2020 halftime show.
In Usher’s case, the highly anticipated 12-minute performance on Sunday will help promote the singer’s upcoming world tour and a new album release, and should be personally memorable for him as well.
“It’s gonna be a celebration. I’m gonna try my hardest not to cry, break down and cry on the stage,” he told CBS Mornings’ Gayle King.
It’s been almost four years since Hollywood therapist Amie Harwick was murdered on Feb. 15, 2020. For the first time, the man who tried to save her opens up about what happened.
Harwick’s roommate, Michael Herman, can never erase the memories of what happened to his friend in the early morning hours after Valentine’s Day 2020.
“I remember thinking like this is so much worse than any horror movie I’ve ever seen,” Herman tells “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty. “I just was, uh, woken up by screaming … like bloodcurdling scream … And I yelled up, you know, ‘Amie!’ And I heard choking right after that.”
Herman was in a downstairs bedroom when the attack happened. He was unable to find his phone and ran to their next-door neighbor’s house to get help, but there was no answer. He was finally able to use the phone of a stranger on the street.
“I was so proud of her and what she’s accomplished,” Tom Harwick said of his daughter Amie.
Robert Coshland
When LAPD officers arrived, they discovered Harwick gravely injured under her third-story balcony. On her balcony, there was a strange clue: a syringe filled with a mysterious yellowish-brown substance. There was no sign of Harwick’s attacker, but investigators later discovered evidence of an intruder – a shattered window of a French door. Harwick died at the hospital.
“She’s gone and I’m still here,” says Herman.
“Michael Herman has a lot of survivor’s guilt,” Moriarty tells Harwick’s parents.
“Oh, my goodness,” Penny Harwick says, “He did the exact right thing.”
Tom Harwick adds, “He made all the right decisions.”
A VIOLENT DEATH IN THE HOLLYWOOD HILLS
POLICE OFFICER (bodycam video to Michael Herman): Take a seat. Take a seat.
POLICE OFFICER (to Amie Harwick): Ma’am.
MICHAEL HERMAN: Oh, my God.
POLICE OFFICER: We — we need — we need an ambulance. … Ma’am, what happened to you?
In the early morning darkness of Feb. 15, 2020, police body cameras were recording as Amie Harwick – barely clinging to life outside of her Hollywood Hills home – was taken to a hospital.
POLICE OFFICER (bodycam video): If she says anything in the hospital, we need to know that.
As EMTs tried to save Amie, officers from the Los Angeles Police Department tried to make sense of the scene. Amie’s roommate, Michael Herman, appeared to be the only witness. He told the officers an intruder had attacked Amie.
MICHAEL HERMAN (bodycam video): I swear to you that was a struggle I heard.
Erin Moriarty: But is there any sign of the intruder?
Det. Scott Masterson: There wasn’t. There wasn’t.
Scott Masterson was the lead detective.
Det. Scott Masterson: All we knew when we showed up was that a female was found on the ground in the back of the house. … We’re wide open to … what really went on.
Even open to the possibility that this wasn’t foul play at all. When officers searched the three-story house, they found Amie’s purse, jacket and broken necklace on the floor — not exactly tell-tale signs of a crime — and a discovery on Amie’s balcony made them wonder if this could have been an accident or even suicide.
Det. Scott Masterson: On the deck of the balcony, we found … a medium-size syringe and it was loaded with a yellowish-brown substance.
Erin Moriarty When the officers first saw that they thought, what? Was this some kind of drug deal?
Det. Scott Masterson: Yeah, exactly … or maybe she was using drugs and fell over. …They didn’t know.
POLICE OFFICER (bodycam video): Sir, do you know her history of drug use?
MICHAEL HERMAN: No, she’s sober. She doesn’t drink. She didn’t even drink.
POLICE OFFICER: She doesn’t drink?
MICHAEL HERMAN: She doesn’t even drink. She’s sober.
Det. Scott Masterson: And when I first saw it, I said, “That’s not heroin.”
Not heroin. But Masterson didn’t know what it was.
Erin Moriarty: But what did you think? Wasn’t that odd?
Det. Scott Masterson: Very odd. Very strange.
And very strange to investigators, says Masterson, was that Herman had blood on his shirt. Although he said he was a roommate, he didn’t have his keys to the house when first responders arrived.
Det. Scott Masterson: They don’t know if he’s part of the problem, part of the solution.
POLICE OFFICER (bodycam video): He might be a suspect, dude, because he’s got blood on him.
Det. Scott Masterson: So, you know, they’re … thinking, “Was he in a fight with her?”
Michael Herman talks about the night of Amie Harwick’s death and how he tried to save her with “48 Hours” correspondent Erin Moriarty. “She’s gone and I’m still here,” said Herman.
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That was not true. Herman is telling his story publicly for the first time about the events on the night of Valentine’s Day 2020 and into the early hours of the next day.
Erin Moriarty: The word nightmare isn’t even a big enough word, is it?
Michael Herman: (shakes his head) No, no …
Amie had gone out with friends and Herman was in his downstairs bedroom.
Michael Herman: I’d been mostly nodding on and off, I remember what sounded like a plate dropping, being woken up by it.
Thinking it was Amie’s cat, he says he fell back asleep. He later woke up to Amie returning home and that bloodcurdling scream. He then heard what sounded like Amie being thrown to the floor, and later, choked.
Erin Moriarty: The sound made you feel that there was someone up with her.
Michael Herman: I knew — I knew for a fact there was somebody up there after that. … I’m trying to listen … you don’t know for sure what’s going on … Was he acting alone? Was there more than one person? … I start rushing to look for my phone.
But Herman says he couldn’t find his phone. He then started yelling to scare the intruder.
Michael Herman: I remember thinking like this is so much worse than any horror movie I’ve ever seen … you’re realizing that to save her like … you’ve gotta …make the decision to leave her … it was such a hard decision.
A security camera at at home next door shows Michael Herman knocking on the neighbor’s door.
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Herman fled the house to get help, but when he got to the front gate, it was locked. He climbed over a fence, cutting himself on spiked rods. Frantically, he ran to the next-door neighbor’s house. That neighbor’s surveillance camera shows Herman knocking on the door, but no one answers.
Michael Herman: I just … kind of panicked, you know, feeling like a lot of time had already passed.
He then ran into someone on the street and used their phone to call 911.
MICHAEL HERMAN (to 911): You guys need to get a cop here quick.
911 DISPATCHER: Sir, the officers are on the way.
After spending hours at the scene, investigators found something in the light of day that they had missed before: a broken window from a French door on the ground floor with blood nearby.
In the light of day, investigators spotted a broken glass panel on the French doors of Harwick’s home. “As soon as we saw that, OK … This is our point of entry,” Det. Scott Masterson said.
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Det. Scott Masterson: So, as soon as we saw that, OK … This is our point of entry. … We have a crime here. … Somebody broke into this house and did this.
Erin Moriarty: So, this was the first piece of evidence that said to you Mike Herman might be telling you the truth?
Det. Scott Masterson: Correct. Correct.
Later, at the Hollywood police station, Herman told Masterson about the person he believed was responsible.
Michael Herman: I told them she had an ex-boyfriend that she had had a restraining order against, that had expired. … I don’t know his name, but Robert would know his name.
Robert is Robert Coshland, one of Amie’s closest friends. “48 Hours” first spoke to Coshland in 2020. He told us what he told police.
Robert Coshland (2020): And they were like, you know, “Do you know who might have, you know, could have done this?” And I was like, “Yeah, Gareth.”
Gareth Pursehouse — an old boyfriend whom Amie had a troubled relationship with when they dated almost 10 years earlier.
Robert Coshland: I was like … “You need to go find this guy right away.”
Erin Moriarty: How difficult was it to hear that Amie didn’t make it?
Michael Herman: It’s still difficult to hear …
As investigators worked to find Amie’s ex-boyfriend, they also tried to find Amie’s parents Penny and Tom Harwick in Pennsylvania. The Harwicks remember getting ready for bed when there was a knock at the door. It was the local police.
Penny Harwick: And he said … “Amie’s been murdered” (cries).
Tom Harwick: It — it’s — it’s a blur right now.
Penny Harwick: I don’t know how to describe it, I —
Tom Harwick: Just devastated.
Penny and Tom’s life with Amie began when they adopted her as an 11-month-old baby.
Erin Moriarty: Do you remember the first time you saw your little girl?
Penny Harwick: Oh, I absolutely remember … kind of like a fairy tale. … here’s this beautiful little girl sitting there and she’s going to come home with us and — and be our daughter. It was wonderful.
Tom Harwick: And believe it or not, she had a head full of curls.
Penny Harwick: And her hair was honey colored. … By the time she was 4, it was so dark.
The Harwick family
Harwick family
Around that same time, the Harwicks adopted their son, Chris.
Penny Harwick: She was OK with it for a couple of weeks. And then she said, “Well, when is he going back?” (laughs) … And I said, “Well, he’s not. He’s your brother. He’s gonna be here forever.”
Erin Moriarty: How would you describe your sister?
Chris Harwick: Amie was a very interesting, uh, character. … She was into heavy metal and rock music, going to concerts.
And Amie got her parents in on the action, too.
Tom Harwick: She turned Penny and I into metalheads or headbangers.
Penny Harwick: She did.
Erin Moriarty: Seriously?
Penny Harwick: Seriously.
Tom Harwick: She would always manage to get either backstage or to meet the performers. That’s just who she was.
After high school, Amie met Tommy Decker, a drummer from L.A. at a local concert. The two began dating long distance.
Penny Harwick: And then she said, “I wanna move out there. I wanna move out to L.A.”
In 2001, she headed west. She was 20 years old.
Penny Harwick: She needed to find out who she was. She needed to do that for herself.
Soon, the couple tied the knot. But after a three-year marriage, Decker and Amie divorced. It wasn’t until 2009, that Amie would go on to meet Gareth Pursehouse — the man police suspected had killed her, and whom they were now searching for.
GARETH PURSEHOUSE’S TROUBLED PAST
Det. Scott Masterson: I was very confident that, you know, Gareth Pursehouse was our guy.
Within 13 hours of Amie Harwick’s death on Feb. 15, 2020, police descended on Pursehouse’s beachside neighborhood to arrest him.
Det. Scott Masterson: You could tell he was playing the old, what’s this about, why do you wanna talk, who, uh — oh yeah, I know Amie, sure, yeah. …He, basically, was saying I’ve been at home.
Detectives weren’t buying that story or the explanation Pursehouse gave for what appeared to be a fresh black eye: he blamed a home renovation.
Det. Scott Masterson: I said, “I think you better get a contractor. … if you get a hold of a power tool, you’re gonna be in real trouble.”
Gareth Pursehouse was charged with Amie Harwick’s murder on Feb. 19, 2020.
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Pursehouse was charged with Amie’s murder on Feb. 19, 2020, and detectives were learning about his troubled past — beginning not long after he and Amie began dating in 2009.
Rudy Torres (2020): They seemed like a pretty fun couple, and kinda nice to see, you know, friends get together.
When “48 Hours” first spoke to Rudy Torres in 2020, he talked about how the couple met: Amie, then working as a model and dancer, would often run into Pursehouse, an events photographer, at flashy L.A. parties.
Rudy Torres (2020): If you would meet him you would think he’s charming. A little goofy. Kinda dorky.
Erin Moriarty: He wasn’t a musician like she normally dated?
Penny Harwick: No, no, no. And she was trying to break that habit (laughs).
Pursehouse was also a computer expert and an aspiring comedian, but oddly, says Amie’s mother Penny, her daughter didn’t share much else about him.
Erin Moriarty: And why do you think that is?
Penny Harwick: Well, maybe she was already feeling like he wasn’t who she thought he was.
And Penny says her daughter never shared how volatile the two-year relationship had become.
Det. Scott Masterson: She had gone through … quite a bit … with Gareth. There was … a number of police reports that were made.
Amie Harwick and Gareth Pursehouse
Detectives learned that Amie had called police to report several violent incidents over the years. She said that on multiple occasions Pursehouse had “choked,” “suffocated” and “punched” her “with a closed fist,” and she even documented her injuries with these photos. But Amie’s father Tom says Amie didn’t share just how bad things had gotten.
Tom Harwick: She didn’t go into details.
Erin Moriarty: Do you think she just wanted to protect the two of you?
Penny Harwick: I think so.
Tom Harwick: Yes, yes.
After Amie ended the relationship, she took steps to protect herself by obtaining a restraining order against Pursehouse in 2012. But while she was trying to distance herself from him, Torres says, Pursehouse could not let her go.
Rudy Torres: He always wanted to — get ahold of her … And I used to tell him … that he should just leave her alone … And he wouldn’t take no for an answer. … And then he cut me off.
In the years after their breakup, Amie told her parents her home was broken into. On one occasion, strangely, the only things taken were personal photos, and on another, her computer was wiped clean.
Erin Moriarty: And did she think it was Gareth?
Penny Harwick: She did.
Tom Harwick: Yes. Oh, yes.
Erin Moriarty: But no way of proving.
Penny Harwick: No way of proving anything. … Of course, we were worried, but then we also felt like, well, she’s done with him … It’s over. … And it was never over.
And Penny says Amie was thriving—getting a degree to become a licensed therapist.
Amie posted therapy videos on her social media.
AMIE HARWICK (video): You can seek therapy to address an issue like depression, anxiety, a breakup. You can also seek therapy to be a better you!
But even as Amie focused on helping others, she couldn’t quite shake the shadows from her past. She lost a job as a youth counselor, Penny says, after a prospective employer was anonymously sent nude photos of her. Amie believed Pursehouse was behind it.
Penny Harwick: She was really upset about it. … And she wasn’t sure what she was going to do.
Despite that obstacle, Amie studied for a Ph.D. in human sexuality, earning the title “Dr.” She took a special interest in marginalized groups — sex workers and vulnerable women.
Erin Moriarty: And she doesn’t stop. She just –
Tom Harwick: She bounced right back.
Penny Harwick: No, she didn’t stop. … she would work with these groups of people that she felt were underrepresented and needed help.
Erin Moriarty: What was Dr. Harwick’s reputation?
Emily Sears: Doctor Amie Harwick … had an amazing reputation. I had a lot of mutual friends that had seen her.
Emily Sears, a model who’s graced the cover of Maxim Magazine,first started seeing Dr. Amie Harwick in 2017, in part, to help her overcome anxiety she had around dating and intimacy.
Emily Sears: I felt that she was relatable. … well, I didn’t know just exactly how relatable it was.
Even when she opened up to Amie about an abusive ex-boyfriend who had stalked her, Sears says Amie never told her about her own similar experience.
Emily Sears: And that still is something that I am struggling to process … knowing that I was sitting across from her, and she had been through so much that was similar.
As Amie was helping Sears work through her issues around dating, Amie was taking a chance on a new man in her own life: Drew Carey, comedian and host of “The Price is Right” on CBS.
Drew Carey (2022): She was — obviously really beautiful … she was really smart … She just wanted to help people. Especially women.
“48 Hours” spoke to Carey in 2022. He said that it wasn’t long after meeting Amie at a party that he decided she was the one.
Drew Carey (2022): And I said, “If this is — if this keeps goin’ the way it’s goin’, I’m gonna marry her.”
Erin Moriarty: And what happened?
Penny Harwick: What happened was … he ended up taking her to Paris on New Year’s Eve and proposing to her …And she accepted.
In 2018, Drew Carey introduced Amie Harwick as his fiancee on a special Valentine’s Day episode of the CBS’ “The Price is Right.”
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Carey and Amie shared the news on his show soon after.
DREW CAREY | “The Price is Right”: I’d like to introduce you to my brand new, lovely fiancée, Amie. How are you doing, Amie?
But instead of spending the rest of their lives together, later that year, the couple split up.
Erin Moriarty: How did she take the breakup?
Penny Harwick: She was devastated. I mean, she broke it off. … And I think that’s because, well, fame was getting in the way.
That’s because, says Penny, Amie feared that with the added public attention she was getting while on the arm of a celebrity, she could be putting herself in danger.
Penny Harwick: You know who was watching and it made her worry.
“IF SOMETHING HAPPENS TO ME, HE DID IT”
Emily Sears: It hit home a lot after Amie passed, in the way that she did … how dangerous it really is for women.
Emily Sears, one of Amie Harwick’s therapy clients, was shaken by the news of her death.
Emily Sears: The reality is we’re not safe, nobody is.
Victor Avila: In dealing with some domestic violence cases, this was a bit different because … the way Gareth Pursehouse acted in this case was more methodical.
When Deputy District Attorney Victor Avila took on the case, he was particularly troubled by evidence that Pursehouse had broken into Amie’s house, hoping to catch her off guard when she arrived home.
Victor Avila: And that’s at the point that we decided to charge not only the murder charge … but also the special circumstance of lying in wait.
Avila along with his co-counsel Deputy District Attorney Catherine Mariano, reviewed surveillance and body camera video, interviews with Amie’s family and friends, and compiled a timeline of the events leading up to the murder.
Catherine Mariano: It became very clear to me that … his obsession drove … his intent to kill her.
“Tonight I felt very scared. … It terrifies me that he’s been obsessed with me for nine years, thinks about me every day,” Amie Harwick wrote in an email to herself, about a month before her murder, after she ran into ex-boyfriend Gareth Pursehouse.
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They believe that Pursehouse’s obsession with Amie was ignited when he saw her at an awards show about a month before her murder. It was a chance encounter: Pursehouse working the gig as a photographer; Amie smiling for the cameras, enjoying the limelight. But moments earlier, off camera, witnesses say an angry Pursehouse confronted her. Penny Harwick recalls Amie telling her she hadn’t seen him in almost a decade.
Penny Harwick: He called her a bitch and … he told her she ruined his life… And she just told me how afraid she was, because … he was crying … and causing a huge scene. And she said, “Mom, I went into therapist mode. I just tried to calm him.”
After talking to Pursehouse for almost an hour, Amie left the event very worried.
Erin Moriarty: What was your reaction, Penny, when she was telling you this?
Penny Harwick: Oh, that’s when we talked about security … And … she said she was going to get pepper spray.
Robert Coshland: We decided to start sharing location so I could track where she was.
Her close friend, Robert Coshland, says sharing her phone’s location was one of the few things Amie felt she could do to feel safe. The restraining order against Pursehouse had long expired, and because Pursehouse hadn’t expressly threatened her, Coshland says she didn’t think going to police would help. Still, he says, Amie was very concerned.
Robert Coshland: That’s when she said, look … “if something happens to me, he did it.”
Erin Moriarty: She actually said.
Robert Coshland: She literally said that.
Victor Avila: She’s thinking that he can cause me harm. … and the very next day … he finds her phone on the internet and starts texting her.
Pursehouse sent Amie a series of texts and later left her a tear-filled voicemail:
GARETH PURSEHOUSE (voicemail): I have so much I need to say. Please give me a chance to just say it. … Please (crying)please.
That’s when prosecutors say Amie decided to block his number.
Victor Avila: I believe, up until that point, he was trying to manipulate his way back into her life … the point that she made the decision … to block him … that was her choice, and she had that right to do that.
Prosecutors say Pursehouse started planning to kill Amie on Valentine’s Day.
Erin Moriarty: Was that just a random date?
Catherine Mariano: Absolutely not. … I think he wanted to make a statement by killing her on Valentine’s Day.
Victor Avila: And then you get those Ring cameras that show a person that looks just like Gareth Pursehouse with gloves.
Gareth Pursehouse’s gloved hand is seen covering Amie Harwick’s neighbor’s security camera.
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Det. Scott Masterson: When he first comes into view … he covers the camera. And when the camera senses … no more motion, it shuts off and then he hops over the fence.
And into Amie’s yard.
Soon after, around 9 p.m., they believe Pursehouse broke through that French door.
Victor Avila: And that’s consistent with Michael Herman. … He heard something breaking upstairs early in the evening.
Det. Scott Masterson: And I think he just … got into the house, cut himself. I don’t think he even realized he cut himself.
Leaving that blood police later found nearby, DNA testing would confirm it belonged to Pursehouse. And Det. Masterson says where Pursehouse went next was revealed by Amie’s unmade bed.
Det. Scott Masterson: I think he climbed in her bed … He was there waiting for her … for quite a while.
Erin Moriarty: How creepy is that?
Det. Scott Masterson: Crazy creepy.
“I think [Gareth Pursehouse] climbed in her bed,” says Det. Masterson. He calls it, “very creepy.”
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That’s where Masterson believes Amie found him four hours later when she arrived home a little after 1 a.m.
Det. Scott Masterson: She … walks into her bedroom … And I think she just froze in shock and fear. … and the one thing that was on the bed was her phone. So, I think she actually … threw her phone at him and turned and started to run out of the bedroom. … And she’s screaming. … and they’re fighting and they’re wrestling.
Erin Moriarty: How hard did Amie fight for her life?
Det. Scott Masterson: I think she fought with everything she had.
Victor Avila: He had something that appeared to look like … a bite mark on his bicep.
And Pursehouse also had that black eye.
Victor Avila: To us it was indicative of Amie fighting for her life … but she was obviously up against a much bigger, stronger opponent.
Prosecutors believe Pursehouse started choking Amie, and that’s when Michael Herman yelled, they believe, catching Pursehouse by surprise.
Catherine Mariano: And I think that plan was definitely thwarted by the … unbeknownst presence of Michael Herman there. I just don’t believe that he even knew that somebody was home.
Evidence marker 18: A syringe found on Amie Harwick’s third-floor balcony.
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In his panic, they believe Pursehouse dropped that syringe police found on the balcony. It was months before lab tests revealed what it contained: liquid nicotine.
Victor Avila: A toxic poison, that if injected into someone, it would kill them.
Erin Moriarty: Why kill her that way?
Victor Avila: I mean … with that lethal dose of nicotine … people may not know what killed her … It may not be detected.
With his original plan interrupted, prosecutors believe that Pursehouse carried Amie—barely conscious after being strangled—to the third story balcony.
Victor Avila: Lifts her right over the rail and then drops her … to kill her.
Gareth Pursehouse is caught on the neighbor’s camera again as he left the scene.
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Gareth Pursehouse is caught on the neighbor’s camera hopping back over the fence.
With their suspect and theory of the crime, the prosecutors were ready for trial. But they were surprised by Pursehouse’s defense: blaming Amie for what happened that night.
THE MURDER TRIAL OF GARETH PURSEHOUSE
In August 2023, more than three years after Amie Harwick’s death, her accused killer Gareth Pursehouse went on trial.
Gareth Pursehouse with one of his defense attorneys during his murder trial in 2023.
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Catherine Mariano: I almost didn’t recognize him.
Victor Avila: Right.
In their opening statements, prosecutors Victor Avila and Catherine Mariano told jurors why and how they believe Pursehouse ended Amie’s life in the early morning of Feb. 15, 2020.
VICTOR AVILA (in court): Dr. Amie Harwick was murdered by defendant, Gareth Pursehouse, because he was obsessed with her. He strangled her. … lifted her up over the balcony and dropped her to her death.
Tom Harwick: I just pray that Amie was unconscious when she was — when she went over the balcony.
Tom and Penny Harwick
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Tom and Penny Harwick sat through every second of the trial; even the most graphic moments.
Penny Harwick: I need to know what happened to my daughter.
Tom Harwick: And we wanted to be there for Amie.
Penny Harwick: Yeah.
Tom Harwick: Through the whole ordeal.
But the Harwicks were not alone. Also in the courtroom: a small army of Amie’s friends – including Rudy Torres.
Rudy Torres: This is the last thing I could ever do for her.
Although fortified by her friends, nothing could prepare the Harwicks to hear — for the first time ever — Gareth Pursehouse’s explanation about what happened the night Amie died. Defense attorney Evan Franzel claims that running into Amie in January 2020 at that awards show had sent Pursehouse into “a deep debilitating depression” and the only way out of it was to talk to Amie on Valentine’s Day 2020.
EVAN FRANZEL (in court): His only intention that night was to speak to her.
Erin Moriarty: What was your reaction to that?
Penny Harwick: Bull***, to put it bluntly. They’re making up stories because they have no defense.
And as for that nicotine-filled syringe found at the crime scene, Pursehouse’s defense attorney says it wasn’t for Amie.
EVAN FRANZEL (in court): He brought it intending to kill himself.
Det. Scott Masterson: Why didn’t he? … No, he was on a mission … to kill her.
Victor Avila: He was wearing gloves when he went there, he covered up the cameras. What’s the purpose in doing all that if you’re going to kill yourself there in front of her?
The defense tells the jurors they will hear from an accident reconstructionist who will show that Amie fell on her own. Franzel then shows the jury two images: a screenshot of the reconstruction showing an animated figure hanging from the balcony and an undated photo of Amie posing on top of a balcony railing.
The images the defense showed in court: a screenshot of the reconstruction showing an animated figure hanging from the balcony and an undated photo of Amie Harwick posing on top of a balcony railing.
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EVAN FRANZEL (in court): You’ll see that she had a certain comfort level with the balcony railing.
Penny Harwick (referencing the photo of Amie shown in court): Beautiful young lady, wasn’t she? She looked glorious.
Erin Moriarty: What was your reaction?
Tom Harwick: Ridiculous.
Penny Harwick: I couldn’t take it seriously. It was just so farfetched to me.
Victor Avila: She’s been strangled, she’s debilitated. So for her to then walk … climb over a 3-foot rail, … do all that … it doesn’t seem reasonable. It seems actually unreasonable.
The defense’s opening concludes with this damning admission:
EVAN FRANZEL (in court): Yes, Gareth Pursehouse was waiting in her home. He broke into her home. Had he not been there she wouldn’t have died that night. That is not in dispute. He set a chain of actions into motion that led to her death, but the evidence will show that he never intended on killing her.
Over the course of 10 days, the prosecution presented its evidence to prove that Pursehouse did intend to kill Amie Harwick. Dozens of witnesses testified for the state, including Masterson – now retired, Coshland and, of course, Amie’s roommate, Michael Herman — the man who heard it all. Herman described for the jury how after that incident on the red carpet, Amie had been concerned about those French doors that Pursehouse would later use to break into her home.
MICHAEL HERMAN (in court): Amie had met with a handyman. …I remember, uh, they were over by the glass doors … and Amie was pointing it out and telling him, “We need to secure this.”
Prosecutors also played for the jury a taped jail conversation between Pursehouse and his friends after his arrest.
GARETH PURSEHOUSE: I guess I’m officially a bad boy now, right? I’ve always been kind of (laughs).
Catherine Mariano: Just a couple of weeks after he’s been arrested for murder … he’s laughing with his friends. … You never hear any moment of concern for Amie during that call.
GARETH PURSEHOUSE: Yeah, so s***’s not great. I’m not getting outta here.
Erin Moriarty: Why was that important?
Victor Avila: I think that’s … one piece of evidence … to show a consciousness of guilt. … So he knows what’s coming. … because the evidence shows what he did. … It proves what he did.
When it was the defense’s turn to present its case and call its expert witness to show how Amie’s fall from the balcony was an accident, the defense suddenly rested without calling a single witness.
Erin Moriarty: Didn’t that hurt the defense?
Victor Avila: I am sure some jurors were wondering what happened … So, I don’t think that helps.
During closing arguments, defense attorney Robin Bernstein-Lev presented a new theory of what happened that night: that Amie may have attacked Pursehouse.
ROBIN BERNSTEIN-LEV (in court): We don’t know who initiated the physical confrontation. … It is just as likely if not likelier … she preemptively attacked Gareth Pursehouse in order to subdue him because she was afraid of him.
Det. Scott Masterson: You see that all the time, don’t you, a 115-pound … lady picking a fight with a 230-pound, 6’4″ man? … It’s just preposterous on its face.
Erin Moriarty: Did that make you mad?
Penny Harwick: Oh … it took all my willpower to stay in that seat, to keep my mouth shut.
During the state’s closing arguments, it’s Amie Harwick who has the last word with Prosecutor Mariano reading from an email Amie wrote to herself hours after her January 2020 encounter with Pursehouse.
CATHERINE MARIANO (reading Amie’s email in court): “Tonight, I felt very scared … Gareth came up behind me and started screaming.”
Catherine Mariano (reading Amie’s email for Moriarty): “I’m pretty nervous that I’m more on his radar now. It terrifies me that he’s obsessed with me for nine years, thinks about me every day… He’s focused on harming me.”
Det. Scott Masterson: That’s the closest we’ve ever had to a victim testifying in their murder. … I thought it was extremely devastating.
Jurors had three choices: murder in the first degree, murder in the second degree, or the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter.
Tom Harwick: When it came time for deliberation, I think we all thought it would be rather quick. … Day One went by: nothing.
Penny Harwick: I started getting a little worried and thinking what could they be debating about?
JUSTICE FOR AMIE HARWICK
Catherine Mariano: I felt nervous.
Victor Avila: Yeah.
Catherine Mariano: …because you never know.
As jurors met for a second day to decide Pursehouse’s fate, the waiting for a verdict began to weigh heavily on the prosecution.
Catherine Mariano: It’s incredibly, nerve-wracking. … The wait is the worst part.
And on Amie’s friends and family.
Rudy Torres: And all you hear is just like a symphony of anxious bellies, just grr. So, everybody’s nervous.
But as court was about to adjourn —
Tom Harwick: We were walking out of the courthouse, and Rudy called down and said … “Everybody get up here. There’s a verdict!”
JUDGE GEORGE G. LOMELI: Is it correct that the jury has a verdict?
JUROR 1: Yes.
JUDGE GEORGE G. LOMELI: You can hand the verdict form over to the bailiff, please.
CLERK: We the jury in the above-entitled action find the defendant, Gareth Pursehouse, guilty of the crime of murder in the first degree.
Penny Harwick: A huge relief. Huge relief. I just started crying, and I couldn’t stop. It was like, whew, finally, after all this time, he’s going to be held accountable for what he did.
Robert Coshland: Justice was rendered and that’s good, but we shouldn’t be here at all. This should never have happened to begin with. … The hole in our lives remains.
Penny Harwick: He’s impacted so many people with his actions, so many people. … He devastated our family.
A family that has grown. After the verdict, Tom gathered Amie’s friends — the ones who have stood by them every step of this journey.
Tom Harwick: I said, “You’re not our friends, you’re family. You really have (crying) become our family.”
Erin Moriarty: Could you have gotten through this without them?
Tom Harwick: No.
Penny Harwick: I don’t think so.
It’s a testament to the amazing life and community Amie Harwick created.
Tom Harwick: And our biggest disappointment was … it lost all its impact when COVID shut everything down.
Prosecutor Mariano acknowledges that there are limits to the legal system.
Catherine Mariano: By the time it gets to our table … we’re in a position to act reactively rather than proactively. … But as a society, I think we can always do better, right?
Victor Avila: Right.
After the trial, Amie’s parents headed home to Pennsylvania — the place where they first became a family with their little girl and watched her grow into the woman admired and now missed by so many.
Tom, Penny and Amie Harwick
Harwick family
Erin Moriarty: What’s the hardest part?
Penny Harwick: Just the — the absence, the quiet.
Tom Harwick: Just one huge void, one huge void.
Penny Harwick: … and I miss our adventures.
Adventures remembered when they visit Amie’s grave.
PENNY HARWICK (placing flowers on Amie’s grave) I couldn’t get a brighter orange. I know orange was your favorite color, but this is the closest I could get.
TOM HARWICK: We miss you, Amie. Every day, we think of you.
Penny Harwick: We’re not the same people we were before, but we keep trying to be.
Erin Moriarty: Anything you wish you had been able to say to her?
Penny Harwick: Just to tell her one more time that I love her. I know she knew it, but I wanted to be able to say it.
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Detroit Red Wings head coach Derek Lalonde ‘loved’ his team’s effort as part of their thrilling come-from-behind win today.
Although the Detroit Red Wings faced adversity this afternoon against the visiting Vancouver Canucks, they showcased their resilience yet again, mounting a thrilling comeback that culminated in a historic moment for the team. Jake Walman‘s overtime winner on a penalty shot marked the first occurrence of its kind in Red Wings history, securing a 4-3 victory for Detroit. And head coach Derek Lalonde praised his team for their effort during the afternoon afterward.
The Red Wings earned a come-from-behind win in OT
The Red Wings got the ball rolling early thanks to a spectacular goal from Lucas Raymond not even a full 60 seconds into regulation.
Shortly after the Canucks tied the score in the 2nd period, Raymond endured a rough hit from Canucks defenseman Nikita Zadorov, resulting in the latter receiving a 5-minute match penalty. Fortunately, Raymond managed to return to the game after being shaken up on the ice.
Despite the extended powerplay opportunity, the Red Wings struggled to generate significant offense. The situation worsened when former Red Wings defenseman Filip Hronek accidentally high-sticked Dylan Larkin in the face, prolonging the powerplay. Detroit failed to capitalize once again, and Hronek swiftly exited the penalty box to score against goaltender Alex Lyon with a backhand-forehand deke. A goal by Elias Pettersson increased Detroit’s deficit to two goals heading into the final frame.
However, goals from Daniel Sprong and Michael Rasmussen leveled the score for Detroit, setting the stage for 3-on-3 overtime. After Walman was hooked on a breakaway attempt, he was granted a penalty shot, which he successfully converted.
Derek Lalonde ‘loved’ the effort from the Red Wings
Speaking afterward, Lalonde singled out the play of his team as a positive, especially early in the game despite having not played in 10 days.
“I loved the effort, loved our start,” Lalonde said. “We had issues in the second, a little disappointing in that back-to-back games where we give up a goal to the guy coming out of the penalty box (this time, Hronek). But the third period, to come back against a team like that, that has protected a lead like that all year, was great.”
Lalonde also praised the comeback effort, which has been a theme all season long.
“It comes from the room, and good on the guys,” Lalonde said. “It’s a crazy amount of third-period comebacks to get points. That’s good on the group but not a recipe for success. You don’t want to continue to put yourself in those situations, especially against elite teams like that.”
Meanwhile, Lalonde also had a special shoutout for Walman, who successfully converted his 1st career penalty shot opportunity.
“Good on him,” Lalonde said. “Those are situations, I doubt he’s taken a shootout in the NHL. We have a deep group (of shooters) and he won’t find himself in the top five, but again, for him to have that poise and he knew exactly what he was doing, and the poise, he buried it.
TL;DR (too long didn’t read)
The Detroit Red Wings returned to gameplay for the first time in 10 days, hosting the Vancouver Canucks at Little Caesars Arena
Despite falling behind by a 3-1 score, Detroit rallied for a 4-3 come-from-behind victory thanks to Jake Walman’s overtime penalty shot tally
Head coach Derek Lalonde ‘loved’ his team’s effort, especially right off the bat
Bottom Line: Another valuable pair of points
Continuing their momentum from January, the Detroit Red Wings secured another crucial set of points as they strive to maintain their position in the playoff race, currently holding a Wild Card spot in the Eastern Conference.
Their schedule resumes on the road as they face the Edmonton Oilers at Rogers Place on Tuesday night.
