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Scoreboard roundup — 9/15/22

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(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Thursday’s sports events:

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Chi White Sox 8, Cleveland 2

Tampa Bay 11, Toronto o

Houston 5, Oakland 2

Minnesota 3, Kansas City 2

NATIONAL LEAGUE

Miami 5, Philadelphia 3

NY Mets 7, Pittsburgh 1

Cincinatti 3, St. Louis 2

Arizona 4, San Diego 0

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE

Kansas City 27, LA Chargers 24

WOMANS NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION

Connecticut 105, Las Vegas 76

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Ciara has one goal for her new album: “I want to make the world dance”

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It’s been three years since Ciara released her last album, Beauty Marks, and now the Grammy winner is happy to say album #8 is complete. Ciara has always been known for her dazzling choreography, and she wants her music to inspire great moves for her fans.

“The world can never have enough joy, the world can ever never have enough love and the world can definitely never have enough dance,” Ciara says in the Ebony September/October cover story. “There’s so much energy in this album because I want to make the world dance. That’s always been my thing,” the 36-year-old entertainer continues. “It’s the tempo and beat I’ve been moving to in my music, and the key sentiments I’ve poured into this album.”

In July, Ciara released “Jump,” her first new single in two years. It is expected to be on her new album, which does not yet have a release date.

“There is an R&B core in these records. To be honest, this album feels nostalgic,” she says. “It takes me back to my first album in a way that no project I’ve done to this point has before.”

Ciara recorded her new project during the COVID-19 pandemic. She says that the global spread of the virus has forced her, and so many people, to become more resourceful.

“I think one of the greatest things that came out of the pandemic is realizing we’re all much stronger than we thought we were,” Ciara says, “and we’re all trying to find ways to thrive.

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Lil Baby to receive Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award

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Lil Baby will be honored with the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award at the second annual Music in Action Awards Gala.

The event, hosted by the Black Music Action Coalition, will be held September 22 at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, according to Variety.

BMAC is celebrating artists, executives, businesses, entrepreneurs, activists and companies that have utilized their platforms to effect social change over the past year.

Lil Baby is being recognized for fighting for racial and social justice inside and outside of the music industry.

The Grammy winner recently hosted his third-annual Back to School Fest for over 3,000 children in Atlanta.

“The Bigger Picture” rapper also established the $150,000 My Turn scholarship program for students at his former high school in the A-T-L.

Last year, the Weeknd and H.E.R. received the Quincy Jones Humanitarian Award.

Lil Baby is featured on DJ Khaled’s new God Did album and will release his third album, It’s Only Me, on October 14.

His 2018 collabo with Gunna, “Drip Too Hard,” was certified Diamond this week

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Oprah learned from Sidney Poitier “what it means to be a real star”

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Oprah Winfrey is paying tribute to the late Sidney Poitier as the producer of the new documentary Sidney, which premiered September 10 at the Toronto Film Festival.

Winfrey was a close friend of the iconic actor who became the first Black man to win an Academy Award for best actor in 1964 for his role in Lilies of the Field.

“I learned from watching him, Maya Angelou, and Quincy Jones what it means to be a real star. The bigger the star, the more humble you are with everyone else,” Oprah told BET.

“I’ve seen nothing but humility in his personal and professional life. I’ve learned to ground myself with everything around me because he was my counsel, friend and advisor,” she added. “He was a steady force of humility and integrity.”

Working with director Reginald Hudlin, the 19-time Emmy winner says her goal for the documentary is for the public “to see the best of what it means to be a real man and what the measure of a man is.”

“To this day, Poitier’s daughters still see him as a dad because he had great stories to tell them and gathered them as a family unit,” Oprah continued. “Reginald and I wanted audiences to see their hope and possibility through the light of Sidney Poitier’s magnificent life.”

Sidney features interviews with Denzel Washington, Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Halle Berry, Robert Redford, Barbra Streisand, Spike Lee, Morgan Freeman and many more.

The documentary will be shown in select theaters and will debut on Apple TV+ Friday, September 23.

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