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Arizona Cardinals fire offensive coordinator Mike McCoy

artisteer/iStock/Thinkstock(PHOENIX) — After their offense sputtered through the first seven weeks of the season, the Arizona Cardinals have decided to make a change.

The Cardinals fired offensive coordinator Mike McCoy on Friday, one day after a 45-10 loss to the Denver Broncos dropped Arizona to 1-6. Nearing the halfway point of the season, Arizona has not yet gained 300 yards in a single game, and hasn’t had a 100-yard rusher. That despite drafting highly touted quarterback Josh Rosen in the spring, and returning running back David Johnson.

This is the second consecutive year that McCoy has been fired during the season. The Broncos fired McCoy after Week 11 of last year.

McCoy will be replaced by quarterbacks coach Byron Leftwich. Leftwich played nine seasons in the league for the Jacksonville Jaguars, Atlanta Falcons, Pittsburgh Steelers and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Leftwich joined the team as an intern in 2016 and was later promoted to quarterbacks coach. He has never called plays at the NFL level.

Cardi B gives away free coats and shoes in New York City

ABC/Image Group LAOn the coldest night of the fall in New York City so far, Cardi B brought warmth to the Marlboro Houses in the Gravesend community in Brooklyn, NY

The “I Like It” rapper gave out free coats and shoes to hundreds of parents and children Thursday night. They received tickets and lined up hours in advance, chanting “Where is Cardi B?” When she arrived, the crowd cheered, screaming her name.

“I didn’t know it was going to so big and everything,” Cardi told New York ABC affiliate WABC-TV. My homeboy, Chuck, he told me, ‘Hey, let’s give out coats to our community. I know somebody that wants to give out coasts to my community in Marlboro.’ And I said, ‘I’m pulling out. What’s up?'”

The three-time American Music Awards winner, who was born in New York City’s borough of The Bronx, was overwhelmed with love from the crowd. She was excited to return to the neighborhood where she shot videos for two songs last year: “Red Barz” and “Pull Up On Me.”

Cardi posed an Instagram video of herself in the crowd. She commented, “IT WAS LIT IN MARLBORO TODAY! @astonmartinchuck hit me up a couple of days ago about a coat giveaway. we couldn’t believe how big this was and how many people pulled up, i wasn’t ready! Thanks Marlboro!”

She added that she’d back at Marlboro “before the year end,” and added, “I can’t wait to do this in my borough next BX.”

Scoreboard Roundup — 10/18/18

ABC News(NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from yesterday’s sports events:

AMERICAN LEAGUE
Boston 4 Houston 1

   NATIONAL BASKETBALL ASSOCIATION
   Philadelphia 127 Chicago      108
   Miami         113 Washington   112
   Portland      128 L.A. Lakers 119

   NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE
   Colorado        5 New Jersey     3
   Columbus        6 Philadelphia   3
   Pittsburgh      3 Toronto        0
   Tampa Bay       3 Detroit        1
   Winnipeg        4 Vancouver      1
   Arizona         4 Chicago        1
   OT Edmonton        3 Boston         2
   San Jose        5 Buffalo        1
   N-Y Islanders   7 L.A. Kings     2

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Denver 45 Arizona 10

Amerie returns with first new album in nine years

Brian Stukes/Getty ImagesNine years after her last album, Amerie is making a comeback and releasing new music today.

The two-time Soul Train award-winner is dropping a two-album project, one named 4AM Mulholland, and on named After 4AM.

Amerie found immediate success with her 2002 debut album All I Have, which went gold. She continued her hot streak in 2005 with another gold album, Touch, which included her Grammy-nominated single “1 Thing.” But after releasing two more albums — 2007’s Because I Love It and 2009’s In Love & War — she left the music business.

Why? Amerie says she wanted to write her own songs, which caused a conflict with her record label. “I experienced pushback because I’m a female who knows herself and doesn’t have problems speaking up,” she tells Billboard.

“I felt the resistance — the ‘shut up and be pretty and sing’ thing. It was never explicitly stated for me, but I definitely felt that,” she adds.

The 38-year-old singer turned to writing fantasy novels. She got married in 2011, and this past May, she welcomed son River Rowe.

The singer from Washington, D.C. says writing novels inspired her to return to music. “Writing a lot helped a lot with my songwriting,” she explains. “It helped me write a lot faster.”

Amerie also says she loves how the music industry’s digital platforms now allow fans to access music instantly.

“The speed at which everyone’s listening to things and digesting things, it allows a singer — especially if you’re independent — to get it off your chest and go to the next thing,” she says.

“You don’t feel like something’s slowing you down. That’s all I want to do — I just want to create.”

Report: Rihanna declined offer to headline Super Bowl halftime show in support of Colin Kaepernick

Getty Images via ABCRihanna was reportedly asked to headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show, but she declined the offer in order to show support for Colin Kaepernick.

“The NFL and CBS really wanted Rihanna to be next year’s performer in Atlanta,” a source tells Us Weekly. “They offered it to her, but she said no because of the kneeling controversy. She doesn’t agree with the NFL’s stance.”

This year, the NFL adopted a new policy requiring players to stand, not kneel in protest, during the national anthem.

Following Rihanna’s refusal, Maroon 5 has reportedly accepted the NFL’s invitation to headline the Super Bowl 53 halftime show on February 3, 2019 in Atlanta. Their participation has not yet been officially confirmed, however.

Kaepernick is currently suing the NFL, accusing the 32 team owners of colluding to keep him out of the league after he ignited the National Anthem protest in 2016.

Kaepernick previously played quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers for six seasons, from 2011-2016. He played with the 49ers in Super Bowl 47 in 2013, but the team lost to the Baltimore Ravens.

The 30-year-old athlete and activist currently stars in the Nike “Just Do It” 30^th anniversary campaign which features LeBron James and Serena Williams.

Tyler the Creator signs production deal with Sony Pictures Television

Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for CoachellaTyler the Creator is stepping up his plans for television content creation, via a new deal with Sony Pictures.

The rapper and his business partner Lionel Boyce will develop scripted and unscripted projects for the company, according to Variety.

“Sony Pictures Television has been a hub for great television for many decades and we’re excited to be a part of a place where we will have the resources to develop new ideas,” Boyce says.

Sony Pictures President Jeff Frost is looking forward to the new collaboration.

“To be partnering with the creative genius of Tyler, the Creator and Lionel Boyce is a dream come true for us as we’ve long been fans of their work,” he says.“Tyler’s unconventional ingenuity is unparalleled, and we are excited about the prospect of what we can create together.”

Tyler and Boyce formed Bald Fade Productions, and their credits include the animated series The Jellies, and the sketch comedy series Loiter Squad, for Adult Swim.

Xscape offers preview of the So So Def 25th anniversary concert

DeWayne Rogers/Monami EntertainmentXscape will be performing Sunday in Atlanta on the So So Def 25^th anniversary concert, and Tiny Harris offered a preview of their performance on Instagram.

“Just a lil light weight of what Atlanta will get This Sunday Oct. 21 There’s no where else to be if you in the city but the #SoSoDef25AnniversaryShow #PhillipsArena,” she captioned a rehearsal video of the group singing “Tonight” from their 1993 debut album, Hummin’ Comin’ at ‘Cha.

Kandi Burruss, who released a solo single last week called “Ready For This,” is included in the video and will perform with the group. The show will also feature So So Def CEO Jermaine Dupri, Da Brat,Jagged Edge, and Bow Wow.

The So So Def 25th anniversary concert was supposed to be an entire tour, which was scheduled to kick off October 14 in Washington, D.C. However, all the dates, except Sunday’s show in Atlanta, have been canceled.

Dupri previously announced on Twitter that he needed more time to organize the tour, but so far, he hasn’t rescheduled the canceled dates.

Listen now: Post Malone and Swae Lee release “Sunflower” from “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” soundtrack

FilmMagic Inc. via ABC/Jeff Kravitz/AMA2018Post Malone and Swae Lee from Rae Sremmurd have teamed for “Sunflower,” which was just released from the Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack.

The song has the two rappers competing for the same girl, whom they call “Sunflower.”

Malone and Lee previously collaborated on “Spoil My Night” from Malone’s double platinum album, beerbongs & bentleys.

The Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse soundtrack will be released December 14, the same day the animated film opens.

Pusha-T says he learned about Drake’s secret son from one of Drake's producers

Fabien MontiquePusha-T has revealed how he discovered that Drake has a secret son, which Pusha revealed in his diss track, “The Story of Adidon.”

The Daytona rapper said on The Joe Budden Podcast that his source is one of Drake’s producers, Noah “40” Shebib, and not Kanye West.

“The information came from 40. It didn’t come from Kanye at all,” Pusha said. During a recent appearance on LeBron James’ new HBO series, The Shop, Drake blamed Kanye for telling Pusha about his son.

Pusha further explained that 40’s source was a woman he was sleeping with.

“He talks to her daily. Five, six hours a day,” the rapper continued. “With that also came the fact that Drake has a child. With that also came the trip that everybody took to go see the child and bring him gifts, and all of this information. She divulged this information.”

In “The Story of Adidon,” Pusha raps about Drake, “You are hiding a child, let that boy come home.”

During the Budden podcast, Pusha also repeated his claim that Drake offered $100,000 to people for information about him.

Mariah Carey goes “The Distance” with yet another new single

Epic RecordsMariah Carey has released yet another new track from her upcoming album, Caution.

The slow jam track, “The Distance,” features rapper Ty Dolla $ign, and features Mariah singing about a love that endures despite people’s disapproval.

“People saying what we have is over/But the hate only made us get closer/And closer,” sings Mariah. “Said we couldn’t go the distance/Look at us, we’re going the distance/They just wanna be us/They don’t wanna see us going the distance/for life, for life.”

Thematically, the song is similar to Mariah’s previous single, “With You,” in which she sings about two people who’ve weathered multiple hardships but are still in love.

Caution is due November 16. If you pre-order it now, you’ll instantly score “With You,” “The Distance,” and the first track Mariah released from the project, “GTFO.”