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Jacob Elordi parmi les favoris pour incarner le futur agent 007 James Bond Le comédien Jacob Elordi figure sur la liste des acteurs pressentis par Amazon MGM Studios pour reprendre le rôle de James Bond au cinéma dès 2026. Le studio Amazon MGM Studios cherche activement le successeur de Daniel Craig pour porter le costume de l’espion britannique. Selon plusieurs rapports récents, Jacob Elordi suscite un fort intérêt […] Eklecty-City - L'actualité Pop Culture : Analyse et décryptage Cinéma, Séries et Jeux Vidéo

Star Wars : Un nouveau trailer pour la série animée Maul Shadow Lord Lucasfilm diffuse un trailer pour Maul Shadow Lord, série animée située après The Clone Wars, avec Sam Witwer et une sortie Disney+ en 2026. Lucasfilm diffuse un nouveau trailer pour Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord et apporte un contexte clair sur cette série animée centrée sur Dark Maul. Annoncée lors de la Star Wars […] Eklecty-City - L'actualité Pop Culture : Analyse et décryptage Cinéma, Séries et Jeux Vidéo

Jaxon Wiggins | Baseball America announced their preseason Top 100 prospects for 2026 and two Cubs prospects were named to the list. Catcher Moisés Ballesteros was named the 36th-ranked prospect and right-handed pitcher Jaxon Wiggins was named the 78th-best prospect. Recently-traded outfielder Owen Caissie, now of the Marlins, was named the 43rd-best prospect in the game. Additionally. two Cubs outfield prospects, Ethan Conrad and Kane Kepley, were listed among the “20 MLB prospects who just missed.” Conrad and Kepley were the Cubs’ first- and second-round picks in the 2025 draft. A third Cubs prospect, shortstop Jefferson Rojas, also made their “Just Missed” list. In their comments on Ballesteros, they reiterated that he’s a special hitter with defensive questions. On Wiggins, they said that he is one of the hardest-throwing starters in the minors but with durability issues. Clearly the Cubs system is down a bit from the same time last year. Cade Horton and Matt Shaw graduated. Owen Caissie was traded to Miami. Kevin Alcántara, who was in the preseason Top 100 last year, had a rough season and dropped out. However, Ballesteros jumped from 62 to 36 and Wiggins went from unranked last year to 78th this year. Conrad hasn’t made his professional debut yet because of injury, but Baseball America is very excited to see him play this year. Kepley made a big splash in Low-A Myrtle Beach which was enough for a second-round pick to get some consideration for the top 100. So the cupboard isn’t completely empty.

Kalen DeBoer and members of his staff loaded up on a helicopter to travel to visit KJ Green. Green attends Stephenson High School in Georgia, and he is considered one of the top edge prospects in the 2027 recruiting class. The Tide’s outside linebackers coach Christian Robinson is leading the Tide’s charge for Green. I […]

The Sheraton Grand Hotel in downtown Chicago | | Getty Images I’ll preface this by saying I was not at this year’s Cubs Convention. BCB’s Sara Sanchez was, though, and wrote up this informative article earlier this week about how overcrowded the event was, and it seems clear to me that this event is far too large for a venue like the Sheraton Grand Chicago Riverwalk, where it has been held since 2013. I have a suggestion for where this annual gathering could be moved, but first I wanted to add some further remarks on this year’s event, directly from event attendees. This comment was found on Facebook — Sara posted it in the comments to her article, but I think it needs more prominence: I’ve only gone twice, this year and last year. The APP prior to updating to 2026 showed roughly 3,500 signed in from last year, and the APP at times showed 8,000+ this year and it felt massively crowded. This also impacted staff and process and Cubs staff (terrific people through and through) just couldn’t consistently manage anything from crowds to autograph line steps, to really anything. We made the best of it, but we’re also going to think long and hard about making this an annual event unfortunately. I felt bad for people with high expectations that traveled across state lines for this. Eight thousand-plus people. This page from the Sheraton’s website says that the maximum capacity of their “largest space” is 4,600. So that means this year’s event had nearly twice that many crowding hallways, elevators, escalators and smaller spaces. Here are some other comments I received, all from people who attended this convention. Warning! This is gonna be long. Here’s one from someone who’s been at nearly every one of the Cubs Conventions: Except for the opening ceremony, I avoid the really massive events, have no interest in the Bingo, Carayoke etc. Also, having attended 38 of the 39 Conventions, I know what I have to do to get into the venues.  Yes, the opening ceremony was very badly crowded, had to stand at the back two and a quarter hours, no seats, and I did what I usually do to try to find a seat in back. I can readily understand that a lot of people must have been badly disappointed, having paid that much and actually seen that little. For years now, Convention attendees have needed to plan and attack the venues like a military campaign. Even the STH exclusive venues were wall-to-wall people.  I long ago gave up on the autograph lines. There were long lines Thursday afternoon for the player meet-and-greet signups (those open at 1 p.m. Friday), but that has been the case for many years. The Saturday main ballroom events mean getting there ungodly early and staying several hours straight to the end. Don’t drink anything before you go. I always thought it was a mistake to abandon the Hilton, but even that larger venue might not have helped much. All the same, I’d hate to have the Convention turned into an Auto Show or commercial show of the sort you have at McCormick Place. I am familiar with the Rosemont convention center, that would be a much better choice. Of course, all this means that they deliberately oversold, have been doing so for years, and did so to a bigger degree this year than ever. It has always been in the back of my mind that it’s becoming dangerous, it would not have taken much, at certain times, to ignite a real disaster. I’ll continue to come, it’s still fun, and I know the lay of the land. You will pardon the profanity from this person, who has also been to dozens of Cubs Conventions: It was an absolute shitshow. We were told by staff that they sold an additional 3,000 tickets. It was ridiculous trying to go anywhere or get in anywhere. I never was able to get into the STH lounge because of the line and just trying to get around. I always try and have a good time but this year really pushed me to my limit. Somebody in our group got seats at 9:30 a.m. and we had to have someone stay and hold them until we were done…