Word: contendere
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Her crime? On the season finale of ABC's The Bachelorette, in which Jen, 28, was expected to choose a man who might one day become her husband, she ended up turning down everyone and leaving the show alone. In a live broadcast in front of a booing, mostly female...
Before this season began, the only ones who’d have picked the Crimson as a legitimate NCAA contender would have been Harvard skaters, coaches, and their family members. Suffice it to say that this 18-8-3 season—which is nowhere near over, yet�...
Whatever the reason, Turpin's suicide morbidly underscored the way NBC had been promoting The Contender (previews March 7, 9:30 p.m. E.T., and March 10, 10 p.m. E.T.; regular time, Sundays, 8 p.m. E.T.): as a reality series with high emotional stakes. Executive producer Mark Burnett (Survivor, The Apprentice...
The Contender is craftily made and more affecting than the campy Survivor and Apprentice. And the boxers seem more earnest and less cynical than most reality shows' camera hogs. The loser of the first fight doesn't seem as if he's about to laugh it off and book a...
Najai Turpin lost that larger fight, though producers will not reveal how he did in the ring. Burnett is not going to edit Turpin's scenes--it would be disrespectful, he says--but the producers are creating a trust fund for Turpin's family. Starting next month, millions of people...