Month: December 2025

The Jacksonville Jaguars defeated the Tennessee Titans on Sunday in a battle of AFC South divisional opponents. The game continued a season of misery for Tennessee, who fell to 1-11 after yet another defeat.

Jacksonville is now level with the Indianapolis Colts for the division lead as the season reaches its final and most important stretch. Sunday’s game held major implications for the division title race, but one incident during the matchup extended beyond the realm of competition.

In the fourth quarter, Titans player Julius Chestnut blocked the Jaguars’ Logan Cooke on a punt return. Cooke attempted to trip return man Chimere Dike on the play, and suffered an injury before being evaluated on the sideline.

Cooke and Chestnut had another altercation after the punter made another kick on the following series, and multiple players were penalized. One Titans player was ejected from the game, but Chestnut says Cooke took things a step further.

Chestnut Points Out Alarming Comment

“I was just trying to play hard, and he came up to me and said he was going to kill me,” Chestnut said about Cooke after the game. “So I don’t know what made him do that.”

Chestnut, who has played for the Titans since 2022, added that he hadn’t encountered anything like this in his football career.

“He said he would kill me,” Chestnut added, according to The Tennessean. “That’s what he said. He came up to me and said he’d kill me. Never heard that one before. That was strange. Especially a punter, you know. It was strange.”

After the game, Cooke admitted that he liked hitting people on the field, but acknowledged that “I might have said some things that sounded rude.”

Cooke Reacts After Sunday’s Game

“I don’t like people having grudges against me,” the punter said, referencing a discussion he had with a referee during the game. “So kind of telling him the situation and also find out his take on what happened on that play in the end zone.”

Both teams were heavily penalized on Sunday. Tennessee received 10 penalties with four personal fouls, and Jacksonville received 13 penalties with two personal fouls. It is the first game in the 2025 NFL season to see both teams penalized 10 or more times, each accruing more than 80 penalty yards.

Cooke and the Jaguars will face the Colts next week with the division lead on the line, while Chestnut and the Titans appear destined for the league’s worst record for a second consecutive season.

Legendary playwright and scriptwriter Tom Stoppard has died at the age of 88. The writer passed away on November 29, 2025, seemingly of natural causes, according to the BBC and other sources. Stoppard is perhaps most famous for his Shakespearean comedy Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, in which side characters from Hamlet wander around and hilariously ponder the meaning of life. He also penned the films Empire of the Sun and Brazil, and was a co-author of Shakespeare in Love, among many, many others.

As a true artist of screenwriting and playwriting, his impact has been massive. But, did you know he also fixed two epic George Lucas movies?

As tributes to Stoppard pour in, some are pointing out that some of Stoppard’s sneakier contributions to pop culture come in the form of two secret-ish collaborations with George Lucas and Steven Spielberg.

Tom Stoppard’s Uncredited Rewrites of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

The 1989 film Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade represented, in some ways, the pinnacle of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg’s synergy. Famously, the film introduced Sean Connery as Henry Jones Sr., the father of Harrison Ford’s Indiana Jones. The pair were only 12 years apart in real life, but because of great performances and the fact that, spiritually, Connery’s James Bond was the pop culture “father” of Indiana Jones, the movie clicked.

Part of the reason Last Crusade works so well is that the script is not just action-packed, but hilarious. And for that, we can thank Tom Stoppard. Writing under the pseudonym “Barry Watson,” Toppard added much of the memorable dialogue to the film. As pointed out by many critics and experts, including Nick de Semlyen at Empire, without Stoppard, we wouldn’t have the great gag of Marcus Brody (Denholm Elliot) bumbling around after Indy says, “he’ll blend in, disappear, you’ll never see him again.”

RIP the legendary Tom Stoppard. Among his more famous achievements, he radically rewrote Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade (under the pen-name Barry Watson), adding most of the thrilling beats and hilarious gags.

One of my favourites: the cut to Brody, after being hyped up as… pic.twitter.com/bHm927mZkK

— Nick de Semlyen (@NickdeSemlyen) November 29, 2025

The first draft of The Last Crusade was written by Jeffrey Boam, who retained the primary credit. But, as noted by researchers, including Mike Fitzgerald, Stoppard’s rewrites to dialogue meant that “80% of the lines have been substantially changed.”

So, if you love the great Sean Connery joke, “she talks in her sleep,” thank the spirit of Tom Stoppard!

Tom Stoppard’s Uncredited Rewrite of Revenge of the Sith

Though there are indications that Stoppard helped George Lucas with aspects of Star Wars: Episode II: Attack of the Clones, he certainly did an uncredited rewrite on the final Star Wars prequel, 2005’s Revenge of the Sith. These contributions aren’t as massive as what Stoppard did for The Last Crusade, but the famous scene in which Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid) tells Anakin Skywalker (Hayden Christensen) the tale of “Darth Plagueis the wise” does come largely from Stoppard’s pen.

Interestingly, these two pop culture enhancements are hiding in plain sight and are utterly different from each other. With Last Crusade, Stoppard brought humour and heart to the script. With Revenge of the Sith, he added a layer of histronic tragedy to the fall of Anakin and the rise of Darth Vader.

Stoppard should, of course, be remembered and praised for his various plays. But, in terms of massive movies that influenced countless millions, his work will continue to inspire us, tucked away in stories where his name isn’t even mentioned in the credits.

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade streams on Pluto TV and Paramount+. Revenge of the Sith streams on Disney+.