Aaron Rodgers is returning to the Pittsburgh Steelers — again. Finally.

The four-time NFL MVP agreed to a one-year contract worth $22 million guaranteed with the Steelers on Saturday, a source confirmed. The deal can climb to $25 million with incentives.

The Steelers had expected this to be the case perhaps weeks or even months ago, but Rodgers took his methodical, sweet time before committing. Now, it’s happening.

So, we are about to witness Rodgers in his 22nd NFL season at age 42 (and 43 when that comes along in December). And it all begins on Monday when Rodgers joins the team on the field for OTA practices.

This is all a good thing.

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It’s good for the Steelers, who have no other plausible starting quarterback with enough experience and accomplishments to make them a contender.

It’s good for Rodgers, who gets at least one more chance to go out on top as the Hollywood scriptwriters might imagine.

And it’s good for the NFL because this adds another entertaining storyline and a still fine player to the 2026 season.

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Rodgers returning to the Steelers will reunite him with coach Mike McCarthy, who coached him in Green Bay where the two won a Super Bowl together in February 2011. And while Rodgers isn’t that long-ago player anymore, he still transforms the franchise from a club with a quarterback vacancy to a solid playoff-caliber operation.

The Steelers believe they already had the infrastructure Rodgers has traditionally thrived in: a respected head coach, a physical defense, a stable organization and a fan base that embraces hard-nosed football. What the Steelers have lacked as they looked into their 2026 prospects was, well, Rodgers.

So Rodgers gets another shot at writing his legacy. His time with the Jets became defined more by injury, frustration and unmet expectations than revival. Joining the Steelers last season offered inconsistency and a first-round elimination from the playoffs.

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The AFC North race once again becomes of the league’s premier weekly storylines. The Ravens and Bengals and now the Steelers have legitimate quarterback play to lead them to the division title. Sorry, Cleveland Browns, you’re running fourth in a four-team race on this front.

The NFL league office no doubt welcomes this news.

On Thursday it released the 2026 schedule. And although league officials say they were not certain one way or another whether Rodgers was returning, they nonetheless gave the Steelers four primetime games.

That wouldn’t have made sense if Rodgers weren’t on the team.

It makes sense now.

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Julianne Moore ruffled some feathers online after saying she doesn’t like movies with “explosions and guns.”

During a recent interview with Variety at the Kering Women in Motion Talk at the Cannes Film Festival, the 65-year-old actress sparked backlash when she shared the kinds of projects she is interested in acting in at this point in her career, saying she is “less and less interested in tragedy.”

“Particularly now at a time when things are really rough globally, it’s very difficult for me to invest in a story that I think is pretend, where I feel like the depth of the emotion, the measure of it, doesn’t measure up to what’s happening in the world. And I don’t feel like I want to engage in it,” she said.

She detailed reading scripts or watching other films and noticing “when something is there for stakes,” adding, “I don’t like easy stakes.”

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“I don’t like someone being murdered. I don’t like explosions and guns. I don’t like histrionics. I don’t like things that raise the stakes without real feeling underneath,” she said. “I mean, that actually bothers me because that’s like noise. I don’t know how to play it. I don’t want to watch it.”

After a clip of the interview was shared on X, many fans took issue with Moore’s statement in the comments section, with many pointing out she has starred in multiple movies with guns and violence.

“I’ve lost count how many movies she’s done with guns,” one fan wrote. Another added, “Funny how artists forget their own catalog until it’s time to virtue signal.”

Another fan shared, “That’s great! Now playback all the degenerate, violent entertainment Julianne has happily participated in throughout her career.”

A fourth fan wrote, referencing the sequel to “Silence of the Lambs,” which tells the story of serial killer Hannibal Lecter, writing, “A man had his skull removed in Hannibal, and brain eaten.”

While many took issue with her comments, others came to her defense, with one writing, “Julianne Moore choosing emotion over chaos is exactly why she’s respected worldwide.”

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“I actually agree with her! We already have enough violence in the world! We need good family values in movies back!! Good family fun!! And the movie theaters will be full again! We want to go to the theaters but there’s not enough quality movies going out! That’s why The Devil Wears Prada was great,” another said.

This isn’t the first time Moore has faced backlash, as Vili Fualaau, who gained national attention for his illicit relationship and marriage with his sixth-grade teacher in the late 1990s, took issue with her film, “May December,” which told a similar story, calling the project a “ripoff” of his life.

Despite the backlash, Moore maintained when speaking to Entertainment Tonight in January 2024, that throughout filming the movie, director Todd Haynes was “always very clear when we were working on this movie that this was an original story … a story about these characters.”

“So that’s how we looked at it too,” Moore said. “This was our document. We created these characters from the page and together.”

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Moore won an Academy Award in 2015 for her leading role in “Still Alice,” in which she played a woman dealing with her early onset Alzheimer’s diagnosis. She was previously nominated for her roles in “Boogie Nights,” “The End of the Affair,” “The Hours” and “Far From Heaven.”

The actress was at the Cannes Film Festival as the recipient of the Kering’s Women in Motion Award, an award which is presented to an actress who has helped advance the role of women in society and film.

Shaquille O’Neal is already a multi-multi-multi-millionaire ex-NBA player who has dabbled in everything from broadcasting to business to even being a sheriff’s deputy at one point, if I’m not mistaken.

Now, one of the few people on Earth who has gummy candies shaped like his head, now has his master’s degree.

And what better time to troll his buddy and TV cohort Charles Barkley than right before he’s accepting his degree during LSU’s recent graduation ceremony?

Shaq, of course, played his college ball at LSU before going on to a very successful NBA career, and, according to the school’s athletic website, he recently returned to complete his Master of Liberal Arts from the College of Humanities & Social Sciences.

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Like many schools, during graduation, they have someone there to read the names. Usually, you write it out phonetically so they don’t butcher it in front of your friends and family, after taking thousands of dollars from you.

I feel like most people will know “Shaquille O’Neal” when they see it, but Big Diesel slipped in a little something extra.

That’s Shaquille “I Hate Charles Barkley” O’Neal to you, pal!

I love how committed to the bit of giving each other grief at every possible turn, Shaq and Barkley are.

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In fact, I feel like, if even for a passing second, Charles Barkley at least considered going back to school just so he could walk at graduation and fire a salvo of his own back at Shaq.

Imagine several years of writing papers just to hand some adjunct professor with an okay-ish announcer voice a card that says, “Charles ‘Shaq Is A Tool’ Bark-Lee.”

It would be iconic.

Hell, maybe the folks at Auburn could fast-track this so the Round Mound of Rebound doesn’t have to suffer through a bunch of prerequisites for a degree in “leadership” or whatever.