Alex Cooper’s Husband Matt Kaplan Accused of ‘Frequently Yelling’ at Unwell Network Staff: Report Tufayel AhmedTue, April 21, 2026 at 8:27 AM UTC 0 Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images Things at Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network appear to be, well, unwell, according to a new report. A Bloomberg article published on Monday, April 20, alleged that Cooper’s podcast network has seen a dramatic turnover in staff over the past two years.

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Things at Alex Cooper’s Unwell Network appear to be, well, unwell, according to a new report.

A Bloomberg article published on Monday, April 20, alleged that Cooper’s podcast network has seen a dramatic turnover in staff over the past two years. The piece also claimed that Cooper’s husband, film and TV producer Matt Kaplan, who Bloomberg said runs the network’s day-to-day operations, has been at the center of internal turmoil.

According to the report, Kaplan “has earned a reputation for frequently yelling at staff members,” resulting in crew members reportedly threatening to walk off projects if he “doesn’t keep his distance.”

The piece further alleged issues on the set of the network’s recent YouTube series, Unwell Winter Games. Kaplan allegedly “berated the staff on set and threatened to prevent them from ever working in Hollywood again if they messed up, resulting in a prominent, long-experienced crew member breaking down in tears.”

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Us Weekly has reached out to representatives for Cooper, Kaplan and Unwell for comment.

Cooper, 31, and Kaplan, 42, launched the Unwell Network in 2023 as a burgeoning network of podcasts anchored by Cooper’s own hit show, “Call Her Daddy.” The company has since expanded into TV production and live events and launched its own creative agency.

Cooper and Kaplan, who is credited as a producer on the To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before film series and spinoff TV show XO, Kitty, wed in April 2024. He was previously married to The Vampire Diaries actress Claire Holt from 2016 to 2017.

Earlier this month, Cooper hit the headlines as she addressed her falling out with former Unwell podcaster Alix Earle. Earle’s “Hot Mess” podcast was dropped by Unwell in February 2025, Variety reported at the time, and rumors have since circulated of a feud between the former colleagues.

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Cooper directly addressed the Dancing With the Stars alum after Earle, 25, reposted a shady TikTok that referred to Cooper as the “grim reaper.”

“Just say what you gotta say about me. There’s no NDA, and no one is stopping you. Stop hiding behind other people and just say it yourself. What’s the beef?” Cooper hit back in a subsequent TikTok video on April 13. “I’m really tired of waking up and seeing you using this fake drama to distract from other s*** going online for you. Not interested. I know what happened and so do you. So talk. Unless the fake narrative that you’re creating happens to be way more interesting than the truth. I have nothing to hide when it comes to you and me.”

Earle responded directly to Cooper, writing in the TikTok video’s comments section, “OK on it!!” Earle has yet to publicly share details of the apparent conflict, however.

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50 days to the World Cup: A case hives couldn&x27;t stop Eric Wynalda&x27;s free kick goal against Switzerland Sean LeahyWed, April 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM UTC 0 The countdown to the 2026 World Cup is on! Each day ahead of the tournament’s return to North America, Yahoo Sports will highlight an insight or moment that showcases just how grand the world’s biggest sporting spectacle has become — even beyond the expanded field of this year’s global event. Eric Wynalda’s first World Cup experience ended in embarrassment after 52 minutes. Czechoslovakia's Ľubomír Moravčík baited the U.S.

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The countdown to the 2026 World Cup is on! Each day ahead of the tournament’s return to North America, Yahoo Sports will highlight an insight or moment that showcases just how grand the world’s biggest sporting spectacle has become — even beyond the expanded field of this year’s global event.

Eric Wynalda’s first World Cup experience ended in embarrassment after 52 minutes.

Czechoslovakia's Ľubomír Moravčík baited the U.S. forward after continually stepping on Wynalda’s foot throughout their match in the 1990 World Cup. Wynalda, tired of the gamesmanship, shoved Moravčík, which was spotted by Kurt Röthlisberger, who brandished a red card.

Four years later, Wynalda would get a second chance and redeem himself in front of 73,000 fans at the Pontiac Silverdome.

That opportunity almost never came to fruition for Wynalda, who made 106 appearances for the U.S. The night before the team’s opening match of the 1994 World Cup against Switzerland, he felt a rash begin to develop on his body. He took medicine to treat it, but did not get a good night's sleep (the O.J. Simpson White Bronco chase being that same night didn’t help anyone’s ability to get plentiful rest).

A switch from Powerade to Gatorade by the team caused Wynalda to break out in hives. He was so fatigued from the lack of sleep and the allergic reaction that he was subbed out in the 57th minute coming off the field with swollen, red hands.

But just before halftime, Wynalda made his mark on the match.

His 45th minute goal would help the U.S. start the 1994 World Cup off with a 1-1 draw.

"It definitely was the best goal of my life," Wynalda said later. "You really have to hit that shot perfectly for it to work, and that's what happened."

Wynalda wasn't even the main free-kick taker on the squad. That was Claudia Reyna's job, but a hurt hamstring ruled him out for the tournament. Tab Ramos could have been the one, but he told Wynalda that the 28-yard distance was out of his range.

“In that minute, it seemed to me as if there was no one else in the stadium. I just swung my foot at the ball and it flew in,” Wynalda said. “The noise that greeted me was deafening.”

The U.S would go on and beat Colombia and lose to Romania in its final two group stage matches. The four points were good enough to advance to the knockout round where they would fall to eventual champions Brazil, 1-0.

Wynalda's goal in 1994 was one of the 34 he scored for the U.S. When he retired in 2000, he was the all-time leading scorer for the U.S. men's team. His record would stand for eight years before being passed by Landon Donovan.

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — It’s been 126 years since cricket — the second most watched sport in the world — made an appearance in the Olympics. That’s about to change in 2028.

On Wednesday, shovels hit the ground in Pomona, a city in the eastern edge of Los Angeles County, where construction has begun for a 10,000-plus capacity premier cricket stadium. It will serve as the venue for men’s and women’s games.

The stadium is being erected in the Fairplex fairgrounds as the home of the Los Angeles Knight Riders, a professional Major League Cricket team owned by the Mumbai-based Knight Riders Sports. The company is co-led by Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan.

The groundbreaking kicked off with a “bhumi pujan,” a ritual rooted in Hindu tradition, which often marks the start of a construction project as a way of seeking divine blessings and forgiveness for disturbing the earth.

Cricket is already woven into the cultural fabric of U.S. diaspora communities from all over the world, particularly South Asia, where it is followed with religious fervor. In the U.S., cricket fans, coaches and players view a dedicated cricket stadium in a major sports market like Southern California, as a huge milestone.

Investors hope momentum from local major league cricket games carries into the Olympics, taking the sport to a mainstream American sports audience. Many also believe that this newfound visibility will help carve out promising pathways for homegrown cricketing talent.

Olympics could make cricket mainstream in America

Venky Mysore, CEO of Knight Riders Sports, said establishing the Knight Riders Cricket Field is just the first step in getting the average American fan engaged. Mysore is convinced of the sport's commercial potential.

“People who watch the Olympics are not necessarily cricket fans.,” Mysore said. “When cricket becomes an Olympic sport, that takes interest and awareness to the next level.”

Knight Riders Sports operates multiple teams worldwide — in India, the Caribbean and the United Arab Emirates. But the Pomona venue is the only stadium they’ve built from scratch, Mysore said. Only three international-level cricket stadiums operate in the U.S. — in Texas, Florida and North Carolina. The sport is also played in other multi-purpose venues like the Oakland Coliseum.

LA is one of a handful of dedicated US cricket venues

Peter Della Penna, who has been covering cricket in the U.S. for the past two decades, says this is the first time an international cricket event in the U.S. will have a dedicated venue. In 2024, a high-capacity modular stadium was specifically built for the T20 World Cup in New York, but was dismantled after the event.

But during the LA Olympics, it would not be ideal to hold the cricket matches in another part of the country, he said.

“Cricket players would want to be in the Olympic Village, walk shoulder to shoulder with U.S. track and field athletes, swimmers and basketball players,” he said. “Cricketers in America have not had such prominence and U.S. cricket really needs that.”

Cricket has had a long, rich history in the U.S. The first international cricket match was played between the U.S. and Canada in 1844 at St. George’s Cricket Club in Manhattan, New York. Canada beat the U.S. by a slim margin before thousands of spectators, with large wagers placed on the event.

Debjit Lahiri, a Wisconsin-based cricket historian, said Olympic cricket was last played in 1900 in Paris where the Summer Games were a chaotic sideshow to the World’s Fair, featuring events like live pigeon shooting. Cricket never made it to the 1904 Olympic Games held in St. Louis.

Cricket in Los Angeles began around 1900 with local clubs. It gained prominence in the 1930s with the Hollywood Cricket Club formed by expat British actors, drawing big names like Errol Flynn, Laurence Olivier, Cary Grant and Boris Karloff. The club’s original home at Griffith Park was torn down to build an equestrian center for the 1984 Olympics. It moved to Woodley Park in the San Fernando Valley, where several aspiring cricketers learned to play the game, including Ayan Desai, a 22-year-old rising star who hopes to play for Team USA in 2028.

Desai, whose family owns a motel near the future Knight Riders stadium, said he was thrilled to hear about a world-class cricket venue almost in his backyard.

“To play the Olympics is special, but to do it in front of your home crowd, in your home city, that would be amazing,” he said.

Desai, a left-arm fast bowler, plays for the Seattle Orcas major league team and has competed in four international games as part of the U.S. national team.

“This is what we’ve needed to grow cricket in Los Angeles,” he said.

Questions remain about cricket's sustainability

Antigua native Reggie Benjamin, a former U.S. cricketer and longtime coach based in Los Angeles, remains skeptical.

“I’m happy to see cricket get an opportunity to showcase itself here,” he said. “But if you can’t get average Americans to come to a game and sit in the stands for three hours, or if you can’t get American kids to play cricket, the game is not going to grow.”

Benjamin said he’s been disappointed to see homegrown talent and grassroots efforts cast aside as players from other countries are brought in to play for major league teams and the national team. He also points to poor management that has beset U.S. cricket and raised concerns about cricket’s inclusion in the 2028 Olympics.

Last year, those challenges came to a head as USA Cricket, a nonprofit tasked with developing the sport in the United States, filed for federal bankruptcy protection after ending a contract with American Cricket Enterprises, the group that created Major League Cricket. Since then, the International Cricket Council, which oversees cricket worldwide, has been temporarily running the U.S. national cricket team. ACE also filed a lawsuit alleging wrongful termination of the contract.

Yet big investors like Mysore are optimistic that a cooperative relationship is possible between USA Cricket and Major League Cricket. Both feed off each other, he said. National selectors often look to major league teams for star players.

“A strong national team is important because it keeps interest alive in the sport,” he said.

Walter Marquez, CEO of the Fairplex, says he believes in cricket’s future. A diehard baseball fan, Marquez said he’s been boning up on cricket recently. He now knows what a “yorker” means, and he sees real potential for the game to grow.

“For those who don’t know cricket, given an opportunity, they will learn what an exciting game it is, especially the T20 format,” said Marquez, referring to the truncated format the Olympics will use in 2028.

“We like home runs. We love the long ball. Cricket has a lot of those. American sports fans just don’t know they’re cricket fans yet.”

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Jill Zarin Sued by Pickleball Company for Alleged Machine SaleJustin SmithWed, April 22, 2026 at 1:50 PM UTC 1 Photo Credit: John Parra/Getty Images for Impact Wealth Magazine It’s been a strange year for Jill Zarin. The former Real Housewives of New York star kicked things off with a raciallytinged rant about Bad Bunny that quickly sparked a backlash she still hasn’t recovered from. Now, things have taken another turn. She and her boyfriend, Gary Brody, are wrapped up in a lawsuit over a piece of pickleball equipment.

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It’s been a strange year for Jill Zarin. The former Real Housewives of New York star kicked things off with a racially-tinged rant about Bad Bunny that quickly sparked a backlash she still hasn’t recovered from. Now, things have taken another turn. She and her boyfriend, Gary Brody, are wrapped up in a lawsuit over a piece of pickleball equipment.

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According to court documents reviewed by TMZ, a man named Noah Springer is suing Jill, Gary, and GNG Enterprises. He claims he helped develop a machine called the Go-No-Go, which allows pickleball players to test their paddles before games to ensure they meet standardized regulations.

In the lawsuit, Noah alleges that he invested $500,000 in 2022 in exchange for a 25% stake in Pickle Pro Labs, LLC, along with a promised monthly salary of $5,000. He says those paychecks stopped around 2024, right around the time Jill and Gary entered the picture.

Noah says that around that same time, the RHONY alum and her boyfriend founded GNG Enterprises and started selling the Go-No-Go machine. They’re allegedly marketing the device as their own, even though it was “conceived, engineered, researched, funded, and developed by Pickle Pro Labs.”

Noah is seeking an injunction to stop GNG Enterprises from selling the Go-No-Go machine, as well as damages. Meanwhile, GNG has already been named the official paddle deflection testing device across several major pickleball organizations. According to Noah, all of that business could have been going to Pickle Pro.

Jill and Gary haven’t publicly commented on this latest mess. Keep your eyes peeled for more details as this unfolds in court.

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