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It's a Big Weekend: Everything You Should Know in Under 60 Seconds

Friday, May 6, 2022

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☝️🏎️ F1 is taking its talents to South Beach. Miami makes its Formula One debut this weekend with the Miami Grand Prix; Netflix and F1 also confirmed yesterday that the highly popular Formula 1: Drive To Survive series has been renewed for a fifth and sixth season.

🏇 Put on your fancy hats... The 148th Kentucky Derby (aka “the greatest two minutes in sports”) will be held this Saturday; the main race starts at 6:57 pm ET. The betting favorite is Zandon (3-to-1 odds), who was named on a whim after owner Jeff Drown’s 23-year-old elk hunting guide, Zandon Starks.

🏀🏒 We’re talkin’ bout playoffs?... The NBA conference semifinals are in full swing, with two games scheduled for every day this weekend (including tonight); the first round of the NHL playoffs is also underway, with four games every day through at least Monday.

🍿 At the movies (or on the couch) with The DONUT… Marvel’s Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness starring Benedict Cumberbatch hits theaters today; also debuting today (on Netflix) is animated children’s film Marmaduke starring Pete Davidson and J.K. Simmons.

🤱 The mother of all Mother’s Days… Total spending on Mother’s Day this Sunday is expected to reach $31.7 billion, up $3.6 billion from 2021's record spending, per the National Retail Foundation; there are more than 85 million mothers in America according to the most recent available census data.

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