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Mets' Jefry Yan, known for high-flying strikeout celebration, performs it too soon in hilarious blunder
New York Mets fans can’t get enough of Jefry Yan’s acrobatic celebration when he strikes out a batter in relief, as it’s become quite the social media sensation.
But Yan got too excited on Saturday afternoon in the Mets’ thrilling walk-off win over the Washington Nationals at Citi Field when he performed the viral celebration.
The pitch hadn’t been called strike three.
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Yan made his Citi Field debut in front of the Mets faithful, and in the top of the ninth with an 0-2 count and two out, he thought he placed his fastball perfectly on the outside corner to strike out Nasim Nuñez to end the frame.
The home plate umpire thought otherwise, but Yan was already midair in celebration. Yan, who seems to have springs in his feet with the way he jumps into the air to start his celebration, noticed that strike three wasn’t called.
As he touched back down on the mound, he started tapping the top of his hat to challenge the ball, forcing an ABS review.
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But, after review, the umpire’s call for a ball stood.
"Now, that was funny," Mets longtime play-by-play announcer Gary Cohen said on the SNY broadcast.
After everyone got their laughs out, Yan made sure the celebration didn’t come back to haunt him. Two pitches later, he got Nuñez to strike out on a slider. This time, the celebration was worth it.
At the time of the strikeout, the Mets were down by a run heading into the bottom of the ninth inning. They needed to muster at least one run to force extra innings, but the offense wanted to end the game in their favor instead.
Brett Baty walked to begin the inning and things got very interesting when Jorge Polanco singled to put the winning run on base. Then, Francisco Alvarez roped a double to left, tying the game as Baty came across the plate with the winning run moving to third base.
Francisco Lindor would start a celebration for everyone at Citi Field, especially Yan and the rest of his Mets teammates, when he singled home the winning run to walk it off in the ninth.
In doing so, Yan earned his first career win in MLB after pitching a scoreless 1.2 innings for the Mets.
Yan, a 29-year-old rookie, has had quite the year, which began in the minors. That’s where the baseball world learned of his unique celebration after getting strikeouts, and the big leagues have seen it now over his first five appearances for New York.
But whenever Yan wants to jump and tap the ground to celebrate, perhaps he’ll make certain the umpire has rung up the hitter before doing so.
Then again, he was really hoping to do it with Mets fans in the stands on his home field.
"I felt really welcome today," Yan said through a translator about his first Citi Field appearance.
Yan, who struck out three hitters in his outing on Saturday, owns a 1.80 ERA thus far.
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Michael Penix Jr and Tua Tagovailoa have already given us a potential 'Meme of the Year' contender
The NFL preseason is barely underway, and it didn't take long to be gifted what sure looks like the premier meme of the 2026 season.
And we have Michael Penix Jr. to thank for it.
The Atlanta Falcons hosted the Denver Broncos on Friday to get their preseason slate rolling, and there was a moment on the sidelines that has been getting all the attention.
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Tua Tagovailoa — who the team acquired over the offseason — was sitting on the bench after his first possession in a Falcons uniform.
That's when Penix, who was standing nearby, pointed at him and made a bewildered face.
I would be willing to bet there's another explanation for why Penix was pointing and doing the "Can you believe this?" face that everyone did on "The Office."
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But it doesn't matter why he did it. All that matters is he did it, and it's about to be the meme of the year.
The NFL is always a fertile ground for memery.
Hell, by the time the regular season gets underway, I think there's a good chance this meme is old news and something else will take its place.
Memes can move, baby!
Penix — believed to be the Falcons' starter — did not see any action in the game as he is still working his way back from an injury. Meanwhile, Tagovailoa completed three of his five passing attempts for 22 yards.
The rest of the snaps went to Jack Strand and Cooper Rush. Strand completed half of his 12 pass attempts for 50 yards and a touchdown, while Rush had a nightmare 7-for-19 night with 62 yards and a pair of interceptions in the Dirty Birds' 27-7 loss.
Alaska runner hospitalized after using bear spray to fight off brown bear on Alaska trail
A runner was hospitalized in Alaska after fending off a bear attack in Anchorage this week.
The woman, who was running by herself at Prospect Heights’ Wolverine Bowl trail, was able to get away from the brown bear by using her bear spray, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
She was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
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Biologists went to the site of the attack and collected samples but no bears were seen.
The department said anyone who sees a bear or another wild animal acting aggressively or unusually should report it.
Warning signs have been posted at the Prospect Heights trailhead, the departmet said, adding that hikers should stay off closed trails.
"Thick, dense summer foliage can block sightlines, making surprise encounters more likely," the department said. "Choose hiking routes with good visibility and away from known attractants, like salmon-bearing streams."
When hiking in bear country, people should carry a deterrent such as bear spray or a firearm, stay in groups, make noise to avoid surprising a bear, stay alert for signs of bears, don’t approach bears and keep pets on a leash.
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"If you surprise a bear, especially one with cubs or on a food cache, it may react in a threatened or defensive manner," the department said. "The bear may be agitated and may huff, stomp, make a popping sound with its teeth, salivate or lay its ears back against its head and charge."
They urged staying calm, standing your ground, readying deterrent, staying in a group and talking calmly. Never run.
"If the bear is stationary, move away slowly while keeping your eyes on the bear," the department said. "If the bear starts to move toward you or charges, stop and stand your ground. Let the bear know you are not a threat. Behaving calmly, moving slowly, and speaking in a low calm voice will help de-escalate the situation. If the bear continues to approach, use your deterrent when the bear is within range."
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The attack comes less than a month after another woman was mauled by a bear in Anchorage.
The July victim was walking with a friend and her three dogs in the Bear Valley residential neighborhood, adjacent to Chugach State Park in south Anchorage, when the bear approached.
Officials said the hikers were on an unofficial, user-made trail that climbs a steep hillside in a zigzag pattern. The area was heavily overgrown with dense vegetation, which created poor visibility and increased the risk of surprising wildlife, the department said.
"The bear came out of the dense alders, made brief contact with one of the hikers, and left the scene," the department added.
The woman suffered non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover.
Nevada man funneled 140 guns to violent Mexican drug cartels, including powerful 'military-style' rifles: DOJ
A Nevada man pleaded guilty on Friday to purchasing high-powered firearms and ammunition to sell to drug-trafficking organizations in Mexico, money laundering and employing people illegally in the U.S., Department of Justice officials said.
Luis Alberto Osorio allegedly conspired with co-defendants between April 2020 and last September to buy 140 firearms, magazines, and ammunition for people affiliated with violent Mexican drug-trafficking cartels, which would be sold south of the border for a profit, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Nevada.
The guns included large caliber and long-range firearms such as the Ohio Ordnance Works M2-SLR .50 BMG, the Barrett M82A1 and M107A1 .50 BMG antimaterial rifles, the FN Herstal M249S 5.56x45mm and the FH Herstal SCAR 17S 7.62x51mm rifles, according to court documents.
Osorio also admitted to employing people in the U.S. illegally at a mining company in Nevada.
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Osorio, of Elko, pleaded guilty to one count of straw purchasing of firearms; one count of trafficking in firearms; one count of harboring certain aliens; and one count of conspiracy to launder money.
He faces a maximum of 70 years in prison if found guilty on all counts.
"Firearms trafficking networks feed the violent cartels that terrorize border communities and pump illicit drugs into our neighborhoods," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Sigal Chattah for the District of Nevada said in a statement. "By cutting off this supply chain and holding this defendant accountable, we are directly disrupting the operational capabilities of these dangerous criminal organizations."
Osario’s sentencing is scheduled for February.
"Trafficking military-style firearms and ammunition to drug trafficking organizations in Mexico fuels violence, strengthens criminal networks and threatens communities on both sides of the border," said Jonathan Sherwin, deputy special agent in charge of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Las Vegas. "This guilty plea is the result of relentless work by HSI and the Homeland Security Task Force and our federal, state and local partners to disrupt the flow of weapons, money and criminal support that allows these organizations to operate."
The case is part of the Homeland Security Task Force initiative, which was created by an executive order President Donald Trump signed on his first day in office last year.
"In the world of organized crime and drug trafficking, guns and drugs go hand-in-hand," David S. Olesky, special agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration Los Angeles Field Division, which covers Nevada, said in a statement.
"As a member of the Homeland Security Task Force, DEA and our partners will bring to bear all resources and draw on the full scope of our agencies’ expertise to hold accountable those individuals and organizations which pose a public health and safety threat to our communities through the trafficking of drugs and firearms."
Jessica Simpson turns heads in bikini photos from trip to Turks and Caicos
Jessica Simpson is giving fans a peek at her birthday trip to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
The 46-year-old singer took to Instagram to share a series of photos from her birthday trip to paradise, including one of her lounging in her bikini.
Among the photos included in the post is a black-and-white picture of the "With You" singer smiling as she posed for a selfie while lying on a lounge chair in a black bikini with small white polka dots.
She paired the bikini with a pair of black sunglasses and a necklace which went down the center of her chest.
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"Take me back to Turks and Caicos," she captioned the post. "Thank you @lacurevillas and @pavilionluxuryvillas for an unforgettable stay. We’ll be seein’ y’all again very very soon."
Other photos feature the singer standing in a black dress in front of a swimming pool, posing with the staff, coming out of the ocean in a black bikini and cover-up, as well as a video of the oceanic scenery around her.
"You have never looked better!! Healthy and happy and stunning!" one fan wrote in the comments section. Another added, "Absolutely stunning as always."
The singer previously shared a photo of herself in a separate black-and-white polka-dot bikini on her birthday in July, captioning the post, "46 July 10/26."
In November 2025, Simpson took to Instagram to celebrate the 8th anniversary of her sobriety, writing when she chose to stop drinking, "she made the choice to confront, to confess and to let go of the self-sabotaging parts of my life that I was choosing."
"Making that decision allowed me to fully live in the pursuit of Gods [sic] purpose for my life," she wrote. "Alcohol silenced my intuition, blocked my dreams and chased my circulating fears of complacency."
She added that after eight years of sobriety, "today I am clear" and "driven by faith," adding that "both fear and faith are something that we feel and may not see."
"I’m so happy I chose faith over fear," she added. "It was not in the fight that I found my strength, it was in the surrender."
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Simpson revealed in a November 2023 Instagram post that she decided to quit drinking the day after Halloween in 2017, alongside a photo of her taken on that day.
In the caption, Simpson called the person in the photo "an unrecognizable version of myself," who "had so much self-discovery to unlock and explore."
"I knew in this very moment I would allow myself to take back my light, show victory over my internal battle of self-respect, and brave this world with piercing clarity," she said. "Personally, to do this I needed to stop drinking alcohol because it kept my mind and heart circling in the same direction and quite honestly I was exhausted."
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"I wanted to feel the pain so I could carry it like a badge of honor," she continued. "I wanted to live as a leader does and break cycles to advance forward – never looking back with regret and remorse over any choice I have made and would make for the rest of my time here within this beautiful world."
She went on to call out the "stigma around the word alcoholism or the label of an alcoholic," adding that she needed to accept the "failure, pain, brokenness, and self sabotage" in her life and understand that "the drinking wasn’t the issue. I was. I didn’t love myself. I didn’t respect my own power. Today I do."
Bills' Dion Dawkins sparks intense debate after picking up his dog's poop on practice field
A fun thing about the internet is that you can hop online hoping to find the news, stock tips or just videos of people getting hurt on trampolines, and wind up pondering deep, complex questions.
Stuff like whether it's okay to let your dog rip a deuce on an NFL practice field.
Well, thanks to a video making the rounds of Buffalo Bills offensive tackle Dion Dawkins doing some poop-scooping, the lines have been drawn for a ferocious online debate.
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In the clip, Dawkins shuffles out onto the field with no shirt, a pair of Crocs and a clear plastic bag ready to get the ol' inside-out treatment.
First of all, stellar technique. He got all of it and then did a few swipes with the bag just so everyone watching knows he went the extra mile.
I do that too when my dog decides to pay the band in someone's front yard while they're standing there washing the car.
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I will have to deduct some points for the clear bag. That's not ideal. You want whatever is in there to be out of sight and out of mind.
But the question became whether it is okay to let your dog drop its payload on an NFL practice field.
It's complicated. On one hand, I think, "Well, where else is the dog supposed to go? In the quarterbacks' room?"
But on the other hand, some poor receiver is going to lay out for a pass and go skidding through the ghost of digested Purina.
On social media, people had some thoughts on this topic.
It's a tough one, right?
Football fields are nasty to begin with, so if you think the dog poo is sullying an otherwise squeaky-clean surface, I've got news for you.
But maybe next time, take the dog outside the facility and then fling the leavings over the fence into the neighbor's yard like the rest of us.
Deshaun Watson's first game since 2024 a success because he wasn't as bad as Shedeur Sanders or Dillon Gabriel
We've all heard the joke about being in the woods with a friend and being chased by a bear, right? It's not necessary to be faster than the bear. It's necessary to be faster than the friend. That definitely applied to Deshaun Watson on Saturday in his first NFL action since 2024.
This was a grand success for Watson because he got on the field in a preseason game against the Chicago Bears (funny how that ties in) and he outran Shedeur Sanders and Dillon Gabriel in fleeing the bear.
No, Watson wasn't great in his one half of play. But he didn't have to be because he was way better than the other two guys.
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"Definitely a good moment for myself," is how Watson described his outing.
And it was, in that it marked his first game action since he suffered not one but two Achilles tears in October of '24 and then early in 2025.
Watson even left the field as he entered: in one piece, which was a victory for the often-injured player.
But beyond that, Watson was neither terrible nor great during the game.
And that made him seem outstanding by comparison to Sanders, with whom he's competing for a starting job, and Gabriel, the team's No. 3 quarterback at the moment.
"Oh, it was awesome," Cleveland Browns coach Todd Monken overstated when asked about Watson's outing. "I mean, it was so cool to watch him play. I get all of the frustration by fans, himself, but for him to come back and work like he did is an unbelievable credit to him.
"And then to go out there; he was having fun today. And that is so cool. And I thought he really functioned at a high level."
Sure.
Watson completed 11 of 15 passes. Good.
The Browns scored with him in the game. Good.
But he didn't throw a TD. And did turn the ball over once on a fumble.
That fumble seemed to trigger Watson because he actually completed 10 of his first 11 passes before the turnover, with his lone incompletion coming on a pass dropped by tight end Harold Fannin.
But after the turnover he completed only one of his final four attempts.
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So where does that leave Watson now? Well, Monken was quite impressed.
And to hear Watson talk, he simply performed as expected. No, not to the standards of the fully guaranteed $230 million he signed with the Browns in 2022, but pretty good.
"I don't think that's anything that I doubted myself," Watson said. "That's the reason why I've worked hard these last two years, you know, to get back to that.
"I had some, some challenges with some injuries and suspension and, you know, now being able to get a full offseason and continue to work my way back up. It takes time.
"But I don't doubt myself in any way that I can't play at a high level."
This is where you must understand both Sanders and Gabriel threw interceptions. Sanders also fumbled a snap and while he didn't lose it, it cost the Browns a down.
Sanders finished with a 39.6 passer rating.
Gabriel finished with a 27.1 passer rating.
They were playing against backups and struggled.
Monken said Sanders will start next week against the Buffalo Bills and play the first half. Watson will play in the third quarter and Gabriel will play in the fourth.
The race to the Browns' starting quarterback job continues.
Vikings fear worst as Jamal Adams, former All-Pro safety, suffers knee injury in preseason game: 'Not good'
Jamal Adams, the former first-round pick of the New York Jets, was back at MetLife Stadium on Sunday battling for a roster spot with the Minnesota Vikings.
But just two weeks after signing with his new club, it’s not looking great, as he was carted off in the first half of the Vikings' 13-10 win due to a knee injury.
Adams was covering New York Giants receiver Calvin Austin III in the red zone when he had to start sprinting across the field to handle his route. But Adams fell down to the turf with a non-contact injury, it seemed, and he didn’t get up quickly.
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A cart eventually came out onto the turf and brought Adams back to the Vikings’ locker room.
During an in-game interview, Vikings head coach Kevin O’Connell was asked about Adams’ knee injury, and the veteran sideline leader said it was "not good" after the first look at it.
"In such a short amount of time, Jamal has done such an unbelievable job coming here," O’Connell said. "You feel his passion every single day. Certainly felt it spending a few moments with him before they took him in.
"You’re just crushed for him, the role he was kind of paving for himself, and then just having a personality, experience, toughness that he brought in such a short amount of time. We’re going to miss him."
The fact O’Connell is already saying the team is going to miss him says all you need to know about the severity of the injury for Adams.
It’s a shame considering he was having a great game up to that point, making a key stop on a run play by the Giants and flying around at his linebacker position.
Adams joined the Vikings just before training camp got underway on July 28, where he knew he’d have to battle for a roster spot for the upcoming season.
Heading into his 10th NFL season, Adams has known this feeling, which wasn’t there earlier in his career.
On that MetLife Stadium turf, Adams became a staple for the Jets after they took him sixth overall out of LSU in 2017. He made two Pro Bowls in 2018 and 2019, including a First Team All-Pro selection in the latter season after totaling 6.5 sacks, 75 tackles, two forced fumbles, one pick-six and seven passes defended across 14 games.
But after that season, the Jets traded Adams to the Seattle Seahawks, where he would spend his next four seasons. In 2024, he split time with the Tennessee Titans and Detroit Lions before finding a home with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2025.
Adams transitioned from safety to linebacker last season, and the Vikings were planning to do the same with the 30-year-old before this injury. Adams, though, views himself as a defensive Swiss Army knife, having the ability to be versatile if need be.
Now, Adams will hope that further testing can be graceful in terms of recovery despite non-contact knee injuries usually meaning the worst for athletes.
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Jaxson Dart gets last laugh against blitzing Vikings coach Brian Flores and the ominous blue medical tent
It was ugly when Jaxson Dart got absolutely rocked so hard during Saturday's preseason game that he lay motionless on the field as team trainers and doctors rushed to his aid.
The moment looked like a snapshot from the 2025 season, when the New York Giants' quarterback was hit over and over again. And, like a handful of times in 2025, this hit resulted in Dart being evaluated for a concussion out of concern for the player's safety.
Dart had one confirmed concussion out of those five previous evaluations and missed two games as a result.
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"I never thought I was going to be taken out," Dart said after the game. "I want to keep playing until they tell me I'm not playing. Like, I want to be out there."
The Giants season flashed before everyone's eyes until Dart emerged from the blue medical tent on the sideline after the evaluation that cleared him to return.
But the whole scene raises questions about what should and shouldn't be expected in any team's first preseason game.
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So, some answers:
Harbaugh said he had no hesitation about putting Dart back in the game and the quarterback told him he simply had the wind knocked out of him.
Harbaugh also said he was "honestly" surprised Dart was sent to the blue tent in the first place, but the job of doctors is to "err on the side of player safety."
(Yes, especially when a sizable part of Dart's rookie season felt like one long medical evaluation.)
We don't know why the Vikings blitzed as many times and ways as they did this game. Flores is known for doing this. It's his professional personality, one might argue.
And, no, professional football leaves no room for mercy from a defensive unit and its coaches toward an opposing offense, its quarterback or its coaches.
It was the running back Tyrone Tracy's job to pick up the blitz by Ward.
Harbaugh, in fact, said his reaction to seeing his starting quarterback practically knocked into next week on the safety blitz was simple: "My feeling in that moment was we need to block better."
But context here is necessary.
"Preseason football, you just don't expect all these looks your first game out," Giants analyst Phil Simms said on the broadcast.
And Flores, who unleashed those looks, is no fan of the Giants — or the Miami Dolphins, Houston Texans, Denver Broncos, Stephen Ross or John Elway, all of whom he named as defendants in his 2022 racial discrimination lawsuit.
That suit, by the way, is ongoing four years later, so Flores is still pressing the issue.
And it doesn't stretch credibility to think he might have wanted to make things difficult for the Giants based on the feelings he outlined in that suit.
The Giants, you may recall, presented perhaps the most vocal pushback against Flores when he claimed they discriminated against him when Brian Daboll was hired. Flores claimed the club used him for purposes of a sham Rooney Rule interview when it was already decided Daboll would get the job.
The Giants offered an unequivocal denial, saying the claims Flores made were "disturbing and simply false."
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So it wouldn't be surprising if Flores were still holding on to some resentment, given that he's a prideful person who might want to remind the Giants that he hasn't forgotten.
Flores did not speak to reporters after the game, per NFL guidelines.
Ultimately, it is up to Dart to recognize where rushers are coming from, be aware of his protection, see if it's breaking down, and get rid of the football. He took a lot of criticism about that as a rookie when he was hit 146 times by some counts in 12 starts.
But you know what? Dart ultimately got his measure of revenge this game.
He returned to the game and threw a 15-yard touchdown pass against the Vikings and their defensive coordinator. But even then he seemed to train his ire at the fact he had to have an evaluation.
"As far as the blue tent, I really respect the rules and the thought the NFL has behind keeping players healthy and reviewing things," Dart said. "But at the same time I'm still puzzled by — just feeling like every time that I get hit I find my way in there, which at times I still try to wrap my head around."
Henry Winkler opens up about the unexpected career he considered before becoming an actor
Henry Winkler is opening up about what career path he would have chosen had he not gotten into acting.
During a recent interview on the "You Could Make This Beautiful" podcast, the 80-year-old actor shared that he almost decided to become a child psychologist, because he was so dyslexic that "whatever I could do, with the least amount of education" was what he wanted to do.
"I understand children. I’m able to listen, I think, to children. I’m interested in what they have to say and how they are. I marvel at their prowess in the universe," Winkler said. "Yes, I would work with children."
Ultimately, the actor found fame playing Arthur "Fonzie" Fonzarelli on "Happy Days" from 1974 to 1984, a role which earned him three Emmy Award nominations.
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The actor has spoken about his lifelong struggle with dyslexia many times in the past and about how he learned to manage it in his career.
"Destiny is very strange, because I've chosen a profession that is so unbelievably difficult, not only to survive in, but to participate in for me," he told "PBS News Weekend" in November 2023. "When we were doing 'Happy Days' or any table read, which is the whole cast all the producers, the directors, everybody on the crew listening, for the first time to the script. I couldn't read off the page. And it was embarrassing. It was humiliating. I covered it with humor."
To manage the obstacles dyslexia presented in his career, Winkler explained that he would "literally read one word at a time" and ask for the script to be delivered to him ahead of time so that he would "almost memorize it" so that by the time it came to the table read, "I could read it with a flow."
While the actor had struggled with dyslexia his whole life, he didn't receive a diagnosis until he was in he was 31, and his young stepson was diagnosed with it, telling PBS that he was initially angry after getting a diagnosis.
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"I was because I was humiliated. I was constantly browbeaten. I was punished, grounded for most of my life," he said. "Then the next stage was all right, so I have this thing. Now I have to learn to negotiate it because it doesn't go away. It is the wiring in your brain."
He later learned to reframe the situation and began thinking, "maybe I would not be sitting in this chair" if he hadn't gone through "the challenge to constantly work through that made my tenacity, like steel."
Following his time on "Happy Days," Winkler continued acting, introducing himself to a younger audience in the 1998 movie, "The Waterboy," alongside Adam Sandler.
He then appeared in TV shows such as "Arrested Development," "Parks and Recreation" and "New Girl," before landing a starring role in the hit HBO Max show, "Barry," playing Gene Cousineau, an acting coach who finds himself befriending an assassin.
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The role earned him his first ever Emmy Award win in 2018.
"Be yourself, be honest about your ability, prepare so that you are not a flash in the pan," he said backstage after his win, per Variety.
"When I first started here in Hollywood … I thought of myself as a tree or sapling. I planted. I wanted to grow and be strong until I couldn’t do this anymore. And what a great tree it is."