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Anatomy of a Goal: Zardes kicks off the Champions League in Style – Massive Report

Welcome to the Anatomy of a Goal, where each week we dissect one goal (or near goal) from a previous Columbus Crew match.

For the first three matches of the Crews 2021 season, we take a look at Gyasi Zardes 19th minute goal that gave Columbus a 1-0 lead against Real Esteli and set the team on its way to a 4-0 road leg win.

Heres a look at the goal from Zardes.

The Black & Gold returned to the CONCACAF Champions League two weeks ago after a 10-year hiatus, traveling to Managua, Nicaragua to face off against the qualifiers from Liga Primera de Nicaragua, Real Esteli. The Crew put out a near full-strength lineup in the teams first competitive match of 2021 and came out with a clear intent to secure a victory in the away leg.

Zardes goal begins with a long clearance by Esteli center back Josue Quijano (27). Real Esteli shift two attackers toward Milton Valenzuela (19) to attempt an overload on the right side.

Valenzuela wins the ball from the two Esteli attackers and plays a quick, short pass forward to Aidan Morris (21).

Morris senses the pressure behind him and quickly plays a diagonal pass to his midfield partner Darlington Nagbe (6).

Nagbe picks up Morris pass in an empty pocket and is able to turn toward midfield and carry the ball forward.

Nagbe nears the midfield circle and has five options. He can play a diagonal pass up the line to Pedro Santos (7), try a difficult long ball over the defense to Zardes (11), hit a direct pass forward to Lucas Zelarayan (10) who has found a pocket of space between the Esteli defense and midfield, carry the ball forward or play a long diagonal pass to Luis Diaz (12).

The Crew midfielder spots Zelarayan and hits a quick pass forward to his No. 10.

Zelarayan immediately turns the ball and sets off toward the Real goal. Santos continues his run up the sideline while Zardes and Diaz continue their runs against the Esteli center backs.

Zelarayan approaches defensive pressure and can either play a through pass in front of Zardes, a pass behind center back Oscar Acevedo in front of Diaz or carry the ball forward.

The Argentine opts to play a difficult pass in behind Acevedo to the speedy Diaz. Zardes cuts his run inside of Quijano to put himself between his defender and the ball.

Zelarayans pass does not have enough pace and is picked off by Acevedo. Zardes continues forward between Quijano and Acevedo.

Acevedo redirects the ball toward the center of the goal box away from Diaz. Quijano and Zardes continue their race to the goal box.

Acevedos first touch is either just too heavy or too weak of a pass to Quijano. Zardes continues toward the ball applying a counter-press, quick defensive pressure after a turnover, following the Black & Gold losing possession.

Zardes is able to beat the Esteli center backs to the ball and uses his left foot to redirect the ball away from Acevedo and into space.

The Crew striker composes himself and has three options. He can take a shot on goal, take another touch forward or play a quick pass to Diaz.

Zardes eyes the far post and hits a low shot on goal.

The shot sends Real Estelis keeper, Alvaro Rezzano, into an awkward slide with Quijano lunging toward the space behind his goalkeeper.

The shot just beats Rezzano leaving only Quijano as the last defender before the goal.

Quijano isnt able to get a touch on the ball and can only watch as it rolls past him . . .

. . . into the back of the net!

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GameStop The Second Surge: Anatomy Of A Gamma Swarm – Forbes

BRAZIL - 2021/02/18: In this photo illustration a GameStop logo seen displayed on a smartphone with ... [+] the stock market graphic in the background. (Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

GameStop GME is not following the script.Despite the confident predictions by almost all the sideline observers (including myself) that the January frenzy in GME shares would end predictably, and badly this Stonk has suddenly surged a second time, embarrassing the conventional wisdom once again.

GME - The Second Surge

When GME first erupted in January, I thought it looked like just a clever way to accelerate a conventional short squeeze. (The mechanics of a short squeeze, and the gamma accelerant using call options, are described in my previous column.)On that basis, I expected that it would soon deflate and return to normal. The battlefield would be littered with the carcasses of small investors who bought at the top. Wed hear the distant sound of champagne popping in the proud towers of Wall Street and Chicago, and the scolds in the press would treat us to another round of lectures on thrift and the Madness of Crowds.

Thats not what happened. The stock did come down as low as $38, but the deflation didnt stick. As of this moment mid-day (March 10), GME is again trading above $300 a share. [Things are moving fast. See the Update at the end of this piece.]

This latest surge is revealing something truly new. Another gamma swarm this time in its pure form, without the added fuel of an over-extended short position (the shorts were substantially cleared out by the January episode).

In this column, I will examine this second surge in detail. It is the type-specimen of a new kind of market maneuver, which will establish this event as more than an anomaly. The gamma swarm phenomenon looks like something to be reckoned with, a new trading strategy that may require many other market participants short sellers, regulators, market makers, clearinghouses, certain hedge funds, many conventional investors to make significant accommodations.

My previous analysis highlighted two components of the the January eruption: a short squeeze, and a gamma squeeze.

There seems little doubt now that the top of the January surge was the result of a successful rout of several major short-sellers, who had become complacent (it would seem) with their thesis and taken on too much risk. At the beginning of the year, the short interest in GME that is, the percentage of the companys stock that had been sold short was at least 68 million shares. The entire public float (that is, the shares freely trading in the market, excluding shares held by insiders) comprises 45 million shares.A short interest in excess of the float is not impossible, but it is highly unusual.

And unstable, as events showed. Shares sold short all have to be bought back at some point (unless the company goes completely bankrupt) so one way to view this was as an enormous reservoir of pent-up demand, a coiled spring, which if somehow triggered could propel the stock sharply upwards inflicting huge losses on the short sellers.

As described in the previous column, however, successful short squeezes are historically very hard to engineer, and therefore very rare. What made the January surge in GME work was the addition of an innovative new tactic.

The mechanics of a gamma squeeze are complex (see the earlier column for details), and I doubt they are fully understood yet. Even the professionals failed in many cases to anticipate this development, which is why some of them lost a great deal of money.

[The term gamma comes from the math involved in options pricing. It is not worth a detailed gloss for this column. Well use the term here, undefined, as a label.]

The basic idea can be stated in simple terms. It involves the use of options, specifically Call Options (that is, options to buy sharesin the future at a defined price called the strike price) to drive up the price of the shares. It works because when a trader buys a call option, it creates a risk for the counterparty who sold that option. Without further measures, if the shares rise above the strike price, the option seller will have to acquire those shares in the open market, at a loss, to fulfill the contract.

There are many ways to hedge this risk. The net-net of the process, though, often requires someone to buy a share of the underlying stock the call is converted at some point into a covered call.

The other key fact is that options are much cheaper to buy than shares. In the example developed in the previous column, based on actual market pricing, a typical 2-week call option for Tesla TSLA cost just 2% of the price of Teslas shares at the time. This means that ordinary investors - retail traders can more easily participate. And if they can coordinate their option buying, they gain huge leverage by forcing the option sellers to buy shares putting upward pressure on the stock.

So, essentially, in the January surge, the pre-existing short interest in GME was like dry tinder, ready to burn but hard to ignite. The gamma squeeze using options, with their inherently enormous leverage for creating pressure on the buy-side was like adding gasoline and tossing a match. Boom.

The new surge took off quite suddenly around 2:30 pm on February 24.

The stock had been quiescent for the previous 2 weeks, drifting down gently. We all thought it was the calm after the storm. But then, on the 24th, the share price doubled in the final 90 minutes of trading, and then doubled again in the first half hour of the following day. The volume was absolutely extraordinary. On February 25, GME traded 4 times the companys total float. Over three days (Feb 24-26), GME traded almost 10 times its public float. This is probably a record for the turnover of shares relative to the float for a substantial public company.

Volume of GME Shares Traded Feb 22-26

[For comparison, Tesla which set its own record for the value of shares traded for a single company on a single day when it joined the S&P 500index (Dec 18) traded only about half of its float in the three days surrounding that event.]

The short squeeze is evidently over. The short interest had declined by February reasonably so, since the shorts were overpowered by the January surge, and had to close out their positions.

So the new surge looks more like a pure gamma event, which from an analytical standpoint is more revealing.

The options activity is now clearly the focus of the event. In the January swarm, too, call options trading soared this is the gamma signature.

But most observers focused on the slaughter of the short sellers, rather than the options activity.

In February, however, with the shorts depleted (relatively), options volumes exploded again.

Volume of GME Call Options Feb 22-26

In a little over an hour on Wednesday, February 24, the orchestrators of the gamma surge effectively gained control of the stock and started to drive it upwards. The volume of call options exponentiated from 63 contracts at 2:25 to over 8000 contracts at 3:46 when trading was halted for the second time in 10 minutes.The pile-on continued on Thursday, as the rout was now clear. Trading was stopped four more times in the first half hour after the opening on Feb 25.As in January, the balance was skewed in favor of Call options.

GME Call Option Volume Feb 24 Afternoon

Share trading volumes followed.

GME Share Volume 12-4 Feb 24 Afternoon

The share price went on a rip, which must have stunned a lot of the market know-it-alls. A second surge like this is not supposed to happen. (It certainly took me aback. I thought at first that the person who gave me the news had to be joking.)

GameStop Share Price Feb 24 Afternoon

The options gasoline stoked the fire. Trading was halted, but the run-up continued after hours and even more furiously the following morning.

The options volume was not a smooth flow. The ignition phase seems to have been between 2:30 and 3:30 pm on the 24th. Call options suddenly began crashing into the market in a series of pulses. Call option volumes reached levels nearly a hundred times larger than just two hours earlier. If we examine the crucial window, the pulses are clearly visible.

Surges in Volume of GME Call Options 230-330

The share trading volumes mirrored this pattern, with a lag.

Surges in Volume of GME Shares 230-330

If we superimpose these patterns,it becomes clear that the options trades are driving the share trades. The following chart is somewhat busy, but the message is clear: the pulses in options volume precede the pulses in the trading of the shares by 1-5 minutes.

Surges in Call Option Volumes Followed by Surges in Share Volumes - Detail 2:30-3:05

The raw correlation between the volume of options and the volume of shares in the course of the afternoon was about 68%. The correlation of volume with price was 88%.Drive the options, drive the share volume. Drive the volume, drive the price.

The pattern conforms to the gamma squeeze concept where the surge in options is followed by a surge in share volume. Correlation, and Precedence of A before B, are two criteria for establishing causality. It appears that the options trades are driving the share trades. It accords with the idea that options sellers are quickly hedging their positions by buying shares. This would certainly be prudent in a rising market, where the risk of selling a naked call option (without hedging by buying the shares) increases with the share price, as illustrated in this example based on Tesla options (from my previous column).

Naked Call vs Covered Call

The extremely unbalanced short position that contributed to the January eruption was no longer in place in February.

GME Short Interest Early 2021

The second surge shows that a Gamma Squeeze can be effective even with a much-reduced short interest. Gamma looks like an independent phenomenon.

So far the Reddit swarm seems focused on replicating the GME template, with companies that have large short positions. But this new surge suggests that other companies with different shareholding profiles could be vulnerable. Factors such as size or liquidity could be important.We probably don't know yet what the risk factors are.

I admit that when GameStonk 1 erupted, I was skeptical about any larger significance. It seemed like a one-off, a special situation.

I have come to see that there is enormous leverage inherent in two new factors, which are interrelated:

This leverage has changed the game. It will be interesting to watch as traders probe the market with this new instrument, to find out what it can really do. Im not sure they even know yet what power they have.

[I have not tried to formally quantify this leverage. But consider an example with data that is time-stamped at the close of the market on Tuesday, March 9. Imagine that a swarm of, say, 10,000 members, each invested $1,000 in GME $270 call options for Friday March 12. The March 9 cost of the option is $24. If all option sellers hedged, it could drive perhaps $100 million of share volume, at the then current prices.

Would they hedge? GME closed March 9 at $246. It was up $118 in the previous 3 days. If it ran another $100 in the following 3 days, each option seller would lose $52 on each option. I suspect they would consider hedging.

Update: GME traded above $300 on Wed March 10 spiking as high as $348. A naked March 12 call option with a strike price of $270 would have exposed the sellerto a loss of $56 a share. It is highly unlikely that the sellers of such options would have allowed themselves to be exposed to this risk. They would have covered, hedged, by purchasing shares adding to the surge. Gamma power!]

Leverage in the physical world can be used to break things, to pry them loose. Like with a crowbar. Gamma leverage is a powerful new strategy to commandeer the share price, to pry it loose from fundamental value.

It is part of a bigger picture, a sea-change in the character of the markets. The long-simmering processes of detaching investment decisions from traditional price and value concepts fostered by passive index-tracking and high frequency trading, among other trends had looked like a slow, anesthetic drift away from rational pricing. With the Gamma swarms the process has suddenly become violent. The Gamestonk rout accomplished in three hours what it took the engineers of the legendary Volkwagen short squeeze three long years to execute. And now the swarm has shown they can do it again, even without the short squeeze.

Many things are swept away in this storm rational price discovery, market efficiency, supply-demand equilibriumWell have to get used to a new sort of market regime.

Crowbars are so old-school. The apes (as they call themselves) have chain-saws now. Watch out.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’ Boss Approaching Season 17 Ender as Potential Series Finale – Hollywood Reporter

"I'm planning a season and a finale that could function as either a season finale or a series finale," showrunner Krista Vernoff tells The Hollywood Reporter.

For the first time in a few years, Grey's Anatomy is heading into the end of its current season with a huge question mark about its future.

The ABC medical drama starring Ellen Pompeo from creator Shonda Rhimes is in its 17th season, with renewal talks having been underway for months. As the series returns for its midseason premiere this week, showrunner Krista Vernoff is handling the show's uncertain future with two contingencies in mind.

"I'm planning a season and a finale that could function as either a season finale or a series finale," Vernoff told The Hollywood Reporter on Tuesday. "I'm planning for both contingencies and it's hard and it's not ideal. It's not where I wish we were."

Sources tell THR that renewal talks have been underway for months between ABC parent Disney and leading lady Pompeo, who in late 2017 signed a new deal that made her television's highest-earning actress in a primetime drama series. That pact covered seasons 15 and 16 of the series, with ABC extending the deal to cover season 17 as part of a two-year pickup in 2019. Pompeo, who was vocal in a THR cover story about fighting for the salary she deserved with the hope of inspiring other women in the industry to do the same, is again seeing a salary increase as part of the renewal discussions.

In its 17th season, Grey's Anatomy remains a massive asset for ABC and Disney. The series ranks as ABC's No. 1 drama series among total viewers and the all-important advertiser-coveted adults 18-49 demographic. The series is a global phenomenon and broadcast all over the world. It's also become a cash cow with a rich streaming deal at Netflix, where it ranks as one of the company's most watched acquired shows.

In addition to starring, Pompeo exec produces both Grey's and its firefighter-focused spinoff, Station 19. Both dramas are exec produced by Rhimes' Shondaland and remain the last shows from Rhimes for the network before she decamped for a nine-figure overall deal with Netflix. Rhimes has for years said Grey's would go on as long as Pompeo wanted to do the series. The prolific producer, who in December launched her first Netflix title with hit Bridgerton, hand-picked Vernoff to take over showrunning duties on Grey's. Vernoff was the head writer on Grey's for its first seven seasons and returned as showrunner in season 14. She also oversees Station 19 and has her first solo show, Rebel, due for ABC in April.

Vernoff told THR that she's asked ABC executives to know about the fate of the series before production on the season 17 ender. "I've told them that I have to know before I'm making the finale what we're making," she said. "Because there are a couple of character threads that will change. I've got plans for both contingencies. Either there will be closure or I will build something in that allows me to have a bit of a cliffhanger and a thread for next season."

As for growing the Grey's franchise with another spinoff, Vernoff said the challenges of producing the series during the pandemic have stalled those conversations. "It's been so complicated and so difficult to come back to production during the pandemic," she said. "We are on fumes. I don't really have creative space for imaginings of what might happen next year; I'm trying to get through this season. Once I know if this is the final season or not, I can start to try to imagine other things. But trying to simultaneously plan for the end of the series and the end of the season if it's not the end of the series it's like breaking two shows. That's what I've got bandwidth for. That, Station 19 and Rebel. That's enough."

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Anatomy of a conspiracy theory: how misinformation travels on Facebook – The Guardian

In the early hours of New Years Eve, former Liberal MP Craig Kelly logged on to Facebook to make one of his regular contributions to the global network of misinformation about Covid-19 this time, to promote the antiparasitic drug ivermectin as a treatment for the virus.

The content of the post was not particularly new or remarkable. For months, Kelly had faced increasing criticism from health experts for promoting the use of drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine as coronavirus treatments, against scientific evidence.

This one erroneously claimed ivermectin beats all the experimental vaccines for efficacy in preventing Covid infections by incorrectly comparing a series of minor studies to vaccine effectiveness data.

Dr Lea Merone, public health consultant and senior research fellow at the University of Queensland, said the problem with Kellys post was that it used studies about the drug with extremely small sample sizes, meaning they used few people to trial this medication.

Sample sizes that are too small can lead us to believe we have made false discoveries and often when these studies are replicated on a larger scale with more participants, we dont get the same results, she said.

It is important we dont recommend treatments based on results from small-sample or pilot studies. The vaccines have been tested rigorously on thousands of people and have been shown to be effective and safe.

Australias chief medical officer, Paul Kelly, has also rebuked the member for Hughes for promoting the drug, saying there was no evidence about its usefulness in treating Covid-19.

While the prime minister, Scott Morrison, refused for months to publicly reprimand Kelly for spreading misinformation, Kellys popularity on Facebook soared. Using his platform as until recently a government MP, he became a beacon for conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers.

On Kellys 31 December post, the comments were typical: followers claimed Covid-19 was a hoax orchestrated by the World Health Organization and the United Nations to cull the population, or a ploy by Bill Gates and pharmaceutical companies to profit from a vaccine.

Surely most people who follow you now realise that the virus is a part of a greater plot that has nothing to do with our health at all? one person wrote.

Its your constant posting that has woken me up.

Kelly strongly denied he had contributed to misinformation about the virus, and pointed to countries such as the Czech Republic and Slovakia, which have approved the use of ivermectin to treat the virus.

Thats despite its own manufacturer, MSD, warning against its use to treat Covid-19.

Kelly told the Guardian he believed the term misinformation was being used to shut down debate about the use of Covid-19 treatments such as ivermectin.

He also denied he had become a beacon for conspiracy thinking, saying most MPs attracted crazies on their posts, and said he was posting the facts. He said he was not concerned about comments on his page that suggested some people had come to believe Covid-19 to be a hoax because of his social media presence.

The problem is, and where some of these people get these strange ideas from, is they see when I post things like this and they then see the media claiming Craig Kelly is posting misinformation and they say hang on a minute and they can see that Craig Kelly is posting facts. That is what perhaps incites some of the people to have these bizarre conspiracy theories.

But the post reached an audience far beyond Kellys own following.

This is how a single post from an Australian politician spread to a global network of Facebook groups promoting anti-vaccine, anti-lockdown and coronavirus misinformation. It shows how the platform is uniquely suited to potentially spreading harmful content online.

This is just one post, but researchers from the Queensland University of Technology have looked at how conspiracy theories and misinformation spread on Facebook more broadly.

In a recent paper, Axel Bruns and his team examined the rise of the conspiracy theory that Covid-19 is somehow related to the rollout of the 5G mobile phone network. Craig Kelly has not shared conspiracy theories about 5G.

The QUT team tracked Facebook posts from 1 January to 12 April 2020, and were able to illustrate the gradual spread of rumours from the fringes to more popular spaces in the Facebook platform over five distinct phases.

There were half a dozen other threads of conspiracy that we could have chosen to look at that were emerging at this time, but we ended up choosing 5G, really because of the significant impact it has had in terms of the spate of arson and other attacks linked to it, Bruns told the Guardian.

Its an obvious example of conspiracy theories leading to effects in the real world.

The data showed not only the spread of 5G misinformation during the pandemic, but also the way it dovetailed with other pre-existing conspiracy theories such as vaccine misinformation. It also highlighted the role of celebrities and some celebrity and sports media in helping those theories reach the mainstream.

The Guardian used the QUT data to show how Facebook posts containing 5G-coronavirus conspiracy content went from reaching only a few thousand people to pages, profiles and groups with hundreds of millions of followers potentially contributing to a spate of attacks on phone towers in Australia and across the globe.

The chart below uses data from public pages, groups and verified profiles only (which well refer to as pages from here), and while it contains the number of shares, followers and similar metrics, it does not look at how this content is being shared by individual users.

After months of conspiracy content linking Covid-19 to the rollout of 5G, the online shifted to the real world. A wave of vandalism and destruction of 5G infrastructure began across the globe. By 30 April, ZDNet counted 61 suspected arson attacks in the UK alone, with further attacks in the Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Cyprus and Sweden.

The vandalism extended to Australia. On 9 May, there was a fire at a phone tower in Morphett Vale, South Australia. Investigators believe it was deliberately lit.

Then, in the early hours of 22 May, a fire broke out at a power and mobile phone tower in Cranbourne West in Melbournes outer suburbs. It is still under investigation by Victorian counter-terrorism police.

The attacks did not happen in a vacuum. After months of increasingly widespread misinformation about 5G and Covid-19, by May an anti-lockdown movement had begun to emerge in Melbourne. On 10 May, 10 people were arrested and one police officer taken to hospital after demonstrators gathered in the citys CBD for a protest advertised as being against self-isolating, social distancing, tracking apps [and] 5G being installed.

At the protest, many of the signs and slogans shouted by demonstrators fit the themes of misinformation found on Facebook by the QUT researchers in the early months of the pandemic. Demonstrators called for Microsoft founder Bill Gates to be arrested, a now-prominent call of conspiracy theorists that began to emerge as misinformation spread into new directions from late February.

In early May, the Australian celebrity chef Pete Evans, well known for his embrace of conspiracy theories during the pandemic, urged his then-231,000 Instagram followers to watch a three-hour interview in which the notorious conspiracy theorist David Icke simultaneously claimed Covid-19 is a fake pandemic with no virus and linked infections to 5G.

At the time, Evans wrote: Here is an alternative view, I would be keen to hear your thoughts on this video as to whether their is any validity in this mans message, especially as there seems to be a lot of conflicting messages coming out of the mainstream these days.

The QUT paper found celebrities such as Evans played a vital role in pushing misinformation about 5G technology during the pandemic.

All of these things 5G, anti-vaccination or things like Covid-19 as a bio-weapon have all been meshed in together, which in some ways makes them much more powerful because there is something there for everyone, Bruns said.

The development of this trend, in which as the QUT researchers describe it a growing array of conspiracy bogeymen are variously said to be behind the outbreak, helps to explain why by 2021 Melbournes anti-lockdown movement had evolved into something closer to an anti-vaccination conspiracy group.

While data shows that Australias pre-pandemic vaccination rates remain among the highest in the world, there is some evidence of those views seeping into more mainstream audiences. YouGov polling carried out in July and August last year found, for example, that 23% of Australians polled agreed with the statement that the coronavirus was deliberately created and spread by some powerful forces in the business world.

In a statement, a spokesperson for Facebook said the posts used by the Guardian to demonstrate the spread of misinformation on the social network predates our expanded Covid-19 policies.

Today, we are running the largest online vaccine information campaign in history and so far have directed over 2 billion people to resources from health authorities through our Covid-19 information centre, she said.

We remove conspiracy theories about Covid-19 vaccines, including linking them to 5G hoaxes, have removed 12 million pieces of harmful misinformation about Covid-19 and approved vaccines, and work with 80 fact-checking organisations to debunk other false claims.

At the time of publishing, all but one of the example posts used by the Guardian remained on Facebook. Only one had been given a misinformation filter tag by the company.

* The names marked with an asterisk in screenshots have been changed to avoid promoting accounts that share misinformation.

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‘Greys Anatomy’ Fans Are Worried After Ellen Pompeo Discusses the Shows Future – GoodHousekeeping.com

Greys Anatomys winter hiatus will finally come to an end on March 11. But before its return next week, Ellen Pompeo shared some insight about the rest of season 17 and the shows future and her comments are making some fans uneasy.

In December, the ABC medical drama last showed Ellen's character, Meredith Grey, being put on a ventilator after her condition worsened while battling COVID-19. Understandably, fans were devastated about the turn of the events. Ahead of the show coming back, Ellen told CBS Sunday Morning this week what she knows, and she kept her answers pretty vague.

"I can't say. Can't say," Ellen told the outlet. "We honestly have not decided. We're really trying to figure it out right now."

When asked if she was referring to the decision about ending the show or not, Ellen clarified: "Yes. It's, what story do we tell? To end a show this iconic, you know, how do we do it? I just want to make sure we do this character and this show and the fans I want to make sure we do it right."

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She later added: We don't know. I'm in that we I mean, you know, we have choices."

Some fans who saw the interview on YouTube interpreted Ellens answers as hinting that the end of the show might be near. While its not hard to imagine Greys concluding somewhat soon after 16 years on air, a handful of viewers made it clear that they don't want an ending associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

I need the show to end on a positive note. that means not with a [COVID-19] storyline, one person wrote. This show has done it all and to end like that wouldnt be giving the show justice or the ending it deserves, another added. Grey's Anatomy cannot end yet! GREY'S ANATOMY CANNOT END! a different fan said. However, they end the show, it will still break my heart, someone else commented.

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Recently, some fans had similar reactions when Patrick Dempsey, who plays Derek Shepherd, also kept the future of the show under wraps when talking to ET Canada. "It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few months," the actor told the outlet in early February.

Thankfully, fans can take comfort in the fact that Chandra Wilson, a.k.a. Miranda Bailey, told Entertainment Tonight back in December that she didn't think the show would end with the current storyline.

"I know from a creative standpoint there have been many 'This is how the season would end' conversations and then they all end up [not happening] because of a myriad of reasons," she said.

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One thing is certain: When Greys returns on March 11, it will be a crossover event with Station 19, as shown in the clip above. Hopefully, there will be time for a quick update on Merediths health before introducing even more heartbreaking drama to the season.

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The cast of ‘Grey’s Anatomy’ ranked by net worth – RADIO.COM

The long-running Greys Anatomy has been a staple on American TVs since 2005, earning huge platforms, and paychecks, for its stars along the way.

Shonda Rhimes has piloted the series through its many twists and turns, but stars like Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, and Sandra Oh have earned quite a bit for their work too.

Using data from Celebrity Net Worth, here are the top net worths of the Greys Anatomy cast members.

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Oprah With Meghan and Harry; The Masked Singer; Greys Anatomy; A Million Little Things: TV This Week – OregonLive

Television

Critics Choice Awards: Another awards show honoring TV and movies, with Taye Diggs hosting and many nominees appearing remotely. (7 p.m. Sunday, The CW)

Oprah With Meghan and Harry: A CBS Primetime Special: Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, sit down for an interview with Oprah Winfrey, which is sure to touch on the couples exit from the British royal family, Harrys mother, the late Princess Diana, and other topics. (8 p.m. Sunday, CBS; stream live or on demand with a Paramount Plus, which offers a 30-day free trial, or with FuboTV, which offers a 7-day free trial).

Ride With Norman Reedus: The Walking Dead stars gets back on his motorcycle for Season 5. (Midnight Sunday, AMC)

Delilah: Maahra Hill stars as a lawyer who departed a high-prestige, high-pressure position at a law firm and has now started her own practice. The show comes from some of the creators of the OWN series, Greenleaf. (9 p.m. Tuesday, OWN)

COVID Diaries NYC: Filmmakers ages 17 to 21 document their own experiences during the period when the COVID-19 pandemic was hitting New York City. (9 p.m. Tuesday, HBO)

The Masked Singer: The competition featuring sort-of celebs hiding beneath flashy costumes returns for Season 5 (8 p.m. Wednesday, Fox)

South ParQ: The Vaccination Special: An hourlong edition of the animated series, with an oh-so-timely theme. (8 p.m. Wednesday, Comedy Central)

Game of Talents: Wayne Brady hosts a new variety show in which contestants are challenged to guess the performers hidden talent, based only on their first impressions and a few wily clues. Wily? If you say so. (9 p.m. Wednesday, Fox)

Station 19: The drama returns, to continue Season 4. (8 p.m. Thursday, ABC)

Greys Anatomy: The medical saga also comes back after a hiatus, to continue Season 17. (9 p.m. Thursday, ABC)

A Million Little Things: This tear-jerking ensemble drama will have been gone for a while, also, so we may have forgotten a few of those million things when Season 3 finally resumes. (10 p.m. Thursday, ABC)

Streaming

Unraveled: The Real Story of the Long Island Serial Killer; A companion special to the true-crime podcast looks at the case of murder on Long Island, and issues affecting why the case has remained unsolved. (Available to stream beginning Tuesday, Discovery Plus)

Marriage or Mortgage: New reality series in which, as the description says, A wedding planner and a real estate agent compete to win the hearts and budgets of spouses-to-be. Will they pick fairy-tale nuptials or a dream home? (Available to stream beginning Wednesday, Netflix)

Generation: New series about high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community, as the description says. (Available to stream beginning Thursday, HBO Max)

-- Kristi Turnquist

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Grey’s Anatomy: The 10 Best Scenes At Emerald City Bar – Screen Rant

As everyone knows, Joe's bar has become an important fixture in Grey's Anatomy. Without it, fans wouldn't have been able to see these memorable scenes

Over the years, fans have come to love a lot of things about Greys Anatomy. Not only has the show been the starting point for many Hollywood starsbut there have been plenty ofstory arcs that have left everyone in shock. And of course, there are the characters that fans cant help but care about over the years.

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Throughout the years, the viewers have also seen Greys Anatomy feature several interesting sets. Of course, theres Grey Sloan Memorial hospital, where everyone works. Theres also Merediths house, where the majority of characters have stayed. And then, theres Emerald City bar with memorable scenes like:

Maggie and DeLuca ended up getting together at Joes bar one evening after DeLuca was unable to save one of the twins that he was treating. As he sat miserably with Maggie, the two eventually got drunk and kissed. They also slept together and tried to avoid each other afterward.

However, they still hooked up again the very next day. Later on, when their relationship went public, DeLuca became uncomfortable and fans were scratching their heads about why the show let this relationship go on. After all, the two lacked chemistry and Maggie held a more senior position than DeLuca.

When Lexie first came to the show, fans had mixed feelings understandably so. Straight away,fans aligned her as a potential 'villain' since it looked like she was going to try and come between Meredith and Derek.In her introduction, the viewers saw her attempt to flirt with Derek at Joes bar, even offering to buy him a drink.

However, little did fans know what sort of impact she would end up having in the future? While fans thought they had seen the last of her after that scene, they were soon surprised when she walked into Seattle Grace not long after and introduced herself as Lexie Grey, Meredith's sister. Things got interesting from that point onward.

When Addison knew that her marriage to Derek was ending, she became extremely miserable - so much so, that she decided to take the day off just to get drunk. It may have been unusual for her, but Addison needed some time to mourn the relationship so that she can find the will to move on.

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That said, the double board-certified OB/GYN looked miserable that day, showing up to Joes bar in baggy clothing as she got drunk and ate a lot of the muffins that Izzie had brought over earlier.

In a lot of ways, Burke and Cristina were one of the best couples on the show. They are both highly skilled individuals who are known for their intelligence and surgical prowess. Not to mention, the two doctors were clearly devoted to one another. And so, fans werent so surprised when they decided to tie the knot.

To celebrate the couples pending nuptials, Derek decided to throw Burke an impromptu bachelor party. And because he needed more attendees, Derek also asked Mark and Addison to come along.

Callie may have dated several people throughout her time on the show. However, many believe that Arizona is really the love of her life. From the beginning, it did look like these two women had undeniable chemistry.

And that was very evident when they ended up running into each other inside the bathroom of Joes bar. After talking for a bit, Arizona decides to take her chances and kiss Callie. The two eventually get together and even have a child. Unfortunately, their relationship would not last.

One of Merediths most memorable moments on the show involves her asking Derek to choose her after Addison makes her way to Seattle Grace unexpectedly. Following her heartfelt appeal, Meredith ends up at Joes bar because she told Derek that this is the spot where she would be waiting for him.

She sits there, feeling miserable about what she had done. Joe tries to make her feel better but its no use. Derek doesnt show up. Later on, the two get a moment together and Meredith manages to confirm that Derek decided to stay with his wife.

Cristina may be Merediths best friend but shes also quite close to other doctors that she works with, including Callie. Sure, they didnt really seem close during the shows earlier seasons. They didnt even hang out much around the time that Callie was dating George.

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Over the years though, the two women eventually became closer. At one point, they even ended up hanging out at Joes bar together. They get drunk. They talk about their spouses (and make fun of them). And then they drink some more.

At first, it didnt seem like putting Lexie and Mark together would be a good idea. She was a highly inexperienced intern and he was an acclaimed plastic surgeon. However, slowly but surely, the two convinced fans that they had a great deal of chemistry.

Even though they ended up in a tumultuous relationship, everyone couldnt help but agree that Mark and Lexie were destined to be together. Its just too bad that Lexie and Mark would both die following the plane crash.

Several doctors were hanging out at Joes when a car suddenly crashed through the front of the bar. It crashes into a window and immediately, debris starts raining down on everyone. Its not immediately clear who among Grey Sloan Memorials doctors are hurt.

All fans knew was that Jackson, along with Mirandas husband, Ben, were at the bar whenthe incidentoccurred. The aftermath of the crash is shown in greater detail in Station 19s pilot episode. And in the next Greys episode, doctors work hard to treat all the victims, including their own friends.

When Derek and Meredith first hooked up, no one knew where things were going. After all, the first time that fans got a glimpse of them together, Derek was lying on Merediths living room floor. Several episodes later, the viewers come to discover that the two met (sort of) while at Joes bar.

Sparks flew and they hooked up. Meredith may have thought that they would never see each other again but as it turns out, Derek was her true love. After going through a tricky situation that involved Dereks then-wife, the two finally got married and had children.

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‘Grey’s Anatomy’: What Happened to DeLuca Before the Season 17 Break? – Showbiz Cheat Sheet

Greys Anatomyfans patiently await the return of Dr. Andrew DeLuca (Giacomo Gianniotti) andDr. Carina DeLuca (Stefania Spampinato). When we last saw the sibling doctors, they pursued the human sex trafficker from an unresolved storyline in season 16. Before we watch the nextGreys AnatomySeason 17 episode, heres a quick recap of what happened to DeLuca last.

Greys AnatomySeason 16 ended without explaining what happened to DeLuca because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Production was shut down, so the cast and crew did not finish out the season. However, in the spinoff,Station 19, DeLucas sister, Carina, told her girlfriend, Maya Bishop (Danielle Savre), about her family history.

My dad has bipolar I, Carina told Maya. And my sweet baby brother has inherited it.

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However, whenGreys AnatomySeason 17 began, the storyline jumped ahead. According to Gianniotti, his character is doing well.

Andrew is no longer the boy who cried wolf, Gianniotti toldTV Insider. Hes been taking his medications, eating right, and getting sleep, and is back on track to living a more balanced lifestyle.

InGreys AnatomySeason 16, Andrew found Opal (Stephanie Kurtzuba) suspicious when she came into the hospitals clinic with a distraught teen. The woman claimed to be the teenagers aunt, but DeLuca did not believe her. He diagnosed the girl with a hernia and pulled Miranda Bailey (Chandra Wilson) out of surgery to attempt to have Opal investigated for human trafficking.

However, not one of the otherGreys Anatomycharacters believed DeLuca. Instead of calling security on Opal, they detained the surgeon. After everything settles down, the other doctors realize that Opal and the teen fled from the hospital. It turned out that Andrew DeLuca was right all along.

In Greys Anatomys winter finale, DeLuca spotted Opal after she snuck into the hospital to check on her fellow kidnapper. Before she left the parking lot, Andrew and Carina jumped in their car to follow her. However, fans are worried about what might happen whenGreys Anatomyreturns.

If anyone touches Andrew or Carina, Im done, one fan wrote on the YouTube promo. They are two of the few characters I still care about at this point.

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Many fans are happy to see a scene with the DeLuca siblings. However, they are hoping that the other surgeons apologize to him.

I swear if every single one of them doesnt give him a heartfelt apology on how they didnt believe him because of his mental health, added another fan. They better apologize!

Fans will find out what happens with DeLuca whenGreys Anatomyreturns on March 11, 2021.

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Grey’s Anatomy: The Main Characters, Ranked By How Tragic Their Past Is – Screen Rant

The surgeons of Grey-Sloan Memorial have faced some heartbreaking and tragic ordeals, which have partially shaped them into the people they are today.

In Grey's Anatomy's world, most characters are known to have had difficult upbringings or at least several traumatic experiences in their lives before they joined the show. Despite this, Grey Sloan Memorial Hospitalhas hosted some of the best surgeons in the country and, to this day, viewers don't get tired of all the drama that goes on in this medical tv-show.

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Fans know that every episode is constantly handing out major life lessons. Some of them are only possible to exist because of these doctors' past scarring ordeals that they had to go through, which, in turn, have allowed them to grow into more complex and relatable characters in the present moment.

In season 10, everyone was taken aback when it was revealed that Maggie was the long-lost daughter of Richard and Ellis. After that bombshell was dropped, most fans initially forgot about the backstory that Maggie had shared. However, if fans take a closer look at what she told Richard, there was a tragic element to it.

Maggie had revealed that she had wanted to learn who her biological mother was, which implies that she might have wanted to get to know her. Unfortunately, by this time, Ellis had passed away, which meant that she possibly never got the chance to get the answers that she sought. Since Richard wasn't even aware of her existence at the time (which is tragic just by itself), he wouldn't have been able to answer any personal questions either. Nevertheless, Maggie has found a lot of comfort in the memories and facts Richard and Meredith provide her.

It's no secret that Meredith'srough childhooddue to thefact she had been caught in the middle of her parents' marital woes. When Meredith was five, Thatcher had left Ellis after she told him of her affair. After they moved to Boston, the viewers then learned that Thatcher hadn't spoken to Meredith in twenty years.

Meredith's relationship with her mother didn't improve much either. Although Meredith'ssimilarities with Ellis were remarkableon a physical level, the latter always struggled to find the perfect balance between her career and family life. With Ellis spending most of her time at the hospital, Meredith spent most of her childhood being babysat by other hospital workers. Luckily, Meredith managed to get some closure on both relationships before they died.

Having any life-threatening disease like cancer, and especially as a child, must be a tragic experience for anyone to go through. At the age of ten, it was revealed that Link had been diagnosed withosteosarcoma on his femur. Although it was diagnosed at a late stage,Link eventually made a full recovery.

Unfortunately, there was another reason why Link finds it difficult to talk about his past. Similar to Meredith, Link was seen to get caught up in his parents' divorce. After they had announced they were splitting up, Link revealed that they would often use him as a pawn and force him to choose sides (which made him feel like a mediator). Link has always promised that his relationship with his children wouldn't be the same.

The most prominent attending neurosurgeon in the show has come a long way since the audience first met him. Tom was mysterious about his personal life and always acted as a layered individual. Therefore, it wasn't until much later that viewers understood where some of his reservations tragically came from.Koracickrevealed that he had lost his son in an accident, some years ago.

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Soon after, the couple divorced, but the grief he still carriesclearlyhas turned him into a remorseful and cynical person. The brilliant surgeon, who has been disliked by many because of his arrogant ways, did gain a lot more sympathy from fans once they saw how much his losses have affected him.

Initially, Owen's tough exterior has often made him look insensitive or even uncaring about others. However, the viewers soon changed their opinion on the former Chief of Surgery when several episodes showed that Owen had severe trauma from his experiences at war. While his veteran years did affect his mental health, many fans were quite proud to see him seek professional help.

These days, the resident cast is different than it was just afew seasons ago.One of the newest additions to the showwas Dr. Hayes. Coming in as a "package" for Merediththrough Yang's Swiss venture, Cormac has been anextremely likablecharacter almost since his entrance on the show.

But the pediatric doctor has had his fair of pain in his personal life. Anyone who has lost a wife, and especially a mother of two boys, like he did, deserves compassion. Cormac was left to raise his teenagers alone and it is obvious that, to this day, he still lives with the grief of his wife's tragic death.

It's the hardest pill to swallow when anyone loses a child, a loved one, or a parent. People usually go through the heartbreak period until, over time, the acceptance that their person is gone becomesbearable.

But is there a bigger torment than to know that your partner may still be alive yet you have no idea where is they are or if they are OK? That's the tragedy that poor Nathan had to deal with for several years.Megan's disappearance was devastating for Nathan and her brotherOwen.

Amelia is a character who, undeniably, has been through a lot of hardships. From an early age,Derek's baby sisterhas been battle-hardened by tragic experiences. When she was only five years old, she and Derek had witnessed their father get killed in a failed robbery attempt.

Amelia ended up carrying this trauma with her into her teen years, where she began using drugs and alcohol to escape her pain. She also dealt with two other shattering losses: her unborn baby, who had been diagnosed with anencephaly, and her baby's father.

However, as fans know, Amelia has grownso much since her teen years and is in recovery. WithLink's supportand her new family, viewers hope that Amelia's newfound attitude will give her the personal stability she deserves.

By the time Alex left Grey's Anatomy, he had solidified himself as one of the show's fan favorites. However, it did take fans a while to warm up to him. When fans first met Alex, he was cold to everyone he met. No one really understood why until season 6 delved more into his past and revealed that he had some unresolved issues with his father.

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After his father walked out on their family when he was a child, Alex felt that he had to start looking after his siblings and his mother, who was living with schizophrenia. For years, Alex was seen to hold a deep resentment towards his father for making him take on a parental role he was not ready for. However, by the time Jimmy died, Alex had been granted the closure he needed.

Dr. Wilson's awful past gave her the winning spot on this list. But if there's one thing fans are proud of, it is how well she is managing toreconcile with what happened to her. Her story is almost unbelievable but it proves just how strong she is. The traumatic experiences started as soon as she was born when her mother abandoned her outside a firehouse, 5 days after giving birth. And if that wasn't tragic enough, Jo later found out that she was conceived as a result of rape.

Jo was also seen to have a tough upbringing when she revealed that she had lived innumerous foster and startedliving independently in her car at the age of 16. Although it taking her some time to come to terms with her past, after seeking professional help, Jo seems to finally be living her best chapter yet.

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