Hot News: Aaron Hernandez charged in 2012 double homicide

Former New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez appears at a bail hearing on Thursday, June 27, in Fall River Superior Court in Fall River, Massachusetts. He was denied bail and is charged with murder in the death of semipro football player Odin Lloyd.

(CNN) -- Former New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez -- already charged in the 2013 slaying of a semipro football player -- is expected to be indicted Thursday in connection with a 2012 Boston double homicide, a law enforcement source with knowledge of the case said.

A grand jury had been looking into whether Hernandez played a role in the drive-by shooting that killed Daniel Abreu and Safiro Furtado in July 2012, according to law enforcement sources. Authorities said Abreu and Furtado were in a BMW outside a Boston nightclub when they were shot. A Bristol County, Massachusetts, grand jury indicted former NFL player Aaron Hernandez on a first-degree murder charge, as well as five weapons charges, on August 22. The former New England Patriots' tight end was arrested in the shooting death of his friend Odin Lloyd in June. Hernandez has pleaded not guilty. Here's a look at other professional athletes who have been charged with murder. Some have been able to create new lives in the free world. Others are incarcerated.Photos: Athletes charged with murder

That 2012 shooting is separate from a 2013 killing in which Hernandez, 24, was arrested and charged last summer. Hernandez was arrested in June and charged with first-degree murder and weapons charges in connection with the June 17 shooting death of 27-year-old semipro football player Odin Lloyd in North Attleboro, Massachusetts.

CNN's Susan Candiotti and Laura Dolan contributed to this report.

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Hot News: Miami Heat Win Yet Another Playoff Series with 4th Quarter 2-Way Execution

MIAMI -- There have been so many now that they bleed together, these finishes that stop and start your heart. It's been four years of furious flurries, mad dashes down the stretch, since the core of this Heat team commenced their collaboration in 2010. And so, for players, the only thing tougher than persevering is remembering, when asked to compare the most recent unlikely playoff victory to those of postseasons past.

Wednesday's 96-94 win, against the Brooklyn Nets in Game 5 of the 2014 second round, brought one in particular to mind: the closeout blitz against the Chicago Bulls in the 2011 Eastern Conference finals.

'Yeah, that barrage,' Chris Bosh said. 'I don't even remember that game. We were down like 10 or 12 with like three minutes. I don't even remember that. I just remember it happened, and I was like, 'Damn!' That's really all I remember. Like, 'Holy s--!'

The record shows they were down 12 with 3:04 that night, only to win by three. Wednesday, the deficit was eight as late as 2:49 remaining, prior to LeBron James starting the rally with a straightaway three-pointer.

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In time, most of the rest of the details will fade. Certainly, the early events will: Miami missing its first 11 three-point shots. Brooklyn walling off the paint against James to avoid a repeat of what he did in Game 4; what he called his 'explosion' for 49 points. Dwyane Wade playing as freely and dynamically as in weeks, with 20 points by halftime.

The final few minutes will be hazy, too. Chris Bosh's fourth three-pointer of the second half. Wade's feathery fadeaway. James' swat of Joe Johnson, who, as James admitted 'was torching me,' scoring 24 of Brooklyn's 45 points in the second half. Shaun Livingston's forced layup, when Erik Spoelstra figured Jason Kidd would go to Paul Pierce. The free throw James missed. The two free throws Allen made.

Two recollections may remain.

The first lasting memory: Ray Allen's left wing three-pointer, which came after he had missed his first six from behind the arc. James drove and kicked out to Chalmers, who wisely passed up a good shot for a better one.

'I was gonna shoot it,' Chalmers said. 'I think Ray knows that I live for those type of moments.'

But his feet weren't set, and he didn't have a good grip on the ball.

'In hindsight, it was an incredible lookoff,' Spoelstra said. 'And then he threw him a corkscrew curveball.'

'It was actually a good pass,' Chalmers said, laughing.

It caused Allen to gather and step to the side before he shot.

'It kind off came of weird, where he didn't really throw to me, he was like in between, like he was throwing to me or driving,' Allen said. 'I was like, this ball is going up. It's something I practice every day.'

And, as Johnson lamented, 'I don't know how we left Ray.'

The second lasting memory: Johnson losing the ball in traffic while guarded by James, which prompted the latter to leap atop the owners' table, punch the sky and beat his chest.

'A lot of emotions,' James said. 'It's always been like that for us. It's never easy, it's never easy for us. And it always comes down to 'can we get a stop at the end to win?' And we had to do that again.'

'We just kept telling LJ, 'stay with it, stay with it,'' Spoelstra said. 'He's making tough shots over the top. We didn't want to send another defender because of the three-point shots. He got a couple big-time stops at the end, not by getting overwhelmed or panicking or overreacting to his tough shots.'

Johnson felt he was fouled, and perhaps he was, as Allen and James reached low under his legs. But, really, in the rear view, none of these details will matter. They don't even matter much now. What matters is the Heat have done this before, and they keep proving they can do it again, which is why they remain serious contenders to retain their title. They are now in the Eastern Conference finals for a fourth straight postseason, awaiting Indiana or Washington and still with 'some business to take care of,' as James put it. They are flawed, for certain, but they are also tough and tested, which will make them a toughest of outs for anyone. They lost all four contests to the Nets in the regular season, in part because their ornery opponents out-executed them late, winning three of those games by one point and one in double overtime.

In this series, Miami was plus-32 in the fourth quarters, including plus-11 on Wednesday.

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'You're built for this!' Spoelstra kept screaming in the Heat's Game 5 huddle.

That's a phrase that Allen adopted earlier in this series, a series of special significance, since his former friends turned frigid foes Pierce and Kevin Garnett were on the other side. He said he didn't see them after the game; in Garnett's case, it was impossible, since the Big Ticket high-tailed it out of the arena bowl, heading for the tunnel, then ducking the media. But Allen didn't need to. They saw him do what he does. They attacked him on defense, so much that Spoelstra thought of replacing him with Shane Battier on that end, but chose instead to let the game flow.

'Ray Allen is unbelievable,' James said. 'We're lucky we have him on our side.'

They didn't in 2011, when they closed out Chicago; Allen was wearing green when the Heat eliminated Boston in 2011 and 2012. But the other four on the floor -- James, Wade, Bosh, Chalmers -- have been through four years of this. And others, like Shane Battier and Udonis Haslem (who will play more of a role in the next series) have been through this battles with them.

Was there stress?

'Of course,' Bosh said. 'But gotta kept it cool. Gotta breathe.'

'Overwhelmingly, the number one key in this series was great mental stability,' Spoelstra said.

They showed, after an uneven regular season, that they still have it when it counts.

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'I wasn't thinking so much, 'When the playoffs get here, everything's gonna change,'' Bosh said. 'That's kind of a dangerous way to think. But I knew we were going to do a better job of focusing. And just really locking in. And that's all it takes.... But defensively, offensively, we have to pay a little bit more attention to detail, lock in a little bit more. And the playoffs bring that out of you.'

They bring out something else in this team, as every postseason opponent but the 2011 Dallas Mavericks has come to learn.

'How bad do you want it?' Bosh said. 'That's what it's all about sometimes. You just have to make s--- happen. We've got big time players. And when you have big time players, big time situations happen. And you have to have confidence.'

They have it. They've earned it, through games like these.

'It makes us dangerous,' Bosh said.

It makes them defending champions, still breathing, and onto the NBA's final four.

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Hot News: The Spurs' And Heat's Road to the Conference Finals

On Wednesday night, both the Miami Heat and San Antonio Spurs closed out their series in five games. Through the end of these second-round series, the Spurs have been outscoring their opponents by an average of 9.9 points per 100 possessions, the Heat by nine points per 100 possessions. Both of those marks lap the rest of the field - the next closest team in the playoffs is the Oklahoma City Thunder at +4.5. The Heat and the Spurs have been the best in these playoffs by a wide margin.

Those point-per-possession metrics are important; they account for pace and average margin of victory or defeat. That means they offer a more insightful understanding of a team's strength than its record can. And once we understand a team's strength, we can better guess its future success.

By that metric, the Spurs and Heat are converging. After a seven-game slog against the Dallas Mavericks in the first round, the Spurs had a per 100 possession point differential of +3.4. From there, they seem to have swelled, getting stronger and stronger as they dismantled the Portland Trail Blazers. The Heat's dominance looks inverted. First, they swept the Charlotte Bobcats with a per 100 possession point differential of +10.1. But after trampling the Brooklyn Nets in the first two games of the second round, they've struggled to separate themselves and their point differential has been slowly creeping downward.

The chart below shows the cumulative per 100 possession point differential of each team going into the second round and after each second-round game.

Both teams swung upward in their two home games to start the round. But as the Spurs' point differential has continued to climb, albeit at a slightly slower trajectory, the Heat have been trending downward from their playoff peak to meet them. Quality of competition is certainly a factor, and the Spurs' first-round point differential is heavily influenced by having played the Mavericks, a much more successful team during the regular season than the Charlotte Bobcats. But the Spurs' second-round opponent, the Trail Blazers, had a Simple Rating System mark of 4.44 during the regular season, sixth-best in the league. The Nets were -1.58, 20th in the league.

Of course, both teams still have plenty of obstacles, but playing at such a high level bodes well for the next round (though which teams they face may matter even more). But the directions their performances have been trending implies that the Spurs might be moving on with slightly more momentum than the Heat.

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Hot News: Turmoil at the Top: Why the NY Times dumped Jill Abramson

There was a time when the dismissal of the New York Times executive editor would have been dressed up as a voluntary resignation, while a few outside reporters poked around for juicier details.

That era is over. In its own online story yesterday about the abrupt departure of Jill Abramson, the paper made clear that she had been 'dismissed.' And that came as a shock to much of the paper's staff, as well as the media industry.

The modern Times, with one prominent exception, has prided itself on orderly transitions, as the baton was passed from the likes of Abe Rosenthal to Max Frankel to Joe Lelyveld as each man reached retirement age.

No one expected Abramson, 60, the first woman to lead the newsroom, to be shown the door after three years. She has been replaced by Dean Baquet, the managing editor, who will become the first African-American to hold the top job at the Times.

'In announcing the sudden switch to a stunned newsroom Wednesday afternoon,' the Times story said, 'Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of the paper and the chairman of the Times Company, attributed the move to 'an issue with management in the newsroom.' Her ouster, according to people in the company briefed on the decision, came after growing tension between Ms. Abramson and Mr. Sulzberger, and a decision by Ms. Abramson to try to hire a senior editor from outside the newspaper to share a co-managing editor title with Mr. Baquet.'

So there was tension between the two top editors, and Sulzberger decided to elevate his No. 2. It was the most abrupt switch since he dismissed Howell Raines, who presided over the Jayson Blair fabrication debacle, in 2003, in favor of Bill Keller.

But everyone knew Raines was in trouble. And while there had been grumbling about Abramson's sometimes abrasive management style-perhaps louder than might have been the case if she were not a woman-no one thought her job was in jeopardy.

Abramson stayed on the high road in a statement, saying: 'I've loved my run at The Times. I got to work with the best journalists in the world doing so much stand-up journalism.'

Abramson is a onetime Wall Street Journal investigative reporter and former Washington bureau chief for the Times, a position in which she clashed with Raines. While the paper did not shed its left-leaning reputation under Abramson, she did accuse President Obama of running 'the most secretive White House that I have ever been involved in covering.' And she left her imprint on its investigative work, innovative website and growing forays into video.

Abramson can be a tough customer, but there is no room for shrinking violets at the top of major media organizations. Since she was an inside player who rarely appeared on television, I don't think she got enough credit for some important work done by the Times-including some early critical reporting about ObamaCare.

Instead, she got trashed by unnamed sources, such as in a Politico piece last year that reported she had once 'blown up in a meeting,' traveled a lot and once told an editor to leave a meeting and change a photo. Horrors!

As I wrote about this sexism-tinged piece at the time: 'Find me a male executive who'd be trashed over such minor incidents. Newsrooms are by their nature a collection of chronic complainers. Alpha males are expected to act that way.'

Whatever Abramson's strengths and weaknesses, she was the most important woman in print journalism. The fact that she's been tossed out in the same week that Barbara Walters is leaving daily broadcasting after half a century removes two of the most groundbreaking female voices from what remains a male-dominated business.

The Politico piece was prescient in one respect, though, reporting an argument between Abramson and Baquet that ended with the managing editor slamming his hand against a wall and storming out of the newsroom.

Baquet is a popular figure in the newsroom. He was a Times reporter and editor and Pulitzer winner who left to become editor of the Los Angeles Times, resigning after deep budget cuts and returning to the Times in Abramson's former job, Washington bureau chief.

At 57, Baquet was widely viewed as the heir apparent within a few years. So the publisher must have felt strongly to truncate that timetable as he did.

Sulzberger told his newsroom that the switch was not about journalism, the newsroom's direction or its relationship with the business side.

'I chose to appoint a new leader for our newsroom because I believe that new leadership will improve some aspects of the management of the newsroom,' he said, according to the Times account. 'You will understand that there is nothing more that I want to say about this. We had an issue with management in the newsroom. And that's what's at the heart of this issue.'

The New Yorker 's Ken Auletta provides some crucial context:

'Several weeks ago, I'm told, Abramson discovered that her pay and her pension benefits as both executive editor and, before that, as managing editor were considerably less than the pay and pension benefits of Bill Keller, the male editor whom she replaced in both jobs. 'She confronted the top brass,' one close associate said, and this may have fed into the management's narrative that she was 'pushy,' a characterization that, for many, has an inescapably gendered aspect. Sulzberger is known to believe that the Times, as a financially beleaguered newspaper, needed to retreat on some of its generous pay and pension benefits; Abramson had also been at the Times for far fewer years than Keller, having spent much of her career at the Wall Street Journal, accounting for some of the pension disparity. Eileen Murphy, a spokeswoman for the Times, said that Jill Abramson's total compensation as executive editor 'was directly comparable to Bill Keller's'-though it was not actually the same.'

If Abramson's complaint has validity, though, it could reinforce the notion that she never quite penetrated the boys' club.

The editor of the New York Times is a hugely important figure, presiding over a 1,200-person staff that, especially in this age of shrinking newspaper revenue in the United States, dwarfs any other. But in the end she has a constituency of one, and that is Arthur Sulzberger. Click for more from Media Buzz.

Howard Kurtz is a Fox News analyst and the host of 'MediaBuzz' (Sundays 11 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET). He is the author of five books and is based in Washington. Follow him at @HowardKurtz.

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Hot News: Lamar Odom rejected from club by French Montana's security

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French Montana does not play nice when it comes to his new gal's ex, Lamar Odom.

The rapper, who is now romantically involved with Odom's estranged wife Khloe Kardashian, did not allow the basketball player into Penthouse Nightclub Tuesday where he was performing and the new couple would be, E! Online reported.

An eyewitness revealed that everything went down just as Kardashian was entering the club.

'It was Khloe, French, Kim (Kardashian) and Jonathan Cheban. Kim and Jonathan exited the car and were filming a scene for the show while Khloe and French were in the car talking. Just then, Lamar walks past the car and heads around to the front of the club to go in,' the source said.

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'Lamar was rejected at the door and was forced to leave,' the insider continued to E!

'He was later seen walking by Khloe and French as they sat inside her Range Rover.'

Kardashian reportedly looked shocked to see her husband of four years at the venue, however, the source added that 'it seemed obvious Lamar was there looking for Khloe. This was not a random coincidence. He seemed desperate.

'The doorway to the club was surrounded by French's security, who made it clear to Lamar he would not be allowed in. As he was leaving, he walked again past the car that French and Khloe were in and made his way off the property.'

Kardashian took to Twitter Wednesday morning hinting at the drama from the night before.

'Still hurts... Maybe it always will,' she wrote.

frenchmontana via Instagram

Kardashian filed for divorce from Odom in December 2013, citing irreconcilable differences, after a rocky couple of months for the reality show duo.

Odom reportedly struggled from a substance abuse problem and was a arrested for a DUI in August. He later served a short stint in rehab in September before checking himself out.

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Hot News: 'American Idol' Celebrates 500th Episode: The Highs and Lows of 13 Seasons

There will be a party on the American Idol stage tonight, as the producers and cast cut a special cake to commemorate the broadcast of the series' 500th episode. Over the course of those 500 episodes, the popular Fox series has sent some aspiring singers into the stratosphere while hundreds of thousands of others have simply been sent home. There are tales of high hopes and heartbreak, of dreams come true and dreams crashing down. Here is a look back at some mostly untold tales of some of Idol 's highest and lowest points. PHOTOS: 'American Idol' Judges Past and Present: The Good, the Bad and the Boring Season 1:

On July 24, 1963, high school student William Clinton was a delegate to Boys Nation and shook hands with President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden of the White House. American Idol has its own similar time-twisting tale. It's the end of season one and the top 10 are gathered in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel in Hollywood, about to leave for the finale at the Kodak Theater. Senior supervising producer Patrick Lynn, then an associate producer, was waiting for the cars to arrive. 'We need to leave and a guy comes up to me and says, 'My boy is a huge fan of American Idol and he would love to sing for Kelly.' I roll my eyes because I know this is going to be embarrassing. Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini were super-nice about it.' They encouraged the 11-year-old boy to sing. 'He belts out, 'And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going.' He's loud and attracts a crowd, and he's unbelievable,' says Lynn. 'I tell his father, 'When he's old enough, make sure he tries out for American Idol.'

After we leave, we talk about him in the car for 30 minutes. Everybody agrees he needs to audition when he's older.' He does. Five years later, 16-year-old David Archuleta tried out for season seven in San Diego. 'When I was little I always wanted to audition even though I never thought I was good enough,' says Archuleta. 'My dad told me the auditions were coming up in a week, and asked if I would want to go for it. I said sure, but didn't think I would make it past the first round. I just wanted to see what the experience was like.' David and his father Jeff lined up at Qualcomm Stadium for hours.

'I felt so uncomfortable because we'd been standing for so long waiting in line,' David remembers. 'We couldn't sleep because everyone was singing. I listened to everybody and the guy in front of me was so good and they didn't let him go through. So I thought there was no way I would make it.' Archuleta sang 'Joyful, Joyful' and 'I'll Be.' 'Then they told our whole row that we weren't going through. After two days of waiting, I was gone in 30 seconds. I walked away and heard, 'Wait! Come back.' I didn't think they were talking to me, so I kept walking. Then I heard, 'Wait! Come here!' so I turned around and they said, 'You're through!' It was a shock.'

Archuleta was the runner-up for season seven. His single, 'Crush,' peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100 and his eponymous debut album peaked at No. 2 on the Billboard 200. He recently returned from a two-year mission to Chile for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Season 3:

Red-headed Rat Pack aficionado John Stevens was four when his grandparents lent him their copy of Songs for Swinging Lovers by Frank Sinatra. A week later, Stevens could croon every tune on the album.

One Wednesday, after an Idol results show, the producers put top 10 finalist Stevens and his family in a limo, destination unknown. They arrived at O'Henry Sound Studios in Burbank. 'Standing there are Frank Sinatra Jr., Tina Sinatra, Nancy Sinatra and arranger Johnny Mandel,' Stevens remembers. 'I recognized them immediately. I'm crying and I'm starstruck. This is the closest I've ever been to my hero.'

The Sinatras were there to master an unreleased Frank Sinatra recording of 'Silent Night,' which Stevens was able to preview before the rest of the world heard it. 'Tina said it was because of people like me that her father's music will live on,' Stevens says. 'It was a great honor for me at 16 to hear his daughter talking about me. There has never been another night in my life that has topped that one. I'll always be grateful to the American Idol staff for arranging that visit.' STORY: 'American Idol' on the Charts: Kelly Clarkson Collects Her 84th No. 1 Season 4:

Bo Bice wanted to perform Jim Croce's 'Time in a Bottle,' but music supervisor Susan Slamer wasn't sure she could get permission. When the song cleared she called Croce's widow, Ingrid, to thank her. Ingrid said she was going to say no, but her son A.J. was a fan of Bo's. When Slamer said that Bo was a fan of her late husband, Ingrid asked to speak to Bo.

Bice was rehearsing on stage when Slamer handed him her cell phone and told him to place a call to a certain number. As the phone rang, Slamer told him the woman about to answer was Jim Croce's widow. Bo started talking and the rest of the top 11 could see tears streaming down his face. They rushed over to see if he was all right. 'Everything's great,' Slamer assured them. 'When Bo hung up, he said it was the most amazing moment of his life.'

Bice was season four's runner-up, placing second to Carrie Underwood, who has sold 14.6 million albums and 30.3 million digital songs in the last nine years. Bice's first major album release was certified gold. After a follow-up set on RCA, he has pursued an independent path. In the last 12 months, he has been a guest lead vocalist with Blood, Sweat & Tears and has joined up with four country artists as the Outlaw Project. Season 5:

For the season finale, over 25,000 fans filled a stadium in Birmingham to support Taylor Hicks, and the Governor of Alabama and the Mayor of the city showed up to honor their hometown hero. Meanwhile, producer Simon Lythgoe was directing a simultaneous event for Katharine McPhee in Los Angeles. 'We had a maximum of 30 people at Universal City Walk. I scrambled to take off all the wide-angle lenses and didn't use the jib camera, which would have revealed the small turnout. We scrunched the people together to fill up the frame. We made it look busy - not in the same league as Taylor's crowd, but we pulled it off. Kat did have a huge following and phone vote, but people in Los Angeles aren't passionate about supporting their own talent. It also didn't help that we were live at 5 p.m. West coasters think Idol is live at 8 p.m., so a lot of people turned up late and then complained about paying for parking at Universal Studios to support someone who had already lost the competition.'

McPhee released one album on RCA and then went on to record two albums for the Verve Forecast label. She starred in NBC's Smash and in last month's Hallmark Hall of Fame movie for ABC, In My Dreams. Three weeks ago she teased the release of her new album with photos from the cover shoot. Season 8:

For the first seven seasons, the finalist with the lowest number of votes was sent home on results night, with no possibility of reprieve. That changed in season eight with the introduction of the judges' save, allowing the panel to veto the elimination of a contestant. Designed to be used only once a season and no later than the top five, the concept originated on Nouvelle Star, the French version of Idol. Unfortunately, the judges in France used the save the same week it was introduced, removing all of its intended drama for that season. Not so in America, where the judges did not use this device to retain season eight finalists Michael Sarver, Megan Joy or Scott MacIntyre.

There were seven contestants left on the results show broadcast April 15, 2009, when Ryan Seacrest announced that the bottom three were Lil Rounds, Anoop Desai and Matt Giraud. Ryan sent Desai to safety and then revealed that Giraud was the finalist with the lowest number of votes. Matt sang Bryan Adams' 'Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman' and waited while the judges deliberated. The decision to save a contestant had to be unanimous.

The tension in the Idol studio was palpable. The audience, which included celebrities Zac Efron and Neil Sedaka, spontaneously started chanting, 'Save him! Save him! Save him!' Their cries grew louder and the mantra was shortened to a rapidly repeated, 'Save! Save! Save!' when the judges finally made their pronouncement. Simon Cowell spoke: 'Matt, it's good news.' Giraud burst into tears, and so did people sitting in the audience and viewers watching at home.

Giraud didn't win season eight; Kris Allen and Adam Lambert finished in first and second place, respectively. But thanks to the save, Giraud ended up in fifth place and became part of American Idol history.

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Hot News: Packers Star Aaron Rodgers Reportedly Dating 'The Newsroom's' Olivia Munn

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According to , Green Bay Packers star quarterback Aaron Rodgers may have found a bit off offseason romance with the wonderfully talented Olivia .

has more on the football star and actress:

Multiple sources confirm to Us Weekly that and Rodgers are dating; The pair were spotted dining with a group of pals at Malibu on Saturday, May 10, where they behaved like quite the couple.

One eyewitness tells Us that the couple was at a big table, where they laughed with friends and stole kisses throughout the meal.

The report begins by noting had previously dated Joel , who featured in the TV show The Killing as well as the superfluous retelling of a cyborg police officer in 2014's .

Twitter had their own thoughts on the possible match, offering up exuberant sentiments:

The next Brady on and off the field RT @thebiglead: Aaron Rodgers Dating Olivia Munn http://t.co/UtxP9DLD3i http://t.co/xLjgzuZDPZ- Jason McIntyre (@jasonrmcintyre) May 14, 2014

Some guys get all the luck RT @thebiglead RT @thebiglead: Aaron Rodgers Dating Olivia Munn http://t.co/vHgmZ4ZZ9p '- Nick Kostos (@TheKostos) May 14, 2014

In the words of the great Munn 'high-five!'✋ RT @thebiglead: Aaron Rodgers Dating Olivia Munn http://t.co/ezqgamdPHf '- Lindsay McCormick (@LindsayM_Sports) May 14, 2014

My dislike for him is at an all-time high. MT @TheBuzzeronFOX: Aaron Rodgers is reportedly dating actress Olivia Munn.- Alex Hall (@AlexKHall) May 14, 2014

continues, reminding us that the two may have hit it off earlier in the year: ' and Rodgers spoke onstage together last month at the 49th Annual Academy of Country Music Awards in Vegas, where they were also photographed hanging out backstage.'

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According to our sketchy handle on context clues, hanging out eventually leads to stealing kisses and general fancy restaurant canoodling.

This is also the moment where we are mandated by law to remind you that being an NFL quarterback is really sweet and totally awesome.

Because that angle is being handled quite well across the transom of the Internet, we instead like to point out how exhausting it must be to know that the early portion of any relationship and all the dates thereafter will be heavily documented and pored over by a thirsty crowd.

Of course, all of this wonderful news just means we will soon see rumors of 'Rodgers and suffer rocky road relationship!'

At least, that's how these things usually play out.

Let's savor the good times, when the Internet bumped fists, high-fived and smiled at all this table kissing.

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