Drake has made his love for all things sports known. Whether it’s putting out the name-checking track “Draft Day,” cheering on his very own Toronto Raptors while lint-rolling his pants, or delivering a pep talk to the University of Kentucky’s basketball team after their Final Four win.

And though we know he’s loyal to his Raptors, it’s Kentucky’s Big Blue Madness pre-season scrimmage that drew Drizzy to go the extra mile—including a full dress down and warm up with the team.

First, he personally greeted every Wildcats player with a high five and his signature Drizzy good luck grin:

Unfortunately, his three-pointer is more of a brick…

But he made up for it by showing off his champion lint-rolling skills:

Truly, he is a champion lint-roller. If you need your own though, don’t forget that he had some custom-made.

And he introduced Coach Calipari to the crowd with another inspirational pump-up speech:

Drake sure knows how to warm up a crowd—might want to work on that 3-point shot though.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Drake has made his love for all things sports known. Whether it’s putting out the name-checking track “Draft Day,” cheering on his very own Toronto Raptors while lint-rolling his pants, or delivering a pep talk to the University of Kentucky’s basketball team after their Final Four win.

And though we know he’s loyal to his Raptors, it’s Kentucky’s Big Blue Madness pre-season scrimmage that drew Drizzy to go the extra mile—including a full dress down and warm up with the team.

First, he personally greeted every Wildcats player with a high five and his signature Drizzy good luck grin:

Unfortunately, his three-pointer is more of a brick…

But he made up for it by showing off his champion lint-rolling skills:

Truly, he is a champion lint-roller. If you need your own though, don’t forget that he had some custom-made.

And he introduced Coach Calipari to the crowd with another inspirational pump-up speech:

Drake sure knows how to warm up a crowd—might want to work on that 3-point shot though.

Caitlin White

MTV Weekend Editor. Acts like Madonna but listens to Merle.

@harmonicait

Filming the World War II tank drama “Fury” required Logan Lerman to squeeze into tight quarters with his co-stars, including Brad Pitt, and before he closed the hatch on his cast at the start of filming, director David Ayer wanted the actors to get even closer.

So he made them physically fight each other.

Lerman told us all about the exercise during out most recent interview, and it sounds like Ayer took the phrase “hands-on” to new extremes.

“One of the main things that we did every day that was a part of the director’s process was fought each other. We sparred together,” Lerman said. “We just fought openly. That really broke barriers surprisingly. Once you’re able to hit somebody and start punching them in the face, you can go anywhere with them physically in a scene.”

So in his many bouts with the cast, did Lerman ever land a good one on Pretty Boy Pitt? He says he doesn’t remember, but from how he describes Pitt’s fighting style, it sounds like a “no.”

“Brad’s a tough guy — you know — to punch,” Lerman said. “He’s quick. He’s got those moves.”

Prep for the film didn’t stop at fighting. In the four or five months before filming on “Fury” began, the cast spent nights together in tents together.

Wow, talk about intense!

(I regret nothing.)

“Fury” hits theaters on October 17.

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Filming the World War II tank drama “Fury” required Logan Lerman to squeeze into tight quarters with his co-stars, including Brad Pitt, and before he closed the hatch on his cast at the start of filming, director David Ayer wanted the actors to get even closer.

So he made them physically fight each other.

Lerman told us all about the exercise during out most recent interview, and it sounds like Ayer took the phrase “hands-on” to new extremes.

“One of the main things that we did every day that was a part of the director’s process was fought each other. We sparred together,” Lerman said. “We just fought openly. That really broke barriers surprisingly. Once you’re able to hit somebody and start punching them in the face, you can go anywhere with them physically in a scene.”

So in his many bouts with the cast, did Lerman ever land a good one on Pretty Boy Pitt? He says he doesn’t remember, but from how he describes Pitt’s fighting style, it sounds like a “no.”

“Brad’s a tough guy — you know — to punch,” Lerman said. “He’s quick. He’s got those moves.”

Prep for the film didn’t stop at fighting. In the four or five months before filming on “Fury” began, the cast spent nights together in tents together.

Wow, talk about intense!

(I regret nothing.)

“Fury” hits theaters on October 17.

Kevin P. Sullivan

Writer/editor for MTV. If it involves cowboys, spies, or hitmen, I'm ...

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With reporting by Josh Horowitz

“Young Ones” might be a post-apocalyptic drama with a stellar cast including Nicholas Hoult, Michael Shannon, Elle Fanning and more – but according to Hoult, what set the movie apart was really the living conditions.

“We were miles away from anywhere in this little bubble,” Hoult told MTV News about filming director Jake Paltrow’s now-in-theaters film, “and that’s often the situation with anything. You get in there, and meet these new people, suss each other out, and suddenly, hopefully, it all clicks into place and you find a groove. You’re living, sleeping – not sleeping – in a house together.”

Laughing, Hoult clarified his little sleeping gaffe, joking that he and his co-stars were in, “Just one giant bed, like ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’.”

Jokes aside, Hoult liked the close quarters, something that allowed him to get closer to co-star Shannon.

“when I first met Michael I thought he hated me,” Hoult recalled. “When you get to know him you realize he’s very dry, he mumbles along, doesn’t make a lot of eye contact, has this face which is so intense. And then hopefully he warms to you a little bit and then kind of takes care of you.”

Given he and Shannon were essentially living together for the duration of the “Young Ones” shoot, Hoult didn’t just get Shannon to warm to him – he also took the veteran actor on as something of a guru.

“We’d sit on the veranda in the evening,” Hoult said, “and ...

On the list of things that qualify as good excuses, it seems like maternity leave is an air-tight reason, right? Wrong! A judge in Atlanta denied Stacy Ehrisman-Mickle’s request to postpone a hearing due to the fact that she had a baby only four weeks earlier. In response to her request, Judge J. Dan Pelletier Sr. wrote, “No good cause. Hearing date set prior to counsel accepting representation.”

Clearly, Ehrisman-Mickle was miffed at his decision, especially given that two other immigration judges had granted similar motions that she’d filed with a note from her doctor. She had accepted the immigration case in July, but her clients couldn’t afford to hire her right away and went to their first hearing alone. Then they hired her in the beginning of September, when she agreed to the case, assuming that her maternity leave request would be an acceptable reason to postpone the October date for their second hearing.

“I was in a state of panic. I didn’t know what to do with my baby,” she told The Associated Press in an interview on Thursday (October 16).

Left without options on such short notice—a four-week-old baby is too young for daycare and her truck-driver husband was out of the state—Stacy called her doctor to see if she could bring the baby to court with her. Her pediatrician assured her that as long as the baby was in a carrier facing her chest and didn’t touch anyone in the court room, it should be fine.

But ...

On Saturday, October 18, the world will have officially been #BLESSED with 27 years of Zac Efron.

That’s right, the boy who first entered our lives as Troy Bolton from “High School Musical” is now undoubtedly a man as he enters his late 20s, so to celebrate this momentous occasion we got him a little something something — and by that, we mean we got you something. A celebration of his 27 best shirtless moments, to be exact.

So enjoy this trip down shirt (and sometimes pants!) free memory lane, beginning with this homemade, MTV News celebration of Mr. Efron’s finest movie moments sans shirt:

And now, on to the list!

1. When he won “Best Shirtless Performance” at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.

2. … Seriously, though.

3. When he let “Catfish” host Max Joseph join in on the fun.

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4. When he invited his “Neighbors” to ogle him at a barbecue.

5. When he slicked back his hair just like so.

6. When he proved that he can keep a secret… with like, half a shirt.

7. When the Lord graced us all with THIS so-called “Awkward Moment.”

8. When he made us long for a world without cell phones.

9. When he struggled to remove his undershirt, but it all turned out okay.

10. When he taught “Paperboy” viewers the value of “knock first.”

11. When he accepted the brutal truth.

12. … Aww, buddy, ...