Basketball fans got a treat Thursday evening when the No. 1 junior in the country, Emoni Bates, squared off with the No. 1 senior in the country, Chet Holmgren. Bates is touted as the best high school prospect since LeBron James, but it was the lanky, 7-foot-1 Holmgren who was the star of the game. Holmgren’s Minnesota team, Team Sizzle, defeated Bates’ Ypsi Prep, 78-71, and both players finished with a double-double. Bates had a quiet 36 points (11-for-22 from the field) and 10 rebounds… Source link

More than five months ago, when the NFL’s tone on peaceful gameday protests appeared to be changing across the board, an unexpected sense of optimism about Colin Kaepernick trickled out of the league office and a small handful of franchises. A swath of teams had spent a large portion of June expressing disdain over recent incidents of police brutality and racial injustice. Players were rallying across the country and pointing their spotlight toward the killings of George Floyd, Breonna… Source link

(Bloomberg) — China’s biggest refiner is eyeing a creative strategy to help rid Asia of a persistent diesel glut — brand new supertankers usually reserved for crude oil. Unipec, the trading arm of China’s biggest oil refiner Sinopec Group, hired a newly-built very large crude carrier to load low-sulfur diesel in Asia for delivery to Europe. The vessel ordinarily would have sailed empty from its shipyard in Northeast Asia to the Middle East or West Africa, where it would pick up crude… Source link

Alabama wide receiver Traeshon Holden was with LSU receiver Koy Moore when they were stopped and allegedly harassed by police in Baton Rouge on Saturday night, Moore’s attorney told Sports Illustrated’s Ross Dellenger on Thursday. Moore, in a social media post on Monday, detailed the horrifying incident in which he said several officers harassed, violated and searched him last weekend. Moore and Holden were reportedly stopped by police inside a parking garage while they were investigating… Source link

The Telegraph Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player demand action to curb striking distance at Augusta After hitting the opening ceremonial drives at Augusta on the first day of the 84th Masters, Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player used their legendary status to demand action from the game’s governing bodies to stop the ball going so far. In an impassioned set of pleas that will surely make the R & A and US Golf Association sit up and take notice as the distance issue intensifies, Player expressed his… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bumble, a dating app on which women make the first move, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. on its planned initial public offering, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The company, backed by private equity firm Blackstone Group Inc., could list as early as the first quarter of 2021, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the information is private. Morgan Stanley is also advising on the listing, the people said. Bumble… Source link

The 2020 college football season can be divided into three phases. It began with a fear-and-loathing period, transitioned to a choppy start/restart and is now in a chaotic scramble to the finish. There are 15 games either delayed or canceled this week, and the question the sport’s leaders are asking out loud is a simple one: Can college football slog to the finish and crown a champion? “It’s going to be hard to finish, to be honest,” a Power Five president told Yahoo Sports on… Source link

Chicago Cubs relief pitcher Ryan Tepera randomly receives tenth-place vote on NL MVP ballot. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) Major League Baseball officially wrapped up awards week Thursday, handing out Most Valuable Player Awards to a pair of first basemen — José Abreu of the Chicago White Sox and Freddie Freeman of the Atlanta Braves. While there was no real drama surrounding the award announcements — every winner, beginning with Don Mattingly’s Manager of the Year Award on… Source link

Former President Barack Obama took aim at Republicans who have been “humoring” President Trump’s bogus claims of voter fraud in the 2020 election. In an interview with “60 Minutes” that will air Sunday, Obama was asked what he made of the “false claims of widespread election fraud” Trump has been making since the race was called in favor of Joe Biden. “They appear to be motivated, in part, because the president doesn’t like to lose and never admits loss,” Obama responded, adding,… Source link