The helicopter carrying Czech billionaire Petr Kellner, 56, just missed clearing an Alaskan ridge by three to five metres when it crashed, preliminary investigations show. Mr Kellner, who is worth an estimated US$17.5 billion (A$23 billion) according to Forbes, was one of five passengers on board the fatal flight on Saturday (local time). It’s been reported the group was on a helicopter-skiing excursion north of Anchorage when the Airbus AS350 B3 slammed into a mountain and rolled hundreds… Source link

Russell Westbrook hasn’t been with the Washington Wizards long. Just 38 games, in fact. Yet on Monday night, Westbrook became the franchise’s all-time leader in triple-doubles. Westbrook put up 35 points, a season-high 21 assists and 14 rebounds in Washington’s 132-124 win against the Indiana Pacers at Capital One Arena — which marked his 16th of the season. Darrell Walker held the organization’s last record with 15 triple-doubles, something he did over 283 games between… Source link

Oregon State’s run to the Elite Eight may have been the biggest surprise of a surprise-laden NCAA tournament. The journey came to a heartbreaking end on Monday. Houston put the clamps down on the Pac-12 Cinderella early and fended off a furious second-half rally for a 67-61 win to punch its ticket to the Final Four. The trip to the national semifinals marks the first Final Four trip for the program since Hakeem Olajuwon led Phi Slamma Jamma to its second-straight title game appearance in… Source link

MaCio Teague had two big threes to propel Baylor to the Final Four. (Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images) Baylor is in the Final Four for the first time in 71 years. The No. 1 Bears put No. 3 Arkansas away over the final six minutes of their Elite Eight matchup Monday night in an 81-72 victory thanks to a couple of key threes by MaCio Teague and a long shooting drought by Arkansas. The Razorbacks had cut Baylor’s advantage to 64-60 via two free throws with 7:34 to go but never got within a… Source link

HAGERSTOWN, Md. (WDVM) — In the middle of Women’s History Month, Laura Wallace discovered she had been named one of Yahoo!’s 10 Leading Female Entrepreneurs To Watch Out For In 2021 for her work on her business, Worx Graphic Design. “It was actually a little bit surreal. I was checking my email and I got a notification, and at first, I was like ‘this can’t be real,’” said Wallace. “So I actually went to Yahoo and put it into the search bar to see if it would come up… Source link

The Telegraph ‘It needs to be penalised’: Scourge of slow play clouds golf again As thousands of golfers returned to courses across England on Monday, a familiar row erupted amid the fallout to Sunday’s painfully slow WGC Dell Match Play conclusion. In the third consecutive all-American final, Billy Horschel recovered from an early deficit to beat Scottie Scheffler 2&1 at Austin Country Club and secure first prize of £1.3 million. Horschel had earlier beaten France’s Victor Perez 3&2 in the… Source link

Teodor Davidov can hit forehands with both hands. Image: Twitter The tennis world is marvelling over a viral video of 12-year-old Teodor Davidov, who doesn’t appear to have a backhand in his arsenal. And that’s simply because he doesn’t need it. ‘NOT GIVING UP’: Ash Barty comeback stuns former World No.1 ‘NOT BLISS’: Serena Williams’ candid confession about marriage The youngster possesses two forehands – one he uses with his right hand and the other with his left. Davidov serves left-handed but… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Wall Street banks grappling with the implosion of Bill Hwang’s investment firm spent Monday briefing U.S. regulators as Washington starts to dig into one of the biggest fund blowups in years. The Securities and Exchange Commission summoned the banks for hasty meetings on what triggered the forced sale of more than $20 billion of stocks linked to Hwang’s Archegos Capital Management, said people with knowledge of the matter who asked not to be named in discussing private… Source link

(Reuters) – Players at the Miami Open on Monday expressed little love for COVID-19 vaccines, with many saying they want more information before getting a shot. Seventh seeded Aryna Sabalenka expressed more concern over the vaccine than her quarterfinal opponent number one Ash Barty while fifth seed Elina Svitolina said she was inclined to take the advice of friends and wait. “So far I don’t really trust it,” Sabalenka told reporters following her fourth round 6-1 6-2 mugging of Marketa… Source link

A giant container ship that found itself stuck sideways in the Suez Canal has finally been freed after creating a maritime traffic jam and disrupting global shipping. But the incident spurred some online to claim that it was no accident and that Google Earth suspiciously blocked people from seeing the canal. “Why’d Google earth block the Suez Canal?” one Facebook post questions while displaying screenshots from Google Earth that appear to show a large portion of the canal in a starkly… Source link