Maybe the Los Angeles Clippers really are cursed. They had every opportunity to win a brutally ugly Game 4 of the Western Conference finals, and when they did not fail themselves, the officials did them no favors in an 84-80 loss to the Phoenix Suns. Perhaps it is fitting that the fewest points allowed in a loss this entire NBA season dropped the Clippers into a 3-1 hole. The Clippers did all the necessary work to turn a 50-36 halftime deficit into a three-point game entering the fourth… Source link

Gwen Berry is still protesting injustice during the national anthem. (Reuters/Pawel Kopczynski). The penultimate day of the U.S. Olympic trials in track and field saw quite the coincidence. Or not, as Gwen Berry believes. The American hammer thrower qualified for her second Olympics on Saturday with a throw of 241 feet and 2 inches, finishing third in the event behind DeAnna Price and Brooke Andersen. All three will head to Tokyo, but the intrigue began when the trio took the podium for their… Source link

Members of the South Florida Urban Search and Rescue team look for possible survivors in the partially collapsed 12-story Champlain Towers South condo building on June 26, 2021 in Surfside, Florida. Joe Raedle/Getty Images An engineering firm said it’s “deeply troubled” by the Florida condo collapse. Morabito Consultants documented “major structural damage” at the building in 2018. Officials have confirmed five deaths so far, with 156 people still unaccounted for. Visit Insider’s homepage for… Source link

InvestorPlace SoFi Stock Looks Like a Good Value Below $21 SoFi Technologies (NASDAQ:SOFI) still looks like good value here now that it is public, which allowed it to receive $1.91 billion in additional cash. Moreover, on May 24, the company produced its 10-Q filing, and on May 31 it sent out an investor presentation. (For some odd reason, the company did not produce an actual earnings release, just a slide presentation.) Nevertheless, SOFI stock is still worth between $23.91 and $27.80…. Source link

Former President Donald Trump took a victory lap during his first rally since departing office, saying of President Joe Biden, “I told you so.” Trump expressed vindication during his Saturday rally in Wellington, Ohio, held to support Max Miller, a Trump-endorsed candidate running a primary challenge to Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, an incumbent Republican who voted in favor of impeaching Trump on the charge of inciting an insurrection. “The media and the Democrats are now admitting that I was right… Source link

It may just be the year of boxing lawsuits. Audie Attar, a combat sports manager who represents Conor McGregor among others, has filed a lawsuit against Manny Pacquiao claiming the boxing legend breached a contract by setting up his upcoming fight against Errol Spence Jr., according to The Athletic’s Lance Pugmire. Attar, who runs Paradigm Sports Management, reportedly claims that he was in the process of negotiating a fight between Pacquiao and four-division champion Mikey Garcia on… Source link

Los Angeles Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was the victim of a a robbery at gunpoint that cost him six figures worth of goods earlier this month, according to TMZ Sports. The robbery allegedly occurred on June 17, with law enforcement claiming Caldwell-Pope was in his driveway speaking with friends at 4 a.m. A car then pulled up, at which point three men exited the vehicle with guns drawn and demanded Caldwell-Pope and his friends hand over their stuff. Among the things allegedly stolen… Source link

Google has been the undisputed king of search for decades, with the meager attempts of Microsoft and the upstart, privacy-focused DuckDuckGo failing to coax many users away. Estimates of Google’s global search market dominance range from between 70% to 90%, though Microsoft’s Bing appears to have gained some small ground over the last couple of years. Now, as both users and regulators are increasingly demanding greater security and better privacy, the company behind the… Source link

By Elizabeth Culliford (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump joined video platform Rumble on Saturday, the same day he will take the stage at a campaign-style rally in Ohio, his first such event since the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump lost his social media megaphone earlier this year when he was blocked by a slew of platforms after his supporters stormed the Capitol. He was permanently banned from Twitter and remains suspended by Facebook until at least 2023 and by… Source link

You won’t find many athletes in the elite levels of American sports with a more financially fraught situation than UFC fighters. Especially when they end up fighting for free. UFC featherweight Justin Jaynes raised eyebrows this week when he announced plans to literally bet on himself at Saturday’s UFC Vegas 30. Specifically, Jaynes said he and his corner were betting their entire fight purse on him for his bout against Charles Rosa. Jaynes estimated his total bet to be worth nearly $25,000,… Source link