Stephen Silas didn’t return to the bench after leaving Wednesday’s Rockets-Cavaliers game in the first half. (Alex Bierens de Haan/Getty Images) Houston Rockets head coach Stephen Silas left the bench during the first half of Wednesday’s road game against the Cleveland Cavaliers. He didn’t return. The Rockets told reporters on the scene that Silas was dehydrated and needed to receive fluids in the locker room. Silas got up from the bench during a break in first-quarter play and pointed to… Source link

Florida quarterback Emory Jones is looking to transfer. But he won’t leave the team until after the Gasparilla Bowl. Jones told Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel that he is going to play in the Dec. 23 Gasparilla Bowl between the Gators and UCF. He’ll then enter the transfer portal and look for a new school.  Jones played in all 12 games for Florida in 2021 after serving as the primary backup to Kyle Trask in 2020. He’s 209-of-309 passing for 2,562 yards and 19 touchdowns and 13 interceptions. He… Source link

At its highest reaches, Kyle Field rises 182 feet, or nearly 17 stories, from the center of the Texas A&M campus in College Station, towering over almost everything else in sight. It is a massive, mammoth construct. It’s so mesmerizing that about a dozen years ago a group of undergrads began dreaming of climbing to the top of it and filming themselves attempting to throw a basketball all the way down into a hoop. It was then that “Dude Perfect” was born. JerryWorld in Arlington may be the… Source link

Stock futures advanced on Wednesday after the market staged a U-turn in earlier trading, welcoming a Federal Reserve decision to ramp up the pace of its taper and leave interest rates unchanged — for now. All three major U.S. indexes opened higher ahead of the overnight trading session, driven mostly by tech stocks after clarity from the Fed about their timeline for rate hikes. Contracts on the Dow were up 10 points to 35,936.00, and S&P 500 futures edged higher by 3 points to 4,712.50…. Source link

In the wake of more COVID-19 diagnoses across the NBA, the league is looking into modifying current protocols, sources told Yahoo Sports. The NBA and NBPA are exploring multiple options, and restricting outside access for teams in visiting markets isn’t out of the question, sources told Yahoo Sports. That was the protocol last season before the COVID-19 vaccines became readily available, and unvaccinated players already follow stringent protocols. The new likely protocols will include… Source link

Former Jacksonville Jaguars kicker Josh Lambo says that head coach Urban Meyer called him derogatory terms and kicked him at practice prior to his release from the team early this season.  Lambo told his account to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times in a story published on Wednesday. The alleged incident occurred during a preseason practice after Lambo had missed field goals in two preseason games. “I’m in a lunge position,” Lambo told the Times. “Left leg forward, right leg back. …… Source link

Then-President Jimmy Carter signed a law in 1978 that changed retirement forever by introducing the 401(k), but one expert believes the benefit is “just now reaching full maturity.” “We’re just now starting to see large numbers of people who may have been covered by a 401(k) over their entire working life,” says Dave Richardson, the head of the TIAA Institute, the research arm of one of the country’s leading providers of retirement plans. The 401(k) has become ubiquitous with an… Source link

Senator Sherrod Brown, Chairman of the Senate Banking Committee isn’t convinced stablecoins will offer what they intend, voicing concerns that lax oversight could result in a repeat of a financial crisis. But in an interview with Yahoo Finance, the Ohio Democrat described himself as open-minded on how to , and doesn’t want to kill innovation. “My job is not to resist or say no to cryptocurrency generally, but to make sure that they follow rules, that they are regulated, and transparency… Source link

Special to Yahoo Sports If you were officially eliminated from your fantasy football league this past weekend, don’t fret. The NBA season is just heating up, and you can still draft a fantasy basketball squad on Yahoo. As we prepare you for your drafts and catch you up on what you might have missed through the first quarter of the NBA season, here are some players to target in the middle-to-late rounds. It’s been a rough start to the season for the Nuggets. Already down Jamal Murray… Source link

Inflation in the U.K. has hit a 10-year high in the 12 months leading up to November, while last week the Labor Department reported U.S. prices rose at their fastest rate in 39 years for that month. In a wide-ranging new interview taped before the U.K. numbers were released on Wednesday, billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio raised concerns about the effects of inflation on the bond market. That market has been a volatile one in recent months, as bond prices typically fall during… Source link