Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals walloped the Baltimore Ravens in a Week 7 win. On Sunday, they picked up where they left off in a 41-21 victory over their division rivals to take control of the AFC North. The Bengals blitzed the Ravens for 31 first-half points as Burrow played on one of the best halves of football in the NFL this season — or any for that matter. Burrow hits Ravens with MJ shrug on historic day By the time he was done, he’d torched the Ravens for 525 passing yards, the… Source link

It’s Week 16, and Zach Wilson finally has his breakout NFL play.  The New York Jets rookie quarterback selected second overall in April’s draft hasn’t exactly taken the NFL by storm. But he flashed the athleticism that made him a dynamic prospect with a spectacular touchdown against the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday. He did so with his feet instead of his arm.  Wilson escapes pressure, embarrasses Jags defenders With New York facing third-and-5 near midfield in the first quarter, Wilson… Source link

FILE – The Google logo displayed at their offices in Granary Square, in London on Nov. 1, 2018. A Moscow court has fined Google nearly $100 million and Facebook’s parent company Meta $27 million over their failure to delete content banned by local law. The Tagansky District Court ruled on Friday that Google repeatedly neglected to remove the banned content, and ordered the company to pay a 7.2-billion ruble ($98.4-million) fine. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant,… Source link

The Military Bowl won’t be played as scheduled on Monday while the Fenway Bowl will have to wait another year to happen. Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel reported that both games aren’t going to happen because of COVID-19 issues among teams set to participate in them. The Military Bowl is off because Boston College doesn’t have enough players to play East Carolina while Virginia is unable to play SMU in the Fenway Bowl on Wednesday. Virginia said that positive COVID-19 tests on Saturday and Sunday… Source link

We’re about to turn the page on the calendar, put 2021 behind us, and stride into the brave, new year of 2022 – and Wall Street’s prognosticators are busy scanning the stocks to find the winners and losers for next year’s markets. Whether it’s individual stocks, whole industry sectors, or some combination of both, the analysts are finding plenty of Buy-rated equities for investors to consider. Take the automotive sector. Few industrials will present as many investment opportunities,… Source link

A challenging year for the restaurant space is ending just as it began: with waves of new COVID-19 infections threatening the outlook as vaccine mandates, labor shortages and inflation make tough service sector jobs even harder.  Yet Krystle Mobayeni, the CEO and founder of restaurant website platform BentoBox, told Yahoo Finance that the Omicron wave has not deterred the embattled industry. Restaurants continue to “get creative” to battle the surge, she insisted, and are using the pandemic… Source link

Supply chain backlogs and inflationary pressures have taken a toll on consumer-facing brands throughout 2021, but one specialty chocolate company has defied the trend.  Jeff Stoeckel, the CEO of Connecticut-based Bridgewater Chocolate, told Yahoo Finance the company is able to avoid the disruption thanks to its niche focus, loyal customers and planning in advance.  Supply chain strains spurred the creation, orders and delivery process to be in a “condensed timeline,” he added. “We started… Source link

As traders return from the holiday-shortened week, the price action heading into the new year will be closely monitored — especially given the relatively light economic data and earnings calendar for the coming days.  The S&P 500 (^GSPC) is entering the period known for ushering in the so-called Santa Claus Rally, or seasonally strong timeframe for stocks at the end of each year. The term, coined by Stock Trader’s Almanac in the 1970s, encompasses the final five trading days of the year and… Source link

Newly infected COVID-19 patients have two new treatment options that can be taken at home. But that convenience comes with a catch: The pills have to be taken as soon as possible once symptoms appear. The challenge is getting tested, getting a prescription and starting the pills in a short window. U.S. regulators authorized Pfizer’s pill, Paxlovid, and Merck’s molnupiravir last week. In high-risk patients, both were shown to reduce the chances of hospitalization or death from COVID-19,… Source link

Employees at two Boston-area Starbucks locations began steps to form a union earlier this month, days after one store in upstate New York became the company’s first union-represented cafe. Workers at stores on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston and Harvard Avenue in Brookline sent a letter to Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson last week about their intent to unionize. “We see unions as the best way to make Starbucks a place to have a sustainable career and a true partnership,” the letter stated. “We… Source link