One day after Michigan men’s basketball coach Juwan Howard sparked a brawl by striking an opposing coach in the handshake line, the university sent a message that such behavior won’t be tolerated. Michigan will suspend Howard for the final five games of the regular season, a source told Yahoo Sports’ Dan Wetzel. While Howard’s penalty is by far the most severe, Wetzel reports that the Michigan coach isn’t the only participant in Sunday’s incident facing punishment. The Big Ten is suspending… Source link

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers receiver Antonio Brown called out Tom Brady and Bruce Arians again in an Instagram post Monday. That post, which was deleted, showed an X-ray image of Brown’s injured ankle. Over the X-ray of his injured ankle, Brown wrote a message calling out Brady for not throwing Brown the ball and said Arians told Brown to “get the f*** out of here.” That message, which contains profanity, read: “They tried to hurt me intentionally @buccaneers “Sent me out there after knowing I… Source link

With consumer prices soaring by the most in four decades in January, food prices have borne the brunt of skyrocketing inflation — something Smashburger and other food chains have passed along to their customers. In a Yahoo Finance interview, Smashburger president Carl Bachmann cited inflation as “a challenge” for the fast-casual chain, but noted several strategies that have helped alleviate price pressures — and sticker shock for consumers. “We’ve had to take some very small minor price… Source link

(Bloomberg) — The ruble tumbled the most since March 2020 after President Vladimir Putin recognized self-declared separatist republics in east Ukraine, deepening a standoff with the West. Most Read from Bloomberg The ruble weakened beyond 80 per dollar during Putin’s televised address to Russians late Monday and stocks slumped as much as 18% in evening trading. Earlier in the day, the benchmark MOEX Russia equity index closed its main trading session down 11%, the biggest drop since… Source link

NFL agents from around the country, ones who often compete tooth and nail against each other for clients, are coming together to discuss what they plan to do with their draft prospects when the NFL scouting combine begins next week. The most likely road they could take — assuming combine boarding conditions don’t change — is to encourage their clients not to perform the on-field workouts at the combine, according to conversations Yahoo Sports has had with multiple agents, as well as from… Source link

Auston Matthews will call you out for asking a weird question. During his game against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday, the Toronto Maple Leafs star collided mouth-first into the crossbar and ended up losing a tooth. After the damage to his pearly whites, one reporter asked the 24-year-old about the incident and Matthews snapped back with a huge dose of sarcasm. “I saw the crossbar and I just decided I think it would be a great idea if I just put my face right through it,” he said with… Source link

This week will be filled with palindrome dates, but Tuesday is a particularly special one: 2/22/22. Fittingly, Google is celebrating the occasion with a surprise for those who look for the date in its numerical form. Type in 2/22/22 into Google’s search bar and your computer screen will be showered with a graphic of confetti and a bunch of twos, followed by a message that reads “Happy Twosday 2You!” A palindrome is a word, phrase or numerical sequence that can be… Source link

Say this for the fantasy baseball second base pool in 2022: It’s a handy group. Of the top-20 second basemen in Yahoo ADP, 17 of them carry multiple-position eligibility. Ozzie Albies, Jose Altuve, and Jonathan India are the three exceptions. Yahoo position eligibility requirements are lower than other industry thresholds, so make sure you’re up to speed on some of the surprise qualifiers. Mookie Betts isn’t just an outfielder, he also carries the 2B tag. Brandon Lowe has an outfield… Source link

Veteran point guard Goran Dragic is joining the Brooklyn Nets, Shams Charania reported for The Athletic on Monday. The 14-year NBA veteran was traded from the Toronto Raptors, for whom he played five games in total, to the San Antonio Spurs at the trade deadline this month. He agreed to a contract buyout with the Spurs, making him a free agent available to sign with a contender. The early list of interested teams reportedly included the Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles… Source link

When you are searching online for some of the remotest islands on the planet, it helps to get the name right. But a row has broken out over the labelling of the Chagos Islands on Google maps. The UK maintains that it still holds sovereignty over what it terms British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT) – one of the smallest of red dots on the traditional cartographic globe. But Mauritius, which has been recognised as legitimate owner of the archipelago in a series of international court judgments… Source link