Amid the backdrop of Brian Flores’ racial discrimination lawsuit, the NFL is updating its diversity policy that will require teams to hire a minority or female candidate as an offensive assistant, the league announced Monday. The NFL announced the policy change from its annual owners meetings in Palm Beach, Florida. “Beginning this season, all 32 clubs will employ a diverse person [female or a member of an ethnic or racial minority] to serve as an offense assistant,” the new policy reads. The… Source link

Futures on Wall Street’s main benchmarks were little changed ahead of overnight trading Monday following a choppy session that saw stocks climb in the final hour to cap the day at six-week highs. Contracts on the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite were muted post-market after advancing into a third week, buoyed by a comeback in technology stocks. Big names in the sector — Tesla, Amazon, and Apple — each rallied during intraday trading Monday following a rough… Source link

Disney (DIS) is fighting back against Florida’s controversial Parental Rights in Education Act, which critics have infamously dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. On Monday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially signed the bill into law. The media giant released the following statement in response: Florida’s HB 1557, also known as the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, should never have passed and should never have been signed into law. Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the… Source link

Kiki Rice recently won the Gatorade National Girls Basketball Player of the Year, the Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year and will compete in the McDonald’s All-American Game in Chicago this week. (Brian Spurlock/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Kiki Rice could give the Pac-12 another powerhouse women’s basketball team to compete against defending national champion and Final Four-bound Stanford. The 5-foot-11 guard is ranked No. 2 in the 2022 recruiting class and chose UCLA over… Source link

Tyronn Lue and Daryl Morey are officially feuding. The Los Angeles Clippers coach fired back at the Philadelphia 76ers president of basketball operations on Monday for a tweet about the Clippers’ free-throw shooting. But it was Lue’s comments about the 76ers that got the ball rolling on the back-and-forth. Things started last week when Lue answered a question about the propensity of 76ers stars Joel Embiid and James Harden to get to the free-throw line ahead of Friday’s game against the… Source link

If you feel swept up in all the hype surrounding Ethereum’s impending upgrade, you aren’t alone. Google searches for “Ethereum merge” have seen an uptick over the past 12 months, recently hitting a peak. Along with all the interest, Ether’s price has seen a boost as well. It hit a two-and-a-half month high this morning when it neared $3,350. It’s currently trading at around $3,406, up 6% in the last 24 hours, and almost 19% in the last week. Why all the hype? Investors might be… Source link

A federal judge ruled Monday that then-President Donald Trump and lawyer John Eastman “more likely than not” committed crimes in their efforts to obstruct the certification of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election. The extraordinary ruling by U.S. District Court Judge David Carter ordered Eastman to turn over 101 emails to the House’s Jan. 6 select committee. Eastman, who had argued that the emails were protected by attorney-client privilege, formulated a legal strategy to keep Trump in… Source link

PALM BEACH, Fla. — For all intents and purposes, the Cleveland Browns are talking about Baker Mayfield in the past tense. The question now appears to be whether the franchise is willing to incur salary cap pain to make him a tradable commodity. Browns head coach Kevin Stefanski said Monday that Cleveland would prefer to get the situation with Mayfield’s future “resolved soon” but it’s something that has “several dynamics” in play before that can happen. Other teams at the… Source link

AMC’s (AMC) stock gained 45% on Monday. Shares closed at $29.33 each, above their highest closing level of the year in early January. The cinema chain’s CEO Adam Aron told Reuters investors should expect to see more “transformational” deals in the future. “I’d like to think there will be more third-party external M&A announcements going forward where AMC can reach for the stars and intriguing investments that have potentially attractive returns,” Aron said. Earlier this month AMC announced it… Source link

By Mark Melchionna March 28, 2022 – Google has announced new artificial intelligence efforts, including tools that can help treat cardiovascular conditions and improve maternal health. At a Google Health event called The Check Up, the technology giant shared AI-focused research and development updates. Google previously created an AI system known as ARDA to support diabetic retinopathy screenings. The device screens 350 patients screened daily, bringing the total number screened via the… Source link