Tech giant Google has reportedly suspended Play Store purchases and subscriptions for Android users in Russia. In late February, Google had earlier announced that it will be cutting down on advertisements and media from the Russian Federation as a response to the country’s invasion of Ukraine, reports GizmoChina. However, this week, the company has taken further action on the ongoing situation as the company has… Source link

Markieff Morris has returned from what has somehow become one of the NBA’s most controversial injuries. The Miami Heat forward appeared in his first game since Nov. 8 on Saturday, playing 17 minutes and recording six points. He played several minutes down the stretch in a close fourth quarter, with the Heat eventually losing 113-104 to the Minnesota Timberwolves. It had been a long wait for Morris, who sustained whiplash from a run-in with Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic. The injury… Source link

Sometime before 6 p.m. ET on Sunday, the NCAA tournament selection committee will email a completed bracket to CBS to unveil on its the selection show. Here’s a look at the biggest decisions that the committee will have to make between now and then: 1. Who will join Gonzaga and Arizona as No. 1 seeds? The chaos in the SEC tournament this week worked in the Big 12’s favor. With neither Auburn nor Kentucky even making the SEC title game, Kansas and Baylor both now appear almost certain to… Source link

Michael Conlan had the WBA featherweight title in the bag on Saturday in Nottingham, England, until he didn’t. Leigh Wood staged a remarkable late comeback and stopped Conlan at 1:25 of the 12th round to retain the title that throughout the fight seemed destined to go to Conlan. Conlan dropped Wood hard at the end of the first round with a sweeping left hand. He hurt him several times in the second round and then again at points in the first eight rounds. Wood was behind badly on all three… Source link

Will Wade is officially out as LSU head coach, almost three years to the day after it emerged that he had been caught on an FBI wiretap discussing illegal payments to a recruit. LSU announced in a statement Saturday that Wade had been terminated for cause, the cause being the NCAA’s recent notice of allegations regarding an infractions case dating back to 2017, the year Wade was hired as LSU head coach. LSU associate head coach Bill Armstrong has also been fired. Assistant coach Kevin… Source link

The Mid-American Conference announced on Saturday that four Kent State players had been suspended for taking part in a profane Snapchat video aimed at Akron, their opponent in the MAC Tournament final on Saturday night. Kent State would go on to lose 75-55 to the Zips, a bitter what-if for a program that was on the verge of its first NCAA Tournament berth since 2017. DJ Johnson, Malique Jacobs, Cli’Ron Hornbeak and Julius Rollins were all suspended for varying lengths of time for posting… Source link

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry continues to grow, with a record number of downloads and consumer spending across both the iOS and Google Play stores combined in 2021, according to the latest year-end reports. Global spending across iOS, Google Play and third-party Android app stores in China grew 19% in 2021 to reach $170 billion. Downloads… Source link

Amari Cooper didn’t want to take a pay cut to stay with the Dallas Cowboys, who found a taker for his contract. The Cleveland Browns are getting Cooper cheap, in terms of trade return. On Saturday afternoon the Browns were reportedly close to finalizing a trade that would send a fifth- and sixth-round draft pick to Dallas for Cooper and a sixth-round pick according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. So, essentially, the Browns get a four-time Pro Bowl receiver for a fifth-round pick. And Cooper is just… Source link

Offensive tackle La’el Collins has been given permission by the Dallas Cowboys to seek a trade, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter. This news comes several days after a report that the Cowboys were actively trying to trade Collins. If they’ve given Collins’ agents permission to seek a trade, that could be an indicator that the Cowboys’ trade conversations haven’t been particularly fruitful. Injury, suspension cost Collins Collins, 28, has been a starter for the Cowboys since he was signed as an… Source link

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine intensifies with shelling of cities, the CEO of a private security contractor hired to extract clients from the region is troubled by what he’s seeing. “The conditions on the ground are worsening every day,” Global Guardian CEO Dale Buckner told Yahoo Finance (video above). “When we started, of course, the front line trace of the Russian forces which was much further north near Kyiv, the capital, was much further to the east near Donbas, and they were in,… Source link