You really do find out so much more about people in their low moments than in their high ones. That goes for everything, though for our purposes we’re looking at it through the lens of sports. Last Sunday, South Carolina lost to Kentucky in the women’s SEC championship on a top-of-the-key three-pointer from Dre’una Edwards with 4.2 seconds to play. The inclination was to call it an upset, but the Wildcats have been on a heck of a run since their last meeting with South Carolina a month ago,… Source link

The Minnesota Timberwolves (38-29) play against the Orlando Magic (50-50) at Amway Center Game Time: 7:00 PM EST on Friday March 11, 2022 Minnesota Timberwolves 0, Orlando Magic 0 (7:00 pm ET) What’s the buzz on Twitter? Christopher Hine @ChristopherHineD’Angelo Russell playing tonight with a wrap/strap thing (believe that’s the technical term) on his left shoulder that I’m sure you’ll see soon on the broadcast. – 7:07 PM McKinley Wright @kin_wright25yoooo @CUBuffsMBB let’s get to… Source link

Google has once again prevailed in an ongoing legal battle with song lyrics website Genius, which claimed that Google was using its transcribed lyrics without permission in search results. Genius sued Google in 2019, arguing that Google was scraping lyrics from its website in violation of Genius’ copyright. Genius has a large database of song lyrics, and bills itself as “the world’s biggest music encyclopedia.” It tried to demonstrate that Google was scraping info from its… Source link

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) – Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Friday urged the rejection of four shareholder proposals recommending that it replace Warren Buffett as chairman, report on its plans to handle climate risk and reduce greenhouse gases, and improve diversity. The company, run by Buffett since 1965, also said the 91-year-old received $373,204 in compensation for 2021, down from $380,328 a year earlier, comprising his usual $100,000 salary plus personal and home security. Though Buffett’s… Source link

When it was reported that Aaron Rodgers would be staying in Green Bay on Tuesday morning, you may have thought that would have been the biggest NFL story of the week. And boy, how you would have been mistaken. Charles Robinson & Frank Schwab react to the three major trades this week, all in the lead-up to free agency on today’s podcast. Starting off in the AFC West, the guys talk about how the Denver Broncos trade for Russell Wilson came together & the west coast arms race that led the Los… Source link

Former Vice President Mike Pence has spent the past week outmaneuvering Donald Trump, his old boss and potential 2024 primary opponent. Shortly after the plane Trump was flying on last weekend was forced to land due to an engine failure, Pence flew to Israel on the private jet of the GOP’s most prized donor, Miriam Adelson. And while Trump was avoiding criticizing Russian President Vladimir Putin in a call-in interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity, Pence and his wife, Karen, flew to the… Source link

For one brief moment this month, cryptocurrency prices appeared to be decoupling from the volatility roiling Wall Street — but are once again being dominated by risk-aversion stemming from the Russia-Ukraine conflict. For Bitcoin (BTC-USD), a debate has arisen about its use cases, such as (legitimate) Ukrainian donations, or (questionable at best) flows from Russians looking to avoid sanctions. With the token whipsawing between a range of $37,000 and $45,000 over the past month, many… Source link

Fighting a strong trend toward hybrid work, Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon has repeatedly insisted that employees return to the office full-time, leaving no doubt that he views remote work as a temporary aberration. But on the day the investment banking giant reopened its U.S. offices in February, after shutting down during the Omicron wave, just 50%, or about 5,000 of the building’s 10,000 workers, returned to its New York headquarters, despite receiving more than two weeks’ notice. In… Source link

The Seattle Seahawks have some explaining to do after a controversial offseason. Legendary linebacker Bobby Wagner claims the franchise didn’t contact him before releasing Wagner on Tuesday. [Join the Yahoo Fantasy Tourney Pick’Em $25K Best Bracket Contest] Wagner — who spent 10 seasons with Seattle — said the team did not reach out to let him know he was being released. It is not required for teams to reach out to players and notify them before making roster decisions, so the Seahawks… Source link

By Josh Beckerman Fitch Ratings has downgraded 10 Russian companies including Rostelecom and Yandex NV to “CC,” as a March 5 presidential decree and escalating sanctions “could impose insurmountable barriers” on timely debt payments to certain international creditors. The decree “could force a redenomination of foreign-currency debt into local currency for international creditors, which we would likely view as a distressed debt exchange or event of default,” Fitch… Source link