AUGUSTA, Ga. — For everything he accomplished this week at Augusta National Golf Club in his return to competitive golf, Tiger Woods will be disappointed in his result at the 86th Masters. For how well he hit his driver in Sunday’s final round, the rest of his game was rather suspect as the five-time winner of the green jacket signed for a second consecutive 6-over 78 to tie his worst-ever finish at the Masters and finish the tournament at 13-over and walk off the course at T-47 shortly… Source link

A flurry of big bank earnings and fresh inflation data out of Washington are expected to keep investors busy this holiday-shortened trading week. Market participants will also tune in Wednesday for a key economic report on March retail sales activity. Despite a four-day trading session, with Wall Street closed for Good Friday, a pivotal week is underway for investors as mega-banks including JPMorgan Chase, (JPM), Goldman Sachs (GS), and Citigroup (C) get the ball rolling on Q1 earnings… Source link

Baseball isn’t just happening in the United States right now. It’s also happening over in Nippon Professional Baseball, Japan’s top baseball league (their MLB equivalent). And a young pitcher for the Chiba Lotte Marines just threw what might be the best professional game in history. Roki Sasaki, who is just 20 years old, threw a perfect game against the Orix Buffaloes on Sunday, the 16th perfect game in NPB history and the first one in 28 years. His dominant performance tied the NPB record… Source link

The SEC recently proposed new policies that would require companies being acquired through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) to undergo more stringent disclosure procedures relating to future projections, conflicts of interest, as well as potential dilution upon issuance of additional shares. The new rules would effectively eliminate many of the “safe harbor” protections and advantages of de-SPAC transactions over traditional IPOs that have made them so favorable in recent… Source link

Ukraine’s IT sector boasted some of the highest salaries in the country, long before Russia invaded, with roughly 200-thousand workers providing critical services to tech giants and other major industries around the world. As the country enters its seventh week of the war, some of its top tech executives are making direct appeals to those same international firms to stick with them, even as fears of a brain drain consume the domestic market. “We are showing [the world] that we can continue… Source link

Russian President Vladimir Putin.Pool Sputnik, AP Andrei Illarionov, Putin’s former chief economic adviser, was interviewed by the BBC. He said Putin would likely halt the Ukraine war if the West stopped buying Russian oil and gas. Many Western nations remain heavily reliant on Russian energy exports. Vladimir Putin’s former chief economic adviser has suggested that Russia would halt military operations in Ukraine “within a month or two” if Western countries stopped buying Russian oil and gas. In… Source link

Khamzat Chimaev may never be the pound-for-pound best fighter in the world. He may never even be a UFC champion. Neither, obviously, is out of the question, but even if he doesn’t reach either goal, it won’t matter a bit. This guy has star written all over him and with his performance Saturday in a breathtaking battle with Gilbert Burns at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, on the main card of UFC 273, he took another big step toward the top of the heap. Since Russia… Source link

The Portland Trail Blazers have lost 20 of their last 22 games. They’ve dropped 10 in a row, covering just once. If tanking was an art form, they’d be Pablo Picasso. Their latest one-sided piece was a 50-point thrashing at the hands of the Mavs as 19.5-point underdogs. Today, they’ll be 19.5-point dogs on BetMGM again as they end the season at home versus the Utah Jazz. R.I.P. City Portland’s opening night starting lineup of Damian Lillard, CJ McCollum, and Jusuf Nurkic is a distant memory…. Source link

Aljamain Sterling won the bantamweight title last year on arguably the most blatant foul in UFC history. On Saturday, he kept it by beating the man who had so flagrantly fouled him. Sterling’s grappling carried him to the first three rounds on two of the three judges’ scorecards and led him to a split decision victory Saturday at VyStar Veteran’s Memorial Arena in Jacksonville, Florida, in the co-main event of UFC 273. Two judges had it 48-47 for Sterling, giving him the first three and… Source link

UFC 273 is Saturday in Jacksonville, Florida, and figures to be a wild card. It’s headlined by a pair of title fights, with featherweight champion Alexander Volkanovski defending his belt in the main event against “The Korean Zombie,” Chan Sung Jung. At BetMGM, Volkanovski is a massive -750 favorite over Jung who is +500. In the co-main event, bitter rivals will meet for a second time, as bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling (+360) defends against interim champion Petr Yan (-500). The… Source link