Former Michigan and Detroit Lions head coach Gary Moeller died Monday, the university announced. He was 81. Details of his death are not yet known. Moeller spent five seasons leading the Wolverines from 1990-94, and compiled an impressive 44-13 record while picking up a share of the Big Ten title three times and earning Big Ten Coach of the Year honors twice. He won four of five bowl games and won 19 straight conference games at one point, which set a then-Big Ten record. Moeller first joined… Source link

News that Lea Michele is replacing Beanie Feldstein in Broadway’s revival of Funny Girl lit up the internet on Monday. Feldstein, whose performance as Fannie Brice received mixed reviews, abruptly announced she made the “difficult decision” to depart the show two months early as “production decided to take the show in a different direction.” One day later, it was revealed Michele will take over her dream role. Funny Girl will mark Michele’s big return to the spotlight after three years. In… Source link

Struggling retailer Gap (GPS) is in crisis mode ahead of the crucial selling periods of back to school and the holidays, with the stock down nearly 6% in pre-market trading after it revealed the departure of its CEO. Gap surprised a few on the Street Monday evening after the market close by announcing CEO Sonia Syngal would be stepping down as CEO after a “brief” transition period. In her place, executive chairman Bob Martin will assume the role as interim CEO. Syngal was seen as a potential… Source link

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Anirban Sen and Arunima Kumar NEW YORK (Reuters) -Billionaire investor William Ackman, who had raised $4 billion in the biggest-ever special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), told investors he would be returning the sum after failing to find a suitable target company to take public through a merger. The development is a major setback for the prominent hedge fund manager who had initially planned for the SPAC to take a stake in Universal Music Group last year when… Source link

‘We’ve seen people go from six-figure incomes … to living on the streets’: Why it’s easier than ever to get addicted to gambling Noah Vineberg, a bus driver based in Ottawa, Canada, lost over $1 million to his gambling addiction. Vineberg can trace the roots of his addiction all the way back to grade school, where he avidly traded marbles and hockey cards on the schoolyard. “It wasn’t until much later — like 16 to 18, 19 — I knew that I was gambling heavier than anybody else. And I knew… Source link

Olympic silver medalist Kim Glass says that she was attacked by a random man with a pipe while walking on a Los Angeles street. Glass shared video on Instagram speaking about the attack that shows multiple facial injuries including fractures around her right eye and cuts that required stitches. (Warning, the video seen here and included above shows graphic injuries.) Glass’ right eye was swollen shut, and she had a gash on the bridge of her nose. She told her followers that the attack happened… Source link

In a new scam targeting restaurants, criminals are leaving negative ratings on restaurants’ Google pages as a bargaining chip to extort digital gift cards. Restaurateurs from San Francisco to New York, many from establishments with Michelin stars, said in recent days that they’ve received a blitz of one-star ratings on Google, with no description or photos, from people they said have never eaten at their restaurants. Soon after the reviews, many owners said, they received emails from a… Source link

Companies from the U.S. and Europe were quick to leave Russia at the start of the Ukraine war. Those … [+] that are there still might be staying for longer. getty Four months ago, leaving Russia was all the rage. If you were a multinational, you signaled to the world that you were against the war in Ukraine by closing your offices in Moscow, or pausing production somehow. This was never going to be easy. It happened quickly, at first. Companies moved out, ending… Source link

Collin Morikawa will return to the British Open this week in a very different position than the one he was in a year ago, when he walked off the course with the Claret Jug in hand. Morikawa officially returned the iconic trophy this week, and was given a replica in return. “It sucked. It really did,” Morikawa said Monday ahead of the 150th British Open. “I woke up this morning and looked at it. The replica is beautiful, but it’s not the same. It really isn’t. It will never be. “But I… Source link

U.S. stocks fell sharply Monday to start the week, led by losses in shares of technology companies as investors braced for the start of earnings season and fresh inflation data due out Wednesday. The Nasdaq Composite shed 2.3%, and the S&P 500 slid 1.2%. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dipped 160 points, or 0.5%. Monday’s moves follow an up week for stocks that saw all three benchmarks log weekly gains despite closing flat after Friday’s jobs report. Meanwhile, the euro fell closer toward… Source link