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The 2021 French Open is already off to a rousing start, with No. 11 Petra Kvitová coming back from a set one loss to beat Germany’s Greet Minnen, and Naomi Osaka defeating Romania’s Patricia Maria Țig (and then skipping her contractually mandated media obligations and drawing a $15,000 fine). But just like every tournament, we’ve also seen that a high ranking doesn’t mean anything once the players are on the clay. Follow all the early round upsets and surprise victories below.  Austria’s… Source link

Benzinga AMC & GME are Not the Only Reddit Penny Stocks to Buy According to Top Wall Street Analysts If you’re looking for penny stocks to buy right now, I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of attention placed on social media, namely Reddit. The phenomenon that began earlier in the year thanks to GameStop (NYSE: GME) stock has caused an avalanche of trading activity spilling over into other heavily shorted names. Whether you’re talking about beaten-down meat alternative stocks like Beyond Meat… Source link

Sunday, May 30, may lose a game or two with the continued dodgy weather, but there is still plenty of baseball. Let’s get into the top MLB DFS picks for hitters and stacks for Yahoo, DraftKings and FanDuel. Be sure head over to the Awesemo MLB DFS Home Page for all the best written daily fantasy baseball content, including daily article like Spotlight Pitchers, MLB DFS Tournament Strategy and MLB Cheat Sheets for all the major DFS sites. MLB DFS Picks: Spotlight Hitters and Stacks, Sunday,… Source link

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The notoriously violent Jalisco cartel has responded to Mexico’s “hugs, not bullets” policy with a policy of its own: The cartel kidnapped several members of an elite police force in the state of Guanajuato, tortured them to obtain names and addresses of fellow officers and is now hunting down and killing police at their homes, on their days off, in front of their families. It is a type of direct attack on officers seldom seen outside of the most gang-plagued… Source link

The Milwaukee Bucks didn’t have a warm-up act, no time to build confidence against a lower-seeded piñata, walking right into the fire against the team that exposed them last summer. And instead of cowering or falling to old habits, the Bucks made the Miami Heat go “poof” in quick fashion, perhaps the first step in changing the narrative — or at the very least, returning the favor in exposing Miami’s roster flaws, creating questions for the future. The first team to sweep its… Source link

Marcell Ozuna was arrested in Georgia on Saturday on multiple domestic violence charges. (Joe Robbins/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Atlanta Braves star Marcell Ozuna was arrested on Saturday after an alleged domestic violence incident in Georgia, the team confirmed.  Ozuna, according to police records, was arrested in Sandy Springs — a northern suburb of Atlanta — on aggravated assault strangulation and misdemeanor battery-family violence charges. According to the police report,… Source link

The Roland Garros official Twitter account appeared to throw shade at Naomi Osaka on Saturday in a now-deleted tweet following the news of her media blackout at the French Open. The account shared four photos of other players meeting with reporters at the tournament with the caption, “They understood the assignment.” The tweet was later deleted. Naomi Osaka’s media blackout Osaka announced Wednesday on Twitter that she would not be speaking with any reporters throughout the tournament in… Source link

Anthony Davis may have hurt his knee in the Los Angeles Lakers’ Game 3 win over the Phoenix Suns on Thursday night, but he said there is “no chance” that he sits out of Game 4 on Sunday. Davis hyperextended his left knee in their 109-95 win over the Suns in Game 3 on Thursday, which gave them a 2-1 lead in the series. “There’s no chance that I don’t play tomorrow,” Davis said on Saturday, via ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. “As a player, I’ve wanted to be in this moment. You want to… Source link

The 76ers completed the third blowout win of the day on Saturday with their victory against the Wizards. (Rob Carr/Getty Images) Welcome to the Yahoo Sports NBA playoff tracker, your daily one-stop shop for all the latest game results from each NBA playoff series. Here’s a look at Saturday’s games. The Philadelphia 76ers are now just one game away from advancing to the next round. The 76ers cruised to a dominant 132-103 win over the Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena on Saturday night to… Source link

New viral variants of the Covid-19 coronavirus are on the way, claimed Moderna scientists and executives in a Thursday virtual investor event, as reported by Barrons. “As the virus spreads, it is rapidly mutating,” the company’s chief scientific officer, Melissa Moore, said on the call. “Some of these new viral strains appear to be even more transmissible than the original strain… We already know that some of these new strains are less susceptible to neutralization by our current… Source link