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Baseball is a grind — and the fantasy version of the game is no different. And because it’s a grind, baseball features streaks. Hitters can get hot at the plate, seemingly seeing beach balls thrown at them. Pitchers can get hot on the mound, too. And of course, both can get freezing cold. In this space, we’ll take a weekly look at who’s hot and who’s not — and whether you should believe in the streak. (Editor’s note: All stats derived before game action on Sunday, May 9) HOT STREAKS Run for… Source link

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Are Still Undervalued A lackluster jobs report didn’t derail the markets last week. New jobs in April totaled only 266,000, far below the 978K expected, and the official unemployment rate, which had been predicted to come in at 5.8% actually ticked up slightly to 6.1%. Even so, the tech-weighted NASDAQ gained 0.88% in Friday’s session, the broader S&P 500 was up 0.75% at the end of the day. These gains brought the S&P to a new record level, with a… Source link

(Updates price, adds commentary) By Alden Bentley and Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) – Dogecoin lost more than a third of its price on Sunday, after Tesla chief and cryptocurrency supporter Elon Musk called it a ‘hustle’ during his guest-host spot https://twitter.com/cryptoafricaedu/status/1391373668744372225?s=21 on the “Saturday Night Live” comedy sketch TV show. Dogecoin was quoted as low as $0.416 on crypto exchange Binance… Source link

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Are Still Undervalued A lackluster jobs report didn’t derail the markets last week. New jobs in April totaled only 266,000, far below the 978K expected, and the official unemployment rate, which had been predicted to come in at 5.8% actually ticked up slightly to 6.1%. Even so, the tech-weighted NASDAQ gained 0.88% in Friday’s session, the broader S&P 500 was up 0.75% at the end of the day. These gains brought the S&P to a new record level, with a… Source link

The Daily Beast The Fight to Clear a Montana Woman Who Killed Her Abusive Ex Courtesy Rachel BellesenJust before 8 p.m. on Oct. 8, 2020, a 911 dispatcher in Sanders County, Montana, received a strange phone call. The woman on the other end said she was calling from a gas station in Hot Springs—a tiny, rural town located on the Flathead Indian Reservation. Her voice was shaky, her delivery broken. She could not give her exact address. But one thing came through loud and clear: “I need the… Source link

The New York Times Inside Democrats’ Scramble to Resist GOP Voting Laws Democrats are struggling to build a surefire legal strategy to block new Republican-backed restrictions on voting rights, relying on broadly worded warnings and urgent pleas that are designed, in part, to build political pressure on the White House, Congress and the Justice Department to act, as well as to engage their supporters to mobilize in advance of the 2022 midterm elections. The approach is aimed at persuading… Source link

Tesla CEO and founder and chief engineer of SpaceX, Elon Musk.Photo: Yasin Ozturk/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images The value of dogecoin (DOGE) plummeted from record highs after Elon Musk’s Saturday Night Live (SNL) appearance, disappointing investors who tried to push the coin to $1 (£0.72).  Analysts had expected the Tesla (TSLA) CEO or the “Dogefather” to mention the meme-inspired crypto on SNL and send prices spiking, instead his plug saw the coin crash nearly 25% from $0.69 to $0.48 a… Source link

As Canelo Alvarez was receiving plaudits from the record crowd at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, previously unbeaten WBO super middleweight champion Billy Joe Saunders, his vanquished opponent, staggered into the back of an ambulance waiting to take him to a local hospital for an X-ray. “I think I broke his face,” Alvarez said, matter-of-factly. Indeed he did. Alvarez stopped Saunders after eight thudding, crunching, powerful rounds. He landed a counter right uppercut, dropping low and… Source link

Yahoo Sports will keep you updated nightly on the NBA playoff race during the last two weeks of the regular season. Check back daily for the latest movement in the standings, what to watch for and teams securing their 2020-21 playoff berths. Saturday’s standings Eastern Conference 1. Philadelphia 76ers (47-21) 2. Brooklyn Nets (44-24, 3 GB) 3. Milwaukee Bucks (43-24, 3.5 GB) 4. New York Knicks (37-30, 9.5 GB) 5. Atlanta Hawks (37-31, 10 GB) 6. Miami Heat (36-31, 10.5 GB) Play-in tournament 7. Boston… Source link

Incredible photos have emerged illustrating the enormity of a country’s ongoing recycling crisis. In Bangladesh’s capital city of Dhaka plastic waste has gone up to 586 tonnes a day in an increase of 424 tonnes since 2005, Dhaka Tribune reports. The country has recently sought to ramp up plastic recycling to tackle the issue. But new photos published by AFP, which show small mountains of plastic bottles and waste inside a recycling plant in Dhaka, highlight the enormity of the… Source link