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Welcome to the Final Round of the NBA Yahoo Cup! This free, multi-round, single-entry contest was run every Friday for the entirety of the NBA DFS season. Scoring is cumulative for the year-long points race, with your five lowest scores dropped. At the end of the season, a $50,000 prize pool is shared amongst the top 7,950 competitors, with a whopping $10,000 going to first. Even if this your first time playing in the competition, the top-15 finishers in tonight’s freeroll contest earn… Source link

Tampa Bay Buccaneers tight end Rob Gronkowski spent at least a portion of the offseason watching his brothers get beat up by a YouTuber. Gronkowski served as a referee as four of his brothers boxed against YouTube personality-turned-boxer Logan Paul. Paul — who will box Floyd Mayweather in June — completely outclassed each of the four Gronkowski brothers during the bout.  Paul took on a different Gronkowski brother in each round. He faced Glenn in the first, Chris in the second, Dan in… Source link

Auburn’s 2021-22 basketball season is still six month away from beginning but the people over at Yahoo Sports are already looking at where two Tigers might end up in the 2022 NBA draft. High up on the list is Jabari Smith Jr., the incoming freshman and highest-ranked recruit in program history. He is slotted at the No. 3 overall spot. “Smith Jr.’s dad, Jabari Smith, played four years in the NBA and five years overseas. Last fall, Smith Jr. went up against Holmgren at the Pangos West… Source link

Bloomberg Barclays Faces Credit Trader Exodus Over Bonus Disappointment (Bloomberg) — Barclays Plc has been hit by a string of departures among senior credit traders in New York and London unhappy that their bonuses failed to reflect the pandemic profit surge.The bank has offered promotions to some employees and given assurances over future pay in an attempt to address their concerns, according to people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be identified discussing private… Source link

Memorial Day weekend marks the start of the airline industry’s busy summer travel season and airfare expert Bob Harrell said fares are going up.  “Well, they’ve been going up fairly dramatically in the last six months at least,” he told Yahoo Finance. Harrell is president of Harrell Associates, a firm that tracks and benchmarks ticket prices across the industry. In normal times, business fares are four to five times more expensive than leisure fares, according to Harrell, but right now,… Source link

Watch: Coinbase set to offer Dogecoin Dogecoin soared on Friday after Elon Musk said he was working with the crypto’s developers to improve its efficiency as a means of payment. The Tesla (TSLA) boss, who has previously said his Dogecoin tweets shouldn’t be taken seriously, tweeted that he was “working with doge devs to improve system transaction efficiency” and said the work was “potentially promising.” The cryptocurrency, which was conceived as a joke in 2013, rose over 30% on Friday morning… Source link

As Anticipated, No Impact on Cash Position, Business Operations or Economics of Commercial Arrangements No Change to Gross Billings; Company Reaffirms Previously Disclosed Annual Gross Billings Targets Plug Power Remains Well-Positioned to Leverage Industry Leadership and Capture MeaningfulShare of the $10T Hydrogen Economy Company to Host Conference Call at 8:30 am ET Today LATHAM, N.Y., May 14, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Plug Power Inc. (“Plug Power” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: PLUG), a… Source link

Billionaire bond investor Jeffrey Gundlach, the founder and CEO of $135 billion DoubleLine Capital, sees reasons to be concerned about inflation.   “It feels to me like the market started worrying about [inflation] a little bit this week,” Gundlach said, later adding it “was the biggest miss on CPI in many years, and maybe even in my whole career.”  On Wednesday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the Consumer Price Index (CPI) jumped 0.8% in April, well ahead of economists’… Source link

A coronavirus outbreak among vaccinated players and staff has “” the New York Yankees and attracted the attention of the CDC this week. So far, eight people, including shortstop Gleyber Torres, have tested positive more than 14 days after being fully vaccinated. Because the team has a high level of vaccinated personnel, the Yankees have not missed any games while weathering this outbreak, and seven of the eight cases have been asymptomatic. Still, the accidental case study of post-vaccine… Source link

With the NBA playoffs days away, TNT and longtime analyst Chris Webber have reportedly parted ways.  The New York Post reports that Webber and the network agreed to a split on Thursday. The two sides did not conduct negotiations on a new contract leading up to the split, according to the report.  Webber had worked as a color commentator and occasional studio analyst at TNT since 2008. He joined the network shortly after the conclusion of his 15-season NBA career.  Chris Webber is reportedly… Source link