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It’s a busy Saturday in the NHL, and the main contests at Yahoo! consist of the 10 evening games beginning at 7 p.m. EST. There are two back-to-back matchups with Colorado-Arizona and Los Angeles-Minnesota playing for the second consecutive night. It’s obviously an incredibly deep player pool, so unless you’re looking for contrarian angles, there’s no need to force players into lineups with tough matchups. Vegas, Colorado, Chicago and Tampa Bay are all the largest favorites on the… Source link

Four-time NBA champion LeBron James hit back at Swedish soccer star Zlatan Ibrahimovic on Friday, saying there is no reason why he cannot have just as big an impact off the basketball court as he does on it. James has been a force for social change in America, focusing much of his attention on police brutality and racial injustice against African Americans. He was outspoken about the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Wisconsin last summer, against Donald Trump, and he worked with other NBA… Source link

Jared Goff led the Los Angeles Rams to a Super Bowl in 2019. Now, two years later, the former No. 1 overall pick is out of Los Angeles. Coach Sean McVay is moving on — but he’s not doing so without any of the blame. “When you look back at the four years that we did have together, there’s a lot of times you can smile on,” McVay said, via the NFL Network. “And I would say there’s a lot of things that when I self-reflect, I certainly wish I was better for him in some instances …… Source link

Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson doesn’t lack for confidence. Anderson has been outspoken over his career, whether he’s celebrating a home run or shutting down chatter about the unwritten rules, Anderson always delivers a good quote. Over the past two seasons, he’s backed all of it up. Anderson has hit .331/.357/.514 over his last 172 games. He’s won a batting title and a Silver Slugger, and is the catalyst for a White Sox team that’s expected to be a perennial playoff contender over… Source link

Bloomberg Buffett’s Berkshire Snaps Up Record $24.7 Billion of Own Stock (Bloomberg) — Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. bought back a record $24.7 billion of its own stock last year and said there’s more to come, as the conglomerate struggled to find other ways to deploy its enormous pile of cash.The company’s purchase of $9 billion of shares in the fourth quarter matched a record set in the previous three-month period, Buffett said Saturday in his annual letter to… Source link

Airbnb’s (ABNB) first quarter as a public company was defined by the creative ways people have traveled during a pandemic. The rise in nearby road trips to more remote locations and longer term stays gave the home rental company a leg up compared to its counterparts in the traditional hospitality space. However, the upcoming availability of vaccinations raises the question of whether these adopted patterns will continue in a post-coronavirus world. “The lines between travel and living are… Source link

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act was unconstitutional, paving the way for an expansion of sports betting across the country. In the years since then, that expansion has taken several forms, including the prospect of being able to place bets while practicing your golf game. But the effects of the PASPA decision haven’t just applied to where you can place a bet — they’ve also started to shape the ways we can experience… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Bitcoin’s rally hit a speed bump as the world’s largest cryptocurrency witnessed its worst weekly decline in almost a year amid wider losses in risk assets. The digital token slumped 20% this week, the most since the pandemic-fueled selloff last March. The wider Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index, tracking Bitcoin, Ether and three other cryptocurrencies, was down 23% for the same period. Bitcoin fell 5% to trade at $45,672 as of 5:00 p.m. in New York, according to consolidated… Source link

Johnson & Johnson’s (JNJ) single-dose COVID-19 vaccine was given an emergency use authorization (EAU) Saturday evening by U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), making it the third vaccine available in the U.S. The Vaccines and Related Biologics Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) voted unanimously Friday to recommend use of the vaccine on adults aged 18 and older, based on all the data submitted by the company, and the vaccine was endorsed by FDA staff earlier in the week. J&J’s vaccine,… Source link

Legendary investor and polymath Charlie Munger, Berkshire Hathaway’s vice-chairman and Warren Buffett’s long-time business partner, has said several times the best way to learn about business is to study the multi-decade financial results of great businesses. Business schools that don’t adopt this method are doing their students a disservice, he said. “The Harvard Business School, when it started out way early, they started out with a history of business. They take you through the building… Source link