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The NBA starts off the week with nine games on the schedule Monday. The marquee matchup of the night could take place in New Orleans when the Pelicans host the Bucks. However, both teams will be shorthanded with Khris Middleton (knee) and Brandon Ingram (toe) out. Another matchup with plenty of star power will feature the Suns hosting the Lakers. The Lakers will be playing the second night of a back-to-back set and won’t have Anthony Davis (foot) available, putting them in a difficult… Source link

LUSAIL, Qatar — Lionel Messi began his ride off into soccer’s golden sunset with teammates streaming across the field. He’d just scored the goal that Hollywood had scripted, in the 108th minute of a manic World Cup final, his last game on soccer’s biggest stage. Limbs flailed all around him. Friends mobbed him. An ear-splitting roar filled the Lusail Stadium. It crescendoed again as Messi wound up for an undercut pump of his right fist, and louder still as he spun to all sides of the… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys are perfectly capable of winning a Super Bowl. If they don’t have the best defense in the league, it’s on a short list. Yet on Sunday, the Cowboys had no clue what to do with Trevor Lawrence. When it looked like the Cowboys finally got the one play they needed, they had to feel like they escaped. Lawrence had the ball knocked loose at the end of a nice run and the Cowboys recovered the fumble with a three-point lead and less than two minutes to go in regulation. Then Dallas’… Source link

The Dallas Cowboys are perfectly capable of winning a Super Bowl. If they don’t have the best defense in the league, it’s on a short list. Yet on Sunday, the Cowboys had no clue what to do with Trevor Lawrence. When it looked like the Cowboys finally got the one play they needed, they had to feel like they escaped. Lawrence had the ball knocked loose at the end of a nice run and the Cowboys recovered the fumble with a three-point lead and less than two minutes to go in regulation. Then Dallas’… Source link

The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack swears in witnesses on July 12, 2022. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photo: Doug Mills/Pool via Reuters) After a year and a half of work, the House committee investigating the events of the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is set to hold its final hearing and issue a report on its findings. Over the course of 10 public hearings, the panel heard from a wide swath of witnesses who showed how former President Donald… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

While labor shortages are not quite as bleak as earlier in the year, small businesses are still not catching a break. “Many small business owners continue to face big challenges hiring and retaining employees,” Holly Wade, executive director of the NFIB Research Center, told Yahoo Money. Small companies, those with fewer than 250 employees, accounted for nearly 80% of the 10.3 million job openings in the most recent report by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, according to an analysis by… Source link

Inflation, ongoing consumer demand and early stages of tech integration took over the fast food industry this past year. As Wall Street looks to 2023, it expects those key trends and others to stick around. Top trends to keep an eye on in the New Year include ongoing price action, investment in digital, restaurant design, and tipping, experts told Yahoo Finance. ‘More pricing in 2023’ In 2022, menu prices increased by 12.9%, per new data from Pricelisto.com. Consumers can expect that number to… Source link

Wall Street analysts aren’t expecting S&P 500 companies to blow the doors off with their fourth quarter earnings reports when they begin to trickle out in January. Actually, quite the contrary, as sluggish economic growth, rising interest rates, and stubborn inflation has strategists cautious about the stock market in 2023. Fourth quarter earnings for S&P 500 companies are seen dropping 2.8%, according to fresh data from FactSet. If that turns out to be correct, it would mark the first… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Basketball series. We were pleased with how Saturday’s article played out, and we have another fun card here. While there are seven games overall, only five make up the main slate. There are still plenty of options, and it was tough to limit it to just six players. With that in mind, let’s start with one of my favorite players in the NBA.  Guards Fred VanVleet, TOR vs. GSW ($34) VanVleet was mired in a terrible slump this time last week, but… Source link