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Traders betting against Cathie Wood’s ARK Invest have had a lucrative run this year. Shorting the firm’s family of eight exchange-traded funds (ETFs) has turned investors a mark-to-market profit of $2.4 billion so far in 2022 – more than twice the $941 million profit they made in all of last year, per figures from data analytics firm S3 partners. Of that gain, $492 million has been generated since mid-August, as technology stocks resumed a downslide amid renewed rate hike fears and… Source link

Russia’s military performance in Ukraine has become a global embarrassment. President Vladimir Putin’s new plan to ship thousands of barely-trained Russian civilians to the front lines is a sign that his army is taking a beating. Western military analysts are astonished at the incompetence of a military they once considered fearsome. The decision could even bring down Putin himself. Yet Russia remains far from beaten. Putin’s recent moves are likely to prolong the war and intensify the… Source link

Rookie running backs typically start putting some gaps between themselves and their teammates in the middle to back half of their first seasons. Breece Hall is a good candidate to do that. There is some concern in the fantasy space about Zach Wilson’s return to the lineup removing check-downs from the Jets passing tree. That might be true. Wilson didn’t dump the ball off to backs much as a rookie. However, Hall’s receiving usage isn’t like that of a typical running back. Hall leads… Source link

U.S. stocks struggled to find their footing in choppy trading Friday after a vicious sell-off that sent the S&P 500 to lows not seen since 2020. The bellwether index hovered around the flatline, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average sank 120 points, or 0.4%. The technology-focused Nasdaq Composite gained 0.3%. Investors will close out a brutal month and quarter on Friday. The S&P 500’s 2.1% drop on Thursday marked its 49th decline of 1% or more this year, marking the most downside… Source link

SANTA BARBARA, California — It took a midseason game on the road in 2018 against the Toronto Raptors for Portland Trail Blazers star guard Damian Lillard to realize he had a chance to chase history. After the contest, former Trail Blazers head coach Terry Stotts awarded Lillard with the game ball along with a message. Stotts thanked him for being a special player on and off the court while congratulating him on being the fastest player in franchise history to reach 10,000 points. “I was… Source link

Blake Griffin reportedly will sign a one-year deal with the Boston Celtics. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images) In the wake of injuries to Robert Williams III and Danilo Gallinari, the Boston Celtics will sign six-time NBA All-Star Blake Griffin to a one-year, $2.7 million veteran minimum contract, per ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Playing mostly as a small-ball center off the bench, the injury-plagued Griffin averaged 6.4 points (43/26/72 shooting splits), 4.1 rebounds and 1.9… Source link

Baseball’s best are jockeying for position in the sport’s second season — the mayhem of October. The rest of MLB’s clubs are looking back at what went wrong. In a sport where transactions and roster decisions provide clear expectations, we have separated out the rebuilding teams from the ones who entered 2022 expecting to be setting playoff rotations, not vacation plans. We ranked the success of 2022’s rebuilders earlier this week, and now it’s time to flip things over and assess… Source link

Fantasy football sit-and-start advice should always be relative and league-dependent. Note that some players are targeted for DFS. Good luck with your Week 4 lineups! Sit: Kirk Cousins Start: Chris Olave Cousins isn’t a bad start this week, but you may have better alternatives (Marcus Mariota, Geno Smith — more on both later) given his matchup’s low total against a Saints defense that’s allowed just 191.1 passing yards per game, an NFL-low two passing scores and the 10th fewest fantasy… Source link

The Vanderbilt men’s golf team has been nearly unbeatable in stroke play since the start of the 2022 spring season. That hot streak has continued into the fall. At the SEC fall event, Vanderbilt shot 39 under, beating second-place Tennessee by four strokes. Since the spring, the Commodores are 135-1-2 in stroke play. Vanderbilt’s Matthew Riedel took home the individual title at 13-under 197, beating a trio of golfers by one shot. Mississippi State’s Garrett Endicott, Tennessee’s Jake… Source link

Longtime Puma Golf ambassador Rickie Fowler has teamed up with world-renowned DJ Kygo and his apparel brand Palm Tree Crew to deliver a Summer-inspired collection. The idea behind this collaboration was to encourage every type of dreamer to feel closer to the feeling of achieving their goals in cool and comfortable gear. Kygo and Rickie Fowler perform on polar opposite stages, but the adrenaline of doing what you love in front of fans is similar. Each piece includes a palm tree graphic that… Source link