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Video review came to soccer promising to overturn clear and obvious errors. It was a safety net for referees, and that, we were told, was the extent of its domain. Video assistants would not re-referee the game; VAR was, in theory, a new-age mechanism to undo controversy and better the sport. But half a decade later, as West Ham furiously alleged on Saturday, it is not doing any of that. Or, rather, it is doing far too much. VAR’s biggest fault has been overstepping its bounds, as it did at… Source link

On a recent episode of Influencers with Yahoo Finance’s Editor-in-Chief, Andy Serwer, Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records explained how he signed some of the world’s most successful stars. “You have an instinct really, of how you feel basically what they are like, and you get a feel for them,” Blackwell told Yahoo Finance. Blackwell, who recently released a memoir called “The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond,” grew up in Jamaica, where he developed a lifelong… Source link

The sports world on Friday night was centered on the women’s U.S. Open where tennis legend Serena Williams was playing in her final match. She has had one amazing career and everybody wanted to see what she would do in Queens. Brooklyn Nets star Ben Simmons was in attendance for Williams’ final tennis match and he was shown on the jumbotron at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center. Considering that it’s New York, one might have assumed that he would get some love and cheers from… Source link

South Carolina women’s head basketball coach Dawn Staley announced the Gamecocks won’t face BYU in a home-and-home series that was scheduled to start this year. A Black female Duke volleyball player accused BYU home spectators of shouting racial slurs at her during a match last week. “As a head coach, my job is to do what’s best for my players and staff,” Staley said in a statement Friday night. “The incident at BYU has led me to reevaluate our home-and-home, and I don’t feel that this… Source link

The S&P 500’s decline this year—it’s down nearly 18% since January—accelerated last week after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell indicated more “pain” was ahead. Has the market hit bottom? Bank of America Research, based on its new list of 10 signals showing whether the stock market has hit bottom, says no. View this interactive chart on Fortune.com The bank came up with the list, released on Friday, after analyzing “macro and bottom-up data encompassing policy, valuation,… Source link

This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. A lot of people are going to be focused on college football Saturday. Hey, I’m going to be checking it out as well. But don’t forget about MLB. There are nine games on the slate for the DFS contests. Here are my lineup recommendations. Get your rosters in, watch some football and baseball, and hopefully cash in with some DFS success! Pitching Max Scherzer, NYM vs. WAS ($56): You aren’t exactly saving salary here, but it’s hard not… Source link

2008 all over again? BofA just launched a test of zero-down-payment, zero-closing cost mortgages for minority communities A major American bank has launched a new program to help first-time minority buyers finance a home purchase with no down payment or closing costs. It’s a boon to buyers at a time when rising interest rates and low home inventory have stacked the deck against them. It’s also the latest response to longstanding criticism that banks favored white borrowers. Bank of… Source link

Ajla Tomljanovic beat Serena Williams in a thrilling three-hour battle on Friday night at the US Open. (Al Bello/Getty Images) Serena Williams, the icon, the legend, the GOAT, has lost in the third round round of the US Open, marking her final match as a professional tennis player. Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic beat Williams on Friday night in a thrilling battle, 7-5, 6-7 (7-4), 6-1, at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The three-hour match had a wild, lengthy comeback that ended with a heated tiebreak in… Source link

Halftime during Virginia Tech’s visit to Old Dominion lasted over 30 minutes because Tech’s coaching staff couldn’t get back to their coaching box. The Hokies coaches got stuck in an elevator at Old Dominion’s S.B. Ballard Stadium while coming back from the locker room after halftime. With no coaches in the box, the game had to be delayed until they got out of the elevator. The delay lasted just over 15 minutes. Players had walked onto the field to prep for the second half as normal and were… Source link

President Biden’s fiery speech in Philadelphia denouncing former President Donald Trump and what he described as “extreme MAGA ideology” has sparked online calls for violence, including death threats against the president, according to documents obtained by Yahoo News. Biden’s remarks also prompted immediate concerns from senior counterterrorism officials who said they fear that calling Trump supporters extremists would be viewed as a call to arms and would only inflame an already Source link