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Dwight Howard already has his sights set on his post-NBA career. Howard, a current free agent who spent the last season with the Los Angeles Lakers, was seen at WWE tryouts in Nashville, Tennessee, this week. He also told reporter Arash Markazi that participating in the WWE is something he wants in his future after he’s done playing basketball. “I think it is something that’s in my future. I love the WWE. I love wrestling,” Howard said. “Hopefully one day in the future, I’ll actually be in the… Source link

Charles Barkley won’t leave TNT after all. The NBA Hall of Famer turned broadcaster publicly flirted with joining LIV Golf the past few weeks, but decided to pass on the opportunity, according to the New York Post. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] LIV Golf was reportedly looking to hire Barkley as a broadcaster. Barkley met with Greg Norman to discuss the role and even played in the pro-am before an LIV event Thursday. At that event, Barkley said he was still… Source link

More people are toasting with tequila, according to alcohol-delivery company Drizly’s customer base. “Tequila is the big winner here and the type of alcohol people are drinking at home,” Drizly CEO Corey Rellas told Yahoo Finance (video above) about COVID-19 era trends that have stuck around. At-home cocktail making “reset” with COVID, Rellas said, “as more and more people started to embrace cocktail culture, wanting to try new things at home when [they] didn’t have access to the bar.” The… Source link

Kyler Murray’s “independent study” clause is no more. The Arizona Cardinals removed the clause in Murray’s contract that required him to watch film each week, the team announced Thursday night. [Set, hut, hike! Create or join a fantasy football league now!] The move, which came after harsh criticism from the quarterback and others, was done after the team realized “the distraction it created.” “After seeing the distraction it created, we removed the addendum from the contract,”… Source link

Bob Dylan – Credit: AP The highly disputed lawsuit claiming Bob Dylan sexually abused a 12-year-old girl in New York in 1965 has been “withdrawn” by the accuser, lawyers for the singer-songwriter said Thursday. The dismissal came just days after the 69-year-old accuser, identified in the lawsuit as J.C., fired her lawyers amid key discovery deadlines in the case. More from Rolling Stone The original lawsuit, filed last August, claimed Dylan “befriended” the accuser and gained her trust… Source link

On Wednesday afternoon, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the U.S. had offered Russia a “substantial proposal” aimed at securing the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and former Marine Paul Whelan. Now the question is whether it will be enough to bring the two jailed Americans home. Will the Russians accept a 2-for-1 trade for a notorious arms trafficker who for years has been atop the Kremlin’s prisoner exchange wish list? Or will they seek to extract more concessions… Source link

When Jack Sweeney refused a $5,000 offer from Elon Musk to stop tweeting about the billionaire’s private jet activity, he didn’t know how fast his flight-tracking endeavor would scale. Now, the 19-year-old University of Central Florida sophomore has 30 accounts and a new target: the flight paths of private jets belonging to celebrities and the polluting carbon emissions their trips rack up. Earlier this month, Sweeney’s brainchild, the @CelebJets automated Twitter account, revealed a Source link

The New Orleans Pelicans want Zion Williamson around for a while, but only on one big condition. The Pelicans star signed a five-year, $193 million max contract earlier this month that could be worth as much as $231 million. According to The Times-Picayune, the contract stipulates that Williamson must weigh in at below 295 pounds periodically throughout the deal. His body fat percentage will also be monitored. Should Williamson tip the scales too much, the amount of guaranteed money in his… Source link

The news on Thursday that gross domestic product (GDP) contracted for two straight quarters intensified fears the U.S. is entering a recession. Earlier this week, former Home Depot CEO Bob Nardelli suggested the country has indeed fallen into a recession — albeit an unusual one. In a wide-ranging interview for Yahoo Finance’s “Influencers with Andy Serwer,” Nardelli contended that the U.S. is still experiencing a downturn even though consumer spending has remained relatively high. “I’ve said… Source link

For 11 long and emotional minutes, Kyler Murray stood at a podium Thursday and defended himself and his work ethic as an athlete. You couldn’t blame him. Earlier this week, an addendum in his recently agreed upon $230 million contract ($160 million guaranteed) with the Arizona Cardinals was made public. It required Murray complete four hours of “independent study” during the week before each game. This is in addition to studying with coaches and teammates. It required Murray to… Source link