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This article is part of our Yahoo DFS Baseball series. Friday’s packed schedule across baseball includes several exciting starting pitchers scheduled to take the mound. The first game of the evening features Rays’ phenom Shane McClanahan starting against the Reds. As the evening moves along, Pablo Lopez and Chris Bassitt will face off when the Mets host the Marlins. Runs could also be difficult to come by in the Phillies and Cardinals game when Zack Wheeler starts against Adam… Source link

U.S. SPR release were exported to Europe and Asia last month, including top US geopolitical nemesis in the global arena, China, even as U.S. gasoline and diesel prices hit record highs. The export of crude and fuel is blunting the impact of the moves by U.S. President Joe Biden to lower record pump prices. In a call, Biden on Saturday renewed a call for gasoline suppliers to cut their prices, drawing rightful criticism from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, because going after mom and pop gas stores… Source link

LAS VEGAS — It had been eight months and 20 days since Shaedon Sharpe played in a competitive basketball game. Sharpe was the No. 1 player coming out high school, joined Kentucky for the second semester and didn’t play a single game. He was the biggest mystery in the 2022 NBA draft and despite his long hiatus from the court, the Portland Trail Blazers selected Sharpe with the seventh overall pick. “After not playing for so long, I’m just looking forward to playing and competing at the… Source link

(Warning: This story contains allegations of sexual misconduct.) Vince McMahon, the longtime CEO of WWE who stepped down in June, paid four women at least $12 million total over the past 16 years to hide numerous allegations of sexual misconduct, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. McMahon was also being investigated by the WWE’s board after was discovered in April he paid $3 million to cover up an affair with a former employee. This new report indicates McMahon covered up… Source link

Stocks opened Friday’s trading session lower after the June jobs report topped expectations. The US economy created 372,000 jobs in June while the unemployment rate held steady at 3.6% last month, data published Friday morning showed. Following this report, stocks fell with the Nasdaq losing 1% at the market open, the benchmark S&P 500 down about 0.5%, and the Dow off around 0.2%. Treasury yields were higher following this report, with two-year yields rising to 3.13%, further inverting the… Source link

The U.S. labor market remained a bright spot in the economy last month despite mounting talks of a recession, data from the Labor Department showed Friday. Here are the key numbers from Friday’s report: Non-farm payrolls: +372,000 vs. +268,000 expected and a revised +384,000 in May Unemployment rate: 3.6% vs. 3.6% expected and 3.6% in May Average hourly earnings, month-over-month: +0.3% vs. +0.3% expected and a revised +0.4% in May Average hourly earnings, year-over-year: +5.1% vs. +5.0%… Source link

Safe-T Group Ltd. The New Desktop Privacy Solution Prevents a User’s Personal Data, Online Activity and History from Being Accessed or Monitored by Internet Service Providers, Advertisers and Third Parties HERZLIYA, Israel, July 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Safe-T Group Ltd. (Nasdaq: SFET) (TASE: SFET) (“Safe-T” or the “Company”), a global provider of cyber-security and privacy solutions for consumers and enterprises, today announced its entrance into the home computer market with… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Friday, July 8, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. One of the biggest bulls on Wall Street has finally pared back their optimism for the rest of this year. In a note to clients published Thursday, Oppenheimer Asset Management Chief Investment… Source link

Sophia Smith (left) scored two goals in the USWNT’s rout of Jamaica at the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship. (Photo by Jaime Lopez/Jam Media/Getty Images) Nine months before the 2019 U.S. women’s national team conquered all comers, it was already a finished product. It hadn’t yet clinched a spot at the World Cup it would eventually win, but the 11 players who opened a breezy qualifying campaign on Oct. 4, 2018, became the core that triumphed the following summer. Of the 11, 10 started the… Source link

Chris Sale wants you to know that he knows that he “acted like an idiot.” He also wants you to know that it’s the camera’s fault that he made headlines on Thursday. The Boston Red Sox hurler hasn’t thrown a major-league pitch since 2021. But he’s almost ready to return from a long-term stint on the injured list with various injuries including a fractured rib. Part of the process included a Wednesday rehab start with Triple-A Worcester Red Sox. It did not go as planned. Sale was pulled after a… Source link