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No matter what sport you pick, whether it be individual sports like fighting, golf and track or team sports like football, baseball, basketball and hockey, the vast majority of athletes at the professional level are so gifted that the mere mortals among us can’t comprehend it. None of us will hit a golf ball like Tiger Woods or a baseball like Mike Trout, throw a pass like Tom Brady or engage in a jaw-dropping slugfest like Gilbert Burns and Khamzat Chimaev did on Saturday at UFC 273. And… Source link

Elon Musk offered to buy Twitter (TWTR) for $54.20 per share in a filing made public Thursday, calling it his “best and final offer.” But the Tesla (TSLA) CEO will have to reconsider that offer if he’s serious about taking over the social media company, according to one analyst. “No one believes this is the final price. No board in America is going to take that number,” said Jefferies analyst Brent Thill. Twitter shares jumped 4% on news of the all-cash offer, before falling in the… Source link

There were countless stories out of the Jacksonville Jaguars surrounding Urban Meyer’s disastrous tenure, but perhaps the most fascinating was the tidbit that Meyer didn’t know who Aaron Donald was. Most anyone with an interest in pro football knows Donald, the Los Angeles Rams star defensive tackle who has an argument as the best player in all of football. It’s mind-blowing to think an NFL head coach didn’t know him. A report from The Athletic in March, citing a source, said Meyer asked a… Source link

U.S. stocks resumed losses on Thursday after a rally in the previous session on hopes for an earnings season boost to markets. Investors are digesting a flurry of mixed quarterly reports from Wells Fargo (WFC), Goldman Sachs (GS), Morgan Stanley (MS), and Citigroup (C). The S&P 500 fell 0.9%, heading towards another week of losses. The Dow Jones Industrial Average retreated from a slight advance earlier in the session to hover below the flatline. The Nasdaq Composite tumbled 1.7%, reversing… Source link

Many potential fantasy waiver wire gems emerge during the initial weeks of every season. This year, I constantly see recommendations to pick up the likes of Steven Kwan, Tylor Megill, Jesus Luzardo and many other players who started the season on waivers in most leagues before producing inspiring April statistics. Unfortunately, rosters don’t grow in size after Opening Day, and every addition means that someone needs to go. Based on early season numbers, here are some commonly-rostered… Source link

Elon Musk’s big bid to buy all of Twitter has probably awakened numerous executives inside of Google and Meta, said tech titan and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban. “Every major tech company, Google, fb, et al is on the phone with their anti trust lawyers asking if they can buy Twitter and get it approved. And Twitter is on the phone with their lawyers asking which can be their white knight. Gonna be interesting,” Cuban said in a new tweet on Thursday. Yahoo Finance reached out to Mark Cuban… Source link

U.S. jobless claims held near multi-decade lows last week as companies worked to keep employees on their payrolls amid ongoing labor shortages. The Labor Department released its latest weekly jobless claims report Thursday at 8:30 a.m. ET. Here were the main metrics from the print compared to consensus estimates compiled by Bloomberg: Initial jobless claims, week ended April 9: 185,000 vs. 170,000 expected and a revised 167,000 during prior week Continuing claims, week ended April 2: 1.475… Source link

Elon Musk is sort of becoming like billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn. The Tesla CEO, who has a 9.2% stake in Twitter, offered to buy the social media platform for $54.20 a share on Thursday. Here is what Musk wrote in a letter to Twitter Chairman Bret Taylor, as disclosed in a new SEC filing. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe, and I believe free speech is a societal imperative for a functioning democracy. However,… 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 Thursday, April 14, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Jared Blikre, a reporter focused on the markets on Yahoo Finance. Follow him @SPYJared First quarter earnings are trickling in with mixed results. JPMorgan Chase expressed a more cautious outlook on borrowers Wednesday and finished the day down 3.2% to its lowest level since January 2021, while… Source link

Clayton Kershaw looked jovial in the Los Angeles Dodgers dugout, slapping backs and shaking hands. The scoreboard showed it was the eighth inning, and zeros remained in every slot except errors for the Minnesota Twins, but Alex Vesia was taking the mound. A bid for MLB’s first perfect game since 2012 was abandoned. By the time many heard that a living legend was throwing a perfect game on a Wednesday afternoon, Kershaw was done throwing anything at all. If you scrambled to a television or… Source link