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Jamahal Hill made quick work of Johnny Walker on Saturday at UFC Vegas 48. (Photo by Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC) LAS VEGAS — Jamahal Hill’s nickname is “Sweet Dreams,” but it was Johnny Walker who took a very violent nap on Saturday at UFC Vegas 48 inside the Apex. Hill caught Walker with a crushing right hand to the temple that beat Walker’s jab to the mark. Walker did a dead fall backward, but Hill was so quick, he got to Walker before the referee. Hill landed another right to the chin… Source link

Charley Taylor was an offensive threat wherever he got the ball. (Getty Images) Charley Taylor, the Washington Commanders Hall of Famer who retired as the NFL’s all-time leading receiver, died Saturday, the team announced. He was 80 years old. Taylor played his entire career in Washington, accruing eight Pro Bowl nods, two NFL receptions titles and the 1964 Rookie of the Year Award. He retired with not only 9,110 career receiving yards, most in NFL history at that point, but also 1,488 rushing… Source link

CLEVELAND — Perhaps no player can make a bigger jump in profile over the next three months than Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine. He’s a two-time All-Star and for the first time in his career, on a bona fide playoff team with aspirations on making noise beyond the first round. He and DeMar DeRozan rank as one of the league’s best duos, a deadly perimeter 1-2 punch that will create matchup problems across the board. And he’ll be a free agent in July — an unrestricted free agent. A big… Source link

Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III didn’t play a single down in Super Bowl LVI, but he has still managed to pick up a penalty and now a fine from the game. The NFL is docking Hargreaves $5,555 for his now-infamous penalty in which he joined a Bengals interception in street clothes, according to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. Hargreaves, announced as inactive before the game, was called for unsportsmanlike conduct. The penalty was called near the end of of the first half, when Los… Source link

Less than a week after winning a Super Bowl and quickly returning to retirement, Eric Weddle has his next job lined up. Rancho Bernardo High School in San Diego announced Saturday that outgoing football head coach Tristan McCoy will be replaced by the longtime NFL safety. The announcement via Facebook: It’s official! The 2022 football season will be coach McCoy’s last as the RBHS head coach. Coach McCoy has led the Broncos’ football program the past 11 seasons, and built a reputation of… Source link

With the Super Bowl and Valentine’s Day both in the rearview mirror, that can only mean one thing: the NCAA tournament is almost here. Twenty-two days before Selection Sunday, the NCAA men’s basketball selection committee shared a snapshot of its top 16 teams. Here is the partial bracket that the committee unveiled on Saturday afternoon and four key takeaways. 1. GONZAGA, NOT ARIZONA, IS NO. 1 IN THE WEST Glance at the resumés of Gonzaga and Arizona, and it’s not easy to tell them… Source link

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has responded to Elon Musk’s . In a letter it filed on Friday with a New York federal judge, the SEC said its frequent check-ins with Tesla were consistent with expectations from the court overseeing the company’s 2018 settlement. At the time, Tesla had agreed its lawyers would preclear some of Musk’s tweets after one of his messages drew the attention of the SEC. The specific saw Musk say that he had “funding secured” to take Tesla private… Source link

Getty; Marianne Ayala/Insider Barry McCarthy became Peloton’s CEO this month, replacing John Foley amid months of company turmoil. In a New York Times interview on Saturday, McCarthy explained what went wrong at Peloton. “They spent money on things that they shouldn’t have,” he said. “They got caught up in the vision thing at the expense of getting real.” Barry McCarthy has a lot on his plate as Peloton’s new CEO. Peloton, a pandemic-era darling with a cult following, once boasted a valuation of… Source link

Being an Olympic athlete can lead to a lucrative career — if you’re able to leverage glory into sponsorships. “While the income of these athletes is paltry in comparison to even the league minimum of football, baseball, whatever, the percentage of their income that is incident to marketing and dependent upon public relations is dramatically higher,” Octagon’s Olympics and Action Sports Managing Director Peter Carlise told Yahoo Finance. “The only source of income for most Olympic… Source link

Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger provided new perspective on how the role of local newspapers and traditional newsrooms are increasingly being replaced by untrustworthy voices. “We are going to miss these newspapers terribly,” Munger said at the Daily Journal’s annual shareholders meeting on Wednesday. “Each newspaper… was an independent bastion of power. The economic position was so impregnable… and the ethos of a journalist was to try to tell it like it is. And they… Source link