August 18 has become embossed in the mind of Ole Miss quarterback Matt Corral, now as important as his birthday, his parents’ anniversary or any almost other single day on the calendar. It’s the day more than two years ago when Corral said everything changed for him and helped set him on a course that has made him a top 2022 NFL draft prospect. It was not a banner day in practice, a position battle won on the field, or even a fun day out with his buddies. It was the day Corral said he… Source link
Read More »You can’t force owners to put wins over money
You can’t legislate wanting to win. And you can’t mandate recklessness. That’s the problem with the negotiations that may eventually end the MLB lockout. Well, one of them anyway. The first problem is the owners’ ideological resistance to yielding economic influence to the players. Then there’s the vast disparity in the money numbers. That’s a big one. But even if they could overcome those and reach a mutually tolerable compromise, I’m not confident that a new CBA would have the… Source link
Read More »How the Canadian trucker blockade is straining the auto industry: Expert
After six days, truckers protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates have ended a blockade at the busiest U.S.-Canada border crossing. Although the blockade at Ambassador Bridge may be over, Bernard Swiecki, research director at the Center for Automotive Research (CAR), believes that it may have significant implications for supply chains and the auto industry. “Normally, when you have a supply chain disruption like this was, essentially, you can get a lot of it back by building vehicles on… Source link
Read More »Adam Silver says in-season tournament ‘moving closer’
Last year’s 72-game season was created out of COVID-19 necessity, but it seemed to confirm Adam Silver’s belief about changing the regular season model and integrating an in-season tournament. “It was far from a perfect experiment,” Silver said during an interview with Yahoo Sports on a variety of topics in the days leading to All-Star weekend in Cleveland. “[But] the fact there were fewer games was quickly forgotten.” Silver corrected himself to not put an exact approximation on… Source link
Read More »Stock market news live updates: February 17, 2022
U.S. stock futures were little changed in after-hours trading Wednesday following a turbulent earlier session that saw Wall Street’s main indexes claw back from daytime lows after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s latest meeting minutes came in clear of any mention the central bank would authorize a 50 basis point rate hike in March. Futures tied to the S&P 500, Dow Jones Industrial Average, and Nasdaq Composite were mostly flat heading into the overnight session after recovering some… Source link
Read More »Drafting the best fantasy squad from NBA’s 75th anniversary team
Yahoo Sports fantasy analyst Andy Behrens and Yahoo Sports senior NBA writer Vincent Goodwill break down their selections of competing fantasy rosters from the NBA’s 75th anniversary team, choosing specific seasons for each player to build the ultimate fantasy basketball squad. Video Transcript [THEME MUSIC] ANDY BEHRENS: Welcome to a special “Yahoo Fantasy Draft” of the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team. I’m Andy Behrens, “Yahoo Fantasy” analyst, here with Vincent Goodwill. He is Yahoo’s Senior NBA… Source link
Read More »Move men’s hockey to Summer Games
The Olympics have a men’s hockey problem. It isn’t very good. That is said with all due respect to the former NHLers, career Euro leaguers and college kids who play as hard and as well as they possibly can to represent their countries. This isn’t even their fault. Part of the low quality of play stems from the fact these guys were thrown together on makeshift teams, given about three practices and told to hit the global stage. The IOC, true to its well-established arrogance, has always taken the… Source link
Read More »Google’s ‘smart canvas’ vision for Workspace is bringing a pageless interface to Docs
During Google’s I/O event last year, the company laid out plans to significantly revamp the look and feel of its Workspace cloud apps (they were called G Suite until a 2020 name change). That includes a new look for Gmail that’s starting to roll out this month, search chips (you can just call them filters) for Google Drive, and a set of changes that are about to arrive for Google Docs and Google Sheets. The theme of this approach is called “smart canvas.” It takes some hints from… Source link
Read More »Why sports betting is a low-margin business
As the U.S. commercial gaming industry drew record-breaking revenue in 2021, sports betting, the industry’s latest entrant, contributed impressive growth yet drastically lower margins than traditional gaming. Last year, according to the American Gaming Association, the overall gaming industry captured $53 billion in revenue from legal gambling operations, while revenue from the budding sports betting sector from companies like Caesars Entertainment (CZR), FanDuel, DraftKings (DKNG), and… Source link
Read More »We are never going back to a five-day work week in the office
Will we ever return to a five-day in-office work week? Charlie Munger doesn’t think so. Even as COVD-19 restrictions ease across the U.S. and employers call on workers to resume in-person workdays, the famed investor said Wednesday during The Daily Journal’s annual shareholders meeting that he does not expect white-collar employees will ever return to in-person work full-time again. “It’s amazing the percentage of people in computer science that don’t want to be in the office for a… Source link
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