“The Boss” is cashing in — and that could have big implications for the music business. This week, Bruce Springsteen sold both his master recordings and publishing rights to Sony Music in a deal worth north of $500 million, according to multiple outlets. Sony Music and Springsteen did not immediately respond to Yahoo Finance’s request for comment. Sony has been Springsteen’s home for the past five decades. Thanks to this deal, the studio will now have full ownership of the rocker’s entire… Source link
Read More »Here’s the lowdown on COVID-19 tests right now
COVID-19 is back and so is testing. (Double ugh.) The COVID surge has us scrambling plans for holiday parties, travel to grandma’s house and return to office. It’s also creating a mad rush for COVID tests. Welcome (back) to our onerous new reality, with vaccine mandates, masks requirements and testing protocols. And with testing comes the oh-so familiar questions: When were you tested? Where? Which kind of test? I was thinking about the sheer volume of human, never mind economic activity… Source link
Read More »Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) Short Interest Down 26.6% in November
Yandex (NASDAQ:YNDX) was the target of a large drop in short interest during the month of November. As of November 30th, there was short interest totalling 5,570,000 shares, a drop of 26.6% from the November 15th total of 7,590,000 shares. Currently, 1.9% of the company’s stock are short sold. Based on an average daily volume of 1,470,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.8 days. Shares of Yandex stock opened at $62.18 on Friday. Yandex has a one year low of $58.91 and a one… Source link
Read More »Yahoo DFS Basketball: Saturday Picks
COVID has been wreaking havoc on our country for over 18 months, and it’s obliterating the NBA right now. It feels like 10 different players get put in COVID protocols every day, making it tough to figure out what these rotations will look like. The only bit of good news about it is that it opens up some value for some cheaper guys, making DFS lineups a little easier to fill out. We certainly have some of our recommendations stepping into more prominent roles, so let’s go ahead and get into… Source link
Read More »Anthony Davis leaves Lakers loss early with knee injury
Friday night was a tough one for Anthony Davis. The Los Angeles Lakers star, after rolling his ankle early in the night at the Target Center, left L.A.’s 110-92 loss to the Minnesota Timberwolves early after suffering a left knee contusion. Then as he walked to the locker room, Davis collapsed in pain in the tunnel. Anthony Davis leaves early with knee contusion Davis caught a pass from LeBron James at the top of the key in the third quarter and immediately went to send it back to him. As Davis… Source link
Read More »Tiger Woods won’t use cart to play on PGA Tour after crash
Tiger Woods is riding in a cart this week at the PNC Championship, which marks his first time back out on the course after his February car crash. Though this week is different — Woods is playing alongside his son, Charlie, in the modified 20-team, two-person event in Orlando — Woods insisted that he’d never request a golf cart to compete in an official PGA Tour event. “No, absolutely not. Not for a PGA Tour event, no,” Woods said Friday, . “That’s just not who I am. That’s not… Source link
Read More »Kyrie Irving’s return is sacrificing safety, sanity
Make it make sense. The NBA is going through a wave of COVID-19 diagnoses, even among the vaccinated and perhaps the boosted, and the Brooklyn Nets decide to kowtow to Kyrie Irving? On some level, maybe it does. Players of all levels are testing positive, so what’s the harm in bringing in a healthy body for road games, to help out the overworked Kevin Durant even in a pinch? The harm, aside from common sense, science and everything believed to be true about teams with championship… Source link
Read More »Ohio Dept. of Education confirms Bishop Sycamore was a scam
Remember Bishop Sycamore? The high school football team no one had heard of that lost 58-0 to IMG Academy in a game that was somehow broadcast on ESPN? The game took place in Canton, Ohio, in August, and on Friday, the Ohio Department of Education released the report from its monthslong investigation of the school. Turns out it’s not a school at all. In the 41-page report, investigators determined that Bishop Sycamore “is not a school as it purports on paper to be.” They couldn’t confirm… Source link
Read More »Magic’s Wendell Carter Jr. helped off after knee injury vs. Heat
Orlando Magic center Wendell Carter Jr. was taken off the court in a wheelchair after suffering what looked like a serious right knee injury in their 115-105 loss to the Miami Heat on Friday night. Carter, less than a minute into the second quarter at the Amway Center, set a screen on Heat guard Max Strus at the top of the key. As he took one step with his right leg to roll to the hoop, Carter immediately grabbed his right knee and started hopping while yelling out in pain. Carter hopped under… Source link
Read More »Rams, WFT and Browns avoided forfeits
As COVID-19 surged through the NFL this week and forced the rescheduling of three games, multiple sources involved in talks between the league office and NFL Players Association told Yahoo Sports that three teams were on the verge of having to forfeit Week 15: The Cleveland Browns, Los Angeles Rams and Washington Football Team. It was a staggering reality that began to sink in for the league and players union by Thursday, pushing the two sides into a rescheduling negotiation that the NFL was… Source link
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