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Shawn Barber, Canadian world champion pole vaulter, dies at age 29 Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]NBA playoff predictions: Every series winner, Finals champion, who has the most at stake and what coaches are on the hot seat  Yahoo Sports Source link

Chinese internet company Baidu is readying the launch of its own artificial-intelligence-powered chatbot, similar to ChatGPT, according to reports.  Baidu (ticker: BIDU) plans to integrate the chatbot into its main search engine in March, as well as making an independent website for users to access the tool, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar… Source link

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has caused a tsunami of M&A deals as Russia’s private companies scramble to restructure their businesses to account for tectonic changes in the business landscape. It has cost everyone a lot of money as owners have been forced to sell off businesses exposed to sanctions or in many cases the leading lights of Russian industry has been forced… Source link

When Chad Dawson first got the call to serve as a sparring partner for Jake Paul, he was skeptical. Dawson is a fighter’s fighter. He was once a mainstay on pound-for-pound lists, had two stints as light heavyweight champion, fought the best of his era and has two wins each over Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver, and single victories over Bernard Hopkins, Tomasz Adamek and Eric Harding, among others. He was vaguely aware of what Paul, the social media star, was doing in boxing because it was… Source link

ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Mike Tomlin on Steelers: “Where we are today, not good” The Steelers are 1-4, and they’ve lost four in a row. On Sunday, they were blown off the field by the Bills, 38-3. After the loss, coach Mike Tomlin summarized the current state of the team. “No need to really sugarcoat it, man,” Tomlin told reporters. “We got handled today. We got handled by a [more] Source link

The NFL season is finally here. The Los Angeles Rams and Buffalo Bills kick it off Thursday night at SoFi Stadium in perhaps the best opening-night game we have ever seen. It’s a great setting: the reigning Super Bowl champs trying to turn back the team that is favored to win it all this season. That is the beginning of a glorious 18-week march to the postseason. The season ends next Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, with Super Bowl LVII. Our Yahoo Sports NFL team made our… Source link

British Open champion Cameron Smith has signed a $100 million deal to join LIV Golf, The Telegraph reports. Smith declined to address the report when asked about it Tuesday afternoon. The reported signing marks another significant win for the controversial Saudi-backed golf league as it secures the services of a reigning major champion and one of the game’s rising stars. Smith, 28, is a six-time winner on the PGA Tour. The Australian is less than four weeks removed from securing the British… Source link

Though the comparisons to Manny Pacquiao are inevitable, Mark Magsayo (L) is out to chart his own course in boxing. (AP Photo/John Locher) Mark Magsayo is the first one to quash the comparisons. He’s Filipino, he boxes, he can punch and he’s strung together a long winning streak. But Magsayo, who defends his WBC featherweight title against Rey Vargas on Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, doesn’t need a positive comparison with Manny Pacquiao from anyone in order to make himself… Source link

Free agent forward Juan Toscano-Anderson — who just won a championship with the Golden State Warriors — has reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent Erika Ruiz of Klutch Sports told Yahoo Sports. Toscano-Anderson spent the past three seasons with the Warriors and played 73 games this season, averaging 4.1 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. He is a career 4.8 points-per-game scorer and emerged as a regular bench option for the Warriors, playing only 66 games in his first… Source link