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For those of you still competing in fantasy leagues through Week 18, below you’ll find a collection of recommended pickups. Obviously, fantasy football seems particularly inconsequential right now. Our thoughts are still very much with Buffalo’s Damar Hamlin as well as his family, friends and teammates. Everything else related to football (and certainly to fantasy) is far less important today. Wide Receivers and Tight Ends Treylon Burks, WR, Tennessee Titans (42 percent rostered) Tennessee ran… Source link

For Mel Ligon and his wife, remnants of the 2008 housing crisis kept them from realizing major savings from refinancing their Chicago home during the pandemic refi boom. They had a deferred principal placed on their home during the Great Recession when they used a government program to refinance after their household income dropped by half. About a decade later, that prevented them from benefiting from the historically low mortgage rates. “Even when homes started to recover, we have this… Source link

LAS VEGAS: In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters. Nothing seemed to faze him as he doggedly went about his work. So German characteristically didn’t express concern when Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, a virtually unknown… Source link

With the second half of the NBA season starting this week, Joel Embiid insists he has put the Ben Simmons saga behind him. “I did a lot of chasing around trying to get him back and try to make him feel comfortable again,” Embiid told ESPN’s Malika Andrews on Tuesday of his former teammate. “It was tough. “I didn’t care anymore.” Simmons was involved in a messy exit from Philadelphia after he requested a trade and then sat out for months while racking up fines and refusing to play…. Source link

ATLANTA — On Saturday night, as the city of Atlanta sat transfixed by Alabama’s throttling of Georgia in the SEC title game, a titan of a previous generation of college football plotted a long game of catch-up to that caliber of stage. A few miles from the Mercedes Benz Dome, University of Miami officials met with Clemson athletic director Dan Radakovich about becoming the school’s next AD. While plotting that move, they’d already begun feverishly and clumsily putting together an… 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 Wednesday, August 25, 2021 S&P 500 targets are rising left and right The calendar today reads August 25, but it’s starting to feel like the year is over.  Starbucks (SBUX) unleashed its Pumpkin Spice Latte on the masses Monday; the chain’s holiday-themed cups are now right around the corner. And Wall Street strategists have been issuing revised… Source link