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The Week 1 daily fantasy main slate begins Sunday at 1:00 p.m. EDT and features 14 games, as the entire league will be in action sans the Thursday Night Football (Rams-Bills) and Monday Night Football (Broncos-Seahawks) participants. Yahoo will be running plenty of NFL DFS contests for Week 1, but the biggest is the Sunday Baller, which pays out a guaranteed prize pool of $500,000 to the top 10,000 finishers, including $100,000 to the winner. You can submit up to 150 entries into this… Source link

STUART, Florida – A Martin County High School student’s artwork – a drawing of her hugging her mother – is now displayed on Google’s homepage for hundreds of millions to see. Sophie Araque-Liu, a 16-year-old senior from Stuart, Florida, won this year’s Doodle for Google contest, an annual competition for K-12 students to create their own versions of the Google logo. A nominee was selected from each state and U.S. territory, and a panel of judges determined the winner. Araque-Liu… Source link

The 2022 WNBA All-Star Game is this weekend at Wintrust Arena in Chicago, home of the 2021 champion Chicago Sky. The All-Star weekend started with the New York Liberty star Sabrina Ionescu winning the Skills Challenge and Chicago Sky star Allie Quigley winning a record fourth 3-Point Contest on Saturday. No NBA or WNBA player had ever won a 3-Point Contest more than three times. The All-Star Game is at 1 p.m. ET Sunday (ABC). The two teams are captained by Seattle Storm forward Breanna… Source link

FREEPORT, Ill. (WIFR) – Freeport School District Student Amelia Winter is a finalist in Google’s national Doodle for Google contest. This contest is open to students in grades K-12 all around the country, with just one drawing picked for each state per category. Students are invited to create their own Google Doodle for the chance to have it featured on Google.com. Amelia is representing the Land of Lincoln in the K-3rd grade category. Amelia’s fantastic drawing was selected from… Source link

All Hail the hot dog king. Joey Chestnut won his seventh consecutive Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest title and 15th overall with a ridiculous 63 hot dogs and buns eaten in 10 minutes. The next-closest competitor consumed just 43 hot dogs. The 38-year-old Chestnut’s feat was even more impressive after he arrived at Coney Island on crutches. He said he suffered a ruptured tendon earlier in the year but claimed it wouldn’t affected his ability to defend his title. Chestnut’s 15th title surpassed… Source link

Join the Yahoo Fantasy Tourney Pick’Em Best Bracket contest for a chance at $25K! Let’s be honest: It’s virtually impossible to create a completely perfect tourney bracket. You’d pretty much have to be a fortune teller to do so. Luckily for you, our contest doesn’t ask for perfection — just the very best! The Yahoo Fantasy Best Bracket contest is completely free to play and is available on the Yahoo Fantasy Sports site via desktop, mobile web and the Yahoo Fantasy App — where you… Source link

Join the Yahoo Fantasy Tourney Pick’Em Best Bracket contest for a chance at $25K! Let’s be honest: It’s virtually impossible to create a completely perfect tourney bracket. You’d pretty much have to be a fortune teller to do so. Luckily for you, our contest doesn’t ask for perfection — just the very best! The Yahoo Fantasy Best Bracket contest is completely free to play and is available on the Yahoo Fantasy Sports site via desktop, mobile web and the Yahoo Fantasy App — where you… Source link

Gonzaga freshman Chet Holmgren has added another name, image and likeness (NIL) deal, this one breaking new ground with Yahoo Sports’ NCAA tournament bracket contest. Holmgren and Duke freshman standout Paolo Banchero will be co-ambassadors helping promote Yahoo Sports’ Tourney Pick’em best bracket contest. These are believed to be the first NIL deals… Source link

The AFC has a five-game Pro Bowl win streak though there was some late drama. The AFC scored 13 consecutive points in the second half to open up a 20-point lead at one point before holding on for a 41-35 win in a turnover-filled game. The two teams combined for eight turnovers. Seven of them were interceptions and six of them happened in the first half. Justin Herbert’s fourth-quarter interception with the AFC up 41-28 gave the NFC a chance to get back into the game and cut the deficit to… Source link

Valeriya Ryabchikova, a junior software developer with Yandex’s e-commerce platform Yandex.Market, has won the 44thInternational Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) in Moscow as part of a team of three representing Nizhny Novgorod University. The silver medal was taken by a three-member team that included another Yandex employee, Aleksander Kernozhitsky, a student at Belarusian State University. At Yandex, Aleksander is working on distributed… Source link