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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles Rams fans and Super Bowl ticket buyers who live in close proximity to the surrounding area appear to be taking their sweet time. So much so that Thursday morning saw the average ticket price of Super Bowl LVI fall below the Super Bowl LV average for the first time since Sunday’s matchup was set between the Rams and Cincinnati Bengals. Thursday also featured a somewhat surprising slide in “get in” prices for the cheapest seats, hitting $3,400 all-in per seat… Source link

“Play to the whistle” is the cliche everyone knows.  Sometimes NFL players are asked to play past the whistle — without any late hits — just in case the officials screw up and decide on the fly to reverse a decision.  Maybe a really bad whistle on a touchdown pass by Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow in an AFC wild-card playoff game didn’t affect the Las Vegas Raiders‘ defense. But the touchdown shouldn’t have counted, according to the rules. And the NFL didn’t make a statement,… Source link

Topline Some Google employees found that their entire first paycheck of the year had been sent to their retirement accounts due to a technical error, according to Bloomberg – what one employee dubbed “paypocalypse 2022” – in the latest high-profile payroll mistake. The Google logo seen next to Grand Canal Dock railway station in Dublin on February 2, 2021. Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images Key Facts In a notice on its internal HR site,… Source link

Boise State became the latest team to back out of a bowl game due to COVID-19 cases as the Broncos are unable to play in Friday’s Arizona Bowl against Central Michigan.  Boise State’s inability to play set up an opportunity for Central Michigan to play Washington State in the Sun Bowl.  The Cougars were in need of an opponent to play in El Paso, Texas, on Friday after Miami backed out of the Sun Bowl because of its own COVID cases.  There are many financial reasons for Central Michigan to… Source link

The Military Bowl won’t be played as scheduled on Monday while the Fenway Bowl will have to wait another year to happen. Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel reported that both games aren’t going to happen because of COVID-19 issues among teams set to participate in them. The Military Bowl is off because Boston College doesn’t have enough players to play East Carolina while Virginia is unable to play SMU in the Fenway Bowl on Wednesday. Virginia said that positive COVID-19 tests on Saturday and Sunday… Source link

The Arizona Cardinals will fight for the top seed in the playoffs without one of their biggest playmakers. Wide receiver DeAndre Hopkins is expected to miss the rest of the regular season due to a sprained knee, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN. Hopkins sustained the injury during Monday night’s loss to the Los Angeles Rams. He had an MRI on Monday, and went for a second opinion Wednesday.  Hopkins may need surgery to correct the issue, according to Schefter. Despite the injury, the… Source link

The Women’s Tennis Association announced Wednesday that it is suspending all of its tournaments in China due to the Chinese government’s alleged inaction regarding Peng Shuai’s accusation of sexual assault and continuing questions about her safety, wellbeing and freedom.  In a statement, WTA CEO Steve Simon explained the decision to immediately suspend tournaments in China. Unfortunately, the leadership in China has not addressed this very serious issue in any credible way. While we now know… Source link

State orders new car insurance ‘stimulus checks’ — are you due another refund? While Washington stopped entertaining the idea of a fourth stimulus check, advocates and at least one state are still pushing car insurance companies to hand you some COVID-19 cash. Some insurers paid discounts and rebates to policyholders when they reaped soaring profits as Americans stayed home more during the Great Driving Slowdown in 2020. Yet government officials, advocacy groups and a class-action… Source link

Morgan Stanley’s Chief Investment Officer Mike Wilson says investors should always be positioned for a market correction of 10%, but warned that investors may not be ready for a harsher correction that could be coming soon. “You should always be expecting a 10% correction. If you’re investing in equities, you should be prepared for that at any time,” Wilson told Yahoo Finance on Friday. “A 20% correction, which is really more disruptive, where people might want to try and position… Source link

Investopedia 6 Social Security Changes for 2021 Every October, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announces its annual changes to the Social Security program for the coming year. Below is our analysis of the Social Security changes that were announced in Oct. 2020 to take effect on Jan. 1, 2021, according to the SSA’s annual fact sheet. Keep them in mind when you update your Social Security information. For 2021, nearly 70 million Social Security recipients are seeing a 1.3%… Source link