KANSAS CITY, Mo. — B.J. Hill stands 6-foot-3, weighs 311 pounds and had just spent three hours trying to haul down Patrick Mahomes. Now the Cincinnati Bengals defensive tackle had taken on a new job, the world’s most intimidating, and perhaps protective, press agent. Inside a devastated Cincinnati Bengals locker room, Hill stood directly on the left shoulder of teammate Joseph Ossai and warned the media that had gathered in front of them. “Any dumb questions and I am shutting this… Source link
Read More »Eagles C Jason Kelce takes friendly jab at Chiefs as he sets to face his brother Travis in the Super Bowl
Brothers Jason and Travis Kelce have one Super Bowl ring each. One of them will double his tally in two weeks at the expense of the other. Jason, a center for Philadelphia, blocked for the Eagles’ backfield as Philly cruised past the San Francisco 49ers in Sunday’s NFC championship, a win that included four Philadelphia rushing touchdowns. Hours later, Travis caught seven passes for 78 yards and a touchdown as his Kansas City Chiefs edged the Cincinnati Bengals in a thriller for the AFC… Source link
Read More »Email Layoff Was ‘Slap in the Face’ After 20 Years
Jeremy Joslin, a 20-year Google engineer, said being laid off via email was a “slap in the face.” “It’s as if I dropped off the grid and they have to piece together any knowledge I took,” he added. Other ex-Googlers have criticized the abrupt and impersonal nature of their terminations. … Source link
Read More »3 get life in slaying of Michigan guard over face mask order
FLINT, Mich. (AP) — A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole. Larry Teague, wife Sharmel Teague, and Sharmel Teague’s son, Ramonyea Bishop, were sentenced by Genesee Circuit Court Judge Brian Pickell in the shooting death of Calvin Munerlyn on May 1, 2020. The three were convicted of first-degree… Source link
Read More »I Think My Face Was Deepfaked Into a Chinese Camping Stove Ad
Lynn, who remains active on social media, thinks lack of education is a big issue. “Some people don’t even know that it’s not legal to use other people’s photos,” she said. “Most people say, ‘OK, I’m just gonna use this photo—it’s not a big deal.’ And if every case were taken seriously, it would take a lot of time.” A Legal Affair Often, when people think of deepfakes and synthetic media, they immediately jump to the adult film industry or politics, but these synthesizations… Source link
Read More »‘8 days later, I had a brand new face’
Jay Leno (pictured in October) is addressing being burned in a gasoline fire in a new essay. (Photo: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images) It’s been a month since Jay Leno suffered severe burns in a gasoline fire at his Burbank, Calif. car garage on Nov. 12. In a new column for the Wall Street Journal, the former talk show host proves that he has a sense of humor about the situation. The renowned car buff addressed the Nov. 14 accident — in which he was treated for serious burns after working… Source link
Read More »Black Americans still face challenges chasing homeownership
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
Read More »Yuzuru Hanyu becomes face of 2022 in Yahoo Japan’s portal searches
Yuzuru Hanyu. (Kyodo) Yuzuru Hanyu, Japan’s two-time Olympic gold medalist, became a figure who saw the sharpest increase in search queries from last year and claimed the title of “this year’s face as chosen by the public,” the popular Yahoo Japan web portal said Monday. Among the other figures who were searched far more frequently on the Japanese portal were actress Wakana Matsumoto, boy band Naniwa Danshi and comedian JP. Matsumoto appeared in a TV drama about a rich… Source link
Read More »Tom Brady, Steph Curry and others face a widening securities investigation over FTX crypto fraud
The FTX collapse that is ballooning into arguably the biggest financial story of 2022 is worsening for Tom Brady, Steph Curry and other major endorsers of the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency platform. The director of enforcement for the Texas State Securities Board has announced that state regulators are investigating multiple celebrity endorsers tied to the FTX trading platform. The probe is an an effort to determine whether securities laws were violated by Brady, Curry and others while… Source link
Read More »Why Cowboys are on alert as Mike McCarthy returns to face Aaron Rodgers, Green Bay
FRISCO, Texas — Micah Parsons learned the lesson from his grandmother. He plans to implement it Sunday at Lambeau Field in head coach Mike McCarthy’s return, facing a Green Bay Packers team led by McCarthy’s longtime quarterback Aaron Rodgers. “My grandma told me: If you see a roach and it’s fooling around, do you step on it and bury it or do you let it rebuild and get back to life?” Parsons told Yahoo Sports. “You step on it. I live life with no remorse. You can’t have no remorse… Source link
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