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Don’t expect a mass layoff announcement from Apple (AAPL) despite global economic weakness weighing on iPhone and Mac sales, says Wedbush tech analyst Dan Ives. That’s in large part because Apple CEO Tim Cook didn’t overhire during the pandemic, unlike many of Apple’s rivals. “Apple never hired at the pace of these other tech giants,” Ives said on Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “You’ll see cost-cutting around the edges, but Cupertino — I mean, they’re tacticians…I think it just shows… Source link

Scott Rolen became the rare third baseman to make the Baseball Hall of Fame. (REUTERS/Mike Blake) It took six tries, but St. Louis Cardinals great Scott Rolen is heading to the Hall of Fame. Rolen received the news that he would be enshrined in Cooperstown on Tuesday. He is the only member of the 2023 Hall of Fame class voted in by the Baseball Writers’ Association of America this year. Rolen barely got in, receiving 76.3% of the vote. Players need 75% of the vote to be enshrined in… Source link

2022 Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Ceremony – Tip-Off Celebration and Awards Gala ASSOCIATED PRESS – George Karl lost 19 of his first 21 games as an NBA coach. Tim Hardaway spent hours dribbling alone in an unfinished basement when it was too cold to go outside in his native Chicago. Theresa Grentz’s family lost all its belongings in a 1970 house fire, leaving her with only the yellow pajamas she was wearing at the time. There were no signs that basketball immortality awaited any of… Source link

It was impossible for Swin Cash to evaluate her impact in the basketball world in real time, as she was focused on winning games, championships and swatting unsuspecting layup attempts to the third row. But every now and again, she’ll get a picture she once signed, or a direct message from social media as a reminder how ingratiated she was on the scene. “It’s a picture of me looking young as hell, a shot of someone at a Boys and Girls Club with this kid,” Cash told Yahoo Sports. “And… Source link

There are eight quarterbacks in NFL history with 50,000 yards and at least one Super Bowl win.  Tom Brady. Drew Brees. Peyton Manning. Brett Favre. Ben Roethlisberger. Eli Manning. Aaron Rodgers. John Elway. That’s three Hall of Famers, four locks and Eli Manning. We’ve all heard the debate on Eli Manning’s HOF candidacy by now, and he has a chance to make it eight-for-eight.  Matthew Stafford is at 49,995 career yards, which is 12th all-time. He’s five yards and two wins this postseason —… Source link

Longtime Boston Red Sox slugger David Ortiz was the lone former player to hear his name called during Tuesday’s BBWAA Hall of Fame election announcement, rewarding a career that saw a curse broken three times over. In his first year of eligibility, Ortiz received 307 out of 397 votes (77.9 percent), putting him over the required 75 percent threshold. Here’s video of him finding out he had been elected, with Hall of Fame teammate Pedro Martinez by his side: Ortiz’s Hall of Fame case was simple…. Source link

Dallas Cowboys NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Troy Aikman is ready to take on Big Beer names such as Budweiser and MolsonCoors with the same intensity as he did long-time rivals the New York Giants on a Sunday primetime matchup.  Well sort of, but you get the point.  Aikman, 55, revealed Tuesday he will be launching EIGHT beer after two years of developing the product along with award-winning brewmaster and beer industry veteran Phil Leinhart. Billed as suds for the modern beer drinker — in… Source link

The Baseball Hall of Fame will officially have six more members via its committee voting, even as one of its best candidates missed the honor by the narrowest of margins. For a second time. Here are the names, with a quick resume, announced by Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch on Sunday via MLB Network: Minnie Miñoso: A nine-time MLB All-Star and former Negro Leagues All-Star who became known as Mr. White Sox for his years with the team. Gil Hodges: A longtime Dodgers (first Brooklyn then… Source link

It has been 15 months since Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash, but his Hall of Fame enshrinement was no less emotional. Vanessa Bryant, the wife of the Los Angeles Lakers legend, accepted the honor on behalf of her late husband on Saturday, one year later than planned due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her speech was preceded by the rest of the greatest Hall of Fame class in basketball history and she was escorted by Michael Jordan, but the moment was firmly her’s as she again eulogized a man… Source link

We will never see another Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction like the Class of 2020. Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett form the greatest class in the history of the NBA. No other comes close. They will be inducted at Mohegan Sun in Connecticut on Saturday, nine months after the pandemic delayed their enshrinement and an hour’s drive from Springfield’s newly renovated Hall of Fame. You would be hard-pressed to find a greater Hall of Fame class in any sport. The rare… Source link