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Stanford survived a late turnover and two game-winning looks by South Carolina to advance to the NCAA women’s basketball championship game. The Cardinal won, 66-65, and advance to their fifth title game in program history.  They’ll continue to extend the tournament record for 3-pointers that the Cardinal set on Friday. They were 5-for-8 as a team and broke the previous team mark of 54 set by UConn. They currently have 55.  South Carolina misses final chances The Gamecocks committed a costly… Source link

The 2021 MLB All-Star Game won’t be in Georgia. Major League Baseball announced Friday afternoon that the game would be moving out of the Atlanta Braves‘ Truist Park because of the state’s new law that restricts voting rights. The MLB draft is also being moved out of Georgia. Commissioner Rob Manfred said in a statement that “the best way to demonstrate our values as a sport is by relocating this year’s All-Star Game and MLB draft.” You can read Manfred’s statement in its entirety below. No… Source link

The Telegraph Church of England Easter meal advice leaves bad taste after claims it ‘appropriated’ Jewish Seder The Church of England has withdrawn guidance for hosting an Easter meal at home after being accused of “appropriating” Jewish tradition. Due to the Covid pandemic, the Church issued guidance on how to celebrate Maundy Thursday – which marks the beginning of the three-day celebration of Easter – at home. In a document entitled “Prayer at Home”, it said: “This short form of prayer… Source link

NFL news can truly come from anywhere. Even from an online video game between complete strangers. In what has to be one of the most random potential news leaks in recent memory, Reddit user ProbationOfficer2035 posted a blind nugget on Saturday to Reddit’s NFL thread about what he believed to be a trade. It wasn’t so much that the user had gotten some information about something in the works — it was how they got the nugget. In this case? In a bit of wild improbability, it came from an… Source link

Joel Embiid will undergo an MRI soon. (AP Photo/Nick Wass) Philadelphia 76ers center Joel Embiid, considered by many to be frontrunner for the NBA MVP award, exited Friday’s game with an apparent left knee injury. The injury appeared to occur as Embiid landed after a dunk, colliding with Washington Wizards guard Garrison Matthews in the paint and spinning into the air until his full body weight came down on his knee, which bent backwards. Embiid remained down the court in obvious pain for a… Source link

Thanks to a huge performance from star freshman Cade Cunningham, Oklahoma State has reached the Big 12 championship game. The Cowboys, behind a 25-point night from Cunningham, knocked off top-seeded Baylor 83-74 on Friday night at the Sprint Center in Kansas City. Baylor held a five-point lead with just less than six minutes to go. With just more than two minutes to go, Oklahoma State took control. The Cowboys ended the night on a 10-2 run over the last 2:33 of the game, and held Baylor… Source link

Many of the league’s biggest stars, including LeBron James, weren’t happy with the NBA’s decision to move forward with the All-Star Game this season amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. With myriad safety concerns surrounding the sport, it’s easy to understand why. James still made the trek to Atlanta to participate in Sunday’s game, but his thoughts on it haven’t changed a bit. “Obviously, I love our league. I love the game of basketball at the highest level and doing what I love to… Source link

MMA Weekly Khamzat Chimaev says he’s done; Chechen leader and Dana White say he’s not retiring In the space of 24 hours, rising UFC star Khamzat Chimaev indicated that he was done fighting, but then was talked into continuing on by controversial Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. UFC president Dana White also backed that sentiment, telling MMA Junkie that Chimaev “ain’t quitting.” Chimaev’s UFC career was off to a brilliant start in 2020. The Chechen fighter rattled off three consecutive… Source link

A second wave of the GameStop (GME) rally has struck the stock market in recent days, sending the price up 172% since late last month. While still well below its January high, GameStop stands more than 1,500% above where it did six months ago. Amid the rally, the stock’s traders and their online movement came under fire from personal finance guru Suze Orman in a new interview with Yahoo Finance. That interview came before shares of another heavily shorted stock, Tanger Factory Outlet Center ( Source link

(Bloomberg) — Google’s streaming video game service Stadia had ambitious plans to disrupt the gaming industry, which is dominated by consoles. The tech giant had planned to pack Stadia with original content, announcing two years ago that it was hiring hundreds of game developers and starting studios in Los Angeles and Montreal. But those teams barely had time to get started before they were dismissed earlier this month as Google shut down in-house game development. From the beginning,… Source link