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Chicago Bears, Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald are good match

Leading hapless Detroit by 10 points with less than three minutes remaining in the fourth quarter, it looked like Chicago might win for the first time since Oct. 18. Then the defense stopped playing, Mitchell Trubisky started fumbling and no one may ever properly explain what Allen Robinson was doing on third-and-3. Next thing you know, the Lions, who had just fired their head coach Matt Patricia, were celebrating a 34-30 victory, leaving the Bears at 5-7 and losers of six straight. It’s… Source link

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Joe Biden will bring swamp creatures back to Washington. That’s a good thing

President-elect Joe Biden speaks during a meeting in Wilmington, Del., on Nov. 23. (Associated Press) To the editor: When Donald Trump ran for president, he promised to “drain the swamp.” I assumed that he meant he did not want anyone with Washington experience who actually knew how the levers of government were supposed to be pulled. (“Biden picks a Goldilocks Cabinet, neither too left or right,” Nov. 24) While a swamp may not be a place you’d want to live, it is a beautiful, biodiverse piece… Source link

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Why the Thunder trading Chris Paul to the Suns was a good trade for both teams

Circumstances change in an instant. In February, Kelly Oubre Jr.’s meniscus was torn. Through no action of his own, he set off a chain of events that eight months later sent him from the Phoenix Suns to the Oklahoma City Thunder. [Create or join a 2020 Yahoo Fantasy Basketball League for free today] Young Suns guns Mikal Bridges and Cam Johnson and veteran Aron Baynes stepped in for him and unlocked a shooting, defending warhorse built for the NBA’s current climate. An 8-0 run in the NBA… Source link

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The US has a good record on fighting monopolies. Now it’s Google’s turn | Google

Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, is a mild-mannered software engineer who is not good at games of verbal fisticuffs with US politicians. He received a drubbing last month during the “big tech” congressional hearing. Pichai can, however, summon lawyers and lobbyists galore as soon as the game gets more serious, which it definitely has. The US Department of Justice (DoJ) last week launched a huge and historic antitrust case against Google, accusing the… Source link

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‘This team is not good anymore’

Tedy Bruschi says Antonio Brown should want no part of the Patriots originally appeared on NBC Sports Boston With Antonio Brown being eligible for reinstatement after Week 8, some are wondering whether the New England Patriots should give the wide receiver another shot. It’s no secret the Patriots desperately need receiver help, but signing Brown last September proved to be an unmitigated disaster. Still, several teams including the Seattle Seahawks reportedly are interested in getting the… Source link

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A US antitrust suit might break up Google. Good – it’s the Standard Oil of our day | Sarah Miller | Opinion

On Tuesday, the Department of Justice filed an antitrust case against Google. This is the most significant antitrust case filed since the government suit against Microsoft in 1998, and it also ranks with the most important antitrust suits of all time, including Standard Oil and AT&T. The move by a conservative Republican administration to take on one of the largest companies in the world is a repudiation of the libertarian ideology that has dominated American politics since the 1980s.

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Holiday shopping will be ‘very, very good’ despite coronavirus, stimulus headwinds

TipRanks 3 Monster Growth Stocks That Could Reach New Highs Out on Wall Street, things are always changing. Share prices fluctuate, new players make their market debuts, the macro environment gets shaken up and long-term trends shift. That said, one thing remains the same: growth is the name of the game. Growth stocks consistently score a spot on investors’ wish lists, given their potential to deliver returns. This growth potential goes above and beyond the norm, as these plays have already… Source link

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Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on Dec. 15

A billboard for the technology company Yahoo is seen Aug. 5, 2015, in Washington, DC. AFP Photo/Karen Bleier Yahoo Groups is set to be gone for good by Dec. 15, 2020. The announcement from Verizon was made today, Oct. 14, on the Yahoo Groups site and in emails sent to Yahoo Groups users. Verizon purchased Yahoo in 2017 for $4.5 billion. The online platform, launched in 2001, allowed users to post messages, upload files and photos, make… Source link

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Yahoo Groups to shut down for good on December 15, 2020

Yahoo Groups, one of the last vestiges of the old Yahoo web properties, will shut down on December 15, 2020, when Verizon plans to take the groups.yahoo.com website offline for good. Verizon, which bought Yahoo in 2017, announced the decision today in emails sent to Yahoo Groups users and a message posted on the Yahoo Groups website. Today’s announcement marks the end of the road for one of the internet’s… Source link

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