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It stings that Deion Sanders has left Jackson State University for the University of Colorado. Sanders brought a great deal of positive attention to the program and the rich history of JSU football, the Southwestern Athletic Conference and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Yet, surveying the list of 68 head coaches at Power 5 conference programs reveals a homogenous group and a depressingly familiar reality of the football head coaching ranks. For as bad as the NFL’s… Source link

Edson Arantes do Nascimento, better known as Pelé, has not been moved to end-of-life care, which was previously reported, but is instead responding well to treatment at the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in São Paulo, according to the Associated Press. The hospital also announced Saturday that Pelé’s condition has not worsened over the past 24 hours, according to the New York Times’ Tariq Panja. The Brazil soccer legend was admitted Tuesday, with what was reported to be general swelling… Source link

All these things are true about the New York Jets: • They are a rebuilding team. • The success of their rebuild depends greatly on Zach Wilson, the second pick of the 2020 NFL draft, becoming a top-end quarterback. • Their 6-4 start this season is well ahead of schedule, and while it is a great sign, the Jets are still in a multi-year build toward being a Super Bowl contender. They are a playoff contender, however. • Wilson is not playing well enough for a team that is a playoff… Source link

Comment on this story Comment This is the era of having more data at our disposal than we know what to do with. And so it is that I came to wonder: Do Google searches correlate well to election results? This is not entirely an idle question. Google, through its Trends team, publishes data and analysis on what people — in the United States and internationally — are searching for. And since Google searches have become the default mechanism by which people get answers to their questions,… Source link

The all new Subaru BRZ shouldn’t even exist. What use is there for Subaru and Toyota (which helped co-develop the car and has its version, the 86), for a gas-powered, and not even turbocharged, sports car in this day and age when it’s all about EVs? Believe it not the BRZ has been around for over decade, and is still popular among enthusiasts of pure, stripped down sports cars. So when Subaru and Toyota announced they would be updated the prior gen BRZ and 86, there was much rejoicing among… Source link

Pioneers, creators, and industry forerunners unveil Five trends to Watch amidst the Paradigm Shift towards a Virtual Economy HONG KONG, Aug. 10, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — The Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit Extra Asia returns to Hong Kong! Since its event last year, the global economy has been on a rollercoaster ride as new technologies have shifted the way we interact, transact, and live in both real and virtual worlds. Keynote speaker_John Tsang, former Financial Secretary of Hong Kong SAR and… Source link

Google’s latest Pixel Buds earbuds have been given the “pro” treatment, with better sound, noise cancelling, multipoint Bluetooth and a comfier design aimed at rivalling Apple’s AirPods Pro but for Android users. The Pixel Buds Pro cost £179 ($199/A$299), sitting above the firm’s £100 Pixel Buds A-Series as Google’s new top model. They will work with any standard Bluetooth device, including PCs and iPhones, but have special features designed for Android. They are larger than the… Source link

Sometimes doing just enough still isn’t enough. Such is the case with Google’s new Pixel Buds Pro, a much-needed update to Google’s recent line of wireless earbuds. After last year’s budget Pixel Buds A, the Pixel Buds Pro promise something more: premium wireless earbuds with active noise cancellation (ANC), excellent battery life, and improved comfort.  And generally speaking, Google has pulled that off. These are very good wireless earbuds that work seamlessly with Google’s Pixel… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Industrial metals are on track for the worst quarter since the 2008 financial crisis as prices are pummeled by recession worries. Copper, the great economic bellwether, has ricocheted into a bear market from a record four months ago, while tin just tumbled 21% in its worst week since a 1980s crisis froze London trading for four years. Most Read from Bloomberg It’s a dramatic reversal from the past two years, when metals surged on a wave of post-lockdown optimism, inflationary… Source link

The brutal 2022 for stocks amid rising interest rates and soaring inflation has been particularly rough for technology-based growth stocks, and that could be an opportunity for longer term investors. “Every rally we’ve seen in tech has been met with harder selling in a lower low,” Jefferies Equity Research Analyst Brent Thill told Yahoo Finance (video above). “Right now, it feels pretty, pretty awful, which is a great sign.” For investors with a three- to five-year window, he added, now is a… Source link