When Chad Dawson first got the call to serve as a sparring partner for Jake Paul, he was skeptical. Dawson is a fighter’s fighter. He was once a mainstay on pound-for-pound lists, had two stints as light heavyweight champion, fought the best of his era and has two wins each over Glen Johnson and Antonio Tarver, and single victories over Bernard Hopkins, Tomasz Adamek and Eric Harding, among others. He was vaguely aware of what Paul, the social media star, was doing in boxing because it was… Source link
Read More »Today’s Wordle answer was originally ‘fetus,’ and the NYT insists it was a coincidence
The New York Times has apologized after Monday’s Wordle included a solution for some players that may have been offensive due to its connection to recent political events in the US. Some Wordle players woke up today to find out the solution to the daily puzzle was “fetus,” a selection The New York Times said was “entirely unintentional and a coincidence,” in a note the outlet’s Games team published at 12:01AM. According to The Times, the word was loaded into the game “last… Source link
Read More »Starbucks hikes prices with more on the way, but insists demand is ‘very strong’
Starbucks (SBUX) customers are staying loyal to the Seattle-based coffee giant despite a higher cost for their cup of coffee, even as political pressure mounts in response to rising prices. In a phone interview with Yahoo Finance after Starbucks’ fiscal first-quarter earnings results, CEO Kevin Johnson said customer demand during the holiday season was “very strong” with revenue growth of 19%, coming in at a record $8.1 billion dollars for the coffee giant. Like a growing number of companies Source link
Read More »Starbucks takes hard line on unions, insists will ‘come to the table’ with Buffalo workers
Starbucks (SBUX) on Monday reiterated its tough stance against unionizing, saying that while the movement was not in the best interests of its workforce, it would “bargain in good faith” with one location that voted to organize. Recently, partners at a store in Buffalo scored a big win after voting to form the coffee giant’s first ever union. On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) confirmed the vote, according to an internal memo obtained by Yahoo Finance. Yet the… Source link
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