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For seasoned users of the internet, the chronology of our era divides into two ages: BG and AG – before and after Google. The year 1998 marks the dividing line. Before then, as the web expanded exponentially, a host of “search engines” had attempted to provide searchable indexes to it. The best of them was AltaVista, which launched in 1995 and provided the first searchable, full-text database of the web via a simple interface. It was the engine that I and most of my colleagues used… Source link

John Clayton was an ESPN mainstay. (Photo by Kirby Lee/Getty Images) John Clayton, a fixture on ESPN’s “SportsCenter” for years, has died, a collection of his colleagues confirmed Friday. He was 67. Throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, it was hard to turn on SportsCenter or any of ESPN’s NFL shows without seeing Clayton and his familiar background pop up to discuss the biggest football story of the day. He started at the network in 1995 after a long career as a newspaper writer covering… Source link

John Lennon’s son, Julian, is turning items from his personal collection of Beatles memorabilia into NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, that are being sold at auction. The items, which are each one of a kind, include the coat John Lennon wore in the “Magical Mystery Tour” film and three Gibson guitars the music legend gifted his son. The centerpiece of the “Lennon Connection” auction are notes written by Paul McCartney for the song “Hey Jude,” which was originally titled “Hey… Source link

Gonzaga University opted to suspend the season tickets of NBA Hall of Famer John Stockton, one of its most prominent alumni, after the star continuously failed to comply with the school’s mask mandate.  Stockton told The Spokesman-Review that Gonzaga Athletic Director Chris Standiford told him of the decision. The men’s basketball team is ranked No. 1 in the recent Associated Press Top 25 poll and has 10 games, including five at home, until the West Coast Conference championships and NCAA… Source link

New York Giants co-owner John Mara knew firing Joe Judge was the right decision. Mara spoke about that choice Wednesday, explaining he felt the team hit “rock bottom” toward the end of the season. Mara’s full quote is actually much worse. He thought the team hit rock bottom weeks ago, only for the team to one-up its own failure every single week. That’s an honest — and scathing — assessment of Judge’s final weeks with the team. Judge drew headlines after a blowout loss against the Chicago… Source link

ABC News Harry Reid, the former 5-term US senator from Nevada, has died at 82 following cancer battle Harry Mason Reid, the former five-term U.S. senator from Nevada who led Senate Democrats for a decade spanning the Bush and Obama presidencies, died Tuesday, his wife, Landra Reid, confirmed in a statement. Harry was deeply touched to see his decades of service to Nevada honored in recent weeks with the re-naming of Las Vegas’ airport in his honor. Landra Reid thanked the doctors and nurses… Source link

Some people did not react well to the San Francisco 49ers‘ frustrating loss to the Tennessee Titans on Thursday. For a second, that group seemed to include Niners general manager John Lynch, whose Twitter account appeared to have liked a tweet calling for the team to leave starting quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo, who made some critical mistakes during the game, in Nashville. The tweet has since been unliked, but Lynch really did appear to have hit that button at some point between Thursday night… Source link

The great debate over going for two found fresh fodder on Sunday when the Baltimore Ravens gambled the outcome of their game against the Green Bay Packers on one final play.  Video released on Monday showed how the decision went down on the Baltimore sideline. After the Ravens scored a late touchdown to cut their deficit to 31-30, head coach John Harbaugh rolled the dice on a two-point conversion with the game on the line. Convert, and they take the lead with 42 seconds remaining. Fail, and… Source link

Baltimore Ravens coach John Harbaugh didn’t care if you criticized him for his decision to go for two on Sunday. He knows it was the right call, and he’ll try to explain it to you.  For most of NFL history, the common approach for coaches was to keep a game alive. You’d see plenty of suboptimal decisions made in the name of not practically ending the game, but staying within a possession or two. There are many field goals that have been kicked to pull a game within 14 points in the fourth… Source link

John Wall‘s absence only benefits the Houston Rockets‘ ability to lose games. Unless you consider being paid $44.3 million to not play at some cost to his own legacy a benefit for the 31-year-old five-time All-Star. The Rockets and Wall met on Sunday to discuss his future, and they left with little more clarity beyond the veteran’s desire to resume playing to his capability. Public discourse on the issue — largely framed as a refusal from Wall to accept less than a starting job — has… Source link