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It sounds like NBA Hall of Famer Charles Barkley is seriously considering joining the LIV Golf tour as a broadcaster. After meeting with tour CEO Greg Norman on Wednesday, Barkley confirmed he would play in the next LIV event, according to the New York Post. The two reportedly had dinner together in Atlanta. Norman was expected to pitch Barkley on joining LIV Golf as a broadcaster during that meeting. Barkley confirmed as much Thursday, saying he would meet with Norman to discuss the… Source link

Michael Vick isn’t coming out of retirement after all. The former Atlanta Falcons star shut down rumors of a return in the Fan Controlled Football league on Sunday, saying that he’s going to stay retired. “I hung ‘em up in 2015 never to return again,” Vick wrote on Twitter. “Had an amazing time and accomplished so much. I say that to say, they’re going to stay hung up and I will not be coming out of retirement. I appreciate the opportunity to play but I’d rather put on my… Source link

The Sun Bowl is back on. After its originally scheduled opponent Miami dropped out because of a reported COVID-19 outbreak on the team, Washington State will now face Central Michigan in the Dec. 31 bowl. A day after Miami canceled, CMU lost its bowl opponent on Monday when Boise State had to withdraw from the Arizona Bowl because of its own COVID-19 outbreak. With two teams in need of a bowl partner, it didn’t take long for the natural conclusion to play out. The Arizona Bowl, with a… Source link

Drilling for oil and gas and mining for bitcoin might seem like an odd couple. One is more than 150 years old. The other has existed for a little over a decade. One is a staple of industrial development, squarely grounded in the world of atoms. The other is an innovation of a digital era, financial plumbing for the world of bits. One involves sweaty outdoor work. The other involves a lot of math and abstraction inside cavernous air-conditioned data centers. If the founders of bitcoin miner JAI… Source link

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Yahoo Sports is joining with the NBA in its production of betting-centric broadcasts. Starting with Friday’s showdown between the Los Angeles Clippers and Memphis Grizzlies, Yahoo talent will be featured on the NBABet Stream, a weekly alternate broadcast on NBA League Pass. The Verizon unit will also start distributing the feed as part of its own League Pass platforms. The NBA has been doing these alternate feeds since last August, coinciding with the restart of its pandemic-disrupted… Source link

(Bloomberg) — India’s day traders are strapping in for the GameStop Corp. ride that’s taken equity markets by storm. The videogame retailer was among the five most-traded names over the past week on Stockal, a platform for Indian retail investors to trade U.S. equities. GameStop accounted for about 15% of all trades on the platform, co-founder and co-chief executive officer Sitashwa Srivastava said in an interview. “We were not expecting Indians would be on Reddit, reading about… Source link

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — NBA referees will join the players and coaching staff in gathering around the “Black Lives Matter” signage on the court to kneel during the playing of the national anthem to peacefully protest racial injustice in America, league sources tell Yahoo Sports. The 45 referees selected by the league to officiate the restart recently had a “spirited” debate on whether to insert themselves into the storylines and it was decided that they wanted to support the… Source link