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ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, seen here working an NFL game in 2006, died on Sunday. He was 72. (Al Messerschmidt/Getty Images) Longtime NFL reporter and ESPN journalist Chris Mortensen died on Sunday morning, the network announced. He was 72. Specifics of his death are not yet known, though Mortensen had been battling cancer for years. ESPN is very sorry to have to share this devastating news. Award-winning journalist Chris Mortensen passed away this morning at the age of 72. Source link

AL-RAYYAN, Qatar — Two American journalists have been told to remove rainbow-patterned articles of clothing by authorities at World Cup venues in Qatar in recent days. On Saturday, Los Angeles Times reporter Kevin Baxter was told by a police officer at the U.S. men’s national team’s Qatari training site that a rainbow-colored mask was not allowed. Two days later, at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the USMNT plays Wales on Monday night, longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl said that he… Source link

The opinion of the official journalist Lazaro Manuel Alonso on the sale of foreign currency in the exchange houses (CADECA)published the day before on social networks, provoked an angry response from the banking institution on Wednesday. After starting on Monday the sale of dollars to natural persons in Cubaat a rate of 123.60 Cuban pesos per US dollar, Alonso said that the challenge of the foreign exchange market, as it is being implemented, lies in the transparency of the process.

The upstart LIV Golf Invitational Series, a Saudi-backed proposed competitor to the PGA Tour, continues to suffer setback after setback, some external and some very much self-inflicted. Earlier this week, the PGA Tour and the DP World Tour (formerly the European Tour) both indicated they would not give their players releases to play in LIV Golf’s inaugural event early next month. On Wednesday, LIV Golf chief executive Greg Norman threw gasoline on the fire by appearing to downplay the killing… Source link

Jonathan Choe, a veteran reporter for the ABC television affiliate KOMO in Seattle, has written an essay on Medium claiming he was fired for his coverage of a rally by the controversial Proud Boys group. Choe was covering the rally in the Washington state capital of Olympia earlier this month. He tweeted a photo montage of the Proud Boys rally, including some controversial music in the clip. That drew outrage from the Twitterati, who allegedly accused him of being a “white… Source link

A Dutch journalist at the Olympics was dragged away from the camera in the middle of his live report. (Photo via @NOS/Twitter) A Dutch journalist covering the Winter Olympics in Beijing was accosted and dragged away by Chinese guards mid-broadcast on Friday outside the Games’ opening ceremonies. Sjoerd den Daas, a Dutch public broadcasting correspondent for NOS Nieuws, was seen attempting to finish his report while being yelled at, pushed and grabbed by a red armband-wearing guard before the… Source link

If you aren’t taking a lot of notes each day as an investor, you aren’t learning and getting better at the craft of making money in the markets. And to be sure, there were a lot of lessons for investors in 2021.  Financial journalist Sam Ro of TKer tells Yahoo Finance Live he learned quite a bit about markets this year.  One lesson is the incredible resilience of corporate America in the face of surging inflation, labor shortages and COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty.  Nowhere is that view on… Source link

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Terez Paylor, a well-known NFL reporter for Yahoo Sports and a former sportswriter for The Kansas City Star, died unexpectedly Tuesday. He was 37 years old. Yahoo Sports confirmed Paylor’s death on Tuesday, saying, “It is with a heavy heart that we announce that our beloved friend, colleague and Yahoo Sports journalist Terez Paylor has passed away.” The news outlet shared a statement from Paylor’s fiancée, Ebony Reed: “While we are… Source link

[unable to retrieve full-text content]BRIEF-Cohen’s Point72 Raises $1.5 Bln After Melvin Infusion – Yahoo Finance Journalist  Reuters Source link

A common defense of President Trump’s refusal to concede the 2020 election is that he’s simply taking revenge on his liberal opponents, in particular those who doubted the legitimacy of the 2016 election because of Russian interference. “The media gave Russia Collusion 3.5 years. We can give Team Trump three and a half weeks,” tweeted Jenna Ellis, a member of the Trump campaign’s legal team that has failed to provide any evidence in court of cheating in the 2020 election. Ellis was… Source link