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In the beginning of the NBA season, it appeared to be a two-man race between Evan Mobley and Scottie Barnes for the rookie top honor, but now a few other players have entered the conversation. Cade Cunningham, Franz Wagner and Josh Giddey all had strong starts to the second half of the season, and the gap between the top five rookies is smaller than ever. Orlando Magic guard Jalen Suggs returned to the court Jan. 14 after being sidelined for five weeks with a thumb injury. Two second-round… Source link

DENVER (KDVR) — With a family of five dead in an unsolved house fire, night-vision images of the masked suspects haunted the metro for months — until Google led police to the accused killers. At age 16, Kevin Bui and Gavin Seymour — along with another teen charged as a juvenile — were arrested on counts of first-degree murder and more in the August 2020 killings in Green Valley Ranch. It took months before a break in the case, with the community fearful it was a targeted… Source link

Everything was going wonderfully in Marcus Freeman’s debut as Notre Dame head coach. And then the wheels fell off. Facing Oklahoma State in the Fiesta Bowl, Notre Dame was carving up the OSU defense with its passing game and jumped out to a 28-7 lead late in the first half. And with the Notre Dame defense stifling the OSU offense, it looked like the Irish would cruise to a victory to kick off the Freeman era in South Bend in style. Instead, Oklahoma State stormed back and scored 30… Source link

The returns of Kyler Murray and DeAndre Hopkins were worth the wait. And now that they’re back, the Cardinals rightfully can be called Super Bowl contenders once more. The Arizona Cardinals moved to 10-2 — their first season with 10 or more wins since 2015 — with a 33-22 victory over the Chicago Bears at Soldier Field on Sunday, as Murray and Hopkins took the field for the first time since Week 8.  And they didn’t take long to hook up. Murray found Hopkins on a 21-yard touchdown pass less… Source link

Warren Buffett says these are the best stocks to own when inflation spikes — with high prices no longer ‘transitory,’ it might be time to follow his lead After months of rising prices, the Fed’s claim that high inflation rates would be “transitory” is looking a bit transitory itself. “It’s probably a good time to retire that word and try to explain more clearly what we mean,” Fed Chairman Jerome Powell said Tuesday. “I think the risk of higher inflation has increased.” A… Source link

SACRAMENTO — The Los Angeles Lakers were hit with an unexpected blow when superstar LeBron James entered the NBA’s health and safety protocols Tuesday morning, but the franchise’s other superstar has been preparing for the day he’ll have to fully take over the locker room. After the Lakers took care of the Sacramento Kings with the assistance of a 67-33 second-half trouncing en route to a 117-92 victory Tuesday, Anthony Davis spoke to Yahoo Sports on his evolution as a leader and what… Source link

Interim Hertz CEO Mark Fields is jazzed by the company’s big deal with Tesla (which he has secured, despite Elon Musk’s Twitter assertions) and is ready to get to work to rebuild the car rental giant.  “We are excited about the Tesla relationship. It’s all wrapped around our strategy to lead the adoption of electric vehicles,” the former CEO of Ford said on Yahoo Finance Live. Fields is credited with planting the seeds for Ford’s EV pivot prior to his departure in 2017.  Hertz said in late… Source link

One Virginia school district has made select Wednesdays shorter for students as teacher burnout through the coronavirus pandemic drags on.  The district’s superintendent said the move was to give teachers more time amid a historic shortage of educators. “Our teachers are just tired — they’re tired and they’re overwhelmed and dealing with a lot of the mental health issues that I think many folks are dealing with as a result of the pandemic,” Aaron Spence, superintendent of the Virginia… Source link

* Asian stock markets: https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4 * US stocks futures slip as earnings season looms * Oil leads energy complex higher, stokes inflation risk * Dollar reaches highest on yen since April 2019 By Wayne Cole SYDNEY, Oct 11 (Reuters) – Asian shares slipped on Monday as global inflation angst favoured commodities as a hedge over U.S. equities, while rising U.S. bond yields lifted the dollar to two-and-a-half year peaks against the Japanese yen Nasdaq futures and S&P 500 futures were both… Source link

Grocery shoppers, beware: a number of recalls have been announced in recent days on seafood, crackers and canned beef with gravy. Shoppers should be on the lookout for some products from Northeast Seafood Products (which has distributed seafood products linked to a salmonella outbreak), Simple Mills (which is warning consumers of a packaging mistake that could lead to severe allergic reactions) and Crider Foods (which issued a recalled for canned beef with gravy after discovering it may have… Source link