Many speculated Russell Westbrook would find a new team after a disastrous first season with the Los Angeles Lakers. Now, he’s finding a new agent. The Lakers point guard and his longtime agent, Thad Foucher of Wasserman, have parted ways amid a contentious offseason, Foucher told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski on Friday. Foucher had represented Westbrook since the beginning of his NBA career, starting with his fourth overall selection in the 2008 NBA draft and through his MVP-winning Thunder… Source link
Read More »Long-time bull Cathie Wood warns investors about the ‘big problem’ in the economy. Here’s what she likes today
‘We are in a recession’: Long-time bull Cathie Wood warns investors about the ‘big problem’ in the economy. Here’s what she likes today The official GDP estimate for Q2 won’t be available until later next month, but many experts – including Ark Invest’s Cathie Wood – are calling for a recession. “We think we are in a recession,” Wood says in a recent CNBC interview. “We think a big problem out there is inventories — the increase of which I’ve never seen this large in… Source link
Read More »Google Says It’s Time for Longtime Small-Business Users to Pay Up
When Google told some small businesses in January that they would no longer be able to use a customized email service and other workplace apps for free, it felt like a broken promise for Richard J. Dalton Jr., a longtime user who operates a scholastic test-prep company in Vancouver, British Columbia. “They’re basically strong-arming us to switch to something paid after they got us hooked on this free service,” said Mr. Dalton, who first set up a Google work email for his business, Your… Source link
Read More »Longtime shareholder describes ‘what sets Berkshire apart from other companies’
Berkshire Hathaway (BRK-A, BRK-B) kicks off its first in-person shareholder since 2019, bringing droves of investors to downtown Omaha, and one longtime investor explained why shareholders are so dedicated to the company. Despite Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger’s prominence as spokespeople of the company, it isn’t just about them, Garner Russo Managing Member Tom Russo told Yahoo Finance Live (video above). “What sets Berkshire apart from other companies,” Russo said, “is that the culture is… Source link
Read More »Longtime ESPN NFL reporter John Clayton dies
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
Read More »Longtime Putin nemesis Bill Browder’s grade on Western sanctions on Russia: ‘9.5 out of 10’
Bill Browder has pondered how best to put the squeeze on Vladimir Putin and Russia for nearly 20 years now. The financier and head of the Global Magnitsky Justice Campaign has been targeted by Putin for over a decade now and, in a new interview with Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer, offered up his grade of where things stand on sanctions so far. Those sanctions got a failing grade from Browder early on. Before the invasion, he gave the West just a two out of 10 and said the actions… Source link
Read More »Clubhouse hires longtime Google engineer Justin Uberti
Clubhouse has hired Justin Uberti, creator of the WebRTC standard and the Google Duo video chat app. He leaves Google after nearly 15 years at the company, where he was most recently the engineering lead for Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service and led the team that made the Stadia iOS web app. “Justin is a phenomenal engineering leader and one of the original inventors of WebRTC, on top of which Clubhouse is built,” Clubhouse co-founder and CTO Rohan Seth said in a statement…. Source link
Read More »Longtime coach Marty Schottenheimer dies at age 77
Marty Schottenheimer coached for four teams and didn’t have a losing record for any of them. (Credit: Matthew Stockman /Allsport( “Martyball” became a negative term, and that’s unfair to Marty Schottenheimer. Schottenheimer’s long football career shouldn’t be defined only by his lack of a championship. Schottenheimer coached 21 years in the NFL and had only two losing seasons, and became one of eight coaches in history to reach 200 wins. He was a master motivator who got the most out… Source link
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