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ProFootball Talk on NBC Sports Mike Tomlin on Steelers: “Where we are today, not good” The Steelers are 1-4, and they’ve lost four in a row. On Sunday, they were blown off the field by the Bills, 38-3. After the loss, coach Mike Tomlin summarized the current state of the team. “No need to really sugarcoat it, man,” Tomlin told reporters. “We got handled today. We got handled by a [more] Source link

The number of Covid infections among Los Angeles-area Google employees nearly doubled over the weekend, according to the count on the county’s official Covid workplace outbreak site. On Friday, Deadline reported that the tech giant’s stylish Silicon Beach campus in Venice had recorded 145 infections. This morning, the L.A. County Public Health dashboard showed another 135 newly-tallied cases at the company’s massive Playa Vista complex. (There were another another 15 infections… Source link

The NFL wants to add American football to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, but not the breed of American football its fans are used to. Troy Vincent, the league’s executive vice president of football operations, will work alongside International Federation of American Football president Pierre Trochet as co-chairs of the “Vision28” group, an effort to add flag football to the Los Angeles Games, the NFL announced Wednesday. No form of American football has been seen at the Olympics since 1932,… Source link

Olympic silver medalist Kim Glass says that she was attacked by a random man with a pipe while walking on a Los Angeles street. Glass shared video on Instagram speaking about the attack that shows multiple facial injuries including fractures around her right eye and cuts that required stitches. (Warning, the video seen here and included above shows graphic injuries.) Glass’ right eye was swollen shut, and she had a gash on the bridge of her nose. She told her followers that the attack happened… Source link

Free agent center Thomas Bryant has reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers on a one-year deal, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Bryant will be given the opportunity to win the starting center position, sources said. He was courted by the Toronto Raptors, Boston Celtics, Milwaukee Bucks and Utah Jazz, sources said. Bryant returns to Los Angeles where he spent his rookie season with the Lakers after being a second-round pick in the 2017 NBA draft. He was waived in 2018 and signed with… Source link

Free agent forward Juan Toscano-Anderson — who just won a championship with the Golden State Warriors — has reached an agreement with the Los Angeles Lakers, his agent Erika Ruiz of Klutch Sports told Yahoo Sports. Toscano-Anderson spent the past three seasons with the Warriors and played 73 games this season, averaging 4.1 points and 2.4 rebounds per game. He is a career 4.8 points-per-game scorer and emerged as a regular bench option for the Warriors, playing only 66 games in his first… Source link

The 285 graduates of the Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles received an extra special graduation gift Sunday when Evan Spiegel, Snap CEO and co-founder, and his wife Miranda Kerr, founder of beauty brand KORA Organics, announced they will pay off all of the Class of 2022’s student loan debt through a donation to the school. While the amount of Spiegel and Kerr’s donation was not disclosed, the college said it’s the largest single gift it has ever received, surpassing the previous… Source link

My favorite fight song in sports has always been “San Diego Super Chargers.” I don’t think it’s any coincidence that Dan Fouts threw for career-highs in passing yardage three seasons in a row after the song’s release in 1979. It’s a certified banger, trust me. The serotonin rush I get from listening to it is close to the rush I experienced when BetMGM released their Super Bowl LVII odds and I saw the Chargers listed at +2500. I’m jumping on that value before the free agency period starts,… Source link

LOS ANGELES — For 21 seasons the NFL didn’t have a team in Los Angeles, the second-largest media market in the United States. We’re going to look back at that gap and wonder how it happened. The short story is that the league needed land and a stadium, and that was difficult to come by. We’ll get to that struggle in a bit. When Super Bowl LVI kicks off, it will be a signature moment in the NFL’s new Los Angeles era. SoFi Stadium, the most expensive stadium in the world by a mile, will be the… Source link

Alvariño discovered 22 new species of zooplankton and published more than 100 scientific papers, according to Google and biographies of the scientist. The Spanish Institute of Oceanography (IEO) appointed her as a marine biologist in 1952, even though only men were accepted at the institute at the time, because of her impressive work at university, Google said. Born in Serntes on the Spanish coast, Alvariño developed a love for natural history early, encouraged by her parents to read her… Source link