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Bill Belichick and the Patriots are hoping to avoid an 0-2 start. (Photo by Chris Unger/Getty Images) After a wild early window in Week 1, what can we expect from NFL Week 2? We’ll find out in short order with some tempting matchups, as the New England Patriots try to avoid an 0-2 start at the Pittsburgh Steelers, while Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will try to beat the New Orleans Saints in the regular season for the first time since he joined the team. Following along with all the… Source link

NFL power rankings Week 1: Where Commanders stand after win vs. Jaguars originally appeared on NBC Sports Washington In typical NFL fashion, Week 1 didn’t disappoint. The Bears sprung an upset on Trey Lance and the 49ers at rain-soaked Soldier Field, Meanwhile, Justin Jefferson torched the Green Bay Packers a few hours to the west, while the Eagles stomped the Detroit Lions to the east. The 49ers weren’t the only expected title contender to lay an egg in Week 1. The Packers, Rams, Bengals,… Source link

Sharks’ projected Opening Night roster has good, bad problems originally appeared on NBC Sports Bayarea What will the Sharks’ Opening Night lineup look like? Here’s a way-too-early guess – considering that we’re still two months away from the Sharks’ season opener against the Nashville Predators on Oct. 7 in Prague, Czech Republic. Trades and free agent signings still are possible for San Jose. But right now, the Sharks have a couple of good problems: Too many NHL-caliber forwards and… Source link

JUPITER, Fla. – The deadline set by Major League Baseball to ensure a 162-game season and save the scheduled March 31 opening day is now close enough you could measure the time left to get a deal in hours, not days. If there is no deal by Monday, the league has said that it will start canceling regular season games, and has publicly avowed that those games will not be rescheduled and players will not be paid for them. So to say it was a bad sign that bargaining ended Saturday with the… Source link

NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million. It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent below the 2018 Games in South Korea that notched 28.3 million viewers despite also dealing with a less than advantageous Asian time zone for American audiences. It comes on the heels of Thursday’s ratings… Source link

The first trial linked to the Varsity Blues scandal is officially underway, with defense lawyers heavily emphasizing how the parents accused of fraud and bribery conspiracy were victims in a scheme perpetrated by a con man, according to their opening statements on Monday. Two fathers, both successful businessmen, are on trial this month over their alleged participation in a widespread criminal scheme to fraudulently secure college admissions for their children. Gamal Abdelaziz, a former casino… Source link

Opening statements are set to begin today in a long-delayed and anticipated criminal fraud trial against Elizabeth Holmes, a Stanford University dropout whose blood-testing company, Theranos, propelled her to become the world’s youngest female self-made billionaire. Holmes, now 37, launched the Silicon Valley startup in 2003 at just 19 years old, with a vision to overhaul diagnostic health care. Over more than a decade, the entrepreneur sold investors on the idea of developing an analyzer,… Source link

(Adds comment from executive) By Helen Coster July 24 (Reuters) – NBC’s broadcast of the Tokyo Olympic Games opening ceremony drew 16.7 million viewers, the smallest U.S. television audience for the event in the past 33 years, according to preliminary data from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal on Saturday. Across all platforms, including NBCOlympics.com and the NBC Sports app, 17 million people watched the ceremony, NBCUniversal said in an email. The streaming audience on those platforms grew 76% from… Source link

There have been plenty of pop-ups over the years, but tomorrow Google’s first store opens in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood. The brick and mortar model finds the company joining peers like Apple, Microsoft, Samsung and even Amazon, all of whom have a retail presence in Manhattan, including several just around the corner from Google’s new digs. The new space, which opens tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. local time, fills 5,000 square feet of selling space in Google’s big, pricey West Side… Source link

Google revealed a render of its upcoming New York City store. Google Google is taking a step… Source link