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If you want to listen to Kanye West’s new album — you’ll need to buy a $200 Stem Player. Last week, West announced that ‘Donda 2’ would not be available on traditional music streaming services like Spotify (SPOT) or Apple Music (AAPL), despite the latter reportedly offering the rapper a $100 million deal that he rejected. Instead, the album will exclusively stream on Ye’s new pocket-sized device, the latest evolution in a music industry where payment and distribution models are being rapidly… Source link

Each week during the 2021-22 NBA season, we will take a deeper dive into some of the league’s biggest storylines in an attempt to determine whether the trends are based more in fact or fiction moving forward. [ Last week’s Fact or Fiction: Karl-Anthony Towns, the forgotten star ] Klay Thompson is the coolest basketball player alive NBA stars have bounced from team to team in pursuit of happiness both on and off the court, only to find the discontentment that led them from their last stop has… Source link

Dan Reeves, former Cowboys player and head coach for the Broncos, Giants, and Falcons, has died at age 77. (Photo by STEPHEN JAFFE/AFP via Getty Images) Former NFL player and head coach Dan Reeves has died at age 77, his family said in a statement released to the NFL on Saturday morning.  “Legendary NFL player and coach Dan Reeves passed away early this morning, peacefully and surrounded by his loving family at his home in Atlanta, GA. He passed away at age 77 due to complications from a long… Source link

Week 14 was a mix of blowouts and down-to-the-wire games. Unfortunately, like most weeks this season, injuries played a big part in a lot of Sunday’s outcomes. Today, we are going to touch on all this and more. Here are my takeaways from Week 14. King Kamara King Kamara, we have missed you so. Our liege, Alvin Kamara, finally returned in Week 14 after missing four games due to a knee injury. Prior to getting injured, he was fifth in receiving yards per game (39), fourth in receiving touchdowns… Source link

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger may be locked and loaded on bulking up the chip powerhouse as it seeks to dethrone rivals Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing and Samsung in the business of making semiconductors for other tech giants. “It’s a big, expensive industry to play in. The R&D demands are extraordinary, the capital demands are extraordinary for it. So you can’t be a little player,” Gelsinger said on his appetite for M&A in the foundry business on Yahoo Finance Live.  Intel (INTC) committed… Source link

It was only a matter of time until a pitcher failed a spot check in MLB’s new foreign substances crackdown, and that time has come.  Seattle Mariners pitcher Hector Santiago was ejected on Sunday afternoon after umpires checked his glove in the fifth inning and presumably found something that shouldn’t have been there.  While Santiago’s frowny face reaction is pretty great, the best part of that video is the bagging of the suspicious glove. If they plan on sending that glove to a lab so it… Source link

(Photo by Rod Mar/MLB Photos via Getty Images) A former sports reporter who covered the Texas Rangers wrote in an essay published Sunday that she was raped by an MLB player in 2002.  Kat O’Brien wrote about the alleged attack in an essay for the New York Times headlined “I am breaking my silence about the baseball player who raped me.” O’Brien declined to name her alleged attacker but clarified that he was not a member of the Rangers.  O’Brien described the attack as taking place in a hotel… Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link

A high school football coach in Ohio was fired Thursday after forcing a player to eat pork as a punishment, according to the New York Times. The incident occurred after a senior on the Canton McKinley High School football team missed an optional practice. On May 24, the 17-year-old player was reportedly forced by coaches to eat an entire pepperoni pizza as punishment. The player is a Hebrew Israelite, and cannot consume pork for religious reasons.  The player was reportedly told he had to eat… Source link

While I typically write articles giving micro-level advice on which players to add via trade or free agency, I have lately been dabbling in process-related pieces. This is another in that series, which includes recent pieces on how I evaluate hitters and pitchers. For this article, I’m going to cover a typical 24 hour-span and how I manage my teams. Most of my teams are in leagues with weekly roster transactions. The exception is the Yahoo Friends & Family league, which has constant waivers… Source link