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Odell Beckham Jr. was on his way to a redemptive Super Bowl LVI last February until a wrong step derailed his crowning night. The Los Angeles Rams receiver’s plant foot got stuck in the SoFi Stadium turf as he twisted his body to try to snag a pass thrown just behind him. To NFL players who had campaigned in vain to rid the sport of artificial turf, the sight of Beckham crumpling to the ground and clutching his knee was not only tragic but avoidable. They unleashed a barrage of tweets… Source link

In this edition of the Yahoo Fantasy Football Forecast, Matt Harmon and Andy Behrens discuss the running back situation in Green Bay, including if fantasy managers should be worried about Jones’ workload as the season progresses. Video Transcript [AUDIO LOGO] MATT HARMON: Andy, I’ve been waiting all podcast to ask you, how much should I be freaking out about saying all summer Aaron Jones is the perfect second-round pick? And Scott Pianowski, right there in my corner, gassing me up too. He’s… Source link

Teachers are leaving the profession like never before, leaving many school districts in dire need of educators to fill those roles. While the ongoing teacher shortage has been happening since the start of COVID, the president of the largest teachers’ union in the U.S. is warning that parents and students will particularly feel the impact in the upcoming school year. “You have a perfect storm going on right now,” Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers (AFT), said on… Source link

Until recently, Tanuja Gupta was a senior manager at Google News. She was involved in various forms of activism at the company, and, in April, she invited Thenmozhi Soundararajan, the founder of Equality Labs, a nonprofit, to speak about the subject of caste discrimination. (India’s caste system, which has existed in some form for centuries, separates Hindus into broadly hierarchical groups that often correspond to historical religious practice and familial professions. Those at the bottom… Source link

Google is adding features to its search engine to combat misinformation. (Photo by Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images) NurPhoto via Getty Images In 2014, if you were to Google “King of the United States,” you would have seen a picture of Barack Obama, yelling passionately into a microphone while at a podium. That’s not true, of course. But Google proclaimed it with authority after surfacing a Breitbart article entitled, “All Hail King Barack Obama, Emperor Of The… Source link

“But this is Kevin Durant.” That line from Shams Charania’s report for The Athletic, which suggested the Boston Celtics offered Jaylen Brown as the centerpiece of a trade for the Brooklyn Nets superstar, is a common refrain in analysis of the one-time league MVP’s value. In a vacuum, Durant is better than Brown and may have meant the difference between a six-game NBA Finals loss to the Golden State Warriors and the Celtics’ 18th championship. Of course Boston should gauge Brooklyn’s interest… Source link

Elon Musk could soon face off against Twitter in a Delaware court over whether he should be forced to buy the social media company. Musk’s excuse for backing out? Bots. Specifically, how many bots run rampant on Twitter. In trying to back out of the $44 billion deal, Musk has asserted that Twitter hasn’t provided enough data on the platform’s number of bots — automated accounts that can be benign but can also be used for nefarious purposes like bilking users out of their cash through… Source link

‘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

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Monday, June 13, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Brian Sozzi, an editor-at-large and anchor at Yahoo Finance. Follow Sozzi on Twitter @BrianSozzi and on LinkedIn. Many times in my career in financial markets, I’ve been able to spot trainwrecks before they happen. The trade-off for devoting every waking second to studying markets, the human beings… Source link

This article first appeared in the Morning Brief. Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Tuesday, June 7, 2022 Today’s newsletter is by Myles Udland, senior markets editor at Yahoo Finance. Follow him on Twitter @MylesUdland and on LinkedIn. Earnings season may be done, but corporate results are set to be the stock market’s next big problem. Again. In a note to clients published Monday, Morgan Stanley strategist Mike Wilson noted… Source link