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BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — There are 12 teams in non-play-in playoff positioning and only one has a new head coach: Wes Unseld Jr.’s Washington Wizards, who snapped a three-game losing streak Wednesday night in overtime against a pesky Detroit Pistons squad. Unseld Jr. is one of several new coaches on the sideline this season and, arguably, could be the most mild, soft-spoken of them all. It’s a sharp contrast to a couple scenes from Wednesday night, when a few of his players were… Source link

Ethereum (ETH-USD) is defying broad underperformance in cryptocurrencies, with its recent price gains reflecting a surge of interest in smart contract platforms that are being rapidly co-opted by the nonfungible token (NFT) boom.  Amid newfound investor interest, the digital coin’s performance has even eclipsed Bitcoin’s (BTC-USD), which has languished for over a month after setting a new record high near $68,000. Currently trading around $4,400, Ethereum is the second largest… 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 Wednesday, November 10, 2021 A lot for regulators to chew on, but for crypto the same old menu may not do  On Tuesday, Yahoo Finance joined Decrypt in an effort to spotlight all the ways in which cryptocurrency is now going mainstream. And there are no shortage of headlines trumpeting the ways in which digital coins are capturing the public’s… Source link

Oct 24 (Reuters) – Red Bull Formula One driver Sergio Perez said Sunday’s U.S. Grand Prix was the hardest and longest race of his life after his car’s water bottle failed and left him dehydrated in the Texas heat. The Mexican finished third in a race won by Dutch team mate Max Verstappen at Austin’s Circuit of the Americas, but he was clearly suffering after he got out of the car. “I struggled massively, you know. Since lap one I ran out of water. I couldn’t drink at all,” he said before the… Source link

Portillo’s Inc. restaurant chain begins trading Thursday on Nasdaq (ticker: PTLO) Portillo’s is a Chicago institution known for hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and more Generates staggering avg. store volume of $8.7 million, easily topping Chipotle, Shake Shack Plans to expand to at least 600 stores from current count of 67 at 10% annual rate All locations are profitable and Portillo’s has never had to close a restaurant Demonstrated Ebitda growth in 2020 in the depths of Covid thanks to… Source link

Ben Gwin works for Google Shopping in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Though he is technically a temporary worker at the tech giant, Gwin and 65 of his colleagues are now represented by the United Steelworkers union. The group of workers ratified their first union contract in July after two years at the bargaining table with their contractor, HCL America Inc. The contract victory was historic in an industry that has aggressively opposed union drives, especially among temp and contracted employees.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has turned to familiar Democratic faces in the final days of a campaign to keep his job.  President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, and Senator Elizabeth Warren have all lent their voices to give the embattled governor a boost against a Republican-led effort to remove him from office. But if Newsom emerges victorious on Tuesday, he may have some big name tech executives, particularly Netflix (NFLX) co-founder and co-CEO Reed Hastings to thank. With a… Source link

TYSONS CORNER, Va. — Abortion emerged as a front-burner issue in the Virginia governor’s race on Wednesday, as the impact of a new near-total ban on the practice in Texas reverberated in one of the year’s marquee political contests. Democrat Terry McAuliffe, who served as Virginia’s governor from 2014 to 2018 but was limited to one term by the state’s constitution, is running again and made sure to mention the Texas law while speaking at a business group luncheon. “I cannot tell… Source link

Wednesday, July 14, 2021 This article was first featured in Yahoo Finance Tech, a weekly newsletter highlighting our original content on the industry. Get it sent directly to your inbox every Wednesday by 4 p.m. ET. Subscribe Amazon (AMZN) founder Jeff Bezos will launch Tuesday from a remote area of west Texas on his Blue Origin rocket, becoming the second billionaire this month to leave the Earth, albeit briefly. Bezos’ July 20 flight on the New Shepard spacecraft will come less than two… Source link

The Telegraph Phil Mickelson rolls back the years but has elite company on USPGA leaderboard Full leaderboard Third round tee times Padraig Harrington had seen enough. After watching playing partner Phil Mickelson rolling back the years whilst rolling in the putts in the first two rounds of the 103rd US PGA Championship here, Europe’s Ryder Cup captain was ready to call history. “In the position Phil is, I expect him to contend and I wouldn’t put it past him being there on top at the end… Source link