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There might not be regular-season baseball games during the All-Star break, but fantasy managers can never rest. The All-Star break gives us an opportunity to perform a deep evaluation of our teams before the trade deadline. Will that breakout star really keep it up or should they be traded for a struggling ace poised to turn things around? Those decisions could make or break your fantasy season. The 2022 MLB season has provided plenty of surprising developments. Sandy Alcantara has a… Source link

Amid reports of “an impasse” between the Brooklyn Nets and Kyrie Irving, the seven-time NBA All-Star will exercise the $36.9 million option on his contract for the 2022-23 season, according to The Athletic’s Shams Charania. Irving can now sign an extension with the Nets or if the two sides cannot agree on the long-term deal Irving was seeking, he can become an unrestricted free agent next summer. The Nets could still trade him this season. Irving, an otherworldly talent and enigmatic… Source link

Bruising levels of inflation from rent to gas to food continues to hit many American households hard, so hard it may be pushing a new group of the population into food stamps, hints new data. Google search volumes for “food stamps” are still running 100% higher than pre-pandemic levels (see chart below), according to DataTrek. Search volumes have trended higher since the start of 2022 as inflation has accelerated, notably at the gas pump. Volumes peaked in April 2020 as millions of people lost… Source link

Did No. 15 seed St. Peters ruin your hopes of a perfect men’s tournament bracket? You weren’t alone. After a day of March Madness, only 14 perfect brackets remain in Yahoo Tourney Pick’Em. By far the biggest bracket-buster was St. Peter’s, the small school from Jersey City, New Jersey that took down college basketball juggernaut Kentucky, a No. 2 seed, in an 85-79 thriller. To get a sense of the scale of upset we’re dealing with here, consider that Kentucky head coach John Calipari’s salary is… Source link

Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. Credit: Tom Hanks | Lantern Reporter Following the invasion of Ukraine, some Buckeyes are wondering what the future holds for the Russian-made food delivery robots on Ohio State’s campus. Yandex, a Russian technology company, supplies the on-campus food delivery robots through Ohio State’s partnership with Grubhub. The robots remain operational —… Source link

The Green Bay Packers’ Super Bowl odds improved over Wild Card Weekend even though they didn’t play at all. The Packers remain the Super Bowl favorite at BetMGM entering the Divisional round. The NFC’s No. 1 seed entered the playoffs at +400 to win the Super Bowl and is now at +375 ahead of a matchup against the San Francisco 49ers on Saturday. If Green Bay beats San Francisco (+1000) it will host the winner of the Los Angeles Rams and Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFC Championship… Source link

Businesses will increasingly use “foundational” A.I. algorithms, but ethical perils remain, Google executive warns |… Source link

WASHINGTON — Cleaner sources of energy, harvested by machinery made in the United States. Early childhood education subsidized by the federal government. Cheaper hearing aids and expanded health care coverage. A million units of affordable housing. Those are just some of the “truly consequential” changes Americans will see if President Biden’s $1.75 trillion Build Back Better agenda survives the meat grinder of Capitol Hill, he said on Thursday. “We will own the future,” Biden… Source link

Google parent Alphabet Inc. reported quarterly results that exceeded Wall Street estimates Tuesday, belying fears that it would be dinged by the changes in Apple Inc.’s mobile privacy policy that stung its social-media brethren. The search-engine giant  GOOGL, +1.35% GOOG, +0.65%,  dominant in global digital advertising, reported net income of $18.94 billion, or $27.99 a share, in its fiscal third quarter, compared… Source link

Colleges are increasingly making standardized tests optional for applicants, leading to questions about whether or not the companies profiting from broad-based testing should be the de facto gatekeepers of the higher education admissions system. “The test prep industry has become a multi-billion dollar industry, and it’s growing and expanding at a high rate,” Susan Paterno, a professor of English and director of the journalism program at Chapman University and previously served on a… Source link