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The specter of paying wide receivers top-dollar contracts has teams bailing on receivers before they want to. We can thank the Jacksonville Jaguars giving Christian Kirk $21 million per year for the madness that has ensued. With top receivers now eyeing contracts far beyond Kirk’s $21 million per year, the Green Bay Packers shipped off Davante Adams, the Kansas City Chiefs traded Tyreek Hill, and on Thursday during the first round of the NFL draft, the Tennessee Titans traded A.J. Brown for a… Source link

The legendary chart that still governs the NFL draft was an inexact estimate of a 1980s market. Its creator, the Dallas Cowboys, never intended to guide hundreds of draft-day trades for decades to come, but here we are. When the 2022 bonanza begins Thursday in Las Vegas, general managers will answer phones, haggle over picks and reference this outdated rubric. Its purpose, ever since 1991, has been to quantify the relative value of draft picks. It posits, for example, that No. 1 overall is… Source link

Google and NBA have launched the Pixel Arena, a virtual space tied to the 2022 NBA Playoffs, inside the NBA mobile app. The Google and NBA Pixel Area aims to give fans a virtual experience based on real-time information from the games. App users can access the Pixel Arena through the NBA app by selecting a specific game. Here, you can use your phone’s gyroscope to navigate through the 3D virtual space. The Pixel Arena also allows you to make and customize avatars… Source link

Yandex, the multi-billion dollar Russian tech company that’s been operating a small fleet of autonomous vehicles in Ann Arbor, Michigan, laid off over two dozen US-based workers earlier this month, claiming that its vehicle licenses were suspended by Michigan’s state regulators, The Verge has learned. But Michigan says this just isn’t true. In the days following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Yandex paused its AV testing in Ann Arbor, as well as its tests with six-wheeled delivery… Source link

portto, the company behind nonfungible token (NFT) and crypto wallet Blocto, is joining forces with Yahoo Taiwan to launch Yahoo Taiwan NFT Store. They’re set to debut by the end of this month with the first NFT collection featuring ‘A-Hoo’ , the official mascot of Yahoo Taiwan whose image widely appears on its stickers, branded products, and even delivery crates. The ‘A-Hoo’ collection will also be available to trade on Blocto’s NFT marketplace, BloctoBay. The new store enables… Source link

The 2022 NFL league year hasn’t technically begun, yet the unofficial start to free agency has been wild. Remember Tom Brady? He’s back. The Jacksonville Jaguars? They broke the bank for Christian Kirk. Deshaun Watson? Seems like he could be traded any minute now. Charles Robinson welcomes The Athletic’s Robert Mays onto the podcast to discuss the absolutely bonkers first few days of free agency. What happened between Randy Gregory and the Dallas Cowboys to make him spurn his initial deal in… Source link

The Green Bay Packers are adding another staff member to assist Rich Bisaccia’s special teams. According to Rob Demovsky of ESPN, the Packers hired Michael Spurlock as a quality control assistant on special teams. Spurlock, who played nine seasons in the NFL, returned 107 kickoffs and 81 punts during his career. He produced five total return touchdowns; two on punts and three on kickoffs. In 2007, Spurlock became the first player in the history of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to return a kickoff… Source link

After a two-week post-Super Bowl break, You Pod to Win the Game is back in action for the NFL combine, free agency, and the start of the 2022 league year. Charles Robinson & Dan Wetzel open the show briefly acknowledging the war in Ukraine and this surreal moment in world history before diving into the latest NFL stories percolating during the brief desolate news period between the Super Bowl and the combine. What has been happening in that period? Well, there’s the latest in the ongoing soap… Source link

A staff member works during preparations for the reopening of a Fnac store in Paris as part of an easing of the country’s lockdown restrictions amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in France, May 18, 2021. REUTERS/Sarah Meyssonnier/File Photo Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com Register Feb 23 (Reuters) – French retailer Fnac Darty said on Wednesday it entered into a new partnership with tech giant Google (GOOGL.O), as it seeks to improve its online services. Under… Source link

In the most recent edition of ESM, we spoke to a number of retailers across Europe about some of the technological innovations they have implemented into their businesses over the past year. Here, we chat to Artem Fokin, head of business development for Russia’s Yandex Self-Driving Group, about its plans to develop autonomous delivery alongside Majid Al Futtaim in Dubai. Yandex Self-Driving Group announced in November that it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Majid Al Futtaim,… Source link