MLB’s Field of Dreams Game was a big hit last season, and fans could only wonder how the league could top it with its follow-up on Thursday. A big clue came on Wednesday, when a report emerged that Fox was testing a hologram of the late Harry Caray, the legendary Chicago Cubs broadcaster who died in 1998, for the Chicago Cubs-Cincinnati Reds game. A source, however, told reporter Timothy Burke that the footage was “unconvincing” and “possibly offensive.” That made quite a few fans more than a… Source link
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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 Friday, December 3, 2021 Like Freddie, Jason and John McClain, the U.S. debt fight just won’t die The Omicron variant and inflation worries are spooking markets. And as if investors aren’t preoccupied by enough, the nation’s leaders are bickering over debt and spending — well, and just about everything else, to be honest — in ways that could… Source link
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Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Get the Morning Brief sent directly to your inbox every Monday to Friday by 6:30 a.m. ET. Subscribe Aggregate earnings don’t tell the whole story. Third quarter earnings season is wrapping up. Through Friday, earnings per share for S&P 500 companies was down 6.3% over last year, the fourth-biggest quarterly drop since 2009, according to data from FactSet. This will also mark the sixth time in the last seven quarters that year-over-year earnings fell, with tax cuts in… Source link
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