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Dwight Smith was a teammate away from winning Rookie of the Year. (Stephen Dunn/Allsport) Dwight Smith, a Rookie of the Year runner-up for the Chicago Cubs and a World Series champion with the Atlanta Braves, died on Friday, the Braves announced. He was 58 years old. Smith played eight seasons in the majors, debuting in 1989 with the Cubs, who drafted him in the third round of the since-discontinued January MLB draft. The Tallahassee, Florida native was an immediate hit, batting .324/.382/.493… Source link

Gold medalist Fred Kerley, of the United States, center, stands with silver medalist Marvin Bracy, of the United States, right, and bronze medalist Trayvon Bromell, of the United States, after the final in the men’s 100-meter run at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday, July 16, 2022, in Eugene, Ore. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis) The American men swept the medals in the 100 meters at the World Athletics Championships on Saturday night. Fred Kerley was the gold medalist, out-leaning Marvin… Source link

Sophia Smith (left) scored two goals in the USWNT’s rout of Jamaica at the 2022 CONCACAF W Championship. (Photo by Jaime Lopez/Jam Media/Getty Images) Nine months before the 2019 U.S. women’s national team conquered all comers, it was already a finished product. It hadn’t yet clinched a spot at the World Cup it would eventually win, but the 11 players who opened a breezy qualifying campaign on Oct. 4, 2018, became the core that triumphed the following summer. Of the 11, 10 started the… Source link

Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) has shed half of its value since the start of the year and has fallen even more since it topped out around $69,000 last November. Although the sharp price decrease has been alarming for some cryptocurrency investors, MicroStrategy Inc (NASDAQ: MSTR), which has more than $4 billion in Bitcoin exposure, doesn’t seem phased. “If you try to time the market, you are going to be very frustrated,” MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor said Monday on “Benzinga Live.” “But if… Source link

Wednesday’s decision by the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates by 75 basis points was its biggest hike since 1994, and economists are starting to digest what a paradigm change it is. One of the world’s most prominent Fed watchers, Mohamed El-Erian, chief economic adviser of financial services firm Allianz and president of Queens’ College at Cambridge, says it’s part of a “great awakening” for central banks, as several others took action this week. For instance, the Swiss… Source link

MetLife Stadium was one of the venues selected by FIFA to host 2026 World Cup matches. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File) NEW YORK — Kansas City and Boston are among the North American cities that will stage 2026 men’s World Cup matches — but Washington D.C. and Baltimore are not. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, revealed the tournament’s hosts on Thursday here in Manhattan. It selected three Mexican cities, two Canadian ones, and 11 in the United States — New York/East Rutherford,… Source link

Hey everyone, and welcome back to Chain Reaction. Last week, we discussed $4.5 billion in new crypto funds from a16z. This week, we’re talking about the arrest that has everyone in the NFT space sweating bullets. If you want to get this in you inbox every Thursday afternoon, you can subscribe on TechCrunch’s newsletter page. Ocean climate tech Image Credits: Getty Images crimes of the future The crypto space has been moving so quickly over the past couple years that builders have generally seemed… Source link

LeBron James was one of plenty in the sports world who was outraged on Tuesday afternoon after a horrific mass shooting at a Texas elementary school. The Los Angeles Lakers star erupted on social media calling for change after at least 18 students and three adults were killed in Uvalde, Texas. “Like when is enough enough man!!!” he wrote, in part. “These are kids and we keep putting them in harm’s way at school. Like seriously ‘AT SCHOOL’ where it’s suppose to be the safest.

Ola Källenius, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, and Renata Jungo Brüngger, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG with the Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR Uhlenhaut Coupe. A unicorn in the collector car world just went under the hammer, and sold for a record-breaking, astounding amount. Mercedes-Benz Group (MBG.DE) announced it’s sold a 1955 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR “Uhlenhaut Coupé” from its collection for $143 million (135 million euros) in a private… Source link

Shark Tank star and O’Shares Investment Advisers Chairman Kevin O’Leary predicts that one day blockchain and cryptocurrency will represent the 12th sector of the S&P 500 and is “very confident” sensible government crypto regulation will happen before mass adoption. “The pace and acceleration of policy proposals coming out of bipartisan Senate committees and the Hill has never been greater” Kevin O’Leary said on Yahoo Finance Live “We’ve got the Lummis bill. We have the Haggerty… Source link