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Bourg en Bresse basketball’s Zachary Lisacher is a potential top pick in the 2024 NBA Draft. (Aurélien Meunier/Getty Images)The NBA season may have ended with the Celtics’ win over the Mavericks, but the NBA action continues this week with the 2024 NBA Draft. The Atlanta Hawks have the coveted first pick this year. While there is no clear top pick heading into the draft, there are plenty of promising players, including Zachary Lisacher, Donovan Clingan, Alex Sarr and Reed Shepard. The uncertainty of this year’s draft makes it even more interesting to watch live. Are you ready to watch the…
President Joe Biden is expected to go on the offensive on immigration during Thursday’s debate, pointing to his own recent executive orders and criticizing the policies of his Republican rival Donald Trump as extreme, according to sources familiar with the matter. On the eve of the presidential debate, the Biden administration is already trying to demonstrate confidence in its border security, citing recent declines in the number of people crossing the border since Biden’s move to crack down on asylum seekers. Since taking office, Biden’s administration has been grappling with a record-breaking immigration crisis and has often had to respond…
That was never a problem if Malaika Underwood used to play baseball. whereA native of California, Underwood began playing in San Diego’s Chollas Lake Little League at a young age and fell in love with baseball, never to be put down. She played baseball through college, but after graduating, she returned to the baseball field as a member of the USA Women’s National Baseball Team. The speedy right-side infielder was selected for the national team a record 11 times from 2006 to 2022, won four gold medals at various international competitions, and was named USA Baseball Sportswoman of the Year…
Australian opener Usman Khawaja believes the constant reshuffling in Pakistan cricket could be the reason behind his team’s poor performance in the ICC T20 World Cup 2024.Pakistan lost their opening two matches and were eliminated from the group stage of the tournament for the first time in their history. The Greens suffered a humiliating defeat to the United States in the Super Over and then lost to arch rivals India by six runs, falling just short of their target of 120.Later, the match between Ireland and USA ended in a rain-affected draw, resulting in a draw on points, indirectly eliminating…
Being a small business owner is characterized by a lack of boundaries. The same goes for being self-employed. Are there any tasks you won’t take on to help grow and move your business forward? Of course not. And is there a hot list of functions you’d like to delegate to others so you can focus on the bigger picture? Of course there is. Probably at the top of that list would be accounting services: bookkeeping, payroll, tax preparation, etc. Block Advisors has built its business with a simple purpose in mind: to provide support and expertise to small business owners.…
Klutch Sports Group and agency founder Rich Paul were sued in federal court Wednesday by a former colleague and longtime NBA agent for allegedly breaching contract. Mark Termini filed the complaint Wednesday morning in the Northern District of Ohio, alleging he is owed more than $4.9 million plus interest for services he performed for the famed agency.Termini alleges in his lawsuit that after working with Paul for about 15 months, he signed with Klutch in 2014 to become the company’s primary contract negotiator. In that role, Termini says he was responsible for negotiating contracts for Klutch and its clients (his…
(TNS) A bipartisan bill to help the struggling media industry by requiring Google and Facebook to pay news companies whose articles appear on their platforms faced its first test Tuesday night when it passed the state Senate Judiciary Committee on a 9-2 vote.If approved by the Senate and signed into law, Google and Facebook would be forced to agree to pay a negotiated lump sum annual fee to the news organization fund or enter into arbitration or mediation to negotiate a cut of their digital advertising revenues.”News organizations are downsizing and closing at an alarming rate,” Rep. Buffy Wicks, an…
Chinese stocks are like a small engine that no longer runs. After showing signs of economic recovery in the first five months of the year, stocks are losing steam again as investors expect authorities to take further steps to revive the economy, revive the property market and boost confidence at the next two policy meetings.Investors are keeping their eyes on the upcoming Politburo meeting in July, although an exact date has yet to be set, and perhaps more importantly, the anticipated Third Plenum, a major gathering of the party’s Central Committee where major policy shifts and economic decisions have traditionally…
Earlier this year, Meta made the controversial decision to remove political content from users’ recommendations on Threads and Instagram by default. The company said it didn’t want to “aggressively amplify” political posts and that users could opt-in via Instagram settings if they wanted to see such content.But it turns out Meta continued to restrict political content, even for users who chose to view it. Apparently, an unspecified “error” was causing the “Political Content” toggle, already buried deep in Instagram’s settings menu, to revert to the “Restrict” setting every time the app was closed. According to Meta, political content “is more…
Peggy Goo’s take on the cut-out trend? The more the merrier. Last night, the Korean DJ put a dramatic twist on a classic LBD to attend the Serpentine Galleries Summer Party in London.Joining the likes of Alexa Chung and Venus Williams, Goo wore a custom David Koma dress for the occasion. Inspired by the London-based brand’s Fall 2024 collection, her dress featured a sleeveless bodice that flowed into a full-length maxi skirt. While celebrity cut-out fashion has mostly consisted of just large slits on the sides of dresses, Goo instead approached the style with jet-black macramé. The densely woven fabric…