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The NCAA on Monday pledged that its popular post-season men’s basketball tournament would be staged in 2021 — with all games played in one place, possibly the state of Indiana. The competition known as March Madness is normally staged at 13 arenas across America: not including the play-in games in Dayton, Ohio, there are normally […]
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What drives the reports that the Knicks are a potential landing spot for Russell Westbrook in a trade? Or the rumor that New York has interest in Boston’s Gordon Hayward. It could be fueled by people partial to Knicks’ new coach, Tom Thibodeau. Unsurprisingly, Thibodeau is pushing for win-now moves, reports Stefan Bondy of the […]
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Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is the third most common pediatric chronic disease in the United States, and the risk of the disease has risen sharply in non-Hispanic Black (NHB) children in the last 20 years, data show. Ironically, the significant advances in T1D therapeutics over recent years, especially new technologies, may have exacerbated racial disparities […]
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Tesla will join the S&P 500 Index, effective December 21, according to a Monday announcement from S&P Global. Tesla (TSLA), which is now valued at more than Toyota (TM), Disney (DIS) and Coca-Cola (KO), has a market cap of nearly $387 billion. To be eligible to join the S&P 500, a company must be based […]
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Facebook is seeing an increase in worrying activity around the US election, according to reports from The New York Times and BuzzFeed News. According to BuzzFeed News, which viewed a post on Facebook’s internal message board, the company has been tracking a rise in “violence and incitement trends” associated with hashtags and keywords. Facebook did […]
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Newly hired Miami Marlins general manager Kim Ng acknowledged on Monday that her long road to an MLB corner office likely included job interviews where she wasn’t a serious candidate. Ng, meeting with reporters via a Zoom call at Marlins Park, was asked if she believed past interviews for high-level jobs might have been window […]
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NBA teams want details on the upcoming season from the league, and now one has slipped out: Plans for the preseason. Teams will play three or four games between Dec. 11 and 19, reports Shams Charania of The Athletic. It makes sense to mandate teams to host a game to work out the kinks in […]
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A growing body of evidence points to the health risks of using e-cigarettes (or “vaping”). But because e-cigarettes are marketed as a less harmful alternative to traditional cigarettes, it has been difficult to tell whether the association between vaping and disease is just a matter of smokers switching to vaping when they start experiencing health […]
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Positive reports on the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer are extremely good news for a world battling a crippling pandemic. This just in: Moderna (MRNA) has announced that per early results, its Covid-19 vaccine is 94.5% effective. Stocks — which jumped dramatically when Pfizer said its vaccine was more than 90% effective […]
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Xiaomi has announced the Mi Box 4S Pro, a streaming box capable of 8K video playback. The product was revealed on Weibo and is already available to order in China for 399 yuan, or about $60. The box has 2GB of RAM, 16GB of storage, and supports HDMI 2.1. It comes with a Bluetooth remote […]
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