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Max Holloway has expressed disappointment at missing out on the main event of UFC 306 at the Sphere in Las Vegas. UFC 306 takes place on Saturday, September 14 at the Sphere in Paradise, Nevada. The main event will feature current UFC bantamweight champion Sean O’Malley (18-1 MMA) facing Merab Dvalishvili (17-4 MMA). O'Malley faced Marlon Vera (23-9 MMA record) at UFC 299 in March of this year and won. Dvalishvili is coming off a win over Henry Cejudo (16-4 MMA) at UFC 298 in February of this year. Max Holloway has admitted his disappointment at not being selected to…
READING, Pa. – The Reading Royals, the ECHL affiliate of the National Hockey League's Philadelphia Flyers and the American Hockey League's Lehigh Valley Phantoms, have announced that forward Todd Skarving has signed with the club for the 2024-25 season.The 32-year-old Scarving joins the Royals in his seventh professional season. A native of Thunder Bay, Ontario, the six-year pro career includes one game in the American Hockey League with the Toronto Marlies in 2022-23 and two Kelly Cup championships with the Newfoundland Growlers (2018-19) and Florida Everblades (2023-24).Skirving has totaled 149 points (74 goals, 75 assists) in 301 ECHL regular season…
The Houston Rockets haven't made any major moves this offseason when it comes to players, but the team has some obvious offensive issues that could be solved with a simple trade.Houston shot just 35.2% from three-point range last season (23rd) and 56.5% true shooting (24th), which was a big contributing factor to their offensive rating of 113.7 (20th), so they clearly need shooters.The Rockets did a good job in the draft addressing a need with two-way shooter Reed Shepard out of Kentucky, but there's no guarantee he'll be successful and they could always acquire another wing/forward who can stretch the…
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators 'Heil Hitler' chants at Israeli Olympic soccer match July 29, 2024 11:55 AM PST Pro-Palestinian protesters made their presence known at the Olympics in the worst way possible, by evoking some of the biggest anti-Semites in human history directly from the stands. Take a look… As the Israeli team took to the field alongside the Paraguayan team at the Parc des Princes on Saturday…anti-Israel protesters carrying Palestinian flags repeatedly gave Nazi salutes and chanted “Heil Hitler.” according to Sky NewsThe singing of the Israeli national anthem was also booed by protesters holding a banner reading “Genocide Olympics”, who…
Shares in Dutch brewer Heineken fell nearly 10 percent on Monday after hopes of a boost in beer sales from sports failed to materialize and the company took a roughly $1 billion write-down on its China investments. The Dutch manufacturer of Europe's top-selling large vehicles raised its full-year operating profit forecast, but some analysts said it was still not as strong as expected. Heineken had hoped that the month-long European soccer championships in Germany and the Paris Olympics would boost sales, but beer volume rose just 2.1 percent in the first half of the year, below the 3.4 percent that…
Markets expect big rate cuts over the next 12 months 28 minutes ago Financial markets expect the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates as sharply over the next year as it typically does during an economic downturn, but market predictions about interest rates rarely come true. According to CME Group's FedWatch tool, which predicts interest rate movements based on data from federal funds futures contracts, the Fed is likely to cut the benchmark federal funds rate by 1.75 percentage points from current levels between now and September 2025. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell attends a Washington Economic Club event in…
As artificial intelligence continues to attract attention and investors, universities from Arizona State University to the University of Texas at Dallas are beginning to market undergraduate-level AI degrees to students.New graduates are entering a tough tech job market: Whereas a computer science degree was once seen as a golden ticket to a high-paying tech job, increased competition and major cutbacks across the industry now make it harder to land a tech internship or entry-level position.But AI students and professors hope that more specialized courses of study will contribute to better graduates.NBC News identified 13 major universities that have begun offering…
As artificial intelligence continues to attract attention and investors, universities from Arizona State University to the University of Texas at Dallas are beginning to market undergraduate-level AI degrees to students.New graduates are entering a tough tech job market: Whereas a computer science degree was once seen as a golden ticket to a high-paying tech job, increased competition and major cutbacks across the industry now make it harder to land a tech internship or entry-level position.But AI students and professors hope that more specialized courses of study will contribute to better graduates.NBC News identified 13 major universities that have begun offering…
PARIS — For her it was a yellow ball. For him it was piano keys. Their first contact with the future.”Since I was five years old,” he says.”From diapers,” she says.Then they knew where they were going.For Maggie Stephens, it's sports, especially water polo.Music, especially hip hop, is a genre that has been influenced by William Jonathan Drayton, Jr., aka Flavor Flav (aka Flavor, flavor).The 31-year-old Steffens was born into a water polo family in Northern California and came just months after Flav was nominated for his fourth Grammy Award as part of Public Enemy, the legendary hip-hop group that…
Kamaru Usman believes he can take on UFC champion Belal Muhammad in a title fight right now and reclaim his belt. But Usman (20-4 MMA, 15-3 UFC), a veteran fighter in the genre, knows a title opportunity is unlikely after three straight losses, especially after those two came against Leon Edwards, who just lost his welterweight belt to Muhammad (24-3 MMA, 15-3 UFC) in the main event of UFC 304 on Saturday in Manchester, England. Usman announced his situation on the latest episode of the “Pound-4-Pound Podcast” with co-host Henry Cejudo, saying the more likely scenario is that he would…