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Seattle Seahawks giving WR Tyler Lockett a $69.2M extension, source says Lockett was entering the final season of a three-year, $31.8 million extension he signed in 2018. He has had his three best seasons since then, with 28 receiving touchdowns (fifth among NFL wide receivers) and 3,076 yards (13th).
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Bears chairman George McCaskey voted no against NFL's 17th game The NFL announced Tuesday the league would be extending the regular season to 17 games, and three preseason games, starting this year. NFL owners attended the Annual League Meeting virtually and agreed to an additional game ...
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WR Ja'Marr Chase 'wouldn't mind' reunion with Cincinnati Bengals QB Joe Burrow Cincinnati, which selected Burrow No. 1 overall last year, owns the fifth pick in this year's draft, and Chase said he has spoken with the Bengals during the pre-draft process.
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Justice Department investigating Matt Gaetz as part of broader trafficking probe into another Florida politician The Times reported that investigators were examining whether Gaetz violated federal sex trafficking laws, including whether Gaetz had a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old girl and whether he paid for her to travel with him. Gaetz has not been charged with ...
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Supreme Court questions validity of amateurism in NCAA's business model The justices of the Supreme Court of the United States questioned whether amateurism is an essential part of the NCAA's business model Wednesday during a landmark hearing for the future of college sports while also expressing concerns about starting a ...
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UConn Huskies' Paige Bueckers is first freshman to be AP women's basketball player of the year Bueckers helped lead the Huskies to their 13th consecutive Final Four with 28 points in the regional final win over Baylor on Monday night, just the latest star turn for the phenomenal 19-year-old Minnesota native.
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Sources: LA Clippers, DeMarcus Cousins talk 10-day contract Cousins, 30, a four-time All-Star attempting to resuscitate his career after a series of serious injuries, averaged 9.6 points and 7.6 rebounds while shooting only 37.6% from the floor in 25 games with the Rockets.
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18 therapists defend Deshaun Watson, as two more women file lawsuits against him The legal teams representing Deshaun Watson and the women accusing him of sexual misconduct continued their public posturing Tuesday night and early Wednesday, as two more women filed lawsuits against the Houston Texans quarterback. Watson's ...
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Justin Fields' sensational pro day sparks debate about NFL Draft's second-best QB The 2021 NFL Draft is less than a month away, and outside of where Trevor Lawrence is going, there's a whole lot of discussion around the incoming quarterback talent. One of those soon-to-be professionals, Justin Fields, undoubtedly gave NFL teams ...
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New York Legalizes Recreational Marijuana, Tying Move to Racial Equity Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo signed the cannabis legislation on Wednesday, a day after the State Legislature passed the bill following hours of debate among lawmakers in Albany. New York became the 15th state to legalize ...
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Can our experts' Valero Texas Open picks help a professional gambler win big? Jordan Spieth hits a shot during last week's WGC-Match Play at Austin Country Club. Getty Images. Who does the journalist, betting analyst or data guru like? Or the caddie or ...
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NCAA Tournament bracket 2021: Final Four storylines as Gonzaga, Baylor, Houston and UCLA try to win the title INDIANAPOLIS -- As the halftime clock wound down with under a minute to go and Gonzaga's players were milling about on the court and preparing for the second half, Jalen Suggs snuck behind Omar Ballo and intentionally bumped into his teammate.
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'Undisputed' debates who's No. 1: The Kansas City Chiefs or Tampa Bay Buccaneers? Both teams have had busy offseasons, but the Chiefs did enough to retain their spot at the top following the outlet's initial post-Super Bowl rankings for 2021. Kansas City has spent the offseason retooling and ...
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EPA dismisses dozens of key science advisers picked under Trump Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan will purge more than 40 outside experts appointed by President Donald Trump from two key advisory panels, a move he says will help restore the role of science at the agency and reduce the ...
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iOS 14.5's release date and exciting new features: Everything we know The latest version -- iOS 14.4 -- was released on Jan. 26. We thought iOS 14.5 would arrive in late February, then in March, but now it appears that it will be sometime in April. The public beta version is available right now.
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CDC: COVID-19 Was Third Leading Cause Of Death In 2020, People Of Color Hit Hardest She added that "among nearly all of these ethnic and racial minority groups, the COVID-19 related deaths were more than double the death rate of non-Hispanic white persons." "The data ...
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JJ Redick sounds off on Pelicans front office, says they can't be trusted Pelicans executive vice president of basketball operations David Griffin convinced Redick to come down to New Orleans to start the year and if things didn't work out, he would move him. Obviously, Redick was not traded early in the season despite his demand ...
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Allen hires former SMU, Arkansas head coach Chad Morris as its next football coach "I am honored to join Allen ISD and the Allen Eagles football program," Morris said in a news release. "Allen High School is known throughout the state and nation for having a storied tradition of excellence in everything it does, and the football team is certainly ...
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Wisconsin Supreme Court strikes down governor's mask mandate The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers' statewide mask mandate, ruling that the Democratic governor exceeded his authority by unilaterally extending the mandate for months through multiple emergency orders. By TODD ...
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Credit Suisse Executives Under Scrutiny for Serial Miscues Credit Suisse Group AG is still tallying the losses from its relationship to Lex Greensill and Bill Hwang's Archegos Capital Management. But attention is likely to soon turn to accountability for a management team stung by serial fiascos. The bank has ...
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NBA Trade Deadline Fallout: Uncertainty for the Lakers and Raptors All the trades have been made. This season's roster shuffling, barring a free-agent signing or three coming soon, is complete. It's time, then, to take a tour around the league for some post-trade deadline fallout, rumbles, analysis and storytelling: ...
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Promising Pfizer Results for Child Coronavirus Vaccines A clinical trial found that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine was highly effective in adolescents aged 12 to 15, the companies said on Wednesday. The trial found no infections among the children who received the vaccine, and the vaccines produced even stronger ...
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S&P 500 pushes higher in record territory as Biden prepares to push $2.3 trillion infrastructure plan U.S. stocks were trading higher Wednesday as investors awaited a speech from President Joe Biden outlining a multitrillion dollar infrastructure spending plan that's expected to include higher taxes on corporations.
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Hungary records the deadliest day of the pandemic, despite its leading vaccine rollout The record toll came just days after Prime Minister Viktor Orban said he had no doubt Hungary would have a "free summer" thanks to the number of vaccine doses it was administering.
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Experts: COVID Vaccines' Power Could Wane Within a Year There are growing fears current Covid-19 vaccines will be ineffective in less than a year because of new and resistant mutations. In a survey by the People's Vaccine Alliance, 88 percent of epidemiologists say ...
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Cleveland Indians not allowing headdresses, painted faces at games CLEVELAND -- While moving forward with a plan to change their name, the Indians said they will not permit fans inside Progressive Field wearing Native American headdresses or face paint. The team announced the fan dress policy for the 2021 season ...
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Derek Chauvin trial: Cup Foods employee testifies; jury sees new video of George Floyd before his death The first person to take the stand Wednesday morning was Minneapolis firefighter Genevieve Hansen, a bystander who was at 38th and Chicago on May 25, 2020. She was off-duty that day, but testified that she wanted to provide medical attention to Floyd. She ...
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Goodbye empty middle seats. Delta is selling the whole plane starting May 1 New York (CNN Business) The empty middle seat on airplanes, one of the few advantages of pandemic, is about to disappear. Delta Air Lines (DAL), the last remaining US airline to keep middle seats unbooked, has lifted that prohibition as of May 1, the ...
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COVID 'Cowboy' Rounds Up Maskless Spring Break Scofflaws It was a Friday evening at the Diamond Belle Saloon on the main drag in Durango, Colorado. Outside, a man in boots, a cowboy hat and a button-down vest adorned with a U.S. marshal badge patrolled the block, eyes scanning the streets for trouble. If trouble ...
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Wider image: A drone's eye view of the Holy Land as Christians look to Easter JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Seen from the air, the fragility of humanity as it must have been in the Holy Land in centuries past is plain to see - ancient monasteries clinging to precipices, tiny fishing boats on the Sea of Galilee, deserts gnawing at the edges of ...
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In Broad Daylight, Another Anti-Asian Attack Early Wednesday, after an image of the man taken from security footage spread widely on social media and on posters in Manhattan, the police charged Brandon Elliot, 38, with felony assault as a hate crime.
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Bill to allow yoga in Alabama schools stalls in Senate committee Four senators on the Judiciary Committee voted against the bill after speakers at a public hearing said they were concerned about yoga's connections to Hinduism. The 4-4 vote by the committee means the bill ...
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Weapon X Mailbag: How does Jalen Hurts compare to the 2021 QB draft class? The first mailbag following the Eagles' biggest trade in five years! Let's get to the questions... @bpdizzle: How does Jalen Hurts stack up against this year's QB class? As for what the consensus amongst scouts and people in the league might be, I'd assume ...
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Macron to Make COVID-19 Address as Third Wave Swamps French Hospitals PARIS (Reuters) -French President Emmanuel Macron is to address the nation on Wednesday and is expected to announce that schools will close in April as he seeks to change the course of a third wave of COVID-19 infections that risk overwhelming ...
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Huggies diapers and Scott toilet paper may soon get more expensive New York (CNN Business) Shoppers, take note: You could soon pay more for Huggies, Pull-Ups and Scott toilet paper. Kimberly-Clark, the maker of such products, said Wednesday that it's notifying retail customers in the United States and Canada that it will ...
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Robinhood is getting rid of one of its most controversial features New York (CNN Business) Robinhood is getting rid of the confetti animation that appears on users' screens after they conduct their first trade and achieve other milestones. The change comes as the app faces growing scrutiny over what critics say is a ...
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A rider was ejected from a Gatlinburg, Tennessee, roller coaster and flung onto the tracks A rider was injured after being flung from the Gatlinburg Mountain Coaster on Monday in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. (CNN) A rider suffered head, wrist ...
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Chinese scientist says Beijing did share COVID-19 data with investigators BEIJING (Reuters) -A top Chinese medical expert said on Wednesday there was no factual basis to accusations that China did not share data with international researchers appointed by the World Health Organization to look into the origins of COVID-19.
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Goldman Sachs To Become Second Big Bank Offering Bitcoin To Wealthy Clients Less than two weeks after Morgan Stanley said it will start offering bitcoin exposure to its wealthy clients, banking powerhouse Goldman Sachs is also pushing deeper into the space, telling CNBC this week that it's looking to offer a "full spectrum" of ...
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Bonnaroo 2021 lineup announced, includes more than 100 artists Bonnaroo is back. After the mega music-fest was rescheduled and ultimately canceled last year due to the pandemic, organizers have announced their 2021 lineup. Headlining acts include: rock band Foo Fighters, rappers Megan Thee Stallion and Lizzo, ...
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Pa. to move into Phase 1B of vaccinations April 5; Phase 1C a week later Pennsylvania is accelerating eligibility for COVID-19 vaccinations by allowing up to a quarter million police officers, firefighters, grocery store workers and food and agriculture workers to register for the shots starting today. Moreover, by April 19 every ...
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Step inside the high school that used to be a Macy's store; 'It's weird but cool at the same time' Students commute between classes at Downtown Burlington High School, Monday, March 22, 2021, in Burlington, Vt. Students who once shopped at a downtown mall are now attending high school in the mall's former Macy's department store, taking ...
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US grants 120-day waiver for Iraq to pay for electricity from Iran WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States has renewed a waiver allowing Iraq to pay for electricity imported from Iran, this time giving Baghdad 120 days to reduce its energy dependence on neighboring Tehran, a State Department spokesman said on ...
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Inspiration4's civilian space crew is overwhelmed with joy about launching on a SpaceX rocket this year It's safe to say the civilian astronauts who will fly to space on a SpaceX Crew Dragon are really, really excited for their upcoming trip around Earth. Inspiration4 — an all-civilian mission SpaceX is slated to launch no earlier than Sept. 15, will be the first fully ...
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Key Part Of Voice Recorder Found From January's Crash Of Indonesian Airliner The cockpit voice recorder, or CVR, from the Boeing 737-500 could shed light on actions taken by the pilots in the minutes between takeoff from Jakarta and the plane's fateful plunge into the sea on Jan. 9.
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Gov. Mike DeWine fears increasing COVID-19 numbers signal potential surge in Ohio Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine fears another surge could be mounting as the state races to. Gov. Mike DeWine is a big believer in numbers – and he doesn't like what ...
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The gender pay gap: An IT issue that must get fixed An impact on success. Executives have been confronted with the gender wage gap for decades. But recent events have both highlighted its continued existence and brought a renewed urgency to addressing the issue.
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UK's COP26 Climate Summit in Doubt Due to Pandemic A crucial international summit on climate change due to take place in the U.K. in November may need to be postponed or radically redesigned due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Officials are discussing options for reducing in-person attendance at the ...
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A statue of climate activist Greta Thunberg provokes anger in the UK A life-sized statue of Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg is pictured after the statue's unveiling outside the West Downs Centre on the campus of the University of Winchester in Winchester, Hampshire on March 31, 2021.
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Cubs sign catcher Tony Wolters to one-year deal Catcher Austin Romine was expected to be Willson Contreras' backup, but the veteran's right knee sprain has been slow to heal and sidelined him most of the spring. Minor leaguer PJ Higgins looked like he would be in line for the spot, but the signing of Wolters ...
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