INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA generated more than $1.15 billion in revenue in 2021. That figure represented a return to normal after the cancelation of the men’s basketball tournament because of the pandemic in 2020 cost the association and its members $800 million. The NCAA released its financial records. Most of the NCAA”s revenue comes
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN) — Nuestro planeta Tierra tiene un centinela celestial que lidera el camino alrededor del sol, y es solo el segundo asteroide troyano terrestre jamás descubierto. Los astrónomos observaron el asteroide 2020 XL5 utilizando el Telescopio de Investigación Astrofísica del Sur en Chile. Un estudio que detalla el descubrimiento del asteroide troyano terrestre
Continue ReadingSol Amaya (CNN Español) — El Ministerio de Seguridad de la Provincia de Buenos Aires informó este jueves que ascienden a 20 los muertos y a 49 los internados en hospitales por consumir una sustancia comercializada como cocaína de “altísima toxicidad” en el conurbano bonaerense en Argentina. La Fiscalía General de San Martín informó este
Continue Reading TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — Alabama coach Nick Saban has hired three new assistants. The school announced Wednesday that Coleman Hutzler will coordinate special teams and coach outside linebackers. Travaris Robinson will work with the cornerbacks and Eric Wolford will be the offensive line coach. Hutzler spent last season as the special teams coordinator at Mississippi.
Continue Reading CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina has agreed to a one-year contract extension with football coach Mack Brown through the 2026 season. The school said Wednesday the agreement keeps Brown’s contract length at five years. The 70-year-old coach has led the Tar Heels to bowl games in each of his first three seasons in
Continue Reading CLEMSON, S.C. (AP) — Former Clemson offensive lineman Thomas Austin has been hired as a Tigers assistant football coach. Austin will coach the offensive line and has signed a two-year deal worth $450,000 a season. His contract was approved Wednesday by the school’s board of trustees. Austin spent the past season as an offensive analyst
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The number of people being treated for the coronavirus in Iowa hospitals and those needing intensive care has continued to decline. Health care officials had predicted the omicron variant, which is the dominant strain in the state, would likely subside in February after Iowa reached its peak virus spread in
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By Austin Carter Click here for updates on this story MIAMI, Florida (WFOR) — You never know what you’re going to find when you go fishing in a Miami canal. Just ask Duane Smith. He and his 11-year-old grandson reeled in two 50-caliber Barrett sniper rifles out of a murky Miami canal during a weekend
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By Janelle Davis, CNN. Photographs by Will Lanzoni and Heather Fulbright, CNN “There is some truth to the old adage ‘Most of the world eats to live but Italians live to eat,’” Stanley Tucci has said. He grew up in an Italian American family and lived in Italy during his childhood — and, true to
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By Liam Reilly, CNN Speaking to a sea of police officers mourning slain NYPD detective Wilbert Mora, Mayor Eric Adams vowed Wednesday to give them resources to fight the “senseless violence” linked to guns. “New Yorkers understand the risk and sacrifice you make every day, and we applaud you for that,” he said to those
Continue Reading By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Jabari Walker is a 6-foot-9 sophomore on Colorado’s basketball team who can do things few people his size can. Walker is also still learning the college game, so his flashes of brilliance sometimes come with doses of reality. Walker arrived at Colorado as a four-star recruit and had a
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By Matt McFarland, CNN Business A German teenager says he found a vulnerability in an app installed in some Teslas, which allowed him the ability to unlock doors, flash headlights and blast music. The hack highlights the relative lack of oversight in apps that some drivers can download to their cars. David Colombo identified a
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Stony Brook’s athletic teams are ineligible for America East postseason tournaments because the school is leaving for the Colonial Athletic Association next year. Stony Brook said last week it was leaving the conference. In the America East bylaws, a member institution’s intention to withdraw from the conference makes that
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Northern Ireland’s agriculture minister has ordered a halt to post-Brexit border checks at ports. It’s another complication in a saga that has soured relations between the U.K. and the European Union. Edwin Poots said he had received legal advice saying he could order a halt to inspections
Continue ReadingCNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Pulitzer and Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison. Personal Birth date: February 18, 1931 Death date: August 5, 2019 Birth place: Lorain, Ohio Birth name: Chloe Anthony Wofford Father: George Wofford Mother: Ella Ramah (Willis) Wofford Marriage: Harold Morrison (1958-1964, divorced) Children: Slade and Harold
Continue Readingurielblanco (CNN Español) — Gustavo Petro, precandidato a la Presidencia de Colombia, mantuvo un encuentro privado con el papa Francisco este miércoles. Según informó el equipo de prensa del dirigente de Colombia Humana a través de un comunicado, la reunión se produjo tras la audiencia general que el pontífice imparte semanalmente. El pronunciamiento señaló que
Continue Reading By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer Angel McCoughtry is heading to Minnesota and Briann January is going to Seattle for her final season in the WNBA. McCoughtry spent the last two seasons in Las Vegas after playing in Atlanta since the Dream drafted her first in 2009. She missed last year while dealing with an
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By Manu Raju, Clare Foran, Ali Zaslav and Ted Barrett, CNN Democratic Sen. Ben Ray Luján, who recently suffered a stroke, will be back in the Senate in 4-6 weeks, “barring any complications,” according to a person close to the senator. If the New Mexico Democrat is back in Washington in that time frame, Democrats
Continue Reading By MAE ANDERSON AP Business Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The number of Americans looking to start their own business is on the rise, as the coronavirus pandemic creates opportunities for some would-be entrepreneurs. People are starting businesses for a variety of reasons: some lost their job during the pandemic and decided to make their
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COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) The Mizzou football team put the finishing touches on its historic 2022 recruiting class on National Signing Day. With those final additions, MU’s class ranks No. 15 in the nation, which is the highest a class has been ranked in program history. For reference, 2021 was also a landmark class for Coach
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