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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — It started with 30 teams, most of them fairly optimistic about their chances when the season began eight months and 1,320 games and 35,543 3-pointers and 299,608 points ago.Only two teams remain. For one game. Game 7.The NBA season ends Sunday night when the Indiana Pacers visit the Oklahoma City Thunder to decide which team will hoist the Larry O’Brien Trophy, take over for the Boston Celtics as champions and become the league’s seventh different title winner in the last seven years. It’s the first winner-take-all game in the NBA since 2016, when Cleveland beat Golden…
MIAMI (AP) — As kickoff approached it was clear — the fans weren’t coming. The Club World Cup, soccer’s shiny, new competition, has been billed as the event to breathe new life into the world’s most popular sport.It began a week ago in the United States, where sports stadiums of monumental capacity and steep tickets prices awaited the rowdy crowds seen at grounds across the world.But rows and rows of empty seats inside Orlando’s Inter&Co Stadium on Tuesday told another story.“It’s like playing football during lockdown,” observed one fan on social media.For days, world governing body FIFA didn’t register the…
CHICAGO (AP) — Left-hander Shota Imanaga will rejoin the Chicago Cubs early next week in St. Louis following a sharp Triple-A rehab start on Friday, manager Craig Counsell said Saturday.Counsell wasn’t sure when Imanaga would be slotted into Chicago’s rotation but said before the Cubs’ game against the Seattle Mariners that the 31-year-old “is gonna make his next start in the big leagues.”Imanaga, who was 15-3 with a 2.91 ERA as a rookie last season, is coming back from a left hamstring strain. He got hurt covering first base during the sixth inning of a 4-0 loss at Milwaukee on…
By Deena Beasley(Reuters) -Eli Lilly said on Saturday its experimental pill orforglipron helped diabetics lose weight and lower their blood sugar, and the company aims to announce in the third quarter trial results for the drug in overweight and obese people without diabetes.Lilly expects to submit the non-diabetes Phase 3 data to global regulatory agencies by the end of the year, said Ken Custer, head of cardiometabolic health at the company. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration typically makes new drug approval decisions 10 months after a manufacturer’s submission.Lilly said it plans to file for regulatory approvals for orforglipron as…
Sue Baker was used to spending time in the hospital. She had started having heart troubles in 2015, and as the issue escalated, she spent more and more time in the hospital. She had a pacemaker implanted to keep her heart beating. Once, she spent five days in a coma.In 2019, as her heart function continued to fail, Baker received a left ventricular assist device, or LVAD, a mechanical pump that helps the heart’s left ventricle circulate blood throughout the body.For years, Baker lived on “batteries and electricity,” but she didn’t stop living her life. She married a man she…
Subsistence farmers were just trying to survive. They weren’t trying to make content.OpenAI CEO Sam Altman predicts that just as silly as a podcast bro would appear to our long-ago ancestors, current jobs will seem equally foreign after artificial intelligence upends the workforce.”Like, podcast bro was not a real job not that long ago, and you figured out how to monetize it and you’re doing great and we’re all happy for you,” Altman told his brother Jack, teasing him during an interview on Jack Altman’s “Uncapped” podcast. “But would like the subsistence farmer look at this this a job or…
Don’t underestimate the potential advantage of a first or second-year program at a Big Tech giant. It could be your foot in the door to a full-time offer. A referral can also help, too.Google software engineer Tawfiq Mohammad interned at the company for two summers before receiving a full-time offer — and he suggests current computer science students try to do the same.”I think one of the most important things I’ve done in my career, to date, is applying for these first and second year programs,” he said in an interview with YouTuber Sajjaad Khader. “Like I said, it’s a…
Howard Marks’ memos are considered must-reads by many in the financial world, including Warren Buffett. Perplexity, an AI-powered search engine, helped write a chunk of his latest missive.Marks, the billionaire co-founder and co-chairman of Oaktree Capital Management, has been writing memos for 35 years and turns 80 next year. That makes it perhaps a little surprising that he’s drafted in a machine as a contributor.”In a sign of the times, I’ll let my new (and AI-powered) editorial assistant, Perplexity, fill you in on the background,” Marks said in a Wednesday memo titled “More on Repealing the Laws of Economics.”The veteran…
NEW DELHI (AP) — Tens of thousands of people across India stretched in public parks and on sandy beaches Saturday to mark the 11th International Day of Yoga.The mass yoga sessions were held in many Indian states, where crowds attempted various poses and practiced breathing exercises. Indian military personnel also performed yoga in the icy heights of Siachen Glacier in the Himalayas and on naval ships anchored in the Bay of Bengal.Similar sessions were planned in countries like Malaysia and Indonesia.“I feel that yoga keeps us spiritually fit, mentally fit and helps us manage stress. That’s why I feel that…
CHITUNGWIZA, Zimbabwe (AP) — It’s before sunrise on a Saturday and a small group has gathered at Socialite Bar in on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital. Instead of nursing hangovers, they sit with eyes closed and bodies in meditative poses on the bare floor.It’s an unlikely setting for a yoga class. In Zimbabwe, the practice is rare and mostly found in the wealthy suburbs. Yet it is quietly taking root here in a beer tavern in Chitungwiza, a low-income town 30 kilometers (18 miles) outside the capital, Harare.The initiative is led by Actions Winya, a yoga instructor who saw how…