The former Kings guard cleared waivers Saturday after being bought out by Sacramento, and a deal with the Bulls is already set, USA Today's Sam Amick reports. Terms of the agreement are not yet known. Chicago is the third-worst shooting team in the NBA (42.8 percent) and the fourth-worst three-point shooting team (34.4 percent). While Fredette isn't a lights-out scorer (5.9 points per game this season), he's efficient (47.5 percent shooting, 49....
MORE: SN’s top 25 free agents Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal indicats that Hawkins lengthens the Rockies' late-inning relief corps. That's Rex Brothers (1.74 ERA in 2013) and Chad Bettis. Hawkins, who turns 41 on Dec. 21, had a good season for the New York Mets this year, compiling a 2.93 ERA in 72 games. He ended the season as the Mets' closer in place of the injured Bobby Parnell. Hawkins notched 13 saves in 14 opportunities....
Opening odds: Packers -6 (-110) / OU 47 What a difference a year makes for the Packers The Matt LaFleur era is here in Green Bay, and Packers fans couldn’t be happier. Gone are the days when MVP quarterback Aaron Rodgers was fighting on the sideline with former head coach Mike McCarthy. Rodgers looks reinvigorated. It looks like his love for football is back, and it has shown on the field....
In his hypothetical fantasy, Romano ends up only writing about raping MacKinnon, but he’s still arrested–parodying her notion that “to say it is to do it.” It’s a gambit as old as Swift’s “A Modest Proposal”–and as new as the beginning of “Only Words,” where MacKinnon asks readers to imagine their fathers holding them down to be raped and their husbands dripping hot wax on their nipples. By last week The Nation had gotten nearly 60 letters; the magazine’s usual controversy gets seven or eight....
In Mahanoy Area School District v. B.L., argued recently and with a decision expected by the end of June, more than 100 groups from across the political spectrum and nine states filed briefs supporting a teenager who sent the offending message while hanging out at a convenience store one weekend. “Snaps” are designed to disappear within 24 hours, but someone took a screenshot of this one, showed it to a cheerleading coach, and now it’s the most important case on student speech rights in decades....
Over the past four years, only a small handful of private citizens have been granted access to U.S. government facilities to interview children and their families arriving in the United States and check if their conditions are safe, sanitary and appropriate. We are two of those citizens. Similar visits have quietly taken place for decades with pediatricians, child psychologists, social workers, interpreters, advocates and lawyers like us. Still, nothing could prepare us for what we have seen and documented during the Trump administration....
Maria Butina was freed in October from a Florida prison for trying to infiltrate the National Rifle Association [NRA]. The Kremlin dismissed as a fabrication her conviction of conspiracy to act as an unregistered foreign agent in the U.S. and the accusation that she established “unofficial lines of communication with Americans having power and influence over U.S. politics.” On Monday, Russian agencies reported that Butina had been offered a post in the parliament’s foreign affairs committee by its head Leonid Slutsky....
The Spaniard survived a testing quarterfinal against Argentina’s Diego Schwartzman, the No. 10 seed, winning 6-3 4-6 6-4 6-0 to keep alive his dream of a 14th triumph at Roland Garros. If Nadal, who is currently world No. 3, lifts the trophy on June 13, he will claim for himself the mantle of most successful player in the history of men’s Grand Slam tennis, a title he currently shares with Roger Federer....
Djokovic denied Nadal an opportunity to pass Roger Federer for most Grand Slam singles titles. Nadal and Federer remain tied at 20 apiece. Djokovic, meanwhile, will go for his 19th major title when he faces Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas in the final. FRENCH OPEN 2021: Full draws, TV coverage, channels & more The spectators inside Court Philippe-Chatrier were wildly entertained, to the point that they chanted that they wouldn’t leave when France’s 11 p....
This week the nation’s biggest brewer, AnheuserBusch, begins labeling each can and bottle of Bud or Michelob with a birth date (“Born on” July 4, for example) and a warning to drink up before 110 days. A multimillion-dollar campaign will explain that just as with bread or milk, when it comes to beer freshness counts. Never mind that beer never goes bad. True, after several months it oxidizes, acquiring a cardboardy taste....
Massey-Peabody’s perfect record on their college football Big Plays was snapped last week, when Oregon State (+9) lost to USC, 35-10. Clemson, The Quants’ other Big Play, covered as 14-point favorites over North Carolina, 50-35. That brings M-P’s college best bet record to 4-1 on the season – not too shabby. Here are their Big Plays for the Week 6 college slate: – Indiana -13.5 vs. North Texas – Southern Methodist +41 at East Carolina – Florida +2....
Opportunism, not ideology, drives Murdoch. Whether backing Tory or Labour, cold warriors like Margaret Thatcher or communists in Beijing, one aim remains: the desire for a friendly market for his expanding media empire. Murdoch’s much-ballyhooed coziness with Margaret Thatcher revolved around business, not ideology, says Sir Bernard Ingham, Thatcher’s former press secretary: “Murdoch was interested in commercial success, full stop.” In New Labour, Murdoch has found people he can do business with....
In a Facebook post on Thursday, Zuckerberg hailed the development of Meta’s data2vec, a new artificial intelligence algorithm that is capable of learning about several different types of information without supervision. Zuckerberg predicted that the development could eventually be used to more effectively help people perform common tasks like cooking. “Exciting breakthrough: Meta AI research built a system that learns from speech, vision and text without needing labeled training data,” Zuckerberg wrote in the post....
Huck: Long throw, often for a goal Swill: Any poor play. ““They’re putting up some swill hucks.'' Mack: To knock down a flying disc Get ho (horizontal): To dive for a catch Scoober: Throw that spins upside down Blade: When Frisbee lands hard on its edge Taco: Disc that gets bent, as when a blade hits the ground
The discoverers won’t say exactly where the tree of life grows (in the ancient forests of the Pacific Northwest, wildcatters steal the rare yews for the taxol). But no one plans to get taxol by scraping fungus off bark anyway. The idea is to grow the fungus in huge fermentation vats, like the ones used for soy sauce, then separate out the taxol chemically. The cultures at MSU are pretty lethargic so far, yielding mere billionths of a gram of taxol....
NEWSWEEK: It’s a bid odd, isn’t it, that a journalist who was held captive by the Taliban would, several months later, be converting to Islam? RIDLEY: I know, you couldn’t make it up. It is strange. Some people have said, “Oh, she’s suffering from Stockholm syndrome” [in which kidnap victims become enamored of their captors]. But I abused them, I spat at them, swore at them, offended them, which is not what someone suffering from Stockholm syndrome does....
Then, last week, came the unexpected minicrash of a famous marriage. After nine years, fabulously fashionable Calvin and Kelly Klein announced they were separating. Of course, the buzz was always that they had more of a working partnership than a love match. ““My assumption is maybe one of them wants to have a more intimate relationship,’’ gossip columnist Liz Smith told USA Today. If they divorce, Kelly would probably get to keep the $1 million pearl necklace Calvin bought her from the late Duchess of Windsor’s collection....
Four years ago, Rodriguez stood on the brink of becoming the most-talked about young player on the planet. His talents were already well known but his six goals at the 2014 tournament in Brazil were about to send him Galactic. That summer his exploits for the national team – including a remarkable swivel volley against Uruguay – earned him a transfer to Real Madrid from Monaco and set him on the path to superstardom....
Losing Devin Booker to a hamstring injury before halftime, Phoenix got locked-in on defence, producing an extraordinary effort on that end of the floor to shut down Steph Curry and the Golden State offense. NBA League Pass: Sign up to unlock live out-of-market games (7-day free trial) The win helped the Suns extend their winning streak to a franchise-record-tying 17 games. Postgame, a smiling Deandre Ayton was asked about the team’s 17-game losing streak during his rookie campaign in 2018-19....
