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Column: Bobby Knight was a bully who really didn’t like John Wooden
News of Bobby Knight’s death last week produced thousands of words, with descriptions ranging from sadness to admiration to disgust. Many even wrote that he was an “enigma,” which is a mysterious person, somebody difficult to understand. That was rationalizing. It was also incorrect. John Feinstein, who wrote a best-selling book about Knight years ago,…
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How to watch Syracuse basketball host New Hampshire in season opener
Syracuse basketball kicks off its 2023-24 season on Monday evening at home against New Hampshire, as the era of first-year head coach Adrian Autry gets underway. There is a lot of excitement in the air as Autry leads the Orange into a new season, although it will prove a little strange not to see Hall…
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Turmoil at CU Denver as faculty targets provost over mental health failings, financial aid problems
Discord is brewing at the University of Colorado Denver as the faculty considers censuring the campus provost over the controversial firing of a dean, concerns that students are withdrawing over financial aid mismanagement, and the discovery of a highly critical review of the school’s mental health services the university hadn’t planned to make public. CU…
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Coco Gauff opens up on sponsorship deals as staggering financial figures are revealed
<!– –> Coco Gauff is set to become the highest-paid female athlete in the world over the next 12 months and now she has opened up on the challenges of balancing sponsorship deals with her tennis career. Gauff’s season came to an end on Saturday amid farcical scenes at the WTA Finals, with high winds,…
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Planned deer slaughter on Catalina Island sparks firestorm of protest among residents
News had barely broken of plans to eradicate thousands of nonnative mule deer on Santa Catalina Island before conservation biologist Lauren Dennhardt found herself the target of enraged Avalon residents. In acidic emails, paid advertisements and insults uttered on the street, residents branded the plant expert an “eco-extremist” and “the woman who killed Bambi.” On…
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Spoiler alert: They’re all in Europe
Tanathip Rattanatum/Pexels Unless you count hot air balloons and hang gliders, there’s really only one way to fly from one country to another — an airplane. And to travel successfully to your destination via airplane, that plane will need an airport to land. Air travel has become such an integral part of our lives that…
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Chiefs vs. Dolphins live updates: Predictions, how to watch, what to know for Germany game
There will be no shortage of storylines when the Kansas City Chiefs and Miami Dolphins square off to kick off the NFL’s Sunday schedule for Week 9. Perhaps none are bigger than this burning question: Will Taylor Swift will be in Frankfurt, Germany to watch Travis Kelce? Of course there is also the possibility that…
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AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li: ‘I’m more concerned about the risks that are here and now’
Fei-Fei Li is a pioneer of modern artificial intelligence (AI). Her work provided a crucial ingredient – big data – for the deep learning breakthroughs that occurred in the early 2010s. Li’s new memoir, The Worlds I See, tells her story of finding her calling at the vanguard of the AI revolution and charts the…
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You scratch my back: De Niro court battle lifts veil on celebrity assistants
It’s a brutal truism of corporate America that the simplest way to get rid of an out-of-favour employee is to comb through their expenses – and why many employees never claim expenses at all. What is less obvious is why a battle over expenses and working conditions between one of the biggest movie stars in…
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Kim Kardashian’s Kids’ Go-To Jammies Come in the Cutest Holiday Prints
Kim Kardashian is a fashion icon who’s already passed down her style prowess to her four children. In addition to their trendy fashion choices during the day, Kardashian’s kids, North, 10, Saint, 7, Chicago, 5, and Psalm, 4, whom she shares with ex-husband Kanye West, also look stylin’ at night. The Skims mogul, 43, gets…
