A: I know what you mean about the nutty nomenclature. How about DeepGreen Bank, Bank CaroLine, UmbrellaBank.com and WingspanBank.com? To clever Netizens, cool names stand out. But when your own $10,000 is on the line, you don’t want to wonder if the bankers are kids in T shirts. I suppose we’ll get used to this, T shirts or no. Net banks often (though not always) pay higher savings rates than their land-bound competitors do....
Biden went viral over the weekend after he was filmed taking a tumble off of his bicycle from a stationary position during a ride in his home state of Delaware. The moment, which was caught on camera from several angles, was quickly shared online and has received the meme treatment from social media. One meme was shared by Donald Trump Jr. which was a video showing his father Donald Trump throwing a red MAGA hat and hitting Biden, sending him off his bike....
Smiljanic joined Perth in August after a season in Israel with Maccabi Netanya, while the Partizan Belgrade youth product has also played for Espanyol, Sporting Gijon and Genclerbirligi during his career. Perth and Smiljanic agreed to mutually terminate the rest of his one-year contract. COMMENT: Asia beckons for Glory The 30-year-old made just 10 starts in his time with Glory as he was kept out of Kenny Lowe’s best XI by captain Rostyn Griffiths and youngster Brandon Wilson....
There have been growing calls for Smith to be sacked as captain after he admitted being the mastermind of a premeditated plan to change the condition of the ball on the third day of the Test in Newlands on Saturday. “Following discussions with Steve Smith and David Warner they have agreed to stand down as captain and vice-captain respectively for the remainder of this Test match,” CA chief James Sutherland said in a statement....
So who’s right? Will there ever be a tobacco settlement? Spirits were high last June when the state attorneys general and cigarette makers shook hands in a Washington hotel and sealed their $368 billion agreement. Some observers thought the deal would sail through Congress, which must bless any settlement. But as the summer dragged on, the deal faltered. Some public-health groups dumped all over it; C. Everett Koop, the influential former surgeon general, was among those frowning....
Perhaps he gets to choose his own academic major. Perhaps he decides what classes to take, although consideration must be given in that regard to his team’s playing and practice schedule. He does not decide how to prepare, what position he’ll play or how much time he’ll get in games. MORE: Looking back on Larry Brown’s tumultuous career So, yeah, in a lot of ways he is a kid. Like the players at SMU....
Shane Buechele wasn’t even born yet, but he heard stories form his father Steve. Yet, like most of his generation, Shane’s impressions of those 1980s SMU teams were reinforced by ESPN. “I remember hearing about it, and obviously I know they were really talented,” Buechele told Sporting News. “I grew up knowing about it a little, and there was stuff on TV and ESPN with the ‘30-for-30.’” WEEK 6 PICKS: Straight up | Against the spread...
And when a report surfaced Monday that Anthony Davis would be willing sign a long-term deal with the Bucks — the Bucks! — if they could swing a deal for him, that amounted to the stamp of approval that every team is looking for, especially a small-market team with only one title in its history and no trips out of the first round of the playoffs since 2001. MORE: Ranking odds of Davis landing with each team on his list...
Thompson is described as a top ESPN target to join Greenberg on his New York-based morning show that launches Jan. 1, 2018. The versatile former ESPN anchor hosts the “Fox NFL Kickoff” pregame show during football season. She co-hosts the syndicated entertainment show “Extra.” Thompson is viewed as one of the rising stars of the sports media business. MORE: Fox personalities under pressure amid network’s changes Luring Thompson away from Fox and FS1 would be sweet revenge for ESPN....
At the forefront of the third-base renaissance is Nolan Arenado, Silver Slugger award in one hand, Gold Glove in the other. Arenado, in his sixth season with the Rockies and ranked No. 3 on Sporting News’ 2017 list of MLB’s best young players, has already done historic things with the bat and the glove. For some reason, though, he’s often overlooked as one of the best players in baseball. Is it Coors?...
The child was rushed to a Darwin hospital by ambulance shortly before 1 a.m. on Wednesday after his mother, Julia McLennan, responded to his cries and spotted what appeared to be multiple bite marks on his cheek, ABC News reported (via ABC Radio Darwin). Luckily, the bites were from a baby olive python snake, which is described by wildlife experts as being “non-venomous and harmless to humans.” McLennan, who said the small snake was still inside the crib after she approached the young child’s crib, told Radio Darwin: “It was the worst thing that could possibly happen to you as a parent....
Snapchat Introduces a Dual Camera Feature Just like the BeReal feature, Dual Camera on Snapchat lets you capture content that includes two perspectives: one from your front camera and one from your rear camera. Snapchat announced the rollout of the feature in a post on the Snap Newsroom. Snap’s Dual Camera feature rolls out globally on iOS from 29 August and will come to Android at a later date. The feature was first hinted at in the introduction of Director Mode on Snapchat....
The SNES Classic Edition is very much a fan’s dream, packing some of the greatest titles to ever release on the Super Nintendo into packaging that is simple but evokes a very specific feel. Those that remember the Super Nintendo in the ‘90s will know exactly what I mean – from the purple accents on the console to the controller’s look and feel. The Hardware From a hardware perspective, the SNES Classic Edition delivers almost everything that you could want....
Two tractor-trailer trucks collided in the westbound lanes of the I-40 near Ash Fork at about 2 a.m. on Tuesday, backing up traffic past the Kingman exit ramps. The collision was just one in a series of crashes that closed the interstate in both directions. One woman was on her way home to Kingman from work in Lake Havasu City when she became stuck in the traffic on Monday night....
Areas of southeastern upstate New York, including Binghamton, Endicott, Foster, Apalachin, Johnson City and Vestal, reported between 41 and 37 inches of snow, exceeding 3 feet, according to Weather Nation. Snowfall across New York City, however, was significantly less. Manhattan saw 10 inches of snowfall, according to WNBC-TV. In Woodlawn, an area of the Bronx, 10.5 inches of snow was reported. The Whitestone area of Queens, New York saw around 9 inches of snow, while areas Staten Island and Brooklyn reported approximately 5 inches and 3 inches respectively....
Jackson in Cleveland is responsible for improvement and stability, and his chance for success will depend on whether he gets it right at quarterback. The coach put more heat on himself and reclamation project Robert Griffin III when he raved that the quarterback is healthy and ready to return to his form of 2012, when RGIII led Washington to the playoffs and earned Offensive Rookie of the Year. But will Jackson’s starter be Griffin or a top quarterback in the draft?...
Yesterday, during the Activision Blizzard quarterly conference call, Activision let slip the name “Bungie Universe,” seemingly in relation to the upcoming game that Bungie has been working on with their new parent company for the past eight months. While the name Bungie Universe may still be only a working name or codename for their project, it does fit in nicely with the standing Bungie Aerospace website, which features the Latin motto “Per Audacia Ad Astra,” translating to “Boldly Going to the Stars....
But the public’s romance with the Taj has lately lost its ardor. Foreigners are not visiting Agra, the city of the Taj, as they once did. In the last half-decade the relative numbers have declined by 12 percent a year.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India’s prolific film industry churns out scores of movies with plotlines bordering on the absurd every year but even Bollywood might have dismissed as too preposterous the story of the rise of soccer club Aizawl FC. While Leicester City’s Premier League triumph stands as the modern benchmark for footballing fairytales, Aizawl winning the Indian title last month in only their second season in the top flight is perhaps even more far-fetched....
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Hong Kong soccer supporters again jeered China’s national anthem on Tuesday as tensions between sections of the city’s population and the mainland Chinese authorities continue to simmer. A group of fans at Hong Kong Stadium for the Asian Cup qualifying match against Malaysia booed during ‘The March of the Volunteers’ in a continuing show of defiance that began in the aftermath of the city’s pro-democracy protests in 2014....
