Author: JamesMcGhee

Greetings from the Great White North. With the Trail Blazers breaking the seal by picking up their first win of the season against the Raptors on Monday night in Toronto and the team staying home, it was the perfect time to record another edition of The Brief Case podcast, which you can listen and subscribe below…In this 62nd edition, topics include…• The Trail Blazers earn their first victory of the season against the Raptors in Toronto• The importance of having something to feel good from time to time• Malcolm Brogdon closing out the game, Jerami Grant leading the team in…

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It’s official: Cooper Flagg is headed to Duke University next year. The Newport native and top high school basketball prospect in the country revealed his decision Monday morning, sharing an Instagram post with Slam 247 about his commitment to the perennial powerhouse and five-time national champion. Connecticut, the defending national champion, was also in the running to land the 6-foot-9 forward. “My decision to go to college was not easy at all,” Flagg said in the post, which included an audio recording. “…After I arrived on campus, I really started to imagine myself in Durham. All the love I felt…

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Clemson Coach Dabo Swinney spent five minutes attacking a man named Tyler from Spartansburg who called into Swinney’s weekly “Tiger Calls” radio show on Monday. Here’s what you need to know: Swinney’s rant came after Tyler spent several minutes talking about the Tigers’ performance this year, including questioning why Clemson is paying Swinney $10.8 million “to go 4-4.” The 53-year-old Clemson coach told the caller that he “started out as the lowest paid coach in the damn business” and that he “wouldn’t let a smart kid pick up that phone and create this kind of thing. … I work for…

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The first 41 days of activities take place on frilägen and I have a fart under the seated training pass and I feel like a vanligt near my räddade puckarna. The new Vezina Trophy was named to the Hockey Hall of Fame for a number of times he spent a lot of money with an expert on the panel for TNT, who explains one of his most important issues regarding concerns costs until arrival.

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President Joe Biden signed a vast decree on artificial intelligence on Monday, paving the way for some industry regulations and funding for the U.S. government to invest more in the technology. From a report: The order is broad, and its goals range from civil rights and industrial regulations to a wave of government hiring. In a media call announcing the order Sunday, a senior White House official, who asked not to be named under the terms of the call, said AI has so many facets that Effective regulation had to cast a wide net. “AI policy is like running in…

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Perhaps one of the most interesting dilemmas facing the Dodgers as they look toward the upcoming offseason is the veteran slugger’s pending free agency. J.D. Martinez. After signing a one-year, $10 million contract with the club last offseason, Martinez had his best offensive season since 2019. In 479 trips to the plate with the Dodgers, Martinez had a fantastic .271/.321/.572, good for a 135 wRC+ that ranked 16th among all hitters with 450 plate appearances this season. That type of offensive production would normally make extending Martinez a qualifying offer a no-brainer for Andrew Friedman and his front office; after…

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The city of Pleasanton recently decided to merge its operations and engineering departments into a unified public works department to maximize staff time spent maintaining the city’s infrastructure, according to city staff . The department will now be responsible for the “operation and maintenance of the city’s infrastructure and administers many quality of life services,” according to the city’s website. “A comprehensive organizational assessment validated that an increasing share of the city’s work is shifting toward the operation and maintenance of existing municipal assets and infrastructure and that the merging of operations departments and engineering departments in A unified public…

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Martin Truex Jr. (19) makes a pit stop during a NASCAR Cup Series auto race, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Steve Marcus)Driver Martin Truex Jr. gestures before the start of the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023, in Homestead, Fla. (AP Photo/Marta Lavandier).Denny Hamlin (11) makes a pit stop during the NASCAR Cup Series auto race at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Sunday, October 22, 2023 in Homestead, Florida.He had only one top-10 finish in the first seven races of the playoffs – this forced him to avoid elimination at the end of…

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