By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has removed an explicit ban on “segregated facilities” like waiting rooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for federal contractors, a memo issued by the U.S. General Services Administration showed. The memo was issued last month but media outlets took note of it on Tuesday […]
If the agreed-upon settlement of the House v. NCAA court case is approved in April by California-based Judge Claudia Wilken, it will usher in an era in which schools in the Power Five conferences can directly pay athletes for their name, image, and likeness. It is a progression of the messy post-2021 world of athlete […]
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After the government pushed for the breakup of Google, accusing it of business practices that violate antitrust laws, the Mountain View, Calif., tech giant proposed its own solutions on Friday — to restructure its business contracts instead. “Regulating a fast-changing industry like search with an invasive decree like the one proposed by Plaintiffs would harm […]
Maddie Malhotra/Boston Red Sox/Getty Images The Boston Red Sox made a big splash this winter, trading for starting pitcher Garrett Crochet. Don’t expect them to dip into the free-agent market for starting pitchers in the same way unless they can do so on short-term deals. According to Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic, “After getting burned […]
It has been an action-packed month since we last checked in on the NFL’s top quarterbacks. Since Week 8, Kyler Murray (77.3) and Josh Allen (75.4) lead the league in QBR and Tua Tagovailoa and Joe Burrow have a league-high 10 touchdown passes. Second-year signal-callers Anthony Richardson and Bryce Young won back the starting jobs. […]
Earlier this week, CBS Sports published my annual ranking of Major League Baseball’s 50 best free agents. As is tradition, I try to follow up on that piece by predicting the contracts of who I consider to be the top 10 free agents. Although this exercise might seem like complete guesswork, there’s more to it […]
Mike Lawrence/MLB Photos via Getty Images The New York Yankees declined first-baseman Anthony Rizzo’s contract, making the veteran a free agent and ensuring that he will sign a new deal this off-season if he wishes to continue his playing career. Despite making it clear that he did not want to leave the organization, the team […]
These missions require medium-lift rockets, or smaller rockets capable of a high-rate launch cadence to match the capability of a larger launch vehicle. In June, the Space Force selected SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’s space company, to compete for Lane 1 launch task orders. Military officials will add more companies to the pool […]
A group of senators are urging the Commerce Department to be more transparent when it comes to the terms of agreements made under the CHIPS and Science Act, arguing the agency must ensure the U.S. semiconductor industry is “safe and sustainable.” In a letter Friday to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, Sens. Ed Markey (D-Mass.),…
