Author: Michael

EXCLUSIVE: USC women’s basketball teenage phenom JuJu Watkins isn’t turning away any of the new fans in her sport, not even the ones that give her “headaches.”
The meteoric rise of Caitlin Clark has injected women’s basketball with waves of new fans, mainstream media hype and plenty of arguments between the new fans and old ones. These arguments are often about Clark’s treatment by the league, other players and the media. 
And some longtime women’s hoops stars have denounced certain supporters of Clark and discouraged them from following the sport.

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Pete Carroll never lost his energy or excitement or expertise but somehow, over the last year, the NFL had decided he wasn’t needed in the game anymore. Well, that could be changing with the Chicago Bears this week.
Carroll will interview with the Bears for their open head coaching job on Thursday, a league source confirmed. ESPN was first to report the team’s intentions.
That interview will be Carroll’s first since he was fired by the Seattle Seahawks exactly 364 days prior.

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(Reuters) -U.S. stocks ended Wednesday little changed, as major indexes failed to stray frar from the unchanged mark, with investors digesting the impact of two conflicting sets of jobs data and a report that said President-elect Donald Trump was mulling a national economic emergency declaration on inflation. The minutes of the Federal Reserve’s Dec. 17-18 meeting showed on Wednesday that officials saw a rising risk that price pressures may remain sticky as policymakers began wrestling with the impact of policies expected from the incoming Trump administration.

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