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None and done: Four of the top five NBA draft picks didn’t play for US colleges

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

For the first time since 2001, four of the top five picks in the NBA draft did not play college basketball in the United States.No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama will join the San Antonio Spurs after having played in France’s top league. The third pick, Scoot Henderson, went to the Portland Trail Blazers after two seasons with the G League Ignite. Last season, he averaged 17.6 points, 6.6 assists and 5.1 rebounds in 25 games, including a 28- point outburst in a preseason game against Wembanyama’s Metropolitans 92 squad.The next two picks, twins Amen and Ausar Thompson, played for Overtime Elite, an Atlanta-based pro league for 16- to 20-year-olds. Amen Thompson went to the Houston Rockets, while Ausar went to the Detroit Pistons.“When you see somebody elite, you know it,” Pistons general manager Troy Weaver said. “I think Halle Berry is pretty in church or in the grocery store. So I think that you can kind of figure it out when you see something pretty special.”The picks showed the...

Capitol One shuts down student-run bank branch in Md. high school

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

Students at Parkdale High School in Riverdale, Maryland, can no longer open a Capital One bank account on their way to the cafeteria.Capital One built a new branch within the Prince George’s County public school in 2014, staffed by 10 student interns, as a way to increase financial literacy and prepare students for success in their future careers.“The prototype they set for us: they would hire 10 high school seniors in the spring of their junior year, spend the summer training them to work as tellers and to give them professional development,” said Susan Bistransin, the instructor who supervised Parkdale High School’s student workers. “During their senior year, they would operate the in-school branch that Capital One built and provided at each school.”Capital One employees served as managers at the in-school banks, which were open for limited hours during the school day, and whose customers were limited to on-site students, teachers and staff. In ...

Sarah Snook, protagonista de “Succession”, interpretará a 26 personajes en “The Picture of Dorian Grey”

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

(CNN) — Tras interpretar a Shiv Roy en “Succession” —la serie de televisión aclamada por la crítica que retrató satíricamente la lucha por el control de un imperio mediático de la familia Roy, muy rica pero moralmente en bancarrota— Sarah Snook protagonizará otra producción punzante.La actriz interpretará los 26 papeles de “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, que se representará durante 12 semanas en el Theatre Royal Haymarket de Londres a partir de enero de 2024.Dirigida por Kip Williams, director artístico de la Sydney Theatre Company, la obra combinará la actuación en directo y el video “en una asombrosa colisión de formas”, dijo el Theatre Royal Haymarket.Adaptación de la novela clásica de Oscar Wilde, cuenta la historia de Dorian Gray, un joven que vende su alma por la eterna juventud y belleza mientras un retrato suyo, que representa su alma, envejece y se hace más feo, explorando temas de moralidad, vanidad y hedonismo.“Estoy encantada de volver a...

Elena Delle Donne, Natasha Cloud lead the Mystics past the Sky, 80-59

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

CHICAGO (AP) — Elena Delle Donne had 18 points and eight rebounds, Natasha Cloud added 16 points and the Washington Mystics beat Chicago 80-59 on Thursday night for the Sky’s fifth straight loss.Washington (8-4) beat Chicago for the second time in four days, winning 77-69 on Sunday. The Mystics also beat the Sky 71-69 on May 26.Ariel Atkins added 12 points and Shakira Austin had 10 points and seven rebounds for Washington. Cloud became the fourth player in team history to make 200 career 3-pointers.Alanna Smith had 13 points for Chicago (5-8). Kahleah Copper was 2 of 13 from the field and Marina Mabrey went 2 of 11 as the Sky shot 30%.Washington outscored Chicago 25-9 in the first quarter and led by 19 in the first half.SUNS 89, LYNX 68MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Tiffany Hayes hit a season-high four 3-pointers and scored 21 points, DiJonai Carrington added 17 points and Connecticut beat Minnesota.Alyssa Thomas had 15 points and nine rebounds, and DeWanna Bonner added 11 points for Connecticu...

Mitchell hits 7 3s, scores a season-high 25 points to help the Fever beat the Storm 80-68

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

SEATTLE (AP) — Kelsey Mitchell made seven 3-pointers and scored a season-high 25 points and the Indiana Fever used a 17-0 run in the second half to beat the Seattle Storm 80-68 on Thursday night.NaLyssa Smith had 12 points and 14 rebounds for Indiana (5-7). Emma Cannon and Erica Wheeler each scored 10 points, and rookie Aliyah Boston had nine points and 11 rebounds.WNBA scoring leader Jewell Loyd was held to 19 points on 5-of-21 shooting for Seattle (3-9). Ezi Magbegor added 18 points and Ivana Dojkic had 11. The Storm made just 22 of 74 field goals, with 11 coming from 3-point range. Seattle led 59-58 with 4:11 left in the third quarter but didn’t score again until Jordan Horston’s layup with 3:48 remaining in the fourth. The Storm went 0 for 21 during the 10-minute drought, including 15 straight misses in the fourth.Mitchell scored 12 points in the first half and Smith had 10 points and 10 rebounds as Indiana led 48-44. Mitchell made a 3-pointer with 2.3 seconds left in the third ...

POLITICO Pro Central Banker: Bailey bites — Flash PMIs — €15 Spatenbräu

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

Our one-stop source for central banking & monetary policy news.View in your browser or listen to audioBy GEOFFREY SMITHwith JOHANNA TREECK, ANJULI DAVIES, HANNAH BRENTON, BEN MUNSTER and IZABELLA KAMINSKASNEAK PEEK— UK’s Hunt to meet lenders as the Bank of England bites the bullet.— The price of an Oktoberfest beer is getting even more obscene.— June flash PMIs for the eurozone and UK.POLICY TICKERECB 3.50% ⇡ — BOE 5.0% ⇡ — FED 5.25% ⇡— SNB 1.75% ⇡— BOJ -0.10% ⇣— RBA 4.10% ⇡— PBOC 3.55%⇣— CBR 7.5% ⇣ — BOC 4.75 ⇡— CBRT 15% ⇡Good morning, everyone. I think we can all agree what the biggest, scariest, monetary policy-related news of the day was yesterday. The price of a liter of beer at the Munich Oktoberfest is going up to nearly 15 euros. Not bad for a bit of boiled barley water, you might think. Der Spiegel reported that the average price of a Mass will go up by 6.1 percent, a move that the organisers are blaming on energy prices and, you guessed it, high inflation. Yes, h...

Greek election looks set to strengthen Mitsotakis’ power

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

ATHENS — Greece’s conservatives are set for a resounding victory in Sunday’s elections with leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis destined to return to the prime minister’s office in a far stronger position to advance investor-friendly reforms.After heading to polls on May 21, Greeks will now do it all over again. New Democracy last month notched up a double-digit lead over its main rival, the left-wing Syriza party, but fell short of achieving an outright majority. This time, a new electoral system will reward the leading party with up to 50 bonus seats. POLITICO’s Poll of Polls puts the backing for New Democracy on 42 percent support, more than twice the support for Syriza on 20 percent. “Mitsotakis will be dominant with a comfortable majority,” said Petros Ioannidis, political analyst founder of the firm About People. “Usually when you win elections for the first time you have a honeymoon period, in the second term you don’t. The paradox here is that, because the oppositi...

Lonzo Ball not expected to play for the Chicago Bulls in the 2023-24 NBA season: ‘If he comes back it would be great’

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

Lonzo Ball’s absence from the basketball court is only growing longer.Executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas confirmed Thursday that Ball is not expected to play for the Chicago Bulls in the 2023-24 NBA season.Ball underwent a rare cartilage transplant in March, his third procedure to address a baffling knee injury that has kept him sidelined since January 2022. While Karnišovas said Ball is “recovering nicely” after moving off crutches in May, the team does not have any expectation for the point guard to return to the court this coming season.“Going into the offseason, our expectation is that he’s not coming back next season and he’s going to continue on his recovery,” Karnišovas said. “If he comes back, it would be great but we’re just going to treat this offseason and getting ready for the season that he’s not going to be back.”The Bulls have been committed to Ball&...

Malaysia says it will take legal action against Meta over harmful content on Facebook

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — Malaysia’s government said Friday it will take legal action against Facebook’s parent company, Meta Platforms, for failing to remove undesirable and harmful content from its social media platform.The Malaysian Communication and Multimedia Commission said Facebook has recently been plagued by a “a significant volume of undesirable content” relating to sensitive issues on race, religion and royalty as well as defamation, impersonation, online gambling and scam advertisements. The commission said repeated efforts to reach out to Meta to remove harmful content were of no avail.“Meta’s response, which has been sluggish and unsatisfactory, has not met the urgency of the matter and has led to increasing public concern and scrutiny,” it said in a statement. “As there is no sufficient cooperation from Meta, MCMC has no option but to take definitive steps or legal action against Meta as a measure to ensure that people are secure and protected in the p...

The US has tons of leftover food. Upcycling seeks to turn would-be trash into ice cream and pizza

Published Thu, 20 Feb 2025 18:43:29 GMT

LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — At Tyler Malek’s ice cream parlors, one cook’s trash is another chef’s frosty treat.The head ice cream maker at the Portland, Oregon-based Salt & Straw uses the whey leftover from yogurt makers in upstate New York to make his lemon curd flavor. For chocolate barley milk, he mixes in the remnants of rice and grains from beer brewing to give it a light and creamy taste.“Instead of calling this food waste, we need to call it wasted food and start decreasing how much wasting we’re doing,” Malek said.Malek’s ice cream chain is among those at the forefront of the upcycling movement, the process of creating high-quality products from leftover food. Malek’s shops from the Pacific Northwest to Miami now feature flavors like “Cacao Pulp & Chocolate Stracciatella Gelato,” which is made from leftover cacao pulp from chocolate production that otherwise would have gone to waste.It’s a trend gaining ground as consumers spend more...