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☆ Women's NCAA roundup: No. 8 Ole Miss upsets No. 1 Stanford
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +7 min

8 Ole Miss Rebels to their first Sweet 16 since 2007 by preventing No. Stanford (29-6) was led by Cameron Brink, who had 20 points, 13 rebounds and seven blocks, while Haley Jones chipped in 16 points and eight rebounds. Grace Stone had 16 points and Ellie Mitchell finished with nine points, 18 rebounds and three blocks. Elena Tsineke scored 20 points to pace South Florida (27-7), while Sammie Puisis finished with 11 points and four rebounds. The Irish closed the game on a 10-5 run, getting seven points from Citron during that stretch.

☆ The Fyre Festival fraudster is launching his latest thing, and it looks like a party on an island
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-20 | by ( Jake Traylor | Jake Traylor Is An Associate Producer For Msnbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +8 min

He’s using different words, but he’s selling the same thing,” said Shiyuan Deng, a former product designer at Fyre Media, the company behind Fyre Festival. Deng resigned from Fyre Media shortly before it collapsed. Another former Fyre Media employee who asked to withhold their name out of concerns of retaliation also said PYRT reminded them of Fyre Festival. “The similarities are there around the vague mysterious promotion,’’ said the former employee of Fyre Media. McFarland said he believes PYRT will look considerably different from Fyre Festival.

☆ Two researchers aim to better understand L.A.’s homelessness crisis with smartphone surveys
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-16 | by ( Jake Traylor | Jake Traylor Is An Associate Producer For Msnbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +6 min

Two California researchers aim to get a real-time understanding of homelessness using a perhaps unexpected resource found among unhoused people: smartphones. Larry Posey works in MacArthur Park to share information about the PATHS study. Amy Stein / USC/UCLAOnce a month, a growing number of PATHS participants in Los Angeles County are texted a link to a 15-minute survey. Recruiters for the PATHS study share information with participants via postcard and directly into a web-based interface. The PATHS study found that 90% of participants would be interested in some type of interim or permanent housing.

☆ Twitter employees are flocking to social media to share news that they have been laid off, posting tributes to staff, pictures of colleagues, and some critiques of Elon Musk
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-04 | by ( Grace Dean | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Dozens of employees posted on Twitter that they've been laid off, including people in managerial and leadership roles. Twitter sent an email to its staff on Thursday, confirming that some staff would be laid off "in an effort to place Twitter on a healthy path." Affected staff would receive an email on their personal email by 9 a.m. West Coast time on Friday, Twitter said. Dozens of employees posted on Twitter that they had been laid off, in many cases using the hashtags #OneTeam and #LoveWhereYouWorked, as well as blue heart and salute emojis. Below is a selection of tweets sent by employees laid off by Twitter:Some posted pictures of themselves with their teams, in the office, or with Twitter merchandise.

☆ Digital LeBron vs. analog Mantle: Sports collectibles remain hot despite NFT boom
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-15 | by ( Jake Traylor | Jake Traylor Is An Associate Producer For Msnbc. | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +7 min

But amid a crypto winter, the future trajectory of the sports memorabilia market, tangible or NFT, is being disputed. Meanwhile, the success of NBA Top Shot, arguably the most successful sports NFT market, soared and eventually crashed. Millennials are driving the NFT market, according to a Morning Consult survey that found 42% of all NFT collectors are 26 to 40 years old. Some sports market experts argue that regardless of an NFT bounce back, tangibles and NFTs in the sports memorabilia market don’t compete with each other. “I don’t think that [NFTs] are going to eat into the physical memorabilia market,” said Pete Giorgio, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s global and U.S. sports practice, who tracks and forecasts the sports memorabilia market.

☆ A 31-year-old woman started her own trucking business with no money and made $1.4 million in one year. Here's how she did it.
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-09 | by ( Jennifer Ortakales Dawkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Brittany Traylor was a truck driver for five years before starting her own trucking company in 2021. Through brokerage and dispatching, Traylor Transpo generated $1.4 million in revenue last year. In January 2021, she established her trucking brokerage and dispatching company, Traylor Transpo. Becoming a trusted ally in a difficult fieldTraylor was a truck driver for five years before starting her business. Yet Traylor encourages anyone interested in starting a trucking business not to be dissuaded by the market.

☆ About 250,000 attended Queen Elizabeth's lying-in-state, UK minister says
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-20 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth's funeral procession makes its way down the Long Walk towards Windsor Castle, September 19, 2022. SSgt Dek Traylor/Pool via REUTERSLONDON, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Some 250,000 mourners filed past Queen Elizabeth's coffin at Westminster Hall in London during her lying-in-state, Britain's culture minister Michelle Donelan said on Tuesday. Britain's last lying-in-state was held for war-time Prime Minister Winston Churchill who died in 1965. About 321,360 people filed past his coffin at Westminster Hall, according to a House of Commons note. Register now for FREE unlimited access to Reuters.com RegisterReporting by Sachin Ravikumar, editing by Elizabeth PiperOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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