3 h. ago Former basketball player behind Rutherglen business slam dunks Great British Entrepreneur Award

Adam Pearce, founder and director of Minerva Innovation Group, was named Scale-Up Entrepreneur of the Year for "exceptional and inspirational" success following the launch of his firm specialising in R&D tax credits.

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6 d. ago Banned college basketball player admits role in betting scheme

Dae Dae Hunter admitted on Good Morning America that he deliberately underperformed in games

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7 d. ago A trooper’s shove showed stardom doesn’t protect Black athletes from police

When I was a college basketball player, some believed we were treated differently from other Black and Brown people. An event last weekend suggests otherwiseIt was 1996, my first day stepping foot on Syracuse University’s campus. I saw a big student protest was taking place so, with my freshman’s inquisitive mind, I ventured over to see what was going on. I listened to a passionate sista named Kathy Ade, the president of Syracuse’s student African-American Society. She stood there with her Bantu knots and a megaphone addressing the crowd, discussing the fact that campus security was now going to be able to carry pepper spray. In the 90s – which my daughter Baby Sierra calls “the 1900s,” just to keep me humble – campus security carrying pepper spray was a big deal. Now, they all carry guns. The fear was that they’d use the spray on Black and Brown students without hesitation, at the slightest perceived sign of trouble.Syracuse’s campus newspaper, the Daily Orange, printed a photo of ...

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7 d. ago A trooper’s shove showed stardom doesn’t protect Black athletes from police | Etan Thomas

When I was a college basketball player, some believed we were treated differently from other Black and Brown people. An event last weekend suggests otherwiseIt was 1996, my first day stepping foot on Syracuse University’s campus. I saw a big student protest was taking place so, with my freshman’s inquisitive mind, I ventured over to see what was going on.I listened to a passionate sista named Kathy Ade, the president of Syracuse’s student African-American Society. She stood there with her Bantu knots and a megaphone addressing the crowd, discussing the fact that campus security was now going to be able to carry pepper spray. In the 90s – which my daughter Baby Sierra calls “the 1900s,” just to keep me humble – campus security carrying pepper spray was a big deal. Now, they all carry guns. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Netflix fans urged to watch new thriller hailed 'a slam dunk of a show'

The new thriller has left fans threatening to "forget sleep"

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1 week ago The Guardian view on Fifa’s new ‘peace prize’: Gianni Infantino should concentrate on the day job | Editorial

The president of world football’s governing body should abandon geopolitical networking and address criticisms over World Cup ticketing To general bemusement, Gianni Infantino, the president of world football’s governing body, Fifa, was pictured congratulating Donald Trump last month at the Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, having been personally invited by the US president. Mr Infantino did not hold back in lauding the president’s peace-making prowess, commenting: “Now we can really write some new pages. Pages of togetherness, of peace, in a region which really, really needs it.”News that Fifa is to launch its own annual peace prize, with the inaugural award to take place in Washington next month, would therefore seem to point to only one outcome. To use a metaphor from another sport, it surely looks like a slam dunk for the man Fifa’s president describes as a “winner” and “close friend”. As Mr Infantino told an American business forum on the day he announce...

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2 w. ago I can’t remember my PIN but 5ive’s Slam Dunk Da Funk lyrics are stored in my brain marked ‘vitally important’

These five bad boys DO have the power to rock us

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2 w. ago Florida’s 7ft 9in Oliver Rioux becomes tallest player in college basketball history

World’s tallest teenager debuts for national champsRioux, 19, plays two minutes in Florida’s 104-64 winFlorida coach Todd Golden had people yelling at him at halftime Thursday night to get 7ft 9in center Olivier Rioux in the game.Golden relented with 2:09 to play – and made history in the process – after chants of “We Want Ollie” swept through the O’Connell Center. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Harry and Meghan met with barrage of boos during date night at World Series baseball championship

Other guests at Game 4 between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Toronto Blue Rays included actress Sydney Sweeney, basketball player LeBron James and rapper Donald Glover

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