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NCAA women’s basketball has skyrocketed in popularity over the past few years. Sports Innovation Lab co-founder and CEO Josh Walker joins Yahoo Finance to discuss this trend in the business of women’s sports.Walker said that building media support for women’s sport involves more than just advocacy for equality, it also involves data showing increased engagement. It’s now being translated into ROI from an investment perspective. “A transition has happened. When we started looking at the data behind this story, it started to translate into what these brands could be behind. Media companies are now spending real money on media rights,…

CINCINNATI — The city of Cincinnati is considering opposing the renewal of Camp Washington’s liquor license after reports of too many complaints from residents and calls from police. Residents told City Council members this week that police have had to respond to too many calls about Legacy Lounge, and also cited multiple instances of public urination by people at the nightclub. “Tenants are being evicted because of the late nights, loud music and 5 a.m. nuisance,” said Sidney Pridge of the Camp Washington Urban Renewal Corporation. Nightclub owners and staff said they were not responsible for these incidents as the…

Sunset highlights power lines along Turnagain Arm and Seward Highway south of Anchorage, Alaska, Sunday, March 26, 2017. (Bob Hallinen photo) A few weeks ago, I found myself skiing down the Magnum north face of Turnagain Pass in perfect powder, screaming. The sun was setting over the Kenai Mountains as my watch passed 10,000 feet elevation for the day. Deep snow, buried alder, and spring sunshine provide the magical backcountry window that we Alaska skiers dream of all year long.I also skied all year round. Despite this year’s high snowfall, long-term trends indicate that the ski season is shrinking. Arctic…

England star Marcus Smith shone in Harlequins’ 28-24 victory over Glasgow Warriors, sealing their place in the Champions Cup quarter-finals. Smith built up a 21-7 interval lead for Quins, with the fly-half scoring two tries and a dynamic solo score to put Quins in complete control of the last-16 encounter. But at the Stoop, where they almost lost a 37-point lead against Bath in the Premiership six days ago, another implosion left fans in the lurch. Click here for scorers Johnny Matthews and George Horne pounced on Glasgow and the United Rugby Championship second-placed side were back in the lead…

Rising mortgage rates relative to average home prices are prominent factors in the affordability crisis for U.S. homebuyers. Nevertheless, first-time buyers are still showing up strong, accounting for half of all home market purchases in 2023.Zillow Chief Economist Skyler Olsen joins Market Domination Overtime to talk about the most affordable housing markets for prospective homebuyers, especially young first-time buyers.”The metric that’s driving this is the percentage of people between the ages of 29 and 43,” Olsen told Yahoo Finance, naming the top 10 metropolitan areas in the U.S. with the most first-time homebuyers. “In other words, there are a lot…

Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunchThe tech-wide reckoning that began in 2022 and ran throughout into 2023 has continued into this year. And while 2024’s losses are not at that scale, they’re still significant, driven by big names like Pixar, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and TikTok. It remains to be seen if this year’s layoff trends follow last year’s, in which layoffs slowed down in the summer, before cuts began ramping up yet again toward the winter. Momentum for a tech sector rebound remains slow to build, outside of bright spots within artificial intelligence and adjacent companies, resulting in tech companies continuing…

You’re reading the Today Opinion newsletter. Sign up to get it delivered to your inbox.iPhone pinky (and brain)From time to time, clips circulate on social media featuring internet doctors with questionable qualifications. Look at your hands and see your “iPhone fingers.” This is a condition where dents form in the areas that bear the weight of your phone during use.Don’t worry, this effect has been debunked pretty thoroughly. Smartphones aren’t changing our little fingers. It’s just that, thankfully, our brains have changed.george willAfter reading Jonathan Haidt’s new book, An Anxious Generation, about how phones affect children’s development, he concludes: children…

Along with new economic data, comments from Federal Reserve officials weighed heavily on investor sentiment last week. The U.S. economy continues to show resilience, with manufacturing returning to expansion after 16 months of contraction and the labor market adding 303,000 new jobs in March, more than economists expected. Buoyed by this positive economic momentum, recent public statements from Fed officials have tempered expectations that a rate cut is imminent, with Fed directors reiterating the need to see more positive data on disinflation. ing. Wall Street saw mixed performance this week, with uncertainty surrounding monetary policy in the spotlight. Energy stocks…

2:00 PM ET April 5, 2024 Major U.S. bridges could be vulnerable to ship strikes, including those just downstream of the Key Bridge From CNN’s Casey Tran, Isabel Chapman, Kurt Devine and Yahya Abu-Ghazala Chesapeake Bay Bridge in 2021. adobe stock The Francis Scott Key Bridge served as an economically important gateway until its tragic collapse last week. Thousands of container ships have passed under the decades-old bridge, crossing from the Atlantic Ocean to the port of Baltimore. But the now-ruined structure is not the only bridge on the same important shipping route. Twenty miles downstream, a huge container ship…

(Bloomberg) — Stock markets ended the week on a strong note after explosive jobs data suggested the U.S. economy will continue to lead U.S. companies, even if it means higher interest rates are still possible. finished.Most Read Articles on BloombergAll major groups in the S&P 500 rose, with the index up more than 1%. Wall Street decided on Friday to take a glass-half-full view based on the assumption that if the economy is still that strong, there will be no urgency for the Federal Reserve to begin easing policy. did.This triggered hawkish repricing in bond markets. Treasury yields rose and…