Bell not reporting, surrenders $853K paycheck
Le’Veon Bell will not report to the Steelers, who left for Cleveland already, and has officially surrendered his Game 1 paycheck worth $853,000.
Sooners’ Anderson leaves with injury, ruled out
Oklahoma RB Rodney Anderson suffered an apparent knee injury in the first quarter against UCLA and has been ruled out for the rest of the game.
Sources: Bell not reporting, surrenders $853K
Le’Veon Bell will not report to the Steelers, who left for Cleveland already, and has officially surrendered his Game 1 paycheck worth $853,000, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter.
Sources: Pelicans’ Davis parts ways with agent
Pelicans star Anthony Davis has parted ways with longtime agent Thad Foucher, sources told ESPN.
Today’s weird kids’ YouTube channels have nothing on the first season of Pokémon
Yesterday, apropos of seemingly nothing, a tiny voice deep in the folds of my brain squeaked at me: “Pika-pi,” it said. “Pika, pika-chu.” Well-conditioned late-’90s child that I am, I was compelled to answer the call: I had to consume some Pokémon.
It was only after I was eight episodes into the original series that I realized (no, really, I am not making this up for dramatic effect): the next day — today — was the 20th anniversary of the Pokémon pilot airing in the US That “Pika-pi” has been drilling into my skull for two decades, years after I’d stopped giving a damn about new Pokémon games (sorry, friends, 250 is my limit), and now here it was again, to passive-aggressively remind me of my encroaching mortality.
The question of…
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Rain playing havoc with Brickyard; possibly Mon.
The start of the Brickyard 400 on Sunday has been moved up because of the likelihood of rain, with Cup drivers expecting the race to be moved to Monday.
Trump renews call for Apple to make its products in the US
President Donald Trump suggested this morning that Apple should move its manufacturing plants to America as a way to avoid tariffs in the ongoing trade dispute between the US and China, following reports that the company’s products could become more expensive.
The Trump administration began imposing a series of tariffs on goods from China this summer, but up until now, consumer electronics have been left off the list. That could soon change, as the latest proposed round of tariffs could include products from companies like Apple, Fitbit and Sonos. This week, Apple said that the tariffs would amount to a 25 percent tax on products like the Apple Pencil, AirPods, Apple Watch, HomePod, Mac Mini, and others (or individual components used in…