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Morning Sports Update "The average Red Sox fan would not want to sit there and watch two more months of what they've been watching."The Red Sox begin a three-game series at Fenway Park against the Yankees tonight.First pitch is set for 7:10 p.m.This Saturday, the Revolution begin the second half of the MLS regular season with a matchup against Orlando City at Gillette Stadium at 7:30 p.m.
Also on Saturday, the Free Jacks close out the regular season at home ( Veterans Memorial Stadium in Quincy) against the Houston SaberCats at 1:30 p.m.
Potential Red Sox moves before the trade deadline: Though a 34-35 record doesn't appear to be disastrous on the surface, the Red Sox are firmly rooted in last place in the American League East.

The most disruptive year in golf ended Tuesday when the PGA Tour and European tour agreed to a merger with Saudi Arabia's golf interests, creating a commercial operation designed to unify professional golf around the world.As part of the deal, the sides are dropping all lawsuits involving LIV Golf against each other effective immediately.

As the podcast market continues to grow (podcasts currently attract approximately 424.2 million active monthly listeners worldwide, with over 170 million in the United States and nearly 18 million in France), Paradiso Media is proud to announce its acquisition of a majority stake in Binge Audio, one of France's leading podcast production company/networks.

TripleLift laid off one-fifth of its workforce on Thursday, which translates to more than 100 employees, AdExchanger has learned.The cuts only affect employees in the US and Canada.TripleLift confirmed the layoffs to AdExchanger.The company says it's making this move as a course-correction after lower-than-expected growth.

New EU cloud security labeling proposals could force the three major cloud providers to overhaul their business practices in order to continue operating in the region, according to reports.Draft documents, not yet officially presented to the public, in their current wording suggest providers will be required to engage in a joint venture with an EU-based firm.

There are plenty of things going on behind the scenes for Dan Snyder and the Washington Commanders as a potential sale of the team is progressing.The NFL's investigation, led by Mary Jo White, is still going on more than a year after Snyder once again tried to hire someone to investigate himself.The House Oversight Committee's investigation into Snyder and the team ended, but several other lawsuits were started because of allegations made to Congress.

The pending sale of the Washington Commanders is drawing nearer and the list of potential owners has changed somewhat over the last few months.The news came out of nowhere last fall, but it wasn't overly shocking.Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder was reported to be looking at a possible sale of the team.

The Washington Commanders failed to make the playoffs again this year, but the team is still firmly in the NFL news cycle due to the expected sale of the franchise by Dan and Tanya Snyder.The co-owners and co-CEOs of Washington's NFL franchise hired Bank of America Securities to assess potential transactions for the sale of the team, an arrangement that was reported on November 2nd last year.

Major League Baseball announced this week that it has hired a trio of executives with experience at Bally Sports and AT&T SportsNet to its newly created Local Media department.Doug Johnson has been named senior vice president and executive producer of the department.Greg Pennell joins MLB as their new senior vice president of local media.

One of China's richest women has fully taken over Country Garden, a top real estate developer, after her father resigned, which added to a string of prominent entrepreneurs retreating from their posts during a historic downturn in the property market.Yang Huiyan succeeded her father Yang Guoqiang as chairman of the company that he founded, according to a Wednesday filing to the Hong Kong stock exchange, which said the appointment took effect the same day.

A bird flies past an Embraer passenger aircraft, operated by Alitalia SpA, as it prepares to land at London City Airport in London, U.K., on Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017.Alitalia shareholders approved Etihad Airways PJSC investment of up to $231m, Etihad became Alitalia's largest shareholder in 2014 as part of the Persian Gulf carrier's attempt to gain a European foothold by strengthening struggling carriers in the region.

A shopper removes bags from a trolley outside a J Sainsbury Plc supermarket in Godalming, UK, on Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2023.Sainsbury's are due to release a trading update on Wednesday.(Photographer: Bloomberg/Bloomberg)Inflation isn't killing food retail.But prices peaking this year might prove to be the bigger challenge.

The CW has reached a multiyear agreement for the TV rights to LIV Golf events, a deal that will raise the U.S. profile of the controversial Saudi-backed league.The pact announced Thursday is the first major programming move for the CW under the ownership of Nexstar Media Group, which acquired a majority stake in the network last year.

London-listed iron ore miner Ferrexpo has said that the arrest of one of its biggest shareholders in France is unrelated to the FTSE 250 business.Businessman and former Ukrainian MP Kostiantyn Zhevago was arrested by French police in the high-end Courchevel ski resort on Tuesday on an international arrest warrant.

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Elon Musk has yet to address the results of his poll in which millions of Twitter users said they want the billionaire to resign as Twitter CEO, in what could be a bizarre but fitting end to the billionaire's two-month tenure at the helm of the social media company.Elon Musk (center) at Sunday's World Cup Final.

The US-led investment fund Eagle Football has bought a majority stake in Ligue 1 team Lyon, the club announced on Monday, concluding a months-long back-and-forth between the two parties.The fund belonging to American John Textor now holds 77.49% of Lyon on a non-diluted basis, and 86.57% in concert with Holnest on a fully-diluted basis, leading to a change in the board composition to reflect the new shareholding structure.

Bournemouth's new American owner Bill Foley has said the Premier League club was a "bargain" compared to the price it would take to bring a Major League Soccer expansion team to Las Vegas.Foley, owner of the NHL's Vegas Golden Knights, acquired a majority stake in Bournemouth this week through the Black Knight Football Club partnership in a deal reported to be worth £120 million ($146m).

Check out the on-demand sessions from the Low-Code/No-Code Summit to learn how to successfully innovate and achieve efficiency by upskilling and scaling citizen developers. .Animoca Brands, a Korean software developer and venture capital firm, has acquired a majority stake in Pixelynx.Pixelynx is a music metaverse gaming platform company founded by Joel Zimmerman, Richie Hawtin, and other industry professionals.

The fallout from the mini-budget continued to impact the market, says Nationwide's chief economist, explaining the 1.4% decline in house prices in November.There's never a wrong moment to kick Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's excursion into fantasy economics  and, yes, the shambles, and the spike in bond yields, will have been a factor.