The College Football Hall of Fame in downtown Atlanta was smashed and looted Friday as part of the riot in response to the death of George Floyd. The windows of the hall of fame were smashed and the gift shop was ransacked, according to local police. It is not known whether the museum portion of the building was destroyed and …

Silicon Valley-based software company Palantir is following the example of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and is openly considering abandoning California’s “growing bigotry and monoculture”, its co-founder said. Speaking during an appearance on Monday in “Axios on HBO” CEO Alex Karp said the company was “getting closer” to deciding whether to leave Golden State. Karp was interviewed by conference call from …

Rick Schosberg begins his Mondays at 4:15 a.m., when he arrives at Belmont Park to train his horses and help the nearly 600 back-stretching workers who call the track home to stay safe during the coronavirus era. The races will finally return to Belmont on Wednesday, but the horse training and care work never stopped, even as the pandemic began …

When two NASA astronauts blast off to the International Space Station on Wednesday, they will make history by using a staple of the modern era, but a rarity in space: a touchscreen, according to a report. Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, who will be aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft for the first astronaut launch from Florida since the space shuttle …

Charter flights to transport US open tennis players. USA And limited groups from Europe, South America, and the Middle East to New York. Negative tests of COVID-19 before traveling. Centralized housing. Daily temperature controls. There are no spectators. Fewer officials on the court. There is no access to the changing rooms on practice days. All are among the scenarios being …

As negotiations between MLB owners and players continue, hopeful fantasy baseball Players remain vigilant in their quest for a 2020 championship. If you’ve already recruited and your league stubbornly insists on keeping it going, you should be working hard on the exchange phones to adjust your roster for the dramatic changes that a truncated season will bring to your strategy. …

Apple and Google signed a landmark partnership a few weeks ago to develop a common application standard that allows governments to conduct sophisticated contact-tracking campaigns that could help them contain the new coronavirus outbreak. COVID-19 is more contagious than we would have expected, having infected more than 5.7 million people worldwide as of Wednesday morning and claiming the lives of …

Since George Floyd’s death and the nationwide protests that followed, many athletes have used social media to express their feelings about the situation. One of them, Falcons offensive tackle Kaleb McGary, took a stance that he almost immediately regretted. In a Twitter post, the Atlanta first-round pick in 2019 equated the protesters with the cops who contributed to Floyd’s death …

It was one shot in 66 million years. The 6.2-mile-wide asteroid that crashed on the Yucatan peninsula at the end of the Cretaceous period did so at the “deadliest possible angle,” according to a new study. published in Nature Communications on Tuesday. If it had come from any other direction, the dinosaurs could still be present today. The doomed asteroid, …

We are not suggesting that an MLB-type public dispute occur during NHL negotiations with the NHLPA as the parties seek to create a safe, sensible, and equitable way to put the 24-hockey tournament on ice this summer, But no one should expect the players to simply turn around and accept the wishes of Sixth Avenue as dictated. This will apply …