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NBA Power Rankings: Streaking Bucks back on top; new-look Lakers making moves; struggling Heat take a tumble
1 Bucks Giannis goes out, doesn’t matter. The Bucks’ win streak now sits at 14 games after Jrue Holiday’s 33 points powered Milwaukee past Phoenix on Sunday. With Jae Crowder playing and Bobby Portis back, the Bucks just need their MVP candidate to complete the puzzle. — 43-17 2 Celtics Boston closed out a 3-1 week with an impressive road win over the 76ers on Saturday. Their only loss came against the Bucks, without Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum. Brown has looked great since returning from a facial fracture donning a sleek, black mask, averaging 28 points in two games on 5-for-9 3-point shooting. — 44-17 3 Nuggets The Nuggets…
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YouTube’s NFL deal turns up the heat in battle for sports rights | Sports rights
YouTube’s $14bn (£11.6bn) deal to stream National Football League (NFL) games marks the latest incursion by a Silicon Valley giant into territory traditionally dominated by broadcasters and pay-TV companies, as live sport becomes the latest battleground for audiences and profits promised by the streaming revolution. The Google-owned YouTube’s seven-year deal, which will see the world’s largest video platform take over the “Sunday Ticket” package of games held by the US satellite service DirecTV since 1994, followed an auction that included heavy interest from its fellow big tech company Apple. The deal is the latest in a series of commercially eye-popping deals by the NFL, the most expensive live sports rights…
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Heat is becoming a rising issue for sports fans, players
CINCINNATI — Bengals supporters who have been likely to video games for many years may say it feels hotter during the season and they are appropriate. Data from Local weather Central shows from 1970 to 2019, the average temperature during the year has absent up nearly two degrees. “Weather improve is true,” WCPO 9 Information chief meteorologist Steve Raleigh stated. Raleigh has been supplying the Tri-Point out the most exact forecast for practically 20 yrs and he can confidently say the drop is finding hotter. “We usually are getting as quite a few as seven to 10 days earlier mentioned typical that we have noticed in the slide than ever before,” Raleigh…