A’s Will Finally Turn Out the Lights on Pro Sports in Oakland

Linked media – Associated media Still, the Athletics continued to be competitive, reinventing themselves by shrewdly using data to assess undervalued skills, a process that became known as “Moneyball,” after the best-selling book. The A’s have not reached the World Series since 1990, but they’ve been in the playoffs 11 times since 2000 — more…

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Center for Public Integrity Weighs Merger or Shutdown Amid Dire Financial Straits

Linked media – Associated media “The board remains committed to C.P.I. and its essential mission, and is working hard to determine the best way forward for our journalism,” the nonprofit said in a statement. The financial peril facing the Center for Public Integrity threatens to extinguish a newsroom of about 30 journalists that has watchdogged…

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The tiny Brazilian club that fooled North Korea – ‘They would have been angry if we had won’

Associated media – Associated media Everyone seems to have a slightly different estimate of how many people were outside the stadium on that strange November afternoon, but the consensus is that it was a lot. As the bus crept through the crowd, the Brazilian footballers on board stared out of the windows. Locals — tens…

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Inquiry Into Ouster of OpenAI’s Chief Executive Nears End

Associated media – Associated media WilmerHale, a prominent U.S. law firm, is close to wrapping up a detailed review of OpenAI’s chief executive, Sam Altman, and his ouster from the artificial intelligence start-up late last year, two people with knowledge of the proceedings said. The investigation, when complete, could give insight into what went on…

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