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Feb262021 by adminNo Comments

Ex-WNBA player Renee Montgomery makes history as new Atlanta Dream co-owner

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Feb. 26 (UPI) -- Former WNBA star Renee Montgomery made history Friday as the first former player to become an owner and executive of a WNBA team when the league approved the sale of the Atlanta Dream to a group led by investor Larry Gottesdiener. Suzanne Abair, the president of Gottesdiener's Northland Investment Corp., a real estate firm, also is part of the three-member investor group that purchased the team from former Sen. Kelly Loeffler and fellow former Dream owner Kelly Brock. Advertisement "My Dream has come true," Montgomery said in a news release. "Breaking barriers for minorities and women by being the first former WNBA player to have both a stake in ownership and a leadership role with the team is an opportunity that I take very seriously. "I invite you to join me as the Drea...

Feb12021 by adminNo Comments

LGBT+ History Month: Six LGBT+ sportspeople you should know more about

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To mark the start of LGBT+ History Month, BBC Sport looks at the lives of six LGBT+ sportspeople who made history in their respective sports, but whose stories may not be as widely known.From the first known British transgender woman to a Wimbledon champion, an NFL Pro-Bowler and a sprinter who successfully challenged her sport's governing body.Here are six LGBT+ sportspeople we think you should know more about. Warning: This article includes references to suicide, drug use and other issues such as sexual misconduct.1. Panama Al BrownAlfonso Teofilo Brown, better known as Panama Al Brown, was the first Latin American boxing world champion and is regarded as one of the greatest bantamweights in history.During his career, Brown won an incredible 59 fights by knockout and was the bantamweight...

Jan202021 by adminNo Comments

Stars react to presidential inauguration: ‘Today, we make history’

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Jan. 20 (UPI) -- Film, television and music stars like Mindy Kaling, Bebe Rexha, Eva Longoria and more have commented on Wednesday's presidential inauguration for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Biden became the 46th president of the United States after taking the oath of office on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. Advertisement Harris has become the first woman and first woman of color in U.S. history to be sworn in as vice president. "I was at work, but apparently she said: 'Is that mommy? It looks like mommy.' Best compliment I ever got! It matters. Happy Inauguration everyone," Kaling said on Instagram, alongside an image of her three-year-old daughter Katherine watching Harris on a television screen. "Brown girls no longer just dreaming," Shonda Rhimes said on Instagram, alongside a ...

Jan182021 by adminNo Comments

New fossil helps paleontologists decipher evolutionary history of caimans, alligators

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Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Alligators and caimans are closely related, but their evolutionary history is complicated. And because the two groups look so similar, untangling their evolving relations across time and space has proven especially difficult for paleontologists. Advertisement Thankfully, a new fossil, described Friday in the journal PeerJ, has offered scientists insights into the history of Alligatoridae family, the group of crocodylians that includes alligators and caimans. The fossil, a partial skull, was originally unearthed in 2010 at a dig site in Far West Texas, a mountainous region of the Chihuahuan Desert. Far West Texas, or Trans-Pecos Texas, is home to what's known as the Devil's Graveyard Formation. It's a geologic formation preserving fossils from the latter half of the Eocen...

Dec132020 by adminNo Comments

Climate change: 700-year history of wind recorded in island mud

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