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Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Former NBA coach and longtime broadcaster Hubie Brown is in his final season calling NBA games, ESPN’s Content President Burke Magnus announced. "We are going to give Hubie one last shot on a game," Magnus said of the 91-year-old Brown on the "SI Media with Jimmy Traina" podcast. "He deserves that. We think the world of him. I think it’s absolutely remarkable the level he still calls games at age 90-plus." Magnus added that ESPN intends on honoring Brown at some point during the regular season to "send him off in style." CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown (left) and Ryan Ruocco during an NBA game between the San Antonio Spurs and the Los Angeles Lakers at Staples Center. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports) While Brown played in the league for a bit, he went into coaching high school basketball in 1955, where he would spend a decade before eventually taking assistant jobs at William & Mary and Duke. Brown returned to the NBA in 1972, joining the Milwaukee Bucks ’ staff to help coach a team that included Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and others. JA MORANT'S TEAMMATE APPEARS TO SHOOT IMAGINARY GUN AS THREE-POINT CELEBRATION; SOCIAL MEDIA REACTS Brown spent two years with Milwaukee before making the move to the ABA in 1974 to lead the Kentucky Colonels. He spent another two years there before the ABA merged with the NBA before the 1976-77 campaign. Back in the league, Brown spent five years coaching the Atlanta Hawks, five seasons with the New York Knicks and ended his coaching career with the Memphis Grizzlies for three seasons. ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown during an NBA game between the Indiana Pacers and Phoenix Suns at U.S. Airways Center. (Mark J. Rebilas/USA Today Sports) While Brown was jumping from coaching gig to coaching gig, he would take broadcasting jobs in between his stints. After being dismissed by the Knicks, for instance, he was a regular television broadcaster. Brown was a part of NBA on CBS before Turner Sports bought the league’s media rights in the early 1990s. He joined the Grizzlies in 2002, 16 years after his previous coaching job with the Knicks, though he left the job 12 games into the 2004-05 season for medical reasons. From there, Brown returned to broadcasting again, joining ABC for its coverage of the league, which included calling the 2005 and 2006 NBA Finals. He hasn’t left ABC/ESPN since. Basketball has been a true passion for Brown, who continues to provide expert analysis during broadcasts. However, his personal life has been tumultuous of late. His wife, Claire, died at age 87 in June. Heart complications also took his son, Brendan, earlier this month at the age of 54. ESPN broadcaster Hubie Brown during an NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers at Staples Center. (Kirby Lee/USA Today Sports) CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Brown is a member of the National Sports Media Association Hall of Fame and the College Basketball Hall of Fame for his contributions to the game. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2005. Scott Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.
So who’s next? What’s next? And where? In 2006 the nation was stood on its head prompted by a knee-jerk media working off a claim by a young, maladjusted woman with a story that reporters, columnists, TV essayists, The New York Times, politicians, black and social activists and racial fire alarm-pullers chose to believe, facts be damned. And so Crystal Mangum, a young, self-employed black stripper accused three white Duke lacrosse players — all immediately condemned as “sons of white privilege” — were indicted and simultaneously sentenced to revulsion and expulsion, pariahs on their own campus. Her original claim, according to police reports, was that she was raped by 20 Duke players, before reducing the number to three. Her co-stripper denied that there was a single rape.Rising crimes expose lapses in policing
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing lower as Wall Street ends a holiday-shortened week on a down note. The S&P 500 fell 1.1% Friday and the the Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 333 points, or 0.8%. The Nasdaq composite dropped 1.5%. The “Magnificent 7” stocks weighed on the market, led by declines in Nvidia, Tesla and Microsoft. Even with the loss, the S&P 500 had a modest gain for the week and is still headed for its second consecutive annual gain of more than 20%, the first time that has happened since 1997-1998. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.62%. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below. NEW YORK (AP) — Technology stocks are dragging down the market Friday as Wall Street closes out a holiday-shortened week. The S&P 500 fell 1.3%, with more than 90% of stocks in the benchmark index losing ground. The benchmark index was managing to hold onto a modest gain for the week. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 418 points, or 1%, to 42,878 as of 1:43 p.m. Eastern time. The Nasdaq composite fell 1.8%. Technology stocks were the biggest weight on the market Friday. Semiconductor giant Nvidia slumped 2.7%. Its enormous valuation gives it an outsize influence on indexes. Other Big Tech stocks losing ground included Microsoft, with a 2% decline. A wide range of retailers also fell. Amazon fell 1.9% and Best Buy slipped 1.8%. The sector is being closely watched for clues on how it performed during the holiday shopping season. Energy stocks held up better than the rest of the market, with a loss of just 0.1% as crude oil prices rose 1.4%. The S&P 500 gained nearly 3% over a 3-day stretch before breaking for the Christmas holiday. On Thursday, the index posted a small decline. “There's just some uncertainty over this relief rally we've witnessed since last week,” said Adam Turnquist, chief technical strategist for LPL Financial. Despite Friday's drop, the market is moving closer to another standout annual finish . The S&P 500 is on track for a gain of around 25% in 2024. That would mark a second consecutive yearly gain of more than 20%, the first time that has happened since 1997-1998. The gains have been driven partly by upbeat economic data showing that consumers continued spending and the labor market remained strong. Inflation, while still high, has also been steadily easing. A report on Friday showed that sales and inventory estimates for the wholesales trade industry fell 0.2% in November, following a slight gain in October. That weaker-than-expected report follows an update on the labor market Thursday that showed unemployment benefits held steady last week. The stream of upbeat economic data and easing inflation helped prompt a reversal in the Federal Reserve's interest rate policy this year. Expectations for interest rate cuts also helped drive market gains. The central bank recently delivered its third cut to interest rates in 2024. Even though Inflation has come closer to the central bank's target of 2%, it remains stubbornly above that mark and worries about it heating up again have tempered the forecast for more interest rate cuts. Inflation concerns have added to uncertainties heading into 2025, which include the labor market’s path ahead and shifting economic policies under incoming President Donald Trump. Worries have risen that Trump’s preference for tariffs and other policies could lead to higher inflation , a bigger U.S. government debt and difficulties for global trade. Amedisys rose 4.7% after the home health care and hospice services provider agreed to extend the deadline for its sale to UnitedHealth Group. The Justice Department had sued to block the $3.3 billion deal, citing concerns he combination would hinder access to home health and hospice services in the U.S. The move to extend the deadline comes ahead of an expected shift in regulatory policy under Trump. The incoming administration is expected to have a more permissive approach to dealmaking and is less likely to raise antitrust concerns. In Asia, Japan’s benchmark index surged as the yen remained weak against the dollar. Stocks in South Korea fell after the main opposition party voted to impeach the country’s acting leader. Markets in Europe gained ground. Bond yields held relatively steady. The yield on the 10-year Treasury rose to 4.61% from 4.59% late Thursday. The yield on the two-year Treasury slipped to 4.31% from 4.33% late Thursday. Wall Street will have more economic updates to look forward to next week, including reports on pending home sales and home prices. There will also be reports on U.S. construction spending and snapshots of manufacturing activity.
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