Ohio State quarterback Quinn Ewers has signed a name, image and likeness deal with GT Sports Marketing for $1.4 million, a source told ESPN on Tuesday.
The contract with GT Sports Marketing is for three years and is in exchange for autographs. The deal, according to a source, was negotiated by Ewers’ agents at Sportstars and Rubicon, and is Ewers’ third NIL deal overall.
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Crispy deep fried Shrimp Fritters paired with a spicy Cajun Remoulade is an amazingly simple dish to make, but it always impresses. See the recipe below.
Commissioners vote in support of Brevard Zoo’s 14-acre attraction
Executive Director Keith Winsten called the 14-acre port-owned property a ‘dream site’ when addressing port commissioners.
Where the Beachline merges with A1A, new renderings showed a 14-acre campus including pavilions, docks and a restaurant that Winsten said could attract more guests than even the zoo, itself.
“Aquariums always outdraw zoos. There’s much fewer of them,” Winsten noted.
He said it would be the only major aquarium on the coast between South Carolina and Miami.
Winsten said the outdoor design was inspired by the Monterey Bay, California aquarium. And he said the attraction is as much about the environment as tourism. The zoo said a dollar from every ticket will go toward improving the water quality of the Indian River Lagoon.
“The aquarium will help teach over half a million people a year how to live lightly on the lagoon, inspire people from other places how to go back to their local bodies of water and make a difference there,” Winsten said.
The zoo estimated building the aquarium will cost $85 million. It said $31 million is committed already with more than $50 million still to be raised from local and state money and private donations.
The zoo hopes to begin breaking ground in the next three years, meaning the earliest the aquarium could open might be in 2026 or 2027. Winsten said it all depends on how fast the zoo can raise the money.
Carrier estimates 593 workers didn’t get the shots Sept. 27 deadline
United Airlines Holdings Inc. is moving ahead with plans to terminate close to 600 employees who didn’t meet its Covid-19 vaccination deadline, company officials said Tuesday.
United in August said it would require all of its 67,000 U.S. employees to be vaccinated—the first major U.S. airline and one of the first large U.S. companies to do so.
Now the Sept. 27 deadline has passed, and while most of the airline’s employees complied, United is starting the process of firing 593 employees who didn’t get the shots, company officials said. Those workers can still save their jobs if they opt to get vaccinated in the coming days before their official termination meetings, airline officials said Tuesday.
“We know for some, that decision was a reluctant one,” United Chief Executive Scott Kirby and President Brett Hart wrote in a letter to employees Tuesday. “But there’s no doubt in our minds that some of you will have avoided a future hospital stay—or even death—because you got vaccinated.”
Continue readingThe Powerball jackpot keeps growing, this time to $570 million after no one won the grand prize in Monday night’s drawing.
The next drawing will be held Wednesday at 10:59 p.m. ET.
The cash option is $410.1 million.
According to Powerball, though no one won Monday’s jackpot, at least one winning ticket was sold in Virginia for $2 million after the player matched the first five winning numbers.
Powerball says the odds of winning are 1 in 24.9 no matter the size of the jackpot. The odds of winning the full Powerball jackpot are 1 in 292.2 million.
The last Powerball jackpot winner was in June when Florida claimed it had sold the winning $286 million ticket.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed sent an important but unintentional message last week when she was caught violating her own mask mandates while partying away, maskless, in a jam-packed jazz club.
Her excuse was incoherent; she said she was “feeling the spirit,” enjoying the music and so not thinking about a mask.
But the more serious problem wasn’t her hypocrisy and lame rationalizing so much as the mixed and misleading messages sent by the rules themselves. Americans are in dire need of guidance that’s coherent, fair, sustainable and backed by evidence. And they’re not getting it from public health authorities or the rule-makers who rely on them, even as the country slouches toward a confusing new normal with no end to Covid-19 in sight.
“We don’t need the fun police to come in and micromanage and tell us what we should or shouldn’t be doing,” Breed said when questioned. She was making a good point! But as Charles C.W. Cook wrote on Monday in National Review, she is the person who authorized the mask mandate. She is the fun police.
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