Month: January 2020

The Mallacoota golf course was a sanctuary for animals fleeing Australia’s catastrophic bushfires, but it has become a killing field. ### A mob of kangaroos had gathered on the fairway, the last patch of green grass left after fire ripped through the eastern Victoria town on New Year’s Eve, destroying close to 100 homes and thousands of hectares of native habitat. Over 4,000 locals and tourists had to be evacuated by sea after the fires…

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The Australian government, which only a month ago was treating the crisis as a state-level rather than national problem, has announced an emergency package of 2 billion Australian dollars (about $1.4 billion USD). While it is promising that the government has finally abandoned the fiction that such disasters can be managed by state governments alone, this is just a drop in the bucket. When environmental and health costs are taken into account, I estimate that…

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Bindi Irwin, Steve’s daughter, and the rest of the Irwin family have rescued and treated over 90,000 animals, many of which were injured in Australia’s recent devastating wildfires. ### Ollie, an orphaned platypus, was patient number 90,000 at the Wildlife Hospital, Bindi’s brother, Robert Irwin, said on Instagram. ### “With so many devastating fires within Australia, my heart breaks for the people and wildlife who have lost so much,” Bindi said in an Instagram post…

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To understand how dominant Lamar Jackson was in 2019, one first must recognize the record-breaking seasons completed by couple of the Ravens quarterback’s peers. Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey led the league with 2,392 scrimmage yards, the third most in a single season in NFL history. His 116 receptions, second most in the league, were the most by a running back in a single season in NFL history. He became the first player in the Super…

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Only one contest remains in the 2019 college football season, the last game before the 2020 campaign kicks off nearly eight months from now. No. 1 LSU takes on No. 3 Clemson in the 2020 College Football Playoff championship game. It’s a battle of Tigers that features two star-studded rosters, most notably in LSU’s Joe Burrow — Heisman Trophy winner and Sporting News Player of the Year — and Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence, sophomore phenom and…

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How can you create a top 25 for the 2020 season when 2019 isn’t even finished? Because we can, they’re fun to talk about and everyone else is going to do them, too. Way-too-early rankings are a rite of passage in college football: It’s the ultimate poll that doesn’t matter, but it does give us a frame of reference — and something to talk about — heading into next season. Clemson and LSU will conclude…

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The Texans reached the 2020 NFL playoffs despite being down one of their best players for the second half of the season. Yet a few days before Houston was scheduled to host Buffalo in the wild-card round of the postseason, J.J. Watt was activated off injured reserve. A five-time Pro Bowler and three-time Defensive Player of the Year, Watt went down with a pectoral injury after making a tackle on Oct. 27 against the Raiders.…

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The athletes who defined the last decade in the NBA and the NFL, America’s most prominent professional sports leagues, are easy to name. But the stranglehold LeBron James and Tom Brady have held on basketball and football is due to expire in the 2020s. That two players stand out as the most likely to dominate the next 10 years in those sports is telling given the absurd amount of young talent infused (and soon to be…

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NEW ORLEANS — When LSU coach Ed Orgeron accepted Eddie Robinson Coach of the Year Award on Saturday — presented by the Football Writers Association of America — he was quick to point out the lasting lesson he learned from the Grambling coaching icon. “You try to mold yourself to emulate guys like this,” Orgeron said while motioning to the Robinson bust at a presentation at the Sazerac House. “In order for you to have…

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This post originally appeared on Parklu, our content partner.  For most brands, e-commerce influencers are the gatekeepers to e-commerce success in China. Marketing teams can try to go it alone, combining content with community building to draw traffic to their own channels, but many will find their attempts yield disappointing returns. KOLs, on the other hand, give a brand exposure to a relevantly positioned audience in the tens of thousands, or millions—and through an elusive…

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