The answer depends on how well you like the new Fidelity. Because the old Fidelity, which brought you gunslinging fund managers and odds-defying top returns, is long gone. Despite all the ink that will be spilled decoding the convulsions, what’s happening at the privately owned firm isn’t all that mysterious. Fidelity is being forced to grow up. Yes, it’s 51 years old and manages nearly $500 billion in assets - plenty old and big enough by most measures....
In the depressed real-estate world, the sight of yet another large developer filing for bankruptcy wasn’t a shocker. But it was still unnerving to see a company considered as prestigious and brilliantly run as O and Y scurrying for bankruptcy protection. Real-estate experts worried that the filing would make banks and other lenders even more cautious about backing new projects. After all, O & Y built such showpieces as New York’s World Financial Center and Toronto’s First Canadian Place....
I am the mother of a 3-year-old girl and a soon-to-be 14-year-old son. My son, who is on the verge of a wonderful manhood, I have raised principally on my own. It was not my choice to raise him in a home without a father. I would have embraced, if given the choice, a man with the attributes of my own father – kind, strong, morally centered and incapable of allowing any of his children to say an unkind word about their mother....
Messi and Ronaldo have won eight out of the last 10 Ballons d’Or awards between them and Ancelotti thinks Dybala and Neymar have what it takes to make a similar impact in the years to come. Since joining Juve in 2015, Dybala has scored 27 goals in 57 appearances in all competitions, helping the Bianconeri to a league and cup double last season. “Dybala can make history at Juventus over the next 10 years,” Ancelotti told Tuttosport....
Bayern: Crazy Pogba deals are finished The loss of Tuesday goalscorer Robert Lewandowski from the first leg against Real Madrid hampered the side, no doubt, but the evidence of Bayern’s diminishment does not lie in these defeats alone. The players have plainly not been as skilful or hungry this season under Ancelotti. There have been too many coasters in the team; too many times they have delivered disjointed collective performances and it is no great surprise that they regressed in Europe....
Ventura was dismissed on Wednesday by FIGC president Carlo Tavecchio after failing to take Italy to the World Cup for the first time in over 60 years. Juve 21/20 favs for Serie A title The coach had declined to offer his resignation in the wake of play-off defeat at the hands of Sweden, but his position was always going to be under threat following this week’s historic failure. Now Goal understands that Ancelotti, sacked himself by Bayern Munich after an underwhelming start to the 2017-18 season, is the man Tavecchio wants to put the Azzurri back on track....
Why Pep could sell Aguero Robben will start three matches in the space of a week having made just three appearances across all competitions this season before opening the scoring in last weekend’s 2-2 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt. The Netherlands international created two goals before rounding off a 4-1 Champions League triumph over his countrymen PSV in midweek and Ancelotti is confident the 32-year-old has put adductor and hamstring problems behind him....
“It has been 50 years since any substantial tombs of this sort have been found at any Bronze Age palatial site,” said Jack Davis, one half of the husband-and-wife team responsible for the find. “That makes this extraordinary.” Davis and Sharon Stocker announced the discovery of two ancient tombs in the Greek coastal town of Pylos on Tuesday 17 December. The burial sites lie on a vista looking out onto the Mediterranian, close to the palace of Nestor, a legendary king depicted in Homer’s “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey....
The paper sheds light on the history of human migration between Asia and North America and how ancient peoples in the region mixed. There is a consensus among scientists that the Americas were first settled by people who traveled from Asia, although a number of questions remain about how exactly this process occurred. “I would say we—archaeologists and geneticists—are in relative agreement about major elements of the peopling of the Americas, but differ drastically on some of the details,” Ben Potter, a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who was not involved in the Current Biology paper, told Newsweek....
Previously, the tombs, in the Rioja Alavesa region, were thought to belong to the same group, with different graves representing people of different social status. But dental analysis has now revealed this is not the case. At the site, human remains were found either in cave burials or in megalithic graves. The latter would have required considerable effort to build. In a study published in Science Advances, researchers say the “invested energy” into megalithic tombs is generally linked with “a more privileged segment of the community compared to those in caves....
Whereas some of his fellow coaches marched, chests puffed out, he ambled to the podium and seemed to be genuinely surprised by the number of reporters gathered to ask questions. Missouri basketball coach Kim Anderson didn’t think he’d be there on SEC Media Day — certainly not on Wednesday, and probably not ever, he believed. At 59 years old, Anderson thought often about his window of opportunity, how it went lower at the conclusion of every season....
In his latest viral post, Drummond shows why basketball players shouldn’t bowl. The big man tried to dribble the ball, played defense on others’ turns and hurled passes around as if he were throwing basketballs. The kicker in all this: Drummond’s vine was set to the Harlem Globetrotters’ classic theme song.
Bargnani has served as the Knicks big men while Tyson Chandler and Amare Stoudemire have come and gone in the lineup with injury problems. At 2:40 in the third quarter, Bargnani drove to the basket and attempted a dunk. He was fouled on the play and broke his fall with his left hand, which resulted in the left elbow injury. Bargnani is the latest Knicks player to be hurt in an injury-plagued season....
“Why couldn’t the family see all the video?” family attorney Ben Crump asked during a press conference after the viewing. “They only showed one body cam video, even though we know there were several body cam videos, if they were following the law and the policy in this county, that everybody has video cameras on their uniform.” Brown’s family viewed the body camera footage for the first time on Monday after requesting its release for nearly a week after Brown’s death on April 21....
Cancio (21-4-2, 16 KOs) showed the boxing world that he is the real deal when he retained his WBA (regular) super featherweight title with a vicious body shot in the third round that sent Machado packing in the main event from the Fantasy Springs Resort Casino in Indio, Calif. Sporting News had the fight even at 19-19 when the stoppage occurred. Join DAZN to watch 100+ fight nights a year...
Charlotte Bennett, 25, who worked for Cuomo’s administration as a health policy adviser, told the New York Times that the governor asked her whether she ever had sexual relations with an older man, and then said he was open to relationships with women her age. Bennett left the Cuomo administration in November. Cuomo quickly denied the allegation in a statement, where he praised Bennett as a “hardworking and valued member of our team during COVID....
According to a report from ESPN, which cited unidentified sources, there’s a “guarded optimism” the franchise quarterback could be ready for the Colts’ regular-season opener Sept. 8 at the Chargers. Luck suffered a calf strain this spring and participated in just three practices during training camp, all as a limited participant. Colts owner Jim Irsay later revealed Tuesday that Luck is dealing with a “small little bone” injury in his lower left leg, which will likely force him to sit out the entire preseason....
Quarterback Andrew Luck is one of the NFL’s best. Receiver T.Y. Hilton has been incredible through his first three years. Coach Chuck Pagano is entering the final year of his contract and reportedly turned down a one-year extension this offseason. MORE: Who’s worth more, Luck or Russell Wilson? | Are Colts AFC team to beat in 2015? All three want long-term deals, and Irsay says he believes they deserve them....
This was seen as a red flag on some levels, a sort of indication that James believed the two young players would be needed as bargaining chips to raise the level of the Cavaliers roster. As time passes, that appears to be the case more and more. MORE: Wiggins addresses trade rumors | James returns to Cavaliers | Team USA photos James, who revealed his decision to join the Cavaliers in an SI....
