A friend he was staying with in Wilmington dissuaded him from the notion of taking his show on the road, so to speak. Instead, he did socially distanced concerts for her neighbors several weeks running in her Glen Meade front yard. It was a way to get things out musically, Whitted said. There s a lot of music in him, as Kennedy whom he met in 1997 during a production of Godspell at Cape Fear Regional Theatre can attest. Brian Whitted is a musical genius, Kennedy wrote in a Facebook message. I do not use that term lightly. Pianist. Singer. Arranger. Comedian . He is a beautifully trained musician and can play anything, from Rachmaninoff to Stevie Wonder to Sondheim.
As legal betting booms, journalists jump from sports page to sportsbook
Ben Strauss, The Washington Post
Dec. 19, 2020
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Readers of the Chicago Tribune have come to know sportswriter Teddy Greenstein over the last two-plus decades for his coverage of golf and the Big Ten. But if they want his insights on The Masters or his weekly college football picks, they ll no longer find them in their local paper. They ll have to look, instead, to the tweets and videos Greenstein makes for PointsBet, the sports-betting company where he started recently as senior editor.
Over the last decade, the Tribune, like many media outlets big and small, has hemorrhaged jobs. This summer, in the midst of the pandemic, there were furloughs, casting its future in ever shakier terms. Greenstein headed for what looked like greener pastures, pegging his career squarely on the future of legal sports gambling.
is six. the great divide. is a sell-off in the bond market for real? we ll ask an expert if the glory days are over for u.s. treasuries. conquering cancer. the promising treatments being developed by some of the world s biggest drug companies to fight the deadliest forms of the disease. all that and more, tonight, on nightly business report, for friday, may 31st. good evening, everyone. welcome. the month of may felt more like the month of march today. going out like a lion. selling modest most of the session. in the last hour it hit hard. wave after wave as portfolio managers made month- end moves. the range from high to low on the dow, 277 points, biggest since january 2 knond. it s the worst performance since the day of the boston bombings, nasdaq down 35, s & p lower by 23. all three finished with losses for the week. nevertheless, each of those major barometers ended the month of may with gains, first time that happened since 2009. monthly win streak stands at 7:
treasuries. conquering cancer. the promising treatments being developed by some of the world s biggest drug companies to fight the deadliest forms of the disease. all that and more, tonight, on nightly business report, for friday, may 31st. good evening, everyone. welcome. the month of may felt more like the month of march today. going out like a lion. selling modest most of the session. in the last hour it hit hard. wave after wave as portfolio managers made month- end moves. the range from high to low on the dow, 277 points, biggest since january 2 knond. it s the worst performance since the day of the boston bombings, nasdaq down 35, s & p lower by 23. all three finished with losses for the week. nevertheless, each of those major barometers ended the month of may with gains, first time that happened since 2009. monthly win streak stands at 7: seven for the s & p, six for the dow. to put it in perspective. we have jeremy siegel of the wharton school at pennsylvania.