Cuban criticizes Cruz
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban stood up on Twitter regarding professional players and athletes standing or kneeling during the national anthem.
Cuban tweeted, “The National Anthem Police in this country is out of control. If you want to complain, complain to your boss and ask him why they don’t play the National Anthem every day before starting work.”
Cuban’s social media post caught the attention of Texas Senator Ted Cruz, who responded “Really?!? The NBA is telling everyone who represents the flag, who honors our cops and our veterans, to” piss off “? In Texas, no less. Good luck with that.”
Cuban responded with a few words of choice for Cruz, calling the senator for sub-tweeting him instead of answering Cuban directly. It’s a fairly long exchange that you can see in full here:
The sports card industry is exploding
The sports card industry is experiencing massive growth in popularity and on Sunday, a LeBron James rookie card was auctioned for a staggering $ 1.8 million. The highest amount for a modern player sports card. The card is autographed by LeBron James and includes a piece of cloth from one of his shirts. Only 23 of those letters were made.
Vayner Media CEO and friend of the show Gary Vaynerchuck has been promoting the explosion of the sports card industry and with this recent record-setting auction, the hobby as most enthusiasts are concerned as it is becoming a mainstream.
Coronavirus and Business Update:
There are 14.5 million cases of the virus worldwide, with more than 607,000 deaths. The United States has more than 3.7 million cases with more than 140,000 deaths. There is a new study from South Korea that offers some answers to questions about children returning to school and what could happen. The study found that children under the age of 10 transmit the virus at almost half the rate than adults. However, children between the ages of 10 and 19 can transmit the virus at the same rate as adults. This is one of the largest studies of its kind and, in general, suggests that children returning to school could generate clusters of outbreaks in communities in both children and adults.
President Donald Trump is reviving briefings for the White House coronavirus task force. And this comes as the United States Senate returned Monday to begin negotiations on the next economic package to help the economy weather the current pandemic. This comes as the pandemic unemployment assistance program, which puts an additional $ 600 in the pockets of millions of Americans who have applied for unemployment during the pandemic, will end at the end of the week. And the beginning of Warner Brother has been removed from its planned release date of mid-August. A new release date has yet to be named.
We received news from AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford about their candidate for the coronavirus vaccine. The data looks promising from the early-stage trial of a key study of the coronavirus vaccine Monday in London that could lead to wider use before the end of the year. The details, published in the British medical journal The Lancet, showed what the two groups described as humoral and cellular immune responses in human trials, with an acceptable safety profile. The study also showed ‘potent’ cellular and humoral immunogenicity in all 1,077 participants in the Phase 1 / Phase II study. “The immune responses seen after vaccination are in line with what we hope will be associated with protection against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, although we must continue our rigorous clinical trial program to confirm this,” said Andrew Pollard, researcher head of the Oxford Vaccine Trial at Oxford University and co-author of the trial.
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