Stephen Curry with Mark Jackson
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry has become a popular name when it comes to the MVP debate, but to Curry’s surprise his former coach isn’t part of that chorus.
ESPN analyst and former Warriors coach Mark Jackson said Wednesday on the “Dan Patrick Show” that while Curry, Russell Westbrook of the Oklahoma City Thunder and LeBron James of the Cleveland Cavaliers, are all worthy candidates, he’d give his MVP vote to James Harden of the Houston Rockets.
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WhatsApp founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum at their headquarters in Mountain View. (PHOTO CREDIT: Robert Gallagher for Forbes)
Facebook says it has wrapped up its landmark $19 billion acquisition of WhatsApp, a deal that was hashed out in Mark Zuckerberg’s house over the course of a few days in February and sealed over a bottle of Jonnie Walker scotch.
WhatsApp has continued to run its operation completely independently since then, but the closing of the deal marks the start of a gradual int
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban before an NBA game against the New York Knicks on Feb. 24, 2014
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The News: Mark Cuban, owner of the National Basketball Association’s Dallas Mavericks, has issued an apology to Trayvon Martin’s family after telling an interviewer at a conference, “If I see a black kid in a hoodie on my side of the street, I’ll move to the other side of the street.”
The often outspoken Cuban
 Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports Recently-fired Warriors coach Mark Jackson did a bit of a media tour on Wednesday, the day after he was relieved of his coaching duties of a team he took to only a few points away from the second round of the NBA Playoffs this season. In case you somehow didn’t have a chance to listen to everything, we’ve compiled the most interesting things he said: 1. ‘I wake up absolutely relieved.’During an appearance on 95.7 The Game: “I wake up absolutely relieved. Because th |
Philadelphia and the New York Jets completed a quarterback swap of sorts, with the Eagles announcing Friday they’ve signed Mark Sanchez to a one-year deal.
The deal comes a week after the Eagles lost Michael Vick to the Jets.
Sanchez’s deal is for $2.25 million and includes a $750,000 signing bonus, a league source told ESPN NFL Insider Adam Schefter. The contract also includes up to an additional $1.75 million in bonuses, bringing the maximum value of the deal to $4 million. Sanchez can ach
Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, at its headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. (Noah Berger | Bloomberg | Getty Images)
Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg blasted the U.S. government’s electronic surveillance practices on Thursday, saying he’d personally called President Obama to voice his displeasure.
“When our engineers work tirelessly to improve security, we imagine we’re protecting you against criminals, not our own government,” Zuckerberg said in a post
