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SportsCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Ole Miss volleyball closes its regular season Sunday at noon against No. 21 Texas A&M at Reed Arena, a tough road test in College Station against a program that has dominated the matchup. The Aggies lead the all-time series 23-3 and…
SportsNORMAN, Okla. — The No. 19 Ole Miss Rebels will play at Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., on Sunday at noon instead of Saturday afternoon, after a nationwide flight ground stop kept the team from leaving Oxford, Miss., on Friday night. The Southeastern Conference made the…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Four turnovers and a string of empty trips inside the 20 sent the Gamecocks home to Columbia, South Carolina, with a 34-6 loss at Arkansas on Saturday night. The defeat ended a four-game South Carolina winning streak. South Carolina was missing starting…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — Aleksas Bieliauskas set a career high with 23 points Saturday afternoon, and South Carolina pulled away in the second half to beat Gardner-Webb 79-62 at Colonial Life Arena in Columbia, South Carolina. The Gamecocks are 4-0. Bieliauskas supplied all of South Carolina's…
From HERE ClintonCLINTON, S.C. — Clinton's Presbyterian College football team spent Saturday afternoon in Kentucky digging out of a deep hole, and came up one play short. The Blue Hose fell 28-25 at Morehead State after trailing by 18 points at the break. Morehead State put up…
From HERE ColumbiaCOLUMBIA, S.C. — The top-ranked women's basketball team from Columbia, South Carolina, heads up Interstate 26 on Sunday for a matchup of two schools that share the same two-letter nickname. No. 1 South Carolina faces No. 3 Southern Cal in The Real SC event at…
From Merger Monday
For most of the past two years, the question in big deals was whether the money would show up. It did. This week the question changed to who else gets a vote. Start with Covetrus and MWI. A buyout-backed distributor agreed in March to buy its largest rival for $3.5 billion.…
From Merger Monday
Banks running the initial public offering of Anthropic PBC are turning away orders from investors in mainland China and Hong Kong, people familiar with the deal said, as the artificial-intelligence company heads into the final days before pricing what could be the largest listing on record. Several underwriters have refused orders…
From Merger Monday
SpaceX and Tesla Inc. have moved from discussing whether to combine to haggling over terms, people familiar with the talks said, putting Elon Musk within reach of a merger that would be the largest in corporate history. Boards and advisers at both companies are working through the price and the governance…
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