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conditioning tips for cockfighting Miami Heat star Jimmy Butler is now open to a trade to the Phoenix Suns, who join the Dallas Mavericks, Golden State Warriors and Houston Rockets as teams the six-time All-Star is interested in playing for as his current squad listens to offers. ESPN's Shams Charania reported the latest, citing remarks Butler's agent, Bernie Lee, had allegedly made in "league circles." Lee was quick to call out Charania following his latest report involving Butler: The 35-year-old Butler has a $52.4 million player option in 2025-26 that he can decline to enter free agency next offseason. For now, he's averaging 19.0 points on 55.7 percent shooting, 5.4 rebounds and 4.8 assists in 17 starts. Charania previously reported Tuesday on the Heat potentially moving Butler (and Butler's potential interest in leaving for the right destination). "The Heat are open to listening to offers for Butler and making a deal if the proposal is right, league sources told ESPN, and Butler's agent, Bernie Lee, has indicated in league circles that Butler is open to destinations such as two of the Texas teams (Houston Rockets and Dallas Mavericks) and the Golden State Warriors." Butler is in his sixth season with the Heat after signing in Miami as a free agent in 2019. He undoubtedly has been a major success in Miami, helping lead the team to a pair of Eastern Conference titles along the way. The Heat still remain competitive at 12-10, currently good enough for fifth place in the Eastern Conference. It's certainly possible that the Heat ride this current core out for one more run, even though the defending NBA champion Boston Celtics and the 21-4 Cleveland Cavaliers look like the East's clear frontrunners right now. Or they can trade Butler and hope to get a good return in hopes of avoiding losing him for nothing next summer should he decline his player option. However, Lee has made it abundantly clear that "all this is fabricated" regarding the reports. So the money here would be on Butler remaining with Miami as the team looks to continue its recent hot stretch. Their three-game winning streak most recently features a 122-113 home win against the Cavs, who currently sport the league's best win-loss record. Confidence should undoubtedly be high in Miami with Butler leading the way. The Toronto Raptors are up next on Thursday evening at home.

(Reuters) – Apple on Wednesday started integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its devices, delivering on a long-awaited feature that investors hope will help drive sales of its latest iPhones. The rollout is part of a wider deployment of artificial intelligence-powered tools in the latest updates to the operating systems for iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers. The ChatGPT integration, announced in June as part of the Apple Intelligence unveil, will allow the company’s Siri voice assistant to tap the chatbot’s expertise including on user queries about photos and documents such as presentations. Users can also ask ChatGPT to create written content in any app that supports the new Writing Tools feature. They can use the chatbot’s image generation capabilities to add images. The move comes during the peak holiday shopping season, the company’s most lucrative sales period of the year. The slow rollout of Apple Intelligence features so far has raised some investor worries about the strength of the iPhone 16 sales cycle. The AI features will be available on the latest iPhone series, as well as the Pro and Pro Max versions of the previous iPhone 15 line-up. Users of iPad with A17 Pro or M1 chips and later, and Mac with M1 chips and later can also access the tools.NoneTiger Woods won't play in Hero World Challenge

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WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — Attorneys for Fox Corp. asked a Delaware judge Friday to dismiss a shareholder lawsuit seeking to hold current and former company officials personally liable for the financial fallout stemming from Fox News reports regarding alleged vote rigging in the 2020 election. Five New York City public employee pension funds, along with Oregon’s public employee retirement fund, allege that former chairman Rupert Murdoch and other Fox Corp. leaders deliberately turned a blind eye to liability risks posed by reporting false claims of vote rigging by election technology companies Dominion Voting Systems and Smartmatic USA. Smartmatic is for defamation in New York, alleging damages of $2.7 billion. It recently in the District of Columbia against One America News Network, another conservative outlet, over reports of vote fraud. Dominion also filed several defamation lawsuits against blaming its election equipment for Donald Trump’s loss in 2020. Last year, a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion in Delaware for $787 million. The shareholder plaintiffs also allege that Fox corporate leaders ignored “red flags” about liability arising from a 2017 report suggesting that Seth Rich, a Democratic National Committee staffer, may have been killed because he had leaked Democratic party emails to Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. Rich, 27, was shot in 2016 in Washington, D.C., in what authorities have said was an attempted robbery. Fox News retracted the Seth Rich story a week after its initial broadcast, but Rich’s parents sued the network for falsely portraying their son as a criminal and traitor. Fox News in 2020 for “millions of dollars,” shortly before program hosts Lou Dobbs and Sean Hannity were to be deposed, according to the shareholder lawsuit. Joel Friedlander, an attorney for the institutional shareholders, argued that Fox officials waited until the company’s reporting about Rich became a national scandal before addressing the issue. Similarly, according to the shareholders, corporate officials, including Rupert Murdoch and his son, CEO Lachlan Murdoch, allowed Fox News to continue broadcasting false narratives about the 2020 election, despite internal communications suggesting that they knew there was no evidence to support the conspiracy theories. “The Murdochs could have minimized future monetary exposure, but they chose not to,” Friedlander said. Instead, he argued, they engaged in “bad-faith decision making” with other defendants in a profit-driven effort to retain viewers and remain in Trump’s good graces. “Decisions were made at the highest level to promote pro-Trump conspiracy theories without editorial control,” Friedlander said. Defense attorneys argue that the case should be dismissed because the plaintiffs filed their lawsuit without first demanding that the Fox Corp. board take action, as required under Delaware law. They say the plaintiffs also failed to demonstrate that a pre-suit demand on the Fox board would have been futile because at least half of the directors face a substantial likelihood of liability or are not independent of someone who does. Beyond the “demand futility” issue, defense attorneys also argue that allegations that Fox officials breached their fiduciary duties fail to meet the pleading standards under Delaware and therefore should be dismissed. Defense attorney William Savitt argued, for example, that neither the Rich settlement, which he described as “immaterial,” nor the allegedly defamatory statements about Dominion and Smartmatic constitute red flags putting directors on notice about the risk of defamation liability. Nor do they demonstrate that directors acted in bad faith or that Fox “utterly failed” to implement and monitor a system to report and mitigate legal risks, including defamation liability risk, according to the defendants. Savitt noted that the Rich article was promptly retracted, and that the settlement included no admission of liability. The Dominion and Smartmatic statements, meanwhile, gave rise themselves to the currently liability issues and therefore can not serve as red flags about future liability risks, according to the defendants. “A ‘red flag’ must be what the term commonly implies — warning of a risk of a liability-causing event that allows the directors to take action to avert the event, not notice that a liability-causing event has already occurred,” defense attorneys wrote in their motion to dismiss. Defense attorneys also say there are no factual allegations to support claims that Fox officials condoned illegal conduct in pursuit of corporate profits, or that they deliberately ignored their oversight responsibilities. They note that a “bad outcome” is not sufficient to demonstrate “bad faith.” Vice Chancellor J. Travis Laster is expected to rule within 90 days.Ilkay Gundogan questioned Manchester City’s mentality after they in 10 games and effectively ended their chances of finishing in the top eight in the Champions League. The 2-0 defeat by Juventus means that City will at best probably face a two-legged play-off at best, and yet more demanding fixtures, although they are in danger of crashing out of European competition completely. Asked about City’s apparent lack of confidence, with just one win in that sequence of games, Gundogan said that teams did not have to “do that much” to score against them. The midfielder added that a lack of confidence “is a big part of it” and added: “Obviously that’s a mental issue as well. You can see that. We sometimes, one action we miss the ball, lose a duel and you see that we drop immediately, lose the rhythm, they are able to break our rhythm with the easiest of things. They don’t even need to do much. “You have to do the simple things as good as possible. Work hard again, this is how you get confidence back, even in the game if you miss something, by doing small and simple things you get confidence back. At the moment we are always doing the wrong things. “I feel like we know exactly what’s going wrong. If you look at the most part of games, even today, we actually didn’t play bad, created chances, just missed to score, in these kind of games if you give away once chance it’s not easy to bounce back. “We know what’s going wrong, it’s just finding the switch to turn things around because even though we are not getting results, it doesn’t feel like we are far off. “As long as we don’t find that click, it’s going to be tough. Every single player needs to question themselves, to do better, how the player can individually sacrifice more to contribute to the team so we can get collectively back on our way.” Once again City, who have conceded 23 times in their last 10 matches, appear to give away goals cheaply with simple mistakes. “At the moment it feels like every attack we concede is just so dangerous,” Gundogan said. “I don’t know, I have a feeling sometimes we are a bit careless with duels, instead of playing simpl,e we overcomplicate things, and we missed the right timing to release the ball. Just lose the ball and give them counter-attacks. “We are built for possession, keep the ball, be strong, if you can’t do anything don’t lose it. At the moment it’s not working out for us.” Pep Guardiola disputed Gundogan’s analysis. “I am not agreeing with Ilkay, of course it is tough, except one or two games in this period that were not good, the rest we played good,” the City manager said. He added that he questions himself. “Of course. I have my thoughts,” he said. “We play really good. You say what happened in the results. What happened today we played good. Of course I question myself. I’m stable in good moments, bad moments. “I’m incredibly honest, if we play good we play good. Always the game will save us. We can do it, today we concede few chances.” Guardiola rejected the idea that he was facing the biggest challenge of his career with City’s current crisis. “My biggest challenge is to get results to continue to work in the first seasons. It’s life, it happens, sometimes you have a bad period. I’m going to insist until we’re there,” he said, adding that the aim now was to qualify for the play-offs. “It’s the target, we need one point, three points. Go to Paris [to face PSG in January] to try to do it and the last game at home [against Club Brugge].” Rio Ferdinand claimed no one is scared of City anymore and no great team had lost the ability to inspire “fear” in their opponents as quickly as they have. Former Manchester United captain Ferdinand also said he had not seen any Guardiola side “ever be this bad” after watching them crash to their latest defeat. Ferdinand’s fellow TNT Sports pundit Joleon Lescott claimed City’s opponents had lost the “fear factor” when playing the defending Premier League champions. Former City defender Lescott said: “We all talk about the confidence of City, but they’re also losing the fear factor from the opposition, and that’s a big thing. When Rio played for United, you went there and you were in fear. If they went in front, you were in fear. But then, all of a sudden, when that goes, it just breeds confidence to the opposition.” Ferdinand added: “You’ve never seen it go out of a team so quick. The dominant teams, like the Chelseas and the Arsenals or even the teams that I played in or before me, I don’t think the dominance was kind of zapped out of the team and that fear factor was taken out immediately like this. This is like in a seven or eight-game spell. “A team that’s been so dominant, it’s so surprising to see that change so quickly.” Ferdinand had earlier said: “We just haven’t seen a Pep Guardiola side – forget Man City – a Pep Guardiola side in general ever be this bad. And he’s got to find a way of galvanising this team and reinstalling some form and confidence. “And I think it doesn’t matter what you’ve done, this is a stark reminder to any young footballer or any players that play football, anyone can lose confidence and it really, really hurt performance, and it really hurt form, and really hurt outcomes in terms of games and winning games.” He added: “For City, there’s a lot of work to be done behind the scenes now. They’ve never been here and you’re going to find out about a lot of the players here. Because it’s a nice ride to be on, it’s a nice journey to be on, when you’re winning. When it’s not going well, who is going to help you get back on the straight and narrow, back to normality? Pep will learn a lot about his players in this period.” Juventus became the latest team to ruthlessly punish City when winning possession. Ferdinand said: “Turnovers are killing them massively. As soon as they turn the ball over, they look vulnerable. Teams are slicing through them, running off players. There are big holes and big, big spaces on the pitch for teams to exploit. And they’re getting punished. And that’s a big key as well.” Lescott added: “City need to find an alternative to scoring the perfect goal and it looking slick and it being a great pass and a great touch and a great finish. Maybe just create some uncertainty in the opposition that leads to a tap-in.” City’s defeat puts them in real danger of being dumped out of the Champions League before the knockout phase, amid their worst run of results for almost two decades. It comes after they became the first club to be crowned champions of England in four successive seasons. Ferdinand said of their fans: “They’ve been able to gloat and they’ve been able to take the mickey out of people. They’re going to be the butt of a few jokes now and they’re going to have to take it on the chin.”

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