Women battle misogyny to send hip-hop spinning in a new direction

ATLANTA – Rasheeda Frost’s decades-long relationship with hip-hop started in 1981. She was a curious, energetic kindergartener — eager to touch and explore anything put in front of her. Rasheeda remembered her mother presenting her with a huge, white box — it was a record player that she would continuously spin, not knowing what its … Read more

ESPN strikes $1.5B deal to jump into sports betting with Penn Entertainment

Penn also announced that it sold Barstool Sports, an irreverent sports media site, back to its founder Dave Portnoy. NEW YORK — You know ESPN the sports media giant. Now brace yourself for ESPN Bet, a rebranding of an existing sports-betting app owned by Penn Entertainment, which is paying $1.5 billion plus other considerations for exclusive … Read more