Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, the 2024-2025 regular-season and NBA Finals MVP from the Oklahoma City Thunder, somehow upped his game this season. The unstoppable guard, a four-time All-Star and four-time first-team All-NBA honoree, turned in his most efficient season yet, shooting shot 55% from the field, averaging a career-best 6.6 assists per game, and leading the NBA in free throws made per game (7.9), as Oklahoma City again finished with the league's best record. The Canadian's shiftiness and ability to stop on a dime for pull-up jumpers and step-backs helped him frustrate opponents and secure his second straight MVP award.

AB Hernandez advances in California state championship as Save Girls' Sports activists rally nearby Tennis player Rafael Jodar accused of pushing French Open ball girl, but did he really? Steve Hilton rips Steyer for trans athlete support, leads'Save Girls Sports' rally at track title meet Umpire Dan Bellino's baffling foul tip call on Seiya Suzuki renews calls for robot review in MLB Dakich: sports media has created an'industry' out of complaining about white athletes like Caitlin Clark Greg Sankey insists SEC is'strongest league' despite Big Ten winning three straight national championships Spencer Pratt responds to Newsom's Bass endorsement, calls them'alleged criminal partners' Speaker Johnson outlines plan to defeat'socialist and extremist' Democrats Trump set for'final determination' on Iran nuclear deal NJ governor's'protected protest zone' sparks debate amid violent ICE facility clashes Analyzing how Iran's'shadow oil network' evades US sanctions San Antonio's young core, led by 22-year-old Victor Wembanyama, wasn't supposed to challenge OKC this deep in the playoffs Victor Wembanyama'invisible' in Game 5, Can he still lead the Spurs to the Finals? Victor Wembanyama only scored 20 points on 4-15 FG during the San Antonio Spurs' Game 5 loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder. Jason McIntyre asks if Wemby can still lead the Spurs to the Finals. The NBA had its wishes granted.

Notre Dame's Josh Yago delivers Memorial Day salute during anthem before lacrosse championship game Dak Prescott reunites with ex-fiancée Sarah Jane Ramos to celebrate daughter's first birthday Celtics guard Jaylen Brown challenges ESPN's Stephen A Smith to a debate at Harvard or MIT Wyndham Clark adds to his funky resume, TPC Craig Ranch slander and LIV Golf's pitch to new investors Unearthed fan video shows who Kyle Busch really was, NASCAR's darkest hour & Bubba Wallace's'Rowdy' story California mom speaks with compassion but brutal honesty about presence of trans athlete in daughter's sport Curt Cignetti jokes he had to'coach the hell out' of undefeated Hoosiers to be Indy 500 pace car driver A screenshot has WNBA fans asking: did a player endorse a threat toward Caitlin Clark? MLB reporter Tricia Whitaker hit with line drive during Orioles' game Defense expert argues Iran has never been'so isolated' Joey Jones calls out Dem candidate Platner for'hiding behind the Purple Hearts' of fellow vets Trump doesn't want Iran to become his Afghanistan: Mike Sarraille Any Iran deal will be judged by'how much it cost' to secure, ex-CIA station chief says Dr Rebecca Grant: Iran has'no place to go,' will have to sign a deal Pope Leo XIV calls for AI to be'disarmed' in critical warning about emerging tech Kyle Busch's family reveals NASCAR champion died from severe pneumonia that led to sepsis NEW details emerge on suspected White House gunman's prior arrests OutKick-Sports Lincoln Riley claims USC was'snaps away' from the playoff, says he's a better coach now than when at Oklahoma Lincoln Riley joins Colin Cowherd to discuss USC's schedule and their number one recruiting class, and the development of QB Jayden Maiava. Lincoln Riley's tenure as head coach of the USC Trojans hasn't been smooth sailing. When he took over ahead of the 2022 season, expectations were high that a coach with his track record would bring the Trojans back to their heyday. While with the Oklahoma Sooners, he went 55-10 and 33-7 in conference, coached in four New Year's Six games, and won 12 games three consecutive seasons.

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Querying tables with unstructured data is challenging due to the presence of text (or image), either embedded in the table or in external paragraphs, which traditional SQL struggles to process, especially for tasks requiring semantic reasoning. While Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at understanding context, they face limitations with long input sequences. Existing approaches that combine SQL and LLMs typically rely on rigid, predefined work-flows, limiting their adaptability to complex queries. To address these issues, we introduce Weaver , a modular pipeline that dynamically integrates SQL and LLMs for table-based question answering (TableQA). Weaver generates a flexible, step-by-step plan that combines SQL for structured data retrieval with LLMs for semantic processing. By decomposing complex queries into manageable subtasks, Weaver improves accuracy and generalization. Our experiments show that Weaver consistently outperforms state-of-the-art methods across four TableQA datasets, reducing both API calls and error rates. The code, along with other associated scripts, are available at https://coral-lab-asu.github.io/weaver.

On the eve of the Rugby World Cup kicking off, there have already been whispers of teams spying on each other. Inevitable gamesmanship, perhaps, but there's no doubt cheating in sport is a problem authorities struggle to combat. Our new machine learning model could be a game changer when it comes to detecting questionable behaviour and unusual outcomes – especially the practice of match fixing. Currently, the act of altering match outcomes for personal or team gain is largely picked up through abnormalities in sports betting markets. When bookmakers notice unusual odds or changes in the betting line, they alert regulators.

Fox News Flash top sports headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. Pro Football Hall of Famer Shannon Sharpe ripped Memphis Grizzlies All-Star Ja Morant over his latest incident involving a handgun. Sharpe initially said he was disappointed in Morant for his actions after he was previously suspended for a separate gun incident while intoxicated at a Denver-area nightclub. That incident led to an eight-game suspension by the league.

The NBA's regular season ends in just a couple of weeks, but Google just surprise-dropped a major overhaul of its popular Pixel Arena feature. The original Pixel Arena was advertised as a virtual space for fans to fully experience the NBA, but there wasn't much to do other than play trivia and watch 3D shot recaps. The new Pixel Arena, however, is chock-full of activities for the discerning basketball fan, according to an official blog post. The biggest change is that users can now roam freely around the space, so the emphasis on menu-diving has been reduced in favor of natural exploration. As you roam about the virtual arena, you want to look your best for onlookers, so the avatar creation process has also been significantly overhauled.

ChatGPT and similar "AI" chatbots are all the rage now within the tech community and industry. As we've previously explained, the chatbot AI can perform a number of tasks, including holding a conversation to writing an entire term paper. Microsoft has started integrating ChatGPT technology into products like Bing, Edge and Teams. Google recently announced its Bard AI chatbot, as did You.com. In fact, certain interactions some folks have had with ChatGPT have been downright frightening. While the technology seems to be relatively benign overall, there have been instances that should raise serious concerns.

Not all networks are social! But what can it do for sports analytics? What if we model soccer passes as a network? Can we learn which team is more likely to win? Can we identify critical players to pressure the opposing team? Can we identify opportunities to improve our team's performance?