Kelvin Sampson has rehabilitated Houston, leading Cougars to men’s Final Four. What about his baggage?
Australia's Queensland reports 8 new community Covid-19 cases
SYDNEY (REUTERS) – Australia’s Queensland state reported eight new locally-acquired Covid-19 cases on Tuesday (March 30) a day after announcing a snap three-day lockdown in Brisbane, the state capital, to contain a fresh coronavirus cluster.
About 2 million people in Brisbane are required to stay home until Thursday afternoon except for essential work, healthcare, grocery shopping or exercise.
Four new locally transmitted Covid-19 cases were reported on Monday.
Cramer's lightning round: I believe Teladoc has upside
- It's that time again! "Mad Money" host Jim Cramer rings the lightning round bell, which means he's giving his answers to callers' stock questions at rapid speed.
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- DOCU
- SPWR
- TDOC
- OSCR
DocuSign: "DocuSign's down gigantically from its high, but it's regarded as being a work-from-home stock, and until we see another quarter, which shows that it's not another work-from-home stock, I think it can stay under pressure because that's how vicious this market really is."
SunPower: "I think you just want to hold SunPower."
Teladoc Health: "Teladoc is, again, it's regarded as a stay-at-home [play]. … I believe that there's upside here, but you have to understand it's another stock that's cratered and people are starting to accept the fact it won't come back. Let them sell it, and then you can buy more."
Oscar Health: "That's a bomb. You know, it's a health insurance company that nobody wanted. … No."
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Texas trooper, unlikely to survive after being shot during traffic stop, will make ‘final sacrifice’ as organ donor
MEXIA, Texas — A Texas state trooper who was shot during a traffic stop last week is not expected to survive, officials said Monday.
Trooper Chad Walker is being temporarily kept on life support to be an organ donor, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. He no longer shows signs of “viable brain activity,” the agency said on Twitter.
“This final sacrifice embodies Trooper Walker’s actions throughout his life and service as a Texas Highway Patrol Trooper,” the DPS said on Twitter.
Walker was shot Friday evening while stopping to help a driver in an apparently disabled vehicle west of Mexia, a city about 75 miles southeast of Dallas, according to the statement from DPS regional director Todd Snyder.
Walker had not yet come to a stop behind the vehicle on the shoulder of the roadway when 37-year-old DeArthur Pinson got out of the disabled vehicle and opened fire, Snyder said.
Walker was struck in the head and abdomen and was later flown to a hospital in Waco, about 40 miles away.
Authorities launched a manhunt for Pinson and he was reported dead Saturday. Pinson killed himself, according to Limestone County Judge Richard Duncan.
A GoFundMe account has been established to help the family.
Serious police incident closes Auckland motorway on-ramp
Police have blocked a part of Auckland’s Southwestern motorway due to an incident.
Road authorities issued an alert at 12.45pm saying the southbound Walmsley Road on-ramp has been blocked.
Traffic cameras show a police vehicle parked across the on-ramp, stopping traffic, as two officers stand guard.
Road cones have also been put down.
Kelvin Sampson has rehabilitated Houston, leading Cougars to men’s Final Four. What about his baggage?
Kelvin Sampson took the Houston job seven years ago because, as he said last week, “the lower the program was, the better for me.”
In that case, Sampson liked what he saw: “Severe apathy,” he said. “Terrible facilities. Nobody really cared.”
As reasoning goes, Sampson’s motivation might’ve glossed over the Cougars’ built-in advantages — historic success, if decades removed, and a strong recruiting base — but effectively sums up how Houston had drifted into irrelevancy.
With the program far behind from a facilities standpoint and new to the American Athletic Conference, a major upgrade in competitiveness compared to Conference USA, Sampson willingly signed on for a job that had chewed up and derailed a string of head coaches in the previous 30 years.
