Month: June 2021

Danny Vitale, former NFL fullback, announces retirement from league on LinkedIn

Getty Images Professional athletes often will take to social media to announce that they’re retiring from their respective sports. Technically, former New England Patriots fullback Danny Vitale did just that on Saturday, but not on the social media platform you’d expect. Instead of taking to Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, Vitale, 27, announced his retirement from football …

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‘I can’t picture my retirement’ — Ellen Burstyn on making movies at 88

NEW YORK (AP) — That Ellen Burstyn plays a woman who recoils at the very mention of a retirement community in the upcoming film “Queen Bees” is extremely appropriate. Rarely has an actor been as good for as long as Burstyn has. She is still, at 88, tireless, her vitality almost preternaturally undiminished. As intense …

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Graham Wilson, Founding Codirector of BU’s Initiative on Cities, Will Retire | BU Today

In 2014, Graham Wilson shared founding director duties at BU’s Initiative on Cities (IoC) with a marquis name. Working at the IoC with Boston’s longest serving mayor, Thomas Menino (Hon.’01), was “one of the highlights of my career,” says Wilson. That’s quite a statement, given that Wilson’s career spans almost a half century. Yet as …

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Inflation is rising: How to reposition your retirement accounts

Retirees have long complained about earning next to nothing on their CDs, money-market funds, and the like. They may soon have to find something else to complain about. Yes, inflation is rising, and retirees must now consider repositioning not just their short-term safe-haven investments (we’ll talk more about that in part two) but their entire …

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Retired and fading, Floyd Mayweather still remains boxing’s biggest showman

MIAMI GARDENS, Florida — Somewhere in Miami, Floyd Mayweather is laughing. A lackluster eight-round exhibition that went the distance with no official winner was an appropriate end for Sunday night’s Mayweather-Logan Paul showcase. Everything about this bout was a circus, and the redeeming hope of a viral knockout to make it all worth it proved …

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