Aaron Rodgers visits with Steelers and ‘deal could be forthcoming’ – report | Aaron Rodgers

Quarterback Aaron Rodgers is visiting with the Pittsburgh Steelers on Friday, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported. A deal with the four-time NFL Most Valuable Player “could be forthcoming”, per the report. The New York Jets released Rodgers on 12 March, making him a free agent for the first time in his career. The only quarterbacks on … Read more

Under 0.1% of March Madness brackets remain perfect after first day of games | NCAA Tournament 2025

Fewer than 1% of NCAA Tournament men’s brackets were still perfect after Thursday’s 16-game slate, according to several services where fans attempt the all-but impossible task of predicting every March Madness game correctly – or, barring that, win their office pools. ESPN’s tracker listed 25,802 perfect brackets remaining out of more than 24m filled out … Read more

Sent to Coventry: how Bach’s power helped Zimbabwean’s shock IOC win | International Olympic Committee

It might sound beyond ridiculous, given the scale of Kirsty Coventry’s seismic victory in the International Olympic Committee presidential election. But as the various royals, sporting dignitaries, politicians and billionaires left the Costa Navarino resort on Friday, some really believed the result could have turned out very differently. Yes, the 41-year-old Zimbabwean ex-swimmer had won … Read more

Boat Race sinks to academic snobbery lows amid ‘slimy’ eligibility row | The Boat Race

With almost 200 years of intense rivalry the Boat Race has already inspired several major films, and after an extraordinary week Hollywood producers now have plenty more material to go at. What began last December as a disagreement between various alumni of Oxford and Cambridge over eligibility criteria for next month’s race exploded into a … Read more

There is progress on GM food crops, says DBT

Petitioners have moved the Supreme Court against the Environment Ministry’s approval for the commercial cultivation of genetically modified mustard. | Photo Credit: R.V. MOORTHY Ahead of a fresh series of hearings in the Supreme Court next month over genetically modified (GM) food crops, the Department of Biotechnology (DBT) said there was “progress” on this front. … Read more

Eddie Jordan obituary | Formula One

Viewers of Netflix’s Drive to Survive have become accustomed to the modern Formula One world of enormous hi-tech teams supported by armies of corporate sponsors and marketing, media and PR specialists. Eddie Jordan, who has died aged 76 of prostate cancer, represented a previous era of buccaneering individualists who made their own luck and built … Read more