The Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament is absolutely loaded with talent this year. Six teams in the conference earned spots in the latest Associated Press rankings ahead of the 2024 edition of the tournament. The field includes national title contenders like Stanford, UCLA and USC. And fans could be witnesses to some spectacular individual performances. Cameron … Read more
The Super Bowl took place less than three weeks ago, but the NFL offseason is about to be in full swing. It unofficially starts this weekend in Indianapolis. While free agency is on the mind of many fans, the NFL Draft likely represents the best opportunity this spring for each franchise to shape its future. … Read more
Bud Light, made by Anheuser-Busch. Joe Raedle | Getty Images Hiking beer prices led Budweiser owner Anheuser-Busch InBev to profit and revenue growth last year, even U.S. sales of staple brand Bud Light were curbed by boycott action. The world’s biggest brewer on Thursday recorded annual revenue of $59.38 billion, up 7.8%, but shy of … Read more
Need an introduction to professional golf? Look no further than this year’s version of The Match. The ninth competition will feature female competitors for the first time when the best of the PGA go head-to-head with the best of the LPGA. Rory McIlroy and Max Homa will take on Lexi Thompson and Rose Zhang in … Read more
Vials move along a conveyor at the Novo Nordisk A/S production facilities in Hillerod, Denmark, on Monday, June 12, 2023. The success of Novo’s bestsellers Ozempic and Wegovy, drugs that help people lose significant amounts of weight, has created something of a gold rush in the pharma industry with about 40 companies developing products that … Read more
The experiments found that about 73 percent of about 500 people using that new design clicked results that kept them inside Google’s ecosystem—an increase over the 55 percent who did so when the design Google is phasing out in Europe was tested with a smaller pool of roughly 250 people. Yelp also tested a variation … Read more
Beware of the Big One. Thursday’s Daytona’s Duels proved mayhem is but a prerequisite to the proceedings when the Cup Series rolls through Daytona International Speedway. The Daytona 500 returns to the fore on Monday, 24 hours after rain postponed the race from Sunday, offering fans quite the preview of the incoming NASCAR season. You … Read more
UFC 298 was being discussed as a changing of the guard event between Alexander Volkanovski and Ilia Topuria. It got compared to Vasiliy Lomachenko vs. Teofimo Lopez, or, in MMA terms, Jose Aldo vs. Conor McGregor, as the former aging champions faced young fighters with momentum on their side. Topuria stayed true to his word … Read more
Commerzbank on Thursday reported a 55% hike in net profit for 2023, as high interest rates helped the German banking giant report its best results in 15 years. Net profit for the year beat expectations to come in at 2.2 billion euros ($2.36 billion), up from 1.4 billion euros a year earlier. For the fourth … Read more
NASCAR’s ninth annual Florence IceBreaker is finally done and dusted. The event, which was first started in 2016, is quickly becoming one of Late Model Stock Car racing’s biggest events. The 2024 IceBreaker was started at 2:30 pm ET on Saturday, February 10, at Florence Motor Speedway, the 0.4-mile in Timmonsville, South Carolina, with 32 … Read more