March Madness: NCAA Tournament, Men’s and Women’s, Will Expand to 76 Teams

The NCAA announced Thursday that it will expand its two March Madness tournaments by eight teams each next season, a move that will drop more early-round games into the first week of the highly popular and lucrative showcase without substantially changing its overall form. The new 76-team brackets will jam eight extra games — for … Read more

Mitchell Marsh ton helps LSG end home hoodoo at Ekana against RCB | Cricket News

NEW DELHI: Lucknow Super Giants (LSG) survived a late fightback from Tim David (40 off 17 balls) to beat Royal Challengers Bengaluru (RCB) by nine runs in their IPL 2026 match at the Ekana Stadium in Lucknow on Thursday. Prince Yadav picked up three wickets as LSG defended their total in a rain-hit 19-overs-a-side game. … Read more

Hantavirus outbreak on cruise ship not ‘another COVID’, WHO says

Three people have died and several others have fallen ill aboard the Dutch-flagged MV Hondius, prompting a major international public health response involving countries across Europe, Africa and Latin America. The first alert came from the United Kingdom, which notified WHO under International Health Regulations (IHR) of the outbreak after passengers aboard the vessel developed … Read more

ChatGPT Has ‘Goblin’ Mania in the US. In China It Will ‘Catch You Steadily’

Are you even? online in 2026 if you haven’t experienced the verbal tics of ChatGPT? It loves goblins, em dashes, and “it’s not A; it’s B” sentence constructions. But what you might not know is that the chatbot also has plenty of strange phrases it loves to say in Chinese, and they are driving Chinese … Read more

How Michigan Built a Formula College Basketball is Racing to Copy

There was a moment during the three-week window between winning the national title on April 6 and the official announcement of his new roster on April 28 when Michigan basketball coach Dusty May toyed with making wholesale changes to a strategy that had worked wonders.  Towering positional size and NBA-caliber talent in the frontcourt propelled … Read more

IPL 2026: Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran involved in heated on-field exchange – Watch | Cricket News

Krunal Pandya, Nicholas Pooran (x) Lucknow Super Giants batsman Nicholas Pooran and Royal Challengers Bengaluru all-rounder Krunal Pandya were involved in a brief on-field exchange during a tense IPL 2026 clash in Lucknow on Thursday. The moment came during a high-pressure encounter with LSG desperately needing a win to keep their playoff hopes alive. Pooran, … Read more

United States Midfielder Johnny Cardoso Suffers Ankle Sprain

United States midfielder Johnny Cardoso has sprained his right ankle five weeks before the World Cup, his club Atletico Madrid said on Thursday. Atletico said Cardoso was hurt in practice and will undergo rehab. The club did not give a timetable for his return, instead saying in a statement on its English-language social media that, … Read more

IPL 2026: Bhuvneshwar Kumar scripts history, becomes first pacer to… | Cricket News

Royal Challengers Bengaluru’s Bhuvneshwar Kumar (AP Photo/Manish Swarup) Royal Challengers Bengaluru pacer Bhuvneshwar Kumar created history during the clash against Lucknow Super Giants by becoming the first fast bowler to complete 200 matches in IPL history. The landmark added another major achievement to Bhuvneshwar’s remarkable T20 career. Earlier this season, he had also become the … Read more