The speculation can finally end. The Pittsburgh Steelers have signed quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a one-year contract, ensuring his return for the 2021 season, the team announced Thursday. We have signed QB Ben Roethlisberger to a new contract for 2021. — Pittsburgh Steelers (@steelers) March 4, 2021 In a statement, Roethlisberger said he’s excited to get started on the 2021 season. “It is my greatest honor to be a Pittsburgh Steeler and give my all for this organization,” said… Source link
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A year into the pandemic, COVID-19 still puzzles researchers, but the public release of a new database may help scientists solve some of the mysteries lingering around this devastating disease. An international team of researchers from institutions including Boston Children’s Hospital, Northeastern University and the University of Oxford has partnered with Google.org, Google’s nonprofit subsidiary, to release Global.health, a platform that contains information about almost 10 million… Source link
Read More »Why Peloton stock has plunged 25% in one month
Peloton’s stock (PTON) is looking a little less fit as investors dump 2020’s hot stay-at-home trades in favor of reopening trades such as airlines hotels with COVID-19 infections and deaths slowing down. Shares of the at-home fitness equipment maker are down about 26% over the past month, according to Yahoo Finance Premium data. The S&P 500 is up slightly during that span, while the Nasdaq Composite is down 4.5%. “The recent share price action could be seen as the broader market moving away… Source link
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GlobeNewswire Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP Alerts Investors to Re-Opening of Lead Plaintiff Process in Securities Class Action Against Nutanix, Inc. (NTNX) NEW YORK, March 04, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Scott+Scott Attorneys at Law LLP (“Scott+Scott”), an international shareholder and consumer rights litigation firm, announces to investors that a new deadline has been set to move for lead plaintiff in a securities class action against Nutanix, Inc. (“Nutanix” or the “Company”)… Source link
Read More »The NBA Yahoo Cup Post Up Presented by BetMGM
Yahoo Cup NBA DFS Picks for Thursday March 4 featuring Shai Gilgeous-Alexander What better way to say goodbye to the first half of the NBA season than with a special Thursday edition of the NBA Yahoo Cup? This free multi-round, single-entry contest that runs every week throughout the NBA DFS season tips off Round 12 of 23 tonight. Scoring is cumulative for the year-long points race, with your five lowest scores dropped. At the end of the season, a $50,000 prize pool is shared among the top… Source link
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Join Yahoo Fantasy Tourney Pick’em. There has never been a verifiably perfect March Madness bracket — yet, millions of people try to make it happen every year. But what if you only needed a somewhat accurate bracket to win a big cash prize? You can do just that — all you have to do is for your chance at one of over 10,000 cash prizes! Top prize this year includes $10K and a MGM Resort Vegas getaway. The rules for this free-to-enter contest are simple: Sign up now here. Once the selection… Source link
Read More »Google’s rivals fret as the advertising cookie crumbles
In the world of online advertising, relevance is relative. An advertisement targeting system might not live up to the ideal of delivering exactly the right message to the right person at the right time — but if it’s the best of the available alternatives, then the advertising dollars will follow. So it is easy to understand the sense of dread felt by many online publishers and ad tech companies as one of the linchpins of the advertising-supported internet — the… Source link
Read More »Stimulus checks will still go to the ‘bulk’ of people who need them
The New York Times ‘A Nightmare Every Day’: Inside an Overwhelmed Funeral Home LOS ANGELES — The chapel at Continental Funeral Home was once a place where the living remembered the dead. Now the pews, chairs and furniture have been pushed aside to make room, and the dead far outnumber the living. On a Thursday afternoon last month in Continental’s chapel in East Los Angeles, across the street from a 7-Eleven, there were four bodies in cardboard boxes. And two bodies in open coffins,… Source link
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The Conversation January warm spells, March freezes: How plants manage the shift from winter to spring A late snowfall could set back the growth of this budding lilac. oddharmonic/Flickr, CC BY-SAWeather patterns across the U.S. have felt like a roller coaster ride for the past several months. December and January were significantly warmer than average in many locations, followed by February’s intense cold wave and a dramatic warmup. If you’ve ever seen lilac bushes crushed by snowdrifts,… Source link
Read More »Possible new NFL overtime rule?
The Gettysburg Address is 277 words, and finds elemental, eternal truths from the most complex of human endeavors. The NFL’s overtime rules run more than four times as long, 1120 words, and turn the simplest dang thing possible — how to figure out who wins a football game — into a bewildering array of directives and sub-articles so complicated that the IRS nods its approval. Put it this way: when you’ve got different sets of rules for regular season and playoffs — or when you have to… Source link
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