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Jim Nantz has seen his share of magical moments and sendoffs during a career that has spanned nearly 40 years. He could get one of his own as calls his final NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. Not only is the Final Four in Nantz's adopted hometown of Houston, but with the University of Houston as one [...]
The women's college basketball Sweet 16 features a new format and a bit of history when it begins Friday. The NCAA changed its setup for the women's tournament this season, trimming the traditional four regional sites to two. Seattle and Greenville — a city of 71,000 in South Carolina about halfway between Atlanta and Charlotte, [...]
Underdogs have blown up every bracket in the country in what may be the maddest March ever. Defending national champion Kansas and fellow No. 1 seed Purdue are gone — the Boilermakers with a slice of unwanted history. The Sweet 16 won't have blue bloods Kentucky, Duke or North Carolina for the second time since [...]
The stakes are higher in Ohio this year for March Madness — and not just because it was a regional host for the first round of the men's NCAA basketball tournament. For the first time, Ohio sports fans can click on a mobile app or tap into kiosks at bars, restaurants or grocery stores and [...]
New coaches often spend their first several months dwelling on the need to instill a different culture into their programs. Consider Wisconsin's Luke Fickell an exception. Fickell says the Badgers already have what he calls a "really good footprint," something backed up by Wisconsin's 21 consecutive bowl appearances. He just wants to find ways to [...]
Kansas and Alabama are no strangers to playing for national championships. For the Jayhawks, another high-expectations trip to March Madness is a rite of spring. For the Crimson Tide, well, this path to glory travels through some unfamiliar ground — the basketball court. Alabama rolls in as the top overall seed in an NCAA Tournament [...]
Anyone trying to fill out their NCAA Tournament brackets ought to start by figuring out which teams have the best backcourts. This has been a guard's event for years. When Kansas' Ochai Agbaji helped the Jayhawks win the national title last season, he became the ninth straight guard to be selected as a Final Four's [...]
Coming off an unprecedented performance at the world championships, 18-year-old Jordan Stolz is already facing the inevitable comparisons to the greatest speedskater of them all: Eric Heiden. Stolz chuckles a bit at being mentioned in the same sentence with the guy who won five gold medals — in five individual events ranging from 500 to [...]
The Professional Women's Hockey Players Association is finalizing plans with corporate sponsors to launch what would be North America's second women's pro league by the end of this year, a key stakeholder said last week. Jayna Hefford, who holds the title of PWHPA lead operations consultant, said it was premature to provide an exact date, [...]
CLEVELAND — The record-setting contract Deshaun Watson received from the Browns could undergo some revising. Cleveland General Manager Andrew Berry indicated the team may consider restructuring the five-year, $230 million deal — to clear salary cap space — it used to entice Watson to agree to a trade from Houston to the Browns one year [...]