For the first time since the NCAA began hosting a women’s basketball tournament in 1982, a deep run through the bracket will produce more than bragging rights or a championship banner. Money is on the line, too. Every game that […]
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North Carolina probably won’t become champions of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. Yet shortly after the 68-team bracket was unveiled Sunday, it had already earned the title of the tournament’s most talked-about team. With six national championships, the Tar Heels
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When the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament begins Friday, the UCLA Bruins will be its top overall seed. It is the highest seed in the history of UCLA’s program but whether it can remain on top of
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Elbow surgery will sideline one of Major League Baseball’s best pitchers in 2025, an injury that presents an enormous challenge for his team as it attempts to return to the World Series. Gerrit Cole, the hard-throwing right-hander for the New
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When Grant Fisher stepped off the track at Boston University on Feb. 14, it wasn’t entirely a shock that the American distance runner had just broken the world record for the indoor 5,000 meters. For one thing, he was in
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For the rest of his NFL career, Jayden Daniels may never produce another play more memorable than the Hail Mary touchdown he threw in October to win only his eighth career game. But that stunning, game-winning score to beat the
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Philadelphia Eagles running back Saquon Barkley joined one of the most elite clubs in NFL history Sunday when his juke through the left side of Philadelphia’s offensive line made him only the ninth player to rush for at least 2,000
The fight during Philadelphia’s Week 17 blowout win over Dallas was mostly one-sided. Until the final three minutes. Late in the fourth quarter, the Eagles, leading, 41-7, kicked a routine punt to begin a play that quickly led to ejections
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Hours after Dallas was eliminated from making the NFL’s postseason Sunday, it still affected the playoff race across the NFC. The Cowboys beat Tampa Bay 26-24 on “Sunday Night Football” to win for a fourth time in their last five
Rickey Henderson, the greatest base stealer in Major League Baseball history and one of the game’s most enduring players, has died, Major League Baseball confirmed Saturday. Henderson was 65. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred called Henderson the “gold standard of base
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