CHICAGO — For months, as Loyola University-Chicago’s men’s basketball team made an emphatic march toward its first N.C.A.A. tournament berth since 2018, the program’s most famous supporter, Sister Jea
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Mar. 16, 2021
The 2021 March Madness tournament is set to be the first sporting event to reach $1 billion in legal wagering. Outside of legal betting, millions of Americans will fill out a bracket to participate i
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Mar. 16, 2021
This week the men's NCAA basketball tournament gets started, with tons of basketball spread across four networks and a streaming app (you can find times listed for the first round of games here). How
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Mar. 16, 2021
Steve Prohm is out as Iowa State's men's basketball coach, the school announced Monday.Prohm and athletic director Jamie Pollard met Monday night and the two sides agreed to "part ways," the school sa
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Mar. 16, 2021
The N.C.A.A. quietly rewrote part of its coronavirus safety protocols, which college sports administrators have routinely used to justify holding basketball championships during the pandemic, to poten
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Mar. 16, 2021
[See our complete guide to March Madness.]For the N.C.A.A., the easy part — setting a bracket and crowning Baylor, Gonzaga, Illinois and Michigan as the No. 1 seeds for the Division I men’s basketball
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Mar. 15, 2021
In a normal year, bracket selection for the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball tournament is relatively uneventful. A few top contenders wind up poised to dominate the regionals they’re nearest to geographic
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Mar. 15, 2021
A bizarre bug on Twitter this weekend meant anyone who tweeted the name of one particular US city got suspended.Twitter users noticed on Sunday that accounts who tweeted the word "Memphis" were receiv
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Mar. 15, 2021
The NBA announced Monday it completed a joint investigation with the Utah Jazz into an allegation by former Jazz guard Elijah Millsap that executive vice president of basketball operations Dennis Lind
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Mar. 15, 2021
Unbeaten Gonzaga is the slight betting favorite in the 2021 NCAA men's basketball tournament.The Zags are +205 (bet $100 to win $205) at DraftKings Sportsbook, with Baylor (+500) following closely beh
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Mar. 15, 2021
AT 1:14 P.M. ON SEPT. 19, 2017, the ground began to shake under the town of Jojutla, in the Mexican state of Morelos, 50 miles south of Mexico City. The iron bells in the 18th-century Chapel of San Mi
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Mar. 15, 2021
Cincinnati had an opportunity to join Georgetown from the Big East and Oregon State from the Pac-12 in the category of NCAA Tournament "bid stealers" on Sunday. But the Bearcats fell a game short of r
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Mar. 14, 2021
