The college basketball season is winding down, which means March Madness is upon us. The annual men’s and women’s tournaments are among the most watched sporting events in the U.S.Â
LAS VEGAS — The debate over NCAA Tournament expansion is simple on the surface for many casual college basketball fans, particularly those who believe the sport doesn’t begin until around St. Patrick’s Day. More games, more madness. It’s so obvious. Except that it’s not. Because while anothe…
UConn women's veteran players have fought through the pain to return for March Madness.
With the NCAA tournament less than a week away an injury to Duke star Cooper Flagg may change the Blue Devils seeding in the Big Dance.
The NFL scouting combine never disappoints, unless you tell the world you’re going to run a 4.20 40-yard dash, or a 4.1 if you feel great, and end up running a 4.39. Obviously, that’s still a good time for Texas wide receiver Isaiah Bond, but I’m hoping he learned a lesson in how to properly…
Growth in youth hockey leading to surge in D-3 women's hockey programs.
The guys discuss the history that UConn star Paige Bueckers made at the Big East Tournament.
MIAMI — The task is one Jai Lucas didn’t inherit but rather seized. And it’s a challenge with a place unlike any other in Miami sports history. If the dizzyingly sudden, sharp fall of Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball is not quite unprecedented in this market, only one other collapse in memory is comparable to the Canes making their first-ever NCAA Final Four in 2023 and by ‘25 suffering the ...
The four-time NBA champion and two-time league MVP will be the first active player in U.S. major professional sports to take an administrative job with a college team.
BangTheBook highlights some of the Cinderella basketball teams that have gone on unexpected runs, beat big schools during March Madness, and made history.
Watch the 2025 NCAA DIII women's hockey selection show and bracket reveal from March 9, 2025 on NCAA.com.
’Stunning’ and ‘crazy’ Steve Kerr on Steph Curry’s 25,000 point milestone
Bill Belichick is back on the practice sidelines again, a familiar home for the man who won six Super Bowls as an NFL head coach.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The best college football athletes in the world convened in Indianapolis for the past week, where the NFL Scouting Combine put them through a series of tests designed to direct their futures. Over four days, one of the most impressive feats came when a guy clocked the 157th fastest 40-yard dash. Why? Well, that player just so happens to weigh 332 pounds. Missouri offensive ...
LEXINGTON, Ky. — Last week, when the Kentucky football program made its new players for 2025 available to the media for the first time, true freshman quarterback Stone Saunders was the guy for whom I went looking. One of the most decorated high school football quarterbacks UK has ever signed, the Pennsylvania product kept his commitment to Kentucky under circumstances that would have caused ...
DETROIT — Detroit Mercy and Oakland are getting some company. Northern Illinois, a longtime member of the Mid-American Conference, is joining the Horizon League for most of its sports offerings starting with the 2026-27 academic year. That includes men's and women's basketball, which will increase the Horizon League's basketball pools to 12 schools. The move by Northern Illinois was ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — March Madness has begun for the No. 3 Florida Gators. Todd Golden’s team, and its fans, are ready as college basketball’s biggest month arrives. UF students camped out Friday at the Stephen C. O’Connell Center as ESPN College GameDay arrived in Gainesville for the first time since 2017 ahead of Saturday night’s visit from No. 12 Texas A&M. Following a stunning loss Tuesday ...
ORLANDO, Fla. — Let the Democrats and Republicans vehemently debate the merits of President Donald Trump putting the controversial Elon Musk in charge of the newly created Department of Government Efficiency, but I am here today to reach across the aisle and present a non-partisan idea I think we all can agree upon. Instead of putting Musk in charge of trimming the bureaucratic fat in ...
INDIANAPOLIS — Abdul Carter said it would be realistic come April 24 to hear his name called first among a long list of prospects on the NFL draft stage. His rationale is straightforward. “I feel like I’m the best player in the country, and the best player should be selected No. 1,†the 21-year-old edge rusher out of Penn State said Wednesday at the NFL scouting combine. His assertion isn’t ...
All of the commissioners who are part of the CFP met after the SEC and Big Ten commissioners met with their athletics directors and expressed their desire for seeding changes.Â
It wasn’t too long ago that many colleges weren’t even selling alcoholic beverages at sporting events on campus. Now, dozens upon dozens of them are partnering with local breweries.
OLEAN, N.Y. — Adrian Wojnarowski is cleaning out his office of cell phones and press passes, and even offering dinner dates in a bid to raise name, image and likeness funds for the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball program.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas — In SMU’s first journey into the challenging world of the Atlantic Coast Conference, Clemson remains the Mustangs’ nemesis. This wasn’t as heartbreaking as a 56-yard field goal on the final play to beat SMU in the ACC championship game in Charlotte. But the Tigers’ 79-69 victory at Moody Coliseum in which the visitors coasted with a big lead much of the second half did ...
Kris Jenkins owes a Villanova fan a drink. Or maybe a shot as memorable as his in the 2016 national championship game.
TAMPA, Fla. — Like many college football bastions, Nebraska’s annual spring intrasquad game had evolved into a hallowed custom, rife with pomp and three-point stance. A glorified practice that attracted thousands, it was equal parts recruiting tool and rite. Same at places such as USC, Ohio State and Texas, where this alliance of social event and scrimmage embedded itself on a community’s ...
Lesley University's Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel made NCAA history as the first Division III women’s basketball player with one arm to score in collegiate games.
DALLAS — If you’re sick of college football players getting rich only to watch them get up and leave at the first slight, and you wish everything would just stay the same, take heart. The Big Ten and SEC are right there with you. Officials of the Super 2 met in New Orleans this week in a continuing effort to make sure no matter how this all shakes out, they’ll get theirs, as usual. They’d like ...
Being cut from her high school basketball team pushed Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel to pursue her basketball dreams in college – and into the NCAA Division III history books.
DALLAS — Johnny Manziel has been all over the map since Stephen Jones talked his dad out of drafting him in 2014, moving from College Station to Cleveland to Canada to Memphis to something called the Zappers. He’s employed these days with the Action Network and hosts a podcast. Just broke up with Jose Canseco’s daughter, but appears to have his life in order. Let’s hope so, because it’s been a ...
Division I baseball coaches and administrators expect fewer opportunities for high school recruits at the top level of the sport once rosters are reduced and if NCAA eligibility is extended.