Johnson is currently averaging 15.5 points and 4.6 rebounds per game. He would provide the Pistons with a veteran presence and 3-point threat. MORE: Photos from NBA All-Star Saturday Night | DEVENEY: No Lopez trade…yet The Nets have been shopping Johnson and Deron Williams all season. It’s unclear how far the two teams have gotten in their talks at this point. Johnson is currently one of the highest-paid players in the league, making $23....

Phoenix hopes to acquire a “young player with significant talent” in return for Bledsoe, according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. However, it appears no teams are willing to meet the Suns’ demands (well, for now, at least). DEVENEY: Suns point out anti-tanking problem Bledsoe sent out a tweet Sunday saying, “I don’t wanna be here,” and the Suns responded Monday morning by telling Bledsoe to head home before the team took on the Kings that evening....

The Hawks’ star point guard led his team to a 116-113 win on the road against the Bucks on Wednesday. Young scored 48 points — tied for the fourth-most in conference finals history — joining the likes of Michael Jordan, LeBron James and Dirk Nowitzki. Young also grabbed seven rebounds and dished out 11 assists. That made him the second-youngest player in NBA history to record 45-plus points and 10-plus assists in a playoff game....

The NBC Sports Group channel has parted ways with Adam Hertzog, Vice President of News and Studio Productions, sources tell Sporting News. SN SOURCES: ESPN layoffs will slash $80 million in salaries and other costs Hertzog was hired by Golf Channel in 2013 to lead the network’s news department. He oversaw the network’s daily news programs, including “Morning Drive,” “Golf Central” and the “Live From” franchise airing from major golf tournaments worldwide....

Things are still quite hazy, though, in large part because of the SEC and Big Ten. Those tournaments this week have been a boost to bubble teams like Alabama, Missouri, Maryland and Michigan State, which will leave the committee with the annual discussion — do we take the 11th place team from the SEC or the second- or third-place team from a mid-major conference? The issue this year is that there are far more power-conference teams battling for space on the bubble....

The organization released a statement expressing its disappointment: “While not party to the proceeding, the NCAA is disappointed that the NLRB Region 13 determined the Northwestern football team may vote to be considered university employees. We strongly disagree with the notion that student-athletes are employees. MORE: Spring practice photos | SN picks 10 best all-time players by school | 2014 anticipated rematches “We frequently hear from student-athletes, across all sports, that they participate to enhance their overall college experience and for the love of their sport, not to be paid....

And yet the Aztecs are the ones going home. PHOTOS: Sweet 16’s sweet images Johnson, Aaron Gordon and Rondae Hollis-Jefferson scored 15 points each, and top-seeded Arizona defeated No. 4 SDSU 70-64 in a magnificent defensive struggle in the West regional in Anaheim. Johnson scored his first basket with 2:46 left on a fastbreak layup that gave the Wildcats a 56-51 edge, a play set up by an outstanding steal by T....

“Lute Olson had one scholarship and I think he told both of us, the first one who accepts gets it,” Hoiberg said. “Obviously neither of us took it.” MORE: Sweet 16 schedule, matchups, announcers | Interactive bracket Their paths parted once they left Tucson — Ollie chose to play at Connecticut and Hoiberg went to Iowa State — but the connections and similarities of their playing and coaching careers are remarkable....

Despite the schools refusing to play each other, the rivalry will not die. While Missouri is not participating in the NCAA Tournament, it did not stop the school from taking a shot at the Jayhawks in a faux-congratulatory tweet to Stanford, which beat Kansas on Sunday to advance to the Sweet 16. MORE: March Madness photos | Sad Kansas fan | More cowbell | UK vs. WSU live blog...

CLICK HERE to print your NCAA Tournament bracket, and then don’t worry. We’ll have a live, constantly updated version after the Field of 68 is announced. MORE: Must-see conference tournament images | Mid-majors get big-time exposure PLUS: These teams have automatic bids | Confidence index | Latest videos | Scoreboard March Madness is piquing the interest of college basketball fans, both those who know their school is in the Big Dance and those who back a team that’s on the bubble....

Shortly after CBS held us hostage for what seemed like hours, sports books released odds on the games, which begin Tuesday in Dayton. MORE: College basketball live odds page | Print your bracket here We’ll update as the lines are released offshore and in Las Vegas. Most below are from CG Technology in Nevada. NCAA Tournament betting odds South Region MORE: South Region bracket Kansas vs. 16. Austin Peay Line: Kansas -26 Total: 152...

Hampton Pirates (16-17) No. 16 seed, Midwest Region Coach: Edward Joyner (sixth year) Bid: MEAC ournament champions Starting lineup G Quinton Chievous, 6-6, Sr., 10.3 ppg, 6.3 rpg G Brian Darden, 6-2 Jr., 9.4 ppg, 1.6 rpg G Reginald Johnson, 6-2, Jr., 11.6 ppg, 3.3 rpg G Deron Powers, 5-11, Jr., 10.3 ppg, 3.8 apg F Jervon Pressley, 6-8, Jr., 6.1 ppg, 4.9 rpg Storylines — Hampton (16-17) becomes just the ninth team since 2000 to enter the NCAA Tournament with a losing record....

Of course, coming out on top over the other 67 teams in the field is no easy task. Only three active coaches — MIke Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Jay Wright — have won multiple national championships. They all remain far behind John Wooden, who is atop the leaderboard. The unpredictability of March hasn’t treated other notable coaches as well as far as trophies go. Hall of Famers Bill Self, Tom Izzo, John Calipari and Jim Boeheim will aim to join the multiple national championships club this year....

Best storyline: Yale is back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 1962, breaking one of the longest dry spells between tournament appearances. The Bulldogs nearly made it a year ago, only they had to beat .500 Dartmouth on the road to clinch the Ivy League title. They lost by a point. There was a one-game playoff against Harvard; Yale lost that one by two. This time the Bulldogs closed the regular season with five consecutive victories and made sure they got in....

The results, which were released on Women’s Equality Day, showed that 38 percent of respondents thought sexism has become more prevalent in the Trump era, while 29 percent said they saw no change and roughly 20 percent said gender equality has improved. The poll comes in the wake of the #MeToo movement, and accusations of sexual misconduct leveled at Trump. Meanwhile, the win by the U.S. women’s soccer team over France this summer highlighted the large pay gap between men and women....

These Republicans have broken party lines to speak out against President Donald Trump and publicly endorse Biden. One of the most notable GOP groups is the Lincoln Project, whose ads have severely attacked the president. The anti-Trump group is led by several high-profile Republicans, including John Weaver, Rick Wilson, George Conway, Reed Galen and Jennifer Horn. Former Ohio Governor John Kasich, who challenged Trump for the GOP nomination four years ago and has called himself “a lifelong Republican,” has also become a prominent voice of the GOP’s “Never Trump” movement....

The report, released on Wednesday, details just how starkly the political economy is controlled by a small subset of wealthy contributors. Almost $1.4 billion was given to super PACs—independent organizations which spend money to campaign for or against office-seekers—by these 25 donors and their spouses since 2010. Unlike traditional candidate committees, super PACs are allowed to raise and spend unlimited sums of money, although they do have to disclose their donors and list their expenditures....

The latest NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, released Monday, found that 73 percent of white evangelical Christians approve of the job Trump is doing as president, while only 23 disapprove. Four percent indicated they were unsure. Trump’s approval ratings among white evangelical Christians slipped at the start of the year to 66 percent, according to a January poll conducted by the same researchers, amid a partial government shutdown over a wall the president vowed to build along the southern U....

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