The tournaments each have their own organizing committees, structures and set ups. There was one glaring disparity between the tournaments when a Stanford coach shared photos of respective weight rooms at the tournaments. The men’s workout facility was expansive with lots of weights, racks, benches and overall equipment and space. The women’s area had one rack of 12 dumbbells, some yoga mats and an exercise bike. Social media lost its mind over the differences....

The people in charge of the sport surely would want such a player on the court as much as possible, wouldn’t want to limit his participation simply because of a rule that’s been around for decades, the one that mandates disqualification after five personal fouls. Which is fine, because Garza didn’t foul out of a game once. MORE: Best buzzer-beaters in March Madness history One of the issues contained in the annual NCAA men’s basketball rules committee survey of coaches, officials, media members and other interested parties was the possibility of changing to a six-foul DQ rule....

As the NCAA introduces regulatory policies like guidelines to prevent non-traumatic deaths and improved accreditation standards for strength and conditioning coaches, it might expand its legal duty to provide care, thus making it more vulnerable to civil negligence claims, according to attorney Bob Wallace, who represents athletes and sports teams for national law firm Thompson Coburn. Two Oregon football players hospitalized in a January 2017 workout have filed such cases against the NCAA and the University of Oregon....

"I doubt he plays," coach John Calipari said Monday on a teleconference with the other Final Four coaches. "He will be on our bench, cheering like crazy." MORE: Ranking the Final Four | Kentucky back, younger than ever | PHOTOS: Elite Eight Cauley-Stein injured his ankle after playing four minutes of Friday's Sweet 16 victory over Louisville. He did not appear in Sunday's regional final victory over Michigan. His place in the rotation was taken by freshman Marcus Lee, a McDonald's All-American in high school but used very little during the course of the Southeastern Conference season....

It’s one of the classic blunders. PHOTOS: Best shots from the Elite Eight | Updated bracket On Sunday afternoon, the seventh-seeded Huskies ran their March record at MSG over the past four years to 9-1 with an impressive 60-54 victory against fourth-seeded Michigan State to earn the East Region’s Final Four bid. This is the fourth time since 2000 that a team seeded seventh or higher has made the Final Four....

Their 2016 experience wasn’t quite as good. To say the least. MORE: Ranking the 15 best NCAA Tournament coaches Sean’s Arizona squad lost as a No. 6 seed to No. 11 Wichita State on Thursday night. On Friday morning, Archie’s seventh-seeded Dayton Flyers lost to No. 10 seed Syracuse. Both Millers watched their teams fall behind by more than 20 points in the second half. On a good note, Archie avoided becoming a Twitter talking point during his team’s defeat....

It’s been a long-time point of contention for Division I basketball coaches, including Rick Pitino, who earlier this season who went on a lengthy rant at ACC Media Day in October explaining how Peyton Siva’s family had to drive from outside Seattle to Atlanta because his large family could not afford to fly. MORE: All the Final Four sites through 2021 | Memorable Final Four photos The NCAA is finally stepping in to assuage some of the cost of those expenses, offering the families of players competing in Final Four games up to $3,000 in travel, hotel and meal expenses....

The Democratic-controlled House of Representatives and the Republican-controlled Senate both passed the NDAA with veto-proof majorities last week—meaning they have enough votes to override Trump’s decision if he follows through on his threat. Now, some security experts and lawmakers are pointing to provisions in the NDAA that would shore up the country’s defenses against cyberattacks. “Among other important provisions, the act would authorize the Department of Homeland Security to perform network hunting in federal networks,” Thomas Bossert, who served as homeland security adviser to Trump from January 2017 until April 2018, wrote in a New York Times op-ed published Wednesday....

The clip from TikTok user @letstalkaboutbusiness, known on the platform as Al, shows an itemized list of services rendered at a hospital, totaling nearly $3 million. Claiming to share the “total cost” of “4 Months in a USA Hospital With COVID-19,” the video has been viewed over 9.4 million times and counting since it was posted two days ago. Panning down the document, viewers see that, for example, time in the intensive care unit amounted to $324,349, while respiratory therapy was priced at over $550,000....

The new data was released Wednesday by Gallup, which conducted the survey from January 2 to 15. More than 1,000 adults 18 and older—with the sample taken from all 50 states—were asked about their personal financial situation. The results reveal “record-high” optimism, Gallup said. A full 59 percent of respondents said that their finances had improved over the past 12 months. Additionally, 74 percent said they saw their economic prospects improving further over the next year....

According to The Chicago Tribune, out of 137 prisoners tested for COVID-19 at the Westville Correctional facility, 126 received a positive result for the virus. As of Thursday morning, the number of inmates testing positive for coronavirus had risen to 128, according to a fact sheet maintained by the Indiana Department of Correction. It is unclear how many more inmates were tested. The revelation was made during a district Hospital Emergency Planning Committee meeting, which was held over Zoom....

The 16-year-old male, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also listed targets including schools, post offices, bars and government buildings as locations “worth attacking” in a manifesto that was seized by British police, according to a report by the Press Association. He also searched for firearms, knives and explosives, and was in communication with a gun auctioneer, before his home in the northern English city of Durham was raided in March of this year....

Three of these devices have been cleared by the FDA and already are already in use. Some require a prescription, but some are available over the counter (OTC). These devices use different approaches to affecting neuronal activity and are known as e-TNS, sTMS, and non-invasive vagus nerve stimulation. If you are interested in a non-pharmaceutical approach to migraine management or are simply seeking an alternative to your current treatment, talk with your healthcare provider to see if this option may be right for you....

Nests With No Birds A starkly vivid memoir of life in Mao’s China Emily Wu grew up in Maoist China, a place where lives were steered by the political winds. But in her vivid new memoir, “Feather in the Storm” (336 pages. Pantheon Books), she gives those forces names and faces, hands and voices. It’s the difference between knowing that 38 million people died during the four years of Mao’s disastrous Great Leap Forward, and knowing that one night a starving little boy was slowly fed, as candy, a small squirt of toothpaste by his older sister....

According to ABC 7 Chicago, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Illinois said the crime Harris allegedly committed is punishable by a minimum sentence of 15 years in prison. He could receive a maximum of 30 years in prison. A Texas lawsuit against 21-year-old Harris was previously filed on Monday by two teenagers, alleging “Harris asked the boys to send sexually explicit pictures of themselves and that he asked one of them for a sexual act at a Fort Worth competition,” ABC affiliate WFAA reported....

Now, subscribers are doing some canceling of their own—ending their subscriptions in protest. Netflix dropped the series in August, just months after The OA returned for a second season in March. Fans had hoped Netflix would reverse course but The OA co-creator and star Brit Marling confirmed at the end of August the show really is done and thanked viewers for protesting the cancelation. Marling said she and show co-creator Zal Batmanglij were “humbled, to be honest floored, by the outpouring of support for The OA....

This will be Qatar’s final game at their first World Cup, becoming only the second host nation to crash out in the group stages after losing to Ecuador and Senegal. Only a shock defeat to Felix Sanchez’s team could keep the Netherlands out of the Round of 16, but they’ll want a convincing victory to secure top spot. Below are the projected lineups for both teams, based on the latest news leading up to the match....

More importantly, this happened: With their team getting blown out, the Nets' Joe Johnson and Paul Pierce are seen laughing on the bench. They hold their shirts over their noses for several minutes as if somebody ... well, something smelled bad. (And no, it wasn't the Knicks on that particular night.) Regardless of what was so funny, Johnson agreed Monday with Jeff Van Gundy's criticism on the television broadcast during the incident....

With Commanders owner Dan Snyder exploring “potential transactions” with the franchise, selling the team could be an option. If that’s the case, Durant has expressed a desire to be a part of the team’s ownership group. MORE: Jay-Z & Jeff Bezos, Byron Allen linked to Commanders as Dan Synder explores selling team Durant, a native of the Washington, D.C. area, has a great feel for the franchise and its home market....