Mike’s article is a passionate filleting of the motives that created the April draft withdrawal deadline. But even if the rule were made with the best of intentions, it has not only failed but the NCAA needs to get rid of it before the NBA makes it impossible for the NCAA to impose any order on here draft process. The central conceit of the basketball draft withdrawal deadline does not even make sense....
One source reportedly told CBS Sports that the violations may involve impermissible benefits afforded to prospects. The school, however, told a San Diego Union-Tribune reporter that it had received “no notification” from the NCAA at this time. MORE: SN’s preseason All-Americans Sporting News has reached out to SDSU seeking comment, but an email was not immediately returned. Steve Fisher, who has led the Aztecs since 1999, was fired from Michigan in 1997 after the men’s basketball program was investigated for providing impermissible benefits to members of the school’s “Fab Five” team, including star Chris Webber....
That movement, folks, has its moment. On Friday, the NCAA is meeting with four of the prominent college hoops analytics gurus — Jeff Sagarin (of the Sagarin Ratings), Ken Pomeroy (the tempo-free Pomeroy Ratings), Kevin Pauga (KPI) and Ben Alamar (ESPN’s BPI) — in Indianapolis. The goal, as stated in last week’s release, is “to speed the inclusion of more metrics in the selection process for the basketball tournament.”...
The Super Bowl XLV champ was in attendance for Wisconsin's Sweet 16 destruction of Baylor, and stopped by the Badgers' locker room after the game to celebrate with them. MORE: Sweet 16 live blog | Sweet 16 photos | Sherman & Rice selfie Sadly, there was no "Elite Eight Double Check."
And then it was. PHOTOS: Sweet 16’s sweet images When it did, when the shots fell and the critical free throws drained one after the other in a 70-64 Sweet 16 victory over San Diego State, the improbable became the unthinkable. In all of two minutes and 44 seconds. This is what March is all about. Why every possession counts and every free throw counts and no matter how poorly you’ve played for 37 minutes and 16 seconds, you can make it all better when it matters most....
We’ll be updating this post throughout the day, so all you have to do is hit refresh and the newest things will appear atop the post. MORE: Scoreboard | College basketball: Then & Now | March Madness must-follow | NCAA Tournament is best sports day 7:29 p.m.: Ohio State gets the win 75-73, and with that, Day 1 of the NCAA Tournament Live Blog is over. Enjoy the night sessions, folks....
The second and third, however, is where the chalk takes hold. Since the Tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985, 19 of the 31 national champions were No. 1 seeds. Upsets happen, but the tournament tends to lean on chalk. The proof is in the percentages. MORE: One of these 16 teams will probably win Here’s a look at the champions, championship game participants and Final Four teams by seed since 1985....
MORE: NCAA scoreboard | Vegas lines, pick | Day 2’s biggest moments | Weekend matchups Virginia Cavaliers (29-3) No. 2 seed, East Region Coach: Tony Bennett (sixth season) Bid: At-large/Atlantic Coast Conference Starting lineup G London Parrentes, 6-2, So., 6.3 ppg, 4.7 apg G Justin Anderson, 6-6, Jr., 13.4 ppg, 4.3 rpg G Malcom Brogdon, 6-5, Jr., 13.7 ppg, 3.9 rpg F Anthony Gill, 6-8, Jr., 11.6 ppg, 6.7 rpg...
Notre Dame Fighting Irish (31-5) No. 3 seed, Midwest Region Coach: Mike Brey (15th season) Bid: ACC tournament champions Starting lineup G Demetrius Jackson, 6-1, So., 12.4 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 3.0 apg G Jerian Grant, 6-5, Sr., 16.8 ppg, 3.1 rpg, 6.6 apg G Steve Vasturia, 6-5, So., 9.8 ppg, 3.0 rpg, 1.7 apg G/F Pat Connaughton, 6-5, Sr., 12.5 ppg, 7.3 rpg F Zach Auguste, 6-10, Jr., 12.6 ppg, 6....
Bodie Boring, from Franklin in Texas, was with his father on a construction site when the accident took place. His injuries include a skull fracture, brain bleed, a blood clot on the brain, bruised lungs and a fractured pelvic bone. He is currently recovering in hospital whilst his family are using GoFundMe to help pay for his care. Speaking to local news site KBTX 3 his mother, Samantha, said: “He has amazed me so much....
According to a report from WOFL, an unnamed Winter Garden, Florida resident was taking her two dogs on a walk on Thursday evening. While one of the dogs ran near the waterfront chasing ducks, the alligator attacked. “The [The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission] dispatched a contracted nuisance alligator trapper…in response to an incident involving a dog,” the FWC confirmed with Newsweek. “The woman noticed that her dog had encountered an alligator and was bitten,” they added in an additional statement obtained by WKMG....
The Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said it received the initial call Monday morning of the group landing in Summerland Key, about 20 miles from Key West. This is the latest in a string of suspected smuggling operations in Florida. Walter N. Slosar, chief patrol agent, U.S. Border Patrol, Miami sector, made the announcement on Twitter, posting a picture of the disheveled vessel that carried the migrants. “Border Patrol agents along with federal, state, & local partners are responding to a maritime smuggling event involving over 100 migrants that made landfall in the Florida Keys,” Slosar wrote in a tweet....
The study, which has been conducted annually, has shown an overall downward trend since 1996, but showed that since 2014 the rate has steadily increased and as of 2017, is up 19 percent. The data, pulled from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Report, showed that 92 percent of women were killed by men they already knew and 62 percent were killed by their husband or intimate partner, most commonly with a gun....
The entire crew left for their anti-piracy mission unvaccinated in February, before South Korea began rolling out vaccines. Over the past few days, 247 of 301 crew members tested positive and all returned to South Korea near its capital Seoul by military planes Tuesday evening. The virus outbreak is the largest within South Korea’s military as the country combats surging COVID-19 cases. South Korean Prime Minister Kim Boo-kyum said the government is “very sorry for failing to carefully take care of the health of our soldiers who are devoting themselves to the country,” in comments that were broadcasted....
The study, which was conducted by the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, found that 46 percent of parents in the city store their firearms at home, loaded. “The safest storage for firearms is to keep them locked and unloaded,” the study said. The study is part of the hospital’s Voices of Child Health in Chicago reports and surveyed 1,505 parents throughout the city “about steps they take toward firearm safety and how gun violence has altered their lives....
Trump, who became an official Florida resident in 2019, has been holding daily news briefings from the White House to discuss how the U.S. is mitigating the coronavirus spread. Guidelines recently issued by the Trump administration detailed plans for reopening the U.S. in stages beginning May 1. However, some experts have expressed concern that reopening the country too early could lead to a second wave of coronavirus in the fall....
Ariauna Chantell Lillard, 19, reportedly used a butane torch while attempting to destroy several love notes from a former boyfriend in the bedroom of her third-floor apartment. According to investigators, the 19-year-old used the torch to burn the letters, and went to take a nap. However, she left some of the notes on her bedroom carpet, apparently unaware that they were smoldering. Lillard woke up a short time later to the sound of her smoke alarm going off....
With that in mind, Newsweek has listed all of the Netflix original English language live-action comedies and dramas that have not been canceled yet, as well as ones that were canceled in 2020. We will update this list every time we get news about the fate of a show. Netflix cancellations and renewals guide After Life: Renewed for Season 3, release date TBAAJ and the Queen: Canceled after Season 1Altered Carbon: Canceled after Season 2Another Life: Renewed for Season 2, release date TBAAshley Garcia: Genius in Love: Ending after Christmas special, release date TBAAtypical: Ending after Season 4, release date TBAAway: Canceled after Season 1The Baby-Sitters Club: Not yet renewed for Season 2The Big Show Show: Ending after Christmas special#blackAF: Renewed for Season 2, release date TBA...
For the past two seasons, viewers have watched Tony (played by Gervais) mourn the loss of his wife Lisa (Kerry Godliman) and his journey of grief, including the lowest of lows and highest of highs. With Season 3 being the last outing of the award-winning series, hopefully, Tony will get his happy ending. Newsweek has everything you need to know about After Life Season 3. When Is ‘After Life’ Season 3 Out on Netflix?...
Epstein’s name has been a somewhat regular fixture in the media since the summer of 2019, when he was arrested on charges of sex trafficking minors. A little more than a month after that arrest, Epstein died after being found unresponsive in his New York City jail cell; his death was officially ruled a suicide, though that designation has proved controversial. Now, the new four-episode documentary series aims to tell a new side of the story surrounding Epstein—one that dives deep into the accounts and alleged experiences of the women who say that Epstein abused them....
