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Will the chalk dominate the NCAA Tournament again? Last year, North Carolina beat Gonzaga in a battle of No. 1 seeds, a reminder that Cinderella rarely wins the Big Dance. Gonzaga, which once wore the Cinderella label, made the Final Four as a No. 1 seed. That’s our annual reminder: Stick with the percentages if you want to win your bracket pool. MARCH MADNESS: Printable NCAA Tournament bracket There will be upsets in the first weekend, but chalk tends to be the story from the Sweet 16 to the Final Four and ultimately in the championship game....

The Cavaliers star took to Twitter to voice his displeasure with the officating in Monday night’s game between Gonzaga and North Carolina. MORE: Live updates, highlights from North Carolina vs. Gonzaga James has a point. When he tweeted, there had been 39 fouls called total with 7:21 remaining in the game. He did, however, back off of his threat to stop watching. LeBron wasn’t the only professional athlete to complain about officiating....

UM wing Charles Matthews converted a layup with 9:09 remaining to cut a deficit that once stood at 18 points to an even dozen. The game still felt very much like it belonged to the Wildcats, but the Michigan fans got to their feet and the Wolverines on the floor waved to encourage more noise. We’ve seen crazier NCAA comebacks, right? MORE: Get your Villanova 2018 national championship gear here...

“If a student-athlete engages in bad behavior, they have to be subject to the same standards of conduct as everyone else,” Emmert told reporters Tuesday before delivering a lecture at Kansas City’s Rockhurst University about the future of college sports. “The most important thing to the NCAA membership,” Emmert said, “has always been that students aren’t treated in any privileged or disproportionate fashion.” That doesn’t mean that such issues haven’t been brought to Emmert’s attention....

He had broken his leg in that moment, so the best college player that season on what had established itself as the best team became ancillary to the NCAA Tournament. There’d rarely been anything like it in college basketball history. This year there may be more Kenyon Martins than ever before. It’s unlikely anyone has a statistical record of this, but across the years there are anecdotal incidents of players whose late-season injuries impacted the NCAAs: Arizona center Loren Woods along with Martin in 2000, Purdue forward Robbie Hummel and Syracuse center Arinze Onuaku in 2010, Kentucky center Nerlens Noel in 2013, Kansas center Joel Embiid in 2014, VCU guard Briante Weber in 2015....

Much like at the Westgate Las Vegas SuperBook after opening lines were released on Sunday , The Wynn has seen bigger moves of more than a point on only a handful of games so far. But that is expected to change once bettors start flooding sports books on Wednesday night and Thursday morning. Current NCAA Tournament lines: Thursday | Friday “The sharps are betting right now,” said Johnny Avello , The Wynn’s executive director of race & sports operations....

The Cardinals’ title odds have been trimmed from 18-to-1 last week to 12-to-1, and they are looking like they could be a big player come March. Much of their success in the early portion of the season has resulted from strong defense. The Cardinals only allow 52.9 points per game (10th in the nation) while collecting 6.6 blocks (10th) and 11.1 steals (fourth). Things certainly look good on the surface, but before laying a wager on the Cardinals, bettors may want to take a look at Montrezl Harrell’s quotes following a closer-than-expected win over UNC Wilmington....

MORE: NCAA Tournament scoreboard | Vegas lines and pick | Sporting News Candy Bracket Utah Utes (24-8) No. 5 seed, South Region Coach: Larry Krystkowiak (fourth season) Bid: At-large/Pac-12 Starting lineup G Delon Wright, 6-5, Sr., 14.7 ppg, 5.3 apg G Brandon Taylor, 5-10, Jr., 10.4 ppg, 3.4 apg F Jordan Loveridge, 6-6, Jr., 10.2 ppg, 3.7 rpg F Chris Reyes, 6-7 So., 4.7 ppg, 4.0 rpg F Jakob Poeltl, 7-0, Fr....

No. 1-ranked Florida State, national champions in 2014 and 2018, is in its second straight final after a penalty-kick shootout against Santa Clara denied it the 2020 title (played in May 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). After brushing off South Alabama and SMU in the opening rounds of this year’s tournament, the Seminoles rode three straight 1-0 wins, including over No. 5-ranked Rutgers, to reach the final. The FSU team defense (13 shutouts in 24 matches) will face its toughest test yet when it takes on the highest scoring team in Division I....

Shaq, the co-host of “The Big Podcast with Shaq,” commanded an answer from the podcast’s most recent guest in a way only Shaq can: “Give me a quarterback that you can’t wait to play him. You hate him. You don’t want to hurt him but you want to touch him up a little bit. You want him to call me and give him some of that Icy Hot. Just give me one name....

Crystal Renay took to the online platform to share a post in which she stated that she was “heartbroken and disgusted” over the alleged infidelity of her musician husband, whose real name is Shaffer Chimere Smith. “8 years. 8 years of lies and deception,” wrote Renay, who renewed her wedding vows with Ne-Yo in April. “8 years of unknowingly sharing my life and husband with numerous […] women who sell their bodies to him unprotected…every last one of them!...

Parents of 98 students at South Lake Elementary School in Montgomery Village, Maryland, were notified that their child received an incorrect amount of the Pfizer vaccine at a school-based vaccination clinic. News came about a week after the children had been vaccinated and the school plans to hold another clinic on Wednesday to revaccinate the affected children. “We apologize for the error, and we are offering another opportunity for the children to be revaccinated,” Dr....

The Associated Press reported a tank leak resulted in 4,000 gallons of chlorine being released into a fjord at the town of Alta in Arctic Norway. A spokesman for the salmon farming company Grieg Seafood told the Associated Press that the leak happened at one of its fish slaughterhouses. “We are connecting this to a chlorine leak,” Roger Pedersen, the Grieg Seafood spokesperson, told the Associated Press. He said the company was dealing with the dead fish “in a responsible way and was investigating why the leak occurred....

Greater Omaha Packing, a beef supplier and producer based in Omaha, Nebraska, is recalling “approximately 295,236 pounds of raw beef products intended for non-intact use that may be contaminated with E. coli,” the Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced in a statement Friday. The wholesaler produces about 150,000 boxes of beef and variety meats that are then sold throughout the U.S. every week. The potentially contaminated raw beef products were “intended for non-intact use” and produced on July 13, according to the FSIS....

Public Policy Polling conducted the new survey from April 23 to 24 and published the findings on Monday. The results showed that nearly 8 in 10 (79 percent) of respondents significantly support expanding Medicaid to cover many low- and moderate-income Americans who are currently uninsured. A clear majority (58 percent) of respondents said they “strongly support” expanding Medicaid, while an additional 21 percent said they “somewhat support” the proposal. Only 8 percent of respondents said they don’t support an expansion of Medicaid “at all,” while 10 percent said they don’t “really support” the idea....

The Huskers don’t discredit their fomer coach’s efforts that have gotten them to where they are. On the way to the Holiday Bowl to face USC, Nebraska left the front seat of the bus empty as a tribute to Pelini. MORE: Must-see bowl photos | Belk Bowl teams get taste of NASCAR | Amari Cooper thinks New Orleans smells bad Kenny Bell even went as far as having “Pelini” written on his wrist tape....

Currently, Nebraska has 602 hospitalized COVID patients, compared to an all-time high of 987 in November 2020, before vaccines were available and when fewer non-emergency cases were being admitted to hospitals so that more capacity was available for COVID patients that had to be treated separately to reduce viral spread. As more cases of the Omicron variant are discovered worldwide, the situation could worsen if it turns out to cause illnesses as severe or worse than Delta....

The near-perfect vehicle to recapture the mania, Seabiscuit’s saga contains the elements of not one but several dark-horse stories: an owner who’d never owned a horse of note, a trainer with no pedigree and a jockey on a downward slide to anonymity. Best of all, there was the runty little mud-colored horse that everyone else had given up on. By the time this book hits its climax–the 1938 match race between Seabiscuit and Triple Crown winner War Admiral in what’s called the greatest horse race of all time–your only question is not why so many people loved horse racing but why they stopped....

Alongside them, Netflix has started to reveal details of its new batch of original series, including a new documentary series from Nicholas Cage, a Winx Club reboot, and adaptations of best-selling books like Pieces of Me and Behind Her Eyes. Read on for all the biggest TV show releases Netflix has coming in 2021. Netflix shows with confirmed 2021 release date Cobra Kai Season 3 - January 1 After the first two seasons of the Karate Kid spin-off became a hit when they moved from YouTube earlier this year, Netflix is kicking off the year with a season full of high-kicking action....

So, the makers of the Netflix live-action version certainly had their work cut out when it came to casting actors to play the bounty hunters. Here’s your guide to the actors starring in Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop. Spike Spiegel Spike is the leader of the Bebop crew. A former hitman for the Red Dragon Syndicate, he left the organization and became a bounty hunter alongside Jet Black. He is played by John Cho, who is no stranger to sci-fi reimaginings after taking on the role of Sulu—George Takei in the original series—in the Star Trek reboot franchise....