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For most of the second half on Sunday, Florida held Oral Roberts and NCAA history at bay. But the Golden Eagles would not be denied, riding a late 9-2 run to take a late 77-76 lead and stun No. 7 seed Florida in a 81-78 win. With the victory, Oral Roberts joins the 2013 Florida

The Conversation How effective is the first shot of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccine? UPS employees roll out first doses of the Pfizer vaccine at the UPS hub in Louisville, Ky., on Dec. 13, 2020. Michael Clevenger/Getty ImagesAs the COVID-19 vaccines reach more people across the country, some people have asked: Could we delay the

Entering Friday, teams ranked No. 15 in the NCAA tournament held an 8-132 record in first-round games. The upsets are threaded through tournament lore, from Richmond stunning Syracuse in 1991 to Lehigh upsetting Duke in 2012 to the magical Dunk City run of Florida Gulf Coast after it soared past Georgetown in 2013. The allure

COVID-19 Updates A COVID-19-sniffing dog in a socially distanced line at AmericanAirlines Arena greets Steve, a 32-year-old attorney who didn’t want to use his real name out of fear that he’d be judged for attending a Miami Heat game, where he fills out a questionnaire. Inside, he finds the seats next to his zip-tied shut,

One coach is a 46-year-old former high school math teacher who less than a decade ago was selling Cheetos out of his classroom to fund the school’s basketball program. The other is a 68-year-old Hall of Famer who has coached seven teams to the Final Four. In many ways, when Iona’s Rick Pitino peers across

After a one-year COVID-19 hiatus, the NCAA tournament is back. Let’s catch up on some on the stars poised to make some noise in the coming weeks. These aren’t necessarily the best players in the tournament — though some of them certainly are. These are players best positioned to make headlines this March. Hunter Dickinson,

Table of Contents Chess Midgame Analysis Each game of chess goes through three distinctive phases. There’s the opening game, the midgame, and the endgame. It’s vital that you attain a degree of mastery in all of these phases of the chess game, as lack of knowledge in any one of them will severely hamper your

The entire 2021 NCAA men’s basketball tournament is scheduled to be played in the state of Indiana, including six games inside Assembly Hall on the campus of Indiana University. The Hoosiers, though, won’t be playing. They missed the tournament again. They haven’t been since 2015. Perhaps the combination of the in-your-face, literally, in-your-gym nature of

This is the time of year when casual basketball fans usually get the first glimpse of the up-and-coming NBA talent that has been dominating college basketball since November. We all were robbed of an NCAA tournament last year and missed seeing high draft picks like Patrick Williams, Obi Toppin and Isaac Okoro play in March.

Each March, for a handful of unlucky teams, Selection Sunday becomes Rejection Sunday. They gather together to watch the unveiling of the NCAA tournament bracket only to endure the anguish of their school’s name not popping up. In a welcome surprise, this year’s biggest snubs didn’t exclusively hail from outside the five football power leagues

AccuWeather ‘Historic’ snowstorm to pummel Wyoming, Colorado Only a few days are left in winter, but that won’t stop Mother Nature from pulling out all of the stops in the last stretch of the season in the central and southern Rockies. A developing storm that AccuWeather meteorologists have been monitoring since last week will take

The Norman High School girls basketball team kneeled in protest during the national anthem on Thursday in a state quarterfinals game. An announcer called them, “f***ing n******” on the broadcast. (Bruce Bennett/Getty Images) An announcer calling an Oklahoma girls high school basketball game on Thursday night hurled racial slurs and expletives directed at a team

Houston Texans head coach David Culley is committed to quarterback Deshaun Watson … for “right now,” at least. Culley raised some eyebrows Thursday, telling Jim Trotter and Steve Wyche that Watson is the team’s starter “right now.” That phrase seems to suggest Watson may not be the starter when the 2021 season begins. Trotter and

Three days before what would have been her program’s first-ever postseason appearance, the coach of the Columbia women’s basketball team knocked on her athletic director’s office door. Megan Griffith’s players were eager to start practice. Griffith just needed to know if the Lions still had a game to prepare for anymore. It was the morning

Not long after the lightning strike of Dak Prescott’s massive four-year, $160 million contract with the Dallas Cowboys flashed across the NFL on Monday, the lingering buzz turned to team owner and league powerbroker Jerry Jones. It wasn’t the usual look-at-what-Jerry-just-did moment. Instead, this was a reading of the tea leaves when it came to

The Dallas Cowboys have reached a contract agreement with quarterback Dak Prescott, sources told Yahoo Sports’ Charles Robinson. #cowboys and Dak Prescott have agreed to extension terms. It’s done. — Charles Robinson (@CharlesRobinson) March 8, 2021 The Cowboys confirmed the deal Monday afternoon. Record money in first year ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports that the extension