The NCAA men’s basketball tournament resumes Friday. By the evening’s end the Sweet 16 will officially be down to the Elite Eight, just one step removed from a trip to the Final Four in San Antonio next weekend. The action begins in Atlanta, where a miniature SEC-Big Ten challenge is in the offing. Shortly thereafter events will tip off in ...

The 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament has reached the Sweet 16. We’ve got a strong four-game slate today that includes a heated rivalry and two top seeds in action: No. 2 Duke vs. No. 3 UNC, No. 1 South Carolina vs. No. 4 Maryland, No. 2 NC State vs. No. 3 LSU and No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 5 Ole Miss. ...

Everyone watches women’s sports. Including Nike. The sportswear giant and TOGETHXR are partnering on a merchandise collection featuring the now ubiquitous slogan championing women’s sports. The collection will include T-shirts, hoodies and baseball hats, and will be available through Nike and TOGETHXR as well as at Dick’s Sporting Goods. ‘TOGETHXR was created to amplify the voices of women athletes and ...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Lionel Messi will be on Inter Miami’s matchday roster for Saturday’s game against the Philadelphia Union, coach Javier Mascherano said Friday, but it remains unclear if Messi will play.  Messi has been nursing an adductor strain in his left thigh. He felt discomfort during Inter Miami’s last match at Atlanta United March 16, and he did ...

Former Barcelona star and Brazilian soccer player Dani Alves had his rape conviction overturned on appeal by a court in Spain’s Catalonia region on Friday, the latest twist in a high-profile case stemming from an alleged incident in a nightclub on New Year’s Eve more than two years ago. The ruling was levied by Catalon’s top court, according to Reuters, ...

The field of 68-teams in the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament has been whittled down to 16. All No. 1 seeds — UCLA, South Carolina, USC and Texas — advanced to the Sweet 16, which tips off Friday and runs through Saturday. All the No. 2 seeds and No. 3 seeds also moved on to Sweet 16. In fact, the lowest ...

Down by 16 points with 10 minutes left in the second half, Texas Tech pulled off the second-largest comeback in Sweet 16 history. ‘What an unbelievable college basketball game,’ said Texas Tech head coach Grant McCasland. Entering the night, Arkansas ranked 265th out of 355 Division I teams in 3-point percentage (32.4%) and averaged 6.9 made 3-pointers a game.  But ...

As the 2025 women’s NCAA Tournament enters the second weekend, it’s time to reset our Final Four picks after action-packed first and second rounds. All four No. 1 seeds are still in it to win it, but USC suffered a major blow on Monday when superstar guard JuJu Watkins went down with a season-ending knee injury in a second-round game ...

AI-assisted summary Several players in the Birmingham Regional of the Sweet 16 are top prospects for the WNBA draft. These 7 can’t miss prospects include Notre Dame’s Olivia Miles & Sonia Citron, Maryland’s Shyanne Sellers, South Carolina’s Te-Hina Paopao & Sania Feagin, and TCU’s Hailey Van Lith & Sedona Prince. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – In women’s March Madness Sweet 16 action ...

NBA injuries are an unfortunate and unavoidable part of every season. As the playoffs near, injuries to stars and key players are impacting the playoff race in the Eastern and Western conferences. Some players are out for the season, some are day-to-day, some are hoping to return before the season ends. How do those players and teams deal with injuries? ...