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    Men's NCAA Tournament past champions 2023 UConn (31-8) 2022 Kansas (34-6) 2021 Baylor (28-2) 2020 Canceled due to COVID-19 2019 Virginia (35-3) 2018 Villanova (36-4) 2017 North Carolina (33-7) 2016

  • Prep sports roundup: Birmingham gets past El Camino Real in West Valley League play

    Birmingham baseball coach Matt Mowry doesn't care about West Valley League championships. His focus is on City titles, having won five. His teams have never won a league title. That may change this season after the Patriots improved to 2-0 in league play Friday with a 6-5 victory over El Camino Real. Earlier, the Patriots knocked off defending league champion Granada Hills. Pitcher Mike Figueroa made a huge difference in both games. He threw 4 1/3 innings on Friday, allowing two earned runs....

  • The role of the Sports Ministry in Nigerian Sports, by Segun Odegbami

    The Amputee football national team has been in camp preparing for the Amputee Football African Cup of Nations, taking place in Cairo Egypt from 19 to 28th of April, 2024

  • Letters to Sports: Gambling scandal more evidence of bigger sports problem

    While the alleged theft of Shohei Ohtani's funds by his assistant is deplorable if true, it should not come as any great surprise that a scandal involving illegal betting and the MLB has emerged. Given the all-too-cozy relationship between MLB and enterprises such as Draft Kings, and the inescapable proliferation of odds posting and online betting advertisement, not to mention the approval of the Oakland Athletics move to Las Vegas, one can infer that MLB has not grown any wiser since the 1919...

  • ‘Sport is never just sport’: Olympics exhibition in Paris reflects 20th century’s highs and lows

    Les Jeux Olympiques: Miroir des Sociétés opens ahead of Paris Olympics and puts previous games in context of conflicts and injusticesFrom the Nazi stadium propaganda in 1936 Berlin to the 1968 Mexico City podium protest of medal-winners Tommie Smith and John Carlos, who were expelled from the competition after raising their gloved fists in a Black Power salute against racial injustice, the Olympic Games have held a mirror up to some of the darkest moments of 20th-century history.Now, as the...

  • Mail Sport is named Sports Newspaper of the Year at the SJA awards as Charlotte Daly and Nik Simon pick up honours on momentous night

    Rugby writer Nik Simon picked up the Rugby Journalist of the Year award and Charlotte Daly triumphed in the Social Media Journalist of the Year category.

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    FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Cleveland 10½ (207½) at CHARLOTTE Brooklyn 2½ (225) at WASHINGTON at ORLANDO 6½ (216½) Golden State New York 13 (209) at TORONTO at ATLANTA 11 (214½) Portland LA Clippers 6

  • Preserving a painful past

    Madhab Chandra Bairagi and Sourav Goldar were among the more than 500 people who were brutally killed by the Pakistani Army men at Badamtala area in Batiaghata upazila of Khulna on May 19, 1971.

  • The sporting weekend in pictures

    Max Verstappen’s bid to win a record-equalling 10 consecutive races went up in smoke at the Australian Grand Prix.

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    FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Oklahoma City 15 (231) at TORONTO Boston 14 (223) at DETROIT at MINNESOTA 7½ (207) Cleveland at MIAMI 4 (209) New Orleans at SAN ANTONIO 6½ (216½) Memphis at GOLDEN STATE 5

  • Job to be done | Sports

    JAMAICA'S REGGAE Boyz go into their Concacaf Nations League semifinal

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    FAVORITE LINE O/U UNDERDOG Indiana 9 (233½) at DETROIT at CLEVELAND 2½ (202½) Miami Sacramento 10 (231½) at TORONTO at BOSTON 9 (223) Milwaukee at OKLAHOMA CITY 14½ (232½) Utah LA Clippers 11½ (215)