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March sadness: NCAA opts not to release projected bracket after tournament was canceled

For all those who dreamed the impossible – making it a whole month without getting a single game wrong in the bracket – this is your year. Everything else about the NCAA Tournamen...

DATE: Mar 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

Rick Pitino returns to college basketball, becomes next Iona head coach

At labyrinthine Webster Hall nightclub in the East Village of New York in late December 1995, back when nightclubs were nightclubs and dating apps were nonexistent, a small batch of Kentucky...

DATE: Mar 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: College Sports

UFC’s Dana White vows that fights will go on ‘unless there’s a total shutdown of the country’

Virtually every other professional sports organization has suspended events because of the coronavirus outbreak, but UFC President Dana White vowed Saturday that the mixed martial arts fight...

DATE: Mar 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

NFL players approve new labor deal, season will increase to 17 games in 2021

Controversial deal narrowly passes

DATE: Mar 15, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Polis closes ski areas in Colorado amid coronavirus outbreak

Telluride, Purgatory announce closures; Vail, Alterra close 49 resorts

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Utah Jazz’s Rudy Gobert pledges to donate $500,000 with virus relief efforts

Gobert was first NBA player to test positive for coronavirus

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Durango High School basketball gets three to Southwestern League teams

Jordan Woolverton, Mason Rowland make first team

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: High School Sports

College athletes adjust to life without competition

OMAHA, Neb. – Creighton right-hander Ben Dotzler was supposed to be in the bullpen at TD Ameritrade Park this weekend, readying himself to pitch against Northern Colorado. Molly L...

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports

Maximilian Schachman wins Paris-Nice race amid outbreak

VALDEBLORE-LA COLMIANE, France – German cyclist Maximilian Schachmann won the Paris-Nice race on Saturday in a rare case of a sporting event still going ahead amid the coronavirus pandemic. ...

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Professional Sports

Wuhan soccer team leaving Spain to escape virus

MADRID – The Chinese soccer team that was originally stuck in Spain because of the coronavirus outbreak is going back home to try to avoid its rapid spread in Europe. Wuhan Zall w...

DATE: Mar 14, 2020 | CATEGORY: Sports