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Mar 19, 2020

2020 (Simulated) March Madness Predictions

FiveThirtyEight 2020 (Simulated) March Madness Predictions

Mar 19, 2020

Your Guide To The NCAA Men’s Tournament That Could Have Been

Even a historically unhinged college basketball season — during which four teams played hot potato with the No. 1 overall ranking in the opening five weeks, and 14 different top-5 teams lost to unranked opponents — deserves a finale. And although the coronavirus has robbed many college athletes of their championship endeavors and, less importantly, […]

Mar 17, 2020

The Men’s NCAA Teams That Might Have Given Us March Magic

For any school that dares to try to break into the upper echelon of men’s college basketball, the programs at the top often serve as a firewall. For years, Leonard Hamilton and football-crazed Florida State brushed up against the door to the top tier of the ACC but couldn’t break through and win the regular-season […]

Mar 16, 2020

The Coronavirus’s Economic Effect On Sports Could Be Staggering

The coronavirus pandemic has begun to shake institutions in the United States to their cores, and perhaps the sports world most of all. Although several organizations initially planned to play games in front of empty arenas, by last Thursday nearly every major league in the U.S. had paused its season indefinitely. (Or, in the case […]

Mar 11, 2020

How Sports Leagues Are Reacting To Coronavirus

The novel coronavirus has killed thousands of people around the world and sickened more than 100,000. To stop the spread, presidential candidates have canceled rallies and colleges have sent students home. But other large gatherings of people are still being held every day — and one of the most common reasons we have to all […]