As a 1 seed, North Carolina had the weight of high expectations entering the NCAA men’s basketball tournament. In winning their sixth national title Monday, the Tar Heels did even better than 1 seeds typically do.
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Do MLB pitchers suffer from World Baseball Classic participation?
Now playing in its fourth World Baseball Classic, Team USA has quickly established a tradition of bringing its B-list pitching staff to the international stage while the nation’s best arms choose to stay in Spring Training.
Remaining travel schedule could affect Wizards’ playoff seed
Both the Wizards and the Celtics are in a close race for the second seed in the NBA’s Eastern Conference and the deciding factor on who claims it could come down to the amount of miles each team has to travel for the remainder of the season
Mount St. Mary’s has a mountain to climb to beat Villanova
In a David versus Goliath type battle, one of the smallest schools in the tournament with the smallest player in college basketball is taking on last years champions in the first round of March Madness.
Perfect brackets almost never survive past day one of the NCAA tournament
ESPN had 13.3 million bracket entries in their annual Tournament Challenge as of Wednesday night. It’s unlikely any of those entries will survive the first round without at least one wrong prediction.
With academics as the only factor, March Madness brackets get busted
In this 2017 NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket, the winners are determined by a team’s graduation rate, not its athletic chops
Does low salary spending limit D.C. United’s success?
D.C. United has struggled to maintain their reputation as one of the MLS’ most storied franchises over the past several seasons, bringing in no hardware and only one top-four appearance since 2010.
Republican healthcare plan would hurt low-income, elderly Marylanders
Under President Donald Trump’s and House Speaker Paul Ryan’s plan, the American Health Care Act, younger people and higher-income people in Maryland would see an increase in the amount of tax credits they receive, according to an analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation.
Three unique challenges of those newly-discovered exoplanets
Don’t book your ticket to TRAPPIST-1, just yet. Here’s a look at three unique features of the newly-discovered solar system that might complicate things a bit.