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There was only one problem with Sunday’s Kentucky- Wichita State thriller: It happened about seven days too early. Thanks to the NCAA tournament selection committee’s criminal decision to award a No. 10 seed to a 31-4 Shockers team that was viewed as one of the best in the country, a game that could have been played in the Final Four and should only have been played in a regional final or, at worst,…

Take your jaw off the floor. We’ll wait. The mighty Duke Blue Devils, one week ago crowned ACC tournament champions and discussed as a probable No. 1 seed, were handed a a stunning loss on Sunday night to the feel-good South Carolina Gamecocks, a team that hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game since 1973 and had never seen the Sweet 16. The ACC blue blood losing to the SEC also-ran was…

CBS Sports and Turner Sports announced tip times and commentator teams for the Regional Semifinals of the 2017 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship on Thursday, March 23, and Friday, March 24 (7 p.m.-midnight ET, both days), with all remaining games available in their entirety across TBS and CBS, in addition to NCAA March Madness Live.  Exclusive live coverage will begin on TBS both days with Infiniti NCAA Tip-Off at 6 p.m. and…

Download the CBS Sports App today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus get the latest picks and upsets from SportsLine! Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds In the thrall of this moment, we’ll start with a thought on the tournament. This tournament, this annual event. The tournament. It gives us great things every year, things we’ve never seen before but have come to expect that make the sports experience worthwhile. So now…

For decades Northwestern alumni took pride in things like high SAT entry scores, “Saturday Night Live” cast members, two campus beaches, Otto Graham and their “Purple Mafia” media contingent. Then came the 1995 Rose Bowl season. Gary Barnett took the Purple to Pasadena. Northwestern football would no longer be known for losing Ara Parseghian to Notre Dame or a 34-game losing streak that ended with a “laking” of the goal…

March Madness has nothing on NASCAR when it comes to stunning upsets — at least not on Sunday at Phoenix Raceway. Ryan Newman scored a shocking surprise win in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series Camping World 500 Sunday, gambling to stay out on old tires at the end and earning a huge payoff. It was Newman’s 18th Cup win overall and his second at Phoenix, but his first since…

Media playback is not supported on this device Key stats from a ComRes/BBC doping in amateur sport poll Drug use at every level of sport is “fast becoming a crisis” according to UK Anti-Doping – responding to a BBC poll into doping in amateur sport. It found more than a third (35%) of amateur sports people say they personally know someone who has doped, and 8% said they had taken…

Download the CBS Sports App today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus get the latest picks and upsets from SportsLine! Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds In the thrall of this moment, we’ll start with a thought on the tournament. This tournament, this annual event. The tournament. It gives us great things every year, things we’ve never seen before but have come to expect that make the sports experience worthwhile. So now…

Winter officially ends tomorrow — not soon enough for our Contributor Jim Gaffigan:  Winter is still here. Can you believe it? Like death, taxes and kale, it may never go away. ‘Tis the season for misery masquerading as fun, according to the comedian and “Sunday Morning” contributor. This week the Northeast was hit with a Nor’easter, which is like Easter but instead of eggs and candy, you get snow and…

Andy Page is an instructional assistant at Sunnyslope High School and is the winter sports finalist for the Unsung Hero Award of the azcentral.com Sports Awards.(Photo: Tom Tingle/azcentral sports) As a Phoenix Sunnyslope student, Andrew “Andy” Page competed in varsity basketball and baseball. He also ran cross country and played on the golf team. But when he wasn’t competing in sports, he was the senior class student body president, and he was in a…

There are two separate bills making their way through the Alabama legislature that explain why there is so much tension in how high school sports are organized, and how legislators are trying to help solve, and continue to create, these problems. In mid-March, the Alabama House Education Policy held a hearing on House Bill 9,  which says, in total: Relating to the Alabama High School Athletic Association; requiring the Alabama…

AUTO RACING 3:30 p.m.: WFXR, NASCAR Monster Energy Series, Camping World 500, at Avondale, Ariz. (prerace show at 3 p.m.) BASEBALL 6 p.m.: MLB Network, World Baseball Classic, second round, tiebreaker game (if necessary), at San Diego COLLEGE BASEBALL 1 p.m.: ESPN3.com/ACC Network Extra, Florida State at Virginia Tech 1 p.m.: ESPN3.com/ACC Network Extra, Virginia at Clemson 1 p.m.: SEC Network, Missouri at Alabama 2 p.m.: ESPNU, South Carolina at…

It only took a minute of the third quarter Saturday afternoon before the Connecticut Huskies’ women’s basketball team had doubled up Albany in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Gampel Pavilion. The score by then was 65-32. It would end 116-55. The only surprise, as always, was that the margin wasn’t bigger. It was the Huskies’ 108th win in a row. Think about that: 108 wins. In a…

It only took a minute of the third quarter Saturday afternoon before the Connecticut Huskies’ women’s basketball team had doubled up Albany in the first round of the NCAA Tournament at Gampel Pavilion. The score by then was 65-32. It would end 116-55. The only surprise, as always, was that the margin wasn’t bigger. It was the Huskies’ 108th win in a row. Think about that: 108 wins. In a…

Download the CBS Sports App today and get instant tournament news and alerts, plus get the latest picks and upsets from SportsLine! Bracket Central Expert Picks Latest odds With the first round in the rearview mirror, a monster set of matchups are on tap for the weekend. The 16 games on the schedule are filled with bluebloods and highly anticipated second-round throwdowns.  Below are the tip times, TV schedule and live stream links…

AUTO RACING Noon: Fox Sports 2, NASCAR Monster Energy Series, Camping World 500, practice, at Avondale, Ariz. 12:30 p.m.: Fox Sports 1, IMSA Weathertech Sportscar Championship, 12 Hours of Sebring, at Sebring, Fla. 1 p.m.: Fox Sports 2, NASCAR Xfinity Series, DC Solar 200, qualifying, at Avondale, Ariz. 2:30 p.m.: Fox Sports 2, NASCAR Monster Energy Series, Camping World 500, final practice, at Avondale, Ariz. 4 p.m.: WFXR, NASCAR Xfinity…

Media playback is not supported on this device Six Nations 2017: Ireland 13-9 England highlights Ireland wrecked England’s Grand Slam dream and ended their world record run of victories with a dramatic win at a rejoicing Aviva Stadium. The home side overwhelmed the Six Nations champions with their intensity and physicality, just as they had in Slam deciders here in 2011 and 2001. In the process they also halted England’s…

Media playback is not supported on this device Wenger will reveal decision on his future ‘very soon’ Arsene Wenger will announce “very soon” whether he will remain at Arsenal after reaching a decision on his future. The Gunners boss was speaking after a 3-1 Premier League loss at West Brom, a fourth league defeat in five matches. The loss increased the pressure on the beleaguered Frenchman and left Arsenal facing…

Matt Ritchie’s first-half goal was disallowed by referee Simon Hooper Newcastle moved a point clear at the Championship summit despite being held to a goalless draw at Birmingham City. Matt Ritchie nearly opened the scoring in the first half when he beat Blues keeper Tomasz Kuszczak, but Ryan Shotton got back to clear. Ritchie had a goal ruled out for offside and Kuszczak saved from Dwight Gayle’s header as Newcastle…