The state’s sports books won a record $41.275 million on basketball in March, a hold of 9.61 percent from a record handle of $429.5 million.
NCAA Tournament
The father of UCLA star Lonzo Ball says the Bruins lost in the NCAA Tournament because “three white guys” couldn’t pick up the slack after his son injured his hamstring.
The Tar Heels have a sixth national championship and are deserving in the sense they proved to be the better of two teams hardly at their best and yet never permitted to be Monday night.
North Carolina found a way to redemption after a heart-breaking loss in the NCAA championship game a year ago.
It wasn’t a great night for North Carolina. It just happened to be a slightly worse one for Gonzaga.
Steve Carp on Monday was enshrined into the United States Basketball Writers Association Hall of Fame in a ceremony hours before the national championship between North Carolina and Gonzaga.
The odds on Tiger Woods winning a major this season are still at 25-1 at the Westgate but the odds are against the 41-year-old ever winning another PGA Tour event.
The stage is set. The two teams have been decided. It’s crunch time.
North Carolina was a consensus 1-point favorite over Gonzaga in the NCAA championship Monday afternoon after opening as a 2-point favorite Saturday night.
North Carolina is a 1½-point favorite over Gonzaga and the total is 154½ in Monday’s NCAA championship game. Here’s a survey of opinions from Review-Journal staff members, other media, oddsmakers and professional handicappers.
Dawn Staley is going to savor her first NCAA championship. It took her a long time to finally be able to raise the trophy over her head.
A look at Monday’s NCAA men’s national championship basketball game.
The opening chapter of how the Rebels went from a team under Lon Kruger that made four NCAA fields his last five years to one that just concluded the worst season in program history begins in 2011, when Nigel Williams-Goss was a sophomore at Findlay Prep.
Sunset Station sports book director Chuck Esposito expects 1½-point underdog Gonzaga to beat North Carolina and so do we.
A year ago, Kennedy Meeks missed winning an NCAA title as Villanova beat North Carolina on a last-second shot. Monday, he gets a second and final chance for a ring as a senior as the Tar Heels face Gonzaga in the national championship game.
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