Stephen Curry has the best-selling jersey in the NBA for the second consecutive year.
Basketball
UNLV will try to bounce back from its worst season in the basketball program’s history, and this year’s recruiting class will play a major part. The spring signing period begins Wednesday.
Steve Fisher is retiring from a basketball coaching career that includes a national championship at Michigan, directing the Fab Five and then turning San Diego State from a laughingstock into a West Coast power.
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 state’s congressmen wrote NCAA President Mark Emmert a letter asking the organization to rethink its sports betting policy and examine bringing championship events to Las Vegas.
An NCAA representative dismissed a proposal to bring the women’s Sweet 16 to Las Vegas, despite abysmal attendance at this year’s regionals.
Former UNLV basketball coach Dave Rice was named an assistant at Washington on Tuesday. Rice spent this past season as an assistant at UNR.
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.
