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Fans feel fever of March Madness

Paul Howard wants you to know his betting tickets are for sale. The ones with Siena and Texas A&M and Virginia Commonwealth winning the NCAA Tournament.

Top 3-year-olds look sharp

A quote that football coach Bill Parcells likes to use is, “You are what your record says you are.” In that case, the record of Southern California-based horses prepping for the Kentucky Derby shows they are a lot better than first thought.

Some intriguing themes from Hitsville NCAA

When order has been restored and all the nonmajor basketball programs are sent home from the NCAA Tournament — or, in the case of this year’s Cinderella-lacking bracket, all the below-average-to-awful Big Ten teams and Arizona — the Final Four will be staged in Detroit.

Hunters embrace mapping project

What would you think if a stranger walked into your outdoor club meeting and asked the attendees to reveal their favorite hunting and fishing spots? What if he rolled out Nevada topographical maps and handed you and your friends a highlighter?

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NCAA’s road of restriction gets longer

Exclusivity is an upsetting trend to everyone except perhaps Jim Nantz. It is everything college football has become and everything we once could count on the NCAA Tournament avoiding.

For Rebels, all that glitters is fool’s gold

UNLV has a men’s basketball team today preparing not for the NCAA Tournament but rather a first-round National Invitation Tournament matchup at Kentucky for one reason.

NCAA’s soft bubble might not save Aztecs

Craig Thompson and his Mountain West Conference brethren stand on the other side of the fence today, from seeking an objective process in football to hoping a subjective one in basketball falls in their direction.

Cash key for Derby hopefuls

March means madness in college basketball. In horse racing, it means a mad scramble among 3-year-olds on the Kentucky Derby trail.

Home court remains advantage

Gonzaga basketball coach Mark Few was asked Sunday night about what it meant for the West Coast Conference to move its postseason tournament off a participating school’s home floor to the neutral setting of the Orleans Arena.

Smith rewards Olivier’s scrutiny

Jamie Smith is the basketball player that has undoubtedly kept college coaches up late visualizing all the rebounds and instinctive plays and clutch shots they might have owned had they just looked harder at those darn highlight tapes.

Gonzaga right where it belongs this time of year

Think of good problems to have. Too much work when others are being laid off. Warming a bench in the NBA while making the league minimum. Rock star with eight groupie dates for seven nights.

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