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NBA Trade Rumors: LA Clippers’ Lou Williams might be off to the Philadelphia 76ers According to multiple NBA trade rumors, the Philadelphia 76ers are interested in making a move for Lou Williams this off-season. The 76ers had a disappointing end to their NBA campaign, losing 4-0 to fierce rivals Boston Celtics in the first round of the playoffs. The Philadelphia-based franchise is expected to make major changes before the 2020-21 season starts....

The Athletic’s Marcus Thompson reports McGee could be moved ahead of the Feb. 8 trade deadline, as the Warriors and Bucks have already had conversations about McGee and Zaza Pachulia. Golden State still holds Pachulia in high regard for his defense and toughness inside, but rookie Jordan Bell essentially checks all the same boxes as McGee, making the soon-to-be 30-year-old expendable — and that’s without mentioning young backup centers like Kevon Looney and Damian Jones, plus the flexibility Steve Kerr has to make variations of the old “Death Lineup” with Draymond Green or Kevin Durant at center....

The two teams last played in the 2010 Champ Sports Bowl with the Wolfpack winning, 23-7. Prior to that meeting, the last time they played was 1979. The Sept. 15, 2018, matchup at Carter-Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina, will be the 11th matchup between the two. The game at West Virginia will be held Sept. 14, 2019. MORE: Best future non-conference matchups | Ranking non-con schedules for 2014...

The organization filed a motion Friday asking the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to stay an injunction handed down last August by Judge Claudia Wilken. As part of the antitrust lawsuit brought against the NCAA by former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon, Wilken ruled the governing body’s long-standing regulations limiting athlete compensation to tuition, room and board and books constituted an unreasonable restraint of trade. MORE: Best Tar Heels | Greatest Kentucky players | NCAA tweaks selection process...

On Thursday, Stanford basketball coach Ali Kershner posted a series of shocking photos comparing the women’s and men’s weight rooms at the NCAA Tournament. While the men’s weight room featured every piece of equipment imaginable, the women’s weight room—if it can even be called that—consisted of merely six pairs of dumbbells and a stack of yoga mats. After Kershner’s post went viral, amassing over 80k likes and thousands of supportive comments in less than 24 hours, Lynn Holzman, the NCAA Vice President of Women’s Basketball, responded to the controversy on Twitter....

There’s the fact UNC is always good. That’s hateable in any sport, in any season. The Tar Heels have six national championships and have reached the Final Four on four occasions since 2008. They won the Atlantic Coast Conference six times in that period. That’s too much excellence for any one program, like the New England Patriots or Real Madrid. There are the uniforms. “If God isn’t a Tar Heel, why did he make the sky Carolina blue?...

Maria Elena Perez could face probation, a public reprimand, suspension or even disbarment. The complaint, released Monday, only asks Florida's Supreme Court that she be "appropriately sanctioned." Perez, a Miami graduate, declined comment when reached by The Associated Press. The Bar has been investigating for at least a year to see if, among other things, she acted unethically in taking money from the NCAA. Perez represented Nevin Shapiro, the convicted Ponzi scheme architect and former Hurricanes booster who was at the center of the NCAA probe....

Not a first day you can schedule a game, but an Opening Night like with “Star Wars” or “Hamilton” or even Major League Baseball. NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET PROJECTION: Villanova lands No. 1-overall seed Wednesday, the NCAA approved a plan for Division I basketball seasons to begin on the Tuesday preceding the second Friday of November, and ESPN immediately announced it would stage the annual Champions Classic – the doubleheader matching Duke, Kansas, Kentucky and Michigan State – on that date....

The families of team members in the College Football Playoff championship game, which will be contested Monday between Ohio State and Oregon at AT&T Stadium in Irving, Tex., will be allowed to receive travel expenses to the game from the CFP operators under a ruling from the NCAA. It’s associated with a program in which members of teams participating in the men’s and women’s Final Fours will be permitted to receive as much as $3,000 (for semifinal losers) and $4,000 (for title-game participants) in travel, hotel and meal expenses from the NCAA....

Previously, the policy allowed transgender women to compete on women’s college sports teams as long as they showed they had received testosterone-suppressing medication for at least a year before. Now, according to an NCAA statement, the decision will be left to each sport’s national governing body. If there is no governing body, it will fall to the sport’s international federation policy. If there is none, the athletes will follow the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) criteria....

The decision left many in the sports world, including long-time ESPN analyst Dick Vitale, to call for the NCAA to grant those seniors an extra year of eligibility. Dickie V’s dome might have been on the right track. On Friday afternoon, the Division I Council Coordination Committee declared that “eligibility relief is appropriate for spring sports.” MORE: Dayton’s ‘magical’ season ends as NCAA Tournament’s biggest ‘what if’ Many were excited about the news, but it still raises a lot of questions....

Someone had to ask, right? So I asked. When was the last time he thought about last year's NCAA Tournament experience, when his Lobos were upset by 14-seeded Harvard? Does he ever think about it? MORE: NCAA Tournament scoreboard | Biggest first-round upsets Williams, who was sitting next to fellow senior Cameron Bairstow, grinned. "Two seconds ago. We just talked about it before we came up here. We figured someone was going to ask us, and we're glad you did....

But we're not going to do that. Why? Because lets be honest, it's a play-in game. Cal Poly and Texas Southern finished the season with a combined record of 32-33. Wichita State won more games than both these teams combined. Would you like to know why these two teams are playing in the play-in game? Would you like to know why these two teams combined for a sub .500 record this season?...

We didn’t want it to, not with Kentucky and Wichita State playing at a level we hadn’t seen yet in this tournament, and might not again. The passion of the players was riveting. We were transfixed. As the clock wound down, we dreaded the end of regulation, begged for an overtime or two. But that’s not the way these things work. MORE: Interactive bracket | Complete schedule, results All good things must come to an end....

And they’ve got a problem. MORE: Incredible photos from Saturday’s games | Willie Cauley-Stein’s rim-rattling dunk | Boeheim’s teenage daughter heckled It is a problem that No. 8 seed Cincinnati was tough enough to exacerbate and game enough – but not quite good enough — to exploit. It is a problem that could be as significant an obstacle to UK’s ninth NCAA championship as any of the opponents or potential opponents remaining in their path: Force the Wildcats to become a jump-shooting team, and at the moment they can’t make a jumpshot....

But if you think the committee waits until the final hour to solidify the bracket, you’re wrong, because even before the first game tipped off on Sunday, 67 of the 68 spots were locked in, according to the official March Madness Twitter account. MORE: Field of 68 | Automatic bids | Printable bracket | Realtime Brackets game The last remaining spot has yet to be filled because UConn, a team that will not receive an at-large bid, has a chance to earn the AAC’s automatic qualifier with a win over SMU on Sunday afternoon....

The public is also backing Kentucky and Duke as favorites. The only game in which the amount of money bet is higher than the ticket percentage for a different team is Little Rock-Iowa State. ALR is getting just 37 percent of the tickets, but 54 percent of the money. Saturday picks: ISU-ALR | IU-UK | KU-UConn | UNC-Prov | Wichita-Miami | Gonzaga-Utah | Duke-Yale Want to win a free entry to the world’s biggest sports betting contest?...

And it wasn’t that UMBC (that’s University of Maryland-Baltimore County) upset Virginia, it was how they pulled off the stunning win. The game was tied at halftime, and the upstart Retrievers smoked the Cavaliers — who were 31-2 on the year and had a 17-1 record in an ACC that had five teams ranked in the final AP poll and nine teams in the NCAA Tournament — in the second half, rolling to a jaw-dropping 74-54 victory....

The NGO wrote this letter in light of media reports of a tragic and unfortunate incident earlier this month when a 16-year-old shot and killed his mother in Lucknow because she restricted him from playing PUBG. In the letter, NCPCR has also requested that, within ten days of receiving this letter, the authorities provide the Commission with a list of games that minors play, along with their regulating bodies and mechanisms....

This is the penultimate match of the ICC Women’s T20 World Cup Qualifiers in Europe and things look bad for both Netherlands Women and Ireland Women. They are placed third and second respectively with four points. Not only do they need to win this match, but they will also need to keep an eye out for the France Women match. ND-W vs IR-W Probable Playing 11 Today ND-W XI...