Researchers have found that athletes experience emotional abuse more than any other form of harm. Some athletes maintain that this kind of abuse by coaches can cause lasting, even irreparable damage.
NCAA basketball
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Cooper Flagg sends Duke into Elite Eight while Texas Tech wins an overtime thriller
The Sweet 16 weekend began Thursday night with dramatic late-night games as both men and women roll into action on Friday.
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Where is the NCAA basketball tournament game-winning buzzer-beater?
A wider disparity between major conferences and lesser-known conferences has lent itself to fewer close games in the early rounds of both the men’s and women’s NCAA tournaments.
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Christina Batastini has seen it all in women’s basketball
Christina Batastini, one of Rhode Island’s best basketball players ever, remembers the days when girls lived their hoop dreams through CYO and town recreation leagues or, if they were lucky, high school, and if really lucky, college. Those days 35 years ago were better than the Dark Ages of the first half of the 20th […]
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Would you qualify for the jury on a Trump trial? Find out in the quiz
Why is a famous elementary particle in the news? Where is Chechnya and what did it ban? Which prince is Andrew again? If you know these things, you’ll get at least a 3 out of 11.
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Women’s NCAA championship TV ratings crush the men’s competition
At its peak, 24 million basketball fans tuned in to watch the women’s championship between Iowa and South Carolina, making it the most-watched basketball game since 2019.
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The UConn men’s basketball team has won back-to-back NCAA championships
The men’s Huskies team is the first to win the NCAA basketball tournament back-to-back since the University of Florida in 2006 and 2007.
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N.C. State, March Madness’ biggest underdog, advances to the Elite Eight
On Friday night, the 11-seed Wolfpack took down the No. 2 seed Marquette Golden Eagles — marking the first time that N.C. State has advanced to the NCAA tournament’s Elite Eight since 1986.
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Police investigating racial harassment of NCAA women’s basketball team in Idaho
Police are investigating reported harassment of the University of Utah women’s basketball team while staying in Coeur D’Alene, Idaho, for the NCAA tournament in nearby Spokane, Wash.
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A 2024 March Madness vocabulary: How to sound like you know what you’re talking about
The NCAA basketball tournaments can be onslaught of unfamiliar names and terms enough to make any casual viewer nervous. We’re here to help. (Except for NET. We can’t explain NET.)
