Dick Vitale Predicts Score, Winner Ahead of Duke-UNC Historic Final Four Game Vitale believes the clock will strike midnight on the Tar Heels in New Orleans. Sports Illustrated · Apr 2, 2022
Iris on national park battlefield may mark razed Black homes Nearly 60 years ago, a historic Black community founded as a home for people emancipated after the Civil War was demolished for a national park commemorating both the Battle of New Orleans and Civil War casualties The Independent UK · Apr 2, 2022
Return of LeBron James and Anthony Davis can’t prevent Lakers meltdown vs. Pelicans LOS ANGELES — LeBron James came onto the court about an hour before tip off Friday night in all black, grabbing a ball and quickly moving into a pregame workout with assistant Phil Handy. Los Angeles Times · Apr 2, 2022
Ahead of Final Four game with UNC, Duke’s Coach K ‘frustrated’ with NCAA policies NEW ORLEANS — Mike Krzyzewski is leaving college coaching at some point in the next few days, but Duke’s Hall of Fame coach has plenty of opinions about where the sport — the industry that’s been his life’s work — is heading. Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2022
'I do believe that the end is soon': Bill Self says of Kansas' NCAA case NEW ORLEANS — Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self expects a resolution involving the NCAA's infractions case against his program sometime in the near future. Tribune News Service · Apr 2, 2022
‘If you’re coming back, I’m coming back’: Inside the night that put Villanova on track for another Final Four NEW ORLEANS — The Villanova athletic department created sharp graphics last April for Jermaine Samuels and Collin Gillespie to blast on social media when they each announced they would be returning for a fifth-season. The Philadelphia Inquirer · Apr 1, 2022
How UNC matches up against Duke ahead of Final Four game in New Orleans NEW ORLEANS —North Carolina coach Hubert Davis' vision was there even when it seemed perhaps absurd to believe the Tar Heels would reach the Final Four. The first-year coach took a well-used motivational tactic a step further before the season began. Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022
How Duke matches up against UNC ahead of Final Four meeting in New Orleans DURHAM, N.C. — The newness of Duke and North Carolina meeting in the Final Four matches how each team is playing on the court these days. Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022
Hubert Davis and the ultimate call-up, from UNC's JV coach to leading Heels to Final Four NEW ORLEANS — Hubert Davis has a smile that comes easily, the kind that's contagious, and in moments here on Thursday it was difficult for him to hide it. Perhaps he didn't want to. North Carolina is in the Final Four in his first year as Roy Williams' successor, and… Tribune News Service · Apr 1, 2022
LeBron James jokes on April 1: I’m out for the season officially LeBron James: I'm out for the season officially. 臘♂️. See y'all in the fall. ✌ Source: Twitter @KingJames What's the buzz on Twitter? Kurt Helin @ basketballtalk LeBron James (on April Fool's Day): 'I'm out for the season officially' ... USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 1, 2022
Saints re-sign backup offensive lineman Forrest Lamp New Orleans Saints re-sign backup offensive lineman Forrest Lamp, via @DillySanders: USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 1, 2022
Christian Watson has the makings of an ideal Saints WR draft target North Dakota State prospect Christian Watson has the tools to be an ideal wide receiver fit for the Saints in the 2022 NFL draft, via @RossJacksonNOLA: USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 1, 2022
The Biggest Question for Each Team Heading Into the Men’s Final Four What could prove to be their downfall?The Final Four is just two days away! With four of the sport’s biggest brands convening in New Orleans and story lines galore around these outstanding matchups, it’s hard to wait until Saturday evening. Here are four big questions heading into those two games… Sports Illustrated · Apr 1, 2022
Duke, UNC arrive in New Orleans and Final Four party begins ahead of historic meeting NEW ORLEANS — It was a mostly quiet and gray Wednesday afternoon along Bourbon Street, the calm before the storm. No crowds packing the street between the sidewalks, at least not yet. No lines to get into the music joints or the bars, and plenty of room in the places… Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022
Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022 Luke DeCock: Duke and UNC took different paths to Final Four, but they were both missing same thing NEW ORLEANS — There was never anything inevitable about the collision course that Duke and North Carolina find themselves on, not this season at least. Historically, certainly the odds were that two programs of such longstanding and explosive success would cross paths at some point. If not now, someday.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 31, 2022 Report: Manu Ginóbili, Swin Cash Headline 2022 Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees The class of 2022 will be announced at the men's Final Four in New Orleans on April 2.
Sports Illustrated · Mar 31, 2022 Armando Bacot Talks Motivation for Tar Heels Ahead of Final Four Ahead of Saturday’s highly-anticipated matchup with Duke, Bacot revealed what’s been fueling his team’s surprise run to New Orleans.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 31, 2022 Tyrann Mathieu says ‘it would be great’ to represent his state and city with Saints Tyrann Mathieu says 'it would be great' to represent his state and city with the New Orleans Saints in WAFB interview, via @DillySanders:
Benzinga · Mar 31, 2022 NCAA Final Four In New Orleans: An Insider's Guide To Dining, Partying And More When the announcement went out that New Orleans was the site of the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament's Final Four April 1-3, cheers could be heard around fandom. The city is a favorite because it not only has great food and amazing nightlife, it is walkable. That makes a difference.
USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 31, 2022 Saints could take draft-and-develop approach with new WR coaches The Saints haven't addressed WR in free agency, but they're well-equipped to draft and develop an immediate playmaker after hiring new coaches, via @RossJacksonNOLA:
Tribune News Service · Mar 31, 2022 Kansas Jayhawks arrive in New Orleans with ‘some Cajun food’ on the immediate agenda NEW ORLEANS — Kansas’ men’s basketball players and coaches filed off a charter bus — one decorated with both a Jayhawk and NCAA logo — in front of the JW Marriott in the heart of the Big Easy to the applause of hotel employees and fans Wednesday afternoon, including one…
Tribune News Service · Mar 30, 2022 Luke DeCock: Amid coaching transitions, Duke-UNC Final Four meeting could change rivalry forever The photo was taken in a back hallway of the Smith Center, out of public view, two generations of coaches standing together. Who could have imagined, when Mike Krzyzewski and Roy Williams and Hubert Davis and Jon Scheyer all posed before the first Duke-Carolina game in February, that it could…
USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 30, 2022 5 ways the Saints can try to replace Malcolm Jenkins Replacing Malcolm Jenkins is a tall task, but here are five ways the New Orleans Saints can try it, via @RossJacksonNOLA:
Sports Illustrated · Mar 30, 2022 Catching our Collective Breath Before the Final Fours ICYMI: The biggest story for each Final Four teamWith our writers traveling to the men’s and women’s Final Fours in New Orleans and Minneapolis, respectively, today’s edition of the Morning Madness newsletter is coming a bit later. And while we all get ready for a weekend full of basketball, take…
USA Today Sports Media Group · Mar 30, 2022 Malcolm Jenkins retires from football as a true NFL ironman After 13 remarkable seasons in the NFL, New Orleans Saints safety Malcolm Jenkins retires as one of the NFL's true ironmen, via @RossJacksonNOLA: