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1 month ago

South Carolina State takes on Winthrop after Reed’s 22-point showing

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! South Carolina State Bulldogs at Winthrop Eagles Rock Hill, South Carolina; Wednesday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: South Carolina State visits Winthrop after Shaunice Reed scored 22 points in South Carolina State’s 70-65 loss to the William & Mary Tribe. Winthrop scores 67.2 points per …

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1 month ago

South Carolina State faces Winthrop following Reed’s 22-point game

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! South Carolina State Bulldogs at Winthrop Eagles Rock Hill, South Carolina; Wednesday, 6 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: South Carolina State faces Winthrop after Shaunice Reed scored 22 points in South Carolina State’s 70-65 loss to the William & Mary Tribe. South Carolina State is 0-7 …

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1 month, 1 week ago

Winthrop Eagles face the Air Force Falcons

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Air Force Falcons vs. Winthrop Eagles Guaynabo, Puerto Rico; Saturday, 4:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Air Force and Winthrop square off at Mario Morales Coliseum in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico. Winthrop’s average of 5.6 made 3-pointers per game this season is only 0.6 more made shots …

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American takes on Winthrop

Associated Press

The AP Top 25 women’s college basketball poll is back every week throughout the season! Winthrop Eagles vs. American Eagles Bayamon, Puerto Rico; Friday, 6:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: American takes on Winthrop in Bayamon, Puerto Rico. American scores 55.5 points per game, 1.8 fewer points than the 57.3 Winthrop gives up. Winthrop averages 5.6 made 3-pointers per game this …

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2 months ago

Louisville men’s basketball coach Pat Kelsey has a vision to turn the Cards (back) into contenders

New York Times

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — It looked perfect, like a stolen dream … except for that damn wall of windows. “I’d always wanted to do it, but I’m like, hey, I’m a Division-I coach,” Kelsey said, rolling up his left sleeve to reveal the final product. “I’m going into my fourth year with him,” said Reyne Smith, another Charleston import, “and I’ve …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Nearly 500,000 WA homes have at least one spare bedroom amid major housing crisis

ABC

Australia doesn't have enough houses. "Potential sellers say, well, if you can find me a nice three bed, two bath on a smaller block, I'd be more than happy to sell this property," Mr Papineau said. Curtin University property professor Steven Rowley said while changing rules around subdividing blocks and encouraging house-sharing could help, it wouldn't solve everything. "The challenge …

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9 months, 3 weeks ago

NCAA Tournament West Region analysis: Can North Carolina find redemption or will a dark horse prevail?

New York Times

Follow live coverage of South Carolina, NC State and Iowa, UConn in women’s Final Four today The West Regional of the NCAA Tournament has a resurrected No. Record: 26-7 Coach: Randy Bennett Player to watch: Augustas Marčiulionis WEST WCC 5 6 Clemson WEST 21-11 Profile Strengths: Like Brad Brownell’s best team at Clemson — the 2017-18 squad that reached the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

A teen bowler, a shipbuilder and a sign language interpreter are among the Maine shooting victims

Associated Press

The 18 people killed in two mass shootings in Lewiston, Maine, included a 14-year-old bowler, a shipbuilder who loved playing the game of cornhole and a sign language interpreter. “He has a Randy ‘Macho Man’ Savage Slim Jim jacket that he wore,” Brewer said, an apparel choice that originated with a flamboyant professional wrestler. Asked Thursday if he’d consider it …

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2 years, 11 months ago

Climate change makes the future of Nordic skiing uncertain

Associated Press

WINTHROP, Wash. — For the first time in 32 years, organizers of the Rendezvous Cross Country Ski Festival in West Yellowstone, Montana, had to cancel November’s traditional start-of-the-ski-season event due to a lack of snow. “What COVID did was push people outside,” said Reese Brown, executive director of the Vermont-based Cross Country Ski Areas Association. “It brought a huge number …

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3 years, 8 months ago

From Tim Miles at San Jose State to Jordan Mincy at Jacksonville: Tiers of mid-major coaching hires for 2021

New York Times

We’re reviewing the offseason coaching hires today at The Athletic, but we are loathe to hand out grades. The Rams still landed Neptune, who spent the last eight seasons on Jay Wright’s staff at Villanova, helping the Wildcats win two national titles. Tier 3 Tony Barbee, Central Michigan: One of the most trusted members of John Calipari’s inner circle — …

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3 years, 9 months ago

2021 NCAA Tournament picks: Seth Davis makes his predictions for Friday’s first-round games

New York Times

Thursday night’s First Four will be the appetizer, but the main course shall be served at noon on Friday. Liberty also has a diminutive dynamo in 5-9 junior guard Darius McGhee, the Atlantic Sun’s player of the year who ranked third in the league in scoring and 3-point percentage. That’s also a great way to describe Houston, which has a …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Will Winthrop, Colgate need change of pace for postseason?

Associated Press

Winthrop coach Pat Kelsey says he learned his philosophy of basketball while playing for the late Skip Prosser at Xavier in the 1990s. Winthrop and Colgate, which ranks second nationally in scoring, are two of the more exciting NCAA Tournament teams from one-bid leagues because they play fast. Although Colgate ranks fifth among all NCAA Tournament teams in adjusted tempo, …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Favorite 12 vs. 5 upset? Who is Cinderella? Who is going home early? Our experts predict the 2021 NCAA Tournament

New York Times

Immediately after the reveal of the 2021 men’s NCAA Tournament bracket, we asked 15 of our experts for their picks on who would make the Final Four and win the national championship. Pat Kelsey’s crew goes crazy deep and plays crazy fast, and unusual systems generally produce the best chance for upsets.” — Brian Hamilton “Winthrop over Villanova. But let’s …

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3 years, 9 months ago

Winthrop, Syracuse and VCU all have March Madness upset potential because of this metric

New York Times

Let’s cut to the chase: in this data-soaked world of ours, can there really be a simple metric that hones in on huge upsets, yet remains almost entirely unknown? Since the advent of player tracking, however, it’s become possible to record directly how long teams hold the ball – to look at average possession length in seconds. Fast breaks and …

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3 years, 9 months ago

March Madness: Breaking down the NCAA tournament regionals

LA Times

The NCAA men’s basketball tournament is back after a one-year hiatus caused by the global pandemic. Here’s a breakdown of every regional: WEST REGIONAL Gonzaga guard Jalen Suggs holds his tournament MVP award after Gonzaga defeated BYU in the West Coast Conference tournament final Tuesday. 2 OHIO STATE: The Buckeyes, aiming for their first Final Four appearance since 2012, lost …

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4 years, 3 months ago

The opioid crisis — and now the pandemic — show how Americans don't believe in the social contract

Salon

In the Beforetimes, I travelled from where I live in Ohio to Vancouver, British Columbia, to report on how some Canadians were addressing the overdose crisis through effective community-centered harm reduction programs. I spoke with workers at Insite, North America's first safe injection site, where people who use drugs can inject in a safe, secure environment without risk of overdose. …

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4 years, 6 months ago

As schools ponder cutting sports, tennis proves vulnerable

Associated Press

The promise of college tennis lured Abhimanyu Vannemreddy from his home in India to the United States, where he settled in at Winthrop in South Carolina. Winthrop announced last month that both its men’s and women’s tennis programs will be dropped because of budget woes resulting from the coronavirus pandemic. East Carolina, Northern Colorado, Southern Utah and Wright State have …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Books of the week: From Perumal Murugan's Rising Heat to John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened, our picks

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Our weekly roundup of books that should be on your radar. For more of our weekly book recommendations, *** – FICTION Rising Heat By Perumal Murugan; translated by Janani Kannan Penguin Random House India | Rs 399 | 320 pages Critically acclaimed Tamil author Perumal Murugan’s debut novel has been translated into English for the first time, by Janani Kannan. …

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4 years, 6 months ago

Winthrop eliminates men’s, women’s tennis due to virus

Associated Press

ROCK HILL, S.C. — Winthrop is ending its men’s and women’s tennis programs due to a financial shortfall caused because of the coronavirus pandemic. Women’s tennis had won 21 Big South Conference championships, including the last four from 2016-19. The school said lost revenue from due to COVID-19 plus necessary and substantial upkeep to the Winthrop tennis facility contributed to …

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4 years, 10 months ago

This Week in Mid-Major: Predicting conference tourneys, and our All-America team

New York Times

We previewed the first batch of mid-major conference tournaments last Monday, and we correctly called four of the first five automatic bid winners. TWMM pick: Northern Colorado Spoiler: Portland State Big West The bracket Title game: 11:30 p.m. Saturday in Anaheim, Calif., ESPN2 The skinny: UC Irvine repeated as regular-season champs by a full three games. TWMM pick: Louisiana Tech …

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4 years, 10 months ago

This Week in Mid-Major: Bids, anyone? It’s conference tournament time

New York Times

March is here, and so is the first batch of conference tournament madness. TWMM pick: Liberty Spoiler: Lipscomb Big South The bracket Title game: Sunday at highest remaining seed The skinny: Radford and Winthrop tied for the regular-season crown, but Radford won the tiebreaker for the No. TWMM pick: Belmont Spoiler: Eastern Illinois Northeast The bracket Title game: March 10 …

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5 years, 2 months ago

For Kamala Harris’ presidential hopes, Iowa is do or die

LA Times

In better times, Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign was full of flash: a launch rally that drew more than 20,000 people to Oakland, a five-day summer tour of Iowa on a luxury bus with her name blazing from the side in colorful capital letters, a robust multi-state operation headquartered in Baltimore. “The obvious risk is you’re not speaking to large crowds,” …

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5 years, 2 months ago

The eclipse chaser of 1780

The Hindu

Witnessing eclipses, be it solar or lunar, is rather easy these days. It was under this climate that the Americans sent their first expedition to observe a total solar eclipse that took place on October 27, 1780. In 1780, Williams not only became one of the founding members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, but also succeeded Winthrop …

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5 years, 10 months ago

Many Americans want a new national story: How about this one?

Salon

The 18 Yale students who crowded into a seminar room one September morning in 1999 for a course entitled “New Conceptions of American National Identity” didn’t know what they were in for. One thing I thought I knew on that first day of that 1999 class was that “The New Colossus,” a grand civic poem that Emma Lazarus wrote in …

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South Carolina State takes on Winthrop after Reed’s 22-point showing

South Carolina State faces Winthrop following Reed’s 22-point game

Winthrop Eagles face the Air Force Falcons

American takes on Winthrop

Louisville men’s basketball coach Pat Kelsey has a vision to turn the Cards (back) into contenders

Nearly 500,000 WA homes have at least one spare bedroom amid major housing crisis

NCAA Tournament West Region analysis: Can North Carolina find redemption or will a dark horse prevail?

A teen bowler, a shipbuilder and a sign language interpreter are among the Maine shooting victims

Climate change makes the future of Nordic skiing uncertain

From Tim Miles at San Jose State to Jordan Mincy at Jacksonville: Tiers of mid-major coaching hires for 2021

2021 NCAA Tournament picks: Seth Davis makes his predictions for Friday’s first-round games

Will Winthrop, Colgate need change of pace for postseason?

Favorite 12 vs. 5 upset? Who is Cinderella? Who is going home early? Our experts predict the 2021 NCAA Tournament

Winthrop, Syracuse and VCU all have March Madness upset potential because of this metric

March Madness: Breaking down the NCAA tournament regionals

The opioid crisis — and now the pandemic — show how Americans don't believe in the social contract

As schools ponder cutting sports, tennis proves vulnerable

Books of the week: From Perumal Murugan's Rising Heat to John Bolton’s The Room Where It Happened, our picks

Winthrop eliminates men’s, women’s tennis due to virus

This Week in Mid-Major: Predicting conference tourneys, and our All-America team

This Week in Mid-Major: Bids, anyone? It’s conference tournament time

For Kamala Harris’ presidential hopes, Iowa is do or die

The eclipse chaser of 1780

Many Americans want a new national story: How about this one?