Matt Dickey and North Carolina-Asheville injected a little customary March drama into the NCAA’s new-look tournament. Dickey led a late run that brought overtime, and J.P. Primm hit five free throws and had a decisive steal in the closing seconds Tuesday night, sending UNC Asheville to an 81-77 victory over Arkansas-Little Rock in a dramatic [...]

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell doesn’t expect labor talks to resume until after a U.S. District Court judge rules on the players’ injunction to stop the lockout. Appearing on NFL Network, Goodell said Tuesday night that there has been virtually no dialogue with the NFL Players Association since mediated negotiations collapsed last Friday. Read more

In the last few days, the NCAA’s opening acts enjoyed a key to a city, roomy charter flights, more national attention than ever and a deluge of calls and text messages that kept them awake. Complaints? Absolutely none. North Carolina-Asheville and Arkansas-Little Rock arrived Monday a little sleep-starved and taken aback by their chance to [...]

UAB has heard all the talk that it doesn’t belong in the NCAA tournament. The Blazers not only disagree, they sound as if they intend to prove the experts wrong. Asked what he thought about the roundball pundits who said UAB hadn’t earned its way into the field, point guard Aaron Johnson bristled. Read more

The Notre Dame president says the university will study a state report that says the school committed six safety violations in the October death of a 20-year-old student. Declan Sullivan was killed when the hydraulic lift he was on toppled over in high winds while he was filming football practice. The Indiana Department of Labor [...]