basketball

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The biggest player on the giant national champion Michigan basketball team Monday night looked familiar, yet strange.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

Much of the focus on TV revenue and NIL spending are confined to men’s basketball and football, the two biggest revenue drivers for most Division I schools’ athletic programs.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 7, 2026

In the end, it didn’t matter that most of Michigan’s roster had spent only seven months in a Wolverines uniform—or that the Big Ten somehow hadn’t won a national title in men’s basketball since 2000.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 7, 2026

There were no tennis, artistic gymnastics or men’s basketball tickets available.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 7, 2026

She’s the type to sweetly agree to a toddler’s request to play them in basketball, only to then cross them up and dunk on them.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer