For a moment, it looked as if the Michigan Wolverines would get flashbacks of coming up short in the biggest stage of the NCAA tournament. The Wolverines were 1-6 in previous national championship games, with their sole win coming in 1989. That aside, it was disappointment after disappointment for Michigan and the 2026 edition of
Women’s month may have just ended, but Gilas Women’s continues to ball out on the international stage. Gilas Women’s went through the gauntlet, facing higher seeds and bigger programs in Mongolia and Japan. Their two losses in the competition came against the vaunted Australia program, whose success makes it feel as if they’re the perpetual
Victor Wembanyama may be the future of the NBA, but Nikola Jokić made it clear on Friday night that he is still very much its present. In a thrilling 136–134 overtime win over the San Antonio Spurs, Jokić delivered one of the most authoritative performances of his season for the Dener Nuggets and did so
The Oklahoma City Thunder wasted no time turning what was supposed to be a marquee matchup into a rout. Against a Los Angeles Lakers team that came in relatively healthy and playing some of its best basketball of the season, the defending champions delivered a brutal 139–96 beatdown that underscored just how far ahead of
The Los Angeles Lakers had spent the past month or so looking like a team that could contend in the Western Conference–until Luka Doncic went down. Dončić will miss at least the rest of the regular season after suffering a hamstring injury early in the second half of the Lakers’ crushing 139–96 loss to the
Tip-off between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Los Angeles Lakers was still a few hours away, and yet the Lakers still found a way to get a “win” without even breaking a sweat. By clinching an outright postseason berth, Los Angeles has avoided the Play-In Tournament and its March Madness-esque vibe of win or go
