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Houston, Florida play for title and put a different spin on the underdog role to wrap March Madness :: WRALSportsFan.com

By EDDIE PELLS, AP National Writer SAN ANTONIO — SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Whoever said there were no great underdog stories left in March Madness, or that the title would go to whichever team spends the most money — or amasses the gaudiest collection of big names from the transfer portal — probably never checked

Duke, NC State, UNC women’s basketball finish in top 15 of AP poll :: WRALSportsFan.com

By DOUG FEINBERG, AP Basketball Writer Duke during the Semi Finals at the 2025 Ally ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament in Greensboro, N.C. Saturday March 8th, 2025 (Photo by Jaylynn Nash/ACC) UConn capped its season at No. 1 in The Associated Press Top 25 women’s basketball pol l on Monday, one day after winning its 12th

Defensive coordinator Steve Belichick tops UNC assistants in salary :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Brian Murphy, WRAL North Carolina will pay its offensive and defensive coordinators more than $1.1 million in head coach Bill Belichick’s first season in Chapel Hill. Defensive coordinator Steve Belichick will make $1.3 million, according to a UNC System salary database, and offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens will make $1.15 million in 2025. The program’s

Girls soccer top 25: Wake Forest moves up to 10th in latest rankings

Girls Soccer HighSchoolOT’s girls soccer top 10: Hough, Ashley, Providence Day, Charlotte Catholic, Marvin Ridge, Charlotte Latin, Millbrook, Cardinal Gibbons, Western Alamance, and Wake Forest. Posted 2025-02-24T19:31:55+00:00 – Updated 2025-04-07T18:18:16+00:00 Source: highschoolot.com

Girls lacrosse top 25: Pinecrest slides up to 10th in latest rankings.

Girls Lacrosse The top 10 teams in the HighSchoolOT girls lacrosse rankings are: Cardinal Gibbons, Providence Day, Chapel Hill, East Chapel Hill, Weddington, Marvin Ridge, Holly Springs, Topsail, Apex, and Pinecrest. Posted 2025-02-24T19:15:31+00:00 – Updated 2025-04-07T18:06:35+00:00 Source: highschoolot.com

Boys lacrosse top 25: Laney joins this week’s rankings, Apex moves up to third

Boys Lacrosse The top 10 teams in the HighSchoolOT boys lacrosse rankings are: Cardinal Gibbons, Lake Norman, Apex, Durham Academy, Charlotte Country Day, Charlotte Catholic, Providence Day, Christ School, Middle Creek, and Green Level. Posted 2025-02-24T19:15:28+00:00 – Updated 2025-04-07T18:06:13+00:00 Source: highschoolot.com

Bogus report on tariff pause briefly lifted markets before White House denied it

NEW YORK (AP) — A bogus rumor that President Donald Trump was considering a pause in tariffs briefly lifted markets Monday before the White House shot down the unfounded reports. The confusion — which was amplified on social media and by some traditional media outlets — lasted less than a half hour but reflected a

Lea: The Duke dilemma of failing freshmen in the Final Four :: WRALSportsFan.com

By Chris Lea, WRAL-TV sports anchor/reporter At 3:30 a.m. Sunday morning in a hotel room in San Antonio, Texas, my WRAL Sports colleague Louis Fernandez and I got into a heated debate. We were editing video to send in for WRAL’s Sunday morning news shows after witnessing Duke’s collapse in the final moments in their

UK court reveals Apple’s fight against government order for backdoor access to encrypted cloud data

LONDON (AP) — Apple is fighting a British government order for the iPhone maker to provide so-called backdoor access to its encrypted cloud storage service, a U.K. court confirmed on Monday. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal revealed the legal battle when it rejected a bid by Britain’s Home Office to have the case heard in private.

Suicides and attempts fall in health systems implementing the ‘Zero Suicide Model,’ study finds

Health care systems can reduce suicides through patient screening, safety planning and mental health counseling, a new study suggests, an important finding as the U.S. confronts it 11th leading cause of death. The “Zero Suicide Model” was developed in 2001 at Detroit-based Henry Ford Health, where the focus on people considering suicide included collaborating with