Put on your high-top dancing shoes as the 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament has been unveiled.
So who are the March Madness favorites to cut down the nets in Monday, April 7 in San Antonio?
In the final 30 hours this weekend before the 68-team NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament bracket is revealed Sunday, the remaining conference tournament champions will be crowned.
That includes the highly-anticipated Big 12 (6 p.m. ET, Saturday) Southeastern (1 p.m. Sunday) and Big Ten (3:30 p.m Sunday) title games.
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We’re on the brink of March Madness with the high-major men’s conference tournaments down to the final handful of teams in each bracket.
Play continues Friday night with some of nation’s top teams — including Duke, St. John’s, Houston, Florida and Alabama — competing in their respective semifinal or quarterfinal contests.
The Arkansas Racetrack Chaplaincy will auction off a halter regularly worn by Thorpedo Anna, the 2024 Horse of the Year, during its annual banquet on Thursday night, March 20, Chaplain Robi Heffington said. It will be showcased in a shadow box frame and is part of a package deal with a framed Kentucky Oaks picture signed by trainer Kenny McPeek and jockey Brian Hernandez Jr.
The item is one of about 15 for a live auction. There also will be a silent auction.
HALLANDALE BEACH, Fla. – Rojo Rita and Magnolia Prime, a couple of 3-year-old fillies who registered impressive victories in their career debuts over local soil, will try to earn their first stakes wins when topping a small field set to go six furlongs in Sunday’s $115,000 Any Limit Stakes at Gulfstream Park. The main event serves as the penultimate leg of yet another mandatory Rainbow 6 sequence, where final-pool figures could reach the vicinity of $1 million.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Oaklawn Park is considering moving to a four-day race week for the majority of its meet next season in conversations being held with horsemen and Hot Springs community leaders, according to track president Lou Cella.
Oaklawn’s current meet format features a three-day race week, from Friday through Sunday.
The NBA tends to take somewhat of a basketball backseat during March Madness, but there’s an intriguing 10-game slate on tap Friday, March 14, including a national NBA TV doubleheader featuring the defending-champion Boston Celtics, reigning MVP Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets and the Los Angeles Lakers.
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HOT SPRINGS, Ark. – Ensorcell had every reason to throw in the towel in her most recent start, but she persevered despite a difficult trip and returns to face winners for the first time in Sunday’s eighth race at Oaklawn Park.
The entry-level allowance is for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/16 miles. It drew a field of nine and is led by the stakes-placed runners California Sunset, Enchanting, Legal Empress, and Spankerboom.
OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Since his highly successful 2-year-old year, in which he won a pair of New York-bred stakes, Shipsational has lost 19 straight races. In his career, he is 0 for 13 at Aqueduct.
But to listen to trainer Eddie Barker tell it, the now 6-year-old Shipsational is in career form entering a first-level open-company allowance race Sunday that serves as the feature on Aqueduct’s nine-race card.
“He might run the best race he’s run in his life,” Barker said Friday. “Right now, he’s running the numbers he was running as a 2-year-old.”
Mister Omaha is a two-time stakes winner, and his record makes him a standout on class Tuesday in the $50,000 Welder Stakes at Will Rogers Downs.
The six-furlong race is for 3-year-olds bred in Oklahoma. It drew a field of five that includes a capable Sam Houston shipper in John.
The Welder, which honors the $1.2 million earner at his home track of Will Rogers, is slotted as the fifth race Tuesday.
