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Jim Nantz's dream 32-year Final Four run wraps. The iconic voice of March Madness soaks in final moments.

'He's just a Zag, man:' The untold stories of Drew Timme's singular, legendary Gonzaga career. | >> MORE: How Zach Edey went from rejecting basketball to being the best player in college hoops.

Dusty May cried and wanted to quit hours after signing FAU contract in 2018. Then he coached the Owls to an improbable 2023 Final Four run.

Mikaela Shiffrin doesn't have anything to prove to anyone. The best Alpine skier in U.S. history doesn't need a single win in the Olympics to validate her brilliant career.

An epic night in New Orleans: The end of Coach K's career doubles as the peak moment in the Duke-UNC rivalry. North Carolina ended Mike Krzyzewski's iconic career, and in doing so, UNC and Duke gave us one of the best games in Final Four history. | >> MORE: The Coach K you never saw. | MORE: The scene of K’s final home game at Duke.

Frank Martin has UMass off to a great start, but it initially came at a cost of high stress and family turmoil. The Martins shed light on what it's like for families of coaches — when changing jobs means so much more than switching houses

Serena Williams gives sports world one last memorable moment in bittersweet US Open exit. Williams, like she did throughout her entire career, gave it her all in her final US Open match.

'We have the talent:' Five days in the air and on the road embedded with the Florida Gators on the recruiting trail.

As war escalates half a world away, Ukrainian college basketball players share their shock, pride and fears. College basketball players reveal what it's been like for their families at home in Ukraine.

March Madness immortalized: The 101 greatest NCAA Tournament games in modern college basketball history.

The End of March Madness: Behind the scenes in the hours that led to the cancellation of the 2020 NCAA Tournament.

The Fight of His Life: Vermont’s Anthony Lamb opens up about getting through darkness on his way to greatness: Rare is the active college player willing to talk openly and bravely about his depression, suicidal thoughts and mental health challenges. Anthony Lamb is still in the room.

How a young, small-college assistant coach became one of Kobe Bryant’s trainer and most coveted confidants. Many have a Kobe Bryant story; Ryan Badrtalei has hundreds. Most don’t know Kobe's path from All-Star to NBA cut through the school in his backyard: UC Irvine. This is how a UCI assistant privately became Kobe’s longtime trainer and confidant—an untold story until after Bryant’s tragic death in January 2020.

For his team and for his father, Tony Bennett finally leads Virginia to the Final Four. Virginia beat Purdue 80-75, winning one of the best, most entertaining, most memorable games in NCAA Tournament history. That night, Dick Bennett overcame his demons and was in the building to watch his son complete the circle. This, a story years in the making.

Forever 44: How a teammate's murder has brought LSU together and fueled the Tigers' inspired season. "He's dead. He's dead. He's dead." Wayde Sims was pointlessly murdered only hours before the first scheduled practice of LSU’s season. What happened afterward was the bonding of a team that was forever broken.

Dan Hurley chilled out — and Rhode Island roared louder than ever. “It’s going too well. Shit has never gone this well for me. For me, this is weird, man. I don't know how to act.”

Perfect Match: Inside Project 44 and how late Andrew Smith helped save a 2-year-old boy's life. Andrew Smith continues to affect change long after his death. This story is the proof — and there are likely to be dozens more stories to come about over the years. Project 44 is why. Here's how a boy named Chase, man named Andrew and his friend, Chase, became forever linked.

A path of life and death: Jake Wiley quit, then conquered, now aims for NBA Draft. Leave your mother on a whim, only to find your father dead after moving in with him. Give up basketball. Then come back. Become a father, a graduate student — and finally an NBA prospect. The most remarkable overcome-the-odds story of any I've had the chance to write about.

A plane crash, seven broken families, and the town that's helping them heal. In 2015, a mysterious plane crash took the lives of seven men. These are their stories. And this was as emotionally difficult of a story as I've ever had to write.

Processing immortality, family in the wake of Kris Jenkins' shining moment: "I grabbed them and asked, 'What just happened? What just happened?" she said. "It was a moment in time. Like, still. Then you catch yourself -- and you take off. And you go find somebody who can share this with you."

My gamer from the 2016 national championship game, won by Villanova's Kris Jenkins, who grew up with two families -- and hit the winning shot in maybe the best title game in college hoops history.

Musical March Madness: Every NCAA Tournament coach's favorite band: A look at the 2016 NCAA tournament's field of 68 -- by looking at which band or artist was each coach's favorite. A passion project, and a rewarding one.

Mason Men: George Mason's Cinderella run to the 2006 Final Four changed college basketball forever: The previously untold stories and minor miracles that catapulted 11th-seeded George Mason to the 2006 Final Four -- and changed the NCAA tournament in the process.

Emmanuel Omogbo tragically lost his parents but gained a nation of support:In January of 2016, a player at Colorado State lost his parents and his twin niece and nephew to a fire in his childhood home. What was even more chilling: Emmanuel communicated with his dad approximately one hour before he died. His story soon went viral, and the outpouring of support exemplified the best of sports.

A Bulldog's Battle: The unbelievable fight and incredible story of former Butler big man Andrew Smith. This is the most powerful piece I've ever had the privilege of writing.

Paternal Fraternity: The overlooked reality of so many players and so many programs in college athletics: fatherhood. A close look at many situations with college athletes and how they can afford to live as fathers and as students -- and as players.

Trek to 3,000: Doug McDermott's historic hunt at college hoops legend: The story of how former Creighton star Doug McDermott became one of the 40 or so best players in the history of college basketball.

MUSIC WRITING

Before These Crowded Streets Turns 20: Dave Matthews Band at its biggest, boldest and best. My favorite album. One of the best records of the 1990s. Yet it isn't heralded that way in the critical community. Why is that? I spoke with producer Steve Lillywhite about that, and a lot of other things that make Streets the record that solidified DMB has a Hall of Fame-worthy act.

Robert Randolph: A Soulful Salvation. When Robert Randolph left the church, some called him the devil. The slide guitar prodigy was one of the best interviews I've ever had in terms of this: he was so open, so trusting, so friendly over the phone despite the fact we'd never spoken before. A rarity in an interview subject.

Twenty-five years in, Guster still has a case as the most underrated pop-rock act of the past two decades. I am known, in the most niche of worlds where Sports Twitter crosses streams with Guster Twitter, for being the guy who's always on TV at the Final Four with the Guster Is For Lovers sticker on his laptop. In 2016, I went behind the scenes with the band and wrote about why they're underappreciated—and kind of OK with that.

Confessions of a Springsteen Newbie: In February of 2016, I attended my first Bruce Springsteen concert. I wasn't sure what to expect; the hype is ridiculous for Bruce's shows. I walked away feeling invited, yet still something of an outsider.

So Much to Say: Revisiting Dave Matthews Band's Crash at 20: Unexpectedly, Crash’s reputation has become a bit overshadowed in the 20 years since its release, at least when compared to the other two records in DMB’s “Big 3” and even more so against the backdrop of the dozens and dozens of influential LPs released throughout the ’90s. This despite DMB’s most successful and best-selling record — by a solid margin.

Under the Table at 20: Revisiting Dave Matthews Band’s Most Important Record. Dave Matthews Band's major-label debut was the most important of the band's career, and 20-plus years post, is still one of the best debut LPs of the 1990s. This is a story on how it came to be.