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Brian Steinberg Senior TV Editor Does the sports world have room for April Action after weeks of March Madness? Fox aims to answer the question in 2025 when it launched a new post-season college-basketball tournament in tandem with large sports and music promote AEG Worldwide. The College Basketball Crown will rely on 16 teams drawn largely from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East conferences, with the possibility of other participants.

Once again, the Iowa Hawkeyes are leading ESPN to record audiences for women’s basketball.

A.D. Amorosi John Sinclair, the counterculture activist and former MC5 manager who helped define that proto-punk ensemble’s radical politics, died on Tuesday at 82.

One Bad Apple: A Hannah Swensen Mystery is coming!

EXCLUSIVE: Gracie Lawrence is heading to Essex College as a new series regular for the upcoming third season of Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble‘s The Sex Lives of College Girls.

Cynthia Littleton Business Editor No matter who prevails next Sunday at the NCAA’s championship game, 2024’s March Madness will go down in history as a milestone moment for women’s sports. Not just in the college basketball realm — but for female athletes overall. In a perfect storm, the annual bracket-bonkers frenzy around the NCAA college basketball tournament has conferred a level of respect to the women’s game that is rarely been seen across sports media, but for the quadrennial exception of the Women’s World Cup.

Katcy Stephan Filmmaker Caroline Lindy has signed with CAA, Variety can exclusively reveal. Lindy is the writer and director of the romantic-comedy horror film “Your Monster,” which debuted in the Midnight section at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Lindy previously directed the short films “Kindred Spirit” and “Aspirational Slut,” the latter of which was awarded the Audience Award at the 2022 SXSW and Montreal’s Just For Laughs Comedy Festival.

Zoe Kravitz and Ilana Glazer are reuniting for dinner, seven years after starring together in the comedy Rough Night.

SPOILER ALERT! This post contains details from the Season 6 premiere of The CW‘s All American.

Vontae Davis has sadly passed away.

having a casual family weekend? Stranger things have happened. Gwyneth Paltrow just posted a photo dump to Instagram of her family trip to Nashville for Easter weekend, and everything about the pictures is surprising and revealing.In the first photo, her son Moses and are seen walking into Lou, a restaurant in Nashville.

There were a few conditions for Jenna Lyons to return to The Real Housewives of New York City.

More than 250 patients a week may have died needlessly in England last year due to long waits in A&E for a hospital bed, new estimates suggest.

ESPN’s list of top 25 players to watch in the NCAA Women’s Tournament are two outstanding Latinas that are aiding in the successful post seasons during 2024 March Madness.With Caitlin Clark (Iowa) and Paige “Buckets” Bueckers (UCONN) and topping the charts on the #1 and #2 players to watch in the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament, the list hosts two Latinas as well, freshman Hannah Hidalgo (Notre Dame) and senior Kamilla Cardoso (South Carolina). Bueckers has suffered multiple injuries throughout her college career, but as Dawn Staley recently said, “Paige is great.

On the passing yesterday of actor Louis Gossett Jr., An Officer and A Gentleman director Taylor Hackford and Roots co-star LeVar Burton remembered their late colleague and friend.

Plans have been submitted for a massive new warehouse close to the Bolton Wanderers stadium. The proposals would mean demolishing existing employment buildings on Mansell Way to create a single building with around 33,000 sqm of industrial floor space.

EXCLUSIVE: Sierra Katow (The Sex Lives of College Girls) is partnering with Comedy Dynamics on the release of her debut comedy special, Funt, which will become available on platforms worldwide on April 2nd, rolling out in album form on April 5th.

Travis Kelce is making jokes about putting on weight after winning the 2024 Super Bowl with the Kansas City Chiefs.

Getting less than seven hours of sleep is associated with a seven per cent increased risk of developing high blood pressure over time, according to early research.

Joe Otterson TV Reporter Sterlin Harjo’s FX drama pilot starring Ethan Hawke has set its main cast, Variety has learned. The new cast members are: Keith David (“The Princess and the Frog,” “Greenleaf”), Siena East (“The Sex Lives of College Girls”), Jeanne Tripplehorn (“The Terminal List,” “Mrs. America”), Tim Blake Nelson (“Watchmen,” “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”), Scott Shepherd (“The Last of Us,” “Killers of the Flower Moon”), Tracy Letts (“Winning Time: Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” “Lady Bird”), Kyle Maclachlan (“Twin Peaks,” upcoming “Fallout”), and Macon Blair (“Reservation Dogs,” “I Care A Lot”).

The Forum Theatre in Romiley is set to reopen this summer after RAAC repairs.

Wait… did Kylie Jenner break up with Timothée Chalamet — and move on with a college basketball star?!

Rochdale-born businessman and entrepreneur Sir Peter Ogden is no stranger to making investments in his home town. But the many thousands of pounds of donations and funding he has pumped in has always been in the field of education - not football.

She is on the brink of becoming one of the most powerful women in Britain. He and his brother gave a certain swagger to his home city.

Could Alana “Honey Boo Boo” Thompson be taking Mama June Shannon to court? If her momma doesn’t cough up the money she allegedly stole, that could be the case!

Katie Price's son Harvey is to leave the college where he lives, just days after the former glamour model was declared bankrupt for the second time. But the TV star has now hit back at claims that it's because she 'can't pay for it' and instead says they'll be able to secure funding for a college closer to home as her son misses her. It comes after the former glamour model, 45, was dealt a blow earlier this week over an unpaid tax bill worth more than £750,000.

Yikes! A woman in South Carolina had her hand amputated after a scary mishap with a blow dryer!

Police say the body of Riley Strain has been found in the Cumberland River in Nashville.

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A fun fact about When Calls the Heart star Erin Krakow: she went to college with another Hallmark Channel star!