Author: Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY

North Carolina, Duke, Indiana and Connecticut among men’s college basketball teams with work to do as the final month of the regular season unfolds.

Kentucky, Texas and Connecticut get back in the win column Saturday. Villanova, Drake, West Virginia and Tennessee fall.

It’s not where you start, but how you finish in college basketball. A look at five teams that have exceeded expectations and could make run in March.

Quarterback Tom Brady dodged a question about whether he’s gotten a pass for sporting a Donald Trump hat in his locker because he is a white athlete.

Texas Tech and Missouri also secured important victories as college basketball teams jockeyed for position to close out the month.

Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski apologized to a student reporter for a postgame news conference exchange following the Blue Devils’ loss to Louisville.

One year ago today the world lost Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash. The sports world offered its tributes.

Last week, Michael Jordan and his Catch 23 fishing boat won the team’s first sailfish tournament, taking his winning ways to thte sea.