| | | Cheteshwar Pujara | If a St. Patrick's Day hangover were notenough, yesterday's bracket busters on the first day of the NCAA Men's Basketball round two play might keep you in bedthis Sunday. Several of the top teamswent down in flames, while several brackets which looked great after round onenow look terrible after some bad calls, bad seeds, and surprises. Mediocre brackets remained mediocre. Maybe the NCAA does bring out the average inall of us... Unflappable, but depressed collegebasketball fans can redirect their attention to the NIT Tournament, and alsothe Women's NCAA tournament, which also started this weekend. In France: Chasing a first league crownsince 1959, Nice dropped points for a second consecutive week after drawingagainst Caen last week, and a 1-1 draw against Nantes yesterday. Bordeaux moved level on points withfifth-placed Marseille after yesterday's action, after a comprehensive 5-1 homewin against Montpellier, but thatsituation could change today. Niceremain third in the standings, four points behind leaders Monaco, who play atCaen on Sunday. Defending champions Paris Saint-Germain have a one-point leadover Nice ahead of Sunday's home game against Lyon. With eight games left this season, Nantes arein 10th place, 30 points off the pace. Angers put last week's defeat at Marseille behind themto register their fifth win in six league games with a 3-0 home victory overGuingamp. Lorient and Nancy both are atrisk of relegation, but with Lorient's 3-2 win over Nancy yesterday, theirhopes of playing with the big boys again next year are kept alive. Today Caen takes an AS Monaco, Paris Saint-Germainmeets Lyon, and Dijon FCO meets St. Etienne. We reported yesterday about the India-Australiadogfight in Test Cricket. Day four ofthe third test continues today. Australia had an overwhelming lead going into day three, but India hasovercome that lead in convincing fashion, in what has proven to be anexhausting match for both teams, but one in which big plays and big scores havebeen featured. At Tea break of day four, Australia 451 trails India 503/6 after 188.0overs. In other words, India lead by 52runs with 4 wickets remaining in the 1st innings. Cricket phenom Cheteshwar Pujara is beingcredited with a lot of the enthusiasm and gamesmanship which has allowed thehosts to recover. In PGA Golf, Final-roundplay will be held today in the $8.7 million Arnold Palmer Invitational, playedat Palmer's 7419-yard Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Florida. Jason Day won thisevent by one shot over Kevin Chappell last year, giving him his fifth victoryin his last 12 starts. American CharleyHoffman leads the overall at -11 heading into this final round. Welcome back, AussieRules Football! After a Summer pause,action begins for the 2017 season on Thursday, March 23rd, with a opening game of Carlton vs. Richmond. More next Saturday. | | | Aussie Rules players are coming back from their "down time" No more speedos for the season. | -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "omnisport" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/omnisport. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
