Basketball

Throughout the course of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament, Dawn Staley, South Carolina’s storied coach, has preached a message of consistency and pressure to her players: Maintain the thing. And as often happens with Staley and her players, they listened. South Carolina, the top-ranked women’s basketball team in the country, will get another shot at …

South Carolina Gets Back in Championship Game With a Win Over Louisville Read More »

The tobacco industrialist Washington Duke, whose fortune helped finance what became Duke University, made a final proclamation on his deathbed in 1905, according to Durham lore: “Go to hell, Carolina, go to hell.” Yes, there are rivalries. And then there is The rivalry between North Carolina and Duke, which inspires the type of obsessive fandom …

The Duke-North Carolina Basketball Rivalry Reaches New Levels Read More »

NEW ORLEANS – Tim Thomas still holds a unique distinction in the history of the Villanova men’s basketball program. Thomas, a 6-foot-10 Paterson, NJ native, is the only player to declare for the NBA draft after just one season on campus. Thomas left Villanova after the 1996-97 season, and the New Jersey Nets selected him …

Like Its Players, Villanova Keeps Coming Back Read More »

New research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on adolescents’ mental health during the coronavirus pandemic suggests that for many teenagers who were ordered to stay at home, home was not always a safe place. A nationwide survey of 7,705 high school students conducted in the first half of 2021 built on earlier …

Many Teens Report Emotional and Physical Abuse by Parents During Lockdown Read More »

Shaheen Holloway, who stepped into the national spotlight as the coach of the plucky St. Peter’s Peacocks during their deep run through this year’s NCAA men’s basketball tournament, left the university on Wednesday to become the head coach at Seton Hall. The move had been expected ever since Kevin Willard departed Seton Hall for Maryland …

After Record-Setting Run With St. Peter’s, Shaheen Holloway Leaves for Seton Hall Read More »

In yet another twist to the debate over how best to protect children against the coronavirus, researchers reported on Wednesday that Covid vaccines conferred diminished protection against hospitalization among children 12 and older during the latest Omicron surge. Vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization held steady in children aged 5 to 11 years, however, and among adolescents …

Covid Vaccines Did Not Protect Adolescents as Effectively During the Omicron Surge Read More »

The next wave of Covid-19 is coming, and in some parts of the United States, it’s already here. Are you ready? The culprit this time is BA.2, a subvariant of the highly infectious Omicron variant. Nobody knows for sure how much havoc it will cause, but BA.2 has already led to a surge of cases …

How to Prepare for BA.2, the Omicron Subvariant Read More »

As a child in Chicago, Stephanie de Silva found that the city helped her get where she was going. Streets had directional names like “West” or “North,” and they often met at neat right angles. If all else failed, Lake Michigan could situate her. But when Ms. de Silva, 23, moved to London, where she …

Keep Getting Lost? Maybe You Grew Up on the Grid. Read More »

Americans who received the single-dose Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine were better protected against severe illness and hospitalization during the Omicron surge if they received a second dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines, instead of an additional Johnson & Johnson shot, according to a new study published on Tuesday by the Centers for Disease …

Pfizer and Modern Boosters Help Protect Americans With J. & J. Shots, CDC Says Read More »

WASHINGTON – Federal regulators authorized second booster shots of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna coronavirus vaccines on Tuesday for everyone 50 and older, describing the move as an effort to bolster waning immunity against severe disease in case the virus sweeps the nation again in the coming months . The Food and Drug Administration said people …

FDA Allows Second Coronavirus Boosters for Everyone 50 and Older Read More »