ACC’s shaky nonconference showing creates NCAA bid drama as bulk of league play arrives

No one knows that better than N.C. State coach Kevin Keatts, whose team last year found a never-before-seen form just in time to improbably win the league tournament and reach the Final Four. A season that began with the publicly stated goal of earning more NCAA Tournament bids — backed by the league continuing to outperform its peers in March Madness — instead had a jarring nonconference showing.

ECB urges cricket’s leaders to take action over ‘gender apartheid’ in Afghanistan

  • England face Afghanistan in Champions Trophy
  • ICC called on to ‘intervene and show global leadership’

The England and Wales Cricket Board has called on cricket’s governing body to show leadership by taking coordinated action to stop “the gender apartheid facing the 14 million women in Afghanistan”.

In a letter to the International Cricket Council on Friday, the ECB’s chief executive, Richard Gould, also urged it “to find a solution that provides hope that the rights of women and girls in Afghanistan can be restored”.

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