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Monday, April 13, 2026
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Monaco: Basketball in NBA is inferior to college game (April 2)

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Forget the brackets, betting and buzzer-beaters. Forget the office pools and unheard-of schools. March Madness certainly has all that and more. But there's another reason why these 67 games, and the college basketball season as a whole, are the best hoops in the world.





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SMC Softball: No. 24 Lady Reds sweep Belles in doubleheader

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Matched against No. 24 Carthage (Wisc.) on Thursday, Saint Mary's had little room for error. But the Belles (13-7, 0-2 MIAA) faced early deficits in both games of a home doubleheader and could not muster enough offense to avoid back-to-back 8-0 and 12-5 losses to the Lady Reds (12-2).




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Track & Field: Irish travel cross country for multi-athlete events

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Irish pentathletes and heptathletes spent Thursday competing in venues across the country, with three members of the team wrapping up competition at the Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays in Austin, Texas and three athletes commencing competition at the Eastern Illinois Multi-Events Invitational in Charleston, Ill.





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Men's Tennis: ND returns to play after two-week recess

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After a two-week respite, the Irish will return to the courts Saturday when they face off against Ball State in their first outdoor match of the spring season. Later Saturday evening, Notre Dame (12-7) will meet St. Bonaventure indoors, for the first-ever matchup of the two schools.