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The Washington PostMarch Madness—along with just about everything else in the world—has been canceled due to Coronavirus, but you can still bet on who will win the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament. You're just going to have to wait a long time to be paid off if you're right.
On Friday, SportsBetting.ag installed Virginia and Gonzaga as the co-favorites to win the title in 2021. Now that's a futures bet.
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According to SportsBetting.ag, the Cavaliers and the Zags are listed at +900 (risk $100 to win $900), followed by Kansas (+1000), and Baylor and Kentucky at (+1200). Michigan State, Creighton, and Duke are next at +1400. So in case you were wondering if you still have to worry about potentially seeing Coach K & Co. winning another national title after the worry of a global pandemic dissipates, unfortunately, you do.
Of course, UVA is already the defending national champs. So a win next April would..

Emanuele CremaschiIt's been a topsy-turvy season for the Phoenix Suns (and the NBA in general, but let's try to keep things light for a second). Devin Booker and company started hot, cooled down once expectations rose, maybe took some drugs and now find themselves frozen at a 26-39 record. Yes, that's 13th in the Western Conference, but it's a definitive improvement than in year's past. If they were in the East, they'd be in the playoff picture, which doesn't mean much, but whatever. Let us live our lives.
So despite the NBA's indefinite suspension of the 2019-20 season, the semi-resurgent Suns don't want to go gently into the night, pledging to continue playing their games . . . on the interwebs.
https://twitter.com/Suns/status/1238253668832600064?s=20
Phoenix plans to play the rest of their games out on NBA 2K on Twitch. This weekend you can watch the Suns take on the Dallas Mavericks and the virtual duo of Luka Dončić and Kristaps Porziņģ..

The equipment world is ever-changing. Just give our annual Hot List a skim if you don't believe it. Yesterday's hot new golf club trend is today's old-man gimmick. Tomorrow we might even be swinging lightsabers. Who knows. Despite the seemingly perpetual push toward bigger/lighter/longer, however, this week U.S. Customs agents in Miami got a sneak peek at an innovation that not even we had seen before: Cocaine shafts.
https://twitter.com/CBPFlorida/status/1237505036202258434
The unique set of clubs arrived Monday at an international mail facility in Miami-Dade County, enroute from Colombia to New York City. There they were intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who discovered just over a pound of cocaine inside after drilling into one of the shafts. Add that to the list of things to worry about when shipping your clubs cross country.
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The annual rite of spring for golf won't happen this year