Tennessee basketball holds off Iowa in overtime to reach Sweet 16
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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Jordan Bone could have had flashbacks Sunday at Nationwide Arena.

The Tennessee junior guard got a good look at a 3-pointer with a chance to beat Iowa and secure Tennessee a Sweet 16 spot, just as he did last year against Loyola Chicago.

He missed, as he did then. And Tennessee, which once led by 25, headed for overtime against Iowa, which frantically came back to put UT’s season in serious jeopardy.

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Rob Gronkowski, Who Played as Hard as He Partied, Retires From N.F.L.
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The Patriots’ dominant tight end, known for his combination of size and speed, announced his retirement on Instagram.

Rob Gronkowski, the dominant tight end who helped lead the New England Patriots to three Super Bowl titles in nine seasons while cultivating a goofy, frat boy persona off the field, announced his retirement from the N.F.L. on Sunday.

In an Instagram post, Gronkowski, 29, widely considered one of the most talented tight ends to ever play,

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Fact-Checking Mötley Crüe’s Netflix Movie ‘The Dirt’
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In many ways, fact-checking a movie about Mötley Crüe is a ridiculous task, especially a film that says right off the bat it is merely “based” on a true story. It’s also a film that breaks the fourth wall and tells the audience that things didn’t happen quite as they’re being presented. The whole thing is also based on a book that bassist Nikki Sixx now claims has at least one story – in which he writes that he “pretty much” raped a woman – was “possibly greatly embellished or made up.” He also claimed he was on drugs during the interviews with writer Neil Strauss and doesn’t remember much at that time.

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Basketball fans are trolling Virginia over shaky start against Gardner-Webb
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One year after UMBC stunned the nation by becoming the first 16-seed to take out a No. 1 in the first round of the NCAA tournament, the Gardner-Webb Runnin’ Bulldogs outplayed Virginia in the first half of their game Friday and took a six-point lead into the locker room at halftime.

The Cavaliers were blown out by UMBC in 2018, and coach Tony Bennett’s team got off to a terrible start against Gardner-Webb.

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Ja Morant records triple-double to lead No. 12 Murray State to upset of No. 5 Marquette
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HARTFORD, Conn. — It was long expected to be the main event at the XL Center on Thursday: Murray State. Marquette. Ja Morant. Markus Howard.

It more than lived up to the hype.

Howard was good, but Morant was magnificent — dunking on top of people, hitting step-back threes and dazzling with wraparound passes that turned into wide-open shots for teammates.

He became just the eighth player ever to record a triple-double in the NCAA tournament,

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‘The Act’ spins deadly mother-daughter story into Hulu series
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(CNN)”The Act” offers the second dramatization of the ill-fated relationship between Dee Dee and Gypsy Rose Blanchard in two months, and it’s easily the better of the two. Yet while this Hulu limited series captures the unsettling con game played by the mother, be forewarned that replicating these events can be as off-putting as the actual characters.

The story of the Blanchards — which ended with Dee Dee’s murder, leading to the convictions of Gypsy Rose and her boyfriend —

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‘Stranger Things’ drops a Season 3 trailer and it’ll have you wishing it was summer
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(CNN)The first full trailer for Season 3 of “Stranger Things” is finally here — and it will have you wishing it was already July.

Netflix dropped a nearly three-minute trailer for the upcoming season that’s full of so many pop-culture references to 1985 it’ll have you feeling totally nostalgic if you’re an ’80s baby. The next season premieres July 4.
The trailer immediately sets the mood with Mötley Crüe’s 1985 song, “Home Sweet Home,”

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Toy Story 4’s new trailer reveals a spork-induced existential crisis
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Your next existential and emotional crisis has arrived: Disney released the first full length-trailer for Toy Story 4 on Tuesday.

The franchise, known for plunging our hearts into various emotional states and examining human frailty through the lens of plastic and cowboy-themed objects, is back again — this time exploring the idea of life’s purpose, duty, and fidelity because of a spork named “Forky.”

Last we saw Woody and Buzz and their fellow toys in 2010’s Toy Story 3,

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Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service, launches in 2019
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Google is launching its Stadia cloud gaming service at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in San Francisco today. Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who says he plays FIFA 19 “quite a bit,” introduced the Stadia service during a special keynote at GDC this morning. Describing it as a platform for everyone, Pichai talked up Google’s ambitions to stream games to all types of devices. Stadia will stream games from the cloud to the Chrome browser,

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