SEATTLE — Caitlin Clark put on a show with 41 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds to help No. 2 seed Iowa beat fifth-seeded Louisville 97-83 on Sunday and send the Hawkeyes to their first women’s Final Four in 30 years.
The unanimous first-team All-American was as dominant as she’s been all season in getting the Hawkeyes to Dallas for the women’s NCAA Tournament national semifinals on Friday night. The Seattle 4 Region champion will face the winner of the Greenville 1 region that has South Carolina playing Maryland on Monday night. Read More...
Nick Adams was speaking to the men in the room.
“Never apologize,” he said. “Never mask up. Never pick up the Fortnite controller. It starts with the Fortnite controller and boneless chicken wings, and ends in gender pronouns and communism. We don’t want that.”
“Damn right!” a young man in pleated khakis yelled. “Damn right, we don’t want that.”
The crowd chuckled. The affirmation was jokey, but serious — fitting for Adams, a happy culture warrior whose weapon of choice is not a video game controller but an X account, “Nick Adams (Alpha Male),” where he professes his love for Hooters, makes goofy claims such as how billionaire pop superstar Taylor Swift is dating NFL tight end Travis Kelce only because she wants a piece of his roughly $70,000 conference championship game share, and posts videos about boycotting Mars candy because M&M’s had committed “egregious sexism” for having all-female packaging. Read More...