Derby are relegated from the top-flight after just one season, after drawing their 32nd league game 2–2 with
Fulham. Coupled with
Birmingham's 3–1 victory over
Manchester City, Derby are 19 points behind 17th place with only 18 points available from the last 6 games.
Brandon Moss secures a tie with his first major-league
home run in the ninth inning, while
Manny Ramírez drives in two runs with a double in the tenth inning to secure the victory.
Also, for only the third time since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in
1985, two teams seeded 12 or lower make the "Sweet Sixteen". Today, 12-seeds
Villanova and
Western Kentucky both defeat 13-seeds to advance.
Men's Final: (7)
Brock Badgers 64, (5)
Acadia Axemen – The momentum gained from the Axemen up-ending the
five-time defending National champions doesn't come through to the final, as
Dusty Bianchin puts the game away with 11 seconds to go in the fourth. Brock head coach
Ken Murray shares the championship with his son Scott Murray, a fifth-year guard for the Badgers. Brock wins only their second national championship, the first since 1992.
Tiger Woods sinks a 25-foot (8 m) birdie putt on the 72nd hole to win the
Arnold Palmer Invitational by one shot over
Bart Bryant. The win, his fifth in this event, gives him his third
PGA Tour win in three tries this season and his fifth PGA Tour win in a row, makes him the first golfer in Tour history to win four different tournaments at least five times, and pulls him level with
Ben Hogan at third on the Tour's
all-time career wins list.
A last-second drop goal from
Andrea Marcato gives Italy their only win of the competition, although the three-point win is not enough to save the Azzurri from the
wooden spoon.
The
SEC tournament game between
Mississippi State and
Alabama is delayed for an hour when
a tornado hits
Downtown Atlanta, causing minor damage to the tournament site, the
Georgia Dome. The game resumed, with Mississippi State winning 69–67 in overtime, but forecasts of continued severe weather lead to the postponement of the final second-round game between
Kentucky and
Georgia. The Kentucky-Georgia game, plus both semifinals, will be played on March 15, and all remaining games will be played at
Alexander Memorial Coliseum on the
Georgia Tech campus.
An astonishing set of results in the Sixth Round this weekend has resulted in a completely different set of teams in the semi-finals from the previous year for the first time since 1987, with the elimination of the last two of the
Premiership's "Big 4" teams. For the first time in a century only one of the four semi-final teams comes from the highest level of professional English football, currently the Premiership.
Championship side
Barnsley, who last reached the semi-finals in 1912 when they went on to win the competition, defeated holders
Chelsea 1 – 0 at
Oakwell.
The
Tar Heels avenge an earlier
home loss to the
Blue Devils, holding Duke scoreless for the last 5:42 to win the
ACC regular-season title in front of Duke's
CameronCrazies.
The Hoyas hold on for a
home win, securing the
Big East regular-season crown.
Other key women's games:
Harvard's 64–58 loss to
Yale,
Dartmouth's 51–48 win over
Brown, and
Cornell's 76–59 win over
Princeton leave Harvard, Dartmouth, and Cornell tied atop the
Ivy League, the only conference that does not conduct a postseason tournament. The three teams will play a series of two one-game playoffs on March 14 and 16 at
Columbia to determine the league's automatic NCAA tournament bid.
Green Bay PackersquarterbackBrett Favre, the league's all-time record holder for career passing yardage, career touchdown passes, career wins by a quarterback, and consecutive starts by a quarterback, announces his retirement.
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Duke comes back from a 13-point second-half deficit to defeat
NC State 87–86
in Raleigh, giving
Mike Krzyzewski his 800th career coaching win. He becomes the sixth Division I men's coach with 800 wins, with only
Adolph Rupp and
Dean Smith doing so in fewer games.