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With Houston owning one of the NBA’s worst records, the 2022 playoffs are already off the table for the Rockets. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty to still watch for in the final two weeks of the 2021-22 season. Until the regular season’s conclusion on April 10, we’re regularly updating where the Rockets stand…Continue Reading

Technically, when it comes to seeding, there’s not much madness left. For years, the argument against women’s basketball has been that when it came to the postseason, the bracket was too predictable. And if one were to just glance at the 2022 Final Four, they’d probably think that argument holds up. Three No. 1 seeds (South Carolina,…Continue Reading

The Boston Celtics did not come all this way to slump their shoulders in the absence of any one player. Sure, beating them may be incrementally easier now that Robert Williams III will miss at least several weeks with a torn meniscus in his left knee. But, you’re still going to earn every single score…Continue Reading

The second round of qualifiers on “American Song Contest” featured knockout performances filled with Ohio heart, New York swag and Kentucky soul. Eleven more singers flexed their vocal prowess, in hopes of earning the title of best hit song, including Oregon band courtship., who went from making songs in lead singer Micah’s bedroom to opening for…Continue Reading

In Part 2 of this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, FiveThirtyEight contributor Laura Bronner joins to discuss where public opinion stands on accepting Ukrainian refugees after the White House announced last week that the U.S. would admit up to 100,000. Galen Druke is FiveThirtyEight’s podcast producer and reporter. @galendruke Laura Bronner is a senior applied scientist…Continue Reading

In Part 1 of this week’s FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast, the crew debates which states should vote first in the presidential primaries if the Iowa caucuses aren’t held first. They also look at a new survey suggesting that most Americans think “The West Wing” and other political TV shows accurately reflect how politics works. Galen Druke…Continue Reading

After the disastrous Iowa caucuses in 2020 and years of grumbling before that, the Democratic National Committee entertained a draft proposal that would shake up which states vote first on the presidential primary calendar. Ultimately, the proposal wasn’t considered at the DNC’s meeting in March, but the conversation isn’t going away. In this installment of…Continue Reading

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ILLUSTRATION BY FIVETHIRTYEIGHT / GETTY IMAGES By any measure, the past two years have been rough. This month, we marked the two-year anniversary of the nation’s first shutdowns to stop the spread of COVID-19. The coronavirus pandemic has caused more than 6 million global deaths since its beginning, including nearly a million in the United…Continue Reading