The NCAA basketball championship selection show to air for two hours starting Sunday, March 13 from 5.30pm to 7.30 pm ET on CBS. The show features an exclusive live first time announcement of 2016 NCAA Division 1 pairings for Men’s Basketball championship. Both CBS sports and Turner sports will begin the Final Four this year with the newly extended show.

Compared to the previous show, the extended selection show will feature more discussions, more analysis, more interviews and more reactions from the different teams as they get to learn their opponent and even their region.

Greg Gumbel, together with Ernie Johnson will host the show from New York City at the CS Broadcast Centre. Doug Gottlieb, Seth Davis, Charles Barkley, Clark Kellog and Kenny Smith will offer analysis breakdown. Previously, the show lasted one hour from 6 to 7 pm.

The Chairman of NCAA Division 1, Men’s Basketball committer Joseph R. Castiglione will also join the studio for discussions regarding the selection process.

This year, the Selection show marks its 35^th edition, which was first aired in March 7,1982 on CBS from 5.30 to 6 pm. However, in March 10,2002, the 30-minute show expended to one hour.

Users on mobile devices and tablets can also access the show via the March Madness live app or stream the show via NCAA March Madness live .

For six consecutive years, CBS sports and Turner sports has managed to provide live coverage across four television networks including TNT, CBS, TBS and truTV as well as through NCAA March Madness Live of all the games from 2016 NCAA Division I men’s Basketball Championship .

This year’s final four national semifinals, which will be held on April 2 will be aired on TBS together with the national championship which will take place on April 4

The sport is missing Tiger since he underwent back surgery and it is feared that the poor show up at tournaments is due to this. Fans are asking “Where is Tiger?”

Although there are other accredited players like Jordan Spieth, Rory Mcllroy and Jason Day who have managed to draw hug audiences, the show up is still not that great.

A golf executive with IMG,Kennerly said, “Tiger still delivers that unconventional fan that golf needs. This was evident when Tiger hurt himself last year and could not play the Honda Classic, where the sales of tickets to the tournament softened a little bit.”

The question at hand is, “Can Tiger Woods be replaced?” Well, I will let you be the judge of that. However, it isn’t much a factor to argue on since Tiger is by far the greatest player of his generation.

Many have said that to them, without Tiger in the game, we are missing something. It has been rumored that Tiger might not return to the sport due to his setbacks with the back surgery. We have not seen him on the course for such a long time it seems like forever.

Tiger however dismissed these rumors on Wednesday after he released a video that shows him taking a full swing with a 9 iron on an indoor swing simulator. “Progressing nicely” was the caption that couldn’t have been missed by anyone with sound mind.

The swing appeared perfect and to many it consoled them with the idea that the golf star will soon be back to wow us.

The timing of Woods back to the game is still unknown. By him not being able to play, the sport has suffered a major blow in terms of dollars and cents. People still want to see and appreciate Tiger’s game. He is still an enormous asset to golf.

21- year old Garbine Muguruza, survived a tight second set against Timea Babos to reach her first time ever quarterfinal at the Qatar Total Open. It would be correct to say that Muguruza played one of her best tennis to beat Timea Babos, who is the current ace leader in 2016 6-2, 7-5.

During her on-court interview, Muguruza said, “I think the game was very tough especially the second set where we were fighting really hard. Timea started playing better than before and by the end of the match, we were both tight. Nonetheless, I am happy to Win!”

As much as Babos is the ace leader, Muguruza stole the show on serve by hitting 10 aces of her own and 31 winners against 22 unforced errors. On the other hand, Babos maintained her stat on the sheet with 21 winners and 21 errors but missed out on a chance of forcing a second set tie break by the end of the match, putting Muguruza on the edge in Doha.

“ Timea has a very strong serve. Therefore I had to focus on my serve as well as hers in order to win.”

Muguruza has played in Doha for the second time in her tennis career. She will be playing Andrea Petkovic to secure a spot in the semifinals.Petkovic won against Coco Vandeghe 6-3 in the first set and 6-4 in the second set.

“ I think the city is great. Doha is absolutely amazing, and I’m really excited to be here and playing.” She said.

In the course of the day, Elena Vesnina endorsed her winover SimonaHalep with a 7-5, 5-7 and 6-3, putting her into her first premier-level quarterfinal

The last match of the day was between Roberta Vinci and Cagla Buyukakcay, the Turkish wildcard. Vinci maintained her focus in the game, beating Cagla 7-5, 6-1.

At 34, Alex Gidman, a long time cricket player is forced to retire from the sport he so much loved due to an injury he sustained in his left index finger. Alex was injured towards the end of the last season during a pre-match drill at Durhama.

As last resort, a joint replacement surgery was opted for when he could not flex the joint. The recovery form this surgery, however, did not go as planned. It was to take two weeks, unfortunately, according to Mike Hayton, a specialist, Gidman will not be able to reach the fitness levels required to play professionally.

Gidman is a former captain of Gloucestershire. He played for this team for over a decade after which he signed a two year contract with Worcestershire where he was a batsman for 18 months prior to his injury.

In his career he made 11,622 first-class runs, 4473 in one day cricket and 1448 in T20 alongside 103 first-class wickets and 71 in list A. In 2014 he scored 1278 runs at 45.64 including his career best 264 making this his most prolific first-class season. He then made his move to Worcestershire.

At Worcestershire he struggled with his bat at New Road County. It is so sad that he did not get to play Durham at Chester-Le-Street.

Gidman said, “Obviously my manyyears at Gloucestershire included the majority of my success but I have really enjoyed the last 18 months meeting some fantastic people at Worcestershire. I can’t thank the many coaches, team-mates and supporters enough. It is my wish for everyone whom we have played with to have the best of luck in 2016 and more years to come.”

Steve Rhodes, director of cricket at Worcestershire had this to say, “On behalf of all the players and coaches, we are extremely disappointed for Alex”.

The 116 years old Edmonton’s Northlands Track in Alberta will close down after 2016 season of horse racing. We know of a number of eye catching fun places that goes to shatters because of a new investment plan and, well, the Northlands track is no different.

Vision 2020, as the redevelopment plan of Northlands track is known, will shut down the 64 hectares of the site on August 20, 2016 after the 87^th running of a Canadian derby.

The Northlands Track is run by a non-profit organization and boasts of creating employment to over 7000 people in the province. Cathy Kiss, Northlands vice president said, “There is going to be change”.

Brian Bygrave, director of Horsemen’s Benevolent and Protective Association of Alberta said, “Without Northlands, racing in Alberta would look awfully bleak”.

This does not go without saying that the industry will have to look at new venues. Horse owners and clients are concerned whether to breed their mares or to cancel their investments respectively.

There is a Balzac track but it is not yet complete since it has facilities of thoroughbred horse racing. Thoroughbred horses cannot use similar tracks to those of standard bred since they need stable and different track surface.

The only option left will be that of using local casinos to bet in the off track betting system.

The fall down of more than a century old racing track will bring rise to a new investment that will also benefit the community around Northlands track.

Virginia Park to the south and Bellevue to the east will benefit from increased amenities and their property values will be tripled as well. Safe to say it also has its perks.

Tony Caterina, Northlands councillor and board member said, “The possibilities are endless”.

Forest Hills stadium has remained dormant for a number of years. In fact, it was just rotting away as it waits for the wrecking ball to get it out of its misery. Therefore, if the walls of forest Hill stadium could say something, the previous home for the US Open would have a lot of stories to tell as there have been so many great moments that happened at this stadium.

Forest Hill was built in 1923 and   a lot of great players have played there including Chris Evert, Rod Laver, Arthur Ashe and Billie Jean King.

In addition to that, a lot of memorable concerts have taken place at the stadium such as Barbra Streisand, The Beatles and Frank Sinatra.

Immediately after the 1977 tournament, the US Open relocated to Flushing Meadow after leaving the West Side Tennis club. There were other tournaments that continued to happen at the West Side Tennis Club and it also continued to host concerts in the 1990s. However, the cost of maintain Forest Hill stadium became too costly. As such, the facility had to be closed for almost 20 years.

Forest Hill stadium stayed unused for many years until 2013 when immense renovations brought its life back. The reopening of the stadium in august 2013 followed with a Mumford &Sons concert. Just like in the past, the schedule of shows, events and additional renovations has continued. Now, tennis is returning to the stadium in fact, New York Empire will play its home matches at the stadium.

The tennis direct Bob Ingersole said at the West Side Tennis Club, “We are on a big upward swing for the last couple of years in bringing the concerts back and we are bringing the professional tennis back to the stadium.”

With only five regular season games remaining on UCLA’s schedule, it seems that Bruins will win all the titles to secure a spot in the NCAA tournament. Furthermore, each game has its own pressure.

Steve Alford, the UCLA Coach shown that that it is going to be challenging.

Alford declared earlier this week that his team has not reacted under pressure. On Thursday, he said it again after his team lost to Utah and he accepted accountability for lack of mental toughness.

“That has been me and not the team,” Alford said. “This is because, any time I apply a bit of mental pressure on them, they did not manage it well.”

Since UCLA team performed better last season in a must win situations, it did not add up to him. Alford said Kevon Looney was a tough player but left for the NBA draft.

According to Alford, only two of his players, Isaac Hamilton and Bryce Alford have shown the same resilience as that of Norman Powell.

Steve Alford said, “ This is a different team and whether the talks have been more of encouragement or short term than long term, this is a team that handles that of approach way better than any other.”

Bryce Alford said that the coaches had set long-term goals such as going undefeated at home. By the end of the season, they knew exactly what they needed for them to secure a place at the NCAA tournament. This year, the coaches are more focuses on single games andsometimes shorter time frames.

“Before we start playing any game, they give us at least three key areas that we need to put more focus on,” Bryce Alford said.

Unlike the previous season, UCLA’S coach is not planning to emphasize NCAA tournament to his players.