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MADISON, Wis. — It was a tale of two halves as Wisconsin blew out Michigan Sunday, 77-63. The first half was back-and-forth. Neither team gained an inch, and the score at halftime was tied, 31-31. But Greg Gard’s halftime speech must’ve stirred something, as the Badgers came out of the locker room on fire. A massive scoring run in the first 10 minutes gave the Badgers a double-digit lead, which they held onto to grab the win. That scoring run was driven in large part by Johnny Davis. The man who has been the game-changer for the Badgers changed the...

This illustration shows where the five naked-eye planets and the Moon will lie in the sky just after sunset on March 22. The view is looking toward the western horizon. Saturn will be visible almost directly overhead. Jupiter, not pictured here, follows the line of the planets but is almost to the eastern horizon. Both maps on this page were made for a latitude of 34 degrees north, where Los Angeles resides, but the planets will similarly appear in a line across the sky from all locations. Image courtesy: NASA/JPL.   'Fab Five' Make Rare Appearance in Night Sky...

<p>These should be the best of times for men's college basketball, what with the Final Four upon us and once-great powers such as Indiana and Kansas back in the spotlight again.</p> <p>I say these should be the best of times, stressing the word should, because I am finding it difficult to get into a celebratory mood about men's hoops, considering what's happening these days in Ann Arbor, Mich.</p>