Title: NCAA Title Game
1NCAA Title Game
2In the first ever head-to-head matchup of
undefeated teams in the NCAA championship game,
University of Connecticut defeated Notre Dame
79-58 to win the NCAA women's basketball
championship Tuesday night in Nashville,
Tennessee. Shabazz Napier scored a game-high 22
points to lead the Huskies. The victory makes
Connecticut the second men's and women's teams in
history to sweep their Division I
tournamentsjoining the 2003-04 UConn teams. It
was a pure team effort from start to finish. This
is Geno Auriemma's fifth undefeated season and
his third in his last six seasons at the helm.
Only John Wooden (10-0) has a better record in
national championship games than Auriemma (9-0).
He's now passed longtime rival Pat Summitt for
most national championships for a women's coach
in history.
3In Other News
- The Army's new regulations on hair stipulate hair
"must be of uniform dimension, small in diameter
(approximately ΒΌ inch), show no more than 1/8
(inch) of the scalp between the
braids.Dreadlocks "against the scalp or
free-hanging" are banned. "Unkempt" or "matted"
braids and cornrows are also considered
dreadlocks and "are not authorized," according to
the regulations that were updated this month.
Some African Americans are calling it racial
bias. - Since 1941, comic book fans have followed the
exploits of teenaged Archie Andrews and his
friends. This July, they'll find out how he dies.
"Life With Archie" 36 hits stores on July 16,
and CNN can reveal exclusively that it tells the
story of how Archie sacrifices himself to save a
friend. The 37th issue one week later will end
the series. - Searchers picked up fresh signals that officials
hope are locator beacons from the data recorders
of the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The
Australian ship Ocean Shield had first picked up
the underwater pulses Saturday. But then, for the
next three days, nothing. On Tuesday, the ship
once again reacquired the signals. That's four
signals in the same broad area two on Saturday
two on Tuesday. All of the signals are within 17
miles of one another. - Oscar Pistorius, on trial for killing his
girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, is undergoing
cross-examination at the hands of the prosecutor
trying to prove that the former Olympian killed
her intentionally. - ust three days after being inducted into the
company's Hall of Fame, iconic WWE superstar
Ultimate Warrior died Tuesday of unknown causes.
He was 54. Circumstances surrounding the
situation are still under investigation. Born
James Brian Hellwig, Warrior was among the most
memorable and long-lasting characters in WWE
history. - A New York judge Tuesday vacated the conviction
of a man who spent nearly a quarter of a century
behind bars for a Brooklyn slaying that occurred
while he was vacationing in Florida. onathan
Fleming, 51, was found guilty in 1989 in the
death of Darryl Rush in the Williamsburg
neighborhood of Brooklyn and served the next 24
years and 8 months in prison. He was released
Tuesday afternoon. Fleming has always maintained
he was on a family trip to Disney World in
Florida when Rush was shot to death early on the
morning of August 15, 1989, in a dispute over
stolen money. After years of reviewing documents
and re-interviewing witnesses as part of a joint
investigation between his attorneys and the
Brooklyn district attorney's Conviction Review
Unit, it was determined that the only evidence
tying him to the crime was an alleged witness who
later recanted her statement.