With only four teams remaining, Duke has the best odds to win the men's national championship at +100.
All four No. 1 seeds have reached the Final Four for the first time in 17 years. Florida, Auburn and Houston have also made it to San Antonio for the final weekend of March Madness.
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Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, center top, reacts during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Utah Hockey Club, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Rhona Wise)
Min Woo Lee, of Australia, hits on to the fourth green during the final round of the Houston Open golf tournament in Houston, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Atlanta Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge walks to first base during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
Auburn's Tahaad Pettiford, left, and Miles Kelly (13) celebrate a win over Michigan State after the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Florida is the second favorite to win the title at +275 at the BetMGM online sportsbook, while Houston is +400 and Auburn is +525.
Florida will take on Auburn in the first semifinal, followed by Duke and Houston. At BetMGM, Florida has opened as a 2.5-point favorite. Duke is a 4.5-point favorite.
The men's tournament has favored the favorites. In the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight, the favorites went 12-0 straight up.
While Houston was the favorite against Tennessee, the Cougars did not get much action at BetMGM. As a 2.5-point favorite, only 40% of the bets and 34% of the money was on Houston. They easily covered, winning 69-50.
It was a similar story in the Duke-Alabama matchup on Saturday night. The Blue Devils did not see much action as 7.5-point favorites, taking in only 37% of the bets. Like Houston, Duke easily covered the spread, winning 85-65.
Aaron Judge (+210) was the most bet player to hit a home run on Sunday. After hitting three homers on Saturday, Judge hit another on Sunday to cash that bet.
The biggest upset in the NBA on Sunday was the Atlanta Hawks taking down the Milwaukee Bucks 145-124. Atlanta was a 4.5-point underdog and took in only 29% of the bets and 36% of the money.
Min Woo Lee picked up his first career PGA Tour win at the Houston Open. He finished at 20-under, one shot better than Gary Woodland and Scottie Scheffler. Lee was +3300 in pre-tournament betting and took in 4.7% of the bets and 3.9% of the money.
The NHL is nearing the end of its regular season, and a bunch of teams are still in the mix to win the Stanley Cup.
When it comes to Stanley Cup odds, seven teams are +1000 or shorter – the Florida Panthers (+575), Dallas Stars (+600), Colorado Avalanche (+750), Edmonton Oilers (+800), Carolina Hurricanes (+1000), Vegas Golden Knights (+1000) and Washington Capitals (+1000).
This column was provided to The Associated Press by BetMGM online sportsbook.
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Florida Panthers head coach Paul Maurice, center top, reacts during the third period of an NHL hockey game against the Utah Hockey Club, Friday, March 28, 2025, in Sunrise, Fla. (AP Photo/Rhona Wise)
Min Woo Lee, of Australia, hits on to the fourth green during the final round of the Houston Open golf tournament in Houston, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
Atlanta Hawks' Mouhamed Gueye dunks during the first half of an NBA basketball game against the Milwaukee Bucks, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Aaron Gash)
New York Yankees' Aaron Judge walks to first base during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Pamela Smith)
Auburn's Tahaad Pettiford, left, and Miles Kelly (13) celebrate a win over Michigan State after the Elite Eight of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powellsaid Sunday the Department of Justice has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.
The move represents an unprecedented escalation in President Donald Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he's repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers. The renewed fight will likely rattle financial markets Monday and could over time escalate borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans.
The subpoenas relate to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June, the Fed chair said, regarding the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings, a project Trump has criticized as excessive.
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Stocks are falling on Wall Street after Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said the Department of Justice had served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony about the Fed’s building renovations.
The S&P 500 fell 0.3% in early trading Monday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 384 points, or 0.8%, and the Nasdaq composite fell 0.2%.
Powell characterized the threat of criminal charges as pretexts to undermine the Fed’s independence in setting interest rates, its main tool for fighting inflation. The threat is the latest escalation in President Trump’s feud with the Fed.
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She says she had “a very good conversation” with Trump on Monday morning about topics including “security with respect to our sovereignties.”
Last week, Sheinbaum had said she was seeking a conversation with Trump or U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio after the U.S. president made comments in an interview that he was ready to confront drug cartels on the ground and repeated the accusation that cartels were running Mexico.
Trump’s offers of using U.S. forces against Mexican cartels took on a new weight after the Trump administration deposed Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Sheinbaum was expected to share more about their conversation later Monday.
A leader of the Canadian government is visiting China this week for the first time in nearly a decade, a bid to rebuild his country’s fractured relations with the world’s second-largest economy — and reduce Canada’s dependence on the United States, its neighbor and until recently one of its most supportive and unswerving allies.
The push by Prime Minster Mark Carney, who arrives Wednesday, is part of a major rethink as ties sour with the United States — the world’s No. 1 economy and long the largest trading partner for Canada by far.
Carney aims to double Canada’s non-U.S. exports in the next decade in the face of President Trump’s tariffs and the American leader’s musing that Canada could become “the 51st state.”
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The comment by a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson came in response to a question at a regular daily briefing. President Trump has said he would like to make a deal to acquire Greenland, a semiautonomous region of NATO ally Denmark, to prevent Russia or China from taking it over.
Tensions have grown between Washington, Denmark and Greenland this month as Trump and his administration push the issue and the White House considers a range of options, including military force, to acquire the vast Arctic island.
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen has warned that an American takeover of Greenland would mark the end of NATO.
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Trump said Sunday that he is “inclined” to keep ExxonMobil out of Venezuela after its top executive was skeptical about oil investment efforts in the country after the toppling of former President Nicolás Maduro.
“I didn’t like Exxon’s response,” Trump said to reporters on Air Force One as he departed West Palm Beach, Florida. “They’re playing too cute.”
During a meeting Friday with oil executives, Trump tried to assuage the concerns of the companies and said they would be dealing directly with the U.S., rather than the Venezuelan government.
Some, however, weren’t convinced.
“If we look at the commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela, today it’s uninvestable,” said Darren Woods, CEO of ExxonMobil, the largest U.S. oil company.
An ExxonMobil spokesperson did not immediately respond Sunday to a request for comment.
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Trump’s motorcade took a different route than usual to the airport as he was departing Florida on Sunday due to a “suspicious object,” according to the White House.
The object, which the White House did not describe, was discovered during security sweeps in advance of Trump’s arrival at Palm Beach International Airport.
“A further investigation was warranted and the presidential motorcade route was adjusted accordingly,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement Sunday.
The president, when asked about the package by reporters, said, “I know nothing about it.”
Anthony Guglielmi, the spokesman for U.S. Secret Service, said the secondary route was taken just as a precaution and that “that is standard protocol.”
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Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Republic over its bloody crackdown on protesters, a move coming as activists said Monday the death toll in the nationwide demonstrations rose to at least 544.
Iran had no direct reaction to Trump’s comments, which came after the foreign minister of Oman — long an interlocutor between Washington and Tehran — traveled to Iran this weekend. It also remains unclear just what Iran could promise, particularly as Trump has set strict demands over its nuclear program and its ballistic missile arsenal, which Tehran insists is crucial for its national defense.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking to foreign diplomats in Tehran, insisted “the situation has come under total control” in fiery remarks that blamed Israel and the U.S. for the violence, without offering evidence.
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Fed Chair Powell said Sunday the DOJ has served the central bank with subpoenas and threatened it with a criminal indictment over his testimony this summer about the Fed’s building renovations.
The move represents an unprecedented escalation in Trump’s battle with the Fed, an independent agency he has repeatedly attacked for not cutting its key interest rate as sharply as he prefers. The renewed fight will likely rattle financial markets Monday and could over time escalate borrowing costs for mortgages and other loans.
The subpoenas relate to Powell’s testimony before the Senate Banking Committee in June, the Fed chair said, regarding the Fed’s $2.5 billion renovation of two office buildings, a project that Trump has criticized as excessive.
Powell on Sunday cast off what has up to this point been a restrained approach to Trump’s criticisms and personal insults, which he has mostly ignored. Instead, Powell issued a video statement in which he bluntly characterized the threat of criminal charges as simple “pretexts” to undermine the Fed’s independence when it comes to setting interest rates.
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters while in flight on Air Force One to Joint Base Andrews, Md., Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
President Donald Trump waves after arriving on Air Force One from Florida, Sunday, Jan. 11, 2026, at Joint Base Andrews, Md. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)
