the phenomenon called march madness has taken over the u.s. this weekend and one of the country s most prestigious universities is at the center of it all. princeton university is men s basketball team, a 15th seed in the ncaa tournament pulled off its second massive upset saturday night, while the university of kansas, the reigning champion and one of the favorites to win it all again lost in heartbreaking fashion. with me now is cnn sports coy wire. bracket busters galore. this is what it s all about at this time of year, right? no other sporting event captures america s hearts and minds from a sporting perspective like the ncaa tournament. you have tens of millions of people, you mentioned those brackets, they don t even watch college basketball during the regular season, but this tournament comes around, you re filling them out at work, billions of dollars are bet on this three-week tournament. it s quite the phenomenon. and there is a lot of madness and upsets and magic. here s
woods says he did not mean to offend anyone. it was supposed to be fun and games but obviously it hasn t turned out that way and if i offended anybody it was not the case, it was just friends having fun and as i said if i offended anybody in any way, shape or form, i m sorry. it was not intended to be that way. it s just, you know, we play pranks on one another all the time and virally i think this did not come across that way but between us, it s different. joining me cnn sports analyst christine brennan. her new column calls out tiger woods. christine, great to see you. so, christine, why can t this just be a sophomoric joke between two friends? it could, alisyn. as i wrote in the column and as i ll say to you right now it s certainly not the biggest deal in the world. we have many other issues. you ve been talking about them on the show that are more
lakers legend kareem abdul-jabbar for at least a couple more days. for now, cnn sports coy wire. he hasn t made a secret of how much this record means to him. yeah, it was just a few days ago he considers this one of the greatest records in all of p home sports. it s been kareem s for 39 years. that s longer than lebron has been alive, but now lebron is one good game away from breaking that rohr. every time lebron made a bucket saturday on the road now in new orleans, the crowd cheered. that s how badly fans from any team want to see history. 20 years in the nba and he s still doing stuff like that. just like you, right? yeah. this is the type of effort and passion that makes lebron the greatest. fans getting their money s worth. he flew into the stands chasing that loose ball. despite his effort, the lakers
united states, canada, and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom i ordered the pentagon to shoot it down on wednesday as soon as possible. spy balloon down. a recovery effort now underway after fighter jets launched a precision strike. cnn has reporters across the globe on the latest developments. plus parts of the u.s. finally warming up, this after record-breaking freezing temperatures, the coldest in decades in some areas. we ll look at when people can see relief. and basketball superstar lebron james continues to chip away at the nba s all-time scoring record. we ll break down his latest game with cnn sports coy wire. you re about to see and hear
cnn sports anchor coy wire sets the stage. reporter: the eagles and chiefs were the top two seeds in the playoffs and top two offenses led by phenomenal quarterbacks, 16 years after tony dungy and lovie smith were the first two black coaches to face off, jalen hurts and patrick mahomes become the first two starting quarterbacks to play in one. here s a look. with a trip to the super bowl on the line placement is down, butker s kick is high and it is good! good. good. reporter: a nail-biter in the afc championship. the chiefs who beat the bengals in a revenge rematch of last season s overtime afc title game during a frigid night at arrowhead stadium, the bad blood between these two teams boiling over till the very end. chiefs star quarterback patrick mahomes scrambling for field