03/23/2026 11:17 AM
The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! I believe in you. Inside: 🌟Men’s Sweet 16 is set 🗣️ Beautiful coaching moment 🏁 MJ’s new dominance All weekend, I kept thinking about the volume of the NCAA Tournament. Not the noise — the literal number of games played in four days, especially with the men’s and women’s tournaments now coinciding. There are games on all day; every game is important. Overwhelming, but in a good way, right? Then we reach today...
