The brackets are here, plus USA's big win

The Pulse Newsletter 📣 | This is The Athletic’s daily sports newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Pulse directly in your inbox. Good morning! Hit a draw on No. 18 today. Inside: 🏀 Men’s, women’s bracket reveals 🇺🇸 USA slays giant 🏒 Hockey controversy Can you smell it? A crisp breeze of air*? Happiness swirling through our plane of existence? I hope you did, because brackets have been released. It’s officially a top-three week of the sports calendar. Both the men’s and women’s brackets were revealed yesterday, so we’re covering them in the same space...