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Every Top-5 Team Falls in Wild Saturday Slate

With March Madness just around the corner, teams are jostling for NCAA tournament seeding. It’s the final Saturday of February! With just 15 days to go until Selection Sunday, the 146 Division I men’s games today (and especially the four matchups between ranked teams) have extra meaning as teams look to make their cases to the NCAA’s selection committee. Sports Illustrated will keep you updated all day with the biggest takeaways from Saturday’s loaded slate and what it all means for March. Gonzaga Takes First WCC Loss in Over Two Years Until today, Gonzaga hadn’t even played a conference game decided by single digits. But the Bulldogs’ dominant reign in the WCC was stopped at least for a night by Saint Mary’s, which executed a marvelous game plan to suck the life out of one of the sport’s most explosive offenses. The Gaels limited Gonzaga to just 21 first-half points to get out to a 15-point halftime edge, then made enough shots in the second half to hold on even as Gonzaga made its pu...

Historic Cinema In Her Hometown and The Importance Of Local Theaters

“I don’t want to be that person who lives in a town and says, ‘I used to remember when that was a movie theater,’ ” Arianna Bocco tells Deadline as the IFC Films president and New Jersey native formally joins Bradley Lab — a subsidiary of theater developer/manager Cinema Lab. The group is planning to reopen The Bradley, a Monmouth, NJ, theater that dates from 1915 and a project Bocco brought them. “It’s one of the last one-room theaters in the state and the thought of it going by the wayside and becoming something else pained me,” she said. The original vaudeville theater at Bradley Beach was first called The Palace before being renamed The Beach and then The Showroom. It will reopen late this year with three high-tech auditoriums showing studio films, independent releases, curated series and director Q&As. It will offer free screenings for families with special needs children, and serve as a venue for local events and fundraisers. The idea is “to create a community focused, techno...

Attack on Titan The Final Season Anime

The official Twitter account for the Attack on Titan anime announced on Wednesday that two episodes of the Attack on Titan The Final Season Part 2 anime have been delayed due to "special programming."  Episode 87 will be delayed by one week, and it will premiere April 3 at 12:05 a.m. JST (effectively, April 4) instead of on March 27. Episode 84 will be delayed by 10 minutes, and it will premiere on March 6 at 12:15 a.m. JST (effectively, March 7). The season's Part 2 premiered with episode 76, "Danzai" ("Sentencing"), on the NHK General channel on January 9. The second part features a returning staff, including director Yuichiro Hayashi at MAPPA, series scriptwriter Hiroshi Seko, character designer Tomohiro Kishi, and music composers Hiroyuki Sawano and Kohta Yamamoto. The anime also features a returning cast. Crunchyroll and Funimation are streaming Part 2 of the Attack on Titan The Final Season anime as it airs in Japan. Crunchyroll is streaming in ...