Last unbeaten teams face a difficult week ahead

With an ugly loss to North Carolina, the Blue Devils fall to 11-11 and, according to experts, their chances of an at-large big are down the drain.

Deante Strickland was 22. He averaged 7.4 points per game over the last two basketball seasons and planned to play football.

It might not seem possible, but Rob Gronkowski probably loves the number 69 even more than he did just a few days ago. That’s because the seemingly magic number helped the New England Patriots tight end win a nice little chunk of change on his namesake horse, Gronkowski, at the Belmont Stakes. The race took place Saturday (the date was 6/9). And the horse just happened to open with 69-1 odds to win. All of that surely helped prompt the five-time Pro Bowl selection, who recently became a co-owner of the horse that shares his name, and several of his associates to place $69 bets on the four-legged Gronkowski. It didn’t look good for either creature named Gronk during the first third of the 1.5-mile