NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! No. 5 Vanderbilt was a mere inch away from maybe the most historic shot in program history until the ball did everything but drop.Tyler Tanner’s beyond-half-court heave to send the Commodores to the Sweet 16 went in-and-out to give No. 4 Nebraska a 74-72 win and advance to the Sweet 16.Nebraska entered the half with a 39-32 lead and led by as many as 10 at one point, but Vanderbilt rallied back to lead by five with 5:34 to go.  The Cornhuskers then answered back with a 6-0 run to retake the lead, but Vanderbilt led 72-70 with less than a minute to go after a Tanner layup, which gave him 27 points on the night.Those, however, were Tanner’s and Vanderbilt’s final points of the game. Rienk Mast tied the game with a putback with 37 seconds left, and Vanderbilt’s Chandler Bing missed a shot to take a late lead.Nebraska then ran down the court, and Pryce Sandfort found Braden Frager, who made a contested layup to take the lead with 2.2 seconds left. VILLANOVA COACH TURNS HEADS AFTER ‘JOKE’ THAT HE WOULD ‘FIRE MY STAFF’ DURING MARCH MADNESS LOSSVanderbilt called a…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Hours after a mysterious boom rattled homes across the Houston area, a woman claimed a suspected meteorite crashed through her roof — leaving behind a gaping hole and a football-sized rock.Locals took to social media in a panic Saturday afternoon after hearing what they said sounded like a large blast in the Houston area.The Brenham Fire Department confirmed it was dispatched to reports of a possible explosion near Highway 50, though units on scene did not find anything.The department said that several witnesses saw a “green flash fall from the sky, black smoke, and heard a loud ‘boom.’” UNEXPLAINED LOUD BANGS PERPLEX NEIGHBORS NEAR HOMES OF ALLEGED NYC TERROR PLOT SUSPECTSFire officials noted other sources claimed the noise could have been caused by a “possible meteor.”Sherrie James, who contacted affiliate FOX 26 and the Ponderosa Fire Department after the blast, said an “unusual rock” crashed through her roof, leaving a large hole in the ceiling and in her flooring.Photos provided by James showed a football-sized black rock that appeared to be broken off a larger chunk of material. MYSTERIOUS HUM RATTLES AMERICAN CITY AS RESIDENTS REPORT SLEEPLESS NIGHTS AND RISING FEARSince there…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Most of March Madness seemed to lacking big upsets in the early going, but the tournament has its first Cinderella.The 11th-seeded Texas Longhorns pulled off a huge upset against No. 3 Gonzaga with a 74-68 win to move on to the Sweet 16.Gonzaga led by as many as eight points, going up 28-20 with 4:29 left in the first half, but the Longhorns ended the half on a 15-5 run to lead by two going into the locker room.  Both teams constantly exchanged buckets and leads in the second half, and neither team led by more than four until Texas got out to its largest lead of six with a big 3-pointer with 5:30 to go in the game.And an upset alert was officially on.The Bulldogs cut the deficit to two with three minutes to go, but Texas answered with a massive three to go back up five. Then, up 69-66, Texas missed two 3-pointers that went in and out, and a Gonzaga dunk with around 40 seconds left made it a one-point game.The Longhorns’ Camden Heide made the shot of his life with a corner 3-pointer with 14.7 seconds left. After…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! New York Giants running back Cam Skattebo apologized for a “lapse in judgment” after he said CTE was not real and asthma was “fake.”Skattebo appeared on the “Bring the Juice” podcast when he was asked if CTE was “a real thing,” and he replied that it was “an excuse.” He also implored “soft” asthmatics to “just breathe air.””I recently did an interview and had a lapse in judgment, which resulted in me making a tasteless joke about CTE and asthma. It was never my intention to downplay the seriousness of head injuries or asthma,” Skattebo wrote on his Instagram story Saturday after the clip began to go viral.   “I sincerely apologize to anyone that was offended by my remarks, and I assure you that I’ll be more mindful and respectful going forward. MUCH LOVE!!!”Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) is a progressive, degenerative brain disease linked to repeated head impacts rather than a single injury, according to the Mayo Clinic. More than 100 former NFL players have been posthumously diagnosed with CTE, according to a University of Utah study published in the Journal of Neurotrauma. LEGENDARY SPORTS AGENT SUGGESTS FRESH APPROACH TEAMS SHOULD TAKE AS…

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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Major League Baseball’s Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) had arguably its best moment on Saturday afternoon in spring training.In a game between the Cleveland Guardians and San Francisco Giants in Scottsdale, Arizona, Robbie Ray was facing Sean Mooney, who was at the plate as the tying run in a 3-0 game and an 0-2 count with two outs in the top of the fourth.Mooney took a low sinker that was called a ball by home plate umpire Bill Miller, but catcher Patrick Bailey challenged the call. Only a batter, catcher or pitcher can challenge calls, and the challenge must be almost immediate. Each team gets two and retains correct challenges.  Miller announced to the crowd that the Giants were challenging the call to get out of the inning, but he accidentally left his mic on, providing a hilarious misstep.”Please be a strike,” Miller said, before quickly realizing that everyone had just heard him. Bailey, too, had a pretty hysterical reaction.Miller was actually rooting for his call to be wrong, but it was over 100 degrees in Scottsdale, so maybe Miller wanted to simply cool down. GUARDIANS PITCHERS EMMANUEL CLASE, LUIS ORTIZ NO LONGER GETTING…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Villanova head coach Kevin Willard was not happy during his team’s March Madness defeat.The eighth-seeded Wildcats fell to No. 9 Utah State in the first round Friday, and Willard mentioned making changes to his staff not once, but twice because of how his team performed.During the game, Willard was interviewed by TNT’s Lauren Shehadi about keeping Utah State out of the paint after it dominated inside early.  “I’m going to fire my staff,” Willard said. Shehadi replied, “Not now.””Yeah, I am,” Willard added. “Because we’ve given up eight points on underneath, out-of-bounds defense. So, the only thing I’m going to do is fire them and get a new staff.””OK, go do that now,” Shehadi replied.After the 86-76 loss, Willard doubled down in his press conference.”We gave up a big three late. I’m probably going to have to make some changes to my staff just because of how bad we were,” he said. VCU COACH PRAISES STUDENT JOURNALISTS AFTER HISTORIC MARCH MADNESS COMEBACK: ‘BEST IN THE COUNTRY’Another reporter then began to ask Willard about the comments, but the coach would not let him finish.”It’s a joke. God bless it,” Willard said.The reporter then mentioned that…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! David Spade is calling out California’s leadership for the collapse of Hollywood.During a recent episode of his podcast, “Fly on the Wall,” which he co-hosts with Dana Carvey, the 61-year-old actor and comedian said “the Hollywood industry is dying” and that he’s “just trying to put the blame somewhere.””Dude, I’m so old,” he said. “I was on the lot at, uh, CBS Radford when we were doing ‘Just Shoot Me’… And also they were doing ‘Seinfeld,’ and I’d see him on his bike. It was the greatest lot. Of course, just filed for bankruptcy, the lot. Terrifying in L.A. Thanks, [LA Mayor] Karen Bass. Thanks, [Gov.] Gavin [Newsom].”Carvey agreed that “the Hollywood studio system is dying,” and insisted changes need to be made in order to revive it. HOLLYWOOD STAR ENDORSES REPUBLICAN FOR CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR AFTER ‘DEVASTATING’ NEWSOM ADMIN”The amount of productions is dying, and so they have to do something so more production comes back, and that starts with negotiating with the union and also subsidizing the industry tax breaks to compete with Romania,” Carvey said.Spade and Carvey are not the only celebrities concerned with the current state of Hollywood and…

Springfield Armory has just announced three new Aimpoint COA-equipped Echelon models.When the Aimpoint COA and its neat new A-CUT mounting system were announced last year, many shooters were excited to get their hands on it. The ability to do so was limited, however, due to it being exclusively available on Glocks for the first year and those sales being limited to MIL and LE customers for much of that time frame. Thankfully, that 1-year exclusivity window has recently ended, and Aimpoint COA red dots are starting to become available on a wider variety of handguns. The latest to be announced is the Springfield Echelon, with COA variants being offered for the 4.0C, 4.0FC and 4.5F models.The Springfield Echelon left our team impressed, but the new optic option should help make it even better. The trick behind the Aimpoint COA is twofold: there’s the red dot itself, and there’s its A-CUT mounting system. The COA is a rugged yet lightweight closed-emitter optic that features a 3.5-MOA dot, a huge 15x15mm lens and an excellent battery life. Meanwhile, the A-CUT mount dovetails the entire optic into the slide of the Echelon and secures it via a front hook and rear wedge. This…

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Florida woman was arrested after she was caught on video allegedly punching a pregnant woman in the face, attacking an older woman who attempted to help, and biting a police officer while being placed under arrest.Mandolyn Ann Shaffer-Brockwell, 37, of Orlando, is charged with battery of a person 65 years or older, aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer, burglary of a conveyance with assault/battery, and resisting an officer with violence, FOX 35 Orlando reported.The incident allegedly stemmed from an apparent Feb. 23 road rage dispute near the Mall of Millenia, according to the Orlando Police Department.The pregnant woman told authorities Shaffer-Brockwell “kept stopping her vehicle short distances in front of her,” and she honked and tried to change lanes to get away from her, according to the report.SMILING ANTI-ICE AGITATOR ACCUSED OF PUNCHING FLORIDA TROOPER AS DESANTIS ASSERTS ‘THIS IS NOT MINNEAPOLIS’ Footage released by the department appeared to show Shaffer-Brockwell getting out of her vehicle, running toward the pregnant woman’s car, jumping on the hood, and then forcefully opening the driver’s side door and allegedly hitting and punching the woman in the face.The woman told police she had a…