Sports: Butler Scares Duke, Tiger Returns
09 April 2010
Butler's Roland Nored is guarded by Duke's Nolan Smith during the NCAA national championship game
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
This was a big week in American sports.
In college basketball, a small school with a young coach nearly defeated a longtime powerhouse team for the national championship. Butler lost by just two points to Duke, which for years has had one of the country’s most successful basketball programs.
Butler University is a private school of about four thousand students in Indianapolis, Indiana. Butler won two national titles -- back in the nineteen twenties.
Monday night's game against Duke brought comparisons to the nineteen eighty-six movie "Hoosiers." In it, a small Indiana high school makes an unlikely run for the state championship. In fact, part of the movie was filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse, home of the Butler Bulldogs.
In women's basketball, on Tuesday night the University of Connecticut beat Stanford by six points for the national championship. The UConn Huskies entered the game undefeated for the past two seasons, yet they were behind after the first half.
In other sports news, Tiger Woods returned to competition this week. The world's top golfer met with reporters Monday before the first major tournament of the year. The Masters in Augusta, Georgia, continues through Sunday.
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