Dan Johnson has been an editor, writer, and analyst for DraftKings and DraftKings Network since 2024. He’s previously held editorial posts at The Paris Review, Macmillan Publishers, Bedford/St. Martin’s Press, ASSIGNMENT Magazine, and FantasySixPack. You can find his various editorial work & writing (sports-related and non-) at all of the above.
Everybody loves an underdog until it is time to actually pick one. That is what makes King of the Dogs fun. The promotion turns the first day of bracket mania into a different kind of puzzle: which upset will actually matter most? A popular 12-seed might feel smart, but if half the field lands there […]
March 19, 2026
The bracket is live, the clock has started, and the clean, orderly version of college basketball is about to disappear for 48 hours. The Round of 64 is where March Madness stops being an analytical exercise and turns into a stress test—of depth, of shotmaking, of composure, and most of all, of possession control. This […]
March 19, 2026
The 5–12 line is where the bracket starts heating up with temptation, and this one has all the right accelerants. Wisconsin enters at 24-10 with one of the sport’s sturdier program brands, its 28th NCAA tournament appearance, and a path through March that usually carries a certain institutional calm. High Point arrives at 30-4 as […]
March 19, 2026
The 4–13 line is where the bracket starts whispering to people. Nebraska arrives in the South Region at 26-6, with a No. 4 seed, a 15-5 Big Ten record, and the kind of wins list that still looks impressive even after the late wobble—wins over Creighton, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan State, Iowa, Kansas State, Oklahoma and […]
March 19, 2026
Colorado State gets the mountain air, the home floor, and the prettier offensive profile. Saint Joseph’s gets the messier tools—the glass, the rim protection, the kind of defensive resistance that can keep a better shooting team from ever feeling fully comfortable. The market hanging Colorado State around -5.5 is really a bet on one thing: […]
March 18, 2026
Crimson Desert is one of those games that has been hanging around the horizon long enough to become, to most gamers, a fool’s hope. It was first revealed by Pearl Abyss in November 2019, then reintroduced with a splashier gameplay push at The Game Awards in December 2020. It’s a standalone single-player open-world action-adventure from […]
March 18, 2026
Dayton walks in with the shinier recent March line—an Atlantic 10 final appearance, a 23-11 record, and a profile that still reads like a dangerous road team when the guards get downhill and the whistle starts to hum. Bradley gets something subtler but maybe more important tonight: Peoria, a 21-12 season, and a home floor […]
March 18, 2026
Kent State brings the harder recent runway, a faster style, and the sort of road pressure that can make a rested favorite look clunky before it looks comfortable. That tension is the whole game here. Illinois State enters 20-12 and hosts this first-round matchup at CEFCU Arena, while Kent State arrives 24-9 after a MAC […]
March 18, 2026
Wake enters 17-16 after an ACC tournament win over Virginia Tech and a loss to Clemson. Navy arrives 26-7 after a Patriot League title run that ended in a one-point semifinal loss to Boston University. One team is trying to remind everyone it still owns high-major talent. The other is trying to prove that structure, […]
March 18, 2026
The First Four always feels a little more volatile than the rest of the bracket. Prairie View A&M got here by ripping off four wins in five days in the SWAC tournament as the No. 8 seed, then capping it with a 72-66 title-game win over Southern. Lehigh took the cleaner route, winning the Patriot […]
March 18, 2026
Imperfect Women arrives on Apple TV this Wednesday, March 18, as the sort of glossy murder-and-friendship thriller streamers keep betting on for good reason. Here we have three women, one shattered bond, one death, and a whole architecture of guilt, betrayal, and carefully maintained adult-life lies waiting to crack open. The basic premise: a murder […]
March 17, 2026