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.
The Round of 64 for 2026’s men’s March Madness tournament tips off today with a full, wall-to-wall slate: four windows, four networks, and 16 games that swing from coin-flip 8–9s to heavy-chalk openers where the goal is still mere survival all the same. It’s the rare sports day built for channel-flipping and second screens, where […]
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
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
Texas vs. NC State seems, by name, more like a game that escaped from deeper in the bracket. Two No. 11 seeds, two at-large teams, two brands with actual pressure attached, and a winner that immediately gets BYU in the West. Texas arrives 18-14 after a 9-9 SEC season and a six-Quad 1 résumé that […]
March 17, 2026
The word Cinderella has always been a little too delicate for what these teams actually do. It makes them sound ornamental, accidental, as if they wandered into March wearing borrowed glass slippers and happened to stay. The teams worth betting on are usually less dainty than that. They defend like pests, they run like thieves, […]
March 16, 2026
The first lie of March Madness is that the bracket arrives as a verdict. It certainly does not. It arrives as an invitation—to argue, to mythologize, to turn five months of data into a handful of private superstitions and then call the whole thing expertise. The official 2026 men’s field is out now, the seed […]
March 16, 2026
March bracket culture is really a form of temporary self-delusion. For about 48 hours, everyone becomes a minor theologian of variance, talking themselves into the idea that this year they can finally see the shape of the chaos before it happens. A six-game heater in February starts to feel like destiny. A 12-seed with a […]
March 16, 2026