Nora Roberts' Northern Lights
9 pm/ET Lifetime
Mystery, adventure and romance blend nicely in this cable drama set in the fictional town of Lunacy, Alaska, now home to Nate Burns (Eddie Cibrian), a Baltimore policeman who was taken the job of Lunacy's chief of police. Leaving his troubled past in the East, Nate stumbles into an unexpected romance with bush pilot Meg Galligan (LeAnn Rimes). Meg's issues with her absent father come front and center when she learns that he did not abandon her but was killed — and she might be next. Now Nate must draw on his big-city skills to solve a past murder and prevent another. — Rhoda Charles
Read on for previews of House of Style, iCarly, The Locator, MADtv and the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.
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Tennessee orange turned into ESPN gold on Tuesday night, with the Lady Vols second-consecutive NCAA women’s basketball championship bringing in 3.86 million viewers. That's a 24 percent increase from last year's title game (2.92 million). With a dominating 64-48 victory over Stanford, Tennessee earned head coach Pat Summitt her eighth national title, and 104th NCAA tournament game victory. The Lady Vols forced Stanford into 24 turnovers — almost double the Cardinal’s season average — and looked considerably sharper than their past two games. Candace Parker (17 points, 9 rebounds) was named Most Outsanding Player of the Women's Final Four, but it was an inspired performance from senior Nicky Anosike that best illustrated Tennessee’s tenacious performance in Tampa. She had six steals to go along with her 12 points and 8 rebounds. “My mind set coming into the game [was that], I wasn't going home without a championship,” Anosike said after the game. &#...
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The Final Fours have been pared down to the Final Twos.Tonight's NCAA Men's Basketball Championship pits the Kansas Jayhawks vs. the Memphis Tigers. Coverage begins at 9 pm/ET, with the game scheduled to tip at 9:21 (April 7, CBS).Then Tuesday it's the women's turn: the red hot Stanford Cardinal play defending champion Tennessee Lady Volunteers (April 8, 8:30 pm/ET, ESPN).
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The Women's Final Four is set. Connecticut, LSU, Stanford and defending champion Tennessee head to St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Florida, this Sunday for the closing stages of the NCAA Women's Basketball Championship (April 6, 7 pm/ET, ESPN).Connecticut takes on Stanford in the first semifinal, followed by Tennessee vs. Louisiana State at (approximately) 9 pm/ET. The winners then face off Tuesday in the national championship game (April 8, 8:30 pm/ET, ESPN).LSU, the Buffalo Bills of women’s hoops, is looking for its first win on a record-tying fifth straight trip to the Final Four. Perhaps All-American center Sylvia Fowles, the SEC Player of the Year, can help the Tigers finally break that curse. Still, many (non-LSU/Stanford) fans are hoping for a classic Connecticut-Tennessee showdown. The teams have 12 NCAA titles between them, including nine of the last 13. Since their annual regular-season game was acrimoniously canceled this year, the stakes would be even higher if they ...
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And now it's the women's turn: The field for the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship was announced Monday night.The No. 1 seeds are:Greensboro Region: ConnecticutNew Orleans Region: North CarolinaOklahoma City Region: TennesseeSpokane Region: MarylandThe tournament gets underway Saturday with two games: No. 15 University of Texas San Antonio vs. No. 2 Texas A&M and No. 10 Georgia Tech vs. No. 7 Iowa State (March 22, noon/ET, ESPN2).Connecticut, the overall No. 1 seed, opens against No. 16 Cornell Sunday night (March 23, 7 pm/ET, ESPN2). Cornell is led by two-sport phenom Jeomi Maduka, the Ivy League player of the year. Redefining March Madness, Maduka finished eighth in the long jump last Friday at the NCAA Indoor Track & Field Championships (earning All-America honors), then flew to New York City, where she helped the Big Red defeat Dartmouth in a special playoff game on Sunday. (The Ivy League doesn't have a tournament.)Defending national champion Tennessee beg...
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