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For years, E.L. Doctorow thought that Union Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's destructive march to the sea near the end of the Civil War would make for a gripping work of fiction.

In baseball news, the Yankees shutout the Tampa Bay Rays, 2-0, the Red Sox bested the Athletics, 6-1, the Mets blanked the Brewers, 4-0, and the Marlins outscored the Phillies, 11-9.

South Carolina became the top-ranked women's basketball team in the nation by knocking off UConn 64-49 Sunday night in the women’s NACAA championship game. The men’s championship game is tonight between UNC and Kansas at 9:20 p.m.

In the NCAA tournament, The second seeded Kentucky suffered an 85-79 overtime loss to 16th seeded St. Peter’s. Fourth seed Arkansas escaped with a 75-71 victory over 13th-seeded Vermont and New Mexico State won an NCAA Tournament game for the first time in almost three decades, 70-63 over No. 5 Connecticut.

I was in Windows On The World the day before 9/11. It took me two years and folding a thousand origami cranes before I could write this essay; it's taken another 18 years for it to be published.

NPR's Barrie Hardymon and Marc Rivers discuss why some movie lines become iconic and whether today's films are still creating quotes that last.

The gold medals are beginning to trickle in for U.S track and field athletes at the Tokyo Games. Sydney McLaughlin has broken her own world record to win…

Kyrie Irving scored 22 of his 30 points in the first half of the Nets’ 119-118 win at Washington. LaMarcus Aldridge added 27 points for Brooklyn, which led by as many as 16. James Harden had 18 in helping the Nets win for only the fifth time in their last 12 games and snap a four-game losing streak at Washington.

The Nuggets had a 124-118 decision over the Nets and the Heat whipped the Knicks, 110-96.

In baseball news, the Yankees beat the Rangers, 1-0, and the Phillies shut out the Mariners, 9-0.