- It's the start of Easter weekend. Take a look at if you need something to do.
- The is hosting autograph sessions with former Philadelphia Phillies Mitch Williams, Kevin Stocker, David West and Jim Eisenreich on Saturday, starting at 10:30 a.m.
- Sunny today, with a high of 58, according to the National Weather Service.
- The University of Connecticut men's basketball team cannot compete for next year's national championship after the NCAA denied the school's appeal of a postseason ban based on its athletes' academic performance, CNN reports. The Huskies earlier had been ordered to sit out the 2013 NCAA tournament, because of its past players' sub-par academic performance rate.
- On this day, April 6, 1973, the American League of Major League Baseball begins using the designated hitter.
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