Bracket Week Arrives: New Jersey High School Winter Championships Shift Into Full Postseason Mode The most anticipated stretch of the New Jersey high school winter...

As New Jersey’s winter calendar hits its most demanding and decisive stretch, high school gyms, rinks and natatoriums across the state are no longer just hosting games — they are defining seasons. County and conference tournaments are now in full swing, and with NJSIAA seeding meetings rapidly approaching in mid-February, every possession, every pin and every split second on the clock is shaping postseason paths in real time. This is the annual moment when New Jersey high school athletics narrows from broad promise into sharp reality. Brackets are tightening. Rivalries are intensifying. Programs are either confirming their place among the state’s elite or fighting to keep championship dreams alive. It is also the stretch that reminds...

You emphasized over and over how important the event was to you, and still, your partner showed up late. “One person might say, ‘What a jerk. I’m really angry,’” says TCNJ Senior Research Scholar Candice Feiring. “Another person might say, ‘I get it, they’ve been super-stressed lately. I know they’ll make it up to me.’” Romantic partners can interpret the same set of events differently, often leading to escalating conflict. But what if partners used the argument to create more intimacy instead? For years, Feiring has led studies at the psychology department’s Romantic Relationship Research Lab examining how couples handle conflict and how they might do it better. She recently spearheaded a program called HeartSmarts that uses...