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After Kansas and North Carolinaâs thriller itâs official: Transfers are in and one-and-dones are out
College basketball is full of rituals, and one of them is that the day after the season ends a host of publications will release their âway-too-earlyâ preseason rankings, as more attention will be focused on mock drafts and the upcoming NBA Draft....
âAs of right now, I feel like I am going to play.'
For the first time since the February 2021 car wreck that threatened his ability to walk again, Tiger Woods confirmed Tuesday he intends to play in the Masters. Woodsâ desire to compete comes after a 9-hole practice round on Monday with a huge audience....
Dawn Staley is the most important Black coach in college basketball history
You know those shirts that say, âI am my ancestorsâ wildest dreamâ? Thatâs what Dawn Staley is....
UConn had nowhere to go
You couldnât ask for much more of a premier NCAA tournament final than having the two most recent Naismith award winners in Paige Bueckers for UConn and Aliyah Boston for South Carolina square off. These donât always live up to the occasion, and UConn has already provided one classic against N.C. St...
Caleb Love was the villain Coach K and Duke deserved
A scythe has stalked Coach Kâs career since he announced his plan to retire last July. On Saturday night, Dukeâs final Final Four of the Mike Krzyzewski era came to a grisly end. UNCâs 81-77 victory over their arch-rival also featured a familiar slayer in Caleb Love....
Duke-UNC played out like a WrestleMania main event
It wasnât until the 3 that I knew. That was the moment, when I caught myself pumping my fist, and mouthing âyes!â that I realized I worked myself into a shoot....
Thereâs only one Brock Lesnar
Itâs time to recognize Brock Lesnar for what he is. Take away the reservations of his participation in primarily sports entertainment instead of plain-old sport. Look more into the diversity of his accomplishments in combat sports. Lesnar is one of the best athletes of this generation. That may be a...
The entire LSU basketball team is gone
Sanctions are coming, Will Wade is gone, and the Tigers arenât sticking around to find out what it looks like. LSU basketball might not be receiving the death penalty from the NCAA for their former coachâs infractions, but the team itself has sent the program into a virtual death spiral....
UConn has 1 focus at Final Four
It wasnât the all-out classic that Monday in Bridgeport was, but UConn took down another No. 1 seed on Friday night, dethroning defending national champion Stanford, 63-58....
U.S. gets England in World Cup Group Stage
As the United States menâs national team backed into the FIFA World Cup on Wednesday night, Fridayâs draw couldnât have realistically worked out any better for them....
Democrats introduce bill that would put NCAAâs gender gap on notice
As the womenâs Final Four kicks off tonight, the cloud looming over the NCAA only grows. Having gotten away with treating their female athletes like second-class citizens for decades, the crackdown is truly beginning, as the organization gets piled on from all sides with growing expectations to crea...
There go the Rams doing what they do best: Spend dollars
The Los Angeles Rams are doing their best to be the 2000s New York Yankees. While the NFL is a hard-salary capped sport, they are doing their all to keep as much big-named talent on the roster as possible. They were not able to re-sign midseason acquisition Von Miller, so they instead added a big na...
đ”Now, this is a story all about how the life of Seattle Kraken DJ... is awesomeđ”
The in-stadium experience is what makes going to sporting events fun. The energy that radiates from other fans of your favorite team, the mascotâs antics, and fan interaction through graphics on the jumbotron and the in-stadium camera crew make attending a live sporting event an unforgettable experi...
ESPNâs NBA âretro-castâ sounds like a pretty cool idea
ESPNâs is set to test a new idea on ESPN 2 with an NBA âretro-castâ that will roll out on April 6 during the New York Knicks vs. Brooklyn Nets game at Madison Square Garden....
Greg Gumbel has got some HOT takes, who knew?
ESPN needs to have a Greg Gumbel day on First Take, because it appears that this man has been simmering with hot takes for years. He recently appeared on Sports Illustratedâs Jimmy Trainaâs SI Media Podcast and let it fly about how he feels about the recent contracts that NFL broadcasters have recei...
Shaheen Holloway is the 2022 March Madness Champ
If Duke, UNC, Kansas or Villanova are going to win another national title, we have to celebrate something besides another blueblood champion. Watching another blueblood Final Four is nauseating and almost seems antithetical to the glorified ideal of March Madness....
Who are we taking to Qatar?
The USMNT punched their ticket with a true letâs-not-fuck-this-up-royally performance in Costa Rica. So now the attention turns to who are the 23 souls that Gregg Berhalter will be putting on the plane for the tournament. Our intrepid soccer goofuses Sam Fels and Eric Blum have some ideas....
Eric Church cancels concert to watch UNC-Duke
Sorry to all the Eric Church fans out there, but Iâve just got to respect the manâs commitment to the game. The country singer canceled a sold-out concert in San Antonio this Saturday so that he could watch North Carolina face Duke in a Final Four game that, if all goes well, is sure to go down in h...
They qualified, so shut up
As mentioned previously this week, the USMNT fanâs natural inclination these days is to turn cold and scornful. Itâs understandable, as we all spent so much time watching a team and program that was an utter mess and just twirling around before falling like a child you made do the spin-around-the-ba...