Author: Michael

These Supermen are on a quest for peace. 
Shaquille O’Neal and Dwight Howard, retired NBA giants, have finally buried their long-running feud … or so it seems. 
The reconciliation comes fresh off Howard’s Hall of Fame nomination for the Class of 2025.
The beef between them boiled down to Shaq calling Howard a “copycat” and Howard firing back, urging Shaq to move on, with some colorful language thrown in.
The bad blood began in 2008 when Howard wore the iconic Superman cape at the once-relevant NBA Dunk Contest, prompting O’Neal to take the gloves off.

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I don’t know what is happening, but birds are getting kind of ornery these days.
We just had an ostrich bit former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, and now we’ve got students at a university in Canada that seem to be getting attacked by geese all the time.
According to CBC News, students at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario are having a serious problem with geese going rogue and attacking them.
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There’s even a compilation of these attacks going around that is downright terrifying… but also very hilarious.

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Pedro Porro’s touch of class has kept Tottenham’s hopes of Europa League success alive – Getty Images/Alex Pantling
Tottenham Hotspur will have to win in Germany next week to give head coach Ange Postecoglou any realistic hope of keeping his job past the end of this season – but he knows the “football Gods” will not be on his side.
Postecoglou’s Spurs could not secure the Europa League quarter-final first-leg lead against Eintracht Frankfurt they so badly wanted, but a Pedro Porro goal meant they travel to Germany with the tie in the balance and their hopes alive.

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So many of Alex Caruso’s appearances for the Thunder this season feel like the use of a concealed weapon. 
So each time fate sees his start — Wednesday was his third for OKC — it’s that much more explosive. Volume expands, as do minutes, and sparks fly. And Caruso, an All-Defense level disruptor, becomes especially tough to conceal. 
Mostly because his most noticeable stretches of defense, like his four steals in the third quarter that fueled a 13-2, feel smothering. He was an unbelievable plus-23 in a 12-point game, pairing a season-high 19 points with five rebounds.

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Editor’s note: Golfweek has live updates from the first round of the Masters Thursday. Click here for all the lastest news, scores, and highlights.
The 2025 Masters has underway and after shooting a blistering 65, Justin Rose has the lead heading into Friday’s second round at Augusta National Golf Club. Rose will be focusing on setting himself up to win his second career major, having already won the 2013 U.S. Open at Merion Golf Club in 2013, but several players struggled on Thursday and will be focusing on making the cut.

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Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recently walked back his original timetable for a potential George Pickens trade.
One question from Wednesday’s Steelers chat focused on whether the Pittsburgh Steelers would consider trading back to regain the second-round pick they traded away to acquire DK Metcalf—including the possibility of sending Pickens out of the Steel City for a Day 2 draft pick.

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The afterglow of Florida’s national championship run won’t fade for some time.
The offseason also has arrived, along with plenty of storylines for coach Todd Golden.
The price of Golden’s success
UF athletic director Scott Stricklin has rewarded national championship-winning coaches 10-year deals and nice raises. Golden is due a sizable one.
Golden agreed to a two-year contract extension through 2030 with a $1 million pay bump after last year’s 24-win season, leaving his salary at $3.6 million entering the NCAA Tournament — or 34th nationally.

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