On this day in Boston Celtics history, the Celtics’ first coach, Alvin “Doggie” Julian, was born in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Before landing the job as head coach of the nascent Celtics franchise, Julian would play football, baseball, and basketball at Bucknell, having a four-year pro career playing baseball for various teams between 1922 and 1926. At various points in his life, he’d coach all three sports at the collegiate and high school levels but began coaching basketball at Muhlenberg College in 1936.
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NASCAR’s top two national series will practice and qualify Saturday at Darlington Raceway, which will have cars on track for nearly eight consecutive hours.
The Xfinity Series will take the track just after 10 a.m. ET for a 55-minute practice and then qualifying. Cup cars will begin practicing for 55 minutes at 12:35 p.m., followed by qualifying for Sunday’s race.
Saturday will be capped by a 200-lap Xfinity race that will begin shortly after 3:30 p.m. Justin Allgaier is the defending winner.
Darlington Raceway schedule
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Saturday, April 5
Garage open
7 a.m.
SAN ANTONIO – Todd Golden can still remember how the other half lives.
Florida’s coach is only three years removed from his time at San Francisco, where he was a mid-major coach punching up against a sport hardening the competitive ceiling on those programs. The transfer portal, name, image and likeness opportunities and, likely soon, revenue sharing all combine to make life ever more difficult for college basketball’s have-somes, much less its have-nots.
“I definitely see a growing disparity between the levels,” Golden said Friday.
As reported by the Carolina Panthers on Friday afternoon, former linebacker Dean Wells has died following a two-year battle with cancer.
Wells, who passed away on Thursday morning, was 54 years old.
The Louisville, Ky. native played his college ball at the University of Kentucky from 1988 to 1992. That final season saw Wells set the program’s single-season sacks record (10) as well as their single-game sacks record (5.0), which remains intact to this day.
He would then be selected by the Seattle Seahawks in the fourth round of the 1993 NFL draft.
The NFL is allowing teams to wear alternate jerseys four times during the season. This is an increase from the previously allotted three opportunities to wear alternative jerseys, but is still rare enough to keep them as a special occasion.
It’ll be interesting to see what this means for the New Orleans Saints under Kellen Moore. The rule creates more opportunities to wear the Color Rush and throwback jerseys. If Sean Payton or Dennis Allen were still leading the team, it would likely just mean another opportunity to wear the Color Rush uniforms.
Lewis Hamilton acknowledged his final laps in qualifying were “not good enough” as he qualified a lowly eighth for the Japanese Grand Prix.
While Max Verstappen took a sensational F1 pole position at Suzuka ahead of both McLaren drivers, seven-time world champion Hamilton struggled and looked short of table-topping pace throughout the session.
In the end, he was only eighth-fastest – behind both Mercedes drivers and Racing Bulls driver Isack Hadjar – and was three-tenths off Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc in fourth.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen celebrates taking pole position (MOHD RASFAN)
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen smashed the track record to snatch pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris, as Yuki Tsunoda qualified a lowly 15th in his Red Bull debut.
Verstappen clocked a blistering lap of 1min 26.983sec in his Red Bull, 0.012sec ahead of early championship leader Norris, with the other McLaren of Oscar Piastri third.
Verstappen has struggled with his car this season and the McLarens dominated all three practice sessions at Suzuka.
Amorim downplays City concerns as United focus on bigger issues
Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim is keeping his attention firmly on his own team’s struggles rather than dwelling on Manchester City’s recent dip in form, ahead of Sunday’s Manchester derby at Old Trafford.
The upcoming clash is shaping up to be one of the least anticipated derbies in recent years. United sit a disappointing 13th in the Premier League table, while City, usually title contenders, are instead battling for a Champions League place after a rocky campaign.
Scaroni discusses 2024-25 disappointment, building a ‘winning Milan’, stars and sporting director
AC Milan president Paolo Scaroni has claimed that the club are ‘disappointed’ with the way this season is going, but are working to build a ‘winning’ team.
It has been a very difficult campaign for Milan, despite their Supercoppa Italiana triumph which was the 50th trophy in the 125th season of existence. The Rossoneri are currently ninth in the table and nine points from fourth place, having lost nine times in Serie A.
Mathieu van der Poel is one-third of his way to making history. Only 269km of cobbles, circuitous, narrow streets, and leg-sapping climbs, at one of cycling’s most brutal races, stand in the way of him and an outright record of four Tour of Flanders titles. Victory in Oudenaarde on Sunday would put him two-thirds of the way to an unprecedented achievement: winning all of the year’s first three Monuments in a row.
There’s only the small matter of one man: Tadej Pogacar.