Author: Michael

The Jayhawks coach has missed the last four games after being hospitalized.
Kansas coach Bill Self will not coach Saturday’s men’s NCAA tournament game vs. Arkansas, Stadium’s Jeff Goodman reports. This will mark the fifth straight game that Self has missed.
Self was hospitalized before the Big 12 tournament with what the school described as “chest tightness and balance concerns.” According to Kansas, Self underwent a “standard heart catheterization” and was treated for blocked arteries, but the school expects him to make a full recovery.

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The two-time All-Star tore his patellar tendon celebrating a Puerto Rico World Baseball Classic win.
In the aftermath of a freak injury in the World Baseball Classic, Mets pitcher Edwin Díaz was feared to be lost for the entire 2023 season.
However, the New York closer is reportedly taking aim at beating that timetable.
“The Mets may have increased Díaz’s odds, however slightly, of returning to the mound in time for a potential World Series run,” according to a Friday report from The Athletic‘s Will Sammon.

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Iowa wrestler Spencer Lee better get back to the drawing board STAT, because his Olympian mother ain’t happy with his latest loss.
And you wouldn’t like Cathy Lee when she’s angry.

Amazing scene at the Division I Wrestling Championships. Iowa’s Spencer Lee, going for his fourth national championship, loses in the semifinals.
His mother was quite upset with it. pic.twitter.com/uHIXOvMIFx
— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) March 18, 2023

Spencer Lee’s mother is not happy with his loss
Holy hell. What anger. What fury.

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The running back led the league in rushing touchdowns last season.
After two seasons with the Lions, running back Jamaal Williams left Detroit to sign a three-year, $12 million contract with the Saints. However, it doesn’t seem like the Lions tried hard to keep the running back around.
At his introductory press conference in New Orleans, Williams said he wasn’t happy with the Lions’ offer before signing with the Saints.

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16 Seed Farleigh Dickinson shocked the basketball world and beat the 1 Seed Purdue. Bracket shockwaves rattled fans around the country.
OutKick’s Dan Dakich went on Fox and Friends to breakdown the madness.

Dan said the reason Farleigh Dickinson won was simple. “You gotta make shots, Zach Edey is the player of the year in basketball and he gets 21, great. The rest of the team show 12-42.”
Farleigh Dickinson lost their conference tournament final to Merrimack 67-66.

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He hasn’t played in the tournament since 2019.
Novak Djokovic will not play in the Miami Open after his vaccination exemption status was denied and he will not be able to enter the country. This will make three straight years where Djokovic does not play in the tournament.
Tournament directory James Blake confirmed the news to Tennis.com.
“Obviously, we’re one of the premier tournaments in the world, we’d like to have the best players that can play,” Blake said. “We did all that we could. We tried to talk to the government, but that’s out of our hands.

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This picture says it all.
No. 1 Purdue suffered one of the worst losses in college basketball history on Friday night, falling in the first round of the men’s NCAA tournament to No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson 63–58. The Boilermakers became just the second No. 1 seed in the history of the event to lose to a 16-seed.
After the game, someone in the Boilermakers locker room appears to have taken out their frustration on the whiteboard, a photo tweeted by WISH-TV sports anchor Angela Moryan shows.

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The Cyclones scored just 41 points in their loss.
On Friday, No. 6 Iowa State put up one of the worst offensive performances of the men’s NCAA tournament, scoring just 41 points in a 59–41 loss to No. 11 Pittsburgh. The Cyclones only scored two points in the first ten minutes of the game and shot 23.3% from the field, including 9.5% from three-point range.
Before the game, Iowa State needed to get its rim fixed for shootaround, as the basket was initially crooked. That took away the Cyclones’ ability to warm up, which might have led to such a slow start.

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