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BATON ROUGE, La. – LSU women’s basketball celebrity Angel Reese is starting to give LSU gymnastics celebrity Olivia Dunne a run for her money, and overexposure.
Reese was just announced as a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model for the May 12 issue of the magazine. And now, she and her teammates will visit President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden at the White House on May 26 to celebrate the Tigers’ national championship.

Angel Reese Will Appear In Latest Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue

That’s quite a two-week stretch for Reese.

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Bronny James is a perfect fit at USC for these 5 reasons
Bronny James has gone from a familial curiosity to a legitimate NBA prospect during his four years of high school at ritzy Los Angeles prep powerhouse Sierra Canyon. James has developed under an intense national spotlight since he first emerged on the grassroots scene ahead of his eighth grade year, but he’s rarely given interviews or left any real hints about his future intentions.

With the NHL draft lottery slated for Monday night, one player is seen as the consensus favorite to be selected No. 1 in June’s draft: Connor Bedard.
The 16 teams that missed the NHL playoffs became eligible for the lottery, with odds to obtain the top pick based on regular-season performance. The Anaheim Ducks, who posted a league-worst 58 points, have the best odds (18.5%) to capture the No. 1 pick. They are followed by the Columbus Blue Jackets (13.5%), Chicago Blackhawks (11.5%) and San Jose Sharks (9.5%). The lottery will be televised Monday at 8 p.m. ET on ESPN.

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Benito solidified his place in WWE history with his match at Backlash in Puerto Rico
The WWE have had their fair share of celebrity wrestlers in the history of the company. William “The Refrigerator” Perry, Mike Tyson, Snooki, and Snoop Dogg come to mind, just to name a few.
However, one stands above them all, and his name is Bad Bunny.
The Puerto Rican artist is one of the most popular musicians in the world, and he’s been in the wrestling ring since last year’s Royal Rumble.

1. A quick note before we get started: Please send me any and all questions you may have for this week’s SI Media Mailbag, which will be posted Tuesday. You can send your question via Twitter or email me at Jimmy.Traina@si.com. Thanks.
Whether you watched Sunday’s wild Celtics-Sixers playoff game, which saw Philly escape with a 116–115 overtime win, or not, you have to check out this recap.
The narration on the two-minute clip, via Gavin McHugh on TikTok, is perfection, thanks to McHugh speaking the way sports fans speak and not how polished sports anchors speak.

It was great to see Wyndham Clark finally earn his first win on the PGA Tour, but the Wells Fargo Championship turned into the first bad elevated event of the year thanks to his lights-out play and superstars not bothering to show up.
On the other side of the globe, Adrian Meronk picked up another win on the DP World Tour and looks like a lock to make the European Ryder Cup team, which is not only great for the Euros but golf fans in general.
The golf Twitter streets are always hot and I myself got caught in the fray this weekend for questioning the system and defending Sergio Garcia.

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NOBODY has been as hyped as Connor Bedard … and he deserves it.
Connor Bedard will be the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 NHL Draft. This story has been written for months, the start of his professional career chiseled in stone long before it. Bedard is one of the most hyped prospects not just of the last decade, but of all-time — and on Monday night someone is going to literally win the lottery and get to draft him.

Fantasy baseball analyst Fred Zinkie breaks down everything you need to know to start Week 6 off on a winning note.

After a last-place finish and being maligned all winter, the Red Sox needed only 36 games to reinvent themselves as a plucky team of overachievers. By putting the ball in play more than all but one team in MLB, Boston jumped to a 21–15 start.
What can we make of 36 games? Seventeen previous Red Sox teams won at least 20 of their first 36 games. All of them finished with winning records, and 13 of the 17 lineups reached the postseason. These Red Sox have only six All-Stars on their roster, but their approach at the plate is graduate-level wizardry.

Mike Vrabel and Brian Daboll, two recent Coach of the Year winners, pulled back the curtain for women trying to break into the league.