Author: Michael

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This one change turned me into a baseball fan for the first time.
I should love baseball, really I should. As someone who grew up in Australia appreciating the slow, methodical, often nap-inducing repetition of test match cricket, the idea of seeing a similarly strategic game to completion in one afternoon should tickle the pleasure center of my brain. Except it hasn’t, not really.

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Boise State fans now have a duty to the Broncos to hammer some cold beers.
Ever since the start of the NIL era, there have been lots of people trying to figure out fun and unique ways to funnel money to players.
Well, if you’re a fan of beer and college football, Boise State might take the cake. The Western Collective brewery is brewing The Horseshoe Golden Ale, and it’s “a co-branded beer that’s marketed in conjunction with The Horseshoe Collective,” according to On3.
Boise State NIL collective will be helped by beer brewery.

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Former Indiana men’s basketball coach Bob Knight was released from the hospital on Monday after spending the weekend receiving attention due to “an acute illness.”
Concern over Knight’s health bubbled up early Monday as the news was released on the 82-year-old’s health struggles.

Former Indiana Hoosiers Head coach Bob Knight (Photo by Justin Casterline/Getty Images)

Knight’s son, Pat, released a statement on the coach’s health status Monday afternoon after Knight spent the weekend in the hospital.

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While UConn has just cut down the nets in Houston as the 2023 national champions, the oddsmakers are already projecting which school will win next year’s men’s NCAA title. The Huskies are tied for the third best odds at +1500 and if they win again in 2024, they’d become the first school to repeat as champions since Florida won back-to-back titles in 2006-2007.
As for the favorites to win March Madness in 2024, Duke has the best odds at +1000.

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HOUSTON—UConn has its fifth national championship in program history.
The Huskies completed a remarkable five-year rebuild by coach Dan Hurley to bring the program back to prominence. A No. 4 seed, UConn was dominant all tournament, even if Monday’s 76–59 victory against San Diego State may have been a bit deceiving after the Aztecs pulled within five points late in the second half.

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HOUSTON – Nothing flashy, just classy.
“Everybody has a story. Everybody has a story to tell,” CBS play-by-play legend Jim Nantz said after his last men’s college basketball national championship game Monday night following Connecticut’s 76-59 win over San Diego State at NRG Stadium.
“Just try to tell that story, and be kind,” Nantz said. “Let me say one more thing. To everybody in college basketball, my family and all the viewers, thank you for being my friend.

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