Charles Robinson and Charles McDonald go pick by pick through Charles McDonald’s latest 2023 NFL mock draft as they discuss the top prospects and their ideal landing spots.
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While the Mavericks are hoping to climb back into a play-in seed in the Western Conference with just three games left on the schedule, it seems owner Mark Cuban has his sights set a bit farther in the future.
On Wednesday, Cuban spoke with reporters, during which he addressed Jason Kidd’s future as the head coach in Dallas, as well as the potential for the team to re-sign Kyrie Irving.
Starting next season, Big East and Big 12 schools will face one another in the Big East-Big 12 Battle. And, the matchups are set.
According to CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein, every school in the Big East will participate. However, since the Big 12 has more teams, some had to be left out. Those left out are new Big 12 schools: Cincinnati, BYU and Central Florida.
However, Houston is also joining the Big 12 next season but they were selected to participate. That makes sense since Houston was a #1 seed in the NCAA Tournament while none of the other three reached the Big Dance.
Despite missing the Kansas men’s basketball team’s entire NCAA tournament run due to health issues, coach Bill Self wasn’t disappointed in the Jayhawks’ shorter than expected journey.
He spoke with the media for the first time on Wednesday since being hospitalized on March 8. During his press conference, he expressed his thoughts on the Jayhawks’ tournament run, which ended quickly after the No. 1 seed was upset by No. 9 Arkansas in the second round.
If Mavericks owner Mark Cuban wasn’t aware of Jalen Brunson’s impact on his team, he certainly is now.
The former Dallas guard—who now plays for the Knicks—spent four seasons with the team, averaging 11.9 points and 3.7 assists per game. But after his breakout 2021-22 campaign in which he averaged career highs in points (16.3 per game) and assists (4.8), it appeared as though he was ready to take his career to new heights in a Mavs uniform.
Iowa head coach Lisa Bluder gave the only possible answer to a potential White House invitation.
No.
First Lady Jill Biden recently made the embarrassing suggestion that the Iowa women’s basketball team join champions LSU at the White House. A suggestion so absurd that one media commentator claimed it could cost Joe Biden the 2024 election.
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While the invitation was essentially already rescinded, Iowa’s Lisa Bluder publicly explained the team would not be joining LSU.
Milwaukee Brewers rookie Garrett Mitchell is in his first full season in The Bigs after being drafted by the organization with the No. 20 pick in the 2020 MLB Draft. The 24-year-old recorded his first walk-off home run against the Mets on Wednesday, and attributed his success to his wife not being in attendance.
Mitchell, who played at UCLA, married Haley Cruse in 2021. Cruse plays professional softball for the USSA Pride, but is best known for her time at Oregon and has nearly one million followers on TikTok.
that CATCH by Hayley Cruse! #NCAASoftball pic.twitter.
As if you needed more confirmation that the NFL is king, look no further than a new Fox Business report. Dan Snyder believes he can get $6 billion, or more, from the sale of the Washington Commanders if Amazon founder Jeff Bezos buys the team.
According to the report, “Bezos, the Amazon founder worth $125 billion, is not being summarily rejected by Snyder as a bidder for the famed sports franchise (formerly known as the Washington Redskins) despite media reports to the contrary.
A bat used by Babe Ruth over 100 years ago has fetched a record price of $1.85 million at a private auction, Hunt Auctions announced Wednesday, the most ever for a baseball bat.
Perhaps even more notable than the astronomical price of the bat was the way it was authenticated.
The Louisville Slugger bat—known as the “Polo Grounds” bat and used by Ruth circa 1920 to ’21—was purchased by collector Justin Cornett purchased in February 2018 for $400,800 without a photo match.
• Credit Petra Kvitová, the ubiquitously well-liked Czech, for winning the Miami Open, her biggest title since Wimbledon 2014.
• Credit Daniil Medvedev for his sustained hardcourt excellence, winning the Miami Open men’s title. (Fun fact: he has won 19 career titles. And has never won the same title twice.)
• Credit the USTA for this excellent April Fool’s tweet.
• Here’s a long piece on the WTA and its China dilemma.
• Lots of late-coming mail on pickleball, which, in keeping with the times, is a great force of polarization. We’ll get to it next week….
Onward….