Author: Michael

Free agent wideout Odell Beckham, Jr. is clearing up some fake news spreading on Twitter, notably about his contract demands as he visits teams this offseason.
One hot topic around Beckham’s free agency is the asking price he’s giving interested teams.
Initially, Odell’s annual contract numbers were placed at $20 million per year — a whopping total for a 30-year-old wide receiver who took a whole season off to recover from a second career ACL tear.

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LSU didn’t merely beat Iowa in the national championship game on Sunday — it did so with style.
As the Tigers polished off their 102-85 victory, LSU forward Angel Reese went out of her way to poke fun at Hawkeyes guard Caitlin Clark. With Clark’s back turned late in the game, Reese pointed to her ring finger and gave a “you can’t see me gesture” to the camera in the style of WWE wrestler John Cena — mirroring a similar gesture made by Clark in Iowa’s upset of South Carolina in the Final Four.

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Sunday’s national championship game between LSU and Iowa was among the most hyped college basketball games in years. And while both teams met the moment with high-level playmaking, it was the officials that drew the ire of nearly everybody who tuned in.
Fouls played a critical role in the game—which the Tigers won, 102-85, for the program’s first-ever national title—for its entirety, with 12 fouls called in the first quarter and 21 in the first half. Iowa star Caitlin Clark picked up three in the first half and had to sit for the last few minutes of the second quarter.

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LSU enjoyed a record-setting victory over Iowa in the national championship of the 2023 NCAA women’s basketball tournament, dropping 102 points to win its first-ever national title.
Tigers’ star forward Angel Reese held nothing back during the waning moments of the game, taunting Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark straight to her face. 
Reese pulled no punches, hitting Clark with WWE legend John Cena’s “you can’t see me” hand motion late in the fourth quarter after LSU had put the game out of reach.

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Charles Barkley appeared on The Bird and Taurasi Show during the 2023 women’s national title game on Sunday and didn’t hold back his thoughts on what WNBA players go through in comparison to other sports leagues.
While speaking with WNBA legends Sue Bird and Diana Taurasi, the NBA legend called out American companies for not investing more in the WNBA, because, otherwise, the players could earn enough money to not have to play in international leagues in the offseason.
“The WNBA is a great product but y’all should not have to do to these crap countries to make money,” Barkley said.

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The refs did not need to make themselves the main character of an incredible LSU-Iowa women’s NCAA championship game.
The Iowa Hawkeyes and LSU Tigers seemed to be set for an instant classic in the national championship game of the 2023 women’s NCAA basketball tournament. The game was played with incredible intensity from the opening tip, with the superstars on both sides putting up amazing performances and bench players like Jasmine Carson enjoying a national coming out party on the sport’s biggest stage.

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