Alabama, Arkansas and more are hoping to usher in a new era with fresh coaching personnel.
The silly season never really stops in college football, as there are almost always coaches moving around across the sport and to the NFL. But with some of the defensive coordinator moves, questions abound about what they mean for the future of those programs.
The below teams include coordinator changes of only teams that did not also have a head coaching change.
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Hokies fans created a home-court advantage for their top-seeded women’s basketball team.
Virginia Tech sports have become intertwined with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” in recent years, as the song helps create a raucous home-court advantage in Blacksburg. So when it was revealed that the Hokies women’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed to host games in the first weekend of this year’s NCAA tournament, fans were probably fired up to hear the famous song.
In what was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet, the Cuba-USA baseball clash has devolved into a tepid mismatch.
Time erodes even the most adamantine of rivalries. Athens vs. Sparta. Leno vs. Letterman. USA vs. Cuba in baseball.
What was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet devolved into a tepid mismatch Sunday night. In what otherwise has been a thrilling World Baseball Classic, the expected tension and heat of an international semifinal game withered into a varsity-vs.-JV scrimmage.
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This was a chance to extend a hand to the marginalized, and it was squandered.
I’m Catholic, although admittedly not always a very good one. My wife needs to remind me of Holy Days of Obligation so I can hastily seek out a lunchtime mass. Every Lent I still need to be reminded not to eat meat on Fridays. I’m the guy who wipes the black smudge off my forehead in the car on Ash Wednesday because I don’t want to answer questions about it all day long.
My faith is something I traditionally guard. Not out of shame, but personal conviction.
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Jos Verstappen seemed rather muted following the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Last week, we highlighted for you that Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen might be a robot. In a brilliant piece by our own James Dator, we outlined how over the course of two different race simulations, the F1 driver barely blinked.
Well, as they say the apple might not fall far from the tree.
Verstappen had a tremendous day in Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Shaquille O’Neal caused a little concern online Sunday night with a photo from the hospital.
The four-time NBA champion tweeted a photo of himself in a hospital bed with a gown and head covering on, and wrote he was watching Ernie Johnson and Candace Parker and missed them.
i’m always watching @TurnerSportsEJ and @Candace_Parker miss y’all pic.twitter.
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They’re fun. Regardless of trades and endgames.
The current No. 2 seed in the NBA’s Western Conference most certainly is not supposed to be there. Because they’re not even supposed to have a winning record, if you’re going by historical precedent or the preseason betting market.
And yet, less than a month until the NBA Playoffs get underway, the Sacramento Kings find themselves in an uncommon position – among the very best teams in the league.
There are lots of reasons the team has gotten here.
Everybody is angry, NASCAR is no longer in a forgiving mood, there’s no respect in the garage and all of Hendrick Motorsports is on an unpaid vacation.
And they said spring was the season of hope and optimism!
What a week of tension in the NASCAR world. From Denny Hamlin basically incriminating himself in the name of ratings, to Kyle Busch trashing everyone in the garage, to NASCAR dropping the hammer on its winningest team, it was a doozy.
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It’s one heck of a time to be an OKC fan.
Here is a hot take for you: The NBA season gets better the later it goes. The standings get tighter just as the postseason picture becomes more apparent. Races for the regular season awards become all the more competitive, just as it gets more difficult to decide each frontrunner. Overall, the games get more meaningful — for every team, depending on how you look at them. For some, winning becomes imperative for seeding purposes.
A brutal beat capped the action for the first week of the NCAA tournament.