Author: Michael

After months of anticipation and fanfare, Arch Manning made his long-awaited first appearance as a Longhorn on Saturday when he took the field for Texas’s annual Orange-White spring game.
Manning, donning a No. 16 burnt orange jersey, joined fellow quarterbacks Quinn Ewers and Maalik Murphy in putting on a show for the Texas faithful for the first time in his collegiate career. But, of course, the much-hyped freshman’s showing commanded a bit more attention given his famous family.

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Mets ace Max Scherzer was expected to make his fourth start of the 2023 MLB season on Sunday against the Athletics. Instead, it’ll be Jose Butto toeing the rubber for New York.
Per Tim Healey of Newsday, manager Buck Showalter told reporters Saturday that Scherzer’s next start would be pushed back a few days until Wednesday.
Showalter indicated the 38-year-old is dealing with soreness to his back and his right side, prompting the organization take a cautious approach and delay his next start by a few days.
“I know exactly what this is.

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BOSTON — It was Celtics 112, Hawks 99 on Saturday.
Are you ready for three more?
Game 1 of the Eastern Conference quarterfinals wasn’t a playoff game. It was a playoff beating. Boston led by ten points after one quarter. They led by 30 at the half. Atlanta’s three-point percentage through two quarters: 6.3%. Sure, the Hawks closed to 19 at the end of the third and at one point they whittled the lead down to 12 in the fourth. Big deal. All that did was prevent Luke Kornet from picking up a few postseason minutes.

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After getting a firsthand view of Texas’s Orange-White spring game Saturday afternoon, one prominent ESPN football analyst came away thoroughly impressed.
Former Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III heaped immense praise on Steve Sarkisian’s club looking ahead to a pivotal 2023 season.
“Just called the Texas Spring Game and Sark has this team ready to win a Big 12 Championship and contend for a National Championship,” Griffin tweeted.
Those are pretty strong words from a Heisman Trophy winner who attended a conference rival in Baylor.

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Ben Roethlisberger is downplaying the talks he had with the San Francisco 49ers.
Roethlisberger revealed last month that the Niners had been in touch with his camp after running into quarterback issues late in the year.
“There were some truths to the Niners thing,” Roethlisberger said last month. “They were, I think reaching out maybe just to gauge my interest. I had discussions. I don’t want to sit here and say I was going or anything like that.

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Twins manager Rocco Baldelli voiced his frustration with the umpiring crew following Saturday’s road loss to the Yankees after he was controversially ejected for protesting the handling of two sticky substance checks involving New York pitcher Domingo Germán. 
Baldelli explained to reporters he was “upset” with the fact that Germán, who, in the midst of pitching a no-hitter, was allowed to stay in the game after being warned for excess rosin twice in between the third and fourth innings.

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The bracket for the 2023 NBA Playoffs is set.
The 2023 NBA Playoffs are finally here. The postseason bracket was set on the last day of the regular season, with four first round series locked in and four more ready to be determined by the NBA play-in tournament.
The Los Angeles Lakers will host the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 7-8 matchup in the West play-in tournament, with the winner earning the 7-seed and drawing the No. 2 seed Memphis Grizzlies in the first round best of seven series.

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With the NFL draft looming, old clips of draft takes that didn’t age well are making the rounds online. Among those to resurface is video of Skip Bayless debating Merril Hoge during an episode of ESPN’s First Take, during which Hoge correctly predicted Johnny Manziel would be a franchise-altering bust. 
Bayless, massively in Manziel’s corner back in 2014, was appalled by Hoge’s stance, clapping back at the fellow ESPN analyst. 
After Hoge labeled Manziel as a player with a “fifth- or sixth-round grade,” Bayless came to the former Texas A&M QB’s defense.

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