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Luka Doncic had himself quite a night against the Utah Jazz on Wednesday by recording a triple-double in the first half of his Dallas Mavericks’ 147-97 win. He managed to put on a show after the game too.
Speaking on the postgame show after the Mavs’ win, Doncic explained that prior to tip off he told his teammates “you know, we just can’t f**k around.” Half a second later when he realized he had just cursed on television, he apologized in rather unique fashion by using another curse word: s**t.

“I said before the game, you know, we just can’t fuck around, and, uh….

Colorado coach Deion Sanders just made what could be his most pivotal hire of the offseason. Former Vikings tackle Phil Loadholt is joining Sanders’s staff as the Buffaloes’ new offensive line coach, as first reported by BuffZone’s Brian Howell.
Loadholt has spent the last two seasons as an offensive line analyst for Oklahoma and will replace former Buffaloes offensive line coach Bill O’Boyle, who accepted a job at San Diego State earlier this week.

Wednesday was School Education Day for the ECHL’s Toledo Walleye and one member of the home team got an education in the hockey rule book. 
The game against the Kalamazoo Wings began at 10:35 a.m. with 7,529 fans in attendance, many of them schoolchildren. Midway through the second period, one of the kids did something that might have earned them a detention if it had occurred at school. During a faceoff in the Toledo zone, an object went flying onto the ice. According to Mark Monroe of the Toledo Blade, it was a chicken nugget thrown by one of the kids in the crowd.

On Feb. 3, 2019, the Pats won their sixth championship under Bill Belichick. It’s been a slow descent to their current 2-10 record. Here’s how it happened.

Duke is expected to hire Penn State defensive coordinator Manny Diaz as its next head coach, Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reports.
Diaz is best known for his time as the Miami head coach, leading the Hurricanes from 2019 to ’21 after the school promoted him from defensive coordinator. He won at least six games each season with Miami, totaling a 21–15 record. The program fired him after the ’21 regular season.
Penn State quickly hired Diaz as its defensive coordinator once he became available, and the veteran coach has been with the Nittany Lions for the past two seasons.

Should college football players be able to make money on Venmo during games?
It’s an idea former coach Bill Busch would like to see happen, and it’s certainly an interesting suggestion.
Busch is a veteran college football coach with stops at Nebraska, Utah State, Wisconsin, Utah, New Mexico State, Ohio State, Rutgers and LSU. He’s been around football at a very high level for a very long time.
Bill Busch knows football, and he’d like to see guys get paid in real-time.
Bill Busch has an interesting Venmo/NIL idea.

Panthers tight end Hayden Hurst has been diagnosed with post-traumatic amnesia after suffering a hit against the Bears on Nov. 9, his father announced Wednesday. 
“@haydenrhurst has been diagnosed with Post Traumatic Amnesia by an independent neurologist as a result of the hit he took in Chicago November 9,” Jerry Hurst wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter. “Slow recovery, don’t know when he’ll be back.

People love getting wound up about nothing and right now those folks are big mad at Christopher “Mad Dog” Russo for a completely benign comment he made on ESPN’s First Take about the secrecy surrounding priced MLB free agent Shohei Ohtani and his hunt for a new team.
The Japanese superstar has been pretty quiet about what he’s looking for from potential suitors. This led Russo to question why he felt like he needed to keep his cards so close to the vest. It’s probably so he has as many negotiating weapons at his disposal as possible, but it still got Russo’s goat.

The NBA had one small caveat to add for the Lakers’ upcoming in-season tournament semifinal matchup against the Pelicans: No black uniforms.
Los Angeles won’t be allowed to wear their black alternative “city edition” uniforms on Thursday due to the league’s concerns over “the visual contrast” between the uniforms and the in-season court design at T-Mobile Arena in Nevada, according to ESPN.
Instead, the Lakers will wear their gold “icon” uniforms. The Pelicans will wear their white “association” uniforms.

The NFC East could be all but decided on Sunday.