Author: Michael

Grab the tissues. LSU forward Aneesah Morrow gave a tearful speech about coach Kim Mulkey and her LSU career that might make people weep.
After transferring from DePaul, Morrow had a sensational career at LSU, including a phenomenal final season in which she led the country in rebounds and, through some gritty performances, helped her WNBA draft stock skyrocket.
MARCH MADNESS:Kim Mulkey got unnecessarily testy with a reporter after LSU loss
Unfortunately, the Tigers couldn’t get Morrow a ring before she moved to the pro level. (The LSU lost 72-67 to UCLA in the Elite Eight.

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Following the fifth week of WNC spring sports, it’s time to vote on last week’s top performances from boys athletes in WNC.
Vote for the boys athlete who had the best performance last week. The poll closes Thursday at noon.
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Who is the Citizen Times and Times-News boys athlete of the week for March 23-29?
Garin Goshall, Christ School: Goshall drove in four runs while going 3-for-4, and pitched three innings while striking out five and allowing one hit to earn the victory in a 13-1 win over Greenville Hurricanes.

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After Franco Colapinto signs with Alpine, Williams has added an F3 champion to their roster
Williams has added 2022 Formula 3 Champion Victor Martins to their Driver Academy, bolstering their driver depth after seeing Franco Colapinto sign as a reserve driver with Alpine this past off-season.
The team announced the move in a statement ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.
“We’re thrilled to welcome Victor to the Williams Racing Driver Academy.

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The Oklahoma City Thunder MVP candidate is making the NBA more watchable, one free throw at a time.
Is Shai Gilgeous-Alexander unstoppable because he shoots a ton of free throws, or does he shoot a ton of free throws because he’s unstoppable?
SGA is second in the NBA with a healthy 8.9 free-throw attempts per game and that has become the subject of a pretty misleading online discussion. Yes, he leans into contact, and yes, his scoring is buoyed by tons of free throws. But his 8.

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Is the new bat an innovation. or a way to cheat the system?
The New York Yankees have cracked the code when it comes to hitting dingers, and it’s raising massive questions about whether they’re simply leveraging existing rules, or bending them entirely too much. This year the club introduced a new bat featuring what they call a “Torpedo Barrel,” and it’s quite literally breaking the game of baseball.
This was most apparent on Saturday night in a 20-9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in which the Yankees hit an astonishing nine home runs across seven players.

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PALM BEACH – Sean McDermott, the excellent head coach of the Buffalo Bills and perhaps one of the brightest football minds in the game when it comes to maximizing talent, is the face of the Tush Push villainy now.
He’s the bad guy.
Although the Green Bay Packers are the ball club that has proposed banning the play the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles turned into an innovative and nearly unstoppable staple of their offense, it is McDermott who is making the most vocal argument against the play as a member of the competition committee.

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