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No. 1-seed Virginia Tech will take on LSU in the first of two semifinal games on Friday night.
LSU and Virginia Tech will face off in the first semifinal game Friday night, battling for a spot in the NCAA women’s national championship.
Tipoff is set for 7 p.m. ET and the game will air across ESPN networks. You can catch the game with a subscription to SlingTV.
The Hokies enter Friday night’s game 31-4 and are coming off an Elite Eight win against Ohio State.
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Dusty May’s story begins underground. It starts in the mines of southwestern Indiana, where the coal boom of the late 1800s and early 1900s attracted laborers from surrounding states. More than a century ago, Dusty’s great-grandfather moved from Ohio, pitched a tent in a field in Jasonville, Ind., and went to work as a miner.
Generations of May men followed in that line of work, including Dusty’s dad. Donald “Duck” May worked 27 years in a Greene County coal mine—some of it below ground, some doing surface strip-mining—before retiring.
1. One of the worst days of the year to be on the internet and social media is April 1. Uncreative and unoriginal people try to get you with lame April Fool’s pranks that are never funny, and it’s just painful.
Athletes are especially bad at this, tweeting that they’ve retired or been traded. It’s brutal.
This year, April 1 falls on a Saturday, so the antics won’t be as prevalent, but there is an added twist. Elon Musk has decided that the day to take away everyone’s blue check mark to signal a verified Twitter account will be April Fool’s Day.
How tight is the race between Nikola Jokic and Joel Embiid? Can Giannis Antetokounmpo play spoiler?
When José Altuve broke his thumb in the World Baseball Classic, Astros fans all over the country were devastated that he would miss a few months to start the season. Many fans would literally give their health to Altuve if they could, and that apparently includes non-Astros fans as well.
Actor Mark Wahlberg, who is a Boston sports fan but seems to have jumped on the Astros bandwagon, told media that he would love to help Altuve if it was possible.
“I am also willing to donate either of my thumbs to José Altuve, for sure,” he said. “We’re all good. I’m a big fan.”
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Major League Baseball is back and the new rules have games moving along at rapid rates, which is great for fans.
You know what isn’t great for fans? Bad umpires. And those are still very much around.
MLB has had issues with bad umps since basically the beginning of time. But it feels like they’ve only gotten worse in recent years (I’m looking at you, Ángel Hernández).
The umps in Thursday’s Mets-Marlins game made a very questionable pitch clock violation call, which had MLB fans rightfully irate.
For a long time, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the most iconic player in NBA history, and kids across the country wanted to be him. That changed over time, as other players earned the admiration of younger generations.
Now, almost 35 years after Abdul-Jabbar retired, no one is really trying to replicate the Hall of Famer’s style. Instead, young players want to be Stephen Curry and shoot threes from all over the court.
Abdul-Jabbar joked that Curry has permanently altered the way people view basketball.
“They’ve forgotten about anything that doesn’t say three-points on it,” he said.
The 2023 Major League Baseball season in under way, which means pitchers are back to throwing ridiculous pitches that professional hitters have no chance of hitting.
One of those pitches was thrown Thursday night by the Mariners’ Matt Brash. Seattle’s right-handed reliever pitched just one inning against the Guardians but he made it count as his knuckle curveball that struck out José Ramírez was easily the nastiest pitch of Opening Day.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. MLB Opening Day lived up to all my expectations. Be sure to scroll down and check out the 10 best highlights from a great day of games.
In today’s SI:AM:
🌟 The most highly anticipated Final Four game
⏳ All hail the pitch clock
🔮 Chris Mannix’s bold NBA Finals prediction
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Underdogs on one side, powerhouses on the other
This weekend’s men’s and women’s Final Fours couldn’t be more different.
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Tatum and Ingram take down Giannis and Jokic-less Nuggets respectively
I’ve always thought it’s kind of cute when adjacent sports leagues clear out the schedule to let another go to work. Think NFL and Thanksgiving, NBA and Christmas, or college football on New Year’s Day.
The NBA mostly cleared out their Thursday slate to make way for MLB opening day, leaving just two games on a TNT doubleheader, though three of the four teams in action are a top-2 seed in their conference.