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Let’s rank the favorites at The Masters.
The Masters doesn’t need drama away from the course to make for a compelling week. But the 87th edition of the event has plenty of unique angles affecting many of golf’s best players.
Animosity and confusion lingers in the midst of the ongoing PGA Tour vs. LIV Golf battle. Tiger Woods will attempt to conquer Augusta with improved health and a made cut in February at the Genesis Invitational.
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The national champions are ESPN’s early favorite to pull off in 2024 what hasn’t happened since 2007: a back-to-back NCAA title.
Jordan Hawkins and Angel Reese were born just seven days apart, grew up less than an hour from each other, and share the best title in college sports — national champion. Reese and LSU wrapped up its two-loss season with a win over Iowa on Sunday, Hawkins and UConn wrapped up their dominant postseason run with another blowout win over San Diego State on Monday.
Baltimore was well represented in both games. As was their family.
Reese and Hawkins are cousins. They are both from the DMV and the former used to cook the latter on the blacktop as kids.
Top-level women’s professional soccer is back in the Bay Area.
The National Women’s Soccer League announced Tuesday morning that its 14th team will begin play in 2024 in Northern California, according to a league release. Former United States internationals Brandi Chastain, Leslie Osborne, Danielle Slaton and Aly Wagner will serve on the club’s board.
Good morning, I’m Dan Gartland. Why does the NCAA keep scheduling the men’s championship game so late that it ends at midnight on the East Coast?
In today’s SI:AM:
🏆 UConn’s spot in the men’s hoops hierarchy
🏀 The Huskies’ most important player
⏲️ Early returns for MLB’s rule changes
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We all knew going into this Major League Baseball season it would take a little time for players and fans to get used to the new pitch clock that has been put into play for the first time this year.
We’re not even a full week into the season and we’ve already seen a number of pitch clock violations, including some that have resulted in an automatic third strike. There was a really sad one of those on Monday’s Mets-Brewers game.
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Assigning letter grades for the UConn prospects that may have their sights set on the NBA
Feel free to call UConn’s win over San Diego State for the 2023 NCAA men’s basketball championship a win for the NBA over the collegiate game.
UConn, known for their spread-out motion offense with multiple connectors, multiple shooters, and one of the best big men in NCAA, completed the cycle with all of their tournament wins coming by double-digits.
Since acquiring All-Star guard Kyrie Irving at the trade deadline, the Mavericks have gone just 9–16 and now find themselves in serious danger of missing the playoffs.
With just three games remaining, Dallas is a full game behind the Thunder for the No. 10 seed, the last spot in the play-in tournament. To make matters worse for Dallas, the Thunder own the tiebreaker over the Mavericks, which means Dallas actually has to make up a two-game deficit in the final three games to reach the playoffs—a near impossible task.
LSU’s victory over Iowa on Sunday was the most viewed women’s national championship game in history, and yet much of the discussion has been about the game’s final moments—and not because of play on the court.
Tigers forward Angel Reese sparked reactions from every corner of the sports world when she taunted Iowa guard Caitlin Clark several times when the game was already out of hand for the Hawkeyes. Some fans ripped her for the gestures while a large portion of the sports world defended her.
The 2022–23 NBA season has featured one of the most heated MVP races in recent memory. Nuggets do-it-all center Nikola Jokić is vying for a third-straight MVP, Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo is in the mix for his third MVP and first since 2020, and the 76ers’ Joel Embiid is looking to break through for his first.
Warriors point guard Stephen Curry is no stranger to what it takes to win that illustrious award after doing so in 2015 and ’16. While it’s hard to go wrong with any of the three MVP-caliber seasons, Curry believes Embiid has earned his first award this season.