In the midst of the most impressive season the Knicks have had in a decade, Julius Randle, New York’s leading scorer and likely All-NBA forward, not only hit an impossible game-winning jumper against rival Miami in early March. He also plopped down a career-best 57 points on March 20 against the Timberwolves at Madison Square Garden.
One week later, last Wednesday, Randle rolled his left ankle so severely that, beyond his inability to stand for nearly a minute, the Garden crowd of 19,812 collectively gasped when the replay was shown on the jumbotron.
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As a programming note, we’ll roll out the Monday Afternoon Quarterback on Tuesday mornings for the rest of the offseason. It won’t change much, other than when you get it. And with that, let’s go …
• The Colts kicked off the week with a contingent in Southern California, working out both Alabama QB Bryce Young and Ohio State QB C.J. Stroud. These workouts have to occur, by rule, either on campus or near the player’s hometown. That Young and Stroud are both from Southern California and doing their draft prep there made it easy for Indy to knock both out at once.
Shannon Sharpe warns that First Lady Jill Biden wanting to invite both the LSU and Iowa women’s teams to the White House could cost her husband the 2024 election.
He says “Doctor” Jill is playing with fire by hoping the losing, predominantly white Iowa team joins the winning, predominantly black LSU team in visiting her and Joe.
Sharpe predicts such strategy will turn black voters against Biden, to a degree great enough to cost him his re-election bid.
Don’t expect to see Jorge Masvidal strapping on the gloves against Jake Paul.
There was a time when Masvidal seemed interested in cutting it up against Jake Paul. In an infamous Instagram post that is no longer up, the UFC star ranted (via Daily Caller), “Listen, man, you can’t f**king afford me…You can’t afford me to come over. Let me tell you a little secret about me you didn’t know. I fight for money or to fight the best in the world, and you’re neither.”
Now, it sounds like Masvidal couldn’t care less after Jake Paul lost to Tommy Fury.
Ryan Poles likes to wheel and deal. Can he find the Bears an extra first-round pick with a flurry of moves? Bears insider Josh Schrock sees the cogs turning his latest mock draft.
Major League Baseball wants more people to watch its games and have implemented new rules to speed up the length of nine innings in hopes of improving its product. However, the MLB has neglected one of its biggest issues — TV blackouts.
Unlike the NFL, which generally works to provide nationally televised games in relation to in-market audiences, professional baseball teams have their own regional networks that broadcast games. If you are not in the right market, it’s unlikely that you can get that game on your TV.
Roughly 12 hours after its most celebrated event ended with the sweet sounds of “One Shining Moment,” the NCAA found itself with a new legal battle to fight.
Lawyers filed a multimillion-dollar, antitrust class-action lawsuit against the governing body of college athletics Tuesday, seeking retroactive Alston-related educational payments for college athletes dating back to 2018.
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Now champions of men’s college basketball for a fifth time, no program in the sport’s history has a profile like the UConn Huskies.
With a 76-59 win over San Diego State that never really felt in doubt, the 2022-23 Connecticut Huskies completed one of the most dominant national championship runs in the history of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament.
The numbers, and I’m guessing you’ve seen some of them by now, are staggering.
After an evening that featured significant celebrations over UConn’s fifth national championship on Monday, 15 people were arrested and 16 people were hospitalized in Storrs, Conn. by early Tuesday morning according to the university.
More than 10,000 fans attended the watch party in the school’s basketball arena, Gampel Pavilion, and many took to the streets to party and celebrate the win. However, chaos ensued as a result of the celebrations leading to broken light poles and windows, a turned over vehicle, and multiple fires set to trash cans and benches.
The Baltimore Ravens are reportedly very interested in adding Odell Beckham Jr. to the roster.
OBJ has been hunting for the right opportunity to return to the NFL, but so far, he hasn’t reached a deal. There was an initial report that the former Rams WR wanted $20 million to sign. He disputed the claim. The number was then reported to be closer to $15 million, which OBJ also disputed.
Now, the Ravens have reportedly stepped forward and put an offer on the table for an unknown amount of money.
Ravens reportedly make Odell Beckham Jr. an offer.