One stat tells fans everything they need to know about the Big Ten’s horrific NCAA Tournament performance.
The Big Ten started the tournament with eight teams in the field. Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Penn State, and Purdue all made the field.
Through the first two round and onto the Sweet 16, only one is still alive:
Michigan State.
Michigan State is the only remaining Big Ten team.
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Plus, why the trade market has been flat, Laremy Tunsil’s big deal with the Texans, Jonah Williams’s situation with the Bengals and more on Lamar Jackson and the Ravens’ offense in our free-agency takeaways.
We’re almost a week into free agency, and we’ve got some takeaways.
• It’s been five days since Aaron Rodgers’s appearance on the Pat McAfee Show, and, as of this writing, he remains a Packer.
I think with some time, cooler heads will prevail.
The Miami quarterback was in concussion protocol twice this past season.
The Dolphins announced Monday that they have exercised the fifth-year option on quarterback Tua Tagovailoa’s contract. The move guarantees he will be paid $23.2 million in 2024, according to Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer.
Tagovailoa is coming off a difficult 2022 season, in which he suffered multiple head injuries, including two stints in the NFL’s concussion protocol. But Miami’s decision signifies that the franchise is committed to the young quarterback going forward despite the injury history.
Alabama, Arkansas and more are hoping to usher in a new era with fresh coaching personnel.
The silly season never really stops in college football, as there are almost always coaches moving around across the sport and to the NFL. But with some of the defensive coordinator moves, questions abound about what they mean for the future of those programs.
The below teams include coordinator changes of only teams that did not also have a head coaching change.
Hokies fans created a home-court advantage for their top-seeded women’s basketball team.
Virginia Tech sports have become intertwined with Metallica’s “Enter Sandman” in recent years, as the song helps create a raucous home-court advantage in Blacksburg. So when it was revealed that the Hokies women’s basketball team earned a No. 1 seed to host games in the first weekend of this year’s NCAA tournament, fans were probably fired up to hear the famous song.
In what was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet, the Cuba-USA baseball clash has devolved into a tepid mismatch.
Time erodes even the most adamantine of rivalries. Athens vs. Sparta. Leno vs. Letterman. USA vs. Cuba in baseball.
What was once the most hot-blooded, geopolitical-infused hardball rivalry on the planet devolved into a tepid mismatch Sunday night. In what otherwise has been a thrilling World Baseball Classic, the expected tension and heat of an international semifinal game withered into a varsity-vs.-JV scrimmage.
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This was a chance to extend a hand to the marginalized, and it was squandered.
I’m Catholic, although admittedly not always a very good one. My wife needs to remind me of Holy Days of Obligation so I can hastily seek out a lunchtime mass. Every Lent I still need to be reminded not to eat meat on Fridays. I’m the guy who wipes the black smudge off my forehead in the car on Ash Wednesday because I don’t want to answer questions about it all day long.
My faith is something I traditionally guard. Not out of shame, but personal conviction.
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Jos Verstappen seemed rather muted following the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix
Last week, we highlighted for you that Formula 1 world champion Max Verstappen might be a robot. In a brilliant piece by our own James Dator, we outlined how over the course of two different race simulations, the F1 driver barely blinked.
Well, as they say the apple might not fall far from the tree.
Verstappen had a tremendous day in Sunday’s Saudi Arabian Grand Prix.
Shaquille O’Neal caused a little concern online Sunday night with a photo from the hospital.
The four-time NBA champion tweeted a photo of himself in a hospital bed with a gown and head covering on, and wrote he was watching Ernie Johnson and Candace Parker and missed them.
i’m always watching @TurnerSportsEJ and @Candace_Parker miss y’all pic.twitter.
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They’re fun. Regardless of trades and endgames.
The current No. 2 seed in the NBA’s Western Conference most certainly is not supposed to be there. Because they’re not even supposed to have a winning record, if you’re going by historical precedent or the preseason betting market.
And yet, less than a month until the NBA Playoffs get underway, the Sacramento Kings find themselves in an uncommon position – among the very best teams in the league.
There are lots of reasons the team has gotten here.