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NFL fans groaned in January about the Chiefs-Dolphins playoff game airing exclusively on the Peacock, the first-ever streaming-only broadcast of a postseason NFL matchup.
Some fans posted on social media that they’d boycott the game in protest. Of course, such threats proved more bark than bite. 
An average minute audience of 23 million viewers streamed the game, according to NBC. 
More importantly, per a new Antenna study, around 3 million users engaged in paid sign-ups for Peacock in the three-day window surrounding the wild card broadcast.

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Ranking the best running backs in the 2024 NFL Draft.
The 2024 NFL Draft features an exciting crop of running back prospects. Although the class lacks bona fide first-rounders a la Bijan Robinson and Jahmyr Gibbs, there is plenty of talent to be located in the mid-to-late rounds. Several prospects are generating significant Day 2 buzz. How each prospect performs at the next level remains to be seen, but envisioning several starting running backs emerging from this year’s draft is a realistic outcome.

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Susan Pikitch is now part of Team LPGA as the Tour announced that the she was named the Chair of the Foundation Board.
Chief Financial Officer of the USGA, Susan Pikitch, has been announced as The LPGA Foundation’s new Chair of the Board of Directors.
The LPGA Foundation launched in 1991 and is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization that empowers girls and women through golf initiatives. They have four scholarships that dole out money to a number of girls and young women annually.

Mistakes happen, they’re inevitable, but an egregious error in the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper involving John Calipari certainly should never have happened. 
One would imagine that somebody, anybody, involved with the Herald-Leader would have noticed John Calipari’s name misspelled before Monday’s edition of the paper was printed, but no.
You would also assume that every single person living in Lexington, Kentucky would know how to spell Calipari’s last name, but that is clearly not the case.

Last year, Steve Smith was fully on board the Bryce Young hype train. Smith gushed over the former Alabama QB after his “remarkable” Pro Day performance last spring and vocally advocated for the Carolina Panthers to select him No. 1 overall, which they did.
But Young’s rookie season wasn’t at all what it was cracked up to be. Carolina struggled to the tune of a 2-15 record in 2023, while second overall pick C.J. Stroud took the Houston Texans to the playoffs and ran away with the Offensive Rookie of the Year Award.

Shane Lowry and Rory McIlroy at the 2023 Ryder Cup. | Brendan Moran/Getty Images
Rory McIlroy will play in the Zurich Classic for the first time and will have Shane Lowry as his teammate.
A pair of Irishmen are set to take on The Big Easy.
Rory McIlroy and Shane Lowry, who helped Europe win the Ryder Cup this past fall, will team up again at the Zurich Classic of New Orleans next month.
The only team event on the PGA Tour, the Zurich Classic of New Orleans features 80 two-man teams competing in foursome and fourball formats, similar to the Ryder Cup.

Iowa’s star is back in action, trying to send the No. 1 Hawkeyes to the Sweet 16. Paige Bueckers already got UConn there, barely. Follow all the games here.

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Indiana State rock and they should have been dancing.
Indiana State was one of the feel-good stories of college basketball this year. The school’s success in 2023-24 evoked the halcyon days of Larry Bird, and reversed decades of mediocrity for one incredible run. In the end a 29-6 record wasn’t good enough for the selection committee, who snubbed the Sycamores for their loss in the Missouri Valley tournament to Drake, pushing Indiana State to the NIT.
The choice was antithetical to everything we love about college basketball in March.

Scottie Scheffler during the final round of the 2024 Players Championship. | Photo by Brian Spurlock/Getty Images
The PGA Tour shifts to the Lone Star State for the Texas Children’s Houston Open, where a Texan arrives as a heavy favorite.
The PGA Tour heads to Memorial Park Golf Course in Houston, Texas, where two of the top four players in the world will tee it up this week. Scottie Scheffler, who has won two events in his last two starts, is in the field, as is reigning U.S. Open champion Wyndham Clark.

Washington reportedly pulled the trigger on hiring Danny Sprinkle.
The Utah State coach will leave the Aggies and take over the Huskies following a second round exit from the NCAA Tournament, according to Jeff Goodman and multiple other reports.
Sprinkle went an incredibly impressive 28-6 in his only season at Utah State.
There’d been whispers about Washington wanting Sprinkle, and the school reportedly went out and got it done. This is a hell of a hire for the Huskies.
I said last year that the Wisconsin Badgers should hire Sprinkle if Greg Gard was going to be fired.