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Klay Thompson’s terrible NBA play-in game can’t be his last with Warriors. Or can it?
The rapid decline of Klay Thompson was one of the most sobering storylines of the NBA season. Thompson was once the second greatest shooter alive behind teammate Stephen Curry, with the “Splash Brothers” joining forces with Draymond Green to bring four NBA championships to the Golden State Warriors. Thompson’s career hasn’t been the same since tearing his ACL in the 2019 NBA Finals and then tearing his Achilles while rehabbing the knee injury.

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Is allowing seven hits and four runs bad?
Trevor Bauer and his agent are back to tweeting up a storm about his accusers, and retweeting anyone willing to talk about how MLB teams should be giving Bauer a chance in the majors. If you guessed this might be because they’re trying to pull attention away from something else, you’d absolutely be right.
Bauer made his first start for Diablos Rojos del México on Monday against the Puebla Tigres — and he pitched like absolute garbage.

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With just over a week to go until the 2024 NFL Draft, let’s take another spin on the rumor carousel
Just over one week to go …
A week from tomorrow night, the 2024 NFL Draft will finally arrive, and the Chicago Bears will officially be on the clock.
As we approach the draft, the rumors continue to fly. This is the part of draft season where the Top 30 visits wind down, and the final mock drafts from the big analysts start to truly give the upcoming draft some shape.
We kick off today’s rumor roundup with one such mock draft.

Zion Williamson was everything Tuesday night the New Orleans Pelicans thought he would be when they drafted him with the first pick of the 2019 NBA Draft, but hasn’t been, through most of his injury-plagued first four years with the team.
In his first-ever postseason game finally in year five, the fleet-footed, 6-foot-6, 284-pound bulldozer from Duke dominated the Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James and anyone else who tried to defend him in a play-in game at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans. He scored a season-high 40 points on 17-of-27 shooting with 11 rebounds and five assists.

Shortly after the conclusion of the 2024 Masters, a report emerged linking Rory McIlroy to a move to LIV Golf for a figure around $850 million. It felt random for a few different reasons, but especially given the fact that McIlroy has been among the most outspoken critics of the Saudi-backed circuit since its inception in 2022.
The fact that the report originally appeared in a well-read London business publication called City AM, there was reason to believe, at least for a split second, that there could be some truth behind it.

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Could another surprise appendectomy shake up the F1 driver grid? 
Could Formula 1 see another string of driver movement set in motion by a surprise appendectomy?
According to one well-respected pundit, that scenario is certainly on the table.
Let’s start with the previous example, which begins in Monza during the 2022 F1 season. Ahead of the Italian Grand Prix that year, Alexander Albon was ruled out ahead of the third practice session, due to appendicitis.

Trevor Bauer is more of a cautionary tale of what foolish sexual decisions lead to than he is an innocent lily-white victim.
The embattled former Dodgers pitcher has been fighting to get back to the MLB ever since being placed on leave and ultimately suspended after sexual abuse allegations surfaced.
The initial allegations were brought by a woman named Lindsey Hill, who alleged at the time that Bauer abused her in rough fashion during a sexual encounter.

The focus now is on the quarterbacks about to be drafted, and that’s understandable because in eight days the names of Caleb Williams, Jayden Daniels, Drake Maye and others will spill from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell’s mouth on national television.
Those fresh-faced rookies will be welcomed as the league’s next set of promising stars.
But there’s another set of quarterbacks that will dominate the headlines after the draft’s hype fades. It’ll happen later this spring or in the summer.

Let’s rank the best rookies in the NBA for the 2023-2024 season
This rookie class in the NBA will always go down in history as the year Victor Wembanyama made his grand entrance into the league. Wembanyama’s rookie season was so spellbinding, so sporadically brilliant that it overshadowed everything in its path, including his talented peers that were quietly forming one of the deeper groups of productive rookies in recent memory.
The 2023 NBA Draft always had so much talent beyond Wembanyama, and they proved it in their debut seasons.

Scottie Scheffler is the top-ranked player in the world and has been operating at a level of greatness on the golf course we haven’t seen since Tiger Woods in the early 2000s. After winning the 2024 Masters, Scheffler finds himself on a run of four consecutive starts where he has lost to just one player while earning over $12.6 million in just a month’s time.
One doesn’t accomplish those things without being a ruthless competitor who is addicted to winning.