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One of the best stories surrounding the 2024 NCAA Men’s Basketball tournament is that of Long Beach State head coach Dan Monson. 
As OutKick’s Glenn Guilbeau reported over the weekend, Long Beach State fired Monson the Monday prior to the Big West conference tournament, but allowed him to continue coaching through the duration of the season. 
The Beach had lost five-straight games entering the tournament to fall to 18-14 on the season and 10-10 in conference play.

The NFL will hold its annual league meeting next week, where the league will vote on potential rule changes for the upcoming season. 
One rule proposal up for debate involves the hip-drop tackle, as the NFL’s competition committee would like to make that tackle a 15-yard penalty in an effort to control lower-body injuries.
However, players appear to be vehemently opposed to this new rule. The NFLPA released a statement Wednesday explaining its stance on hip-drop tackles.

As the conclusion of a season to forget nears for the Detroit Pistons, the team appears to have lost its star rookie for the year.
Pistons forward Ausar Thompson will miss the rest of the 2024 season with a blood clot, according to a Wednesday afternoon report from Shams Charania of The Athletic.
Thompson, 21, has not played since Detroit’s 142–124 loss to the Dallas Mavericks on March 9. He left that game after just 11 minutes due to an illness.
The No. 5 pick of the 2024 NBA draft has averaged 8.8 points, 6.4 rebounds and 1.

The Los Angeles Dodgers fired Shohei Ohtani’s Japanese interpreter, Ippei Mizuhara, amid accusations from Ohtani’s lawyers that Mizuhara engaged in “massive theft,” The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday.
According to the report, Ohtani’s lawyers believe Mizuhara placed bets using millions of dollars in Ohtani’s funds with an allegedly illegal bookmaker. The lawyers learned that Ohtani had come up in the federal investigation into gambler Mathew Bowyer, a Southern California resident, and then looked into Mizuhara’s actions.

There were some serious sock problems across the pond last weekend which even managed to delay the start of a match between two of the biggest teams in England’s Women’s Super League, the top level of women’s soccer in the country.
According to the Associated Press, Arsenal visited Chelsea for a match last Friday. Now, those are two big names in the soccer world. Even if you’ve never been able to will your way through a full 90 minutes plus stoppage time, you’ve at least heard of those clubs.
So, this is a pretty big deal.

PALM HARBOR, Fla. — Tiger Woods hosted the meeting with the head of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia at his residence in the Bahamas on Monday that was a viewed as a “meet and greet and learn” session to potential future investment in PGA Tour Enterprises.
Webb Simpson, one of the six player directors on the PGA Tour Policy Board, said Woods “was very engaged” and that “outside of our meeting he’s been super engaged along the way. He’s a great leader and I really think he’s taken the position of our leader and we rely on him a lot.

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Susie Wolff, the managing director of the F1 Academy, has filed a criminal complaint in French court against the FIA
Susie Wolff, the Managing Director of the F1 Academy, confirmed on social media Wednesday that in early March she filed a criminal complaint against the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), Formula 1’s governing body.

Scott Boras, as is so often the case, represented a significant number of top MLB free agents heading into the winter. It’s now spring, the first regular season game has been completed, and a number of his clients have either just entered camp or still have yet to sign.
Three of his clients though, Blake Snell, Matt Chapman and Jung Hoo Lee, agreed to deals with the San Francisco Giants. And the team’s president of baseball operations, Farhan Zaidi, thinks he should be rewarded for coming to multiple arrangements with one of the game’s most difficult agents.

The 32 team owners have some major decisions to mull over.

Ippei Mizuhara, the longtime friend and interpreter for Shohei Ohtani, has been accused of stealing millions of dollars related to gambling debts, per media reports.