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The pact is sizable, with the Pistons coming to the table with a guaranteed $78.5 million, six-year contract, plus two additional team option years that could take it to $100 million, sources said.

The face of college basketball in 2023 will take another crack at winning a national championship in 2024.
Purdue center Zach Edey is returning to the Boilermakers for a fourth season, he announced in a tweet Wednesday evening just hours ahead of the NBA draft withdrawal deadline.
“Run it back,” Edey tweeted, alongside a GIF of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street.
Edey swept college basketball’s major awards in ’23, winning the Naismith and Wooden Awards as well as the Big Ten’s Player of the Year awards. He averaged 22.3 points and 12.

This is the time of year when NFL fans overreact to practices. It’s also the time when NFL writers overreact to practice (guilty). But Kansas City Chiefs fans are going nuts over one video of one pass from Patrick Mahomes to Justyn Ross.
In case you forgot the name, Ross played for Clemson from 2018-21. He starred in the 2019 National Championship, catching six passes for over 150 yards and a score in the Tigers 44-16 win over Alabama.
Ross followed up a freshman season in which he recorded exactly 1,000 yards receiving with another 865 yards as a sophomore.

Will Nikola Jokić be a legend when the NBA Finals are over? Or will it be Jimmy Butler? How about other key members of the Nuggets and Heat?

As anyone who has been to Louisiana in September can tell you, playing football outdoors in the Pelican State is an arduous task. Late summer on the bayou is hot and sticky; there’s a reason the Saints call the Superdome home.
With LSU staring down games at home in Baton Rouge, one in Orlando, one in Starkville, Miss., and one in Oxford, Miss., this September, the Tigers have found a novel way to beat the heat.
LSU will wear air-conditioned helmets for all practices and games in 2023, created by a Louisiana-based company called Tigeraire.

MIRAMAR BEACH, Fla. — Halfway through the SEC’s spring meetings here on the Florida Gulf Coast, one thing is certain: The league will play nine conference games—eventually.
Two days into the four-day event at the Sandestin Hilton, conference leaders continue to work toward a temporary scheduling format that features eight games, not nine—at least for now. It’s no real surprise. In a story published Monday, Sports Illustrated reported that a short-term eight-game format starting in 2024 is under serious consideration.

Fox Sports 1’s Undisputed will undergo a significant change in the near future. 
Co-host Shannon Sharpe is set to leave the program after reaching a buyout agreement with Fox Sports, according to Ryan Glasspiegel of the New York Post.
Sharpe reportedly will remain on the air with co-host Skip Bayless through the NBA Finals. His final appearance on the show is expected to come shortly after that, although no date has been specified.
In addition to his work on Undisputed, Sharpe’s podcast, Club Shay Shay, is also leaving the network, per the Post.

“Undisputed” co-host Shannon Sharpe will be leaving the successful FS1 morning program by the end of June. Sharpe has reportedly reached a buyout agreement with the network.
The bombshell was confirmed Wednesday by New York Post’s Ryan Glasspiegel, adding that Sharpe is expected to remain on the morning show until after the NBA Finals (June 1-18).
Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” podcast will also be departing the network, according to the report.

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With the Athletics inching closer and closer to a move from Oakland to Las Vegas after a deal was finalized earlier this month for $1.5 billion stadium to be built on the Las Vegas Strip, club owner John Fisher is considering an interesting schedule tweak.
When the Athletics officially move, Fisher reportedly is considering start times of 4 p.m. for home games. The thinking behind the possible move is to allow tourists to come to the game before they head elsewhere on the Strip for evening entertainment, per Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times.

Lionel Messi, the soccer world’s biggest star, could be heading to play in the United States sooner rather than later.
Messi started and played the vast majority of his career at FC Barcelona in the Spanish La Liga. But a few years ago moved to Paris Saint-Germain and France’s Ligue 1.
His time at PSG though has been rocky, to say the least.
In early May, news broke that Messi had been suspended by his club for an unauthorized visit to Saudi Arabia.
While he’s since returned to the team, the visit sparked rumors of a massive offer to move to the Middle East.