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“He didn’t think I gave the best effort. I’m out here every day grinding my (rear end) off. You know, giving it my all and trying to stay on the field for 160 games out here,” O’Neill said.

The NHL’s playoff picture is starting to take shape, kids.
We know that the Maple Leafs will try to win a playoff series for the first time since 2004 when they take on the Tampa Bay Lightning (coincidentally, the Lightning won the Cup that season).
It’s a match-up that will surely have some people squinting at their TVs in a vain attempt at telling the two teams’ jerseys apart.
In the meantime, we’ve got some good stuff from the last couple of weeks of the season while the rest of the matchups take shape.

Ben Gordon, a former UConn star and the 2005 NBA Sixth Man of the Year, was arrested Tuesday on weapons and threatening charges after demonstrating disorderly conduct at a juice shop in downtown Stamford, Conn., according to the Stamford police department.
Gordon, who was arrested on the day of his 40th birthday mere hours after the Huskies celebrated their fifth national championship, was charged with three counts of carrying a dangerous weapon and two counts of misdemeanor second-degree threatening.

The best measure of strikeout prowess isn’t actually K/9. A better option — and a record that could be broken in 2023 — is K%.

As the football world awaits Aaron Rodgers’ official move to join the Jets, New York has added another familiar face to its roster.
The Jets are signing quarterback Tim Boyle to a one-year contract, the team announced on Thursday. Mike Garafolo of NFL Network originally reported the move. Assuming Rodgers does indeed get moved to New York, that would reunite the pair after they were teammates in Green Bay from 2018 to ’20.
Boyle, 28, signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2018.

After a historic run to the women’s national championship game, the University of Iowa’s athletic department has paused ticket sales for next season after soaring demand, according to a report from Chad Leistikow of the Des Moines Register.
Hawkeyes superstar Caitlin Clark captivated the sport with her elite scoring ability, and she will be back in the fold next season to put the school in position to be contenders once again.
The program set a Big Ten conference record for home attendance this season, averaging just over 11,100 fans per game.

The Lakers lost a crucial Wednesday night game to the Clippers on the heels of a grueling overtime win over the Jazz in Salt Lake City on Tuesday. After the game, LeBron James said scheduling played a role in their loss. 
“It’s one of the toughest games we’ve had this year,” James said. “Coming off the road trip and getting back late last night, after an overtime game … this was one of those scheduling conflicts in the season and definitely got the best of us tonight.

Two weeks following a bizarre play that cost the Mavericks during a two-point loss to the Warriors on March 22, the NBA announced Thursday it has denied Dallas’ protest of the game. 
The Mavericks took action after their 127–125 defeat due to a strange play in which, coming out of a timeout, Dallas incorrectly believed that they were in possession of the ball and set up on the wrong side of the court, leaving the Warriors unguarded on the other end. That led to an easy layup, which proved costly in the two-point defeat.

Red Sox pitcher Chris Sale was on the mound Thursday in Detroit and the left-hander had some good stuff going against the Tigers. 
Sale, who has dealt with injuries the past few years, struck out all three batters in the first inning and had seven strikeouts through five innings. He threw a bunch of pitches that had just a ridiculous amount of movement on them, which left many Tigers hitters looking silly. 
Sale threw one of those pitches to Jonathan Schoop, who was able to lay off it. The umpire called it a ball, which didn’t make Sale happy.

Week 1 is still months away, and rosters will change greatly before kickoff. But based on what we know now, some divisions are clearly more challenging than others.