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One year after Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Dwayne Haskins was killed while walking on a South Florida highway, the player’s widow Kalabrya Haskins has sued multiple entities in an attempt to get answers about the tragic incident.
The suit, filed March 23 and obtained by OutKick, alleges multiple people and entities are guilty of negligence that led to Haskins being run over the early morning hours of April 9, 2022.

If I were starting an NFL franchise from scratch with the ability to poach any front office I wanted to get the thing off the ground, the folks on Winning Drive in Owings Mills, Maryland, would be high up on the list. The Ravens have lapped the rest of the NFL when it comes to finding the modern edge.
But sometimes when the smartest people stare at the same thing for too long, the edge begins to dull. Think of any innovation in any field throughout the course of time. It all looks silly in hindsight. Computers the size of ballrooms. Crankshaft engine cars.

Each morning, when NBA commissioner Adam Silver flips open his laptop and clicks on SI.com—for the purpose of this space we’ll assume the NBA commissioner’s go-to site for standings is, in fact, Sports Illustrated’s—what he sees makes him smile: a cluster of squads competing for playoff spots with no one separated from the rest. “It’s the most compact our standings have been literally in the history of the league,” says Silver. “And that’s something that we see from the league-office standpoint as very positive.”
Welcome to the new NBA, where a No.

More than a week has passed since Rey Mysterio was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame.
WrestleMania marked an incredible weekend for Mysterio, including an introduction from best friend Konnan, a memorable induction speech and a tremendous match on the first night against his son, Dominik, who is starting to flourish as a heel.
Mysterio is the most renowned luchador to ever grace a squared circle. And while he is not finished just yet, the trip to the Hall of Fame allowed him to reflect on a legendary career.

As an amateur golfer — and I even use that term very loosely — there is one thing that bothers me above all else: slow play. As one of my close friends is fond of saying: “If you’re playing good, play fast. If you’re playing bad, play faster.” Count Brooks Koepka among those in agreement. Count Patrick Cantlay among those not.
Following a five-hour final round at the Masters, the media asked Koepka about the pace-of-play.
“The group in front of us was brutally slow,” Koepka said to reporters.

Then Eagles offensive coordinator Shane Steichen left the Super Bowl field at State Farm Stadium, with the wrong color confetti falling on his head, at around 10 p.m. ET. Within an hour, he was back at the team hotel. The next morning, he was on a flight to Indianapolis to finalize a deal to become the Colts’ new coach. He spent much of his time on the plane jotting down notes on whom he’d thank and what he’d say at the press conference.

After Giancarlo Stanton hit a home run 485 feet on April 2, Yankees manager Aaron Boone walked up to the slugger in the dugout and said, “You’re weird.” He meant it in the nicest way, better than how Shakespeare used the word.
Shakespeare drew upon mythology and the Old English word for fate (wyrd) to create the “weyward Sisters” of Macbeth. Subsequent editions of the play changed the adjective to “weird,” which is how the Three Witches also became known as The Weird Sisters and how “weird,” because of their strange appearance, came to mean “odd” or “uncanny.

The WNBA announced Monday that the league will be expanding its use of charter flights this year.
Previously, the league only provided chartered flights for the WNBA finals and WNBA Commissioner’s Cup Championship Game, along with selected games during the regular season. Now, charter flights will be provided for all 2023 WNBA playoff games and for regular-season games in which participants are playing back-to-back games.

The St. Louis Battlehawks have the city rocking.
St. Louis is a proud sports city, and when the Rams left for Los Angeles, it felt like a punch to the gut for fans in the region.
The sting was likely made worse when the Rams won the Super Bowl two seasons ago. The good people there desperately want a football team, and they, once again, have one – it’s just in the XFL.
The St. Louis Battlehawks have three highest attended games in XFL history.

Offseason programs are underway, and we’re rolling toward the draft, so let’s get to a few takeaways from this past week …
There’s a lot on Bill O’Brien in Foxborough in his return to the NFL. Yes, he’s coming back as an offensive coordinator, and not a head coach. Sure, he’s working for the greatest head coach of all time in Bill Belichick. But in returning to his first home in pro football, and his actual hometown, he’s inheriting a situation that comes with a lot of strings attached, evidenced by last week’s Mac Jones news from ProFootballTalk.