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Within any situation in which multiple lawyers and outside public relations firms are involved—the NFL’s equivalent to a Warren Zevon song—there is typically a salacious version of events presented by the accusatory attorneys and an indignant response from the accused, as if what’s been presented is so entirely untrue it’s barely worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars the team likely spent crafting the perfect defense to it.
In the middle? Often what really happened.

Baseball produces surprise postseason teams every year. Which clubs have the best chances of joining the party in 2023? Plus: Four teams poised to miss out.

As spring football continues across the country and culminates with spring games, Trent Dilfer is not backing down from Nick Saban and Alabama. If the Crimson Tide wanted to play tomorrow, the Blazers of UAB would be on the bus to Tuscaloosa today.
With Auburn set to play its intra-squad scrimmage this weekend, Hugh Freeze expressed his frustration with the current system. He finds spring games to be a detriment to the limited practice period and offered a solution for how to make it a more valuable experience.

Monday night’s NCAA men’s basketball national championship ratings are in.
The UConn Huskies men’s team victory over San Diego State University drew approximately 14.6 million viewers. Meanwhile, Sunday afternoon’s women’s final drew an astounding 9.9 million viewers, peaking at 12.6 million at one point. That easily shattered its previous high of 5.68 million (since the ESPN era began in 1996).
But the story isn’t that the men defeated the women in the rating; it’s that a relatively bad NCAA men’s final still had more viewers than the NBA Finals from the past three seasons.

The USGA and PGA take different approaches, but both are watching to see how the Masters sets the tone.

When it comes to green jacket recipients, Scheffler might seem, well, boring. His inner circle insists there’s a method to the defending champ’s monotony.

Padres star Manny Machado was called out on Tuesday after a pitch clock violation resulted in a third strike in his first at-bat against the Diamondbacks. 
The third baseman was livid with the decision from home plate umpire Ron Kulpa, who proceeded to eject him from the game after a frustrated Machado could be seen arguing the decision.
Padres manager Bob Melvin came out to plead his case alongside Machado, but after an extended and animated conversation, Kulpa sent Melvin packing with an early ejection, too.

Former Cardinals vice president Terry McDonough has accused owner Michael Bidwill of cheating, harassment and discrimination in an arbitration claim he filed with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Tuesday, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.
McDonough, who spent 10 years with the team beginning in 2013, argues in the claim that Bidwill forced him and former Cardinals coach Steve Wilks to use burner phones to communicate with then general manager Steve Keim while Keim was suspended in ’18 by the team after getting arrested for a DUI.

PGA’s Rory McIlroy and LIV’s Brooks Koepka laugh on the third green during a practice round prior to the 2023 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club. | Photo by Patrick Smith/Getty Images
Both sides have been kind to each other so far as Day 2 of practice rounds come to a close.
Tuesday’s round of practices at Augusta National featured more of the same from stars getting acclimated to the course for the 2023 Masters Tournament.

Jill Biden pandered so hard that it backfired on her.
The White House proved just how out of touch they are after suggesting an invite for both teams from the women’s basketball championship game on Sunday between LSU and Iowa.
It was a slap in the face to not only the essence of competition but also to the victorious athletes on LSU’s team and the American tradition of inviting the winners to 1600 Penn.
As is custom, the winner of most major American sporting events (e.g.