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The City Edition jerseys across the NBA have been generally met with positive reaction as the league has looked for creative ways to generate revenue for teams across the league.
Fans have been seen at games over the last couple seasons donning the same City Edition jerseys as the players, a testament to the successful idea by the league to create new alternate jerseys for each team.
With all that said, the Nets unveiled their City Edition jerseys for next season and they received quite the mixed reaction from fans across the sport.
First, here’s a look at Brooklyn’s jerseys.

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If South Carolina is as good on the field as they are in this ‘Office’ parody, it will be a great year for the Gamecocks
Shane Beamer and the South Carolina Gamecocks are in the midst of their spring practice session, building towards their annual Garnet and Black Spring Game, which is set to take place under the lights on Saturday, April 15th. The game will be part of “Big Gamecock Weekend,” and be preceded by both a concert and a charity 5K, and feature fireworks after the spring game.

With a week of games in the books, it’s time to start thinking about the waiver wire.
Of course, fantasy baseball is a marathon and not a sprint, but it could be wise to freshen up your bench from what you drafted a few weeks ago. We are already seeing certain players excel with the new limitations on the shift as well as a spike in stolen bases.
Plenty of rookies have been off to hot starts, too, and you’ll want to think about grabbing them now for your keeper leagues.

The bright lights of the Big Dance have dimmed, LSU has been crowned national champion and now attention turns to the WNBA draft. The world’s top players, along with the league’s 12 teams, will gather in New York City on Monday for this year’s selections. While the first two picks are near locks, the rest of the draft features a plethora of talent and plenty of intrigue. The draft will feature three rounds with 12 picks each, for a total of 36 selections.
Here’s a rundown of all the names you need to know, including projected first-round picks, ahead of Monday’s festivities.

The debate about whether the 1980s and ’90s era of the NBA being tougher and more physical than the league today is ongoing, but Kevin Durant wanted to throw his hat into the ring and decided to stand up for today’s game.
During the most recent episode of his podcast ‘The ETCs,’ Durant explained that he has recently been watching game footage from back in the day.
While he agrees that the era before him was physical, he also believes that players simply got away with more and that they wouldn’t be able to foul the same way in today’s NBA.

A personal story. It was the late 2000s. The UFC was still fighting for legitimacy. And I got a call. Chuck Liddell would be in New York. Did I want to meet him for a drink/interview? Sure. We headed to my watering hole of choice—RIP to The Half King—and talked shop.
I had returned from a visit to the Miletich camp in Iowa, and we gossiped about the stable of fighters there. The name “Lee Murray” surfaced. I asked what had happened to him. Liddell laughed, and said words to the effect of, Look that one up when you go home. I don’t want to spoil it.

Angel Reese’s threat to boycott the White House has already fallen apart.
The LSU star raised some eyebrows when she suggested LSU might refuse to go to the White House after Jill Biden suggested Iowa should also get an invite.
Jill Biden’s spokeswoman later clarified only LSU would get an invite. However, a potential boycott was simmering in Baton Rouge.
“I mean, you like felt like they should’ve came because of sportsmanship, right? They can have that spotlight.

Dodgers starting pitcher Dustin May has missed a lot of time over the past two seasons due to injury. But now he’s feeling healthy and looking like the old Dustin May, which is great for Dodgers fans and bad for any hitter that has to face him. 
The Arizona Diamondbacks know what I’m talking about because Thursday night they could only get two hits in six innings off the right hander. May routinely hit 100 mph on the radar gun and picked up his first win of the year.

The deadline for the Green Bay Packers and New York Jets to finalize an Aaron Rodgers trade is April 28 because everything changes after that.
And for the worst.
For everyone.
The two teams have engaged in trade talks on multiple levels over several weeks, the latest reported talks coming face-to-face when Jets general manager Joe Douglas and Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst spoke at the NFL annual meeting last week.

Let’s be clear from the top: This is about the best player ever drafted by a team, not the best value ever found by the club.
If that were the case, we’d have a list of really good players in the fifth round instead of Hall of Fame ones in the first and second rounds. That’s madness.
For some franchises, the pick was obvious. Nobody is besting Lawrence Taylor for the Giants (sorry, spoiler alert). For others, it was extremely difficult, and value had to be the tiebreaker.
Got it? Good. Let’s get to the list of best draft picks for every franchise.