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Memphis athletics said it will cooperate with Bowling Green university police after a Tigers women’s basketball player struck a Bowling Green player

PGA Tour player Tyler Duncan had himself an adventure on the Par 4 15th hole during the second round of the Corales Puntacana Championship on Friday.
Duncan was having a nice afternoon in the Dominican as he was six-under thru his first 14 holes of the day and climbing up the leaderboard. The golfer then saw his drive head fly off the shaft after his tee shot on the 15th hole but didn’t let it be too much of a distraction.

Plus, the Elite Eight teams, NFL mock draft and fantasy baseball breakout candidates.
The upsets continued when the men’s NCAA tournament picked back up Thursday.
A few more top contenders saw their seasons end early and more could be on the ropes this evening when they take the floor with a trip to the Elite Eight on the line.
Check in on the madness, take a peek ahead to the NFL draft and then ready yourself for Opening Day.
In today’s Winners Club you’ll find:

Sweet 16 scores from Thursday
Two Elite Eight matchups decided
Best bets for SDSU-Alabama, Miami-Houston
NFL mock draft 5.

He has strong words for people bent out of shape.
1. Longtime sports talk radio host Chris “Mad Dog” Russo currently has three jobs. He hosts Mad Dog Unleashed from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. ET weekdays on SiriusXM. He appears on ESPN’s First Take every Wednesday. And he hosts a one-hour show, High Heat, every afternoon on the MLB Network. He’s been in sports media for more than 40 years and recently was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame.
So no matter how you feel about Russo, you can’t argue with his success.

Friars athletic director Steve Napolillo is not happy with Hoyas athletic director Lee Reed after hiring Ed Cooley away from Providence.
Georgetown hired Providence coach Ed Cooley away from the Friars earlier this week, a contentious in-conference move that has shaken up the balance of power in the Big East.
Cooley, a Rhode Island native who spent 12 years as the Friars coach, now departs to Georgetown after winning 221 games and taking the Friars to six NCAA tournaments.
After Cooley’s departure to D.C.

Well played.
Duke is no longer in the men’s NCAA tournament but one of the Blue Devils’ top players had one of the best moments of the night during Thursday’s Sweet 16 games. 
Kyle Filipowski saw something from the Tennessee-FAU game that reminded him of a moment from Duke’s second-round loss to the Vols—Uroš Plavšić sending an opponent to the ground with a vicious hit.
After a brief review of the play the refs gave Plavšić a flagrant foul and FAU went on a run that ended with them winning the game and sending Tennessee home.

Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, there are some hitters that have jumped up the rankings while others head in the wrong direction.
Heading into fantasy baseball draft weekend, you’ll need the most up-to-date fantasy baseball hitter rankings for every position. 
We’ve got you covered at SI.com. Our complete position-by-position rankings are here.
But, in case you missed some of the news out of spring training, here are some of the hitters who are the biggest risers and fallers in recent fantasy baseball drafts.

Mickey Jannis is among the next generation of baseball players committed to mastering the increasingly endangered pitch.
When Mickey Jannis leaves for the ballpark, his family does not bid him good luck or tell him to do his best or give him any parting words of advice. Instead, what they say is, go put on a show.
It’s a joke, kind of, but there’s some truth under it. Jannis is a knuckleballer, and what is throwing a knuckleball if not practicing a rare, fabled performance art? The pitch flutters and darts in a way that can seem like an illusion.

Any player who has left the PGA Tour to join LIV Golf has been cast as a villain in the eyes of many. There has also been a perception that players who jumped ship for the Saudi-backed circuit have lost all ties with players on Tour. Cam Smith says that isn’t the case at all, at least not for him.
Smith recently joined the ‘Howie Games‘ podcast and made it very clear that any friends he had on the PGA Tour before he moved to LIV Golf are still very much his friends.
“All the guys that I was mates with are still my mates,” the Aussie explained.

Heading into a big weekend of fantasy baseball drafts, here are some pitchers to target and some to fade based on the latest rankings.
Heading into fantasy baseball draft weekend, you’ll need the most up-to-date fantasy baseball pitcher rankings and cheatsheets.
We’ve got you covered at SI.com. Our complete rankings are here.
But, in case you missed some of the most recent news out of spring training, here are some of the biggest risers and fallers among the starting pitchers and relief pitchers.