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Without the stalwarts, men’s NCAA tournament ratings take a tumble.
1. The men’s college basketball stalwarts, Duke, North Carolina, Kentucky and Kansas, were nowhere to be found when the Elite Eight was played over the weekend.
Neither was a No. 1-ranked team.
And now we have a Final Four featuring San Diego State, Florida Atlantic, UConn and Miami.

After NCAA and extramarital scandals drove him out of the SEC seven years ago, the coach says he will be a different man and coach with the Tigers.
Hugh Freeze doesn’t look like a grandfather. But later this year, at 53 years of age, he will become Grandpa Hugh.
“That sounds weird,” he says from his new office, his feet propped on his desk as he reclines into his seat. “I don’t know that I’m ready for that.”
And yet, about four months into his return to the Southeastern Conference, grandfatherhood is certain to be the least of his challenges.

While we know that 18 LIV golfers will be teeing it up in next week’s Masters, the question about what sort of TV coverage the players would get on the CBS broadcast still remained.
CBS Sports Chairman Sean McManus knew that he was going to be asked about that very thing during the annual pre-Masters conference call and he gave an emphatic answer.
The network will not be hiding LIV golfers on the Masters’ broadcast.
“We’re not going to cover up or hide anything,” he said, according to Golfweek. “As I’ve said often, our job is to cover the golf tournament.

He led the team to a Final Four berth in this year’s NCAA men’s tournament.
Before Dusty May helped lead the Florida Atlantic men’s basketball team to a Final Four berth this year, the coach nearly quit on his first day with the program back in 2018, he admitted to CBS Sports’s Matt Norlander.
It was May’s first time as a head coach of a collegiate program, but the decision actually made him cry.
“I walk in the room and I started crying [to his wife Anna] and said, ‘I just committed career suicide. I’m not good enough. I can’t do this,’” May said.

Both the coach and quarterback benefited from their four years together in Green Bay.
Broadly speaking, it’s hard to view Packers coach Matt LaFleur and quarterback Aaron Rodgers’s tenure together as anything other than a success.
In four years with Rodgers, LaFleur coached Green Bay to a 47–19 record, good for a winning percentage of .712. That is the fifth-highest percentage in NFL history; the four coaches ahead of LaFleur—Guy Chamberlin, John Madden, Vince Lombardi and George Allen—are all in the Hall of Fame.
LaFleur, meanwhile, helped Rodgers rejuvenate his career.

Back in October, I wrote about something I figured would quietly become one of the more important story lines in the league: How would the Mavericks—who opted to let highly talented guard Jalen Brunson walk—handle Luka Dončić’s usage rate, which had already been the NBA’s highest in each of the past two seasons?

The Washington coach discussed the potential of adding the Baltimore quarterback.
Commanders coach Ron Rivera addressed his team’s quarterback situation heading into the NFL draft, including whether or not the team is interested in adding Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson.
Jackson, who requested a trade in early March, received the non-exclusive franchise tag from Baltimore ahead of free agency, which would net the Ravens two first-round picks if he were to sign with another team. The Ravens also have the right to match any offers made to Jackson.

After the trade from Atlanta uprooted his life and career, dynamic guard Kevin Huerter is ready for his — and Sacramento’s — NBA playoff return.

The Giants owner kept the door open on possibly signing the free agent.
Odell Beckham Jr. went all of last season unsigned as he continued to rehab a torn ACL. As rumors swirl of where he might sign next, one of the more interesting destinations reported to be considered was the team that drafted him back in 2014: the Giants. 
New York is still in the market for wide receiver talent.

Who will rule — and stumble — this season? It’s time to get up to speed as baseball returns.