Browsing: All news

Lamar Jackson said Monday that he has requested a trade from the Ravens as the team “has not been interested in meeting my value” in contract talks.

An Elite Eight without UConn, Tennessee or Stanford is not the death of any dynasties—it’s the growth of the sport.
The women’s college basketball world had all of 24 hours to fixate on what might have seemed like a paradigm-shifting development.
For the first time in nearly two decades, UConn lost in the Sweet 16, a tourney exit that had long seemed unthinkable for the powerhouse. But there was little time to linger on whether this signaled the death of a dynasty or what that meant for the sport.

Welcome to Newbieville!
The actual place in which the Final Four will blast off on Saturday is Houston, the fourth largest city in the United States. Houston’s also a brave world of new space for three of the four voyagers coming from coast to coast.
Florida Atlantic, San Diego State and Miami will be in their first Final Four, a term coined for the NCAA Tournament national semifinals and championship game in 1975 by a sportswriter and later trademarked by the NCAA. The NCAA began crowning men’s basketball champions in 1939.

It’s that time of year! Players spend Spring Training trying to impress MLB coaches. And some make the Opening Day roster, a dream come true. For Milwaukee Brewers prospect Brice Turang, that dream officially became reality.
Wait, this feels familiar. I’ve written this before. TWICE.
It was fun on Sunday when the Cardinals promoted Jordan Walker and he got emotional. He’s a Top 5 prospect in all of baseball.
I was OK even when Yankees manager Aaron Boone pretended to send down top prospect Anthony Volpe and then told him he would start at shortstop Opening Day.

Patrick Beverley helps the Bulls and trolls the Lakers all the way to a win.
Patrick Beverley has had to fight for his position in the league from day one. After two successful years with the Arkansas Razorbacks, Beverley was deemed ineligible for his junior season because of an academic violation. He later admitted he turned in a paper that was not his.
Not able to complete his college career, he decided to take his talents to Europe, where he would play for the next three seasons overseas.

The Final Four will take place in Glendale, Ariz., next year.
As the 2023 NCAA men’s tournament winds down, college hoops fans can start blocking off their calendars for the 2024 tournament.
Next year’s Final Four will be hosted in Glendale, Ariz., in the Cardinals’ football venue, State Farm Stadium. The two weekends before the final weekend will see games spread out across the whole country, from Washington to New York. In the first and second rounds alone, eight different cities will host games.

Photo by Steph Chambers/Getty Images
If you’re not watching Caitlin Clark, you’re missing out.
Caitlin Clark is on another plane of existence. Watching her feels like witnessing history. Somehow both these statements feel like hyperbole and understatement at the same time.
Sunday night was a virtuoso performance from the Iowa superstar. The kind of game that halts Twitter in its tracks, prompting everyone to change the channel from whatever mundane crap they were watching, just for a chance to say “I saw that game.” Here were the No.

Buffalo was more restrained in free agency this year, which underscores the fact that the team must change how it builds the roster around its star quarterback.
More from Albert Breer: The Sneaky Team in Hot Pursuit of the Top College QBs | Timing Is Perfect for Jets-Packers to get Aaron Rodgers Trade Done This Week | Everything on the Agenda at the NFL Owners Meeting, Which Doesn’t Include a Commanders Sale
It was the fourth quarter of the Bills’ wild-card playoff game against the Dolphins, and the stakes couldn’t have been much higher.

There’s a new team within striking distance after its late-season swoon. Plus, a stagnant WR market, DeAndre Hopkins’s future, a surplus of Commanders defenders and much more in this week’s takeaways.
Free agency is almost in the rearview mirror, and now we’re in Phoenix for the NFL’s annual league meeting. Here are a few takeaways on what I’m hearing …
There’s a sneaky team involved in the draft-quarterback derby. And that team is the Titans.

Well played, Lamar.
Lamar Jackson turned a relatively quiet NFL day into a very busy one Monday morning when he tweeted an open letter to Ravens fans revealing he requested a trade March 2 and that he is hopeful he’ll be playing for a new team this coming season. 
Jackson and the Ravens, who selected him with the 32nd pick in the 2018 NFL draft, have been at odds over a new deal. Now, after being hit with the non-exclusive franchise tag, the star QB wants to leave town, with hopes of securing a huge new contract with a different team.